Most of the Predator ID production is actually there on site, so the ID stream is just a watch party
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Most of the Predator ID production is actually there on site, so the ID stream is just a watch party
No info, most likely invited or there's a qualifier that we don't know the details about
Predator (under Acer) is a big name for APAC, they sponsored some of the big name teams and Ascension just last year - I honestly do not know why they didn't use the tournament realm server for this tournament (last year did that also)
Scratch that they are using tournament realm accounts
All of them are mid T2 high T2 teams, all went through qualifiers from each of their respective countries. Team Secret is invited as the winners of last year's event.
Menurut gw, ga ada salahnya BOOM itu untuk sementara jadi tim papan bawah Pacific untuk sementara. Kenapa? Kalau mau bawa Ascension 2023, perlu diinget selama VCL ID 23 aja BOOM sempet inkonsisten, apalagi pas awal Ascension 23 mereka kalah sama macem Fancy, ONE Team, sama NAOS. In the end, diatas paper iya mereka kuat, tapi mereka g bisa secara konsisten translasi itu pas di Bangkok kemaren.
Kalau Ascension kemaren, ada argumen dimana selama keseluruhan turnamen itu kita ngelihat peak nya BOOM, tapi bukan averagenya mereka. Kita melihat skor, tapi kita ga melihat permainan makro dan mikronya Belum lagi persoalan apakah ceiling dan floornya BOOM itu setara sama ceiling dan floornya SPG pas selama turnamen, apa lagi hitungannya SPG itu pemain2nya notabene baru breakout pas 2023 kemaren (terlepas dari Persia sm Margaret) yang langsung melesat. Dibilang kan kalau mereka sempat ketinggalan/belum adaptasi sepenuhnya ke meta Ascension?
Sekarang ditambah Meow dan ZesbeeW dilepas juga, harus adaptasi lebih tinggi lagi, dengan tim2 Pacific lainnya yang berkembang juga kayak DFM, RRQ, dan Global Esports.
Pertanyaannya tinggal gini:
Wes kok dibawa ke hati?
I dunno what to tell you, they're that good, and compared to the rest of the Pacific teams, it's more or less believable.
(Also it's not as egregious as you think considering Talon is a literal coinflip and the only team I would swap is DRX for them.)
T2 exists when you artificially create the rift between T1 and T2. The Challengers (2021-2022) Era of Valorant proved that when everything is equalled, everyone can beat everyone. Players in T2 can be as amazing as players in T1 if given the chance. It's just a matter of investment.
Like the original comments mentioned, when Champions was in Seoul, even Neilzinho spoke about how solid Nongshim (then SPG) was in scrims. Does that say much? It depends. But when you are that dominant even in the circuit and (unlike BLEED) maintained all 5 members + a young prospect? The sky is the limit for them.
Can they be very bad? Sure, maybe against the more experienced teams. But against the mid-lower teams, they can absolutely perform against them.
No stream, only Himothys will have a watchparty here:
Nope, Valorant is their only active division. We can't even count hearthstone since that game is practically also dead.
Yeah, I got corrected almost immediately. Now we know that it's the Young roster, it's just a matter of knowing the actual names of the players to match the database.
It's a Thai restaurant in SG. They're sponsored by a restaurant
KR and JP has their own VCLs and while it can be argued, logistically, TW/HK is more suitable to be paired up with VCT SEA/APAC.
FWIW, a few community members (including me) tried to find and lobby for an ID and PH TO to hold the tournaments, but there were some hurdles that the window to create one diminishes pretty quickly.
VN and TW/HK had theirs planned a while back, and it was almost no less than a miracle we got something going for MY/SG w/ Breakpoint. It almost never happened.
It's a flurry of unfortunate circumstances, in which I hope we can push better from.
It's always been that way since LMS was a thing in the LoL ecosystem, simple as that. It has been a part of the Pacific ecosystem, and it carried over to VCT. End of story.
Yep. Spitfires, x3b, and player are off the main roster
They did! It's been since the start of 2023, there are awards for at least VCT Americas and VCT CN.
https://x.com/LeaderGrev/status/1872851166327197996?t=cDR2ViCHlkBvkQ1vdYJtcQ&s=19
It's not confirmed.
