I mean he said he had a few offers and hasn't streamed in a while so I'm hoping that means he finds a team

Could go to GX, ardiis, Cloud, purp0, westside and hoody is a pretty decent team

-Keiko +zeddy IGL and the team would actually be kinda sick

Yeah Life is a super difficult player to go against, he'll swing fuckin anything and his aim is insane

Ite, the coffee is a bit mid, the chicken tenders are pretty good and the fries are fucking peak holy

C9 because they still have their parasitic relationship with Xeppaa where they have someone willing to re-sign for league minimum season after season and Xeppaa gets to keep a spot in T1 he doesn't deserve

Fuck it, I'll try it right now and give live reaction

Should I try tims? There's one pretty much opposite my flat

If they get spin they are COOKED

Anyone heard anything about if FNC are looking for a new coach? I feel like they could do with someone better than elma. d00mbros and BONKAR are on the market, Potter's contract is ending with EG soon and mCe is potentially available

ThinkingMansValo
Sean Gares
AverageJonas
Sideshow
Babybay

I've heard that Rose's English was pretty much perfect and there'd be no language barrier so idk

FNC (assuming the roster is kaajak, Leo, Alfajer, Chronicle and Boaster)

Decent but honestly not better than the roster with Derke. Also they should look into getting a different coach. Since BONKAR is probably going to NRG and Potter's buyout is probably absurd I suggest d00mbros

TH (assuming no changes)

Ideal scenario

NAVI (assuming the roster is hiro, Shao, ANGE1, koalanoob and ruxic)

Would almost be perfect but I would've absolutely gone for a younger T2 duelist from EMEA over koalanoob. His lack of flexibility and inconsistency might really hurt NAVI when it comes to big important games. ellemeNt, Lime, B1SK or xuss. I still would've personally stuck with natanK over ruxic as well and had ANGE1 or Shao play smokes

TL (assuming the roster is kamo, Keiko, nAts, paTiTek and kamyk)

Keeping nAts is a big win and paTiTek and kamyk are big pickups but Keiko and kamo are the clear weak links. Keiko was already inconsistent as a duelist and I don't have faith in him to be able to look better on a different role, and kamo was also wildly inconsistent although did show a fairly high ceiling. Again, I would've preferred one of the options listed for NAVI, or honestly with Liquid money they probably could've gone for xeus. Then I would've liked for them to pick up a different IGL instead of making nAts do it. zeddy from KPI would've been my first shout tho Kr1stal is another big option

VIT (assuming the roster is Less, Derke, Sayf, trexx and Jamppi)

Picking up Jamppi over ceNder is the biggest troll in VCT history and could possibly absolutely tank this otherwise super team, I beg VIT please keep ceNder over Jamppi. Other than that no changes at all

KC (assuming the roster is SUYGETSU, Saadhak, marteen, Elite and Avez)

Absolutely cooking with this one, wouldn't make any changes myself

KOI (assuming the roster is grubinho, Sheydos, flyuh, soulcas and filu)

Personally would've been looking into Rose over flyuh and then gotten a sentinel player like aNguist over soulcas, but still not the worst they could do considering the teams reputation

Haven't heard enough about other rosters

-Keiko
-kamo

+zeddy
+Lime

Instantly better roster and that's not even their best possible pickups Liquid should honestly hire me as their GM

https://www.vlr.gg/348475/g2-esports-vs-team-heretics-champions-tour-2024-masters-shanghai-lf/?game=all&tab=overview

paTiHIM

Liquid has gone from nAts 1v5 to nAts and paTiTek 2v5 let's fucking go

Keep cooking brother, you can cook

11. Demon1 currently being cucked by FNS

Just lost their only 2 players with hands kekw

TTL would unironically cook TL

Boo 100% he went from being a zeek victim to one of the best fragging IGL's in the world

All good, free1ng is super team level talent

Clearly has some issues with mental which definitely weren't helped by everyone calling for him to get replaced after Shanghai, which deffo affected his confidence and performance in stage 2 and champs groups, once he actually got to playoffs he locked tf in and became one of the best players at the event. Give him a sports psychologist and he'll farm

FNC are refusing to sell Derke to VIT despite that being the only team he wants to play for this season, meaning they basically benched him from their roster and are refusing to let him join the only team he's willing to play for

Realistically the only mickey mouse-ness you get from single elim formats is when determining 2nd place cuz it is possible for the actual second best team to be eliminated early by the best team and not get a shot at grand finals but who really cares about that shit?

Derke was loyal to FNC for 4 years, consistently performing for them, often times having to carry the team in 2021/2022, took them to 3 grand finals and won 2 trophies with them, and they repay him by benching him but still contract jailing him to block him from joining a team that could be better than FNC. L management

FNC when EMEA teams start actually building real teams and they can't auto qualify to every international event by fighting farmer (Wallahi they are cooked)

Ngl I was purely looking at it in terms of how much each team actually invests into their slot

C9 for example have just been doing bare minimum rosters purely focused on being as cheap as possible so they can just leech off of the stipend. That's why I want that org gone

Americas

EG, MIBR, hopefully C9

EMEA

BBL, potentially KOI if their financial situation doesn't improve

Pacific

GE, hopefully DFM

China

Will probably all re-sign

He's actually fucking cracked I've been watching Sliggy's ranked streams with him

Did he used to play CS or something?

