SEN just attack side merchants ngl

I still think yay should try pivoting to a hard Sentinel role like Killjoy or Cypher. That way he can play off of setups, not have to worry about taking space and simply holding space made by others like he did on OpTic, lurk on attack and simply let his insane mechanics do the rest. SUYGETSU, Less and Alfajer are some of the best aimers in Valorant for a reason and there's a reason they're on Sentinel instead of Duelist despite arguably having superior aim to their Duelist teammates

There's an argument for a few people

Derke - consistently top tier Duelist player for 3 years, 2 trophies and 3 total grand finals
Leo - same thing as Derke
Chronicle - first ever player to win 2 trophies, has the most trophies of any player, most grand finals appearances of any player
yay - most dominant player in the world for a whole year, second most top 4 appearances of any player and second most grand finals appearances
aspas - consistently top tier Duelist ever since his debut, a Champions trophy and the second most grand finals appearances
Sacy - only player to win a Champions and Masters event
TenZ - not as consistent as everyone else but one of few players with multiple trophies

Should say I fully except some of the breakout players from this year or last year (Gen.G players, TH players, zekken, EG players etc) to enter the convo once they get some more accolades under their belt

OpTic and FNC still managed to be the best teams of their respective years even after winning the first LAN. SEN is the only team who has this issue

Actual 7 second attention span yelling every time someone saves

tembolona rage when Valorant is not literally just CS

Asuna over Jawgemo and Cryo? Bruh

mwzera would go 3-40 against a team of FNS, Boaster, ANGE1, Redgar and JessieVash

If you had to draft a football team of VCT players to compete in the Euros with the aim of scoring one goal, which 11 players would you pick?

Cmon Potter can't be THAT good to make a McDonalds roster of a bunch of unknowns + a Derrek who looked washed and Jawgemo into ANOTHER Champs winning team

Then Jett double initiator on the other 2

You've just reminded me that I forgot Sayf. I'm stupid

(Not ordered)

EMEA

MiniBoo
Wo0t
Derke
zyppan
cNed (his Raze has actually improved a lot this year)

AMER

aspas
Jawgemo
keznit
zekken
OXY

PAC

Jinggg
t3xture
BuzZ
Jemkin
Monyet

CN

Zmjjkk
whzy
Life
Spring
FengF

Why is this 25 year old Polish gamer so handsome wtf

How did these guys go from best team in EMEA to barely even being top 4 off the back of NAVI also having a colossal falloff

Imagine mini and d00mbros working together at the helm of a team with so much talent. Shit would go nutty

Hope they end up on a team together next year for the super squad sub

KOI is actually so bizarre. The team is made up of really good individuals and have flashes of really good strategy but for some reason they all just fall flat and can't perform to the level they should on paper

Bro he IS free, mans just drifting around waiting to get signed

Man somehow had so much aura, so much brainpower, so much handsomeness, so much giga Chad energy, that him leaving somehow destroyed the hands of the NAVI players

(Seriously please NAVI management what the fuck were you thinking the players clearly wanted him to stay, you were the second best team in EMEA and got fucked by the format, and now you're losing to fucking GX. Get his ass back or I will mail a bag of my dookie to every office you own)

I'm gonna fucking kill myself. d00mbros stocks through the stratosphere

5 out of their 10 most recent Valorant videos have been about Sentinels, 2 of them were about TenZ specifically and were pretty much just the same 'rise, fall, rise again' kinda video uploaded right after Gen.G win Shanghai. Then 2 of them are just about the game itself. One of them is about 100T. One of them is weirdly enough about ANGE1. And the other one is about yay. It has been MONTHS since Madrid and the only new development in the Valorant scene they've talked about is 100T. Goofy ahhh channel

Still haven't touched on Gen.G winning Shanghai whatsoever, and instead decide to put out a 3rd video about Sentinels winning Madrid. Bro WHAT?! ARE THEY STUPID?

ANGE1 did an interview after the game vs FUT where he said the whole team was super sad to lose d00mbros and they miss him. They've been playing with him for years now and they were probably super close, so I imagine management getting rid of him when the whole team knew he wasn't at fault probably mentally boomed them off the face of the earth. None of the players even look like they wanna be there.

