Could replace nobody, he's not in best terms with the fan rn
https://www.vlr.gg/360600/edg-nobody-controversy

After end of 2025 season Bleed gonna go back to MY/SG, 1 year contract at best.

NRG will dominate won't qualify. Fixed it for you.

Sad for Mako, left out of the Kim Dynasty.

It's already confirmed that next year, the VCT season will end in October as compared to August this year.

https://x.com/VALO2ASIA/status/1799671799489454354

So.... how many DRG matches have you watched CanadaMan? Why is your flair Team Falcons and NOT DRG? Also would you say DRG > Wolves then?

Instead of just spewing bullshit, actually apply context and you’ll see that DRX haven’t really gotten worse from last year at all

2023 Qualify to internationals = Good, successful, 2024 doesn't qualify international = bad, unsuccessful. Result MATTERS and if not qualifying international and players need to leave doesn't mean worse than end of discussion,

Roster change can have positive outcome like your examples, or can be negative outcome like DRX. Its a gamble that could potentially pay off, or ended in failure (not qual international turney).

But why can’t DRX? Cause they lost when it matters, To GenG. TWICE.
Also it's not spewing bullshit, I'm talking purely of results, they did lose to GenG (not bullshit). DRX didn't make Madrid (not bullshit), didn't make Shanghai (not bullshit).

Why is it a bad decision when they do it?

Cause it doesn't ended up like your successful example, that's why its awful or u could call it failed attempt instead. Better?

Why didn’t they just keep their roster

for whatever reason GenG always give 1 year contract to everyone. Last year Meteor 2 year contract, everyone else 1 year. This year Karon 2 year, everyone else 1 year, For last year case Bail and TS always stick together since TNL days, proves when bail/TS/GodDead all stick together and join ODG in China.

The title of the thread is why people think DRX is awful, I think they are awful cause they made incorrect decision, the gamble to release 3 experience players for academy player rookie costs them not once but 2 international qualification. To get back to their 4th-6th internationally with other pacific teams improving could take a while, and I wouldn't be surprise if Buzz leaves end of season (contract expiry) too to T1. #C9KoreaBuzz back with Autumn, but with T1 now.

what exactly did zest rb and stax ever prove. They made it far in tournament

consistently made internationals + internationally proven player. What has flashback and BeYN has prove? consistently miss out on qualifying to international tournament (by losing to GenG both times). The newest addition proves are they LOST their consistency, The gamble to remove experienced players for rookies doesn't pay off unlike T1 and TH, results show.

Like alecks said when signing monyet, when new addition comes in, the more the team have to re-learn everything from scratch to accommodate the new player into the system and each time someone comes in (Foxy9, Flashback, BeYN) the inconsistency shows.

#T1WIN
#T1Fighting
T1 2-0 Global Embarrassment

they will be worst in the league?

its impossible for DRX to be worst in the league when DFM and GE exists. It should be worst worse, because the original roster is consistent top 4-6 AND making internationals. Releasing experienced players (Zest/Rb/Stax) for internationally unproven rookies will only remove their consistency and would end up NOT making internationals cause Pacific now have GenG/PRX (Guarantee international) and T1/RRQ/TLN (fighting for 3/4/5) with DRX.

comedy aside, we know he won't be playing duelist this upcoming split.

PRX and 3 KR teams at champs, classic pacific script. Also since ur a fan of Carlao, do you think ZETA will offer him contract extension for next year? I feel like if ZETA doesn't make champs, they would rather take chance on new coach since Carlao contracts expire ends of this season.

2-4 Split 1.

Pacific runs 23 days Stage 1 as compared to every other region (30days). T1 opening game (vs PRX)+ next 3 game (DFM/DRX/RRQ) all played within 9 days.... In those 9 days of heavy schedule, Xccurate had to play whilst having injured hand AND T1 had to relocate to basecamp (1 hour away) due to their headquarters got DDOS'd. T1 attacking side is terrible and they have a habit of throwing leads as well. Heavy schedule, lack of preparation and external factors were big cause of those 9days.

T1 was 0-3 on their first 3 games (6days in start of split 1).

TALON, Governor has very good Neon movement and the Neon buff will benefit TLN.

match against t1 where they destroyed them in maps 2 and 3

this is the part where everyone always overlooked and say negative things about T1. Pacific runs 23 days Stage 1 as compared to every other region (30days). T1 opening game (vs PRX)+ next 3 game (DFM/DRX/RRQ) all played within 9 days.... In those 9 days of heavy schedule, Xccurate had to play whilst having injured hand AND T1 had to relocate to basecamp (1 hour away) due to their headquarters got DDOS'd. T1 attacking side is terrible and they have a habit of throwing leads as well. Heavy schedule, lack of preparation and external factors were big cause of those 9days.

