bro made me change stuff because he has good points, but fk keznit imma hater

yeah but they are signing melser so no way they put melser on flex

ngl im a dgzin hater he could win champs and id say he can move to 11th LMFAO

Potter, 3 International event coaches from 2024 plus i liked 2g's anti stratting and set plays, i think he can be top 3 but cant predict it without looking crazy

baiter and i value good duelist play in that list + hes on mibr so unless they get him some help its at highest a 7th place

meant to say s0m mbmb

valyn i can see, king is not a great igl and im a 100t fan zap>boostio

bait

Made this in like 30 mins so yea
UPDATED
Duelist
1 zekken
2 aspas
3 jawgemo
4 Oxy
5 Cryo
6 demon1
7 keznit
8 mada
9 mwzera
10 sym
11 silentzz
12 dgzin

Initiator
1 eeiu
2 Verno
3 cauanzin
4 Derrek
5 Trent
6 nzr
7 zap
8 c0m
9 heat
10 johnqt
11 Rossy
12 adverso

Flex
1 kiNgg
2 Ethan
3 JonahP
4 Xeppaa
5 Zellsis
6 Asuna
7 gobera
8 NaturE
9 qck
10 v1nny
11 mta
12 raafa

Controller
1 Mazzino
2 bang
3 valyn
4 s0m
5 zander
6 pANcada
7 supamen
8 Khalil
9 lz
10 v1c
11 Melser
12 liazzi

Sentinel
1 leaf
2 Shyy
3 n4rrate
4 Boostio
5 pryze
6 tex
7 tuyz
8 yay
9 moose
10 havoc
11 FNS
12 artzin

Coach
1 Potter
2 kaplan
3 JoshRT
4 Zikz
5 Bonkar
6 faithz0r
7 fRoD
8 itopata
9 Atom
10 peo
11 Immi
12 panique

IGL
1 johnqt
2 FNS
3 valyn
4 Boostio
5 zap
6 kiNgg
7 NaturE
8 nzr
9 adverso
10 Rossy
11 raafa
12 v1nny

lame

no problem gang

MikesHD (duelist)
Potter (Flex)
Mooda (Initiator)
Jawgemo (Senti)
Supamen (Controller)

Nature (Coach)
Apoth (Analyst)
Derrek (Personal Butler)

hiroronn he means not the fnatic one

not really, i keep forgetting johnolsens a tier2 player LMFAO

and idk why syouta isnt

its based on the rregion they play in not where they are from

its hard to say who will be the best player from tier2, its difficult to compare regions as well as you don't know who will crumble on stage under the pressure. for example w00t wasn't even a top 5 rated player in VCT Türkiye last year, players rated above him like izzy and sociablee are still in tier2 while woot is making history. its not that simple to predict who the next goat is.

that's why I got Patrick watson there 🤞

Patmen is probably a little bit of recency bias on my part, didn't like how he played vs Oasis but he's had a good season so I wouldn't be surprised if a ts/rrq pick him up

i like Nakya just think he has some growing to do before he's capable of putting up numbers in tier1, he's a good gamble tho

and i didn't like Fixy's jett, seemed like he was dying first more than he was getting picks (even on the defense side which is worrying) he's a decent tier2 player tho with some upsides(that grand final performance was impressive).

probably just biased cus i prefer how sungjin plays, juicy is the only player i left off that hasn't played tier1 and that was because he technically qualified for tier1.

LMAO im not knowledgeable in that area but some tier2 casters are more enjoyable to listen to than tier1 🤷‍♂️

skrossi isnt a up and coming player so i left him off the list, people know about him. same with juicy, lenne and a few others.

wont lie i had too much faith in yotaa but i cant back down now LMFAO, tixx is definitely AUS bias considering ive watched this guy stomp in tier2 for a while, id agree with all your decisions considering JP is one of the regions i watched the least in tier2 apac.

I tried to leave off known good players, juicy was already rated as a talented player so i expect him to get picked up no matter what.
agreed with margret he was my third choice after sungjin, just seemed like he was dying too easy in that grand final and it knocked him down to 3rd for me. Yoman is a great shout for IGL and i just don't like francis' yoru so i didn't consider him a flex player hes a decent initiator player tho.

Pacific's tier 2 player base has a lot of untapped potential so i thought id give my picks for the players that impressed me the most from each of the respective leagues.
for any reasoning as to why i picked the players i have, respond to this post and ill give you my reasoning.

