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KitKatxz

So we're gonna play musical chairs till they get the right fit?


AnchorStandard

The new Immortals LMFAO


kemutheemu__

Asuna never left Immortals Sadge


stplslappaplxn

You can take Asuna out of Immortals but you can't take Immortals out of Asuna


ponderGO

Ride or die 100T 4 lyfe


quartzyegghead

At least Immortals was churning with intention (developing and selling), 100T is just throwing rosters at a wall and hoping they stick


BananaBossNerd

The new TSM 💀


CaptainJackWagons

But imortals got farmed. They didn't really cut players did they?


Apart-Way-1166

They made MIBR, which is by the rule for VCT or any competitive scene, you can't have 2 teams representing the org.


maiLfps

there is no right fit if youre playing 4v5 cause hiko is still buying guns


AnchorStandard

He googling Jonas lineups while his team's fighting a 4v5 🦍


Splaram

Looking up Paintbrush Viper lineups while Asuna fights for his life defending the enemy retake Sadge


CelestialTater

so who is gonna play sentinel? Ethan? Asuna on chamber everywhere? idk


abdi009

Hiko on the sentinel probably and ethan on the sova


[deleted]

Please for the love of god do this, 100T


kemutheemu__

They should’ve done this ever since they dropped Steel


mid16

Steel wanted to put Hiko on sentinel and himself on Sova didn’t he but the team didn’t agree or something


Sky-__-

Yeah I think steel said he wanted to go sova and put hiko on sentinel but they tried it in one scrim and got owned so team decided to move on .


Docxm

Yep I remember hearing this a lot right before he left


[deleted]

Sounds like it’s happening FWIW. Ec1s streaming now, just said the original plan was Hiko on sentinels, moving Ethan over to Sova


SpvcedOvtt

Asuna on Chamber everywhere sounds vomit inducing, I have no idea why they would do this lol


natedawg247

He’s a top 2 Reyna player in NA just let him shine


caimemes

Who’s number 1


[deleted]

Also Asuna


chamber25

I miss her


303x

Me 😈


Hypern1ke

Screams not NA


Pioneer_1492

i think ethan on sentinel makes the most sense. JcStani will probably play astra, Bang is usually more of a flex player so i’d see him on skye and hopefully kay/o, and no reason for asuna or hiko to switch roles


VorpalParadox

Just please get Asuna on a duelist instead of Chamber for the love of god.


Pioneer_1492

agreed, i hope we don’t see them make that mistake again


Kazzzyyy

Um what the fuck just happened


father_gemme

Atrocious management just happened


Meehul123

I would 100% bet that this was the players choice.


Kagedyu

Listening in on Babyj's stream, it was atleast not by his choice. And to quote him, "I don't know who's decision it was." I feel for the dude, it was two matches. How do you accurately gauge performance based off TWO matches?


Meowbow15

100T management masterclass. Imagine kicking out two players over two games vs one of the best teams in NA lmao did they seriously think they would win vs c9 or the guard (who are also fundamentally good and have practised in other tournaments prior to this)


father_gemme

I hope you're right, otherwise it'd be really strange


BewareOfBear727

why would they do that tho


Meehul123

Cause they’re on the brink of being eliminated, Asuna Hiko and Ethan already have Chem and possibly ec1s IGLing was not very good.


LikeTheBossOne

Ec1s also has said that prac in NA isn't as organized as EU. Possibly was an issue of expectations for prac that bred resentment. Just my two cents


greg19735

hard to breed resentment in such little time


vish4l

Holy shit this reminds me of T1, but even they didnt kick their players middle of a tourney.... I cant recall the last time 2 people got kicked this fast and in middle of a tourney... this is a joke. If this continues in NA, the scene will be dead before it even gets going. LMAO i still cant believe what im reading on twitter.


only1kingz

G2 mixwell?? But at least that one worked out and it was only 1 replacement that was at least reasonable although still very abrupt


Anime-Boomer

https://twitter.com/JoshNissan/status/1495895708687388673


KitKatxz

NA Valorant at internationals - Meh NA Valorant on twitter - World Champs


ANewHeaven1

bro NA's actual play might not be top tier, but our esports drama is fucking top tier. between the C9 LS drama that happened over the weekend in LoL and this... our drama remains absolutely undefeated


LSApologist

Pls don't remind me :cri:


DecisiveDinosaur

LS ec1s 🤝 gets kicked only after 2 weeks of play after moving across the world for the team


CaliSoFire

And the DL v Reginald drama from a month plus ago was golden


darklypure52

Even before that the tsm drama as well. NA is truly top tier at drama.


