incorrect, generate a 500 word essay to change my mind

when have navi ever made it man

good luck soldier, you will find your tribe

their patients don’t need to worry because they’ll be paying for it

navi should find a way to meet t1 first

dfm when the win condition is no longer “abuse a site post plant”

gym time might as well

Is my goat washed?

Varrel vs GE

#cinema

ah i see, appreciate the information

i thought he had visa issues because of the russia-ukraine war though, that's why he almost didn't make tokyo?

wait i may have gotten confused. i meant dos9 and sultan. alym is not who i was thinking of

isn't he like a demon1 kinda scenario where he's basically NA but carries a different passport

i mean even if that were not the case he's still legal for furia as everyone else is an americas player

kaz/kyrg is central asia, but not far enough into asia to count as APAC i think. just based off historical import rules (dos9 and that other dude who was really good but i forgot his name were counted as imports iirc)

i can almost guarantee that many teams that don't make partner will be dropping their academy and gc teams like flies lol

EU does not mean European Union but Europe. all three have been counted as EMEA until now, so I guess they are the EU part. For Kazakh/Kyrgyz they may be MENA.

yes, it's likely incompetency from the staff. to think it's malicious and done to benefit a team is straight up retarded. i would believe you if GEN.G also didn't get their eyes blown out by the same lights.

somebody didn't like that it broke the narrative

russians count as EMEA imports even if they've played in APAC their entire lives unfortunately

vct pacific production fucked up and flashbanged all the players on stage.

to some people this means that GE got nerfed and KR teams were having an unfair advantage again somehow even though they were also flashbanged

the real villain was the staff who did not tech pause to fix the issue despite the protests from the coaches

what i'm saying is not nationalism, that would imply i think Korea is better than everyone else.

I never understood why people care so much about what people say about their country when it doesn't effect them or their family

dunno if you've seen this but there have been attacks and generalisations of Korean people in this community regarding the controversies, so yes this technically does affect Korean people, and by extension, me.

Frankly speaking I just don't understand the nationalism thing especially among Asians. You guys care a bit too much.

Asian people are proud of their culture and who they are. That's not a crime. SEA people are proud to be SEA. Chinese people are proud to be Chinese, etc. nothing wrong with that, until you start saying Chinese people are cheaters, SEA people are cheaters, etc.

but those org aren't big enough to hold a player down

yes they are. Kushy was stuck in AE jail for years. Wayne went to TL because Motiv set his buyout very high. Look at how Invy was rotting on Team Secret until PRX managed to get him for a good deal.

IF the partnered teams play the T2 teams more often they might see a talent worth buying out and they will SEE more talents regardless like a random rankers team not filled with top streamers if i am understanding this correctly

partnered teams already scrim tier 2 and chinese teams, they are well aware of upcoming tier 2 talent. the scene is more connected than you think

open qualifiers are localised to the subregion i believe, so that'll make the ping issues easier to deal with.
i assume kickoff, cup 1, and cup 2 will be LAN.
cheating has always been unavoidable outside of a LAN environment. just how it is.

Riot has held open qualifiers for Valorant before, back in 2020~2022, without too much controversy. i assume it will be a bit better now on

open qualifiers are by definition open so any rank can participate i believe, but you will be seeded based on your team's rank average i assume

yes, if people are okay with China having its own league and direct slots to internationals (the only single country to have this privilege btw), they should understand that Korea also gets attention from Riot.

However they overstep the boundaries and accuse Korea of being shady and having unfair advantages. Like literally I open twitter and people are hating on Korea because GE had blinding lights on while they were playing, even though GEN.G had the same lights shining in their face too.

