woah woah woah

January to October season?? that is a MASSIVE W

kickoff is fully double elim too?? thats like getting a regional masters to qualify for Bangkok. I actually really fw that

AND STAGE 1 IS SEPERATE FROM STAGE 2??? WE EATING GOOD

now THE ONLY THING that we need is more ascension slots. My take is take 2 full time slots and make them ascension. 4 Ascended and 8 perma, then we will have basically the PERFECT league.

oh by exclusive I meant ones you can't get in your shop (like the arcane sheriff), but yeah I guess not having champs 2021 answers my question

I think you forgot: be toxic

Do you have every exclusive skin?

woah, I saw this site like in 2013 I had no idea it still existed.
That was an unexpected throwback

The thing is I read somewhere that the original contracts are ending this off season, plus we are finally getting to the 12 teams, so it might be the perfect time to re-sign 8 of the teams with the partnership contract, and just sign whoever was misbehaving from the original 10 as an ascended contract

Stability is cool and all, but I think they could easily get away with 3-4 ascension teams instead of 2, they could still have 12 teams and make it work.

Oh damn, I like the fact that you can get demoted if you don't make playoffs at all. But if a team can make playoffs in tier 1 surely they would be favourites in a tier 2 tournament like ascension? That also raises questions about the format, what if two teams don't make playoffs? then will there be an odd number of teams at ascension? that would mess up the format

yeah sorry, I should've mentioned it's not for this year, but going forward.

but damn that would suck (unless you are an M80 fan), imo we need like 4 teams ascended to make that less of a possibility

Given the new rules, it's theoretically possible to have no team ascend into tier 1 right? Or is my understanding of the rules incorrect.

Say 1 team makes champs, so they are locked in to stay. Then the other team battles through and wins ascension, wouldn't this mean all of the t2 teams played a whole year for nothing?

imo it needs to be 4 teams that play through ascension and maybe 8 teams fixed in t1 for stability.
Ideally maybe it would be 6-6 but 4 is very realistic. 4 would be enough to make actual demand for orgs to invest in tier 2. but 2 slots given the current rules (where an existing ascended team may just stay in if they make champs) is clearly not enough, that means that we will have years where no teams are ascended, which is crazy to think.

Ok yeah maybe the real sports comparison is far, but CS crowds are certainly the gold standard. I understand why Valorant is 'PG' or 'soft' as some would say (it's due to advertisers), but ill be real if they want the esports to succeed they need to realise that treating it more like a sport (ie playing into a more mature audience, which has money to spend) is a vital thing

I think you just need to play more.
Maybe work on your mechanics a bit

you cooked

Yeah the crowds in this game really need to work on their chants. There is so much room to grow there.
Football, or even CS crowds have good chants, we don't really have anything great rn.

why is rocketbullets a weirdo? (I dont use twitter basically at all)

oh damn i didnt see that. RIP

maybe

if you got it working i wanna see where im at

How did you get tickets? (wondering for next year)

https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/Aayan%232005/overview

need to be more consistent with the hours I play, I reckon I could be a slightly higher rank if I just put in a bit more effort

score: wtf / I wish I didn't read that

(im biased)
I think if he makes grand finals he takes the cake from chron, but if they go 3rd I still would have chronicle

by my calculations yes

😭😭I thought I cooked with that line

We had the serial team flasher, unlucky

lost to mibr, but still an ok player

glaze when coated perfectly is transparent

moments before disaster

Leo

get me 5 Leos on a team and we are winning everything

are you inferring bronzil_enjoyer = kirya??

that is a very serious allegation

how does it feel to be based

Thank you Zaphkiel 😁

for all time imo:

Chronicle
Aspas
Sacy
Leo/Alfajer
Mako

biased but Leo

Listen man, I don't often do this but, I'm commenting before reading.

No.

stew (idk who bro is ngl, his stats are decent)

KK cocky?? bro is so humble, bro says 1 minor thing and instantly apologises for it. Are we talking about the same player?

d1 hate watching

brother the only German player in tier 1 (at least flag representing) is on LEV in Americas.
Americas is closer to that than we are 💀💀

PLEASE GiantX

I need a full russian giants and full polish KOI

Has FNS said anything about switching role?

crazyguy over zest? wild

what no games does to a mf

we are cooked for the off season

It will get better over time, just as how Pacific has globally. Before there was a skill gap between the world and them, now they have finally caught up. I think going forward teams like TS and RRQ will begin to become more competitive, just give it time

B is harsh for FNC no? Or maybe too lenient on PRX/KRU. This is about their performance at champs, including expectations in extreme cases such as PRX

What I would have (tiers are not ordered):

S: EDG, TH, LEV
A: GENG, SEN, FNC
B: DRX, G2, TE, FPX
C: VIT, FUT, TLN, PRX, KRU, BLG

(no D tier because I think the difference between C and D is just semantics here)

seoldam?

If they can get past lev, double map ban advantage actually gives them a real shot

my honest reaction

I think the upcoming SEN vs TH will settle 2nd and 3rd place