Anyone willing to do the gruelling job of looking at Team Liquid games (BLEUGH) and count Enzo's kills to see how many of them were with the Odin? I swear he gets like 2 per map without it

They have to win all their remaining games in clean fashion and one of KC, FNC, VIT or NAVI need to drop the ball for the rest of the split

I feel like trexx wouldn't want to leave Vitality unless the team totally implodes. And even then I imagine it'd be a lot easier to get paTiTek

I mean he's already apparently on his way out. It'd be insane if they could hunt down BONKAR but not super realistic so instead they could go for d00mbros or salah

Stuck with deadweight Enzo and the inconsistent messes that are Keiko Jamppi and Mistic

Get this man some help. Sign zeddy and paTiTek at a bare minumum, then try and poach Cloud or pick up nukkye or something. Then ideally replace Keiko with someone like kajaak but keeping him isn't the worst thing in the world

nAts deadlifts them to 1 map win but Elite, QutionerX and Brave all drop 40 across the series

Surely you take nAts or SUYGETSU over vo0kashu. His aim is good but I'd say nAts and suy both have better decision making and sentinel util. Plus I'd probably favour having trexx be the flex and Chronicle play scan initiators, or maybe replace trexx with Cloud

Shao and Suygetsu are Russian tf? Just cuz they chose not to represent it on vlr after joining NAVI doesn't make them not Russian. And they're certainly both more Russian than Demon1

EDG are the fucking goats of being cooked how dare u diss them like that

How absurdly high will Wo0t’s rating be this match? Could he be the first ever Valorant player to average an over 2.00 rating for a split (because it’s a given that no one on KOI, GM8 or GX could touch him)

The NAVI players are just throwing on purpose in protest of the org dropping d00mbr0s in the hopes that they can get him back, because there’s no way d00mbr0s leaving suddenly takes away ardiis and Shao’s hands

2 I'd assume. DRX got in with 6-0 record, PRX are one win away with a 5-1 record. LEV had a 4-1 record last split

SCOUSE ON TOP RAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

True, which really isn't a great look for GC. It's purpose is to foster talent from marginalised genders but the only talent GC has that might be able to compete in T2 seemingly doesn't want to make the jump, either because she expects franchising teams to be willing to sign her when she's old enough without playing in T2 (which is an insane gamble for someone so unproven) or she just wants an easy stream of income and doesn't care about competing

Might just be the most retarded statement ever said on this site

Nah, the true solution is to get VCT CIS once the conflict ends, with KPI, Spirit, GMB, VP, Empire, forze and a few other random Russian orgs

Pointing at random off games from world class pros from upwards of 2 years ago does not discredit the notion that the top 10% of franchised players (which you claimed flor was a part of) could breeze past the open qualifiers to VCL. I have watched flor play. She is about on par with most promising looking t2 duellists. Aim diffing players who would struggle in premier in GC does not put you up there with the likes of aspas, t3xture and Demon1

You said she's better than 90% of franchised players, implying she's up there with trophy winning players and consistent top 4 at internationals level players. You'd expect someone of that calibre to put up generational levels of numbers against random nobodies in open qualifiers. Even bottom level franchised duellists like kamo could probably deadlift a team through open qualifiers and put up consistent 30 bombs. Flor is decent but she's nowhere near the top 10, 20 or even 50% of franchised players

Why don't SR qualify to T2 then?

Slightly longer than half a sentence? ALLAT ALLAT ALLAT ALLAT ALLAT ALLAT

No but seriously GE are turning into EG levels of ass org. Makes sense, their names are just the same letters swapped

Nah, daddy Pujan gonna carry his bum ass to a 2026 contract extension

Fr, he was considered world class on duelist in 2023 but keeps knee capping his own career by trying to force himself as a flex player rather than sticking to what he's best at (and what he has the most impact on)

I mean if the best GC player won't try and jump to T2 because they don't want to progress as a player and would rather just farm bots for essentially free money that really makes GC look like kind of a joke

runneR on perma sentinel could work. It's relatively simple to understand and lets you focus on clicking heads without the need to create space or entry

Apeks vs KPI Ascension finals boutta go crazy

Yeah I honestly don't know why she doesn't go to a T2 team. I assume it's cuz she thinks SR as a full squad could make it together but honestly I doubt it. They've been trying for a while and they've never really gone far enough in the quals to make me think they have a chance unless they show massive improvement (which is very tough to do when your opponents are as far below you as the rest of NA GC is below SR). So shouldn't flor just cut her losses and jump ship to NA T2 and progress as a player