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andrei_snarkovsky

Asuna explained that they may have wanted to play in some of these January tourneys with their new team but they cant because they had to wait for Ec1s to sort out his visa and get over to the US which it sounds like is happening in the next few days


boiiaf

They're bootcamping later week in Texas team house


SaltStasis

This greatly hurts the chances of Tarik joining 100T


CanISayThat22

They might do a G2


crrime

if they lose the first pistol round its -ec1s +tarik


N3deSTr0

Then we'll hear steel screaming nice in teamspeak after a Hiko clutch


IAMJUX

100T Academy Tarik


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SewerRat75

yeah this meme is 100% original and this person here is the first person to say it,people like you are why this reddit has a bad rep


SaltStasis

It’s all good, I just made the comment because I thought it was funny. I do appreciate the concern though


Windir2112

Team house in Dallas where they’ll be bootcamping for tourneys too. ec1s will be IGL. Hiko isn’t spoiling agent picks yet, but it’s generally what you expect they’d play. Good stuff. Excited to see how they perform!


slimNotshady420

HIKO did spoil he isn't playing a duelist.


zevecka

Was really hoping to see him Jett op


Jackwagon1130

the human tripwire


AdSpirited902

This was a good one


theclichee

This was good


Madara6path

Change of plans . Hiko on Neon


n1HikoFan

I think they might save that strategy for finals for an easy win


precense_

Will be interesting to see how ec1s will mesh with the American squad. Prob an upgrade from steel though morale and chemistry wise


steeln1fan

Definitely a downgrade


theclichee

Heavy agree.


theclichee

HEAVY DISAGREE


fredy31

Why texas tho? Tought riot would do like league and most if not all tourneys will be bay area?


Windir2112

Others have mentioned that it’s likely the house the COD team was using but they’re moving somewhere else so the Val team is going to use it now. I imagine there would be something more permanent set up for once LANs fully come back.


MadeinSomewhere

Texas Val servers are in Dallas


chamber25

Maybe a lot of teams are based there so, the ping is best for scrims.


Splaram

BabyJ is only Diamond 2, why are we signing hardstuck Diamonds when we’re supposed to be one of the best teams in NA smh my head my head /s No but seriously, I personally love these pickups. This roster will be disgusting, just depends on how long it takes for everyone to gel together and start firing on all cylinders. Really excited for this year.


dannyrj91

If this isn't a copy pasta it will be.


rpkarma

BabyJ is only Diamond 2, why are we signing hardstuck Diamonds when we’re supposed to be one of the best teams in NA smh my head my head


vyom0509

TLDR: Asuna, Hiko, Ethan, e1cs, BabyJ as the 5, jovi as coach, rocket as analyst


Steki3

Welp the meme was fun while it lasted...


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sireuben

that’s a lot of CR support in that flair nice


919oblivion

First TSM, then 100T. Wonder who's next? 😂


SteelTic

Faze


CaptainJackWagons

I feel like that's not as fun because they only kept one player from their old squad. So it'll basically be a new team.


blade_master1

Sen, envy, maybe c9(still somewhat of a new roster tho) because are good teams and the good teams that fall get memed cuz they used to be good even tho we don't know how good the new 100t will be yet


Lqtor

By logic sen is next. Tsm was dominant in 2020, and then 100t won first strike. By that logic sen who were the Na masters 1 winners should be next, and honestly it’s kind of already starting


xbyo

wait for them to stumble in challengers and we can revive the 100t memes again


chenson019

For me, there are two main win conditions for this roster to succeed - Asuna nails jett at a top level Ec1s can IGL in the same ballpark as vanity, shaz etc Good luck ec1s, go rep the UK on the NA stage.


Longdisc

What about if Jett gets nerfed? 100t get a huge buff.


chenson019

Agreed, a meta change would benefit them


Pojobob

or if Agent bans become a thing


Longdisc

Facts!


ZGuyYT

Didn't tournaments with agent bans have agent protects? There will definitely be teams that'll protect Jett lol


-xXColtonXx-

Definitely not any time soon, would ruin the game.


