(allat warning ig) boaster should be here in my (obviously biased, but trying to be objective) opinion, you can argue his calling isn't as good as others, but the igl has to be an emotional leader and has a share in creating strats and anti-stratting, leo's described boaster as a completely different person on stage, and being able to carry the teams mental when they're down and it shows, fnatic last year were ahead of the curve when it came to comps and strats alongside loud, the most obvious example being lotus. You also can't argue that the whole comp and anti-stratting was done by mini, as he himself has said most of that is boasters doing, and mini acted more so as an objective second pair of eyes

but how do you reasonably extend the season? going backwards to january would make it so ascension teams have no almost break, and going forward would eat into ascension viewership

personally i dont really care if champs is on at the same time as ascension, but im defo sure there are people who will, and not to mention that riot would lose so much viewship over something like that

correction: last year also ended in august, so basically we're in for a long ass offseason again, but then you have the issue with champs eating into ascension (october) viewership

Then you have the issue of last year, where everyone complains about the offseason, they specifically tried to make this season end closer to September to address that so there isn't really much space to expand into i'd think

Feels like you can't have a good format this way, even up until now I don't think it's that bad besides all elim/qual not being BO5. However when qualifications for Champs and Split 2 starts, the real problems are going to show, literally 1/3 of the teams have little to no chance of making champs and their year is objectively over, and the only reason they had to do it this way is because there wasn't enough time for 2 round robins. rn we have 1 round robin split down in the middle for a masters, I think the only good way to fix this is axe a LAN so they can give us 2 REAL splits each before events, hell maybe even an LCQ.

im glad fnc is #1 but bro you did not cook ill be real

preds:
my guess is raze nade cant recharge, and maybe reduce satchel time and power (more absurdly but less way likely: buff satchel and reduce charges to 1) and please for the love of everything pls make the rocket shoot straight
maybe only 1 jett smoke that lasts longer?
prolly a neon phoenix iso and yoru buff
neon maybe longer lasting wall, more running juice
phoenix longer lasting molly quicker flash ideally both in pulling it out and using it
yoru tp animation quicker and the timer tp timer only starts counting after barriers down
iso needs a rework imo he's just a budget reyna with a worse harbour wall

2 completely different coach/igl systems smashed into 1 alongside a player who took a years break. Also not to mention the optic core had to switch from a 2 + 1/2 year stable system with Chet and poolchan into this new frankenstein one
imo similar to why sen were poo poo for most of last year cuz they had a revolving door of igls

oh yh tru there was that whole thing
shoulda clarified they said tier 2 was a bad financial investment, even despite the viewership

nah the owners said its a bad financial investment in some podcast i think

but the reason he resigned was because of the org wasn't it? at that point it must've been made clear to him the org and the internal board wouldn't stand for it. Surely that reflects on the org as an entity positively

still 6 years before anyone is even in contention for goat status imo, s1imple and faker had that long, so should players in this game.

completely outside of this whole controversy as a tangent:
should they not have been allowed in once the guy got removed from the org? like if I was a rep at the g2 org the moment that tweet of the guy partying became viral I would've been on the phone with riot saying yh this guy's about to go, but we cool?

You missed the point. You can lie on either side of the argument regardless of whether you're neurodivergent or not it literally does not matter.

I mean I still like Bren he has a nice personality and is one of the few good casters imo, but I do defo disagree with his take on this. The reaction to this tweet is absolutely absurd, stay with me here, but people are angry at a tweet with an emoji suggesting suicide, and in their anger they're telling people that don't also get angry that they're 'subhuman' or that they 'have no positive impact on the world' like bro what??? isn't that the kind of behaviour you want to condone anyways??? like I don't want to piss anyone off I just genuinely want to understand how people justify this kind of behaviour in their head.

