When Asuna and Bang show up this team look like title contenders wtf
Boostio Cryo and Eeiu are generally consistent which is why I don't talk about them showing up

im not fully onboard tho, will have to see next map and lev game if it happens before I start believing

and the year before that, bro was the spearhead for xset w/ zekken

one of these is not like the others

ngl i fw with it, criticizing ur team so theyll be better in the future is way better than glazing them no matter what (i may be guilty of this)

https://twitter.com/G2VALORANT/status/1788345950861496809

navi then went on to not win a single round unlucky bro

Who do we want to win? I'm actually conflicted I wanna see both advance but I got no idea who I'm backing

the only good thing that came from nrg ardiis was that copypasta and that one reaction clip (will not elaborate)

bro snapped

I think there's a solid argument for literally every player on that team to be called underrated, they are defo the dark horses

I think it's possible either way, I think KC is not winning as dominantly as they were in kickoff, 2-1 to every other playoff team in their group, and I think fnatic are finding their groove again

nrg be like: best players in (one of) the worst performing teams

I think derke's declined a noticeable amount yeah, but I also think aspas is going way crazier than last year which makes up most of the gap between them

basically that whole zeta run

real

They said it's a duelist overhall, kind of similar to the Initiator or smoke patches they did a while back. It's still possible that they change clove but it's unlikely imo, if I were a dev I'd try balance the duelists in a way that makes current clove more viable

I think the tweet was a bit unwarranted but the response on both sides is way out of proportion, imo appropriate response is to just delete the tweet and we all move on with our lives. You can deny this all you want; but every time something like this happens it literally becomes a pseudo political debate which should defo be distanced from.

hopium for mini + boaster antistrat masterclass and that all 4 shooters are gonna shoot. gonna be a good el classico to watch regardless

yeah i dont wanna see it either and its defo unlikely, but it sounds like the typa shit riot would do, esp after seeing how they dealt with chamber

y0y/y8y

yeah reading this and what others have replied with has defo shifted my perspective, I think first they should try expand the season, then maybe if they have excess time they could do 4 but its tough. But 3 is completely possible yeah, but for some reason they're insistent on making sure t1 and ascension don't overlap, hopefully that's something they fix for 2025

(allat warning ig) boaster should be here in my (obviously biased, but trying to be objective) opinion, you can argue his calling isn't as good as others, but the igl has to be an emotional leader and has a share in creating strats and anti-stratting, leo's described boaster as a completely different person on stage, and being able to carry the teams mental when they're down and it shows, fnatic last year were ahead of the curve when it came to comps and strats alongside loud, the most obvious example being lotus. You also can't argue that the whole comp and anti-stratting was done by mini, as he himself has said most of that is boasters doing, and mini acted more so as an objective second pair of eyes

but how do you reasonably extend the season? going backwards to january would make it so ascension teams have no almost break, and going forward would eat into ascension viewership

personally i dont really care if champs is on at the same time as ascension, but im defo sure there are people who will, and not to mention that riot would lose so much viewship over something like that

correction: last year also ended in august, so basically we're in for a long ass offseason again, but then you have the issue with champs eating into ascension (october) viewership

Then you have the issue of last year, where everyone complains about the offseason, they specifically tried to make this season end closer to September to address that so there isn't really much space to expand into i'd think

Feels like you can't have a good format this way, even up until now I don't think it's that bad besides all elim/qual not being BO5. However when qualifications for Champs and Split 2 starts, the real problems are going to show, literally 1/3 of the teams have little to no chance of making champs and their year is objectively over, and the only reason they had to do it this way is because there wasn't enough time for 2 round robins. rn we have 1 round robin split down in the middle for a masters, I think the only good way to fix this is axe a LAN so they can give us 2 REAL splits each before events, hell maybe even an LCQ.

im glad fnc is #1 but bro you did not cook ill be real

preds:
my guess is raze nade cant recharge, and maybe reduce satchel time and power (more absurdly but less way likely: buff satchel and reduce charges to 1) and please for the love of everything pls make the rocket shoot straight
maybe only 1 jett smoke that lasts longer?
prolly a neon phoenix iso and yoru buff
neon maybe longer lasting wall, more running juice
phoenix longer lasting molly quicker flash ideally both in pulling it out and using it
yoru tp animation quicker and the timer tp timer only starts counting after barriers down
iso needs a rework imo he's just a budget reyna with a worse harbour wall

2 completely different coach/igl systems smashed into 1 alongside a player who took a years break. Also not to mention the optic core had to switch from a 2 + 1/2 year stable system with Chet and poolchan into this new frankenstein one
imo similar to why sen were poo poo for most of last year cuz they had a revolving door of igls

oh yh tru there was that whole thing
shoulda clarified they said tier 2 was a bad financial investment, even despite the viewership

nah the owners said its a bad financial investment in some podcast i think

but the reason he resigned was because of the org wasn't it? at that point it must've been made clear to him the org and the internal board wouldn't stand for it. Surely that reflects on the org as an entity positively

still 6 years before anyone is even in contention for goat status imo, s1imple and faker had that long, so should players in this game.

completely outside of this whole controversy as a tangent:
should they not have been allowed in once the guy got removed from the org? like if I was a rep at the g2 org the moment that tweet of the guy partying became viral I would've been on the phone with riot saying yh this guy's about to go, but we cool?

You missed the point. You can lie on either side of the argument regardless of whether you're neurodivergent or not it literally does not matter.

I mean I still like Bren he has a nice personality and is one of the few good casters imo, but I do defo disagree with his take on this. The reaction to this tweet is absolutely absurd, stay with me here, but people are angry at a tweet with an emoji suggesting suicide, and in their anger they're telling people that don't also get angry that they're 'subhuman' or that they 'have no positive impact on the world' like bro what??? isn't that the kind of behaviour you want to condone anyways??? like I don't want to piss anyone off I just genuinely want to understand how people justify this kind of behaviour in their head.

yeah I wont even lie that's so out of left field. I literally have no problem with the tweet and I have adhd like bro what does that have to do with it

yh they're the only S tier casters besides maybe sideshow and bren. Like they made moments like this so much better

sen trolling if they dont extend zekken, even if they nuke the team for whatever reason he's the 1 player i'd keep

fair enough ig

bro this must be how they feel about board games and other old people shit, like that mustve been the fun stuff when they were younger

fr, steel was an actual breath of fresh air when he casted, i dont like his personality but i have to admit the unfiltered style of casting was actually fun to watch

players is hard and annoying to compare objectively cuz of roles and stuff so ima ignore

for teams i think put EG 5. and move the other 2 up, gambit were good for the whole year and optic(/envy) were good for almost 2 years straight

that would actually be crazy cause iirc sentinels stopped playing to win after they won a map cuz they qualified for something, so for that to bite them back would be kinda hilarious but people would riot

i heard somewhere that they play a bo1, might be misinformation tho

perfect but maybe small gap between nrg and below

part of ranking up is learning how to keep ur mental intact when u get these type of people imo

I think best case scenario is that they get 3rd seed and go to shanghai to get the best quality prac, with no expectations for the tournament cuz rn they need to focus inwards.

birth rate is going down everywhere in the west, japan is just further along, if u think this is bad now in 10-25 years we're all gonna be cooked

my cope is we had fraudnatic for 2 years before winning back to back lans
so 2025 drx winning it all