Too low on C9. This team despite being very not good could beat half of the teams in the tier above them.

I only started watching CS this year, but I thought the crowd was being a little rude to the Spirit players.

I also think the CS TOs are more relaxed with what you can bring into the stadium. I see whole ass drumlines in the VIT game, but I imagine Riot probably doesn't want people bring instruments and megaphones into the arenas.

Am I crazy for thinking that Heretics look like a better team then KC? Like sure they lost in the GF, but KC had a lot of momentum then. TH looked better at Madrid to me. Especially if wo0t ends up doing well.

A lot of languages don't have this, which is why I get the confusion that some people have.

But the amount of people that just don't understand this function of English and have an incredibly strong opinion on it is really funny to me.

The first player to win both a Masters and a champs event

Surprised this hasn't been talked about more.

SEN are the only team. That's what they're getting at.

Surprised how many people don't think this team is interesting. Lakia comeback story after losing to SEN in Reykjavik. Munchkin a long time player who's shittalking other teams constantly. t3xture and meteor consistently popping off. Karon making it to a masters grand final on his first appearance. Plus every time the camera pans to one of them, there's something funny going on.

I do hate how every time something is broadcasted, we have to pretend the audience is always just 5yr old kids that can't handle shit.

Let people swear, trash-talk, etc. Who gives a shit

They figured out the way to beat SEN split, play disruptive on the retakes. First time someone really tried and was able to do that, and SEN didn't have any answer.

I can't remember why, but I'm pretty sure I heard once that his parents were divorced, could be wrong tho.

It's a kilt, he's Scottish.

most pros say phantom feels a lot better on LAN with the low latency

It it's normal on Stream it's because stretched looks terrible on streams. You also have to render less pixels per frame, so you speed up your fps quite a bit more than any other method.

He's just so unlucky man. like 80+% of his bad deaths on Icebox were just due to bad timings that he couldn't control.

I still like Achilios-Paperthin the most. Achilios shoutcasting really good and Paperthin has good analysis.

I can only hope we see them at Shanghai and Seoul

Skrossi is a sleeper agent sent from EMEA to make sure T3xture never played duelist.

I don't think we can say they would be better than any of the teams in the top 4. They might've beaten FPX, KC, TH, and EDG, but i can't see them beating any of the current top 4 teams.

F0rsaken is going to be the s1mple of valorant. Mechanically gifted player who won't win a major for a long time. He gets close to winning but chokes games they should win.

Therefore, f0rsaken will be the goat. He plays nearly every agent in the game at a high level, and has some of the best mechanics in the game. He also helps igl in the team.

I thought Will made a whole post about how he quit gaming and now he's back dropping -16 against QoR?

The Japan T2 scene is not that bad. Fennel, Reject, and last year's scarz are/were pretty good. The issue is that the igl and coaching isn't good. They constantly run stupid comps and don't have any game plans for when things go wrong.

The talent is there, but doesn't have the structure to properly develop and execute on said talent.

It also doesn't help that DFM is too focused on getting popular players on their rosters instead of the best in Japan. ZETA at least tries.

Sen are doing so well right now because they have coherent gameplans for every map. Just having a fragging igl who can't call brings them back to the Marved iteration. Not nearly as good.

Sonofcar clears

Clove is a controller right?

Having jett smoke seems kinda terrible ngl.

People need something to get upset about

It might also be worth noting that it functions in a very similar way as "you."

Both can refer to either a singular or a plural subject, but it depends on the context of the sentence.

I understand, my family comes from Norway, so I learned Norwegian alongside English growing up and the idea of gender and pronouns is so different between the two languages.

I have my own issues with the whole pronoun discourse that happens online all the time, but the whole They/Them being exclusively plural issue particularly annoys me since it's just not how English works.

I'm being pedantic, but it's probably not a good idea to use "it".

There's massively bad connotations when you use "it" to describe an animate object. Just use they/them.

They/them has been used as a singular and plural pronoun for a long long time

It's used when you don't know the gender of the person you're referring to, or in the case, they don't identify with a gender.

For example

"Do you know Alex" (Alex is a name for both men and women)
"No, I haven't heard of them"

Yep

If you want a recommendation for a smaller artist similar, 百景 is pretty good. Last album was in 2009 tho

you have 2 koreans and a russian on this team, not much of a CN super team.

Good song. Have you ever listened to toe or elephant gym? I think you would like them.

Too many Korean teams. Get rid of DPLUS and add FPX

I would rather the game I enjoy not just become a one-region game where every meaningful match is between two teams from the same region with the occasional BR team in the mix :)

Brings more fans, and more interesting story lines to follow. + it makes it that much more satisfying when one of those teams does end up making the next masters or champs.

Recording someone without their consent is illegal in CA. Assuming it happened there, it wouldn't have been admissible in a criminal case.

I'm not a genius at this game or anything, so I'm probably wrong here, but I don't understand the point of Astra/Omen instead of Astra/Viper.

It's not like Tomaszy doesn't play Viper and the pit and mollies would be good for postplant, or would let them have a character that can split the map more easily.

He's just a potential point of improvement. If they keep winning then don't change anything, but if they get to the point where they need to improve here's probably the first port of call. His support util is also pretty good, people just overly critical on him for some bad maps.

How do people watch on this site? There's just text flying across the screen wtf

GenG already basically did after the whole incident

https://www.reddit.com/r/PedroPeepos/s/UVonfyLS7e

It's worth noting that I believe it revolved around GenG's LCK team saying they were participating in a Taiwanese Meet and Greet. China didn't like it because it referred to Taiwan as an «oversees country» and not China. GenG immediately apologized and basically echoed a «one china» statement. This got Korean fans pissed with them, and China still apparently is pissed.

It's a good business decision to make everyone you release overpowered. Brings a general sense of hype and might bring back players who think they can abuse an op agent. Then they just nerf the agent around the same time the people that come back would leave anyway.

Loud vs GenG was fun. TH and SEN as well.

If theyre trying to find a replacement I think it's too soon to make a change. Wish teams would stop reacting so hard to these tournaments with shit formats. Like sure, you might be worse than LOUD and SEN rn, but those games were close. Let the team grow and get more comfortable playing and communicating with.

The competition among the Top 4-5 teams in America's is so close rn, just wait until after Shanghai before you make these moves.

Was YHchen the IGL on ASE? couldnt find much info on it. If so could be a good change.

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

If they start running into issues then they can get someone like Rb, but right now they just beat one of the historically best teams in the world on two of their best maps.

I was originally going to be there, but i decided to use my time off to go skiing instead. Don't regret it.

Even if he's not at faker level, f0rsaken is still my goat. The guy can play any agent or role at a top level and has been one of the only pros consistently good since 2021. If he wins a trophy he'll definitely be in goat cotention.

This greatly decreases the chance of an Achillios Paperthin casted grand finals. :(

Their jerseys are pretty good.

I believe the original article by Ferahgo said they would come sometime in May.

I mean, those 2 changes are pretty good though, no?