Going into brazil

1. NRG
2. 100T
3. C9
4. Sen
5. EG

In terms of potential
1/2. 100T = Sen

3. NRG
4. C9
5. EG

C9 are capped by Vanity, plus I think Sen, 100T, and NRG are individually better in most roles.

There is no reason to hate Tenz, but a ton of reason to hate Tenz fanboys.

Kinda fair, just wouldn't put Cryo that high, when Yay and Tenz are marginally lower than him while being basically equal in terms of skill. Me personally, I'd have aspas at 1 as a player since he has Cryo's skill and production while playing a harder role (Main entry vs a literal fragging position).

The other problem I have with the list is an inconsistent show of a 'value' boost. Like I said before, Aspas in this format is an undebatable #1. With that, if you are taking into consideration things like IGLing, FNS isn't even listed as an honorable mention. Is FNS a top 30 in pure skill? No. Is FNS a top 30 when you take into account he is an IGL? In my opinion, its an overwhelming yes.

I like the list, just some micro-movements that I have a personal problem with since you and I probably value different players less or more. I value players like Chronicle or Sacy more than you do, and you value players like Leo and Leaf a bit more than I do. I appreciate the time you put into the list.

And remember folks,

Champions 2022, Grand Finals, Map 1: Sacy goes 12-3 against Yay and drops 32 kills in order to carry Loud through one of the most important maps in Valorant history. Sacy my goat.

Does that mean skRossi isn't gonna be in Brazil? Wasn't he in the leaked group of starters for GE? Then Bazzi will fill that role ig?

Kinda sucks that a team like GE, both as a competitive roster and an entertaining one, will not be able to put their best foot forward in Brazil.

Is there only one masters? Really? That would be so wack in terms of points and everything, no time for teams to recover mid season.

My initial guesses are that:

Ofc Sao Paulo is the opener and M1 is Japan

So I suspect one of three options: LA, Berlin, and Soeul. Why? Because I'm assuming M2 will be in Europe and whichever region performs the best (since riot is giving regional rewards for performance, like the winner of Sao Paulo gets another M1 slot) will get Champs in their own Region Hub. At least for the first year, it kinda makes sense. Easy to set up for players, fully prepared venues and casters.

This might be bending the rules too much, but I would change the first round that Keyd Esports used their illegal cam, leading them to (in this hypothetical situation) never use the cam, never having to redo breeze, and sending Acend to the lower bracket after the first match.

What does this do?

Well, EnVy could then have won through the upper bracket rather than losing to x10 in the lower finals. Either x10 doesn't make the real playoffs, or a slightly broken Acend squad (who would eventually win the entire thing) would lose before the real playoffs.

Team legacies of Gambit and EnVy (2022 OpTic) would have been greatly affected should Acend have lost that Breeze Map without the illegal cam. I mean, even if you subtract one of the free rounds given to Acend, Keyd still have a HUGE opportunity to win. Acend got 7 free rounds and only won 13-10.

Also, based on how ACEND's mental state has been shown to be, if they had that loss I expect them to be a much less lethal team.

I think they have a chance to do well, VERY well. All 5 can (at bare minimum) hold up at a tier 1ish level, which is what I'd say the ascension teams are. Like, M80 is not a tier 2 team, they're a tier 1ish. I think this squad can play to that tier. I still got my stocks in M80, ghost core is wild, Zander is a very good controller, and Eeiu would have been on a franchise team is NA had 6.

Ima just watch Vinland and the Icy guy one.

But, ya know what you can always watch?

One Piece

I don't know if sinatraa was serious about playing in the open qualifier, but whatever squad that man stirs up with be the biggest wildcard in the scene. I've heard Sinatraa, Prd, and Shanks. That is fuck chaos that a T1 team can handle pretty well, but it could overwhelm a lesser team.

Personally, I'm very glad the first official Riot tourney of 2023 as well as the first Masters tourney ARE NOT in any of the VCT host cities of Berlin, Seoul, and LA. I hope that Riot explores the regions instead of just plopping down tournaments where they've already been.

Japan isn't THAT bad for NA viewers if they plan times right, so that's always nice. Plus, every NA team has at least 1 week training all out to get to Tokyo M1.

I get it now. THIS IS HOW THEY GET TENZ TO TRY. BAIT HIS ASS WITH JAPAN. It makes so much sense now. Anything for SEN Tenz.

Get those motherfuckers out of my cinnamon roles

Sorry, will do.

