Gonna be an uphill battle for them
Theyre at a huge disadvantage during the first split compared to a Fut, Fnc, Gia or NaVi since at the end of the day they are a t2 team moving into t1
and with no lcq thats a huge problem

I think theyll still do well; theres a ton of rookie squads in emea this year and theyre by far the most experienced one out of those, so theres a really good chance that theyll upset one of the "old" teams, get to a lan, secure points and make it to champs

Problem is if your internet sucks the site is just plain unusable
even at 360p the stream just gets stuck every 3 minutes and I then have to refresh leading to the 5 second smiley animation
(not a problem at the end of the day since theres vods on other websites but its an aspect they havent optimized for yet)

problem is tenz plays too many champs pancada doesnt atm
like idk what role theyre planning to leave tenz on so if he transitions to smokes and Zellsis flexes then sure

dude the whole Pancada new 6th man thing was a fun meme at the start... but how tf can you bench Zellsis

actually nvm thinking about some of the stuff Ive seen in ranked or from Ange1/Jamppi back in the days, I really wanna see jinggg omen now

... hes playing omen atm, how tf would we even compare them right now

Deserved GC champions after this amazing run, ggs SR

well no the new roster which theyll have to play with isnt final yet from what Ive heard (theres a ton of players floating around atm)
the one we know was for polaris and is getting revamped to meet the region rules

teams would be so stacked, it'd be amazing

dang the merger not going through sucks, a "super region" in terms of talent would have been super entertaining

also at least good to hear that theres been an actual effort to find a replacement, nobody ive talked to knew shit about it

https://twitter.com/ImMineVAL/status/1730688000546238820

The rumor of Fokus moving back to Dach has been circulating for ~ a week now
This is most likely a reaction to Polaris... well... not existing atm for next year? TO is going out of business and there has been no communication as to who's gonna replace them/what will happen afaik

This is such a shame since the Fokus roster was a front-runner, if not favorites, for ascension going into the 2024 season, but is also a huge hit to Polaris as a whole since Fokus were hard carrying viewership last season

theres very very few how did it faster afaik
carpe and nivera are the only ones that come to mind

only other examples I can think off are all around first strike

very fair
cant say I can beat vlrs forumla either

ngl I cant read and thought you wrote "find the most impactful play of each top team from every year" so thats mb

per chance itll still be higher for ZmjjKK due to the 273 acs Tokyo performance but ye thats on me xD Your proposed system is a lot better than what I thought you said

Raw stats is just gonna be another problem though due to how intertwined they are, I can recommend reading https://www.vlr.gg/160667/vlr-gg-player-rating-explained
and then it automatically favoring certain roles and playstyle which is why rating is meh for duelists x.x

Idk how invested you are in the whole thing but if you want to write up a formula Id be super down to read it^^

you are correct that, due to the nature of all stat based analysis, the results can be misleading
this analysis was very kill and trade focused so it favored duelists

and ofc it cant properly represent the complexity of the game; even when ignoring your point about the team not properly being considered (since its just gonna be impossible to separate a player from their team) it has huge issues
economy impact of kills, how much support util you were receiving during the kill (how good was it?), how many people were on the site, etc would all shift the weighting significantly - it just leads to an endless game of trying to get more aspects of the game into your stats... and in the end theyd probably still be wrong due to the whole team thing

your proposed solution wouldnt lead to a good result either, it would heavily favor players like ZmjjKK who have a risky and inconsistent playstyle, while a more consistent player like for example demon1 would look pretty mediocre
It also has the whole acs & kda already being linked problem that vlrs rating tries to tackle

At the end of the day the stats are great because he presents all his thoughts and reasoning for the stats, and its easy to figure out what aspects he overlooked and then decide how much you value them - no stats will ever beat the "eye test"

Cant be 100% sure on dates, but Leosen seems to still be doing trials with other teams too

amazing video
its just another rating system - and a duelist focused one this time round, so its not exactly useful for the initial goal of finding a definitive best player, but its really fun seeing the stats and having someone else explain what aspects they find to be the most important

dont spoil the fun

so EG is kicking SMGs pcs?!

