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fearX. SPG became Nongshim and the former Nongshim became fearx.

KR already has a second SPG, that will be your dad.

I really can't get over this shitty dumbag Nongshim logo.

preposterous!

Bring back Sin prisa flair

Totally agree, the idealists in VLR don't realize that Riot and their viewpoint are completely different. Riot is not FIFA, all they want out of esports is to make money by selling skins to more players, and no one buys skins because they see a tier 2 player.

Riot's position is very different from the teams' position. Teams want a stable base, exposure to viewers, and more matches for their own survival. Riot wants fewer matches to save money and hopefully create some cool TikTok clips and a few superstars. They hope the rest of it works out, but don't need to spend money on it.

No, what they need is more Alex like guys in the team. They get all extremely excited when they get a single kill, and there's no one on the team to keep them in check. Alex can only say “Fuck you mfs, don't peek, don't die” twice in a match, and that's not enough.

People usually blame j0ng for all of PRX's losses, but today he's innocent.

He pretends to be cool and irrelevant, but he's a motherfucking psycho who spends five hours a day on Twitter and monitors everything that criticizes him. And on his birthday, two Korean teams he hates won. Enough gifts.

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Did you know that Meiy and Primmie have fewer career league wins than Buzz's champions appearances?

Well, football wouldn't be of England's making if the Nintendo World Championships played by postcard or small-scale Quake Clan battles could be called esports. We created the whole modern framework, and the Secretary of State for Culture himself adopted the word 'eSports' out of a sea of words - competitive gaming, cybersports, cybergaming, etc.

yea i'm pretty sure what JonahP and TH players got was just a fan letter.

Dear PRX fans, you have never been humbled single time since the beginning of this scene. It's time to stop making death threats.

Bro we created the esport itself. but as England has shown, it's not easy to be good at what you made.

His sova ult seems to have over an 80% chance of getting a kill. I've never seen a player who can synchronize his skills so well.

DFM has to admit that Art's shotcalling isn't very good. It's been bad since abyss.

Kush guy seems really good at sova.

Bring ssees

No more Botzil, if DGZ was there last year, the result would have been better in Madrid.

He is the opposite of t3xture. t3xture is a hype guy and very loud, but he plays disiplined and methodical. Dambi is a quiet, shy kid, but he's the most demented crackhead in the whole valorant scene.

NS's great 17-game winning streak would be a shame to be broken by team like Zeta, and of course it wasn't.

I know you feel bad, but stop with the conspiracy theories. Globally, Tier 2 is unprofitable and in the red, and SEA is even worse. According to the rumored contract, SOOP will cover 100% of the operating costs for 4 years. If someone offers to buy you a rock for $100, why wouldn't you sell it?

Apeks
Lev(They lost literally every leaked scrims)
Zeta(Not the worst team, but the unluckiest one for fastest two loses)

LA, Berlin, Seoul, and Shanghai have become league's hub cities because they are Riot's regional bases. LA in particular is home to Riot's headquarters and the Riot arena is right next door.

Popularity and infrastructure aren't the only factors in the choice: Riot's games are much more popular in France and Spain than in Germany, but the LEC has been held in Berlin for over a decade.

It's probably a possibility,
On the other hand absence of a single Indian in the league is a deterministic observed fact.
keep jerk.

Riot's guideline is to simply host Regional League Finals in the studio. Remember the Amer and EMEA finals. Holding them in stadiums is something that only happens in Asia (Riot Korea is the largest of Riot's branches, and in China, Tencent has full control of the tournament) where the organizers are more independent.

He's not that incredibly strict, Actually he doesn't play a lot of ranked games. but all Korean pros hate hackers with a passion. If you mess around in front of a cheater, they get mad.

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/6508b659

Expected to win T1, but T1 hype is too much It is all-time high now, so i fixed it

https://x.com/TanmayyMhatre/status/1876901672326230294

Saya is one of the highest paid FPS players in Korea, possibly the most earned. He is rumored to have earned $400,000 per year at T1. He also earned a high salary in the Overwatch League for a long time.

and he hasn't done his military service yet. I don't know how the team convinced a player who has nothing to show for it in Tier 2.

Tier 2 salaries in Japan range from 200,000 to 800,000 JPY per month. (about 1260 to 5100 USD). 800,000 JPY is a very large amount of money for a tier 2 player, slightly higher than the minimum salary in tier 1. However, most players will be stuck at the bottom, and only a few imports and star players will be able to earn high salaries.

In Korea, it's hard to say what the average amount is because there is so much disparity between the orgs. More than half of the teams are unorganized teams. They don't get paid, and even if they have sponsors, they're lucky to get some pocket money.

On the other hand, organized teams like fearx, dk, ns, and academy teams should be able to pay a stable salary. The amount is unknown, but for reference, the LCK Challengers, which all of those teams participate in, has a minimum of 20,000,000 krw (about 13650 usd) per year. Keep in mind that some players are paid more than the minimum, and for richer organizations like t1 academy, they'll be paid more, and it could be on par with the tier 1 minimum. If so, they would be the most expensive tier 2 players.