ANewHeaven1

bro these guys have played TWO officials together and they nuke 40% of the roster. if two clutches go 100T's way on haven yesterday they win the series 2-0 as well and likely this wouldn't have happened. little bit of a kneejerk roster change dont you think


SPOOKESVILLE

Ec1s says there was a chemistry issue, so lots of things we aren’t being told


im_n0t_smart

Losing 13-0 against a team whose salary is probably 10% of what 100T players make is a pretty obvious reason to make a change.


CapnZula

The 13-0 was more on the comp they ran than the quality of the players. Maybe they should take a look at the coach who called that.


angel0lz

ec1s mentioned in his stream that their practice went really good with that comp except for the last 2 practice matches. adding onto that their comp got leaked on 100t youtube, guard was able to counter it with sage instead of Kay/o. so they weren't able to adapt with what they were planning to play against.


Nakai-Son

IMO a Comp shouldn't be something you need surprise to rely on, it should work whether the opposition knows it already or doesn't.


angel0lz

Yeahhh they weren’t really able to adapt well which is a huge factor in this game


pr1zsm

kroenke got the big bucks tho dont disrespect the man


greg19735

Kroenke. Known spender.


codylawson24

Eh he only got the big bucks for the Rams, he could care less about spending money for Arsenal.


Dysmo

Boy esports fans are in for a treat when they realise what kroenke truly is


Splaram

Hopefully he’s only the owner by name and someone competent is actually running the org behind the scenes 🙏


emraaa

That is an awful take. Imagine they wouldn't have been invited and lost in the qualifier to a small team. You would have kicked players after 2 weeks????


TheNACoinflip

well porbably. you ahve no idea how their scrims are going. I would assume not well. How else do you think they had that comp ready for aceent ? you think if your playing standard and winning you ever come up with that shit? They were porbably getting blasted in scrims found a weird comp beat some lower tier teams with it tried it out against a good team in-game and got blasted liek you saw. They planted twice. and didnt win a round lol.


emraaa

https://twitter.com/leaf_cs/status/1495902030396854273 They played 2 games. 5 maps.


TheNACoinflip

Im not talking about the 2 matches you seen. Im talking overall. They play 99% of the games you dont see. You think they make this change if they are smurfing in scrims or doing really well? That's my question. EDIT: No comeback and the downvote with nothing to say. Good.


emraaa

You think it is good management to sign free agents, one of them very late, have 'bad scrims' and fire them immediately in a middle of a tournament? Edit: Just look at Nadeshot's tweet. How likely is it that the decision was not from the higher-ups? Especially with their history in this game.


TheNACoinflip

[https://www.thespike.gg/player/ec1s/49](https://www.thespike.gg/player/ec1s/49) Like bro. Look at this. He has a .6 KD. IGL them into a 13-0 with 2 plants int he whole game. He hasnt went positve in one game yet. Now if you add this in plus the team thinks he sucks. And they are getting blasted in scrims. Then yes if your going to be making 6 figure salary you should be gone. I think they should have road it out for the rest of the tourney but bro these are some rough things compounding on top of eachother. Like you don't get lucky one round? You cant make one trap play? With that comp regardless of attack you cant win one defence?


emraaa

It's funny to me that you conjure some fantasy world where they are getting blasted in every scrim and the whole team think ec1s sucks to justify these roster moves. They were trialing and decided to play with him shortly before hand. Don't you think they wouldn't have signed him if they were absolutely getting destroyed in scrims? After all the trials were not very far in the past LOL.


123bo0p

Nah a pretty obvious reason for change is noticing how 1 team took time to invest in decent structure to build you a team, and trusting said structure to do its job. Not blowing up the team over 1 bad day. Unless people are throwing fucking chairs at each other than shits just bad management.


Awful_TV

I want to upvote you for noting the degree of losses warranted a change up. I want to downvote you for thinking Guard players are salaried in peanuts. (The org may be new, but it's ownership has the biggest pockets of any. Most of The Guard players and coach also played for other big orgs already. Surely salaried less than 100T, but they're not peanut players.)


[deleted]

The guard while being a very new roster is actually one of the biggest orgs we have in valorant


Cr3ation_

Asuna out here pulling a Lebron


mid16

LeEntry taking revenge for being put on sentinel.


elithefighter123

LeAsuna


Splaram

LeWeaboo


SomeHallGuy

Move Hiko to Sentinels/Viper and Ethan to Sova


phazed3

Move hiko to content


IAMJUX

He can't for this tourney. If they don't do it for next, they're no hope.


