Surely an EMEA team wouldn't lose a grand final

I also didn't think Vit would make it out of this group but is this really an upset? I feel like any of the three teams in this group could be insane on a good day and pretty mediocre on a bad day.

Neither Loud nor GE are "they HAVE to beat Vit" calibre.

Part of it is a matchup thing. PRX have been beating G2 more or less convincingly the last few times they were facing each other.

Part of it may also just be people liking PRX more than G2 and the fact that while PRX had a pretty poor stage 2, they had been qualified to champs for quite a while and never needed to lock in.

Also G2 had the easier opponent in their opening match.

On a human level, it obviously sucks ass for purp0. He was a part of the team that qualified, he deserves to be here.

Valorant wise, the move is a no brainer, and I think anyone who paid attention to TL and GSR knew this.

You're not yourself bro

then the ratio is 1

If you think about it, anything is a ratio unless the original comment is at 0

The continuity rule does not apply to orgs at all as far as I can tell. It only applies to orgless teams. I'm probably wrong though

I don't see how a single EMEA team makes it out of groups here

Other commenters don't know ball, -40 to -10 is a massive ratio, not bad lokalkoolkid

liquid is a low hanging fruit, that barely counts

I mean he's coached Derke and Chronicle to two trophies, it makes sense he has a lot of faith in them.

Which other regions in Europe do you think are stronger than Europe?

I tried paying them to delete your comments but they told me they love it so much they would never take my money

Why would you force at 4:9 on fucking defense bro, show me one team in the history of this game that ever did that

I feel like they were really starting to find their rhythm with veqaj in stage 1

Just one more swap bro trust me

Will never forget that clip where Twisten, qw1 and Ata were throwing each other kisses

o7 great dude and that team was a joy to watch in 2023

Only watched Fnatic vs NIP at Masters Reykjavík 2022. This guy got an ace, I think he has a great future ahead of him

There were zero rules being bypassed and "technically" all three of these teams had one import. And this kind of "de facto import" is only possible from tier 2 anyway; once a player has played in tier 1, their residency status is locked in and can't be changed easily anymore. If Russ wanted to play in EMEA as a resident now, he would first have to play a full year as a non-resident (i.e. import), and then submit a petition to Riot to change his residency status. He's simply a Pacific player. In the current VCT system, he was never considered an EMEA player, so he was never an import in Pacific. See excerpt from the rules below.

What you mean is "effectively".

Between Seasons only, a Dual Citizen may request to change their Declared Resident Country if (a) they qualify to be considered a Resident of such country in accordance with Section 2.2.2 above AND (b) one or more of the following applies: (i) the country that the Dual Citizen wishes to switch residency to is in the same League Territory as the Dual Citizen’s current Declared Resident Country; or (ii) the Dual Citizen was, during the most recent split (or most recent Season if there are not multiple splits), on the Starting Roster of a Team that belongs to the same League Territory that the country the Dual Citizen wishes to switch residency to falls within, for at least fifty percent (50%) of the average number of regular season matches played by Teams in the applicable League. Declared Resident Country change requests must be submitted to the League Entity for review; approval of such requests shall be granted at League Entity's sole discretion.

It's not even possible to have two imports. I know we're all idiots on this website, but come on man

This is a rivalry. They sometimes beat our ass

What do you mean only one can ascend.

There is no more ascension

:3

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When was the last time someone got single digit kills across a whole BO3 lmao

Most people need some kind of identity to cling to, and for a lot of people, that's a huge part of who they are. It can be religion, or your country or city, or gender identity, or belonging to some kind of cultural group. It's hard to go through life when you feel like you're just nobody.

And the harder it is to find acceptance for your identity from people around you, the more your life will revolve around that fight for acceptance of course. If you look at people like Malala Yousafzai, her entire personality and life revolves around fighting for female education. Not because it's the only thing she could possibly care about in life, but because there is so much resistance.

The more social acceptance there is for a specific group, the less people's lives will revolve around belonging to that group, that's completely natural.

And I think it's kinda difficult to say it's "minor" disrespect. For someone who's never made that experience, it's really hard to understand what it feels like to constantly have your identity questioned at every point in your life by every person around you. To get weird looks every time you go outside, to have people discuss whether you should have rights online, to have laws passed all around the world that make your life harder, etc etc etc.

I think a lot of religious people would consider it "major" disrespect if you insulted their god. I think that's quite comparable. Yet society in general seems to have less of a problem simply not being an ass around religious people than they do around trans people. I don't think god exists, yet I don't think we should ban churches, and I don't go around calling religious people sick, twisted paedophiles who should be banned from public life.

Either way, the best way to make sure trans people don't make their whole life revolve around their gender identity is to just accept them, stop banning medical procedures, and treat them with the same respect we give everyone else. Then it'll go down automatically.

Pro players not breaking fade haunts is so common on LAN it's crazy

I'm guessing the LAN timing is a bit different from when you play online and it fucks with the muscle memory or something. Doesn't just happen to NAVI

W glaze, life is more fun for you and everyone around you if you glaze people even for minor things you enjoy

yt shorts ass comment

Keiko really thought he'd finally joined a good team after hard carrying Apeks and TL, but alas, the man's back will never break

bro has dementia

Among 😂😂😂😂 us 😂😂😂😂 sus imposter 🦶🏻🦶🏻🦶🏻

Tbh FUT could have won that Pearl, and probably should have (from their perspective). They were losing a lot of fights they probably should have won. Really good from EDG to bring that back but their Pearl was shaky and quite losable. Just an aura and experience diff in the end, not really a map macro diff.

They owned fracture of course but with that map pool it could have gone either way.

Playing sweaty is their job, that's what they get paid for

Fuck me too I guess. Geez

Prime Pancada was Champs MVP

Unc still got it

It's actually on a whole nother continent brother

Loud will be above Envy either way because they won h2h

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Better to leave now with a reputation as a good duelist player than in two months with a reputation as a mediocre flex player

I don't think there's any way to be fully sure

If you get food in Berlin, there's a 50% chance it's the best Döner you've ever had and a 50% chance it's greasy ass Döner slop. In both cases you'll be out for 10 days with food poisoning

They're not actually family. Boo has played with koshmaras before (Neil said), so he definitely had a big hand in his signing. It was the same with miniboo though, and that worked out super well, so I guess we'll see.

:3 fluke

To ruin your bet

Molly kill your teammate thrice, fiddle dee dee

If Furia win: raaaahhhh go Furia

Using s3xthan as an insult gotta be the dumbest one yet, especially considering s3xture is a beast at this game