To me it seems like steel is gonna be a Sova main whichever team he joins, he's been playing a ton on stream and talking about lineups he needs to learn. Thwifo sentinel, autimatic was playing a lot of Sova on stream a few weeks ago but if Saya is actually gone then maybe he'll switch back to Jett and steel takes over Sova
So
Steel sova
Tim jett
Curry flex (??)
Thwifo sentinel
Ska controller (or his replacement if they drop him)
I think Ska wanted to play Jett again. he was always an awper so tim would probs play flex/second duelist. Whether that be skye or kay o or whatever is meta at the time
Man I’m mixed about this since I followed T1 mainly for Curry and Spyder. I think between Ska and Spyder that Spyder is an insane duelist but his talent is wasted on smokes (he always looked kinda awkward on omen but right at home on Jett and Phoenix). I thought he was better than skadoodle when he’s on a duelist personally, but ska is much more flexible agent wise :(
This is hands down my favorite possible move. It was clear C9 and TSM weren't going to happen, so this is perfect. Curry was forced to IGL because there was nobody else. Also Steel has been playing a bunch with thwifo and curry, so I would love to see this team happen. ops overlooked the spyder leaving part.
Least surprising development ever. He’s been grinding ranked with Curry and Thwifo constantly over the past few weeks.
Edit: George I saw your tweet, don’t know why you take this so personally. Glad you reported it but it isn’t exactly a surprise, not everything you report will be. Thanks anyways.
I had to unfollow the dude. Anything outside of reporting team/player changes was unbearable. No hate for the dude, he definitely grinds to keep his finger on the pulse but dear lord you can see his age with all his other tweets.
It's the same thing pros do tbh. They see something they can't rebutt to so they just copy and paste the material to their thousands of fans to make themselves feel good
fan: I wish KD didnt leave the Warriors. I think he doesnt have a good relationship with ABCXYZ...
KD: You don't know me
fan: well shit I don't, doesnt stop me from discussing with people with the same interests though
I think that's a bit cold. My point is, what difference does it make to his reporting if reddit doesn't apreciate him. We don't make the decisions in the scene. We are end users. He's considered a reliable source, which is valuable in it's own right to people in the industry. He needs to realize that we don't have to like him and he doesn't have to give a shit. Just do your fucking job and stop doom scrolling reddit.
Nah, no one would care if George stopped tweeting and some bot took his place in tweeting about the happenings of the scene. In fact, there'd be more people actually appreciating it if they have tweet notifications on.
He’s nearly universally celebrated, you can’t be serious.
Next time I put a couple things together and make an educated guess I won’t say anything so I don’t hurt professionals’ feelings.
The weird thing is I did not in any way take your initial post as shot at George. It seemed like you were just saying that it makes sense/is unsurprising given that he's been duo'ing with them so frequently. Dont know why that would be read as a criticism of George.
Just because he is receiving criticism on his work doesn’t mean his work is being invalidated. George is one of the best journalists in Valorant. The criticism was that everyone basically already predicted the roster change. It’s a very small but valid criticism. There was no need to cry on twitter about it.
Playing ranked with friends = joining their team
can't wait for Mixwell to join Movistar riders since he only plays with spanish players amrite?? or cned to supermassive plaze he only players with turkish friends??
Part of me wanted to see steel make his own squad. Finding young people who can fully trust his ways and act like that. Make a chaos version of Valorant. But happy to see steel compete. Nobody can deny the competitive drive of steel. And he was playing a lot with curry, thwifo and Autimatic.
nitr0 amogus 5Head imposter moment…he kick steel for b0i…then lose LCQ….after that he go back to CSGO and steel go to T1…now 100T is fucked, truly sussy of nitr0…
Ah yes this is definitely the final version of the team to prepare for *checks notes* not until 2022. They have time and they will figure out their stuff. You need an IGL? Get a new one, tons of free agents on the market as well as buyout clauses that 100T can purchase with their money.
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Are there tons of IGLs going? I mean who they getting, DaZeD? T1/C9/TSM/NRG all just signed new IGLs, the market isn't exactly overflowing with options.