South Asia
Duelist: Venka
Flex: d1srupt/Kibojn
Initiator: hellff/tesseract
Controller: sultan
Sentinel: dos9

Thailand
Duelist: Potter/garnetS
Flex: niffy/Killua
Initiator: Acetics
Controller: Leviathan/Kntz/Fluky
Sentinel: xcool3/seph1roth

Vietnam
Duelist: Hyuse/DaFt/Nhatthong2k
Flex: YESicaN/ting2k5
Initiator: d0rf
Controller: Palette/NamGoku/
Sentinel: alyaL

MYR/SG
Duelist: toggle/
Flex: Vera/aduka
Initiator: STYRON/Reverie
Controller: wayne/theDoctorr/Flairing
Sentinel: grumble/Riza

Korea
Duelist: Dambi/Ssun
Flex: Xross/SID/Ivy
Initiator: pr0xy/Moves
Controller: Persia/Cloy
Sentinel: freeing/Sungjin

Japan
Duelist: Yotaa/HYUNMIN/Gwangboong
Flex: LOB/CLZ
Initiator: Lumo
Controller: tixx/Aace
Sentinel: DH/Yoshiii/Jinboong

Taiwan/HK
Duelist: Xyus/riyabtw
Flex: Uta/Zhannn
Initiator:
Controller: Kiuuuu/nex1SphiX
Sentinel: W1nner/coconut

Philippines
Duelist: PWatson/exotic
Flex: marky/ kellys
Initiator: Dignified
Controller: PapiChulo
Sentinel: xavi8k/JA

Indonesia
Duelist: Famouz/fausTao
Flex: Shiro/woody
Initiator: vascaliz/Madelyn
Controller: ZesBeew
Sentinel: Cud/Kylee

OCE(best region in the world)
Duelist: ACE/LEW/NOVAE
Flex: ANDY/Crunchy/kadiri
Initiator: IKANA/Zauqk
Controller: ART/Dragon
Sentinel: Sinaway

idk what i was thinking with those was i drunk??

Team Rankings
1 Paper Rex
2 100 Thieves
3 GENG
4 Fnatic
5 Heretics
6 Leviatan
7 FUT
8 EDG
9 G2
10 FPX
11 T1
12 Dragon Ranger Gaming

Player Rankings:
Duelist
1 Aspas
2 Texture
3 Jinggg*
4 MiniBoo
5 Zmjjkk
6 Derke
7 Asuna
8 cNed
9 Life
10 Sayaplayer
11 Tvirus
12 icy

Flex
1 Forsaken
2 Cryo
3 Chronicle
4 Wo0t
5 Mazino
6 Munchkin
7 qRaxs
8 JonahP
9 Haodong
10 Autumn
11 Rossy
12 Shion7

Initiator
1 leo
2 eeiu
3 Something
4 trent
5 RieNs
6 C0M
7 MrFalin
8 AAAAY
9 Carpe
10 Nicc
11 nobody
12 Lakia

Sentinel
1 d4v41
2 alfajer
3 Meteor
4 benjyfishy
5 leaf
6 CHICHOO
7 Boostio
8 vo0kashu
9 yetujey
10 Lysoar
11 Xccurate
12 tex

Controller
1 mindfreak
2 bang
3 valyn
4 Karon
5 kiNgg
6 ATA KAPTAN
7 Boo
8 Smoggy
9 TZH
10 Boaster
11 BerLIN
12 iZu

Yell at me for what you would change

he was lowkey right the wins were blow outs LMFAO

fraudulent team stfu cloudy and come play ranked pookie

life was really impressive in cn and all the other flex players underperformed for the most part, only thing i regret is putting forsaken so high, it was 3am when i made the list lmao

im sick of the "he's never played at a international event" narrative, its almost never actually happened

Today I thought id ruin all my future credibility on VLR by posting my masters Madrid predictions and getting them completely wrong, I'm gonna rank all the teams from 1-8 and then rank players by their role 1-8.

Starting off with the team ranking (if you want to know my reasoning for my decisions ill let you know down below)

Team Ranking
1-2 Karmine Corp
1-2 Sentinels
3rd LOUD
4th Gen.G
5th Team Heretics
6th Paper Rex
7th FPX
8th EDG

Now onto the player rankings, I will be ranking every player based on their role from 1-8 (note that the roles arent perfect due to overlap but i tried my best to fit everyone into their correct category)

Duelists Ranking
1st zekken
2nd t3xture
3rd marteen
4th Miniboo
5th Zmjjkk
6th Quick
7th Monyet
8th Autumn

Initiator Ranking:
1st N4RRATE
2nd cauanzin
3rd something
4th Sacy
5th nobody
6th RieNs
7th AAAAY
8th Lakia