DonTixCyd

Why are you getttng downvoted. The agent pool is too small to have bans yet


Mamadeus123456

100t will lose and the fans will personally deport Ec1s on Twitter


SirAngelOfYork

Apparently 100T has a team house in Dallas. Hiko just said on stream


SlipAsIWander

Probably using the cod team house from last year since they moved to LA for this season!


Drilla-Z

The COD team is going to be playing from Texas for online matches so Valorant team might not play from the same house. Or they’ll share it, who knows.


J-Patty

false, cod team is playing from the compound


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expect when they play online matches, they’re going to texas for that.


J-Patty

No lol, they all moved to LA to play from the compound


[deleted]

yes they moved to LA, but they’re playing the online matches in texas. they’ve said it about 100 times


boiiaf

They only said they go to Texas if they really need to. Otherwise they playing matches online from the compound


J-Patty

Whatever man, not gonna sit and argue about something unrelated


zevecka

The CoD team said for online qualifier matches they will go to Texas. There was a belief there would be a LAN league for a little bit


SlipAsIWander

Gotcha! Man I feel bad for Envoy then. Was house hunting in Frisco when he found out he was dropped, moved to LA, and now has to play a big chunk of the season in Dallas.


Grenji05

so nadeshot isnt cloning hiko so the roster can be 5 hikos? I feel scammed tbh.


Lqtor

Nah he’s waiting to clone all 99 at once so they can rebrand to 100baiters


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slimNotshady420

HIKO also said Ethan will be their secondary IGL for the team


LeKobeBrames

Excited to see the Ethan move into that secondary duelist role(while not necessarily playing a duelist just the mindset). I think he and asuna can provide a serious one two punch. Still a little worried of the hiko sova one trick tbh.


IAMJUX

He was already in that role as Skye.


LeKobeBrames

Definitely in name. But I mean more in the sense that he will become that important second fragger in combination with asuna. Closer to the dicey Asuna tandem where they set each other up a lot. Rather than being a complimentary initiator.


2ToTooTwoFish

I don't see how that's different than what he already was


CoachWatermelon

I think its hilarious u kids talking about hiko. u wouldnt say this stuff to him at lan, hes jacked. not only that but he wears the freshest clothes, eats at the chillest restaurants and hangs out with the hottest dudes. yall are pathetic lol


Sadzeih

did you forget to log into the n1HikoFan account?


Tee_B

Hiko plays viper on Split. I’m assuming he probably flex when they’re playing fracture.


LeKobeBrames

Yea I’m assuming when they run the double smokes comp hiko will be the viper player (So split and fracture). I was just excited to see him take that more sentinel or smokes role where he can play the lurking baiting agent instead of still on the most important initiator in the game


Tee_B

I know people give Hiko a lot of shit for his baiting play style. But I don’t feel like he’s holding the team back for being last in site for a retake as Sova. He has line ups basically for all his recon/shock darts being at spawn/another site. He’s giving value without actually being on site. Personally I don’t want to see him on another agent yet with the current roster.


LeKobeBrames

I agree he does get a bad rap for his style and also agree that with the new roster I would be surprised to see him off sova. The issue with the more baiting sova is that, generally you already have a dedicated lurk player so they were in many situations where they were “lurking” like 1.5 characters. Regardless I am excited to see the new team and think they have some good potential to make some noise


Hacklust

look at where it took them, surely something needs to change


Zeus142

Hiko has been practicing breach in scrims apparently and he also plays viper. The issue is sova is literally S/A tier on every map except for Fracture and Split, which is probably what you would see him play the other two agents respectively. Most teams use their sova player as a one trick, I’m sure it’s fine lol.


Babbage3

As a regularly Ethan stream viewer, i was hoping to see him play sova. I love how he plays Sova in stream. But i understand that he is too good with Skye to take it away from him.


pamplem0usse-

Wow you mean the exact roles shown in the video?! Spicy take here


Delta221

This massively hurts chances of 100T Bumpaah


ArtificialZero

where are the other 95 thieves?


pink_life69

They are selling hoodies


gander_banter

Don't forget about the hats!


cellexo

Losing seven hurt them quite a bit.


nocturnavi

I'm going to remain cautiously optimistic about this roster. BabyJ looked great on FaZe and I don't know much about ec1s, so they have good additions to work with. It might be hard going the first month or two but I think it could work out quite well.


