1. Since we made it to ascension and got after it informed we cant keep 2 russians we were very late to rebuild the roster, and a lot of players who i had my eyes on already were signed mid july- august.
   And you also dont understand that japan is minor region, playerpool is limited while there is a lot of orgs. Getting good player is harder than in other regions.

2. some players just decided they want to join different team, since its easier to speak on mother language / higher salary

3. Some players i looked on were underage / had lack of experience. Some of them in our academy rn.

And FL also invest much more on their roster bro. Thats the point. We didnt had as much , but yet i wanted to be competitive.
If i sit on coach slot i want to understand what why and how my players communcating or what they didnt coordinate/say, so i can understand what we need to adjust.

Stop saying nonsense.

1. If org sign coach from abroad surely its better to have language barrier so as a coach you will spend on explaining theory / feedback x2 time and unable to speak with a team in timeout without translator or have x2 less time to speak during timeout cuz all stuff need to be translated as well. Org also will need spend extra on translator. Great idea.

2. I took tenzou cuz i saw in him talent during tryouts and he learned and improved his english and as a player during his time in a team. But it was possible only cuz we had some time in offseason and its also depends on the player. Someone will listen and ask for advice and do stuff to improve, someone will not.

Everyone would be happy to make 5JP roster if players they wanted would be possible to get.
There are plenty of eng speaking japanese if you know the scene. But there is a reality check. Some of them impossible to afford, someone impossible to get just cuz his org will not sell him or not even let the player know that you contacted about him. (thats why its hard for both partnered JP orgs get players they want to). JP players dont have agencies and sometimes they sign shit contracts too.

I still wanted to win, so since we couldnt get any eng speaking option from here on roles i wanted i looked who i can get abroad and develop to. Same approach orgs doing on partnership league, but people take it normally. saya, ban, governor, russ all just have citizenship of Pacific counrties, while played in their valorant careers only abroad before pacific, yet they count as residents of Pacific and its normal.

I think riot were not happy with a chance of team qualifying to tier 1 with "2 emea imports". Even though Far east russians cant really play on EU. From 2024 rule of having only 1 import from the other major region (EMEA/CN/Americas) works for both tier 1 and tier 2.

I understand the decision and i can see why it was made, so no complains on it, but on timing only. It was said too late in offseason and not even eng speaking jp, just almost no jp players with any tournament experience left, so we were forced to make roster with massive comms issues

Only in EMEA LTR rule exist. APAC leagues only count you resident of league if you legal citizen of a country.

We have 1 jp ,2 half JP( both have documents of being JP citizens) , 2 imports. Just cuz on vlr gg our half JPs have their second half flags rn means we do 4 imports?
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.

We got informed by admins very late at the end of september of 2023 that we cant play with 2 russians, so old roster decided to part their ways and i had to build roster in rush for RBHG.

SZ wanted me to stay the HC , i wanted to have eng speaking roster to be able to coach them. Its not impossible task. I have a list of ENG speaking japanese players , there are 27 eng speaking JP players. Unfortunately 90% of JP players and good imports in who i had interest ALREADY were signed by other orgs from mid-end summer of 2023 / other orgs didnt want to sell their players to us for any reason / my org denied and said we couldnt get the player cuz of his reputation risks/ buyout of some player is too high/ some were too young and cant play yet, or not radiants yet (we get some of them in our academy) /player want to play in other team and didnt join for this reason.

I had to scout hard and look in non obvious places to make competitive eng speaking roster with no comms issues in a very last moment.

KJ has a turret, alarm and her own gun, so she can check 3 different lanes. Imagine Ascent Defence. Put KJ alarm on mid, turret watching a short and watch a site from garden.

Cypher if its needed can put 2 info wires and camera on different spots, so he is also can cover 3 different lanes
You can imagine again Ascent, wires mid+a short and put some camera watching A main.

If want to have more info on the map both KJ and Cypher can cover 3 different lanes.

Chamber, Sage, Deadlock can cover 2 lanes at the best. Wall/trip one area and check the other. Thats all the problem about them.

Lets go fav!