Update: Has done.

These motherfuckers drawing for maps and sides like a fucking mario party minigame

I'm all for this

W gimmick

Bro I have no clue, I was just going through my YouTube recommended JPOP songs and I got to Bocchi songs. They were just the default YouTube music ones where you can't comment. Honestly just look the songs up and find the ones labeled under topic, those are like the actual releases.

Edit: They are also on Apple music under their band name. Yes I use apple music, I have no idea for Spotify.

Gov offered to shake ass and Fullerton, wherever that is, was a different team.

Bocchi has single handedly dragged me back into anime. So good.

Funny story : I found the soundtrack AND HAD IT ON MY PLAYLIST FOR DAYS before I learned it was not a 'real' band and from an anime.

Amazing music, Amazing comedy, and outside of being good at something, my and Hitori's personalities are 1:1. I relate a little too much to her honestly. It's genuinely concerning. 10/10 series, and that's from a One Piece purist. That's how good it is.

Tenz. He played Jett as second Entry in their prime, sick was primary entry and Tenz would still OP. Without Chamber in the meta, Tenz and Zekken are free to go double duelist and have tenz op on defense. Who ops on attack anyways, except for yay it's usually worse than a regular rifle lurk.

Idk how I overlooked this, but I was just about to go to sleep and I was think about Sacy and VCT America's and how good he is. Then I looked at the Optic vs Loud finals, because I remembered he had a good map 1. I was wrong, he had an amazing map 1. That was an overtime map, and Optic won bind VERY strong (13-6), which led into another overtime map on Breeze which loud won to go 2-1 then a 3-1 win. So, what did I miss? Well, I remembered the recent clip of FNS where he basically said OpTic (and any team for that matter) could not recover from two seperate overtime losses where Optic had the lead prior.

Sacy won Acsent, and I'd say, the whole match of the Finals.
Why did he win it? A bit of it was the 32 kills, 5 above Yay at top of the lobby as well as 11 above Aspas who was #2 on the team. Well, what about his performance. Sacy went into the final two rounds and got a 4k on round 27 alongside a 1v1 clutch, and then got a 3k to seal the deal in 28. But what really won them the game, in my opinion, is the fact Sacy low diffed Yay. Yay got 27 kills, just 3 were on Sacy through the match. Yeah, remember those 32 sacy kills? 12 ON YAY ON ONE MAP. Sacy well and truly diffed yay that map.

So why am I writing this at 6:46 am? Well, because I just want to throw out there what a powerhouse Sacy is, at his position. He is actually insane. I've known this since he knifed some G2 member in a 1v1 (he lost the round, but gigachad). I do feel like people brush over what Sentinels have become due to C9's popularity and the 100T win, but with these Brazilians, Canadian, America, and a wild Brit, I really think Sentinels should be feared at all levels.

Final note, Tenz is returned to second entry which was what he played when Sentinels actually worked. So thats an extra boost.

Step 1: Open your notes
Step 2: Find a god
Step 3: Pray

bro I lost hope after bind, Optic on Ascent was sub-par the whole tournament.

I'm talking more attack side, because they'll both be comparable on defense but their attack roles are very different. Aspas is always the entry, when Yay might AT MOST peak for a pick before Zellsis or Victor takes first onsite contact.

L take

Mocking > LeBron

Don't get that shit twisted brother.

Yeah if Aspas played the same position as Yay, then I'd think they'd be compared to each other. But, Aspas still plays as a primary entry and secondary op-er where Yay plays primary Op. Even on C9, Yay will be a secondary entry behind Zellsis just like he was behind Victor even when being on duelist.

Obvious lie bro.

Mocking too good for Sen LOL

I faced M80 Eeiu in a deathmatch last night and he won it, so I am inclined to put M80 at first.

Its not because Zander likes One Piece I SWEAR
Side note: WHy am I in a DM with M80 Eeiu I am quite literally gold 1

Maybe Faze picked up the best NA player : Mocking.

I hope I don't get in trouble for leaking, tee hee

Western Europeans talking about North Americans taking credit for South America, full well knowing Eastern Europe and Turkey have carried their region for the entirety of its existence.

If we're still gonna be splitting up the America's, you better believe I'm getting on West Europeans for taking East Europe and Turkeys credit.

They won both Masters 2 and Champs.
All Western Europe has done is lose to NA in Masters 1.

Can we all agree, no matter the outcome of tomorrow's games, not to clown on C9, Kru or 100T? Now, we're all one region so...

