all this tourney proved was that blg are still the biggest international terrorists for chinese fans. one round they play a masterclass and the next 3 they run it down 1v5 and waste our time with a 1-2

bro, decompose

Bunt got bought out by ccg forgot to mention that like a billion years ago

"must've been the wind" ahh list

put him back onto TemperatureX IMMEDIATELY

send him BACK to the academy NOW

blinded by happiness and euphoria, the Karmine Corp fans all benevolently choose to destroy the arena instead of tearing apart the RIOT staff limb from limb

"rushia" "inconsistent'

he's is literally the most inconsistent member on that team. even more than levius and he's a fucking tier 1 ROOKIE

champs finals mvp with bo5 international kill record vs. guy who beat the champs finals mvp with b05 international kill record
the answer is obvious: tvirusluke

T1 wouldn't even get 5 rounds total against FPX (AAAAY shits on them in every aim duel)

grass is green

i read your mind brotato 😔

"the tasty semen of emea" 💔

title

either a direct buyout or a transfer deal. sometimes other orgs swoop in after an academy prospect's contract ends too

K1ra. best player mechanically on AG and the biggest standout last split by a mile

still holding out hope for a win 🙏

Late but their sunset looked extremely solid and they look like they understand how to play it at least at a basic level. XLG played horribly in it but they showed a lot of promising stuff with the prep. Unfortunately it's probably the furthest they've progressed in terms of their map pool since their Lotus and Ascent were tragic. There are some clear signs of good fundamental play though, and all of the players are clear mechanical upgrades over the split 1 lineup (H0nche back to Q9). xiyiji's performance was honestly better than expected and his util's pretty solid. shr1mp and spitfires are doing as expected and providing value. deLb and K1ra show why they're the remaining core. things could be better but they could also be much worse. can only hope that the coaching staff can help progress the team to not being bottom barrel by the end of the season and show signs of life

mechanical outlier from their academy system. literally averages 300 acs a game atp

shr1mp afaik
might be deLb but istg he's 2nd caller

China is a big academy-focused region so we'll probably not see the full extent of the depth until after this season. There are a lot of young mechanical demons being cooked in the lab

that's hindsight talking. AG was good last year because of EGO and Sword9's system. let's not pretend like they were actually decent before stage 1 was nearing playoffs. i would say the individual player quality has actually gotten better because they have k1ra. the coaching took a nosedive because their head coach literally resigned after only a month. hanche was dogshit and player + bai were meh but K1ra's inclusion is a massive asset

i mean spitfires was sent to the academy and is only back because no one took the buyout. he's gotten much better mechanically since then. deLb is a fluent mandarin speaking import with extensive indonesian tier 2 experience so yeah they're not letting him go unless he drops consistent mediocre numbers

0/8
i can't even goon to this

k1ra with one hand, blind, and chronic diarrhea still has more value than that omen tping terrorist on GX last year

roster will be xiyiji k1ra deLb spitfires and shr1mp.
holy upgrade

either him or haodong idr

you're not ready for lucas

yo you crazy for that gurt 🤣

you'd be surprised with how much faith scrim merchants get. Hanche is the biggest example in cn with AG 💀

they are a hyper budget org that mainly invests in extremely good coaching talent in other games. they're giants in mobile esports and crossfire so they are extremely rich anyways on top of selling their extensive list of academy players for big profits. there are like 3 different academy teams operating in crossfire at one time

"Berlin now trying to go for a tp plAAAAY! WHAT HE HITS THE HEADSHOT ONTO LAKIA! Karon DEAD! Berlin, he's just annihilating them. Has to go for the reload, the rightclicks not really connecting. Meteor, still relatively healthy but now may be the last man standing. And Berlin will get it done--WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT!? WHO DOES THAT WHO TP'S UP THERE!?"

just 1 win will be a success for this year with all the shit that's happened tbh

cs unc who's been around the block. i assume he's been on academy staff with Q9. maybe he is good maybe he isn't. he IS experienced in tac shooters though

NEVERMIND MY SECOND GUT FEELING WAS RIGHT https://x.com/AG_VALORANT/status/1938854880673964062

afaik EDG were trying to negotiate with teams to transfer him to, but that was before the whole drama happened so he's prolly on contract jail with his career completely stopped until they figure out what to do with him

yeah that's why I said if they do then that means that have a decent amount of trust to just let the season ride out with the two of them

biggest question is who's gonna be the head coach atp. staying with septem and oi when they have an entire split left in the season + champs quals either means they have a lot of trust or they're bringing someone else along
their talent development is obviously doing some really good stuff if reserve players training in the academy get picked up by tier 1 teams. be weird if they didn't dedicate to investing into good coaching for their main lineup on the stage

5cm was extremely inconsistent. hfmi's gonna be a weird one

AG Tyloo or JDG could honestly skyrocket to being mid-table depending on how their roster moves go

ragebaiting an AG fan is crazy work

shr1mp deLb k1ra spitfires +1 that's not entirely confirmed yet. considering Hanche's more recent performance and player's consistent demotion to academy i doubt they would be repromoted. probably Bai but cxyy being brought in wouldn't be a big surprise. there's also the possibility of another signing directly from their academy or other free agents not in tier 1

they expect them to get magically competent 💔

Monk got bought out by NOVA. interested to see how that goes

He transferred to NOVA btw. they bought him out @congobat

players tell casters how to pronounce their igns so he could possibly still make it extremely scuffed

the things people aren't thinking about is that valorant is still a very young esport. the top tier pro skill level is still raising dramatically with every passing year. the shit Optic did with yay and LOUD in general back in the day was ahead of its time, but nowadays every contending top team has more or less figured out how to progress their macro, micro, and pure individual play

they don't even make playoffs

their performance this year is par for the course if you've watched them in any esport ngl. they always do absolutely shit until they make a top tier talent development system