I kind of touched on this in #1, but it should be pretty reasonable if it's within the US right?
The teams would already have work visas within the US due to the IL, so in theory if they hosted it elsewhere domestically it should all work out right?

(ofc this doesn't address the whole latam/br thing, I just wanted to bring it up separately)

uhh

As much as I'd like to see this it sounds like a logistical nightmare due to visas

(CN can and has done it, since it's all domestic. Maybe EMEA (Within the EU) and AMER (Within the US) could do it)

W I really like this.

Shanghai, Seoul, LA and Berlin + 3 may seem like a lot on paper, but since 4 of those are fixed it leaves me with the feeling of wanting more cities (Personally, one of the coolest things about something like F1 is the fact that you get to see a ton of cities/countries, and it really gives an 'international' feeling to the sport)

I hope it goes well, would love to see similar implemented in Americas and EMEA (I believe CN has already done something similar)
Now that I think about it, CN did it for all of playoffs, and that's technically possible within Americas (If it's in the USA) and EMEA (If it's in the EU).

hell yeah
I love that

I hope it goes well, I want all regions to do this (I believe CN has already for the entirety of playoffs)

VLC Media player the goat

R6 player I see
I played that game twice but my attention span aint long enough for it

Also, iirc you said you peaked high immo. I'm asc (or was) is aimlabs actually worth investing time in?

damn, I didn't expect a val wallpaper to go that hard

im bored as hell
(btw if you take a screenshot with shift + windows + s you can just paste in to the vlr textbox and it will upload it to imgur for you)

here's my boring ahh desktop https://i.imgur.com/XV9Ls3w.png
(black cuz I have an OLED monitor and I'm lazy)

edit: Ima stop being lazy and use an actual nice looking desktop: https://i.imgur.com/wraOP6B.jpeg

dude this is amazing

imo you should skew the ratings a bit lower
it would be reasonable for most players to lie within the 30-70 range, not really the 60-90 range
(This doesn't make the players worse, just makes the rating system better imo)

I completely disagree with how high icebox is, Lotus a bit lower, Bind a bit higher and Haven a lot higher

Kinda sucks it ended up this way, I really wanted to see this roster play (I personally really believe in it)

But before people get up in arms it really isn't Riot or Furia's fault, they just got really unlucky with the case worker handling their visas

HLTV does something similar for the players and even breaks it down in to further categories, would be really cool if we had a non arbitrary system to do this (the closest thing I can think of is avg vlr rating, but you have to manually calculate that)

tbf I don't blame you, ali is a very common Pakistani surname
although I think it's somewhat common in Iran and Iraq I've mostly seen it with Pakistani's

dude I thought they had hired a full time narrator until he said 'we're mates'

donk

i cant wait to see el diablo back in action

He did, I remember there being a tweet but I can't find it skimming through his twitter

we don't know if it's runner
but there's someone allegedly with a visa issue and ardiis leaked he's the one filling in, role wise ardiis would make sense

purpo and cloud usually play at a very high quality
westside seems very promising
tomaszy is kind of a 50/50 but when he plays good he plays pretty good
and ardiis is pretty reliable, similar to tomaszy but with a higher skill floor (so his bad games aren't that bad, but his good games are still really good)

as much as I wouldn't like to see it that roster can defo beat fnatic in their off season form

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAC9iVLJgMA

(I'm biased glazing)
they cooked with this teaser, best regular league one yet imo

Nah, it is the players if there's a change, otherwise (I could be wrong) vlr devs manually input the flag.
I'm guessing they have their own ways to contact vlr since there isn't anything recent in their discord, but I found this

https://i.imgur.com/xKivKHZ.png

there is a chance
not confirmed, but there is a chance

that ardiis is replacing runner for kickoff
(he's replacing someone for kickoff, but if it's runner I actually have mega faith in them)

I had a feeling this was coming

bro has so much aura
Always a humble, nice guy in interviews and from what we see behind the scenes. Even when he loses he maintains a chipper attitude and never fails to give props to the opponent.
Takes extra responsibility when he doesn't necessarily need to (the whole qck situation comes to mind)
World class IGL

People know he's great but the spotlight is always on flashy duelist players
I just wanted to appreciate Saadhak, no other reason for this post tbh. I hope he really enjoys his time in EMEA

also look man, he's holding a hawk
https://i.imgur.com/AgjQnku.png

https://i.imgur.com/gXVkyVT.png

@cloudberries found our ascension 2025 grand final opponents

Sleepy Femboy vs CPS

man I cannot wait to see what they cook in 2025
this is what they've done so far, and even from 2021 it feels like they haven't missed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqhKta8MVGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZTCPDrJ7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bRYeh8PnZk
https://youtu.be/Z7noshNjbmI?si=RH3iVlr_X5ngueW7

I would fw Toronto heavy
EST would make global viewership higher fs
it aligns with South America and makes watching from Europe easier, the west coast can still watch pretty easily

Canada also has less bureaucracy with visas (they still have some, but in my personal experience it's less than the US)

for sure

frankfurt is like the second best in europe somehow

It's not Riots fault I agree
but I can see some people here blaming the org, and it's not their fault either
You roll the lottery with your agent, this time Furia just got the short end of the stick

this might be worse than the dort and azzelastia one

fnc 1-9 ???
FNC 10-2 FUT

idk what to make of this

lowkey this bangs

do you have a source?

Leo 🥲

6am is sick bro
waking up early gives me way more time to waste time

We don’t have a lot going for us, but I think our flag is cool

I woke up at 6pm
I’m cooked I have to get a train at 1pm tomorrow

Damn that teaser is good

FNC scouting and development has historically been pretty good, I hope they find out what makes kaajak play best, as I believe his ceiling as a player is really high (as proven at ascension)

There's no one who can replace Leo, but I really like what they were thinking with crashies. 2024 wasn't a great year and I think that was due to them not having a vocal second caller, I think the addition of crashies directly addresses that

this is just flat out not true

https://www.vlr.gg/433602/mibr-vs-100t
its gotta be this guy 😭

damn, maybe it was just because I was younger and I'm looking back at those days with rose tinted glasses, but early OW was really fun.
I stopped playing in like 2019 cuz I really didn't like the direction the devs were taking the game in
I recently played their 'classic mode' but it just didn't feel the same

2016-2018 OW was unmatched

lowkey what i was thinking (second part)

delusion and mental disabilities now

saying stuff like this really rubs me the wrong way

I really hope we do, all they'd really have to do is cut out comms and find a place to publish it
It's possible in CS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQvcB07wEw0

I agree
I know for a fact that I would use the replay system like once in a blue moon for my own gameplay

But having it for pro games would be a really cool thing for VCT, I think it will expose the coaches who aren't willing to do 'nitty gritty' work by loading up the game and going through demos, and thereby increase the quality of play exponentially for teams that are willing to anti strat to that depth

isnt he in NA