I thought planet fitnesses were adding free weight platforms, I saw them marketing it for a while. lowk goated asf tbh the only reason why I left was bc they had no freeweights and I was getting into powerlifting

scrimming and actual competition are very different things, losing in scrims has a lot less influence on how decisions are made than losing on stage

i like how even in the slander bait posts we still put China in last

holy cinema

if i wasnt in class rn i would be dying

I had to stop myself from laughing bro ts was so ass

I feel like China being their own region also fucked them over so badly, Pacific, Americas and EMEA all have very distinct subregions that all offer their own distinct styles of valorant, something that literally cannot exist in a one country region. Chinese orgs just all keep circlejerking their own idea of how valorant should be played and rarely if ever get exposed for it

CS vs Valorant in 2026 lmfao I thought we stopped doing this shit like 4 years ago

insulated region makes it so they aren't exposed to international strats nearly as often as everyone else is. Combine that with a far less robust history in tactical FPS games leading to less general knowledge about general strats and macro and you get this

Hear me out here, what if we put half of the Chinese orgs together with the Korean and Japanese orgs, and then the other half with the SEA and SA orgs and created South APAC and North APAC leagues instead of having Pacific and China. IMO it would solve some of the issues that many Asian orgs face.

1. China is insulated and innovation is hard to come by because of it.

Because they only ever face real quality competition when they send teams to internationals, many teams would be prone to being stuck in an echo chamber of how the region plays and how they think the game should be played in a macro sense instead of being exposed more consistently to the different ways that other regions see how the game operates, leading to a stagnation of innovation. By combining Chinese orgs with other Asian orgs, they will get more quality competition against other styles of valorant.

2. SEA and SA tier 2 gets better practice.

Because their best orgs get sent a thousand miles north, SEA and SA tier 2 got famously fucked over because now their best regional practice partners have to play in Korea. By bringing back SEA/SA orgs further south, it brings back this resource of practice partners to help tier 2 orgs keep developing talent and make for a sustainable scene in the region.

Keep APAC North in Seoul and then put APAC South in Hong Kong or Singapore or something

istg vlr fans always beg for rivalries and passion in this game and then when the rivalries and passion show up they complain about it and want the beef to be squashed

he's so handsome bro its unfair

it was a fake debate from the start lol ring culture has no place in valorant with how much variance there is in winning tournaments

ive deadass seen PRX win a round and this dude's still slamming his desk lol

every clip they show that mf is just fuming in his chair i swear

EDG vs G2 and T1 vs XLG bro they both about to go out 0-2

I was jaded and pessimistic mb TL nation for not believing in the goats

vct ring culture is weird and stupid, ethan was a role player for both of the champs winning teams, and sure role players are important but fragging ability and technical proficiency should trump championships, especially when the disparity between his technical skill and players like Aspas or Chronicle's technical skill is massive, while the disparity between his rings and players like Aspas or Chronicle's rings is actually pretty small. Saying Ethan is the GOAT because of his rings is like me saying KC Jones is a top 10 basketball player of all time because he's tied 3rd for rings and ignoring that he was a sub 10 ppg scorer for his career.

yo get off vlr bro ts poisoning ur mind

lowkey the deer are mean lol they nip at you until you give them crackers

holy peak

lmfao wtf did you say to them

tbf its in LCS that's not saying much

nogshim fan but didnt say shin ramyun isn't his favorite food smh fake fan

crazy that even in the peak TS years in like 2021 he was getting cleared by dubstep and jremy

they had a CSGO team they also gave up on in 2021

dios mio we got 2010s about to be playing in vct in 2 years

close ur eyes and relax ur throat

its not just for frats, it's any sort of initation ritual you gotta do to be socially accepted into a brotherhood. It could be pretty innocuous stuff like on a sports team the freshmen gotta carry the equipment or something to and from the practice field, frats just take it wayyyy to the extreme.

frat hazing, this is fairly normal stuff for a Big 10 or SEC frat ngl, they just keep it hush bc they legally aren't supposed to haze even tho it's an open secret that they all do it

some of us have this thing called school and a job

you have to actually play valorant so no its not worth it

i want to get gently mated by marteen

ngl has sen not sent him a cease and desist for that pfp and banner lol bc ppl on twitter still think he's signed

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/7921851b
I am a proud PRX nonbeliever

tenz

I don't think I'm too worried about 100T, they're about where I expected them to be. I have faith they'll be able to figure it out. They should make it to champs minimum they have the potential to be a top 4 team in Americas

I don't think he would do anything other champs playoffs

ESL Pro League 23 is on during Masters Santiago, IEM Cologne Major is on during Masters London, and ESL Pro League 24 is on during Champs Group Stage

That scheduling by riot is a crazy setup btw putting a masters event during Cologne lmfao wtf are they thinking, EMEA viewership is gonna be in the negatives

Riot let their league and valorant partnership teams go to EWC I don't think they're opposed to accepting Saudi money

tenz not even jerry west bro that mf is George Mikan

thats not what I said u fucking idiot

im like 90% sure they just recycled the same trophy for all 3 finals

G2 probably they looked insanely dominant
I think people will say PRX just because they're super experienced at internationals

11 teams will lose in VCT Masters Santiago :(

maybe we can use this time to have high quality discussion about what we think will happen at Master Santiago :D

there wasn't really a "winner" of kickoff because there was no true grand final

why is this team addicted to putting Aspas of all people on solo waylay, he’s the polar opposite type of player Id want on solo waylay

we say this every year and then they still win lol

yall missing out on peak valorant those mfs are done with a half in like 20 minutes

Omega looks ridiculous, fight for a playoff spot is gonna be crazy

also lol did you count MIBR as an NA org