I dont think they'll be as dominant this time round, but I'm glad to see them aiming for ascension again
definitely contenders based on the rosters we know atm

Most mid team of all time in t1 has to be guild
always t1, always contenders to win an event in EMEA, but only ever made it to 1 international

other teams id consider are Sen after they won, or the old G2 since first strike (always stacked af rosters but were never really able to do much with them)

Really good if they actually end up with this roster
the early trial rumors were definitely painting a way worse future for DFM with no top Japanese players wanting to sign with them

Main question is if theres a structural problem that held back DFM last year (talent wise they shouldnt have been a 0-11 team) and if itll hurt this roster too

mouz have yet to win one of the official DACH events...
the curse is real

keep watching for 30 seconds

we dont talk about the last round on haven

A lot more one sided than I had hoped considering how much firepower both rosters have, but gosh dang having actual close games really makes me wish regular season was bo3s

imagine getting close series instead of draw number #5286

Leosen self nading in the second to last round is just a perfect summary of how watching germany this event felt xD
This team is so stacked player wise but oml this was rough to watch

luckily the general consensus doesnt matter since fan voting is only 10% of the final "vote", 90% is from a voting jury ("global media and influencer outlets")

in the context of the competition at the time (and limited to EMEA)
Fpx and Guild 2021
and then yea without a doubt the Guild 2022 roster, that suygetsu round on ascent changed history and probably ended up robbing prx their first win

pretty much https://twitter.com/anonimotum/status/1723000580958793787

wait thats actually huge wtf

you need a better link for that, it says the channel name when hovering over it
cant even get surprised by what bait im getting this time

check out https://www.vlr.gg/160667/vlr-gg-player-rating-explained
but yea, as mentioned above, in general the rating favors low deaths

its why leo has SUCH insane ratings despite a lot of his value being impossible to track with numbers - his playstyle fits perfectly into how the rating system works
Its great for comparing support players statistically, but I do find ACS being a better number for duelists since (as an example) even if they get traded, getting a kill during an entry is good value (which the rating system would then devalue compared to the support players cleaning up the second person on site and not getting traded)

pretty sure the most expensive player this offseason in EMEA was sayf, since NA orgs were also trying to get him

? I dont see me blaming vanity
if anything im explicitly praising him for doing an amazing job

oh nah it was more to the "past" of the post above
oxg pays well so I think youre right

surely oxg wont have a high buyout for any of their players, right?

well if you wanna watch the game, youre currently seeing a vanity masterclass
and theres no way he didnt watch FL vs Fnc with those godlike reads

Time for a first look at how starxo deals with mid-rounding when they dont have strats prepared/left

Zescht is their coach, you cant expect them to win a clean 2-0

scream is apparently working on a project outside of vct (from bodorks stream ~a week ago)

go on date created, its still heavily negative

thats just bs to justify the amount of hate he gets with that
go into the search bar and just compare the number of negative to the number of positive threads

its an offseason tourney so teams from other vcl who fulfill the region rules also take part, so thats why youre seeing so many completely non spanish teams win their groups

And then spain is a health region, as such they have orgs that most of the time pay their players. Turns out players from other regions like getting paid and as such are more likely to swap region if theyre offered a spot.

The article just comes off as super whiny without even trying to establish any facts

Looking exclusively at valorant then no they're not doing anything special to try and get rid of br
In one of the (according article) favored regions, EMEA, t2 teams cant get signed at all and play as FA for years (or have to sign to orgs that dont even exist and as such dont get paid at the end of the day either... oh and the org that doesnt exist owns the slot in t2 too, so gl)

All thats happening is Franchising not working out how Orgs and (hopefully) riot envisioned it and as such the landscape is shifting to match the current reality. Yes it sucks, it really does, and as a Polaris fan Id want nothing more than for Riot to fix t2, but thats just not their goal atm and its affecting everyone and every region.

Ye he had a rough phase, both the creep to minors + his racism thing (for which he was punished, so that shouldnt really be relevant for signing at least)

afaik he hasnt been involved in any bad "pr" for a while now though

I like the roster if this is what they end on
Shadow is vocal & super experienced so he should be a huge help for starxo at the start, and his support util was amazing on apeks (pray breach becomes meta magically)
And Kamo was unreal during his time in dach and looked good during ascension, so I dont mind the pick up either

Roster shouldnt make it to an international event, but it also shouldnt end up at the very bottom again (well if Starxo develops into a decent igl, no clue how he'll do)

we'll probably end up seeing him on a t2 teams next season
theres quite a few big(ish) orgs still building rosters

havent seen him in any of the scrim leaks either yet though which is a shame

only problem is that you cant see shit in the endgame cause the remote play stream cant handle the 5 billion entities

he was swapping back and forth with zeek because the team was such a mess