Chapter 02 · Players
Eight elite minds, eight different signatures. The cohort is a baseline; what makes each player interesting is where they diverge from it. Cards below show each player's cognitive signature: the codes that fire louder than the average elite Valorant player's, sized by their z-score
Tap any card for their full-profile rundown.
A note on these signatures
The differences shown here are emergent , drawn from raw descriptives and per-code frequencies against the cohort mean, with no inferential testing applied. With n = 8 , what looks like a distinctive cognitive style could just as easily be an artifact of a given player's match (the map they drew, their performance, their teammates that round, the agent they ran). A defensible typology
The follow-up novice cohort is the next step in that direction (we have 8 currently being analysed). If you'd like to contribute, register interest in the next study →
← Chapter 01 The cohort, in motion Interactive streamgraph across all rounds. Chapter 03 → One mind, in full A single player's match, round by round. Cohort: elite-2026q1 · 8 players