I think its between Turkey and Polaris personally. East is up there as well with teams like Acend.

Seems to lack quite many CSGO countries IMO like some eastern european countries and Denmark etc, but we don't know how this was measured. I've seen some people measuring the popularity by Google searches for example that is such a shit way of doing it.

Then who is "top franchise igl"? Koldamenta has more recent success than Redgar for example. I don't really get the Koldamenta slander. Guys is one of the most proven IGLs in EMEA and even in the world. Who is clearly above him? FNS, Benkai, Saadhaak, Boaster, ANGE1, DRX'S IGL? And rest is hard to say considering that Guild got fucked for LCQ so they never even had a chance of making it and we don't know how well they could have done in Champions.

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They would have gotten rolled by Fnatic and FPX and maybe even by G2 during their playoffs form.

I'm kind of out of the loop with VRLs, but can bonk qualify for Polaris or will they? I think they would be decent team in any league as well tbh. Or at least not push overs. Especially with Chiwawa addition.

Polaris for sure and likely going to follow Acend(East)as well. And maybe some others if I don't have anything else to do.
And then likely going to watch some NA games, even though I think people are overrating the level of teams a bit, but we will see.

Famsii signed with UCAM recently so he isn't available.

Pretty good! Magnum has been pretty good in tier 2, Mistic is still decent and good for tier 2 level and Enzo maybe didn't impress me individually, but he just seems so smart when listening him talking about the game and how he sees it etc (really hope he started appearing more in podcasts and maybe even desks I think he would be amazing for that as well just random thought). All of them have good experience.

Now its just matter of finding the final 2 for this roster and coach ofc. Like guy above said Keiko would be good option.

Polaris and Turkey. East is likely going to be pretty good as well, because that area has produced many good players and will in the future as well. Sadly these outside of Turkey just doesn't generate much viewership.

I would suggest going into story that has good selection of them (not just some grocery store that have some cheap ones unless your on a budget). There's just a lot of difference between fragrances when it comes to smell, projection, price, longevity. Best is to test different ones in store and then read maybe experiences and then order one online because its usually slightly cheaper. Esp if you are actually spending bit more on it.

Something like Dior Sauvage(like the guy said) is really popular and liked. I personally use Dior Homme 2020 that is pretty similar. Ones that smell similar to those are really versatile and good everyday wear. Versatility is something you should consider as well.

But I would suggest you testing ones yourself or watching YouTube videos about it or reading online like I did.

Reykjavik 2022 didn't have FPX and Fnatic tho. Both Liquid(4th) and G2(2nd, realistically 3rd) arguably looked better than The Guard, so imagine if FPX(1st) and Fnatic(3rd, but real 2nd) could have played there when out of any EMEA teams they were the most suited for the meta and played it.

Also the timeline of those wins have been: NA, EMEA, EMEA(champs), NA, EMEA

Because it makes you smell better (arguable) and that leads to you being more confident, as well as potentially looking for compliments/attention obviously. But if this is a real problem then you should ask teacher if you could sit somewhere else or overall tell them about this problem. They would understand and do something about it.

Who cares if they are in bubble when that bubble massive? Everyone knows CSGO is pretty dead pretty much everywhere else than Europe, South America and somewhat North America. Asia never got massively into CSGO for some reason, likely bad marketing from Valve where in the other hand Riot pushed a lot of marketing and we can see the results. But if you look at like EU CSGO is really healthy.

And when talking about esports imagine the viewership if any other region was actually competitive. When talking about Valorant viewership you need to remember that there's way more representation in international tournaments from NA, SA, EMEA, SEA, KR, JP etc. compared to CSGO where EU/CIS teams dominate every tournament with like 1 NA and BR compeititor who usually doesn't go to far either.

