you should watch Cowboy Bebop if you liked Samurai Champloo and Mob Psycho since it is my fav show of all time, and you liked Bocchi
nice list though!

the BLAST ui for CS is incredibly good

https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/1782/superdome-2023-colombia?exclude=&min_rounds=0&agent=jett
https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/1782/superdome-2023-colombia?exclude=&min_rounds=0&agent=raze
mens......

:3

Netero based for agreeing Platinum was peak and past that was all downhill.........

this could easily work too. I feel Riot sees doing this many tournaments as a "Logistical Nightmare" but truly it would be easier if they weren't hosting, planning and paying for every single one

they had act 1, act 2 and then a chinese champions qualifier
it was a bit too bunched up for me but at least they had multiple seasons for teams to show they are improving / doing better and more matches. it's how we got billibilli in a tournament, who ended up doing well (being NRG twice RIP)

regional leagues should be like the old china system with 2-3 seasons/rounds to qualify for tournamens but each season you can go to the big tournaments if you're at the top
this would mean teams have like 3 season to improve rather than just one where if you lose like 5 matches it's over
just have like (region) spring, (masters 1), summer, (masters 2), fall (champs)
winter offseason

for example
VCT Americas Spring (top 4 to Masters 1)
VCT Americas Summer (top 3 to Masters 2, top Americas team from Masters 1 auto quali)
VCT Americas Fall (top 2 to Champs, top Americas team from Masters 1 and masters 2 auto quali)
teams if they want can grind off-season tournaments during the winter offseason. would also align with most contracts expiring

factual
oopsie you lost 5 matches out of 9? your season is virtually over
nice try squad! your org is irrelevant for the year!

China has an insane system compared to the rest of the regions. they played 54 matches through the year. it's not comparable to the franchised system, which they were not a part of until this year

let's say you're from spain and you love KOI
you watch them at LOCK//IN get insta eliminated and play one match
you watch the 9 matches in their regular season, 4 matches in a LCQ and then it's just over. maybe you can peek at their crossfire cup? oh no they lost 1 match and now their year is over.
heartbreaking.

tenz will be the scapegoat now even though I think he's been doing incredible (even just from stats) at his role as a flex and will only get better

burnout playing a match every 12 days. I understand someone brought up scrims and needing to adjust meta and map rotation, but that's like two to four times a year. that does not require such a crazy amount of effort to make up for the gap between how much other esports players are playing and how much Valorant players are playing.

Faze in Counter-Strike during 2023 played 165 maps on LAN totaling 74 matches, one match every 5 days.
Val players on a good year play 31 matches TOTAL including a SEASONAL ROUND ROBIN FORMAT so one nearly every 12 days. this is pulled from fnatic, who had the most matches through the year to my knowledge (or at least larger riot ones)
and yes, it gets worse when we put in only the actual international tournaments, where, if you were fnatic and won every single match in champs, tokyo and sao paulo you'd only have 16 matches played through the year internationally, one nearly every 23 days.
let's say you're an unfortunate org like KOI?
1 international match in a year, LOCK//IN. you play your regular season, some playoffs, maybe a crossfire cup (all EMEA tournaments) and that's your entire year.
the system is broken. this cannot be all we can offer to these teams.

my proposition:

regional leagues should have 3 seasons to qualify for tournaments and each season you can go to the big tournaments if you're at the top
this would mean teams have multiple seasons to improve rather than just one where if you lose like 5 matches it's over
have (region) spring for masters 1, summer for masters 2 and fall for champs
winter offseason to align with contract expiration

for example
VCT Americas Spring (top 4 to Masters 1)
VCT Americas Summer (top 3 to Masters 2, top Americas team from Masters 1 auto quali)
VCT Americas Fall (top 2 to Champs, top Americas team from Masters 1 and masters 2 auto quali)
teams if they want can grind off-season tournaments during the winter offseason

could easily be done like:
Late January - Mid March: Spring season, Masters 1 late March
Mid May - Early July: Summer, Masters 2 Mid July)
Late August - Early October: Fall, Champs Late October)
November-almost February: off season (contract expirations and roster changes)

bottom teams get guaranteed 30 matches through the year, if a team wins every match through all 3 seasons its 45 matches. if they win all 3 tournaments like 66, 70 max. seems like a lot (and close to the CS one) but regular season matches are BO1 (all 30 guaranteed matches) so truly it'd be more like 68 maps through regular seasons and in tournaments maybe 29 more so 97 maps (faze played 165)

TL;DR: schedule ass, have seasonal schedules with winter season off. each season qualis to masters 1, 2 and champs

faze in 2023 played 165 maps on LAN totalling 74 matches, one match every 5 days
val players on a good year play 31 matches TOTAL including a SEASONAL ROUND ROBIN FORMAT so one nearly every 12 days (fnatic with the most matches through 2023, could be wrong on this)
it gets worse when we put in only the actual international tournaments, where, if you were fnatic and won every single match in champs, tokyo and sao paulo you'd only have 16 matches played through the year internationally, one nearly every 23 days.
let's say you're an unfortunate org like KOI?
1 international match in a year, LOCK//IN. you play your regular season, some playoffs, maybe a crossfire cup (all EMEA tournaments) and that's your entire year.
the system is broken. this cannot be all we can offer to these teams.

