i don't think every org in franchising combined has a 400m budget for valorant lol

Cypher is great, the only differential to me is that he needs to be on the spot to use his abilities lurking (like the cage), which means if he makes enough noise the enemy will know. Viper and Astra can be anywhere, so they can easily mislead and be more sneaky

S tier (Has abilities that straight up help lurking):
Viper, Astra

A tier (Don't have abilities to help lurking but don't affect the team by lurking):
Cypher

B tier (Maybe can affect the team because of ranged habilities, but can be good if used right)
Killjoy, Chamber, Sova

C tier (Could work sometimes)
Jett, Reyna, Yoru, Clove, Vyse (?)

D tier (Only with ult or combined abilities)
Omen, Fade

F tier (Don't)
All others

Yes but 2nd Lockin + 1st VCT Americas + 3rd Champions (we ignore tokyo) was also insane for a team that was a bunch of kids with two fathers (saadhak and frod)

sorry i just miss 2023 loud they had such a great potential :(

Well, i was talking more on the geography side of things. I think ignoring it is the issue. But in any way, ignoring population also is a issue. Looking at the future, Valorant is growing more and more. Americas as a whole has more population, and therefore a higher celling of players and public. Eventually Europe will grow on a much more slower rate. They should've invested in developing the separate regions, but instead they chose to concentrate everything in one place. This is better in short-term, but worse at long-term.

I also don't think player base should matter that much to pro play when most of it is concentrated on low elo and basically the same amount goes to pro play independently of how much players it has

Because then it would develop the region and more people would come to play. And player base is irrelevant when only a small amount goes to pro play. The 1 million players from Iron to Diamond weren't going to make any difference in the high level

uniting the entire americas as one continent when EMEA as a region (considering that all teams are from Europe and Turkey, if you don't consider Turkey europe) is smaller than South America alone (maybe even Brazil alone) is certainly a Choice

Pior que acho que nem tem muito mais o que falar, tudo já ta quase definido, maior mistério agora é quem é o HC da loud

me too. twitter will probably be back on brazil some time on the next couple of weeks at least

Noyn and Bruno Povoleri are the GOATS of brazil

aspas don't learn anything he just wakes up one day knowing

that entire loud 2023 roster(besides saadhak) was under 20 years old

Fair enough

Very nice list

Less alone could have like three or four performances listed

Like, while i understand your choice, i think Less on icebox vs Optic on Reykjavik upper finals was my favorite performance of his of all time

And i would like to add Sacy on Champions Grand Finals. Team's top fragger as initiator, 80% KAST, and at least one important clutch at every single map won. Him on Ascent specially was a fucking beast

thats a valid point actually

that's why i thought lev will eventually lower the buyout, aspas wage will still be big even on bench and they can't afford both at the same time, and there's no chance they will want aspas on the team after he basically forced his way out

LMAOOOOOO cmon aspas stop being a pussy go to europe jfc why are you going to CHINA

aspas goes back in time and saves 2023 mibr with ReginaldoMeister, the Wizard

it should. but i also think aspas set himself up a little bit. i mean, it's pretty implicit, he's no IGL

i mean they got fucking kicked out of vct i dont think bleed is a very smart org

He chose Bleed probably (and im saying this as speculation and my opinion, not information) because of money + the only team that would pay the buyout + he REALLY wants to live on APAC + they probably said he would have a lot of power on team building

He's been unhappy on the org ever since they kicked nzr. They're friends and he really wanted to play with him, then they kicked him out of nowhere and he didn't even knew, so he was like "wait a minute wtf" but let it go

Then apparently he really wanted Frod to coach the team after Goked left, but Lev didn't really made any effort for it (Frod was AC on MIBR and would later on become HC), so he got pissed again they didn't hear him

Then after the season he was like "well what a weird year let's make some moves for the next one" and Lev was like "yeah lets do this" but they haven't asked his opinion on what to do and he apparently was pissed of and then he started to seriously consider leaving