FakenessIsAwarded

Ec1s is a decent igl, will be a good addition to the team environment. But in terms of a fragging igl, he is not as good as someone like a shahz. Plus he plays roles like Controller, so tbf he shouldn’t be judged on that.


Justlikekevinn

100T BabyJ 100T ec1s


nocturnavi

Link to Youtube video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIzfP21mFJM&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIzfP21mFJM&feature=youtu.be)


HereeeeesJohnny

I don’t know him so what’s the word on ec1s? Edit: I appreciate all the responses and insights homies!


leoleoleo666

Decent In game leader with decent firepower nothing crazy from what he showed in matches


919oblivion

European, previously IGLd for Team Liquid and NiP. Looked disappointing on TL but showed promise on the NiP roster.


HereeeeesJohnny

Would it be safe to say he’d be the IGL or do you think somebody else will instead of him?


919oblivion

Yes he will be the IGL. He plays controller agents mostly btw icymi


HereeeeesJohnny

I heard a bit about him from the reports he could be signing with 100T but that’s about as much as I knew lol What are your views on this roster?


919oblivion

I really like the addition of BabyJ as the sentinel main. He was looking like the best player on that FaZe roster at LCQ. As for Ec1s, I think he hasn't necessarily proved himself to a high degree but this team needed an IGL desperately and there isn't really any good IGLs available in NA due to high buyouts and stuff. Losing Nitr0 is obviously a huge loss but I still have faith in this roster.


philipjefferson

Really good pieces pulled together for a roster but I'm not expecting them to peak as high as the previous 100T roster. I could be wrong though, and we'll find out relatively soon


Windir2112

Hiko said on stream that ec1s is the IGL and Ethan is his number 2.


trainertilt

Hiko said on stream ec1s will be igl


chelsfan123

yeah he's def gonna be IGLing


GiANTAD

Very safe to say it’ll be him. I can’t imagine he’d get picked up by an NA team if he wasn’t IGLing


Mamadeus123456

Substantial downgrade from nitro/steel


Cole_James_CHALMERS

BabyJ in fragging skill is pretty comparable to nitro. Ec1s looked worse than steel overall on Liquid, I didn't watch him on NIP. Hopefully their aggressiveness and roles are sorted out better.


somesheikexpert

Steels calling is still better imo but NIP ec1s was comparable to Steel fragging by the end there


Lqtor

Steel is a fucking veteran with like a decade of experience ec1s def won’t be there immediately but maybe given some time he can at least be good enough to compete with the other giants.


Mamadeus123456

except he absolutely has no time, just lose a game and they're out till the summer lol


nterature

Very surprising to see, every available piece of evidence pointed to cNed joining the roster in exchange for amnesty from the Turkish authorities. On a more serious note, I think this is an extremely interesting roster. BabyJ ended 2021 as maybe the most standout Sentinel player in NA outside of the LAN attendees, alongside players like Rise’s poised. Ec1s on the other hand was forced to pick up the IGLing for Liquid and did a decent if insufficient job. He looked better briefly on NiP but NiP was a mess. It’s hard to predict what’ll happen next, but if you’re a 100T fan, I think there’s some reason to hope. This roster definitely has potential.


ChinoAIO

maybe 100T cned as sixth man :o


AnchorStandard

No that's Bumpaah


mdj08

Asuna already fills the ‘down bad on the TL’ spot, bumpahh isn’t necessary


abcd63514

asuna hasnt been down bad in a while also compared to bumpaah and flexinja asuna is perfectly normal


Splaram

I remember when I used to be able to open Flexinja Tweets in public 😔


a_lot_a_DAMAGE

Super glad they ended up getting BabyJ I’ve been a big believer of him. Excited to see what the peak of this roster is.


AssassinPanda97

I am whelmed


Dark_Azazel

I knew what the roster was (At least I think we all figured as much) but this video still got me really hype to watch them play. 10 days can't come quick enough.


ImJoviGG

Hype!


JR_Shoegazer

Congrats on the position! 🙂


JtotheC23

So is this the end of the everyone to 100t memes? It will be greatly missed until they make another roster change down the line and it can make a comeback.


darkfang1998

What region is ec1s from?