The only thing Deryeon showed throughout 2024 was that he 'almost' beat GenG. He was a sub 1 rated player the entire year.

More teams means more jobs. Honestly, Koreans don't have much to object to this, but it's all too clear that this is a megalomania that will lead to immediate disaster for both sides.

1. Riot's decision to consolidate leagues across continents and limit the number of teams is because they realized in the case of LoL that they didn't have enough money to support every team in every league.

2. SEA is the most financially vulnerable of all the subregions. Remember, Riot has even consolidated their Challengers, and they did so because they don't have the money to maintain it, not because they want to eliminate the scene. Expanding to 12 teams would mean financial disaster for Riot.
   The current tier 1 SEA/SA teams: tln, rrq, ts, ge, booms are the most stable teams in the region (prx is too small of an organization, but has the biggest fanbase to sustain a team). They are in good enough shape.

3. instead of 2 Japanese super teams, if you have 6 mid Japanese teams, they are no match for 6 Korean teams. Watching an East Asian league would be more boring than even the expected prx show in SEA. It will be faster for the Japanese to lose enthusiasm than for their scene to develop.(Even who with infinite patience leave eventually if the pain continues. There was a time when the LCS had more viewers than the NBA, and look now.)
   Koreans have always been less than enthusiastic about Valo, so the popularity will drop purely out.

4. Both leagues will die in the end, and Riot isn't stupid enough to not know this. Of course, regardless of the outcome, it will be rejected before it even gets a chance to try, because there's not enough money to create a new league, so it won't work.

KR, SEA, JP, India are all different than CN, just think about how much vlr thinks vct cn is undeserving. Both leagues would be incomparably worse than china.

I think SEA/SA has enough talent to fill 12 teams and will be able to compete, but it will be financially unsustainable, a disaster for Riot, and will quickly disappear.

US also has a 45% player stake of Americas league, but no one thinks to separate from the Americas, right?

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Binbon: Korean Commentator
972: Former IAM, Gen.G streamer
Suggest: Former DFM

Active Players: DRX Mako, NS Dambi, Gen.G Foxy9

T1 HQ in Gangnam has a souvenir shop, but it's smaller than the T1 basecamp (pc bang) in Hongdae. But you can go and look at the faker's trophies. Right next to, Gen.G facilities are private, so there's nothing to see beyond the exterior.

I'm not denying the negative parts of my culture, YOU're putting a racism based label on me. Do you think there was much DRX fandom in SEA in 21-22? Dude, 98% of drx fans are Korean then and now. I know drx doesn't have that big of an overseas fanbase, and Koreans didn't change their team win or lose. the only team they switched to was Gen.G in 2024. On the other hand, all the people sending death threats were indo tweeters.

The bottom line is that the violence they did to Flashback was because DRX beat them. Regardless of what they did to mako sexually, they are a different team. It's not one lump of the prx/drx fandom, it's just one-sided violence from the PRX fandom. They're just a bunch of narrow-minded assholes who act like they're family when they're below you, but can't accept you when you're above them, and DRX fans have nothing to do with it.

Of course they'd send it to you. Do that to any 'other singers' and they'd get sued for shit.

In esports, on the other hand, other team players are tolerant of crazy prx sucker's shit. Do you think JonahP or TH players put up with it because it's an insult they can take? It means their character is good. It's not that j0ng's slave subhumans are less rowdy; they always have been.

Kpop fangirls are sex-crazed, stalking, paranoid and obsessed, but they don't usually make death threats to other singers. Not that it doesn't happen, but it's pretty special. If it happens, it's criticized by other fandoms, which is pretty much better than the Prx fandom where it's the norm.

It's not that he's selfish or toxic, he just doesn't do well on both Dualist and Sentinel because his playstyle is inherently too slow. He would do much better on init or smoke.

Both teams are very good, There is no guarantee that T1 will clear them. It probably won't.
it's their fandom that's the problem: one has the world's worst nationalist fanbase, who jerk with intense sexual desire for their players and enjoy making death threats against opposing players, and the other has Hynix.

He's a typical prospect with good mechanics but lacks aggression and initiative, which leaves a lot of gaps in his defense and offense. He hesitates a bit, not rushing in when needed like other proficient Korean dualists, buzz or s3xture. The positive thing is that he is not as detrimental to teamwork as Primmie, and termi coaches him.

If he fails, the team can just let him go. Just like every other player DRX has ever released. Korea is overflowing with disposable talent, so a long-term contract doesn't hurt the team at all. It only saves salary. It's just a bad move on the player's part to sign a long-term contract.

I don't agree with your argument almost at all, but I do admire you so much for attracting so many 500-pound twitter j0nggg fetishizing whales(with 5 jerseys per person) in an instant. Great indog baitmeister.

Caedye was Zeta's only talent.

Hey, they're a team with six wins in two years, so it's totally understandable.

I thought it would be fun to watch Flashback farm every single time, but sometimes it's not...

Even then, they sent their best players, Laz and Sugar. With 0 tier 1 players, it seems like they are somewhat ignoring the tournament.