So basically he thought he would have more power on team decisions and they didnt really care what he thought (all of this was reported by bruno povoleri at the time)

jawgemo when he realizes he got confused and signed to 2G instead of G2

Now that less and saadhak left he can finally return to Loud. Leviatan loans aspas, in exchange they never send another brazilian there ever again. Aspas comes back to Loud, gets like top 3 on champions again, gets reminded of how shitty life can be when youre poor and goes back to Lev happy

????? na notícia literalmente não diz isso em lugar nenhum

Fala que as Organizações tão conversando com o JOGADOR e tem que se acertar com a organização DEPOIS

e que a lev só libera sob pagamento da cláusula, coisa que a matéria ainda deixa claro que NÃO TINHA ACONTECIDO

Yeah, Aspas put himself in this situation tbh. He did almost the same thing with loud lol

Fer saying that "Anyone who pays the buyout can get aspas" and saying that "There's no offer for Aspas" are two completely different sentences that don't contradict themselves in any way

No, people are distorting it. What's been said is that there were teams interested in him, such as Fnatic and DRX, which of course there were, but none of them wanted to pay the full buyout. Which means there was no actual offer, just small contacts

I think 250k is way too much for a number of reasons, and that Lev could lower the buyout. But Aspas knew the buyout and that he had a two year contract. He forced his way out of the team in a dumb way and now he's on a very tough spot. Hes literally fucking around and finding out.

even if they didn't, i don't think they want aspas there anymore after he basically forced his way out of the team lol

lev was already building a roster without aspas, they probably have it locked by now. they will probably need the money to pay for demon1, and if they don't lower it no offer will come. they will essentially be losing money every month paying aspas on the bench (and his wage will be big even if its cut because of the bench), so its more worth it to lower it and still win money to at least cover for demon1 costs.

im guessing theres a small chance again now aspas stays but i dont think anyone wants that anymore there

I don't think that's bad i think spreading misinformation is funny i support him

Então o que rola? Imagino que a Lev eventualmente vá baixar a multa, mas nenhum time pagaria atualmente... Coitado vai ficar parado na próxima temporada

Probably still APAC

I'm guessing Lev will probably lower the buyout eventually

Bom projeto de carreira Aspinhas

from what i read seems like they didn't pay the players properly lmao

but maybe could be more idk some crime related things thats very serious

From what i read seems like bleed repeatedly delayed wages lol

brazilian teams are wrong apart from furia

i just woke up and bleed is fucking kicked out of vct? what the fuck

its like leo faria saw aspas being stupid and said "damm i'm gonna have to do something"

he came back already posting fake news what a guy

I mean we'il see when it actually starts but right now its not even top 3

2G is going to go well. we're going to see 2G vs G2 at champs

tuyz will be at loud next season, they're trialing coaches now

I said i don't doubt that is just MIBR being MIBR

Não entendi pq kikaram o Rich, deve ter rolado alguma treta interna. Mas não duvido que seja só a MIBR sendo a MIBR

Artzin vai ser o iniciador do time e eles não devem kikar mais ninguém

what happened to nats when he met less

https://www.vlr.gg/247103/team-liquid-vs-loud-valorant-champions-2023-group-stage-elim-d

what happened to nats when he met alfajer FIVE TIMES

https://www.vlr.gg/183951/team-liquid-vs-fnatic-champions-tour-2023-emea-league-w3
https://www.vlr.gg/213197/fnatic-vs-team-liquid-champions-tour-2023-emea-league-ubf
https://www.vlr.gg/213198/fnatic-vs-team-liquid-champions-tour-2023-emea-league-gf (even when he WON lol)
https://www.vlr.gg/341816/fnatic-vs-team-liquid-champions-tour-2024-emea-stage-1-knockout
https://www.vlr.gg/353174/fnatic-vs-team-liquid-champions-tour-2024-emea-stage-2-w4

nats is a good player but he's nowhere near alfajer and less currently. being TL's best player doesn't mean anything if the team is just bad lol

UPDATES:

MIBR: Updated status to players. Rich removed, GuhRVN added.

Loud: Added sato as 6th player

Galorys: Added Prozin

Updated teams status and rumours

BR players are cyber bullies AND set records for ACS and rating actually so its peak entertainment