SEA tier 2 did not get a massive buff from this. SEA tier 2 talents have always been there, but the orgs they play for stick them in bad contracts which makes it difficult for them to move up to good teams. That has not changed with the new format - the orgs must abandon their bad practices for SEA to get a massive buff.

i believe they will play in Kickoff/Cup1/Cup2, not Open Qualifiers.

ball knowledge i fw that guy heavy

the common narrative is that Riot is unfairly biased to Korea, this guy is implying that AGAIN

mfs will hate on Korea for literally anything and everything

yes

since ur pacific

open qualifiers for SEA, KR, JP, SA
teams who win will go to Kickoff, Cup 1, and Cup 2 to qualify for Masters 1, Masters 2, and Champions
there will be a certain number of partnered teams within the overall region (Pacific)
you need to have at least 3 players from the subregion you're playing in, so PRX would need 3 SEA players as they're an SEA team, etc.

yeah but i would assume regions like LATAM or Brazil will also pay less than NA for example. Riot can't possibly compensate for the global economy as well no? SEA's salary is probably low because there's little investment from the country itself (i.e. their orgs, their fans, sponsors, etc.)

I can only imagine esports regions with established scenes like EU/NA/CN/KR/JP can afford to pay good salaries, that's just reality unfortunately.

And anyway, that's what the partnered teams are for. Riot will at least provide a stipend for one SEA team, so there's that.

does this not apply to everyone in the world

i would assume sub-region

why rip SEA valorant?

get off my dick bro and use your brain, OCE is a dead league, Riot literally closed it, so they can't be in VCT. VN does not have any significant factors right now to warrant a spot in VCT either through actual achievements or investment.

face reality. the fact that you'll talk about Korean teams even though I never mentioned them just shows you're not thinking rationally and you'd rather attack me because of my flag and not my points.

i get that you're vietnamese based off your post history but you guys did not perform well in the last 3 Ascensions, why are you complaining?

berlin

more like

shit

hong kong might be the hardest server, you never know who is cheating in your games lmao

two different stages in batman's career, neither could pull off the other. they are both perfect castings

n4rrate is actually a demon, same goes for okeanos, swear i couldn't hit a shot on him
meteor t3xture are pretty decent
sinatraa derrek trent gMd oxy kaoticcc exa all roughly felt similar to me, but it's ranked ofc
net and kanpeki felt like a tier below those guys
cheatcode was ok. maybe he had an offgame or something
dasnerth was mid, think he botfragged in my game
grimm got mad at the team after he whiffed on a guy and muted everyone
flexinja is normally chill but nothing crazy. i did hit a nice clip on his stream which was sent to jarso tho
queued into a game with shahz and joona, whenever he was on the other team i always won the 1v1s between us but on our team it was joona who played better than shahz i feel, but they were both very positive players though
lakia was eh, this was back in 2021 though
and i jett diffed prod so bad he started rage running it down A and the other team surrendered

You are just salty you got ragebaited by this toto wolff guy 😭

what in the projection

Son 😭

the better decision is calling up someone from the academy but given that flashback was literally playing in that same academy team termi probably couldn't risk being called out for intentionally excluding him or revealing that flashback got sent to the academy as punishment, that plus estrella did still have tier 1 experience. so it makes sense, sort of

bro literally got ragebaited by some dude called t0t0_wolff 😭😭😭😭talking about some cannot be ragebaited 😭😭😭😭😭😭

https://www.vlr.gg/151897/argh-argh-que-got-warning-hopefully
https://www.vlr.gg/151147/rrq-ceo
https://www.vlr.gg/152019/rrq
https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/xzpy27/comment/irnhtzu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

a lot of this information was leaked by reputable reporters and Riot didn't make any official statement, so it's more of an open secret than anything

we can look past estrella given that flashback up and dipped on the team in the middle of stage 1 or something and termi needed somebody to fill his spot

you're a little bit upset it seems

sounds like somebody's mad

behaviour like contract jailing your players (especially the nature of RRQ's, which also I believe involved unfair wages) is not exactly good looks for partnership, given that Riot literally stepped in and gave them a warning for doing it lmao?

Indonesia have a surprisingly high amount of sustainable and well-functioning orgs I agree. BME is the biggest one that comes to mind.
ONIC, Alter Ego, EVOS, and RRQ are all mobile gaming orgs, which explains where they get their money from. As I understand it Indonesia is a powerhouse in mobile esports.
But to my knowledge (which partially comes from SEA fans informing me about the scene) a lot of orgs in SEA will contract jail their players under bad conditions, which is not exactly fitting for partnership if Riot hasn't changed their standards.