Let's all just remind any toxic EMEA fans that they held a tournament and got bottem 5.

Ok? Love yall, GL tomorrow. Kru looked Hella nice today, I'm excited for the game.

Bob and Flor would literally get blocked by Riot that shit too OP

Without their IGL.
Without one of the most impactful players in all of Valorant.
STILL at #2 giving Thieves a RUN for their money.
Enzo and Meddo were bottem 2 in all but the final series when meddo was mid.
Yes, frags aren't everything, but JUST off aim skill and fragging ability nAts and Redgar fully outclassed meddo and Enzo. This is a scary team when they are able to show their complete potential.

I might have said this in a hot takes forum, but I believe TenZ will wither end the year as an undisputed top 3 player or completely retired and full time streaming.

(I believe it was Masters 1, LOUD vs G2)
Round 13, pistol round
Sacy knifes a guy in a 1v1 (still loses round)
I still think this one moment caused loud to get into the finals and win Champs like 6 months later. So, great play.

That's enough time to start watching One Piece

(progressively hotter)

1. East Asia's top 5 will be based 90% on whichever Jett plays best each game
2. Navi will make the finals in Brazil and Masters 1, but lose both to C9 and then Fnatic.
3. One of the Sen players will end the year as the DEFINITIVE best player in the world.

gMd works

Brother is bragging about a tie

Wow it's almost like they had an attack sided comp and won 9 on attack,, while Talon ALSO had an attack sided comp and won 9 on attack. Honestly crazy.

They've been in my top 4 since they were announced.

DRX, Gen.G, Talon and Paper Rex.

I genuinely think they are (by far) the top 4 in Asia, but I am biased towards Gen.G and PRX cause I love the PRX playstyle and because I'm a meteor fan.

People will go crazy when they realize some maps and comps are extremely one sided

He is very attractive

It probably because Bob isn't attacked for being a good player, but is attacked for being Trans. She's being attacked as a person rather than being attacked as a player.

I think the Brazilian Final this year will be Navi vs C9.
I think Fnatic will choke in the first international lan, like every other one, but I do think they'll win at least 1 major by the end of the year.

Personal preferences:
Asia - Gen.G and PRX (Paper Rex is fun to watch and Gen.G got Meteor, love that guy)
EMEA - I'll watch this region the least, but I'll cheer for either Liquid or Fnatic for entertainment. I'm in NA so EMEA is too early for me.
Americas- NRG and Sen. I like the streamers/ personalites on both teams. Although, I do think both squads will round out the top 3 in America's, baring Sam being braindead and Tenz playing to his true potential. If Tenz plays to his potential then he can easily be top 5 in the region, and I will die on that hill.

I think mines a high 220 or a low 230 on the default website, but it's a 210 on the AimLabs "detection" task.

I may be a shiiter in gold, but I find I play better and react faster when I've drank a lot of water. I'm a huge coffee guy, but water does make a genuine difference in how well my body works.

I don't care about the tier list, the first Lan final will be C9 vs Navi. DRX and Fnatic always throw once we believe in them.

My heart wants Sentinals vs Fnatic again, but my brain says that C9 and Navi are easily the two strongest squads there, fnatic is close though but I have learned to NEVER have hope in Fnatic (they've ruined 3 of my brackets)

Chamber change, not a groundbreaking nerf.

Also, obviously this won't happen. It's more effort than riot would put in for an agent change.

So:
Remove Chamber trip
New ability : Designer
cost 350 credits, one use.
It's a 50 armor heal.
Whoever it's used on has a special glow

Why?
In the lore, Chamber is a weapons manufacturer. He can make a fucking piece of armor. He's made a teleporter and multiple guns, he can make armor. Fits the lore of the charecter.

In game, it nerfs Chamber a lot. He is a whole different agent. No longer can you puck Chamber as a sun for KJ or Cypher. Chamber is now a flex like sage. He focuses on picks, while sage focuses on delay. He can't solo hold as well, he has nothing to play off alone, he can't hold as aggressive angles as efficiently because he doesn't have the safety. We also don't have an Armor based heal, so it's a new type of heal. My person built of this is that he cab only use it on himself or an ally who had bought armor that round. Then, the special glow is so the enemy knows its been used already. Not busted, but a good ability that forces chamber to either play more with the team or allows him to be more aggressive, pushing in wise.

saving the best for last

Common Bob ratio