cNed & Molsi could be really nice duo tbh. Would be really underrated in eyes of some, but I think they could seriously do damage.

That is true, but: Cender is solid sentinel player. He has been in tier 2 of EU for so long while usually being one of the better parts of Vitality. He has really killed it in tier 2 of EMEA as Chamber and still has the ability to play other sentinel agents on good level. I think he finally deserves a shot in tier 1 and who knows how well he could do. Like even guys like Monsteerr did well individually. He has been consistent for long time.

Also baddyG could very well be one of the best individual controller players in EMEA. In EMEA most controllers are IGLs, so there isn't many Marved, Mako type players. But if you want to get good individuals controller player in EMEA then baddyG is really good option.

BONECOLD is the IGL and even tho I'm still not 100% sure how good he is at it, you still have to remember that he has bunch of experience and has gotten results.

I think overall you can't get much better than Cender and baddyG on their roles, not from players who aren't on a team yet unless you got like nAts and even still he has many bidders. So all in all if they added cNed and some flex who can actually frag they could be pretty good. And this is coming from guy who hasn't been the most impressed by Vitality in VRLs.

It is unfortunately, but you need to remember that many teams have coaches already. And many teams even ones like Giants, Heretics etc may keep their existing coaches and just give them higher budgets to work with. I would imagine there isn't many coach slots available and you for example saw Vitality taking Salah instead. Also I don't know about Enghh's situation with location etc. Is he still in Russia, or did he leave with other M3C guys. And don't know how well he could lead in English. Same with guys like Redgar. Its hard to say for guys who don't have much experience playing in English speaking teams. It could take some time. Even if their English skills are good enough.

but really hope he finds a team in tier 1 and he 100% deserves it based on what we know

Superteams fail all the time in esports. Sometimes they work like LOUD and FaZe CSGO, but I usually they fail more often.

He is baiting at this point. Also as some people have already said the ping looks like its from Brazil, so that could just tease that he is going to play in Sao Paulo aka get into franchising team and travel there for next year's tournament. Also all the traveling just feel off when he has been streaming from same room for few days. Like first he was apparently in Paris, streaming and then he was in Barcelona(could be streaming from here tho), and then 21 hour later from last stream he is in Brazil or NA with a setup out of nowhere. It just doesn't add up when we know he was in Europe 100% due to ping on EU servers.

Monster is really good and underrated. His recent stats doesn't just show that. Really smart, good aim and young.

Nah he is baiting 99% sure because VRL ping analysis got some popularity

this team will flop

Why would 100T get rid of Bang when he is like 2nd best NA smoker

He is only there because nAts has many fans. It was mainly NA list just because it gives bigger viewership, but wasn't exclusive I don't think. Just that people in chat were asking because nAts is pretty popular player. And 8 as rating is understandable because he definitely has many many offers as being arguably top 1 or 2 non-Chamber sentinel player.

I mean its almost 100% war related. Not only do Russian guys have to live in fear of potentially getting drafted if they don't leave their home country, but also them getting on franchising teams will be harder than for rest. Really risky to pick up due to potential visa issues etc. And if they want to avoid this then they would have to move to Serbia or something and imagine doing that as only 18 year old guy.

Its not easy for mental.

it can be something else, but realistically the war has affected every Russian player and made their lives and chances harder as well.

For example here in Finland we are country of 5.5 million and we share long border with unpredictable country with aggressive history like Russia/USSR. Simply impossible to keep strong enough professional(paid) defense force. Having conscription not only makes your defense stronger in case of war, but it also works as deterrent. Attack = its going to be expensive and hard. We are relatively small nation, but have war time strength of 280 000 and reserve of 900 000, that is really good for our needs and compared to what Russia would push over the border.

Also about the leg thing is that here every man has to serve before they turn 28(?) (starts 18, and most go year or two later) unless they have reason not to or do civil service or go to jail. So even if you broke your leg as long as it heals back to normal you will have to go to draft again and serve eventually.

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Yes they will 100%. No tier 1 player will accept a spot as bench warmer. Even for most tier 2 players that will not be something they accept lightly. Most 6th players will be players with no ambitions. Unless the team actually decides to use the 6th man often but I doubt it. Also someone falling sick really isn't an problem. That's rare and even in Valorant we have seen teams subbing in players like H1ber, Enzo, SEIDER, Masked, Jammyz that are/were all tier 2 players and for those it was a positive thing just joining in for 1 tournament, but being bench warmer is completely different thing and just negative for their careers.

My prediction is that majority of teams will just sign some tier 2 or 3 level player to work as mandate 6th man. Its just too hard to make 6th man roster where you swap players between maps work I think. This may happen in some Asian teams, but western will just keep main 5 and have some random bench warmer.

They are following their LoL LCS way.

EMEA got fucked by their map pools and that won't be as big of an issue next year. So we good and will see next year ;)

no

Ice Hockey clears both, but football > american football

NA already starting import players and then wonder why their region sucks on almost every relevant esport game. Just keep your own players. I don't want to see another LoL situation.

We will see. Nice to see fellow VLR detective who is trying to crack the nAts Vinci code here

I don't think he is in Liquid HQ yet at least. Even their player apartments don't really match up based on wall color. So he has to be in hotel or different place at least. Obviously I could be wrong and maybe some of the apartment rooms have different wall color and maybe the camera fakes the color. Also if he was with Liquid I would imagine him playing with Alienware monitor instead of Zowie. So I don't think its 100% confirmed yet. And about ping I don't know because I don't live there, but I would imagine the ping from Paris to London or Frankfurt being pretty similar to from Netherlands to London or Frankfurt. Location wise there shouldn't bee too much difference. And even if he plays in Paris servers from Paris there might still be some ping. I don't think I've ever seen someone with sub 10 ping.