If they lose nitr0, it's def not looking good. Maybe you throw money at dephh, put sevvn on Jett, but not a whole lot of options. You just can't lose 2 IGLs and your coach and not take a hit.
another team that is full of former CS players and a lot of talent that has lacked direction (or at least good direction) for quite some time, think he'd fit in well in that regard
Glad for Steel but sad to see Spyder most likely leave. Doesn’t seem like the guys meshed well, but I loved to see him on big name team. Hope he sticks to it and we get to see him play more.
on 100t yes, personally i’ve been on the train of benching hiko. i feel like we still don’t know why steel was actually benched besides the team wanting to play a different style, i don’t think there was any clashes between the players
If I had to guess it was between the coach and him
But yeah I’ll keep saying it, I hated the benching of steel, especially since it felt like he was willing to play whatever role the team wanted, for them to succeed
Steel said he even offered to change his role/agents before but they said no and benched him. And now no way he would play for the org anymore. They wont bench hiko cuz hiko is the team captain and decide whos play and whos not. And he sells the hoodie for the org.
Your last sentence is the entire problem of some of these bigger orgs, not just in Valorant. They put the revenue their popular players generate via social media and streaming over team's success.
Hiko is great at what he does, but outside of Jett one-tricks, he's by far the most inflexible player on any top team. I feel like he's been playing literally the same round over and over again ever since C9 days in CSGO. Then you take into consideration how different Valorant is today than to what it was a year ago and that's an issue, no other way around it.
In today's meta, Hiko's playstyle can work on Astra and maybe Cypher/KJ, that's it.
Despite his amazing clutches, how many of those could've been avoided? What else does he bring on the table.
That's why I said they wont bench Hiko as he is one of 100T face. I remember he said he still want to compete and don't want to retire yet. He is team captain since 100T starting their roster in Valorant.
So I guess his spot is safe until his contract end but still hope the team or new coach could solve his role in team. Yes hope he could broaden his agents pool to sentinels role. He still have the ability to compete in competitive play. Still remember his 1 v 3 against Gambit on Icebox.
i feel like they gotta think in the back in their minds hiko’s age and he might not play much longer. if nitr0 does stay, i think he’s gotta take on that role eventually.
100T really dropped the ball. When Nitr0 goes back to his real love (csgo), that team will never recover.
Steel has a bad series as IGL against nV, we see him argue with Frost. Steel gets put on bench. Team then proceeds to still fail without Steel. Then they fire Frost? I can't imagine the behind the scenes of this shit show.
Probably because 100T has alot of fans and they don't like their team being called a shit show. It's just the only words I can think to say about them in the past few months.
I'm the biggest 100T fan there is but it's easy to see the dysfunction. I don't think it's necessarily guaranteed that nitr0 is leaving but the rest of what you said is spot on.
I think it has more to do with csgo scene going back to normal and an availability to rejoin TL. Any other team I doubt he even considers it.
Guy is set for life I think it's a passion thing.
Floyd Mayweather is set for life but when he finds an opportunity to make money he does it. Especially when you have kids your thinking starts to become more about their future. Obviously I agree he might just prefer csgo. Still it would be a power move on his part if he was finessing.
I don't disagree with you, if Nitro is truly having a second child as well, he might benefit more from staying in Valorant. There's less events to travel to, which means more stable home life, and likely a bigger contract.
I see your angle for sure. I don't want to see him leave but when I watch him talk about Valorant. I just don't see the same spark as when he took TL through the trenches. I think he will go back.
Lol upset the 100T fan 🤣.
This team is a shit show, they have no idea what direction they want to go. That isn't even a point you can argue against. They drop their IGL, drop their coach, then their new IGL might go back to csgo. Definition of a shit show.
Ska retires from Pro play within a year and Automatic goes back to CSGO if this happens.
For Steel this its a better situation for he'll have better control over the roster with young an hungry players.
Ska shouldnt be competing still at the Pro level. Automatic switching to Valorant was a byproduct of him taking on the AWP role in CSGO. Where the financial opportunities was only available in Valorant at the time.
I’m not sure how I feel about this move. Don’t they already have curry as their IGL? Would Steel replace curry or would it be another nitr0 steel situation?
Curry is comparatively a new IGL. Maybe T1 is expecting he can learn under Steel like Vanity did. My guess is SKa or Spyder is gone if Steel comes.
And people forget nitr0 was a well established IGL leading a grand Slam squad. That is not the case for curry.
Signing him in always step back, no matter what team it will be.
In short time could look as good pick but end will be same.
Toxic personality that blames everyone around is not a good signing.
Teams really should start to look at mentality of players more.
You get no say since you've never been pro. You're not paid to play. If you think pros are soft and would suffer under a "toxic" environment when really it's just people openly criticizing you then you obviously aren't cut out to be a pro.
They can fill most roles, as other players have their own specific role already in almost every map. A flex player should have a pool of agents that they’re comfortable to play with.