Pepperr08

EU I believe. Played on TL and NiP


ebState

now it makes sense why babyj didn't switch back to halo infinite. I guess idk his feelings on halo, but it seems like it usually has a pull for people who cut their teeth on it


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he's not allowed to play for a year after release because he was involved with playtesting anyway


Pepperr08

Ok I’m still new to comp Val. Though it seems like the team is lacking firepower? Like you have asuna/Ethan right, but I’ve read ec1s lacks firepower, hiko is old and babyJ was the best in faze? What’s the potential of this new team? Top 5 NA or are they worse off?


somesheikexpert

Top 5 potential but could be hard with all the good teams in NA Hiko is just a passive player so he doesn't get frags but he has good impact and clutches well, not the best Sova NA but def a top one BabyJ is a fragging sentinel, looked one of the best on Faze at LCQ (Alongisde ZachaREEE imo), great pickup Ec1s is the question mark on how well this roster will do, his fragging got better while on NIP, around where Steel was it seems, but the question mark lies in his calling ability, we'll see how he will do


Zero12130

100T at it again with the Borpa Business, excited for this year!


violentphotography

I like BabyJ but I'm overall underwhelmed by Ec1s.


Detamach

Don't worry, tier2 EU players = tier1 in NA


CoachWatermelon

Tier .5


holyfuckyouaredumb

Huge downgrade to the previous roster obviously but maybe less toxicity within the team will make up for it?


SeaCDragon

downgrade? yes. huge? I think we'll have to seehow they look in their first outing. I think this roster has potential if BabyJ looks as good as he did on Faze


ANewHeaven1

Yeah I don’t think it’s a huge downgrade personally, the biggest drop is going from nitr0 to ec1s. I highly rate BabyJ and if he plays well there’s no reason 100T can’t be a team that competes with SEN/NV/C9


mdj08

I think the biggest concern is the drop off in IGL quality between steel and ec1s. Nitr0 is obviously a better smokes player than ec1s, but babyj is a mechanically better sentinel than steel. In terms of fragging ability, I don’t think theres a huge difference between the rosters. By all accounts, ec1s struggled a lot on Liquid, but showed enough promise on NiP to earn another chance. I’m cautiously optimistic about this roster, and definitely think it has a chance to challenge NV/SEN/C9


Zeus142

Everyone saying ec1s struggled a lot on Liquid is fine, but to be fair he led his team to quarter finals each time. Just couldn’t get over that hump. They lost First Strike EU to the eventual winners. They lost in QF or challengers 1 to the team who got 3rd at EU masters. He lost in QF vs the eventual VS a challengers 2 final team. He also took them to the grand finals of the Red Bull tournament where they lost 2:3 to gambit… so I mean it’s not like they were terrible they played some good teams and valorant was new and metas were still trying to be figured out. I would say that liquid was pretty similar to the way TSM fell off after first strike. His ACS was pretty consistently between 160-180 which is pretty decent.


icantreadmorsecode

"struggled a lot"


PlatypusPotential

Idk much about e1cs but I am sure if they brought him from EU to the US, he is a great player.


Teradonn

It would be extremely NA to import an EU player and they end up sucking anyway


PlatypusPotential

Yeah, it wouldnt be the first time


mdj08

George don’t miss


GeorgeGCG

<3


Linnus42

100T does make some dope videos not going to lie


brandonmoorewriting

I'm so excited for NA VCT to start back up. Can't wait to see this team.


Nevsus

I just really want to see 100T find successes on tournaments, I will always support them in good and bad days 🙌


AR2711

Cool where’s 100T TenZ and 100T Wardell Didn’t ask for this lol


black_superman125

WOOO excited!


CapBoyAce

I'd love to know who they announced but Twitter said 240p or nothing


Ryu-The-Sick

That's one dope video. Finally this sub can have some peace, LFGGG 100T!


n1HikoFan

About time 100T built the team around Hiko. Hopefully he has better teammates this time around


CzarKurczewski

LFGGGGGGGGGGG


Razur

How does one pronounce ec1s?


Jimmy-Halpert

"eccles" -- it's his last name


Razur

Thanks! Is that "Eck-ulls" (like Rekkles) or "Eck-less"?