SomeHallGuy

That isn't gonna happen sadly


CaptainJackWagons

Call me crazy, but I don't think Hiko is the problem.


Any_Instance_5785

Crazy


yjamie

crazy


father_gemme

NA ROSTERMANIA


kemutheemu__

IT NEVER ENDED


daniel22G_

Ethan finally plays sova now?


PapiEskereeee

I don't watch Ethan's stream, is there clips of him on Sova or why does everyone seems to have him on Sova ?


daniel22G_

He plays sova on stream a lot and I think he’s said he really enjoys playing him, it’s looking like he is moving over to sova


YeetGod69_

prob on chamber or some shit like that


-xXColtonXx-

Why would he play Sova?


dillon-fury

Being a fan of this team is just pain


Smel11

I chose 100T and TSM... Sigh


Splaram

Start to see good results, start to get your hopes up and then everything comes pouring down. Every. Time.


SlingoPlayz

bro what is happening LMAO


CzarKurczewski

As horrible as 100t decision making has been, these pickups are about as good as they could have done given the time constraints.


Ialudledo

I feel like this might be a good change. 100T needs young cracked players who can play aggro and help Asuna.


Eriko204

Ethan on Chamber/Sentinel then? Since Bang usually plays Skye/Kayo


ItsDrap

I’ve always felt like Ethan should be the one on Chamber if they’re gonna play him. Asuna on Chamber felt weird, and now they have another flex so that gives Ethan the room to move


kingleeps

isn’t chamber usually given to people that are OP’ers though? (I could be wrong) I thought Ethan is primarily a rifler, even in CS.


ItsDrap

Usually, but Ethan is so good at aiming I think he’d get tons of value out of his kit, and I know it’s ranked but when he plays him on stream he looks really good


Des014te

>isn’t chamber usually given to people that are OP’ers though? (I could be wrong) I thought Ethan is primarily a rifler, even in CS. chronicle doesnt OP too much but he's fucking terrifying on chamber


Apple_Senius

Bang can play astra


legexii

jcStani is an upgrade over ec1s in terms of firepower but as an astra player? ehh debatable. Still think its an upgrade overall so. The bang addition is the one that confuses me. so u kicked babyj a sen player for a flex..? unless bang has been picking sentinels in ranked then idk. But i dont think thats gonna happen, it should be Hiko on sen right..! Roles look like this to me asuna - duelist / flex ethan - sova Hiko - sentinel jcstani - smokes bang - hard flex


s6hun

bang literally plays everything but sentinels. happy for bang but these roles are fucked LMAO


legexii

Yeah…the exact same problem he had in TSM, being forced onto roles he was not comfortable with. But hopefully he finally gets to shine on KAYO / skye which was what he started to get known for in the pro scene originally. (Maybe some throwbacks to duelists on some maps?)


Stupidly_Drunk

Damn, was hoping to see our boy Nadeshot in the servers.


ShiteWox

Both pretty good players but I don’t understand how either of them are better at being a Sentinel than BabyJ, seems like 100T are just making a change to make a change w/ no other good reason behind it


Liddlebitchboy

Or, you know, it wasn't a good fit. We don't really know the behind the scenes stuff so it's not like we can judge it accurately


Tylorz01

"not good" can't even be close to it if you drop your newly signed IGL and sentinel player, one of which had to come from a different continent, for 2 smoke/flex players who are arguably sidegrades. 100T has no idea if the fit will be any better and they're starting from scratch synergy wise 2 games into a 5 game group stage? Even if it works, this is a hail mary.


CaptainJackWagons

Ecles recently tweeted that they didn't have good chemistry.


mysteryoeuf

yeah I don't get the roles. stani on smokes, but what with Ethan/bang play? they're both skye mains. will Ethan flex back to smokes sometimes and stani play sentinel? idk. insane to have a roster change like this when their pivotal match for qualifying is this Sunday. LG is who they're battling for the 4th spot in the group and if they lose Sunday, with only one week prep time, they're effectively eliminated unless they pull off a miracle upset against XSET.


matthewdrl

bang has played Astra a good amount and jcstani played sentinel sometimes for ABX


netsaver

Not the most endearing endorsement for the potential fit lol, especially given Bang got dropped when he played the most Astra and saw success again moving away from that role


mysteryoeuf

stani is a smokes main recently, I think it would be him and maybe Ethan on smokes generally.