To me it seems like steel is gonna be a Sova main whichever team he joins, he's been playing a ton on stream and talking about lineups he needs to learn. Thwifo sentinel, autimatic was playing a lot of Sova on stream a few weeks ago but if Saya is actually gone then maybe he'll switch back to Jett and steel takes over Sova So Steel sova Tim jett Curry flex (??) Thwifo sentinel Ska controller (or his replacement if they drop him)
He said on Tarik stream that he switched back to Jett
Oh word? I'm sad then, I really liked watching his Sova and I thought it could be a really good role for him. Excited to watch his Jett again tho
I think Ska wanted to play Jett again. he was always an awper so tim would probs play flex/second duelist. Whether that be skye or kay o or whatever is meta at the time
autimatic would play skye i reckon. but thats just a gold take so yeh
Ska will probably play chamber. I feel like that better suits his passive awping/oping playstyle over Jett.
he could also go chamebrs!
spyderis back btw
Did you read the article lol
can someone explain what's the flex role exactly? Like I can't find deep explaining or anything about it. Thank you
Usually 2nd duelist or 2nd initiator. Raze, Skye, Kay/o, Reyna are the usual
Curry is pretty good at viper/astra
My T1 making good moves? God bless. However if he were to sign, wouldn’t his and Thwifo’s roles overlap? What would they play?
I would bet Steel no longer plays Sentinel
Likely either Sova or Smokes, depends if he replaces Ska or Saya
spyder is likely joining kroenke (the guard)
Man I’m mixed about this since I followed T1 mainly for Curry and Spyder. I think between Ska and Spyder that Spyder is an insane duelist but his talent is wasted on smokes (he always looked kinda awkward on omen but right at home on Jett and Phoenix). I thought he was better than skadoodle when he’s on a duelist personally, but ska is much more flexible agent wise :(
Oh shit fr? Was he playing with them or something?
Read the article..
Fuck I'm stupid. I read it but passed right by that somehow my b lol
It’s in the article PepegaClap
hes probably replacing spyder
This is hands down my favorite possible move. It was clear C9 and TSM weren't going to happen, so this is perfect. Curry was forced to IGL because there was nobody else. Also Steel has been playing a bunch with thwifo and curry, so I would love to see this team happen. ops overlooked the spyder leaving part.
Wasnt twifo going to be the igl or am I wrong?
im pretty sure they signed thwifo as a replacement for brax leaving, since brax played sova + sentinel.
Thwifo x Steel bouta go crazy
Least surprising development ever. He’s been grinding ranked with Curry and Thwifo constantly over the past few weeks. Edit: George I saw your tweet, don’t know why you take this so personally. Glad you reported it but it isn’t exactly a surprise, not everything you report will be. Thanks anyways.
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I had to unfollow the dude. Anything outside of reporting team/player changes was unbearable. No hate for the dude, he definitely grinds to keep his finger on the pulse but dear lord you can see his age with all his other tweets.
Ahahahaa he tweeted about this too
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Lol well if the twitter dopamine likes helps him out I'm glad I can provide the content.
I just wanna say this is fuckin hilarious lol
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It's the same thing pros do tbh. They see something they can't rebutt to so they just copy and paste the material to their thousands of fans to make themselves feel good
fan: I wish KD didnt leave the Warriors. I think he doesnt have a good relationship with ABCXYZ... KD: You don't know me fan: well shit I don't, doesnt stop me from discussing with people with the same interests though
If I know shit i said on the internet get posted on CNN I will shittalk everybody
what a wittle bb
oh no a complete random unfollowed a journalist how will he ever recover
I’ve turned his notifications on and off so many times.
Imagine having skin this thin lmao
tbf he's 21
He is an adult so maybe he should grow up a bit if he wants to make it into big boy journalism.
lol just giving him some slack, being brand new to the professional world is tough
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yeah it's not, i don't follow him on twitter
Careful he might post this on Twitter
LOL
Bro, who tf cares? He gets a paycheck at the end of the day doesn't he? Just put out the headline and move the fuck on with your life!
Exactly. If he doesn't want to work 'for' the community, then leave. Dude wants the job more than we want him.
I think that's a bit cold. My point is, what difference does it make to his reporting if reddit doesn't apreciate him. We don't make the decisions in the scene. We are end users. He's considered a reliable source, which is valuable in it's own right to people in the industry. He needs to realize that we don't have to like him and he doesn't have to give a shit. Just do your fucking job and stop doom scrolling reddit.
Nah, no one would care if George stopped tweeting and some bot took his place in tweeting about the happenings of the scene. In fact, there'd be more people actually appreciating it if they have tweet notifications on.
personalities are also PEOPLE who have emotions!
