FerahgoTheGreat: derived from FerahgoTheAssassin from the book Salamandastron in the Redwall series by Brian Jaques. I wanted to use FerahgoTheAssassin, but most character limits in video game names cut it off as FerahgoTheAssass, which... no. Incidently, Ferahgo is derived from the word farrago which is a somewhat archaic term for a "confused mixture" which I guess sort of suits me as a nuclear engineer involved in esports.

Yep, I deleted too much stuff at one point and added it back incorrectly

His sage stats are pretty great. He's having a down game at the moment, but he is one of the worlds best sages.

bruh, im just a writer, I don't even (think) I have the complete set of mod powers since I've never banned anyone (unless I just don't know where the buttons are)

Damn it. You got me. I was antsy after nuking the first two threads lmao

Should be fixed now

The problems people have with franchising have nothing to do with the level of tier 1 competition. Franchising brings stability which is great for orgs/players and particularly investors who are involved. The problems tend to arise with the tier two+ scenes. Stability is inherently resistant to change, even good change, so it can stifle prospective pro playerbase growth and talent development if not implemented properly (ahem overwatch). If teams/orgs/players don't see a viable path towards either inclusion in the league or inclusion in the big tournaments, it can kill the scene.

I think the Valorant franchising is promising since Riot have a relatively good track record with LOL. The promise of a continuously expanding league system each year is a great development. The challengers leagues (VCLs) I'm a big more skeptical on. Opportunities to get into the VCLs are so limited (once per year in some cases) that a big portion of the amateur scene could be dissuaded from participating if they see nothing to play for over many months. It remains to be seen whether Valorant stagnates a bit here (it is big enough to persist for a while anyways, and hopefully league play keeps it popular enough to prevent the stagnation).

Thank you for listening to my ted talk :'D. I didn't mean to write so much.

I'd say LEV, but they've gotten a bit of hype recently, so idk if they qualify as a dark horse. I think GE are underrated, but predicting them is a huge question mark. Their ceiling is really high, but their floor is really low, and the potential variance of a brand new, international, duelist heavy lineup is crazy.

WOOHOO! Now I really feel like a VLR forum user.

who? you? ;P

10:1

I have descended down to the levels of the VLR forums to add my voice into the cacophony of madness enveloping Valorant talk. Time for me to get memed on:

MiBR 2-0 TLN
13-5
13-7

I did just make it from gold to diamond this act with a 0.85 K/D over 92 games so far. Sign me up, I might get a kill or two in a professional match :D

fixed

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tbh its a pretty reasonable deal and one that incoming teams would appreciate. They are also free to scrim whomever they want. iirc, a couple of the notable exceptions were let in anyways as well

As far as I know (I don't know portuguese, so my translations may be off), he compiled a list of good teams to practice against for LOCK//IN so that international teams with very little time can get the best training. Teams that weren't on the list got mad.

90% One team will make top 8 that will never see an international stage again this year
50% no Pacific teams in the top 8
10% MIBR top 4

Eh, I don't have the energy to dig into this deeply with advanced stats. Both of their overall statlines are similar, and they have similar ratings, so any differences will be small and nuanced. Its probable that artzin got slightly more eco frags or slightly less impactful frags (i.e. kills in 5v2 etc. scenarios) than shion.
"so it's obvious that controllers and sentinels will always have a high rating"
By the way, controllers and sentinels have, on average, lower ratings than duelists. All of the agents are relatively close (much closer than ACS), but jett/raze/chamber are still above KJ/omen/etc.

Generally APAC does include all of East Asia. When game devs and TOs combine regions is when names get wonky. i.e. Brazil is part of LATAM but is generally considered to be distinct from the "LATAM" Valorant region. Its easier to call CN/JP/KR "east asia" than it is to call the assorted SA/SEA/OCE regions anything other than "APAC" since not all of their countries are in Asia.

urgh. I hate that there is a team called NaVi sitting in the archives just waiting to be mistaken for the real NaVi when I tag them. 😂

I would say that tomaszy's stats are pretty close to his rating. 1.11 is relatively normal for just a +4 K-D. Its a little lower than you would expect from the stats that you can see there, but it isn't absurd. Obviously his ACS is going to be huge because he took so many fights, but he lost fights a lot as well. A good number of his kills happened when his team had a significant man advantage as well.
It mainly looks weird because addicted is about the same as him. Addicted's rating is higher than normal because a whopping 8 of his 13 deaths came when his team had a big man advantage and those deaths didn't matter much.
Also assists matter a little bit, and tomaszy had 0.

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No spoilers, but something is in the works. Not exactly the same as previous LANs, but stuff is being written.

assist

Damage differential. Damage dealt - damage taken I believe.

oof

In order from best to worst: 3, 8, 1, 5, 6, 2, 7, 4

I'm not saying there should have been better seeding. I am saying that there are ways to build a tournament format that are more resilient to bad seeding than single elim.
https://www.vlr.gg/79207/the-power-of-double-elimination
here is a forum post I did a while back where I compared some 8 team formats, and in it, I stated that single elim is usable, but only when there is good seeding. Without good seeding it is extremely vulnerable
Also, Im not advocating for 32 team double elim either. That would be way too many games. there are some compromises that could be made to get the best of both worlds

This had the potential to be my finals matchup although any finals matchup would be hard to predict with random seeding and single elim.
What a ridiculous format.

Noyn casually showing up and dropping a bomb.

I might not be completely in the loop, but I think dimi is still with us and Flynn joined although he has been busy recently.

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oh shoot

Sorry, I interacted with one of his posts then got a serious case of baiteritis. I will strive to provide only quality content in the future.

You challenge us to join your pickems group, but you're down there with 155 points and Im at the top with 405?

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/23d6e1ac

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/1c81053d

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double u talyx

Who?

LMAO

In my opinion, "mutual" is often used in circumstances where there isn't bad blood regardless of whether one side would have preferred to keep the contract going. No idea what iNTRO's story is, but his tweet does not have enough info to say anything substantial other than to repeat the translation.
I adjusted the title a smidge to make it sound less like he was kicked.

Someone went to the trouble of avoiding my twitter?
https://twitter.com/FerahgoTheGreat/status/1601721274438680577

It includes clutch stats implicitly when it weights XvY fights. i.e. 1v1 fights are worth quite a lot.

There was an update to the economic modifier. Since you only had two games played, it changed your rating a bit.

This rating has implicit impact because every fight is weighted differently. Baiting is punished quite significantly if a player waits until his whole team is dead and then gets some kills.

The main "combining the stats" part is linear, but believe me, there is a lot of more complicated math going on in the background to calculate the contributions, kill/death in particular. EVERY fight is given a different weight based on the situation inside the round.
Also, I don't think you understand the linear part. Not all contributions are weighted the same. Kills/deaths are more important than assists for example.

The rating is on the "stats" page on the top bar. You can put all sorts of sorting criteria there. For example, if you sort by "all time", minimum 2000 rounds played, against minimum opponent rating of 1550 (default), all regions, you can see a list of most of the top pros in the world.

this may be the highest for a map
I haven't done a thorough search, and it might be very difficult to search every map, but this is the highest ive seen so far.

I was so confused until I realized it was an old thread haha.

Yes in theory, but quality of competition REALLY affects it. For example, OpTic would be nowhere near the top even though they were clearly a top 5 or higher team in the world because they almost exclusively played against good teams instead of farming the tier 2.