It's time for GE yay, he's already at rock bottom, GE are already at rock bottom, could be a Cinderella story

I think GC is just kind of a farmers league where flor looks like a hydrogen bomb vs a bunch of coughing babies, but in reality she's just kinda an ok player. It's like the soulcas effect

ardiis, in a double duelist comp with zyppan on Raze and ardiis as second entry to him and setting up nade vulnerable combos. Could honestly see it kinda frying

Men I'd trust:

Boaster and c0m (both harmless, in and out of the server)
nAts (no access to drink)
benjyfishy
Wo0t (just gives off the same energy as a sausage dog)
aspas
t3xture (if someone tried spiking me man would scream so loud the whole county knows)
Jinggg
stax
Mako

Men I'd trust but would fuck up:

Zellsis and Boostio (a little bit of trolling)
Asuna (he would forget)
Chronicle and RieNs (don't care enough to keep an eye out)
zyppan (would probably put salt in it or something)
mindfreak (too busy mogging to watch it)

Men I wouldn't trust:

ANGE1 (it would become the device of another ANGE1 masterclass)
SUYGETSU (too much bm)
ardiis (would down it instantly and then yap about his latest gambling loss)
yay (would tell me to focus on my site)
Mistic (devious aura)
crashies (gives off incel energy)

Every time I see Sayf all I see is Vikkstar123 ngl

OpTic yay feels like a distant memory at this point, and I'm starting to wonder if yay will ever be back. I don't he'll be winning anymore titles in Valorant but it'd at least be nice to see him turning up to international events again

Actual no help. Perhaps the only member of GE with hands. Some other team should try and steal him

Breeze is actually giga cancer I have no idea how anyone finds literally a single positive in the map. A good 90% of Valorant is totally incompatible with it (every agent except like 7, every gun other than the snipers, guardian and vandal, the entire defense side) and the strategic side of the map is actually more shallow than the stab wound I give myself every time I queue into this embarrassment. Whoever designed the map should be paraded around the streets and publicly humiliated, and should never be allowed within 1km of a keyboard ever again. Having it anywhere other than last genuinely makes me think you're a slitheen

I feel like Haven is one of the more attack sided maps in the game ngl. The massive amount of lanes can be super annoying to defend unless you are your team mates are heavily coordinated. Still definitely top 3 for me tho

Come on even you have to know that that's unimaginable levels of cope

I mean the basic skeletons on the maps are still there, and the changes are minimal enough to still say that they're fundamentally the same maps as when they released. When it's mostly just a few boxes or one or two positions that get changed a map doesn't really become a new map

EMEA

TH, KC, FUT, NAVI

Americas

SEN, 100T, LEV, KRU

Pacific

PRX, DRX, GEN.G, RRQ

CN

EDG, FPX, TE, DRG

Man sees an org try and step up their content game and sees it as a bad thing

I'm cumming

I gotta say my premier team Korma Krunchers really isn't getting the recognition it deserves, we're about to do some damage in the scene

Lil bro thinks GX are good. This team is washed until they fold and bring up zeddy and B1SK, steal nAts and sheydos and construct the full Russian speaking squad

The best 4 maps in Valorant are undoubtedly Haven, Ascent, Split and Bind. Which are coincidentally the first 4 maps released. Since then it's been incredibly hit or miss. Fracture and Lotus are alright, but Fracture is incredibly annoying to play outside of a coordinated environment. Sunset would be decent if not for the B main post plant. Other than that it's been total stinkers. Icebox is ok to play but a fuckin snoozefest to watch. Breeze is actual mega cancer and I'd rather stick my dick in a cheese grater than ever touch that map again. Pearl was ass for the longest time. And now Abyss looks total shit.

Which begs the question as to what happened to the map design team. Did they start doing crack since the game came out? Wtf are they on?

Honestly I don't think Sunset is that bad. As long as the make the B box in main spammable with mid penetration then I think it's a good map

Some personal favourites

"HE GETS THE ACE, SSCARY, THE HOME TOWN HERO! Drags it across the line in an impossible round!" - Achilios during Bleed vs Scarz at Pacific Ascension

"Manages to slip away, does get marked. Prowler, not a problem for him just yet. Another fight-! Oh my-! OH MY GOD! THE MAN CAN DO NO WRONG!" - Pansy during FPX vs DRX at Champions

"THE FUTURE IS NOW, LOS NINOS STAND TALL!" - Doug on the final round of 100T vs TH at Shanghai

"HE'S SO AWARE, HE'S SO DOMINANT, AND HE'S SO. DAMN. GOOD!" - Achilios during G2 vs TH at Shanghai

"You're never quite gonna be tested like this son." - Bren during FNC vs Loud at Lock//In

I'm in a custom lobby right now and holy shit Abyss looks awful. It looks like it'll be deadass worse than Breeze. Mid is pretty much unusable as the attack, both sites are just a heaven and then one or two big pieces of cover. The post plant on B looks aids to play against. The massive rotate times makes retakes and fakes incredibly difficult.