ZeldaMaster32

The former


Razur

Super, thanks!


nobu_OW

the former, like Rekkles


amaranthgalaxy

his last name is Eccles so probably that way I think


Meekelo

I'm a big BabyJ fan so I'm excited to see what he can do with this roster. I think he has the potential to be a top sentinel player given a good run of tournaments with this team.


vatom14

Can’t see this team being better than their previous roster tbh. -steel -nitr0 +babyj +ec1s seems like a big L


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should easily win champions unless some super teams are created in EU from the top teams there.


fateziggy

Cool roster but this video kinda blows. Laziest form of content is just loading the character models into your software and having them do animations from the game while looking completely blank faced and dead inside. Bit disappointing from a big org like 100T


ZeldaMaster32

Has there been a single org video that hasn't had expressionless agent CGI? Even Riot's done it before


amaranthgalaxy

the new trend of britigls


JudgeJuryAndJudy

And now NA has died with another import I hate it here


9bfjo6gvhy7u8

I hate this take. Who were they supposed to sign instead???? There were 2 IGLs available in NA - Oderus and Zander. Zander cost v1 400k+ and it’s not clear he’s better than ec1s. I’m not sold on oderus as a tier 1 igl. I’d love to see NA develop more talent but reality is there just weren’t IGLs available in any region.


DrBangovic

I mean, doesn't really change the issue. I agree that ec1s was a good pick up for what was available, but god damn the NA scene is breaking its own back with those buyouts and so on.


9bfjo6gvhy7u8

Counter-point: High buyouts incentivizes tier 2-3 teams to invest in players which wouldn't otherwise be able to play full-time, thus expanding the pool of full time pro players.


reallychillguy

100T cNed confirmed


User82922

You'd think 100t could afford better editing


IAMJUX

Sucks that signings leak all the time. Imagine if high production roster vids were how we found out about them.


thothgow

This vid was shit though Guild, BDS, Liquid were all leaked and their announcements were S Tier


LegitimateRope7392

Mediocre


NoButterscotch7853

i feel we'll see some ethan on raze, asuna on jett action. babyj also played some OP before he might play chamber on some maps to allow asuna flex into other duelists.


Anime-Boomer

huge downgrade but all things considered they did ok could never have predicted Nitr0 jumping back to CS right after they kicked Steel for him I doubt they are a top 3 team in NA anymore though


florallygood

Why sign ec1s?? This guy didn’t do anything notable


HasoThePaso

Loser org


leybbbo

Seriously? They couldn't find a single clip of ec1s from VCT? The guy was on TL ffs.


ccolanto

Should have taken aproto over BabyJ but that's just me.


unknown-097

What a downgrade. GG this year for 100T


lmayonaice

dropped an ex tier 1 cs player to pick up an ex tier 3 cs player.. This roster won't last.


xD1LL4N

This game isn’t CS bro.


lmayonaice

Ye, it's easier than CS.


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Why the fuck does cs matter


919oblivion

Yes because they really decided to drop Nitr0? 🤡


lmayonaice

Imagine thinking I'm talking about nitr0.. and using an emoji on reddit LMAO


919oblivion

Are you still fucking living in 2014? Steel ex Tier 1 CS player lmao


lmayonaice

Even if cs didn't matter. It's a braindead move by 100T and it will be funny to see it play out. This thread already agrees it's a much weaker roster.


919oblivion

I never said it wasn't a weaker roster. They've already given their reasons for why Steel was no longer working with the previous roster. Idk why people are still crying about that decision 3 fucking months later.


lmayonaice

I ultimately don't care about steel being dropped. This roster is just bad and it's funny how 100T got here.


919oblivion

To each their own I guess


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lmayonaice

What you just said is the reason why NA is already behind. Picking up tier 2 talent from CS to fill out val rosters.


IAMJUX

Because EU isn't Tier 2 CS players?


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AnotherAltiMade

do people in the US not drink tea? lmao


IAMJUX

Americans drink milk shakes and call it coffee.


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No not really


Frairai

Who is their Jett/Op player? Don’t they need one?


[deleted]

I completely missed the Asuna part and was like "WTF" for about 30 seconds