"Burnout"

To begin, I respect all the players and I think they go under immense pressure during these games. But don't give me that "burnout" bullshit specially when we are talking about the current format and calendar of VCT. The players play once in a week or two with a whole month gap between the tournaments. Hell some teams play like 11 games in a whole year. So the whole "burnout" should never be an issue for you. Mf LeBron James at 40 is playing night in night out and you, a person in their 20s can't play continuous days of Valorant? I understand Sideshow has some good points and qualification to talk about these issues and I respect him for speaking out despite being employed by Riot but saying Burnout is a reason why EWC is a problem is just wrong. You can say everything like politics and discrimination and sports washing but burnout? Infact I will stay on my statement that they should do full round robins for each split. Put more pressure on the players. They can play 2 games of Valorant in a week.

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You don't grind rank (good decision) it will fuck your mental and pros are chained to grind it to be stable or this RNG game will make feel like worst player alive and then comes scrims where a bad or good has to be vod review as a whole team fix their issues so, bad performance in scrim will scare tf out of player in the thought getting benched and being South American and SEA player in vct makes social life miserable (could be one of the reason Aspas want to play with nzr) that's explain a lot about how Aspas feels

I'd honestly argue that the desk talent gets more burnt out than the players as a result of having more games maybe he's taking about himself or something but I do agree with your take

I feel like part of the burnout comes from not being able to play that much. If i had to prac over 4 hours a day for weeks just to play like 4 games in 2 months (if i'm lucky, some teams played 2 games), I would feel burnt out because im not achieving anything