Honestly could be the new worst map in the game. Hope it gets rotated out as soon as possible

Naaah that's fowl

US - Cryo (Jett and smokes), Jawgemo (Raze and smokes), Boostio (flash initiator IGL), trent (scan initiator), leaf (sentinel)

Turkey - cNed (duelist), Wo0t (flex), RieNs (initiator), MrFaliN (smokes), Alfajer (sentinel)

Russia - something (duelist), Chronicle (flex), Cloud (initiator), Shao (smokes), nAts (sentinel)

Korea - t3xture (duelist), Munchkin (flex IGL), Zest (initiator), Mako (smokes), Meteor (sentinel)

Brazil - aspas (duelist), saadhak (flex IGL), Sacy (initiator), pANcada (smokes), Less (sentinel)

Canada koalanoob (duelist), TenZ (flex), eeiu (initiator), Marved (smokes), FNS (sentinel IGL)

I'd probably put US at the top just because Boostio (plus his pre existing chemistry with Jawgemo and Cryo). Canada is definitely at the bottom for me just because it doesn't have the firepower. The rest is probably a bit of a toss up, I'd maybe give Korea the edge out of them

Watch it be them announcing that aspas is coming back instead

Has FNS had sufficient enough time to cook? If so, then NRG should win. Fenis is TenZ father and will break the international kill record in the first map, and then breaking it AGAIN in the second map

Fenis is about to expand his domain on johnqt (he will kill him 3 times across the series by spraying his toes through a one way while hiding behind Victor running him down on Neon)

Says literally the most annoying baiter on the site 💀

KOI, GX, Liquid and Vitality are all probably gonna be locked in a bidding war for paTiTek soon. If you were him who'd you pick to play for?

FUTA esports works better imo

Second, s3xture is my goat

Add the Cruelty Squad grapple to Valorant and the Jett and Raze dominance will be fucking obliterated

They face their hardest opponent first, who are a team that just came off of run to an international grand final, playing the most matches out of anyone at the tournament and also playing with a different lineup than they have been for the past month. Could see them winning this fairly decisively and going on to be undefeated in this split because they drew Heretics first rather than having to play them later on after they've adjusted

Holy fuck Abyss looks awful. It might be worse than Breeze

Just the insane level of consistency across the year. OpTic got top 3 in every event they played in 2022. Gen.G are showing a similar level

They've placed top 2 in every event they've played so far, showing actual insane consistency. If they keep it up then they may end the year with a better record than OpTic or even FNC

It's gonna be Zyppan and Victor I can already feel it

Heretics took more maps off of Gen.G today than all of Americas did in the whole tournament 💀

https://x.com/FionnOnFire/status/1799386516650889464

Bro, this guy is barely an adult and putting up numbers like this. I don't even wanna think of what insane records he's gonna have in a couple years

swyboi1 attempt not to be an insufferable retard challenge (difficulty impossible)

Surely Gen.G pick Ascent first so they guarantee 1-0 at the start of the series?

I'm still malding over d00mbr0s losing his job because they got fucked by the format despite his team only losing 3 times all year (Twice to grand finalists of the current masters)

So everyone name current tier 1 coaches worse than d00mbr0s. I'll start

EmiL
Elmapuddy

Probably, Gen.G have a stronger map pool and veto advantage. Should be a fairly clean 3-1

Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby (unless KOI have been cooking in their time off)

Brimstone Gaming

EMEA - Heretics (full lineup FINALLY get to play at an international), NAVI (they finally get vindication for all the single elim matches), FUT (Charles Neddington and yetujelq my goats), KC (Enghh has definitely been cooking something absolutely fucking scrumptious during Shanghai I can feel it)

Americas - SEN (viewership inclusion but also I believe in the bounce back), 100T (I wanna see Boostio at another international event and see what animal he likens his opponents to), LEV (aspas without the mid season masters curse), KRU (choked going to Shanghai so I feel like it's only right)

Pacific - PRX (SURELY Champs is our tournament right?), DRX (same as KRU), GEN.G (s3xture and Karen my goats), RRQ (I wanna see Moan-yay again)

China - FPX (I think Champs could be their breakout event), TE (same story as NAVI tbh), EDG (The second best team in China so ofc they deserve to go) Wolves (HIIIIIII HOOOOOOO WOLVERHAMPTON)

Wo0t may be doing fucking insane on duelist, but I think the next time we see MiniBoo I imagine he'll have leveled up exponentially. The constant stress of studying for his exams and finishing school has been lifted, and he's had a brief break to go home and kinda unwind. I remember at one point neilzinho said he was studying between scrims and even sometimes on match days, and he was still dominating. For Split 2 and Champs he'll be fully unleashed and I expect him to fucking dominate and give a similar performance to Wo0t

Idk, they did kinda curb stomp FNC when they played each other, plus every player is looking in some of the best form they've ever been, especially ardiis. And ANGE1 has been calling some incredibly good Valorant. I'd honestly put them second in EMEA

Probably SEN. NRG are coming in with a new IGL, and while he may be the best in NA, it's still probably gonna take time for NRG to come into their own

It's his debut event on a role he doesn't even like playing and he's the leading player in pretty much every stat except assists (which his IGL is the leading player in). Unless he falls completely flat tomorrow, I think Wo0t makes a case for best player in the world at the moment, with t3xture really being his only competition

I'd say NAVI is up there as well. They just keep getting robbed by drawing Heretics in single elim rounds. I imagine they'll do damage at champs

I swear last year he was straight ass. Now he's tapping heads and shitting all over people on the largest international stage. Bro must've been in aim labs 9 hours a day in the off season