Flex Ranking:
1st Forsaken
2nd Zellsis
3rd Life
4th Saadhak
5th Smoggy
6th MAGNUM
7th Munchkin
8th paTiTek

Controller Ranking:
1st Karon
2nd Tuyz
3rd sh1n
4th mindfreak
5th TenZ
6th Boo
7th BerLIN
8th Haodong

Sentinel Ranking:
1st Less
2nd d4v41
3rd benjyfishy
4th johnqt
5th CHICHOO
6th tomaszy
7th Meteor
8th Lysoar

IGL(Purely on igling)
1st Saadhak
2nd johnqt
3rd MAGNUM
4th Boo
5th Munchkin
6th Haodong
7th PRX Hivemind
8th BerLIN

Coaching
1st ENGH (ALLEZ LES BLEUUUUU)
2nd solo
3rd neilzinho
4th peu
5th alecks
6th kaplan
7th NathanD
8th AfteR

Be sure to ridicule and argue with my list, i like having discussions like this :D

In my opinion Its

Sayf(Top 15 ITW)
ceNder(Top 5 IGL in EMEA)
trex(Top 3 Flex in EMEA
runneR(Top 5 Duelist in EMEA) Future top 2/3
Kicks(Top 5 Initiator in EMEA)

And Vitality will be tied 4th best in EMEA in terms of fire power but could definitely be top 2/3 depending on salahs plan, and how much the other emea teams troll. Could see them qualifying for madrid or shanghai depending on the seeding but i think they Will definitely be at champs

Someone Failed 8th Grade English , nt tho broski

yessir

i wont believe it until the confirmation tweet, impression farming makes rostermania preds a struggle 😭😭

Problem is who do sen even get as igl only people i can think of is mitch dazzLe poised or maybe gmd (NA's igl prospects are not looking good) , also i wasnt putting the replacement players because its so difficult to predict them LMFAO

With Champs Concluding id like to give my opinion on who i think will and should be replaced for 2024.**

100T: Most likely candidates for replacement are Stellar And Derrek aswell as either replacing mikes or giving him more staff to help him, sad to say as a 100T fan but 8th place and then 8th-9th isnt good enough.

Cloud9: With C9 i think they have good young talent but with qpert looking to leave i can see runi stepping to 6th man and being a assistant coach/sub, also jakee could get dropped but im not sure.

EG: If they touch this roster it will probably be getting rid of BCJ and picking up a younger and less salary costing prospect.

Furia: i think with the Jett nerfs coming in and Dgzin not having the raze experience the only people on this roster that will probably stay are Khalil and possibly Mwzera but even that could be a stretch.

Kru Esports: Keznit pretty much secured his spot for next year, i also thought DaveeyS looked a lot better and could be apart of their plan but apart from that their could be replacements.

Leviatan: Tacolilla MASSIVELY underperformed this year and especially with Jett nerfs coming in its likely he will get cut, i think the coaching needs to be replaced but the rest of the team are still top players.

Loud: I want to see them run it back but knowing Less and his inability to not blame and argue his teammates Aspas will probably leave for either a revitalized brazil based SEN or Furia/Mibr.

MIBR: Blow up roster apart from maybe RgL. that's it lmfao.

NRG: Only area i can see a improvement is possibly dropping Ardiis for a NA duelist either experienced or a prospect for FNS to mold into a star.

Sentinel: There is 2 ways to go about this roster, either they let go of Tenz for some money and bring in Aspas or the other option is to get rid of Sacy and Pancada and go with a full NA roster.

Let me know your thoughts on who will move and where during Rostermania, Also if you guys are interested i will do the same thing for EMEA(Bedge) and Pacific(WAYTOODANK)

what about at tokyo where aspas was worse than someone like d4v41? No one had d4v41 that high on their top 15 list, or does that event not count???

im not saying any of these players are better bro aspas obviously is better than sayaplayer but its a prediction not a power ranking 😭

my reason for loud being so high is just because they had the same thing last year, i think they will over achieve expectations and then the team will blow up in the off season again.

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Masters Tokyo Team Predictions

Winner: Paper Rex
Runners Up: FNATIC
3rd: NRG Esports
4th: Edward Gaming
5th: Evil Geniuses
6th: LOUD
7th: Team Liquid
8th: T1
9th: DRX
10th: KRU Esports
11th: ZETA DIVISION
12th: FUT Esports
13th: Natus Vincere
14th: Giants Gaming
15th: Bilibili Gaming
16th: FPX

Biggest Under Performer: Giants Gaming
Biggest Over Achiever: NRG??