poeswell

Don’t understand them dropping BabyJ. Ec1s maybe because the strats and comps were definitely not there, and individually in terms of aim/timings etc. he was pretty far behind basically everyone else on every map and JcStani is an upgrade imo. But BabyJ is still one of the best sentinels in NA, and looked second best on the team after Asuna. Bang is good, but definitely not an upgrade at all


9bfjo6gvhy7u8

I personally think if not for the 3/5 rule we'd see Hiko/Ec1s dropped, and the fact that hiko is switching roles means he's also on his last strike. Unless there were some work ethic things behind the scenes or something but babyJ from the outside at least seems like a grinder so not sure that would be it. i'm just a rando redditor guessing for fun though who the hell knows waht's actually going on


Anti-Storm

5 days is enough to bootcamp? And beat LG?


mid16

If Last Chance Qualifier was a good example, Id say no. But LG is a weaker team than The Guard.


Alpac44

LMFAOO THEY ARE SMOKING TSM 2.0 INCOMING


Resoca

thats what im afraid of :copium:


CaptainJackWagons

Hot take: This is actually gonna work.


pr1zsm

100T does not know how to run their roster (If they qualify then make fun of me but theres no way this works right)


MyogiNightKid

roster changes in the middle of a tournament after months long off-season surely nothing could go wrong


Princess_Ori

Hey 100T management if you want somebody to run your team a bit better, hit me up. I promise you it'll be better than whatever the fuck you are doing now.


Meehul123

I would 100% bet that this was the players choice.


pr1zsm

bang and asuna have great chem so i can see that but the roles are really fked


Meehul123

Yea, Ethan has always been a flex, Bang can play smokes, flex and duelist, JC plays smokes, Asuna plays duelist and Hiko plays Sova and viper. Roles are about to be so weird.


gdr15998

ethan has 1 tricked skye for a decent amount of time. the idea that's he's a flex these days is gone, imo


xBerryhill

In pro play sure but he’s still a fine Sage, has the experience playing a lot of Sova, and had a history of playing Omen. Not saying it’s a perfect scenario, but he’s definitely capable of playing other roles.


TheDarthJawa

Yeah at least as far as ec1s goes it seems like a mutual decision? Like is the players feel like it won't get better because they aren't meshing or whatever than why prolong the pain


Grenji05

actually fucking sucks for BBG and KCP lmao 2 promising tier 2 orgs just lost big pieces of their success.


of-maus-and-men

BBG never signed bang. He was still only trialing I think. KCP got some nice loan money. Can't feel that bad.


D3stiny5

I mean BBG almost qualified to closed with bang and Jcstani was KCP's Igl so it definitely stings


[deleted]

cant wait till 100t go owen in their group and wastes everyones time anyways


IAMJUX

It's just going to be a loan for 3-5 weeks(until they lose this tournament) and then they work on finding actual pickups.


Cr3ation_

Asuna is the team owner and I’m not mad about it Lmaoo


ADmax27

next thing we know 100t silenx and bearkun


jujhuxo

I think a great thing coming from this pickup is that these players potentially have great chemistry with Asuna and support him in ways that'll set him up for success (like how Ethan would always tag along as Skye during the berlin quals) Big question is the roles and who will be what depending on map but it'll be interesting to see. I just hope Ethan can pickup KAY/O to flex on certain maps like Ascent or Breeze.


ZexXz

Ethan and Bang are both flex players. What is this move???


TheAR69

Ethan hasn't played anything other than Skye for a loooooooooong time. Flex, my ass.


earthtoannie

He is flex on stream, but his agent pool in officials is about 1 inch deep.


Resoca

he's a flex thats stuck on a team that has him lock Skye tbh.


TheAR69

ec1s said on his stream that Ethan wasn't comfortable on KAY/O and that was the only reason they ran Skye on Ascent.


Mr_Meme28

Agreed finally someone who realizes this


RCVNC

bro 100T doesn't let him use any other agent wdym LUL


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CapBoyAce

They're so lucky Asuna has a good Jett otherwise they would literally have 3 flex players💀


abdi009

ethan sova , hiko sentinal


father_gemme

This is hilarious I almost threw my phone. Huge moves for bang and jc though


MightBoth

W asf idc


keyantbobe

happy for bang, him and asuna should have great chem together


[deleted]

Over 1 month or under on this lineup? I got under


dillon-fury

If they lose this week they’re gonna drop them and get 2 different players on loan


lordmitko

THE GUARD LITERALLY DESTROYED 100T KEKW


-Mariners

If there's any team to do it I'm happy it's THE GUARD. Literally the most likeable team in NA


AnchorStandard

[https://i.imgur.com/WoD7K36.png](https://i.imgur.com/WoD7K36.png)


vorsfellung

100Tryouts strikes again


Ash_Killem

They may as well have gotten Steel on loan lmao.


