These 4 teams in some order with Leviatán in 5th seems to be the general agreement on what the top 5 teams of 2024 are

I won't stand for TU slander, they worked too hard to get to playoffs (even if JL did deserve it more)

Bump!
GX // -hoody* -Fit1nho*
https://x.com/hoodyVAL/status/1832085565048840459
https://x.com/Fit1nho/status/1832073121894993991

Bump!
FNC // -mini
https://x.com/FNATIC/status/1832087594915520894

I didn't watch VALORANT in 2022. Also the only guy left from that team is FNS so what are you talking about

I didn't get a paycheck :(
I instead got an Intuit Quickbooks notification. It's a lot less cool

KOI Demon1

Might as well remove Less and not play any sentinels as well. And then realize midway through the season that you actually do need info sentinels on like half the maps. And then they don't have any info sentinel players except pANcada but he doesn't want to so what do they do? They put cauanzin on sentinel, kick tuyz for some reason, and put in some random guy to play recon initiator (he's a Brimstone one trick)

Me personally, I'm straight up mid

Derke Derke Derke Derke Derke
Derke Derke Derke Derke Derke
BO7

(You can't say this isn't insane)

That's like saying DFM were the best Japanese team this year

The year is 1991
Birds and people are living together in seemingly perfect harmony
Until one day a young man catches fire
This is "Phoenix"

They're more likely to put him on Skye and Sage than on Jett and Raze

Palla and Rich will be able to prove themselves in 2025, MIBR definitely built that roster with the following season in mind as they were basically already out of contention for even playoffs that year. That being said, yeah, Americas tier 2 outside of North America is very lackluster just because of the way things work. I hate it but there's no way around it :(

Probably not a duelist because why in the world would LOUD ever sign one of those

Asshidfdhgjklrdesrasssfdsghdsoesktdphf I hate LOUD's management with a burning passion

LOUD MANAGEMENT IS THE REASON THIS SEASON TURNED OUT HOW IT DID BRO I MEAN WHO THE HELL SIGNS A VIPER MAIN TO REPLACE THE BEST DUELIST THE REGION HAS EVER SEEN AND THEN PUT HIM ON PHOENIX ON MORE THAN HALF THE MAPS AND THEN FIRE THE "DUELIST" TO SIGN A FOURTH FREAKING CONTROLLER PLAYER AND PUT THEIR IGL ON DUELIST SO HE CAN'T EVEN THINK FOR HALF THE GAME BECAUSE HE'S TOO BUSY GETTING FLAMED ON TWITTER OH MY GOD DUDE WHAT THE HELL

I'm sorry

But literally if they just ran goddamn no duelist on every single map they'd probably have been good enough to make Champs because they're LOUD. And if not it'd at LEAST be better than this (they still ended like 4-6 btw)

How are they meant to cook when they just basically fired the dude who fucking invented the culinary arts

LOUD IS PROBABLY GETTING RID OF THEIR ENTIRE ROSTER TO BRING IN FIVE FLASH INITIATORS OR SOMETHING WITH HOW THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING

I'm going off the rails man wtf are these guys doing

SHUT UP BULKYPOTATO WHAT DO YOU THINK I'M DOING

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WHY DO THEY MAKE IT SO HARD TO SUPPORT THIS TEAM

Could be camera angle

I'm going to cry

Bump!
LOUD // -Saadhak*
https://www.threads.net/@loudgg/post/C_jZCeIOzwc
:(

Ohhh alright thank you

I'm more confused now. What's the point in announcing a player as a restricted free agent, then? Does the announcement serve any purpose? What's the difference between a normal player and an RFA rostermania-wise?

If that's the case then isn't every player with a contract in tier 1 technically a restricted free agent?

Does that mean he's RFA though?

That's as good a theory as any right now

Yup. As far as I'm aware we haven't heard anything of the sort from Saadhak, LOUD, or even any of Saadhak's teammates

If his contract hasn't ended yet, then is he even a free agent to begin with? We have such little clarification on this

This makes the most sense to me. LOUD wants money, so if a team is willing to put in a HUGE buyout for Saadhak (I'm guessing pretty similar to Derke's buyout) then that's of monetary benefit for LOUD

I already saw the ValorINTEL tweet. It doesn't have a source provided, though. Plus ValorINTEL has been wrong in the past

Man I wish I knew Portuguese right about now

What I know is LOUD made an announcement saying "we're changing his contract expiry date from 2025 to 2024 to allow him to look for new offers if he wishes to do so." They didn't announce he was leaving, and they didn't announce he was a restricted free agent, either. So I'm confused now

LOUD announced Saadhak's contract ends this year instead on next year now. That I understand. What I don't understand is that people are saying he's a restricted free agent now. Was that a separate announcement I didn't see, or is that just an implication of the contract change, or is it a rumour for now?

JonahP is Canadian

pl1xx as well

PRX Sunset
DRX Lotus

I'm 7-16 this act, can't help ya bud

+1

ziz

You good?

Hate to break it to you, but me and Kirya is the grammatically correct way of writing it in this situation

Hi wsp

So PCIFIC, not sure, and PCIFIC

I like you a lot less now

NRG 2024 by names should've won all three events. If this year proved anything, it's that names don't matter as much as we give them credit for

I'm a simple man. I see amovie, I downvote

That's fair. Wonder if there's ever been a coachless T1 team. Don't think there has been in franchising, at least