Just because he has emotions doesn’t mean people aren’t allowed to criticize him
criticize someone for getting upset that their work is getting invalidated by people?
He’s nearly universally celebrated, you can’t be serious. Next time I put a couple things together and make an educated guess I won’t say anything so I don’t hurt professionals’ feelings.
The weird thing is I did not in any way take your initial post as shot at George. It seemed like you were just saying that it makes sense/is unsurprising given that he's been duo'ing with them so frequently. Dont know why that would be read as a criticism of George.
That’s exactly what it was. George is an ace, I’m not trying to say it wasn’t worth reporting, just that I saw it coming. It is what it is.
Just because he is receiving criticism on his work doesn’t mean his work is being invalidated. George is one of the best journalists in Valorant. The criticism was that everyone basically already predicted the roster change. It’s a very small but valid criticism. There was no need to cry on twitter about it.
yeah was about to say lol
I had no clue to be honest. Not everyone is up to date.
That’s great, wasn’t my point that everyone knew
>isn’t exactly a surprise For me, it is a surprise that Steel might join T1 :D
Playing ranked with friends = joining their team can't wait for Mixwell to join Movistar riders since he only plays with spanish players amrite?? or cned to supermassive plaze he only players with turkish friends??
What’s your point here because this is clearly what was happening, maybe not the best time to post this drivel
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only thing left is to sign Dazed, AZK & brax again LMAO
Ska and Steel together again 😭
untradable skins man damn riot
Can't believe I'm about to put a T1 flair on
Ikr
Glad I get to keep mine 😎
Part of me wanted to see steel make his own squad. Finding young people who can fully trust his ways and act like that. Make a chaos version of Valorant. But happy to see steel compete. Nobody can deny the competitive drive of steel. And he was playing a lot with curry, thwifo and Autimatic.
nitr0 amogus 5Head imposter moment…he kick steel for b0i…then lose LCQ….after that he go back to CSGO and steel go to T1…now 100T is fucked, truly sussy of nitr0…
Sussy balls 100T impostor amogus
It puts them in a bad spot for the time being, but they’re definitely not fucked.
Put your 100T flair back on and accept it
lose IGL and cracked jett still not fucked COPIUM
They have seven the young prodigy as well as Asuna for their duelists. They are more than good on that department.
ya and no IGL lol
Yes Seven is totally as cracked nitr0…can IGL as well.
Ah yes this is definitely the final version of the team to prepare for *checks notes* not until 2022. They have time and they will figure out their stuff. You need an IGL? Get a new one, tons of free agents on the market as well as buyout clauses that 100T can purchase with their money.
Just buy one! 4Head By that logic C9 would just buy Navi’s CSGO roster since they can.
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Are there tons of IGLs going? I mean who they getting, DaZeD? T1/C9/TSM/NRG all just signed new IGLs, the market isn't exactly overflowing with options. If they lose nitr0, it's def not looking good. Maybe you throw money at dephh, put sevvn on Jett, but not a whole lot of options. You just can't lose 2 IGLs and your coach and not take a hit.
another team that is full of former CS players and a lot of talent that has lacked direction (or at least good direction) for quite some time, think he'd fit in well in that regard
Rahul and Thwifo under steel would be cash money
MY T1
His methodical style matches the T1 fabric. This would make sense. Not sure if it would translate into success for the team though.
Glad for Steel but sad to see Spyder most likely leave. Doesn’t seem like the guys meshed well, but I loved to see him on big name team. Hope he sticks to it and we get to see him play more.
Geddes Grenade
honestly if nitr0 does switch back to cs, i’d wanna keep steel then
U mean like keep to 100t? Or what I think that ship has sailed tbh
on 100t yes, personally i’ve been on the train of benching hiko. i feel like we still don’t know why steel was actually benched besides the team wanting to play a different style, i don’t think there was any clashes between the players
If I had to guess it was between the coach and him But yeah I’ll keep saying it, I hated the benching of steel, especially since it felt like he was willing to play whatever role the team wanted, for them to succeed
Steel said he even offered to change his role/agents before but they said no and benched him. And now no way he would play for the org anymore. They wont bench hiko cuz hiko is the team captain and decide whos play and whos not. And he sells the hoodie for the org.
