not lie about working hard tbh, stewie is used to see some cracked kids giving their lifes at CSGO, if you watch some vods from gokushima or someone else climbing faceit you'll see that they play like a fucking robot by crosshair placement, preaim, etc.apart from the amount of variation they have from grenades, smokes.
in valorant you'll see some braindead player radiant who doesn't even know how to think or make a lineup, nor has any notion of time to go back to skills or anything like that.
even at some tier2-3 in valorant some players just "scrim" with no brain.
worse, they still blame it for not having staff, coach and several things
i still think that anyone with discipline can become tier 2(earn money) in this game easily, discipline to do things that nobody wants to do, which is watch VOD and become a nerd in this game.
what does time have to do witb anything? half these players are lazy as shit, dont do anything outside of scrims, no marketing nor do they brand themselves. riot is doing them good by even giving them a platform, you stay making a normal salary in tier 2 you wouldn’t have a reason to commit to try and make tier 1 ,
they're lazy because they do not wanna do things that do not give them dopamine (clicking heads) when VODs is annoy as fuck to study and learn.
if you're a failure to study you'll be a failure in this game as well.
just see that some players are disciplined as fuck like zekken high school + pro gaming, nAts being pro + studying law at same time.
they just did things that nobody wanted to do, thats why people fail.
No one is mad at the orgs. They are mad at the situation because players are going to start to leave valorant because they need to go make a living. Which is like you said only the players who work hard enough will get in. However, if the path is easier in CS2 then those good hardworking players will go there instead of playing in valo reducing talent.
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