5 (or 6) standout players from the last VRL season

After seeing Voxize's post about the top 5 F/A in NA during the last 60 days i got the idea to do something similar for the T2-Tier in Europe. For that i looked at the last season of VRL's (except Turkey as i didn't get to watch any turkish valorant live) to find players that have stood out in their performance or cought my eye in another way. The goal was trying to find players that might be ready for the next step on a bigger team and should be regarded by teams, that made franchising but either don't have a roster yet or aren't happy with their current one. Now while Voxize used a smart algorithm from thespike.gg, I simply looked at vlr.gg stats and judged by the eye test of the games that i've seen. Therefore the upcoming list should be taken with a grain of salt. I have also tried to prefer players that aren't currently playing in the VRL finals and haven't gotten a lot of spotlight so far.

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MiniBoo (Arctic Gaming):
While it's usually not smart to judge a player simply by their basic stats, there is no way past atleast mentioning them for the Lithuanian duelist: His 270.2 ACS, 1.40 KD, 172.9 ADR, 0.96 KPR and 0.23 FKPR are all the highest in the entire VRL Spain. In a team that reached a decent, but not amazing playoff-quarterfinal, those stats are incredible.

Kamisseq (Anonymo Mentos):
As with my first pick, i could have also picked a duelist for my standout player for the VRL East: While Tenstar's Maniek was one of the most reliable and consistent players, Enterprise Esports' Alexiik produced an incredible 279.4 acs and 0.99 KPR in his first ever appearence in Tier 2 Valorant. However i decided to go with a smokes and initiator player. Being the backbone of his team, Kamisseq provides an astonishing 241.5 acs, which combined with his 75% KAST, 0.36 APR and 25% clutchrate provides an insight into the abilities of the polish.

AKUMAAAAA (Mandatory):
While other players earned their spot on this renowned list by pulling of incredible stats or just impressing me when i watched them, AKUMAAAAA (yes, this is the correct amount of A's) is here because he played pre-buff phoenix and somehow made it look good. While only playing him twice, he managed an average combat score of 308.0 and a KD of 1.96. Absolute madman. I should probably mention that his stats on other agents aren't sloppy either. His total ACS of 273.3 is more than 20 higher than the ACS of any other player in the VRL France. It appears even more impressive when you take into consideration that he mostly played Astra and Breach previous to his stint on Mandatory.

AFoxx (Angry Titans) and Cender (Team Vitality):
My next spot on the list goes to two people at once. Not because they're only half as good as the other ones, but because both of them have somewhat similar roles and are still currently playing in the VRL Finals. The two sentinel mains (0 days since the last sentinels post) each are the reliable backbone of their team, equally able to frag and support, depending on what agent they're playing on. It should be mentioned that AFoxx does top Cender in most of the stats by a slight margin. And his KD of 1.54 is actually the highest I could find in all the VRL's I looked at.

paTiTek (EXCEL):
Being one of my personal favourite players, I would have loved to mention Kicks (Team Finest) as my final pick. Unfortunately for my personal preferences, his fellow initiator adversary paTiTek topps him in basically every single important stat. Although the polish can be somewhat regarded as a Valorant veteran, being on the scene since the first G2 roster, he still puts up incredible numbers including a KAST of 78%. The highest number I could find in the VRL. While EXCEL relies a lot on the fragging power of their duelist ALIVE, paTiTek is always there to pick up the pieces when the Israeli goes a bit too crazy.

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This completes my list of players that have impressed me in the last VRL league season. Once again, I mostly just looked at the most basic and easily accesible stats or let myself be guided by what my eyes saw. Thanks for reading.