Team Heretics

Ethan will call them back.

Okay, let's move on to Team Heretics, who have definitely made some big moves.

Because speaking of IGLs leaving, boo.

Long time IGL on Team Heretics.

He's now gone.

They're from 2023, Boo.

My name is Preston Byers, and as always, I'm joined by my co-host, Justin Bankowski.

And on today's episode, we have some pretty interesting news about the Heretics.

Obviously, a follow-up from last week and their reported desire to not spend very much, if anything at all, potentially exit the CDL program.

uh, space station gaming reportedly was interested, uh, but we'll have obviously quite a bit to talk about there.

Sources indicate Misfits have accepted an offer from Space Station and a formal agreement has already been signed.

The deal is currently under review by Activision for approval.

If the deal falls through, Heretics have been told they would retain the CDL spot as the operating partner, though sources indicate the outcome is unlikely at this stage.

Regardless, Heretics have reportedly been advised to explore alternative rosters as a contingency in case the deal collapses or Activision doesn't approve the transfer.

And they're literally the same.

And the thing is, with Foot, you even have a direct example of the exact same thing happening, where they lost to Team Heretics in the lower final.

And okay, they won map one on Haven because they must have won Haven.

But then they got absolutely...

You were saying the exact same thing to me going into London.

Oh, well, they got batted by Team Heretics.

They lost like 13-4, 13-3, 13-1 or something in the last three maps.

And then they were better than Heretics at the tournament.

Then we get into fifth place, at four and four, is Navi.

Sixth place right now is Fnatic at three and four, followed closely, in a tie basically, at three and five, is McOi and SK, with Heretics next in ninth at two and five, and Shifters all the way down at the bottom, 10th place, no wins on the season, 0 and 7.

Yep.

Crazy that Fnatic are locked for playoff.

GX really stepped up.

Mm-hmm.

They, they 2-0'd Team Heretics.

That's not, like, that impressive, but then taking down, uh, G2 as well, um, puts them in a solid spot in playoffs, but also just-

So Slowly, yeah, Slowly and Splash, like, are phenoms.

But the reason Josh's little fanboy exists who's been talking about them for generations and the payoff has never been there is because they have the Team Heretics, MIBR, Envy-esque, like, just don't show up for a map.

Just randomly turn off and you have no idea why.

Now, not only do they get to watch the games, but Masters Toronto, Shyo, where'd you come out in the press room.

We should be good in Pacific.

In EMEA, we had Pacific, Giants, Navi, Mate, Fanatic, Eternal Fire, all gone.

Our only worry is the slight chance that Team Heretics can still sneak their way into champs somehow.

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The sweep is at plus 107.

They're up against Team Heretics plus 230 on the money line.

The plus one and a half massive minus 143.

The sweep for the dogs at plus 539.

Don't do it like that.

I remember when KC lost to Team Heretics, you know? [laughs]

Yeah, I know.

Had to figure out the-

That is crazy.

Anyway, our first topic today is gonna be, is this the worst Valorant timeline? Because as I was just briefly alluding to, teams like Fnatic, teams like Team Heretics, even some others if you want to, those might be the most notable names, but quite a few other names as well.

Sentinels as an org you might say also.

It looks extremely unlikely...

You, you know what I'm saying? Like the, the, the players don't even exist on the team and the team itself has sunken i- i- in the seas.

There's nobody, bro.

Team Heretics by the way, I think, uh, what was in that Toronto water bottle? It, it changed the destiny of a few of these players.

Ever since losing in Toronto, these guys went Le Mickey Disneyland and then did nothing.