yeah I wont even lie that's so out of left field. I literally have no problem with the tweet and I have adhd like bro what does that have to do with it

yh they're the only S tier casters besides maybe sideshow and bren. Like they made moments like this so much better

sen trolling if they dont extend zekken, even if they nuke the team for whatever reason he's the 1 player i'd keep

fair enough ig

bro this must be how they feel about board games and other old people shit, like that mustve been the fun stuff when they were younger

fr, steel was an actual breath of fresh air when he casted, i dont like his personality but i have to admit the unfiltered style of casting was actually fun to watch

players is hard and annoying to compare objectively cuz of roles and stuff so ima ignore

for teams i think put EG 5. and move the other 2 up, gambit were good for the whole year and optic(/envy) were good for almost 2 years straight

that would actually be crazy cause iirc sentinels stopped playing to win after they won a map cuz they qualified for something, so for that to bite them back would be kinda hilarious but people would riot

i heard somewhere that they play a bo1, might be misinformation tho

perfect but maybe small gap between nrg and below

part of ranking up is learning how to keep ur mental intact when u get these type of people imo

I think best case scenario is that they get 3rd seed and go to shanghai to get the best quality prac, with no expectations for the tournament cuz rn they need to focus inwards.

birth rate is going down everywhere in the west, japan is just further along, if u think this is bad now in 10-25 years we're all gonna be cooked

my cope is we had fraudnatic for 2 years before winning back to back lans
so 2025 drx winning it all

honestly no matter what happens itll be good i think
if sen get thru theres clout
if g2 get thru they actually have a chance to qualify imo, besides kru and lev I think every team has a chance for 3rd spot (maybe loud would be favoured if they get through, but it depends on how they play today to see how convincing they are)
if eg get through potter has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

left me broken

stopped watching when they were up 6-0 on map 2 and I come back to check stats, only to find whatever the hell this is

realistically:
after activating once, cyphers trip should be destroyed, for example if u skye dog it and it stuns, it should now be gone

make kj only have 1 molly, maybe make the other 2 abilities a bit better to compensate

bring back chambers second trap and maybe tone down the slow radius

spicy take but 4 abilities per agent is too much. 3 would be nice imo

would never happen cuz its so deeply imbedded but i find it nice to think about

true, i think you will like it. I still miss the middle dpi button it was so useful, I used it for my C abilities

mako is forever the controller goat and no one will contend with that anytime soon

You're partially correct, but a good investor will see a team performing badly the exact same as a team consistently performing at 3rd-4th. Because neither are a good investment, if you want a good % return you need to go for the best, otherwise its always wise to invest into other companies. It sorta ties into why the esports model is kinda flawed but thats a different discussion

The year is 2070. Whzy is retired living peacefully in the Chinese countryside with his children and grandchildren. But then one night a loud noise can be heard in the distance, slowly approaching and increasing in amplitude, Whzy goes outside to investigate, only to find VLR user Simp4S0m screaming 'WHY, HOW COULD YOU'. Whzy pleads with Simp4S0m to calm down, but he's having none of it, he's too far gone on the path of vengeance, im too lazy to write more icl u get the point

also winning trophies will pay way more indirectly, you will bring in more investors and current shareholders are gonna be happy to give you more capital thats probably worth way more than being consistently 3-4th

this has gotta become the standard

i agree wit u in principle, but in practice the prize money gets trickled down into barely anything per player and is probably negligible unless u can repeat it over something insane like 10 years

2 weeks ago for sure, but idk anymore Beyn was kinda being slept on. its 50/50 imo

i want both of them to win. But DRX(ish) been there since day 1, grind deserves to be rewarded

france
(W jynx)

PRX scare me man, they always look so good then drop form in an instant, I really wanna see them win but it feels like if they take losses really badly. That being said no losing this time #WGAMING

Hopefully 2 years is right, I think they'll arguably have an advantage over the 2021 non CN teams since they can probably get high quality practice in the form of scrimming APAC teams. More competition is better for everyone after all.

I don't watch the CN games, but on first thought it seems a really long way away, like pacific is finally looking like theyll >95% win a trophy after 3 years (arguably tbf)
so does anyone who watches CN have any insight?

nvm took them 4 months well done

might be biased (flair) but yh i agree, I think single elim is fine but should be BO5 maybe for all elim/qual matches. People will hate the format no matter what, there are always pros and cons, but for an odd number of teams I think this was the best they could do.

wait rly? damn so basically everything ive said is yap oops

yup

There was a whole row over GENG recognising the state of Taiwan a while back.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/1bn7h04/with_geng_being_banned_in_china_what_will_happen/#:~:text=For%20anyone%20who%20doesn%27t,recognised%20Taiwan%20as%20a%20country.