Yeah he usually gets overshadowed by like 1 player every tournament while still having some of highest stats. He was beast in Champions 2021 tho, +20 vs C9, +21 vs VS(DRX) and +13 vs KRU. He kinda got diffed by Keznit in final game, but he still went +13 and you can do so much when rest of the roster is playing worse as well. I just feel that if you mention 3 M3C players or 3 SEN players then Derke must be somewhere there being one of the best for almost 2 years now. Maybe I just understood this wrong and I think Derke will continue reaching top positions.

What about Derke? He has been statistically really high up in pretty much every LANs he's been in and ended Champions 2021 with the highest ACS and KD. Fnatic didn't get further than top 8, but he played like a beast. Same with Reykjavik 2021 where he obviously got diffed by TenZ when it mattered.

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I know and obviously its possible that Guild wasn't looking for The Barbers when Famsii was still on market. But just example of young player who could add fragging.

Yeah I don't really get Luckerrr on this team especially if ec1s does the calling. If they could replace him with some young talent they could actually do well. Just based on what I've seen all of these guys are just inconsistent and even Polvi who is likely having to frag hard doesn't do it that consistently. Biased, but if they could have gotten someone like Famsii they could have had potential.

Not bad tbh. The Barbers looked kinda decent vs NaVi(yes they were shaky). Just feels that they don't have much firepower with this roster and that could become a problem. Just overall low fragging players who are inconsistent af as well. But nice for them if they get paid and can actually play in VRL league under real org. Much better than just pugging.

Shit and boring. Typical hollywood for the masses movie.

Good. Its just awkward when KOI is just officially 4 players even though we all know that starxo is joining them.

If its in EU then its Spain likely. NA might have visa problems so I doubt they would have Masters there. "Masters 1" in South America(NA timezone as well), Masters 2 being in Japan, Asia and Champions in EU could make sense especially with potential visa problems.

But its also possible that Riot just says "fuck EMEA and Russians" and just have it in USA. Because they def want to make it big like how they invited bunch of people to Istanbul and this year is the start of Valorant esport in a way.

Americas superteam:
ec1s
Ardiis
Wippie
Rhyme
qpert

Don't know about the market there, but I've seen Endgame XM1r sold used for like 20-25€. Light, really good cable and overall good shape if you are into claw grips. Really good wired mouse and even TenZ used it BAAAT

Protocol Phantom, Prime Vandal, RGX Vandal
and some battlepass skins ofc but not much

Wolfen guy looks pretty chad
https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPHHJbjT6h/

Not answering your question because I don't know any, but I think you should just get used to the lighter mouse. Mice are just getting lighter and lighter and nowadays like 60g is the standard and I don't think many brands are going to be doing heavier mice since lighter sells better. Its just better to get used to it than trying to find something that likely doesn't exist until Zowie themselves do wireless, but then again they are likely going to aim for low weight as well. I liked my original G Pro Wireless weight more than Superlight, but I just had to adjust to new weight because it will be the standard.

ofc you could always try to change the cable to better one and use mouse bungee (XM1r for example feels close to wireless because of good cable), but obviously its not going to be fully wireless feel.

How? First you have Fnatic, NaVi and TL who are strong on paper and would argue that Fnatic and Navi look stronger than any NA team atm. Then you have team like KOI, who got Koldamenta, Trexx and Barbarr from Guild who looked better than XSET during Copenhagen only losing to FPX and PRX. And then they have Sheydos and starxo who are both good (esp Sheydos) and Wolfen who is talent in the making. Giants has really good talent on board even tho I'm not sure about Rhyme's IGLing yet because we haven't seen it much. Again the core of nukkye, hoody and Pipson didn't do that well in Iceland because they peaked during EMEA playoffs, but still placed similar to DRX while underperforming compared to their online form. And Vitality has bunch of potential as well.

People are just overrating NA because of "how well they did in Champions" while Liquid placed higher than 100T, Fnatic eliminated 100T, Fnatic placed same as XSET and FPX eliminated XSET. Only OpTic placed 2nd where FPX placed 4th. For most of last year NA was OpTic only. Add to that that EMEA team's map pools were terrible in Champions because their Pearls were so shit.

