https://x.com/wanshunzhi/status/1805558826214768893
Player - https://www.vlr.gg/player/13768/s1mon

He's an Omen player. Haodong out?
thoughts?

https://www.vlr.gg/player/10749/k1ngkappa

Great coach to bring rookies to domestic level standard pro player from a small pond
Mid average coach on americas lake size competition.
Get destroyed and eaten by sharks in international competition ocean, cries, whinge and complain when getting trash talked.

• Noriaki Suzuki will save JP valorant. But fr, if Laz leave ZETA, their fanbase will drop significantly.
• These talks about Fadezis, Toraneco, Yota, Yoshii, is interesting cause OG ABSOLUTE roster (Laz, barce, takej, Crow, Reita) does come from SCARZ and I can see similar situation like the CR/DFM merging thing happening to ZETA.

Money can't fix their tech pauses.

they fixed it now.

16 teams in total

12+2+1 is 15, who's the 16th?

4/5 players with coach are FA, but T1 offer higher salary. T1 and GenG headquarters are like 5mins away, EZ to relocate.

everyone on GenG has contract expire end of Season (yes even solo) apart from Karon (2025). Take t3xture, Meteor, Munchkin and keep stax and iZu.

Daeda head coach?

-saya, +buzz. Buzz contracts expire end of season. Reunite Buzz with Autumn, good old C9Korea days.

same people who said T1 fluked their way to Shanghai. Opening split 1, T1 had to play 4 games in 9 days (vs DRX, PRX and losing to DFM) while xccurate had to play those games with injured hand and have to move prac to Basecamp (1 hour away) due to T1 HQ DDOS. Only 2 teams in entire 44 have this schedule btw cause Pacific runs 23 days split 1 instead of 30 days (EMEA, CN, Americas). The loss to DFM costs them champs.

those 43% post timeout win round percentage clearly not enough, need to get someone like Alecks who got over 50%

TS never win a single map against T1, don't expect too much.

ppl been asking for change....surely it improves the team right???? Not making it worse.

Try winning 1 map against T1 first.

5am???

In the valorant pacific coach video Termi did say he give more freedom to the players with the comps they running compared to previous years. It worked in stage 1 against team alpha, but new DRX player isnt upto PRX core synergy standards and choked to GenG in playoff when it matters.

DRX is in rebuilding phase, won't be upto PRX standards for a while and other teams are improving. If result not improving, can see Buzz/Mako leaving next.

allat

depends who the coach is, so who u got in mind? The current Carlao to ZETA isn't working rn.

if G2 go back to challengers. That's why he's on "bit of a reach" category. Daeda move to T1, any T2 coaches could be persuaded with Tier1 offers. Also G2 beat PRX, so.... CAN Yang would approve.

Solo coaches t3xture amd Lakia back at Dplus/Damwon days, so he already know how to utilise them. New DRX coach have to able to speak korean, and not many have "proven successful" coaching career.

Candidates:
Experienced internationally: Bail/Valanalysis/Twinkl
Other: Astel/Glow/Peri
Bit of Reach: JoshRT

Who you got in mind then? Mine is Astel/Glow.

IGL leader haodong not fragging, nobody dealing with anti's/haters, smoggy role swap create inconsistency for other players and after trying to play more western style. The team synergy at an all time low and still declining.

If DRX remove termi, they gonna go from top 4 to top 6 or 8 team + Mako/Buzz leaving next. HIs replacement won't guarantee to be more successful, more likely to do worse (lower expectation).

Mako is stuck IGLing now, IGLing as dome smoker = less fragging. If saya leaves T1 end of season, I assume Buzz will join T1, autumn and Buzz r former Cloud9Korea.DRX is rebuilding, will take a while.

They on rebuilt phase with "new" players. Gonna take a while.

Warbirds coaching style doesn't suit PRX, just look at the pacific coach video when Astel (DFM coach) asking other coaches if their players wants to play like PRX.

https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/Bobosaur

DFM vs ZETA gonna have the most viewership.

bobby saputra

W riot.

not import, but during 2021 Fisker did have a brazil flag on liquipedia as first flag (JP first flag now), wasn't around VLR at the time.

Fadezis #23 "Only in EMEA LTR rule exist. APAC leagues only count you resident of league if you legal citizen of a country."
This also to reply to your EMEA two splits you are considered local thing above^.

#19 Fadezis SCARZ coach

"There is other team in the league with 1 half br, 1 half ph, 1 jp, 2 imports, no hate from people towards them tho. The only difference between us is language of comms and flags on vlr."

Pre sure the half br is Fisker, former CR player who is known half brazillian. No longer on NOEZ FOXX now,

if rule about 1 import is implemented... then all 10 pacific challengers league will be impacted, then 9 EMEA sub region will impacted, then EMEA will complain how their continent divided into 9 sub region whining about 1 import. Rule should be consistent throughout all region. Its not happening.

get Kr1stal and Vici.

DK korea is known to contract jail players. They don't sell their players to other KR org. Its the reason why t3xture had to go GE, Estrella to RRQ and Lakia had to go Free Agent contract expiry to join GenG.

They won't cause its related to Valorant lore:

The Omega Earth (also known as Mirror Earth or Earth 2) is an alternate version of Alpha Earth. Described as a world on the brink of total climate collapse, Omega VALORANT agents have been known to lead assaults on Alpha in an attempt to steal their radianite. Other organizations from Omega have also been able to make contact with their Alpha counterparts.

Get cultured.

If we're talking crash and burn, gotta have Lenne there.

https://x.com/ValorantEsports/article/1803119797598822501/media/1803114429439217664

2023 - 8 teams (2 EMEA, 2 NA, 1 Pacific, 1 BR, 1 LATAM, 1 East Asia)
2024 - 10 teams (3 EMEA, 2 NA, 2 Pacific, 1 BR, 1 LATAM, 1 CN)

EMEA +1
Pacific +1

Japan and Korea (East Asia) now integrated to Pacific to give 1 CN slot.
EMEA and Asia (including China) 3 slots each W RIOT.
No extra slot for NA (drama region).

If it’s for viewership reason, more JP team the better.

having players like benkai, blazeking means people outside of india will somewhat brings eyes to GE, but having 5 indian players is different story.

get OCE team instead.

those players gonna get comfortable on VCT, not ambitious to go international turney, perform bottom 4 in the league and stayed there with VCT salary. No other team will pick them up and just exists. If GE kicks indian player out, outrage happens but only Indian ppl cares. Just build an Indian/SA ascension team instead, that has more "worth" to be in VCT.

russ declare pacific player.

giving India/SA players VCT level salary are massive paycheck stealers.

disband and give slot to OCE.

T1 2-0 TS just like every other encounter.
#T1Win
#T1Fighting
#CantBeatTheScript

he meant:
GE rly needs to sign 5 passionate Indian players paycheck stealers

Scuf

power ranking yes, but T1 pts doesn't look good rn to qualify to champs.