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Roster mania is in full swing, and Sideshow, TMV and ShyoWager open on the question nobody in Pacific wants to answer: after two second place finishes and a dire Stage 2, should Paper Rex actually change anything?

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TMV argues that no team at Valorant Champions ever reached its peak, and ShyoWager and Sideshow spend the next half hour taking that apart, from Loud's grand final to why the tournament felt flat to so many people.

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TMV and ShyoWager rank the final four at Valorant Champions and land on an Americas team almost nobody is putting first, then spend the rest of the episode explaining why every other region got left behind in Shanghai.

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Sideshow, TMV and ShyoWager open on Gauntlet Glitch, the 2v2 ability draft mode they argue is the best thing Riot has ever added to Valorant, then work through a patch that also brought a new gun and a Champions skin nobody fully agrees on.

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Sideshow, TMV, and ShyoWager rebuild their Valorant Champions contender list after LOUD gatecrashed the field, and argue over whether NRG still deserve to be trusted.

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Sideshow, TMV, and ShyoWager preview Valorant Champions, from MIBR's disastrous 2026 roster to why the crowds and the whole Champions format have become a problem.

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Sideshow, TMV, and ShyoWager settle the China question once and for all: is China actually good at Valorant now? Plus why the Americas wasted their Champions slots.

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Sideshow, TMV, and ShyoWager on a Valorant Champions with almost none of the old guard left, G2's fundamental problem, and whether anyone can actually beat Vitality.

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Sideshow, TMV, and ShyoWager break down whether any Tier 2 teams can actually reach Champions from the VCT 2026 Stage 2 Play-Ins.

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Sideshow, TMV, and ShyoWager call the time of death on the VCT teams already chalked in week two, from Fnatic's collapse to the squads that are flat-out done.

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Sideshow, TMV, and Shyowager put eight VCT teams through the Panic Scale as Stage Two group play kicks off in Valorant.

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Sideshow, TMV, and ShyoWager play VCT script writers for Stage 2, picking the biggest rivalries and drafting their VFL fantasy rosters.

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Sideshow, TMV, and ShyoWager call their VCT Stage 2 dark horses and dead horses across every region before the season kicks off.

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PatMen forced FrosT out of Global Esports after their first international, Platoon is stepping in as head coach, and Envy player Poppin just published his full account of how a tier two identity gets dismantled when you reach tier one.

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Masters London peaked at 9.9 million concurrent viewers, with roughly 80 percent of the audience coming from China. Sideshow, TMV, and Shyowager share their verdicts and discuss the regional fraud and the Frost drama.

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TMV, Sideshow, and ShyoWager run the Fraudit on Masters London: EMEA has all three of their teams in the playoffs, Pacific is down to PaperRex alone, and the conversation about who runs Valorant is wide open.

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We preview Masters London with an upset draft, a bottom 10 players ranking, and a VFL fantasy breakdown.

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We unpack Valorant's real viewership numbers and a brutally honest aspas interview that confirms MIBR's leadership problem.

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Sideshow, TMV, and ShyoWager rate every VCT team's survival odds before Masters London and debate whether Valorant's patch cycle is breaking the game.

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Sideshow, TMV, and ShyoWager on Envy's historic 26-4 demolition of MIBR and whether Valorant's chaos is actually good for the game.

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