EMEA (non Turkish):
7ssk7 - Chamber/Jett
MiniBoo - entry
Monsteerr - sentinel
baddyG - controller
br0die/Luckerr - initiator/IGL (dunno just need IGL)

Also you could maybe add ec1s in because I kinda liked how The Barbers looked like and he is still young so time to improve. Would replace baddyG with him role wise and then maybe get vo0kashu as initiator because he looked good with it.

They likely aren't going to do well (bottom 3 in my books), but:

ScreaM is still star level individual player (obviously reminds to see can this roster support it)
Nivera is still decent player and has shown high peaks even tho I wasn't huge fan of him 2022.
XMS looked good in tier 2 and I think he could do decent as supportive player.

And biggest of all they get to comminucate in their native language. People don't understand how big of a advantage teams get who get to communicate in their native languages. EMEA is like only region with majority of non-native speaking rosters. Even in CSGO FaZe 2022 was like first non-native speaking team ever to win CSGO Major. Like imagine if teams like Fnatic, Liquid, NaVi etc would all be native English speakers or Russian speakers etc. It will give huge advantage to KCorp and could make players like Nivera perform better. Obviously its going to limit their capabilities of changing players in the future tho.

mi what?

feels bad for 7ssk7

losing weight and exercising as preparation for military if everything goes well. Pretty much just continuing this year.

Because these players don't have much name value. That has always been the difference maker with NA vs EMEA. Obviously NA is more stacked on paper because many ex VCT players had to downgrade to tier 2 and they don't have stupid region locks, but the difference in level isn't going to be that massive.

Guy like Musashi likely doesn't ring many belts for someone who didn't follow EMEA, but he was doing just fine in weak team in EMEA VCT just where some players from TSM, G2 etc were doing in NA. And I rate Monsteerr over guys like Dapr or Wippie etc while most non-EMEA followers don't even know who he is or how good he is.

NA just gets carried by clout factor. Many of these VCT players who now have to play in tier 2 weren't that amazing and aren't much better than tier 2 talent in region like EMEA. This Acend could definitely beat TSM or G2 and I would even favor them even tho its hard to say for now.

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Damn this is actually pretty damn stacked tier 2 team. Musashi, ALIVE and baddyG are all good tier 2 players. Monsteerr is even good tier 1 level. And Br0die used to IGL MAD who were top 2 in French VRL so overall pretty good tier 2 IGL. Strong on paper.

DT 770 Pro + ModMic Uni or USB mic

Bit weird list tbh, but Vitality W even though I think its too early to rate them as high even as believer.

Just buy Ikea Markus or buy used or something. You won't get good gaming chair for under 200$. Gaming chairs are also overpriced to begin with.

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Impossible to know, because this will be the first tournament or first proper one for most rosters. Depends so much on how quickly the rosters can gel and what type of practice they get etc. My personal favorite for it is NaVi, because they have shown that it is easy for players to fit into their system (baddyG, Seider) and they have also showed the ability to change styles and overall be really dominant even on individual level. Obviously the lack of existing VODs will be disadvantage to them, because they are known as heavy anti-strat team. But I still think they have what it takes and they only had to change 1 player.

maybe but I would want to see russz return to initiator

So?

Imagine if S2G managed so sign 7ssk7 or something. Paura, russz, Aslan, 7ssk7 + 1 could have been strong.

ofc but I meant rosters

Parla really wants to win Ascensions huh. Wish they could just replace FUT lol

Maybe, but players like Keiko and Kicks are good and add chiwawa who is good upgrade and you have a dangerous team. Have Enghh coach it as well.

He was. He was literally the star of Guild and even at one point was considered as arguably the best controller player in EMEA. He was flexible as fuck and really good. Good amount of people were expecting him to take the duelist role on Guild 2022 because of how good he was, but he stick with initiator role.

How wrong is he though? Derke is still really likely their best and guy like Leo isn't far out. Alfajer is potentially up there as well even though I wouldn't rate him over Chronicle yet.