lowkey if alvin starts performing better he might have cn orgs knocking on his door

yeah ppl love underestimating how much of an asset having an agent who could provide PERFECT INFO was for igls and teams as a whole. you saw so many teams struggle to adapt with the midround decisions when they actually had to use intuition/more developed macro

while not completely hopeless China needs a literal miracle of a run to get a top 4 finish atp. BLG/Wolves need to fight a full gauntlet

BLG was indisputably within the top 3 of china, but Wolves qualifying was a result of the absolute miracle of BLG having the only off day of their entire season happen against them. In the b05 they got absolutely demolished and you can't say that EDG would've lost to them in that form even with Jieni having an absolute homicide of a game

from what i know not really anything at all. Lucas was the only one that was even really noticed and that was after he blatantly obviously teased it in a twitter clip + was literally playing with chinese streamers. there are a decent amount of ethnically chinese tier 3 & collegiate players though who i could see moving if given the opportunity

n0rr0te

yeah i just thought it was funny how the rumors of him playing for a chinese team was true 😂. TPX looking pretty clean though all things considered

job market making them desperate 💀

you're such a silly little smoothed brain! makes me wanna squish you into a fine little red paste between my fingers :3

"our teams are consistent! G2 went 3rd, 8th, and 2nd for the last year straight. They can't choke against flukers AGAIN!"

"it's only GENG guys! G2 have only gotten better and we have LEV! Americas will bring it home!"

"EDG got sent to the lower bracket and none of the Korean teams look good enough to win! G2 can't choke because it's so free!"

"Asia won the last 3 tournaments, so surely they can't do the same again! I'll go G2!"

fr. though it's not impossible 🤔

https://www.huya.com/27502730
getting destroyed by BLG's academy 💀
13-4'd on haven. 1-3 and not looking good 😭

there a link? I gotta support my GOATs at Q9 🤑

ong sean gares contacted them personally and leaked the steam 😭🙏‼️

ppl believing another chunk post in the big 25 would be insanely funny

use your eyes bro

2023 GE was NOT a SEA roster

all NA drama post-2023 are mediocre DLC's of the Yay arc ngl

0/8 worst attempt yet imo

fr cuz like wtf goes on in their heads to do smth like that. surely it couldn't have been that serious

imagine being a humble owner of a small internet merch retailer, choosing to branch out into valorant, and then getting your investment and image spat in the face by a bunch of players who can't even bother to play 2 games because of beef. they're better than all of us ngl

the game's popping off in china and it dwarfs the other regions in how interconnected it is. doesn't matter if they don't do well now because they will later. fuck ton of money is already pouring in

G2 by far

2nd scenario would just send them to fight for their slot, not auto relegated

they have a whole academy & tier 2 scouting they can pick and choose from. spitfires getting re-promoted is a showcase of that. give them more time and they will filter players with more skill

muggle gotta redeem himself with the stage 2 performance to be up there still. his run from 2024 to bangkok fed families though

I wonder if deLb igling is something they're trying out. lsn sitting this event out is pretty peculiar. regardless the sunset shows some pretty good signs of discipline and good macro. excited to see how paris molds the team

hanche would deadass be 1-15 rn

i'm sensing a period of improvement the next upcoming months 🤑

they were setting him up extremely well on sunset with the midrounding and breach util. i'd argue if Paris can string together more structure then they have a chance at making playoffs in their group

last year it was a different yet similar story. AG would get 9-3, or 10-2 and proceed to choke and let it get close. this next half of the season is going to be fun 😂

giving me flashbacks of the 2024 team now. proper scaling, macro, and ult coordination? it's looking like it's going to be a good (better) split 2!

nah he improved substantially throughout the season last year. they sent him to the blue lock training room the past half year and now he's SHITTING on them

i'm starting to like you Mr. Red2TPower

spitfires has leveled up in the academy quite a bit from what I can tell. you missed a great string of rounds where they were actually USING util and playing as a team. so much fucking better than their game against wolves

nah the util is genuinely so much better now. Spitfires is thanos but everything surrounding him has leveled up quite a bit. I'm legit stunlocked rn

they're actually stunning for site scaling and holding for spawn pushes AND trading properly now. is my team finally back?

AG seriously look a billion times better now than they did after week 1. holy fuck what happens when you have an ACTUAL head coach

least obvious alt account

yeah just think about it like a yay situation where they do everything in their power to ensure that he gets value but instead of a anchoring camber it's an aggressive duelist. him being insane is just a component to that, but everyone else on that team is very dangerous and is by no means reliant on him

also a retired overwatch & pubg player. absolute unc

well what's your definition of "rarga and friends"? they have like a billion set plays, strats, and a really good ability to naturally coordinate to set him up. They also win a fuck ton of games where he doesn't drop +20, so no i wouldn't say so

this is probably the most impressive way i've seen someone waste a whole hour of their life

Thanks for the information!

Okay so i had it flipped. I understand now. However, what's up with Paris still working with them after the KONE pickup then? All western sources record him still being active with the org until after Champs 2023 ended, and I swear I remember him being active around that time too (might be misremembering hard)

So Paris was KONE staff who transferred to BLG before the qualifiers? Makes sense considering his documentation on western sites is literally nothing until BLG's qualifier run

when the other regions bother putting in the effort (never)

I'm aware of the situation KONE was in before partnership and how the team imploded due to lack of financial return, but how the team was split is interesting to finally learn about. I remember him being present for their run in champs, so how did the whole team structure get ironed out after the rebuild?