big fan of the joblife roster
hoping kamyk and jas do well

furia:
mwzera (duelist)
nzr (initiator)
kon4n (initiator flex)
pancada (controller)
khalil/havoc/liazzi (sentinel, whoever is best in role)

bonecold life map to win acend 2nd map
redgar disasterclass last 2 maps
tilt calling + crazy lucky rounds from ACEND
literal life series, overall gambit looked way better and way more solid throughout the series
just truly unlucky

frauded their way through
gambit robbed

y0y

Venn Diagram

Barca eSports win!

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easy answer
TenZ has the biggest following by FAR out of any player in franchising
he is easily recognizable by Valorant fans and people outside of Valorant
regards

ok replace breach with iso

deadlock, yoru, breach, gekko, harbor

bump
i know some scouts and managers use VLR

the calls have been really good
the players individually are making troll decisions besides boostio who is playing extremely disciplined and well
seems like zikz and potter were really really good coaches, something hopefully zikz will carry that over even without potter :/

totally
I think it's mental from him getting relaxed on chamber or in general on attack perhaps even with zekken being the space maker on XSET
once he gets back into it if possible he'll be a demon, he needs to start taking those fights and aim duels early and confidently again and hard clear stuff. he is one of the best mechanical players in the league if not potentially on the list in the world at least on XSET. no reason for him to not be able to get back into it. also #8 is correct and honestly I think boostio and Zikz will help a ton with that once they have more time.

cryo is not a good entry player, yet
fantastic on defense but he is impatient when playing entry and half-clears a lot of angles
I think it's a mentality thing more than a skill thing and he can overcome it
but genuinely if he can't they need either asuna to step up (I don't think that's happening) or a role change since he actually looked decent on other roles
or a kick :/

really rough attacker half

nah you're good if you're joking
I've just heard actual people say "if franchising didn't exist all this new talent would crop up and dominate the scene" when they could just do it in challengers through open quali and then franchising. I do agree that franchising does suck and Kiko is also fully correct in #9.

you get minimum salary when you qualify to franchising iirc, even if you don't have an org you either find one or Riot pays you
I think a no-namer squad could somehow roll through qualis and challengers and if they do so they'd get the 5k minimum monthly somehow

if they were going to dominate why didn't they dominate in open qualifiers to challengers and then qualify for franchising

taco fell off
ardiis back on na'vi (not a falloff)
cryo joined 100T (grabbing the bag and now playing with champs winner IGL)

ardiis 1.12 jett and 1.12 chamber (good on both)
cryo 1.20 jett and 1.20 chamber (great on both)
tacolilla 1.08 jett and 1.20 chamber (actual abuser)
derke 1.13 jett and 1.27 chamber (actual abuser)
yay 1.17 jett and 1.19 chamber (light abuser)
face the facts fella

cryo played decent last map, he was obviously not what went wrong also like #2 said he was solely carrying 100T near the end of last year

damn.

what did they say

uh oh mens((((

proof?

based.........

wtf state finals 15k prizepool
get that bag king

I respect this on VLR forums hope you find a job soon brodie

decent roster honestly
hoping to see some good stuff, haven't seen the SK gaming name in a while!

interesting
boostio is an incredible sentinel player, so Cryo would have to mainly smokes/2nd initiator and I have no idea how that'll work. honestly we'll just have to see what they cook because role-wise it looks odd if they swap stuff around. eeiu into derrek and boostio into stellar roles is pretty much 1:1

do you think cryo will flex to raze or will asuna take it and cryo flex
the thing with cryo I'm concerned about is that he is an incredible sova player (or was in T2 a while ago) but that is what eeiu is the best at and I don't think his other agent flex's are nearly as good

I changed some stuff after looking more into it and I think you're more correct
Cryo is looking good on Raze at least in ranked and boostio and eeiu are clear upgrades to me, same with zikz
I think the only thing holding them down is if asuna does well or not
I also think the vibes in this team will still be incredible, all these players should easily get along

cryo non jett meta < cryo jett meta
asuna = asuna
bang = bang
boostio >> stellar
eeiu > derrek
zikz >> mikes
mikes = jamezirl

overall new 100T >>>> old 100T

I think they'll be better overall and a strong contender
it really depends on how cryo does, but from ranked stats (NOT SUPER USEFUL BUT STILL) his raze is actually looking quite good

vitality is also making great moves to pick up talent that should've been tier1 (trexx) and picking up young talent like kicks and runneR who should've had a chance earlier. I think it's fun to support a team with young upcoming players and talents