Actually can not wait for Astralis to make it into VCT 2027 and start another dynasty

I mean M80 is probably pulling out of Valorant considering they let go of all their players so it's probably a bit late for that

Deryeon and crazyguy could probably go to GE

Deffo in my top 5

My favourites gotta either be AmeN or Dear Diary

LEV -tex +yay on perma senti

Surely that's enough of a persuasion for aspas to stay no? Playing with his former number 1 rival and the inarguable best player of 2022. As long as they find a solid replacement for Mazino then I'm sure aspas sees a good enough team to warrant staying

LEV -tex +yay is what gets aspas to stay with them

Wait b0i is a coach on Talon I deadass didn't even realise

He'd still probably rather get him on stage than sScary

You better be looking into signing sScary right this fucking second

Though knowing him he's probably gonna try and sign like bOi or some shit

Small indie company rito took the 10K to drop Bleed

JitBoyS sentinel sScary smokes PTC flex igl primmie duelist foxz initiator please Talon u could cook and bring all the Thai fans back on ur side

They're finally gonna make him a UFA meaning EG won't have to pay the entire Singaporean defence budget for his buyout and he can have his spot in T1 to farm all of Americas on sentinel and deadlift EG to 5th/6th at Champs

U forgor big daddy Pujan for being the catalyst for ANGE1 to retire and become a costreamer after 2025 Champs win, becoming the number 1 most viewed twitch streamer of 2026 as he calls every EMEA player a fucking moron in the most Eastern European manner possible during his costreams

This is the truth of life

Citizenship/where they were raised

Oh fuck you're so right I am COOKED

Also gimme tier lists on how each team would do (Singapore is fucking cooked)

Updated version of the best team I could think of for each country notable enough to build a team for

Team UK

Lime (Duelist)
ardiis (Flex)
soulcas (Initiator)
Boaster (Controller + IGL)
benjyfishy (Sentinel)

Team France

natanK (Duelist)
Veqaj (Flex)
Enz0 (Initiator + IGL)
sh1n (Controller)
K4DAVRA (Sentinel)

Team Finland

Derke (Duelist)
Jamppi (Flex)
iluri (Initiator)
Famsii (Controller)
hoody (Sentinel)

Team Sweden

Sayf (Duelist)
zyppan (Flex)
Leo (Initiator)
ShadoW (Controller)
Meddo (Sentinel)

Team Russia

something (Duelist)
Chronicle (Flex)
Kr1stal (Initiator + IGL)
Shao (Controller)
nAts (Sentinel)

Team Turkey

cNed (Duelist)
Wo0t (Flex)
RieNs (Initiator)
MrFaliN (Controller)
Alfajer (Sentinel)

Team Lithuania

MiniBoo (Duelist)
nukkye (Flex)
Destrian (Initiator)
Boo (Controller + IGL)
ceNder (Sentinel)

Team Poland

kaajak (Duelist)
paTiTek (Flex)
Buld (Initiator + IGL)
grubinho (Controller)
westside (Sentinel)

Team US

Jawgemo (Duelist/Controller)
zekken (Flex)
trent (Initiator)
Demon1 (Controller/Jett + Chamber)
Boostio (Sentinel + IGL)

Team Canada

mada (Duelist)
JonahP (Flex)
eeiu (Initiator)
Marved (Controller)
FNS (Sentinel + IGL)

Team Brazil

aspas (Duelist)
heat (Flex)
zap (Initiator + IGL)
pANcada (Controller)
Less (Sentinel)

Team Chile

keznit (Duelist)
kiNgg (Flex + IGL)
Mazino (Initiator)
Melser (Controller)
Shyy (Sentinel)

Team Argentina

Dantedeu5 (Duelist)
Saadhak (Flex + IGL)
nzr (Initiator)
Cebando (Controller)
tinchoff (Sentinel)

Team Korea

t3xture (Duelist)
Munchkin (Flex + IGL)
Zest (Initiator)
Mako (Controller)
Meteor (Sentinel)

Team Japan

Meiy (Duelist)
Dep (Flex)
Xdll (Initiator)
SugarZ3ro (Controller + IGL)
SyouTa (Sentinel)

Team China

Zmjjkk (Duelist)
Smoggy (Flex)
nobody (Initiator + IGL)
CHICHOO (Controller)
Kai (Sentinel)

Team Thailand

primmie (Duelist)
PTC (Flex + IGL)
foxz (Initiator)
sScary (Controller)
JitBoyS (Sentinel)

Team Indonesia

Monyet (Duelist)
f0rsakeN (Flex + IGL)
Shiro (Initiator)
mindfreak (Controller)
xffero (Sentinel)

Team Philippines

Jremy (Duelist)
invy (Flex)
JessieVash (Initiator + IGL)
PapiChulo (Controller)
Yoshii (Sentinel)

Team Singapore

Jinggg (Duelist)
Juicy (Flex)
Benkai (Initiator + IGL)
Deryeon (Controller)
grumble (Sentinel)

Team Taiwan

Spring (Duelist)
YHchen (Flex)
S1mon (Initiator)
BerliN (Controller +IGL)
Yuicaw (Sentinel)

Team Australia

SWERL (Duelist)
Autumn (Flex)
IKANA (Initiator)
Maple (Controller + IGL)
RAMEN (Sentinel)

I've seen a ton of people say they'll fall off or keep choking so possibly

Heretics will only get better

Yk everyone clowns on NRG because of u but like deadass this is Pujan's last year I don't want them to fumble a 3rd super team

Would prefer a better player on smokes and keeping Keiko on Duelist for kamyk to hard bait