I started watching from 2021 VCT Champions Grand finals and then became a fan of this game: Was following CSGO before that; after that Nats became my favorite; when did U start to watch Competitive valorant ?
yes past yr was not well for them : whole war thing : team changes : gambit being removed mid tourney ; no org ; hope they come better this year .. saw chronicle winning lock in ; liquid also doing above avg ; hope they do well in coming matches ; feel bad for sheydos cause has shit teammates ; hope he joins good players ; he's a freaking S- tier player
Me
this must be my alt
i literally had the same start(in the middle of Reykjavik and then Finals), rooted for Gambit when i first started watching valorant in NA and EMEA stage 3s 2021
i saw XSET beat SEN which was goofy and all the toxic SEN fans
in EMEA, I saw Gambit Nats W Player and was thinking they woud win berlin with such an insane man (also saw FNC get eliminated by TL for berlin which was depressing)
also I secretly thought that ENVY would do good when I saw them getting 2-0'd by SEN (but both maps were 13-11, 13-11)
was watching na challengers back in stage 1 of 2021 here and there but never really cared until reykjavik. it was really cool seeing the sentinels run and i really got into it when i saw x10 play cus that was like the first time I've ever seen a whole team from my country play on a big stage internationally and i was an ow fan before as well so it was really cool to see patiphan pop off
came from cs. spent over 150 hours afking valorant streams to get beta access. watched the first ever Valorant tournament (T1 Invitational). took a break from it until nitr0 joined 100T, then followed it until he won First Strike. then watched the bigger LAN games (only watched 100T games tho cuz they were my favorite) until nitr0 left, stopped watching until The Guard popped up.
I actually first saw the game played by stevesuptic, who I got into from youtube and amongus shit. I didn't look at the esports scene until right before 2021 Berlin and really enjoyed watching DRX play. I started playing after watching but never really got into it since I don't have enough money for good gaming stuff. Valorant has been the first eSport I've followed since I got into eSports and gaming pretty late. Accidentally discovered vlr after seeing it mentioned a couple of times in streams and now we're here
First match ever watched was TSM vs Immortals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuulWK5X-ZU
Eventually went on to watch EU games when TSM became shit, became a cNed fan afters masters 1.
Watched every single acend game from EU challengers 1, until their last game against Fnatic in superdome with cNed.