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.

this is an equally valid take, its just a difference of opinion. In my subjective opinion believe restoring the old system should be tried before nuking it, and then perhaps you try build around Ethan and Demon1 (new coach, and 2-3 players). In it's current state I think what they've done is take the worst of both worlds

https://x.com/valesports_emea/status/1508372276403658759

ok calling someone u dont know delusional for characters they wrote on the internet is a bit far id think but whatever.
its never as straight forward as best players = best team, current NRG is literally the best example of this, even fnatic who I take every chance to glaze, aren't performing. This is cuz its about the internal coaching system, changing chet and FNS' 2 and 1/2 year system is a drastic change, and they clearly haven't adjusted well, could a FNS system work with demon1? yeah sure, but it's already been tried and tested with yay, so why take the risk?

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/c0b7633e
https://www.vlr.gg/341970/fnc-doubters-come

good point, it might even be that they aren't allowed to play so DRX get in automatically, kind of what happened with FPX and liquid ages ago

whatever contract he has its gotta be bare bones, he doesnt have to put g2 on his socials or anything, also you could also do a 'loan'. but im not too sure of these types of things ngl

hmm, why down on marved? besides the recent slump im not really convined that hes that bad ngl. with that being said lets assume hes gone;
i think in a scenario where only 1 of the EG players is benched it'd be demon1, imo Ethan is just more versatile. but at the end of the day if poolchan comes back he'll have final say

they need to bring shanks back yeah

FNS stocks are high on him to return to NRG
bleed found scrimming without y0y so he might be getting dropped

perfect chance to rebuild optic roster??
only thing is it would be a hard bargain to drop ethan and demon1

tbh that og roster was actually kinda goated
wonder what happened to keloqz he seemed like a rly hot prospect

0 for y0y???? need to get those numbers up huh

fr, I don't think he even wanted to come to valorant, iirc it was around when GENG left cs cuz of covid, I think he probably couldn't find a position back (all speculation)

i wanna see mine pls

i think im out of the loop, why is the org considered bad?

fair enough, nice to hear he isn't considered a 'traitor' as some people were saying when he signed initially

idk about being better than loud, but the grudge thing is true imo

nah mini's the goat, hes consistently kept fnatic as one of the top teams, even from when the game wasn't as well defined, fnatic have been a mid-top tier team, in 2022 they just got mega unlucky cause of visas and stuff cause of braveaf and covid.

but the idea is cool as hell dont get me wrong

idk where I heard this so it could be crap, but I remember seeing somewhere that riot wanna completely avoid putting players or names of players in game, cuz itll be there forever and if said player does some fucked up shit itll be rly annoying, think mcree in OW

wait nvm i completely disregarded the other games going on

Wait I might be wrong but is it not between G2 and SEN from that group?

What's the consensus? do you want to let SEN in playoffs or nah

I think C9 and G2 are valid B tier teams or it might just be me idk

bro 💀

make a statue or a spray of this i beg
https://youtu.be/uDF94H92e0E?si=XSZS7nyahn6TTbmK&t=4690

idk man, after lev got 6 rounds on map 2 it became meaningless so it became rly hard to be engaged with it

model o/d is solid

gedagadegadagado*

hard agree. my family goes pakistan often, and my neighbours india; yet we get along really well. But when I go visit family in cities in pakistan they seem to have a distorted view, even family in rural pakistan have no issues with indians

even stuff like pani puri is common in pakistan now, and im sure nihari for india too. but thats based off of personal experience

we share the same food, few exceptions with diet but it all has the same roots

and wtf is the point of the second part

the only team i trust to win an international would be navi cause of their experience, other than that yh we're cooked
i think from apac prx and drx can beat lev but itll be close

engineering based, will start next year hopefully

also a PC is much easier to sell, even 7 years down the line compared to a laptop

cNed prism op
nAts prism phantom
yay banana vandal + karambit
boaster default knife
derke glitchpop vandal
laz sakura vandal (could be dep or someone on zeta i dont remember ibr)

honestly based off ur reply to me and this, i'd say u should get another PC
I think itll end up costing you around the same for a laptop that can drive those frames

what else will u be using it for, heavily depends on that cuz ur defo compromising a lot for that kinda fps

yh i coulda phrased that better.
more precisely, the larger a genre gets I think the worse the music gets, there are alw exceptions like u mentioned, og coldplay still goes hard

not to say all mainstream music is bad, like i fw the weeknd heavy, but at the end of the day it is all subjective

based

I think it's like this for almost any genre. I think any mainstream music is mid, not cuz im tryna be contrarian or anything, but time and time again a genre has gotten big, with some originally rly unique artists spearheading the genre, only to be picked up by some massive music label and forcing the most shittiest collabs and making artists make music by quotas and killing any personality or innovation; making most mainstream music just bland and corporate sounding, and younger people (9-16 yr olds) will just eat it up cuz it sounds cool to them