Likely if they bring cNed in, but I would want to see Twisten on similar role like Aspas on LOUD. I mean Twisten could work as flex as well he is good and young, but I think it could be wasted potential. Also as I said I'm just not that high on cNed. He is good, but I just feel he isn't flexible enough and haven't showed that he can flex or adapt to new agents quickly. But who knows how well he is doing in scrims etc. Maybe he has improved. And maybe I'm just underrating him because he finally has competition in EMEA.

I'm not too high on cNed right now, but this could work. Don't just know how the roles would go. Twisten is Raze/Jett player mainly, cNed is Jett/Chamber player mainly and Cender is the current sentinel/Chamber player for Vitality. How are they going to play these 3. cNed's Chamber wasn't that impressive. I don't know... Its just hard to predict because both Twisten and cNed kind of play the same role and both of them haven't been the most flexible. Twisten has played many agents before, but nowadays not so many. I would rather see them going for different direction with Twisten being the potential super star. He alone would be perfect replacement for H1ber if they decide to follow similar roles. Have it like LOUD where their sentinel player is the main Chamber player as well.

Twisten - entry/duelist
BONECOLD - initiator/IGL
baddyG - controller (main and I would want them to keep it like that)
Cender - sentinel/Chamber
and then someone who can take that flex/flash role. Someone who can add firepower. Someone like hoody or Trexx would be good fit.

but again these are likely just leaks from trialing period, so nothing is finished

That's fucked from Riot

Yes, but shouldn't the ping be pretty similar from Paris to London as well.

Doesn't have to be Eastern European. They could very well sign any free agent Chamber/Jett player. For example Sayf.

I would try to buy Sayf or just keep 7ssk7 if that isn't an option.

I mean its possible. Liquid has Secretlab partnership as well. I'm just not sure about the room and monitor still if he actually was in Netherlands. Unless they quickly made a setup for him in different location. Or maybe they are smart and knew someone could pick on it and decided to use generic stuff. Also this could be a bait from him. He posted the tweet Turkey -> France -> ? so maybe he is trying to bait that he traveled to different country and by saying this even tho he might still be in Paris. Maybe he and the org wants to bait that he left the country just so it wouldn't be as obvious.

Or he just escaped Russia and had a friend in Paris who decided to take him in for some time

Good pick up as long as he gets good team around him. Also I think he needs to start flexing little bit more. He has just been Raze/Jett player for most part, but he needs to start playing Chamber or some other flex agents I think. He has played other agents in the past, but Jett and Raze are by far the most played.

Good if they pick him up. But as guy said before teams are trialing players right now and testing so doesn't mean they will sign him.

Yeah but Alfajer is their sentinel/entry player while Mistic was their flex/flash player. So I was wondering will they keep Alfajer like that and just replace Mistic's roles with Chronicle, or will Alfajer become full flex/entry who plays Raze and KayO/Skye etc while Chronicle becomes more like sentinel player. Chronicle doesn't really fit in Mistic's role on paper. I don't think we have ever seen him play KayO on professional team and even his time on agents like Skye is really limited. He can easily adapt to that role tho.

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Would make sense. We just haven't seen Chronicle on that flasher role before, but I believe he would do well on it. He is so flexible and insane firepower with good game sense.

Yeah they looked better but still inconsistent. And even then their year so far has been really lackluster considering the expectations.

Yeah I think they will spend a lot of money. Just looking at their rosters and signings on other games and even their current tier 2 Valorant team that looks pretty stacked and expensive for tier 2. For sure going to be one of the big spenders in EMEA. I just feel like both Fnatic and Vitality are going to follow their "let's build a super team and dominate" mindset and perform like shit like they did in League of Legends LEC this year. Both spend big money to build super teams and other didn't even make it to playoffs and other barely managed to get in and placed 3rd in the end (in Europe).

I mean on paper this team is fucking insane. First super team in EMEA if it happens. EU super teams never work tho. They made one in LoL and almost didn't make it to top 4 EU lol.

I just don't know how Chronicle+Leo would work. Both are good and flexible, but Leo is initiator so then what role Chronicle would take? Sentinel and move Alfajer to full flex? Entry and move Alfajer to full sentinel? Because I see him as initiator player mainly. Not really proper sentinel either. Ofc he can play anything so no problem, but that duo wouldn't be first one to come to my mind.

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My humor is broken. I laugh at copypastas. Give me your funniest ones (doesnt have to be val related)

KOI will be the worst performing team outside of the Spanish orgs

Europe don't know about server and around 5min for unrated, maybe 30sec for dm

thats hot

I don't know, but most likely Sheriff

cs doesn't really require that much math tbh. Maybe counting economy on top level might require you to know soma math and have good memory, but outside of that not really. Also rotations and how long smokes etc last require you to count in your head. But all in all match isnt that important

Sounds decent. Its not perfect IMO, but it gives idea of how it could have sounded with proper beat drop. I'm actually pretty exited for the official remix version. Never really liked those, but here it could actually work.

If he put in the time then yes

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Good. You could easily see the clear improvements in OGLU after they added Salah. He seems to be really solid coach.

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