DRX 3-1 SEN

Kr1stal drops 50

HYUNMIN demon

spitting fax

yes yes yes

Cuz there are not a single one valo server in central asia, on eu ping from kz 120 or something

I like ange1 personality and when some of their innovative comps/rounds works its so entertaining to watch

ur welcome 😸

Team secret wins 😉

ok sry

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https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/78c8910b

Gde 7ssk7

They were super good in scrims since they made current version of roster (end of last year) + signed Bullco on coach position
https://www.vlr.gg/164843/ge-scrim-2-17

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#KZWIN

NaVi

Scene is not dead. Its just growing extremely slow.
I was thinking about it. And the reason of slow growing scene in East Asia is lack of tournaments. FR you have nothing to play outside of VCLs unlike in other regions.
East Asia need more weekly/monthly 3rd party tournaments and it will fix a lot.Compare SEA offseason and EA offseason. Im jealous
Whats point of having so much orgs and only 1 tournament per region? Whats point of playing in officials only vs teams from your own region? How much its really helps to grow? Already all of EA regions were named "1 team regions" cuz EDG/DRX/ZETA dominated them and now without such opponents in officials standarts are even lower.

All what East Asia is need to improve as a region is more tournaments for tier2-3 and all of JP/KR/CN teams should have ability to participate it.

1. viewership is guaranteed (cuz of CN + JP teams)
2. place to scout for a new talents (a lot of teams from KR and JP is just changing same players between each other for 2 years already, freshblood SDC and RIO in KR are showing fucking good results Fennel in JP have 3 young stars and they are playing on pro scene less than 1 year, new talents exist, just they need some place to have a chance to show themselves)
3. The more dissapointment results orgs will see the more they would like to change something in a team (add coach, add analyst, change a player or even roster), so their main t2 league orgs will enter with prepared or at least tested roster in which they really have confidence.
4. Top 4 teams of tier 2 leagues from all of this regions could be interested in participate such tournaments as well just to test some shit and to not forget what officials games are (cuz the more better results you have the less official games you play which is kinda not helping with at least saving your shape im not even talking about growing and becoming better)

copium

TS

Cuz ESL organizers forced everyone to play on 5.12 patch after 1 day of this patch out 💀 And they decided to say about it only before couple of hours when game starts (in rulebook they wrote all games on 5.10 and even tournaments that started later than ESL like red bull homeground were played on 5.10), so we had no time to prep

Ive heard many times how bad ESL TO in Asia, it was my mistake to agree playing their tournament

You really bet versus us every game 🥲

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Split is back, so Zeta 📈

Not gonna leak anything.

You might be surprised, but Jadeite is a good team in scrims.
But still its just scrims and doesnt mean anything. Anyone can beat anyone in scrims.

Turkye or MENA, so no visa problems for ru and sea players

Agree

90% Pacific still without any international trophy this year.

50% EMEA wins Sao Paulo.

10% One team wins two international titles this year.

The closest situation to win 2 Major titles.

Gambit vs Acend Grand Final 2021 Champs
Gambit with 2-1 lead,
4th map is Icebox 12-11, Gambit is leading
Full buy + Op vs 4 rifles + spectre

https://youtu.be/WxPt4oM4DYo 2:59:25

Everyone from GMB played too passive without any map control. B played with no B long control, A played without A main control (sheydos on screens or behind screens), mid after early aggression from d3ffo was played passive as well. Gambit were worried about potential push from every position. They were caught off guard when Acend took B long just by contact. Only d3ffo was B site(other were in rotations to other positions, cuz of no map control), but it was not enough to stop 5 men exec. Unretakeable after kill on redgar. OT.

Lets go FPX!

EMEA:

1. NaVi vs FNC
   upgraded ex-FPX vs upgraded FNC, 5 times faced during 2nd stage 2022

Momentum...
I can feel it....

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#SignOCEteams

more CIStanbul wildacts, huh? :D

100T

Breeze tube shockdart in the middle not an universal answer anymore to destroy trap ig. need to send it either to the right or to the left side to break, so its always will be 50/50 now

Same about ascent middle alarm/trap, need to perfectly know position of alarm to destroy it

fpx 2-1

cNed makes 2x times more FK than Ange1 FD, so its a huge upgrade 😸

Hmm
Parla EMEA ascension winner?