please vlr

shut the fuck up

my glorious vlr is back 🥹🥹

A couple months ago, Zikz and 100T put out an open call for coaching.

https://100thieves.com/pages/100-thieves-valorant-open-enrollment-coaching-staff?srsltid=AfmBOoozUultxiPf82KRBYeB0Ullzjt8SPw0CW67s-ijq_JndFNmygPt

I spent 2 weeks putting a tremendous amount of time and effort to create these two analysis reports:

100T Icebox
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zYRtRbyClNjJXx-vbA2X6s64IlaVGfhV/view?usp=drive_link

FNC Haven
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kE90FXjCtj_qaXCOp-j0pInVEdqL1KEz/view?usp=drive_link

Despite the effort, despite reaching out to Zikz two weeks after the deadline for any word, I was ghosted. Only to find out that your average VCT scouting/analysis report is 1/200th the size.

The reason I'm bringing this up is because I'm tired of seeing Nadeshot and 100 Thieves continue the narrative that they are trying everything they can. They simply are not. They are just continuing the one thing that has plagued esports, cronyism. The normal size of an analysis report in VCT is 1-2 pages. For a game that is supposed to be "TACTICAL" ... how do you fit a scouting report into one page?

How does Nadeshot and the 100T organization pay for such mediocracy when people put real effort into their applications? Esports needs to stop being a revolving door.

I used ChatGPT to edit grammar. I'm more than happy to share my unedited version.

45 vlr readers believe picture books are better than research. I'm shocked. (edited for clarity)

Unfortunately in the world of competitive sports we are measured by wins and losses. No offense but I'm going to pass on your advice.

Did you just answer your own question? I would hope you don't think this would just be handed over with no explanation...

Also the AI generated comment, it's probably stuffed somewhere deep in this thread but that's chatgpt's form of grammar edits. More than happy to produce the original. My bad that I'm not a PhD candidate English level writer.

First, none of this truly matters. If you're reading this post please consider donating to the victims of the Los Angeles fires:

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Second, someone cool helped me out with my submission and I want to give him a shoutout, Nabil Elouahabi, basically gave me a bunch of dialogue that I created a fun video for my submission. He has a Cameo page and you should check it out ( https://www.cameo.com/valorant1973 )

Third, I think a couple of important people jumped to conclusions about my work. I don’t think you can fit my system into the traditional way of doing things. While I appreciate their critiques, their time spent was a bit misguided.

I would also like to take the time to again point out the current state of the landscape. We see what the current work leads to. My comments about the size of the analysis that is handed over to players should alarm you as a viewer. You cannot truly believe that handing a one page response to a player is anything close to professional. If you disagree with me, I would point you to HBO specials like Hard Knock: https://www.hbo.com/hard-knocks . Just look at the binders they carry around. That sort of preparation is what leads to amazing sports moments. Talent needs knowledge to thrive. Many people do not have this knowledge required so they make it about other things.

Thank you to the people who took the time to read my work. Good or bad, if you actually took the time to read it, I appreciate you.

The context that is missing from the critiques is that my work leads to discussions. The number one rule in any sort of strategy effort is that your perfect plan is going to fail. The sizing of this is supposed to acknowledge that. There needs to be a foundation from which knowledge can grow.

A one page analysis of your analysts thoughts and conclusions is not going to get you there. You don’t know any of the inputs such as their skill and knowledge of the subject, how they are feeling, what experience they have in composing documents that require them to be non-bias or even if they had a bad breakfast.

I spent some time on individual players. But I think many of my critics think it is just the 100T and FNC players. Nope, it was 19 different teams.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SJK_Brlfyf0urXM0rbqdXmpk6qgad_9Z?usp=drive_link

I didn’t feel like I could adequately give an analysis report without doing the film. So in addition to my work and research into the players, I needed to see the games that the past teams played to see if there were any adjustments in the way they played. An analysis would be pointless if it was an entirely different roster/comp/coach.

So what I did was cut every single game into rounds. From each of those rounds I created a mini-map focused video. This way I could see at a high level what is usually missed in analysis work if you were purely using VCT footage.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U02rpKLO580ozSZ04tqUrgYrfYfHlsE2?usp=drive_link

Once again, the goal of my work is not the output. It’s the path I journey to get to a place of expertise that can then be utilized by the organization.

I'm not going to attack anyone individually but I would just like to point out that my work is a direct attack on theirs. To see what someone is capable of and then to have to look at your work product can produce jealousy. As people in positions of privilege they should look at my work and applaud it. I tried and produced something of value. It's just weird that you would take 10 minutes of skimming it to try and destroy it. That's some shameful stuff. Do better.

I think I'm just going to respond to this one. I think certain people are being unprofessional. I understand that this person has had a hard time dealing with organizations and people who have different opinions to them. I'm simply not going to engage.

In the data, you can see why these teams do not perform at the level they should. If you mix the tracker ranked data with the data of previous performances, it gives you a pretty clear idea of how they will perform.

I don't think there is enough discussion and agreement on the fundamentals. The conversations that come out of those are more towards unification of ideas. If a player feels that holding on site is the best way to do something and you have a player on the opposite side of that then that's a discussion you should have. And there are hundreds of those discussions to be had all across the map. Everyone has to be on the same page or the house of cards can collapse.

On top of this, you pretty much need to have a mutual understanding of how your teammates are going to respond to things. You're 100% right that they have 8k hours combined but all of that is from different perspectives.

And to your idea about money, one of the greatest coaches of all time meditated with his players. I challenge your notion that it would be a waste of time.

Last thing I'm going to say on this thread.

If the popular way to do things worked then it would work.

100T's Coaching staff pretended to go outside and preyed on people's dreams. That's not cool. The simple fact is that me and many others were not talked to and they ended up with a tier 2 coach and a radiant player.

I just wanted to draw attention to that fact. The fact that Nadeshot talks about how he tried to do everything and here is a good example where the effort level was near zero.

If you don't like my work, that's fine. Like I said, if the current meta for coaching was a working system, we would have successful coaches. But in reality, we don't. Most coaches have a negative win rate. I'm just trying to be an advocate for the community. I think you deserve better. I think you deserve people who do more work than less.

Sorry if you disagree.