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These are the teams that dominated 2024 in Dota 2, Counter-Strike 2, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, League of Legends, and VALORANT.
Every year, hundreds of esports teams battle it out for supremacy in their respective titles. But only one team can stand above all the rest, be it by dominating the entire year or winning their title's annual world championship title. In 2024, here are the GosuGamers writing team's picks for team of the year in Dota 2, Counter-Strike 2, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, League of Legends, and VALORANT.
Dota 2: Team Falcons
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By Kurt Lozano
The 2024 Dota 2 season marked the scene’s return to third party tournaments following Valve Software’s decision to end the Dota Pro Circuit, which meant that this year saw many more events being hosted compared to previous years. And no team won as many tournaments this year as 
Team Falcons.
Falcons competed in a total of 14 tournaments in 2024. They won seven of them and placed in the Top 4 of every event they attended bar the last two. It’s a level of dominance in Dota 2 comparable to the historic runs of Gaimin Gladiators and Team Secret in 2023 and 2020, respectively.
And just like those dominant squads, Falcons’ reign in 2024 is marred by the fact that they didn’t win the one tournament that matters the most: The International (TI). Even so, Falcons’ disappointing fourth place finish in TI 2024 – considering the expectations that came with their success – shouldn’t take away from their achievements this year.
Falcons’ recipe for success in 2024 is its star-studded roster, which features 
Stanislav “Malr1ne” Potorak, 
Ammar “ATF” Assaf, and 
Andreas “Cr1t-” Nielsen – all of whom can claim to be among the top players of their respective positions, if not the outright best – as well as TI 2022 champions 
Oliver “Skiter” Lepko, 
Jing “Sneyking” Wu, and coach 
Kurtis “Aui_2000” Ling. But more than just the sheer amount of talent on the roster, Falcons are also a well-oiled machine that very few teams can match in terms of strategy, chemistry, and gameplay.
Counter-Strike 2: Natus Vincere
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By Kurt Lozano
The first full year of Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) esports in 2024 saw multiple teams battle for dominance, but it was 
Natus Vincere (NAVI) that stayed on top the longest. NAVI competed in a total of 13 tournaments this year, reaching the grand finals seven times and claiming the championship four times – including in the first-ever CS2 Major at the PGL Copenhagen Major 2024 in March.
But despite reigning over the CS2 scene for most of the year, 2024 was a bit of a rollercoaster for NAVI. After winning the Copenhagen Major, the team had back-to-back 9th-12th place finishes in May and struggled in the final leg of the season, notably failing to qualify for the Playoffs of the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 earlier this month.
Despite those dips in performance, NAVI’s dominance in 2024 is undeniable, especially when considering their competition this year included the likes of Shanghai Major champions Team Spirit, G2 Esports, and Team Vitality, among others.
NAVI can already boast two separate eras of dominance in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in years past, and the iconic organisation has already planted its flag in CS2 with a talented roster of players in 
Valeriy “b1t” Vakhovskiy, 
Justinas “jL” Lekavičius, Igor “w0nderful” Zhdanov, and 
Ivan “iM” Mihai under the leadership of in-game leader 
Aleksi “aleksib” Virolainen and legendary coach Andrij "B1ad3" Ghorodensjkyj. Having already topped the scene in 2024, who’s to say that NAVI can’t do the same in 2025?
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang: Fnatic ONIC PH
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By Tommy Makmur
For my pick for the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) team of the year, I was torn between the Philippines' 
Fnatic ONIC PH and Malaysia's 
Selangor Red Giants (SRG). If the criteria only considered the strongest team for 2024, this would have been easy, but we must also take performance throughout the entire year into account. Fnatic ONIC PH saw an incredible performance in the second half of the year while SRG almost became MLBB's first-ever Golden Road team but only failed in the last couple of hurdles. However, our decision came to Fnatic ONIC PH because of one reason alone: the way they won the M6 World Championship.
Fnatic ONIC PH’s run in this year's MLBB world championship tournament is already the stuff of legends. They are the only team in the history of the game to claim the world title with an undefeated run through the entire tournament, winning all seven matches they played and dropping just five games.
Furthermore, Fnatic ONIC PH's undefeated run dates back to the MLBB Professional League (MPL) Philippines Season 14 Playoffs, where they became the undisputed best team in the league with a near-perfect Regular Season to go with their dominant Playoff run. And that's saying something. For the fifth-straight year now, the best MLBB team in the world came from the Philippines, and Fnatic ONIC PH bested every team in their league with ease. While their rise to the pinnacle of the MLBB scene in 2024 came a little bit late, Fnatic ONIC PH are, no doubt, the strongest and most complete team in the game right now.
League of Legends: T1
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By Anna Bernardo
T1 are GosuGamers' team of the year for League of Legends (LoL), but it was almost a different story, had they lost to KT Rolster in the LoL Champions Korea (LCK) Worlds qualifiers or fallen to their nemesis Gen.G in the semifinals at Worlds. Yet, against all odds, like an anime storyline with a protagonist with impenetrable plot armour, T1 secured the Worlds title, their second consecutive world championship as a roster and the fifth for T1.
Unlike Gen.G, who dominated the spotlight all year, taking the LCK Spring championship and then winning the Mid-Season Invitational, T1 faced hurdles like DDoS attacks that continued until midyear and an unfavourable ADC-mid metagame. However, T1 showed resilience, grinding through each challenge to achieve their ultimate goal.
T1 is also commendable for their synergy and inclusivity, ensuring substitute Carl Martin Erik “Rekkles” Larsson was fully integrated into the team at Worlds despite language barriers, and even sharing in the victory as they raised the trophy together.
VALORANT: EDward Gaming
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By Anna Bernardo
2024 was China’s first year in the VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT), yet its strongest team, 
EDward Gaming (EDG), were able to show that they had what it takes to defeat the strongest the rest of the scene had to offer.
Regionally, EDG had a stellar, near-perfect year, sweeping all three titles in VCT China: VCT 2024: Kickoff, Stage 1, and Stage 2. Internationally, however, it took some time for EDG to figure out the rest of their opponents, with a 5th-6th place finish at Masters Madrid and a 7th -8th place finish on their home ground in Masters Shanghai.
However, the team were exceptional at VALORANT Champions 2024. Although they only came in second in the Group Stage, EDG were an unstoppable force at the Playoffs, taking down the strongest teams to keep their upper bracket berth before outlasting Team Heretics 3:2 at the Grand Finals.
EDG have shown that newcomer teams can have what it takes to take down the juggernauts in the VCT scene.
