It’s gonna be exciting to see different teams qualify for Shanghai, but it’s sad to watch the Madrid teams struggling right now. Do you think they are really burned out? Hope they recover in champs and we get to see these teams at their best again
#1 cs team playing 7 events from now until september. already played 4 this year
https://www.hltv.org/team/6667/faze#tab-eventsBox
meanwhile valorant pros complaining about 1 event
I havent been watching cs2 but I have seen a lot of CS, teams change plans against different teams but the overall gameplay remains the same, rounds arent played around ultimates or viper walls/orbs like in valo, the overall strategic depth in valo makes it much much harder to prepare your team plans as a coach imo , If you had seen loud vs sen madrid playoffs game, you might have noticed how sen were using their own viper orb in mid ( a little deeper) on split , this was their change in gameplan from last time they lost to them on split and it worked, so yeah the macros in valo are much more deep
not that surprising. kickoff was a bad format which didn't allow for any actual consistency. and every year the state of valorant only gets better as the year progresses with more time spent during the season scrimming and coming up with new ideas and adapting better to meta changes (1 example would be gekko being played more on maps like Bind which wasn't the case earlier in kickoff)
burned out is a lame and convenient excuse for a lazy ass bums, like what? 2 tournaments already burned out? meanwhile their competitors and even in different games (ex: League) ain't hearing burned out in the middle of season even western teams like LEC and LCS JAJAJAJAJAJA
both sentinels and geng are inconsistent and overperformed their way in madrid JAJAJAJA
you ain't wrong.
there's a fine line between being "burned out" and just being lazy. if you're tired and drained after playing a lot of games and training, that is literally just normal. anybody who goes to school or works a job experiences this.
being burned out is when you physically/mentally can not do anymore because your body is completely done. you become cynical, isolated, confused all the time etc. it's a serious thing and we can't just be using it as an excuse whenever we can't perform. riot would be under a lot of heat if the league was giving players mental health issues.