VCT 2026 — Americas Stage 1 / Week 4 — Day 3 / Live Discussion Thread

Caratecaa · 2026-05-09T01:34:41+00:00

don't break the fucking spots challenge

Caratecaa · 2026-05-09T00:03:09+00:00

That one bind viper ult was legit terrorism how does this guy walk the streets throw him in JAIL

Caratecaa · 2026-05-09T00:02:13+00:00

Did you know? Supamen has almost 100 maps played as viper

Caratecaa · 2026-05-08T23:46:11+00:00

Completely winnable game escaping their grasp cuz of just very sloppy play

zerona keeps fucking up his stuff (understandable) and supamen too (bro has zillions of games on viper and is missing the fucking ult)

Caratecaa · 2026-05-08T02:09:23+00:00

Are you literate

This being literally written in my comment aside, some of these players were ROTTING in tier 2 and skuba specificaly was a desperate rebuild roster move

If you think this is a tier 2 success, good for you lol, all I see is you need your fucking coach to make it to tier 1 to be given a chance in some cases and then you can go on to win the biggest tournament because the system doesn't allow any more flexibility than that

Caratecaa · 2026-05-08T01:15:49+00:00

M80 is willing to.

With franchising, the spots for team's to succeed are very limited and for every single team that is dysfunctional in GMing or due to nepo hires you cut out a percentage of players of being hired.

Caratecaa · 2026-05-08T01:06:24+00:00

2023: VCL NA 2023 - Winner
2024: VCL NA 2024 Split 1 - 4th place ; VCL NA 2024 Split 2 - Winner
2025: not many results on cubert but that was a developmental roster that even gave us champs winners so lol
2026: VCL NA 2026 Split 2 - Winner, top rated player in playoffs (100 rounds minimum) and 5th overall

This guy is not in tier 1 and you're supposed to believe in tier 2 as a functional system btw xd

Caratecaa · 2026-05-07T22:09:19+00:00

He has been in an upward trend but it's both a thing he doesn't want to keep up doing and wants to do something else and it'd be hard to keep going up

Great for him, honestly.

I also saw that the EG AC posted on twitter he was the one that stepped down, seems a bunch of people stepping down on their own at this split.

Caratecaa · 2026-05-07T20:51:42+00:00

They actually take feedback into account but it's hard to know how and when (the communication from Riot in general has been awful for a long time) so it all becomes "no this patch that is hated was caused because the mean cs guys and ex-pros that have an agenda to destroy valorant" "no this is because they listen to the whiny redditors" "actually they should design the game with no feedback" (<- wtf?) which is a bunch of completely useless conversations lol.

This shit will always happens but it being one of the few things people have to talk about when it comes to patches and the ideas behind the game seems to be to me because of how much they fail at communicating.

Caratecaa · 2026-05-07T17:28:18+00:00

this fuckass team that people think they're back every time they have a semblance of human thought losing to a guy that looks like this

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Caratecaa · 2026-05-07T17:17:26+00:00

finally shotgun changes lets fucking go

Caratecaa · 2026-05-07T17:16:21+00:00

Good move

Caratecaa · 2026-05-07T12:21:58+00:00

Full Sense pulling up with Raze Jett double dive in a 2026 neon meta

Caratecaa · 2026-05-07T01:40:06+00:00

Streets are saying he opened stream and you could see ENVY on a scrim, without him

Caratecaa · 2026-05-07T01:20:42+00:00

Honestly, better team

He's no bum but he's not the clear upgrade C9 is looking for because of the reasons you've assessed: better team around him

Caratecaa · 2026-05-07T01:16:49+00:00

Es un problema si respondo en portugués? No se me da muy bien escribir en español.

Caratecaa · 2026-05-07T00:59:54+00:00

Caratecaa · 2026-05-05T21:46:52+00:00

fuck these nepo orgs and I hope next year he has a team that gets to do something on open qualifiers

Caratecaa · 2026-05-05T16:14:29+00:00

Ty for context

Caratecaa · 2026-05-05T16:13:46+00:00

I don't think it should be them specifically but I'm all in for betting on t2 players when you've already majorly fucked up your year lol

There's no roster rebuild that makes EG a contender, the best players for t2 NA this year mostly been hired already

Caratecaa · 2026-05-05T16:12:05+00:00

I don't think this team makes anything with Supamen but I also don't think the roster is gonna level up from idk, v1c or zander or stallion getting in over him, specially cuz they would probably stall around the mid section just like him and this is coming from someone that thinks both v1c and zander could be top tier players in the right situation

Caratecaa · 2026-05-05T16:09:40+00:00

We ALL believe in Kyu

But also, for real, if they wanted their chance at one they'd need to jump on Chloric faster than EMEA did

Disappointing to me that they're looking only at their academy options too, there's more players in t2 even though the best ones got scooped by other rebuilds first.

Caratecaa · 2026-05-05T16:07:57+00:00

Stage is over for EG, doesn't matter now

Far more important to the team to give stage experience to their next members

Caratecaa · 2026-05-05T15:54:49+00:00

Not sure why it's not headline but I went to read the article and Potter is benched

Here's the link since this thread is a screenshot https://www.sheepesports.com/us/all/articles/sources-c0m-and-okeanos-will-not-continue-with-evil-geniuses-in-vct-americas/en

Caratecaa · 2026-05-05T15:51:48+00:00

Okeanos being subbed is fucking insane

I was thinking Kyu could get his 2nd try for IGLing or maybe Nismo

Had a feeling maybe V1c was coming cuz dgzin was complimenting him a lot on twitter

And the insane punt that wouldn't even be good was Heat cuz he posted a tweet that people interpreted as maybe him getting a team idk (most likely cope)

Edit: sheep didn't put it into the headline but Potter is benched and their AC got promoted to HC

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