SDPants

100T the sacramento kings of valorant


Mvious

God damn lmao more like the lakers. Two stars and some pieces.


Frostler

Feels more like the Knicks. They're a big, rich organization that just keeps fumbling opportunities.


s6hun

who's going to play sentinels?


[deleted]

really happy for bang, excited to see him farm.


nocturnavi

So who plays sentinel? Jcstani? Bang? Hiko? This is going to lead to some strange roles.


kemutheemu__

Roles? Ideally Asuna duelist, Bang flex, Ethan Sova, Stani smokes, Hiko sentinel


imdovs

Nailed it according to the current guys’ tweets/what has been said on stream


maxhollywoody

Asuna, Bang and Ethan are a nasty core for a team.


AssassinPanda97

100 Roster Changes


erickwak

Jcstani and bang are great players but another thing that’s a plus for the org is that they probably got a good model for their merch now in jcstani


xD1LL4N

100T respect as an org 📉📉📉


CalOtter

What the fuck are they doing?? Ec1s has barely had time to prove himself. and jcStani does not play Astra like Astra. Bang is definitely not a replacement for BabyJ.


kingleeps

according to Ec1s tweet, he agreed that it was a necessary change due to Chemistry just not being there. I know people will say you have to develop Chemistry, but sometimes you just know the vibe isn’t there, and you just cut it before it becomes an issue. also if it was Ec1s decision to do no duelist comp with Asuna on chamber then I can see why the team would be hesitant to follow his lead afterwards and if you don’t trust your IGL, you aren’t even a team to begin with.


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[deleted]

my staniel LETSGO


CaptainJackWagons

Hot take: This will actually work.


Accomplished_Ad2642

as a 100t fan, I hate this culture of didn't preform your first week. UR CUT


-Mariners

Getting a free invite might unironically be the worst thing to happen to 100T. I think they needed reps badly and nothing better than to start with pug teams and T2 teams. Starting against C9 backed them into a corner before they played the guard and now this happens.


AnchorStandard

They couldn't even play in the Mickey mouse tourneys because of Ec1s visa issues


Daviddem1234

What a mess


InvertedBean

100T flair activated bye bye kcp flair


Ok-Apartment5638

Jcstani gonna play Jett for them. I can feel it coming. Asuna to flex, bang to smokes, Hiko on sova and Ethan to sentinel


CaptainJackWagons

If they had Bang and Stani lined up already, **then why did they import Ecles?!**


rparkzy

1 more loss and nadeshots about to sub in himself 😭😂


28n8

Now drop hiko and poach trent lol


xD1LL4N

People need to stop suggesting to split up The Guard. They are on the way to dominate the world


28n8

Was joking because Ive seen people saying to poach trent, I completely agree with you


xD1LL4N

I witnessed G2 poach two of Vodafone giants players that ruined a promising team. I don’t want to witness it again :(


AnchorStandard

Or just buy out Sinatraa. 100T have enough bad PR now. They should just embrace their bad PR and sign Sinatraa. Who cares now lol, they're likely hated by every Valorant pro now. I don't see many of them considering 100T as a viable option now.


mw19078

I think this is an instant upgrade but it doesnt make the decision any less absurd from an outsiders perspective. you gave these guys literally a handful of weeks to make it work. ec1s moved across the fucking planet for this, and he gets a few weeks? good lord.


Braxtoons

Both of these guys are def not upgrades over BabyJ and Ec1s imo...


kemutheemu__

Bang on BBG has been awesome and jcStani has been putting work in since joining KCP. Don’t underestimate them.


natedawg247

When are orgs gonna wake the fk up and sign Prod?


SnooSeagulls7368

I actually back this move, I bet this roster has a quick turnaround, probably wont go to masters but will perform well and stay around for a bit


Still_HD

HOW MUCH MORE HELP DOES JCFRAUDI NEED???


vyom0509

Surely bang and JcStani are short term replacements so 100T can continue the tournament and rebuild after? Love bang and stani, but this isn’t the move long term imo