Talks are ongoing, GC off the table.
There will be, it's just we haven't gotten concrete details.
Well, they were officially announced just now. Even sword9, hypnotizing, AC and MrCANI's announcement on Weibo was today. It's a CN thing to announce their roster moves late, I swear.
I do agree that some are probably jumping the gun (such as myself) but I specifically mentioned the core bc only a few people knew that the core absolutely ran through KR ranked at the time they got into Challengers last year
Both them and the original iteration of SLT eSports in 2023 (which ironically had Sungmin as their coach) were filled with young hopefuls from the KR scene
And the difference between Ascension BLEED and Pacific BLEED is the fact both nephh and Juicy couldn't make it after Ascension and had to be replaced (potentially ruined their cohesion), while SPG/NS so far retained all 5 members of their roster.
34-8 map record, 15-0 match winning streak, and coming off fresh as a Premier team (after failing VERY closely in Split 1). The core was touted as Korea's future last year under Gwangju Shadow/Shadow Corporation/Team OGS, and people who knows it was just a matter of time. Added veteran presence like Persia and margaret and the perfect meta (dambi is a Neon merchant but he's actually decent at other duelists too, check his Split 2 stats beyond Neon). They were tested, but never faltered.
I don't expect them to be absolute world beaters (despite my pickems saying otherwise), but I expect them to be decently competitive.
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ZETA always try to maximize their academy players in offseason tournaments. Remember RBHG last year when Caedye and yatsuka were in? Same thing.
They're just 3 out of 10 players in the system, there's nothing wrong in +rep their experience and exposure considering they'll be in Challengers JP next year.
She's retired technically
I am starting to be convinced either TS was too adamant keeping the vibes or NAOS made some black magic contract deals
It's all my doing, not theirs. I made a new team page in consideration that it wouldn't mix with the main VCT team page, and the name was taken from their own announcement.
The more I thought about it, the better I figure to change it like this.
https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/d924fd5d god forbid me from having too much power
Sorry folks, had a bit of a hiccup. Re-do your pickems, bracket's fixed
Crashies will literally play 2 maps wdym, sayonara is here bc he's still contracted for the offseason and why not statpadding for his further resume
If you see SCARZ's previous lineup, you'll know why he brought it up as an example. And oh, MENA, too.
Take anything said by MonteCristo with a huge grain of salt
Not saying I don't believe him, it's just his character lmao
Magnificent. Never underestimate any Challengers teams.
The tier barriers are a construct.
Not our fault. SOOP re-uses JP Laz's Pacific tournament account to TH Laz for this tournament.
That's not us. JP Laz only had one tournament client account in their database. SOOP, in all its mighty glory, uses that account for some reason. They reused it.
No, sadly. VCL KR has reached their limit on the Academy teams allowed (DRX Prospects, T1 Academy, Gen.G Global Academy)
Will update ASAP
Edit: Tixinha invitational will have to wait for Split 3 BR to be finished
https://www.vlr.gg/24252/no-politics-religion
It's not that I don't mind. It's literally against the one rule that is permanently stickied.
Their core is allowed to stay as a collective group, and NS can't make them an academy team since VCL KR already reached the limit for academy teams (DRX, T1, GEN). Most likely they'll be picked up by another org or disband.
Was wondering. Thanks for the clarification
Will be updated soon
Ga masuk ranking.
Nope, the 12 PM was the default VLR time and I haven't changed it. I got confirmation that it was supposed to be 9 PM.
It's essentially a transfer of assets, so to speak. It's not a loophole, as all Ascension teams are subject to a pre-Partnership vetting process to determine their sustainability and capability to participate within the system (and by proxy, the agreement that all Partnership must agree on).
If 2G, even with their supposedly lesser financials either deemed themselves as capable of participating in the system or Riot sees them as a non-issue, then it's up to them.
But if Riot deemed SPG couldn't and the ownership from SPG themselves sees it as a much better solution, then it's a more or less ideal solution (regardless of releasing their current VCL squad).
It's a much better move from Riot considering what happened to TGRD/G2 and any potential similar situations that might happen after.
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