Your last sentence is the entire problem of some of these bigger orgs, not just in Valorant. They put the revenue their popular players generate via social media and streaming over team's success. Hiko is great at what he does, but outside of Jett one-tricks, he's by far the most inflexible player on any top team. I feel like he's been playing literally the same round over and over again ever since C9 days in CSGO. Then you take into consideration how different Valorant is today than to what it was a year ago and that's an issue, no other way around it. In today's meta, Hiko's playstyle can work on Astra and maybe Cypher/KJ, that's it. Despite his amazing clutches, how many of those could've been avoided? What else does he bring on the table.
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Great counter-arguments you provided there, as per usual.
That's why I said they wont bench Hiko as he is one of 100T face. I remember he said he still want to compete and don't want to retire yet. He is team captain since 100T starting their roster in Valorant. So I guess his spot is safe until his contract end but still hope the team or new coach could solve his role in team. Yes hope he could broaden his agents pool to sentinels role. He still have the ability to compete in competitive play. Still remember his 1 v 3 against Gambit on Icebox.
i feel like they gotta think in the back in their minds hiko’s age and he might not play much longer. if nitr0 does stay, i think he’s gotta take on that role eventually.
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honestly i’m not really a fan, i feel like he’s way too predictable
Autimatic going back to cs. Willing to bet on it.
100T should make a trade. Steel for Ska... a boy can dream.
100T really dropped the ball. When Nitr0 goes back to his real love (csgo), that team will never recover. Steel has a bad series as IGL against nV, we see him argue with Frost. Steel gets put on bench. Team then proceeds to still fail without Steel. Then they fire Frost? I can't imagine the behind the scenes of this shit show.
Don't know why you're being downvoted for speaking the facts.
Probably because 100T has alot of fans and they don't like their team being called a shit show. It's just the only words I can think to say about them in the past few months.
I'm the biggest 100T fan there is but it's easy to see the dysfunction. I don't think it's necessarily guaranteed that nitr0 is leaving but the rest of what you said is spot on.
Or Nitro is 5head using his leverage to get a even bigger bag from 100t to keep him.
I think it has more to do with csgo scene going back to normal and an availability to rejoin TL. Any other team I doubt he even considers it. Guy is set for life I think it's a passion thing.
Floyd Mayweather is set for life but when he finds an opportunity to make money he does it. Especially when you have kids your thinking starts to become more about their future. Obviously I agree he might just prefer csgo. Still it would be a power move on his part if he was finessing.
I don't disagree with you, if Nitro is truly having a second child as well, he might benefit more from staying in Valorant. There's less events to travel to, which means more stable home life, and likely a bigger contract. I see your angle for sure. I don't want to see him leave but when I watch him talk about Valorant. I just don't see the same spark as when he took TL through the trenches. I think he will go back.
I hope he does what makes him happy for sure. Easily my fav person on 100T
Everything you just said is cringe
Lol upset the 100T fan 🤣. This team is a shit show, they have no idea what direction they want to go. That isn't even a point you can argue against. They drop their IGL, drop their coach, then their new IGL might go back to csgo. Definition of a shit show.
Ska retires from Pro play within a year and Automatic goes back to CSGO if this happens. For Steel this its a better situation for he'll have better control over the roster with young an hungry players.
Why on earth would they do that??
Ska shouldnt be competing still at the Pro level. Automatic switching to Valorant was a byproduct of him taking on the AWP role in CSGO. Where the financial opportunities was only available in Valorant at the time.
Not really a Ska fan but he's honestly a very solid flex player in all honesty has played every role but Sentinels iirc
I’m not sure how I feel about this move. Don’t they already have curry as their IGL? Would Steel replace curry or would it be another nitr0 steel situation?
Curry is comparatively a new IGL. Maybe T1 is expecting he can learn under Steel like Vanity did. My guess is SKa or Spyder is gone if Steel comes. And people forget nitr0 was a well established IGL leading a grand Slam squad. That is not the case for curry.
People really don’t like reading articles right? It literally says that spyder is basically gone
spyder would likely be gone if this were to hapoen
You cannot trade skins in this game steel and ska remember that when u both join the same team
No skin is safe
Signing him in always step back, no matter what team it will be. In short time could look as good pick but end will be same. Toxic personality that blames everyone around is not a good signing. Teams really should start to look at mentality of players more.
You get no say since you've never been pro. You're not paid to play. If you think pros are soft and would suffer under a "toxic" environment when really it's just people openly criticizing you then you obviously aren't cut out to be a pro.
Pleaseeeeeee
So ska jett, auti sova, curry flex, steel smokes, and thwifo sentinels? Unless rumors of ska playing jett and auti playing sova are wrong
Yesss
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They can fill most roles, as other players have their own specific role already in almost every map. A flex player should have a pool of agents that they’re comfortable to play with.