They got a significant firepower upgrade, and now have stability

DRX have stability last year, as being 2nd in pacific, always qual to every international event. REBUILDING and changes gonna take a long time and to get back to consistent 4-6 place internationally.

Ppl look at the fact that they haven’t qualed for masters as a sign that they are getting worse

Because they are NOT improving, and that's why stax left.

DRX - will be #1 in pacific

No. These guys listened to ppl about making changes, from consistent top 4-6 internationals to consistently NOT making internationals. Lose Rb, Zest, Stax in the process. Not surprise if Buzz leaves too at end of his contract end of this year.

TS - slightly above T1

They lose warbirds, the 1 person who changes this team massively brings so much improvement, losing him = downward performance.

T1 - the worst team in VCT

The reason this team can make internationals and top 3/4 pacific are because of talent > experience. iZu/xccurate/rossy are unexperienced in tier1, carpe 1 year of experience in valorant. With the addition of stax (2026 contract) this team will be more structured and will still perform above TS/TLN/RRQ.

Talon - lowkey terrible

This team improves so much under frost compared to last years version of TLN. The improvement on the macro helps this team and got them to playoff in stage 1. The addition of governor (import) will help this team further in stage 2 as the neon buff will make them a more competitive team.

RRQ - world beaters

GenG/PRX/DRX/T1 will continue to be top 4 teams pacific (PRX & 3 KR team script), If you watch pacific (which u don't cause Americas timezone), you'll know this. RRQ might make playoff, but this team is the 5/6/7 team

U clearly don't watch pacific cause of the timezone and your opinion on pacific teams are INCORRECT.

play SG server.

If fracture does came back, changes should makes the defender harder to pinch attacker side, it gets so annoying when u attack but 2 of your teammate dies by getting pinched and have to play 3v5.

in one of the post match interview alecks said the analyst part time cause still student/doing uni at same time.

5 - Majority of pacific teams flew 30+ hours flights. South America is geographically challenge to travel.

Roster change and they'll end up like DRX. From consistently making top 4-6 internationals to consistently not qualifying. Widen agent map pool and adopt faster to the meta. Also give alecks FULL TIME analyst, not part timer ones.

Wanna know what else is similar?

NDG benched for Wild0reoo

invy - Adrian REYES
Wild0reoo - Brheyanne REYES

TS with more nepo.

Vitality could benefit having paTiTek on their team.

what's with americas ppl thinking RRQ/TLN make champs? Its RIOT, DRX and T1 will make champs. KR teams goes.

looks like he needs a stream mod to time out some chatters.

he's done NS too, have real aiming skills experience.

T1 always find a way to make top 4 pacific,

with sp0n as coach? Never

t3xture

JP good for viewers, kick GE instead.

T1 will somehow makes it to champs. Its RIOT. New map abyss good for OP'ing too.

next ten years

15

hows LATEKS as headcoach btw? He was coach of pre franchise Giants.

benjy and wo0t stream on bili bili when they were in Shanghai, TH CARES about the CN fans. CN fans support them back for it,

quick look at his twitter last time he tag any1 was July 2023 and then April 2022. Saving it for once a year I guess.

"mindfraud" congratulated GenG with :DD

https://x.com/aaronleonhart4/status/1799784517705867499

Edit: why am I getting downvoted? Original posts was:

“no congratulation of any kind for GenG from J0ng,F00rsaken AND mindfraud on their socials.

Also Meteor said on stream that many of the players were sick too. Lakia was seen wearing masks and coughing.

Karmine Corp Crowd.

Champs 2023 in US and 2025 in US AGAIN??? Nahh probably China

22 - Istanbul (EMEA)
23 - LA (Americas)
24 - Seoul (Pacific)
25 - Beijing (China)

Masters 1 - Singapore
Masters 2 - Paris/New York
Champs - Beijing (CN)

Masters 1 - Singapore
Masters 2 - New York
Champs - Paris

pacific can only get crowds attending games on the weekends due to working culture, whilst 1st world western G7 countries doesn't have this issue as people will still show up on weekdays matches.

ain't watching a lot of Champs this year

that pre much me in champs 2023, just shut down my laptop and dozed off within few mins cause matches are 2am and 4am. The only good timezone us asia viewers had was just 1 event in entire 21/22/23, Masters Tokyo cause a lot of the EU masters, kinda gave up watching 2nd game.

IKR, xccurate play the first 4 games in 9 days schedule whilst injury + T1 have to relocate practice due to HQ DDOS really should ended them. So scripted they went through all of that and still qualify.

Pacific on Top!!!!!!!!!

APAC = All Players Are Chokers

NDG benched for Wild0reoo

invy - Adrian REYES
Wild0reoo - Brheyanne REYES

coincidence? I don't think so.

but it's better than watching turney at 4am if held in Americas.

I love the large size of the map, has many long range aim and has fracture feel but without the pinching BS.

Love the new map. Basically looks like fracture minus the BS pinching, but BIGGER with long range aim.