I agree with you but I also agree with OPs post other than that singular point. its very much critical to expand the horizon of the non-male FPS, and moreso gaming community.

im assuming 3 bc catNmouse said sneaking into top 4 so it would be general consensus that, since you put prx at the fourth slot, and catNmouse said sneaking into (or 4th, in that sense), order would denote placement with the exception of the "getting grouped" category

more global than global esports

so we're just going to ignore boom at 3? LMAO

DRX has a track record of molding players into good role players.

I'm sure we'll do fine.

calm down

we don't know if drx is 1st yet
agree on everything but APAC

1. GEN
2. T1
3. DRX
4. PRX
5. SPG/TLN

im glad to see therapy is working

dude im old

clearly you clear c0m and leo combined in baiting

cool but dude's main selling point is that he lurks

mechanics leo >>> c0m
teamplay leo > c0m
setplay leo <<< c0m
util leo = c0m
clutch leo >= c0m

agreed. sacy and leo shouldn't be put on the same level on sova.

pioneer ≠ GOAT

dude im genuinely sorry to hear that

feels bad, but honestly this is a sign to befriend new people around your rank, even if its casual or non-irl :p

i agree, how is no one talking about his ability to 1v2/3 in active positions where they're all focused on him?

i think his aim comes from shotcalling and gamesense

good aim comes from hyunmin

dude I'm looking at GEN v DRX and wow...

KR has a bright future thankfully

hyunmin and yoman are just too crisp with aim and brain

tanks for the r8

imo every one of my friends uses ptc so it feels like new reaver/prime in that sense

i agree with your point but on another topic...

lets talk about prx at 1 LOL not the prx bias kicking in

white/pink protocol phantom
default forsaken

cryostasis vandal if i feel like it

hot take: ptc overrated AF, good skin but its like recon phantom

https://x.com/ScanVCT/status/1846111288901902404

idk man, unless this a temporary stepback

dude? genghis khan was Mongolian, not Chinese...

he DID rule China and his son (Kublai Khan) became 1st emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, so I can see how people think he's Chinese

It depends on the occupation but this is generally true. Some occupations quite literally require the individual to consciously try to ease up their grammar down a notch to resonate with people (stand-up comedians writing scripts or practicing on-the-fly scenarios for example).

i thought it was funny (and concerning of course)

iso ult yourself into bed fr

if any of your IRLs catch you slacking like this they're going to wish you were illiterate so you can't make these posts anymore id assume

the word that means narrow gap and doubles as a derogatory term (slang, vulgar) for Chinese people

"the armor had a ch*nk in it"

I assume its this

idk what the feeling is but sometimes you just feel motivated (like a very abrupt rush) to just suppress everything

try replicating that by flooding your head first with different thoughts, preferably just, "NONONONONONO" like you have generational trauma or sum shit 💀

friend had this and what he did was REALLY forcefully tell himself NO at the top of his lungs and violently yank his body to bed and force himself to sleep before more thoughts would flood

good temporary solution for him at least, turned permanent after like half a year

i like this idea, but how do you do (specifically) for NA + CA?

i think we've come to a census but I'm just saying that 11-1 comebacks would be much more hype, while 7-1 is more attainable/likely than a 11-1

no restrictions lol

also IAM when they won premier (full KR team, basically F4Q + new streamers) in JP they gave up their spot to 2nd place

i have the same problem but for carbonated drinks (sparkling water, celsius, etc...)

chunchun is for a fact
no lady no voice might also be korean
don't know about nevergiveup

3 agreed
4 agreed
5 i get what you're saying and agree, but I believe that the only reason why "everyone" (not everyone) underestimated china was because they bombed out of shanghai (a bit uncharacteristically) and the fact that NA/EMEA has this tendency to underrate CN as a region. same thing happened in early LoL eSports btw, and look how fast CN + KR developed.
6 ping is not toooo bad IMO from west to east, as they can compromise in online TOs by going central (Texas); the fact that US is much more homogenous strikes issues with the process of splitting them up. EU is way easier to split up (geographically, culturally, and the way teams were already formed prior to franchising).
10 this is the only one I heavily disagree. valorant economy is VERY swingy, so with less rounds, it becomes harder to gain momentum with a streak. with more rounds, it gives more chances to hop on a streak after resetting the team's economy after ecos. also, comebacks are much more grand/hype with more rounds they come back from. i think valorant provides a good medium at 12 rounds per half compared to csgo (not cs2, which reduced to 13 to win), where you need 16 to win. 12 per half is already streamlined enough. it would please faria, but heavily displease the fans.

1. its gonna be a worldwide language
2. I have a lot of Chinese friends (both locally and online)
3. I love Chinese food
4. I love the Chinese characters and how each is symbolistic of different definitions

parents didn't force me, I just wanted to see the basics of the language at a Chinese weekend school!

1 thanks, i see your point now
3 I still think its a bit unrealistic, and its not like everyone is THAT competitive even in competitive mode. there would be outrage if this happened.
4 mathematically makes sense, but as you said its a bad format; also, 90% of the esports watchers (casual) would be confused even after explanation and normal hth is easier to convey to the general population of VCT watchers
5 dude that's comparing apples to oranges. china had already had a long history of PC (riot especially in LoL) esports and have a ton of money and willing players to invest. on the other hand, India is still a developing country, the people are less focused on esports, PC gaming isn't too popular (mobile gaming is only popular in India for what I've been told), and they don't have much external support.
6 this wouldn't work, since the USA is already too mixed, and there would be tooooo many issues with teams, and player issues. what would happen to t2 teams that already have a team mixed with both subregions?
7 yeah
10 I just like the current system since 12 round halves are perfect for offering teams chances to comeback in late rounds, and the VALORANT community is already used to 12/half.

i see, i'm just uneasy about newly formed GE rosters because of what happened in 23/24

i see, but acting like a pseudo-controller on one half doesn't exactly qualify for the role

1. how so? look at her kit: she slows, which fits senti util, and she walls, which also delays a push like a typical senti. her heal/res doesn't really fit into any role.
2. yes
3. what would happen to people who have a hard time finding ppl to queue with? also, sometimes people want to play alone and play with new people. i played lol from 2011/12 and ranked team '15 felt pretty bad and unrewarding.
4. idk what reverse head to head is, explain?
5. interesting but i disagree heavily. it'll take at least another 7-8 years unfortunately (being deadass)
6. split in what way? like west central east?
7. BAD TAKE. especially for larger countries. in EU, its very east to split based on region since you have many smaller countries to divvy up, but in NA, you can't really split the region into smaller t3 comps (and we already have premier and NACL quals, as well as GC to funnel into t2 talent).
8. yes
9. most people don't care enough to enforce the acronym of META to its full extent. also, at the t1/t2 level, most played tactics are usually THE meta tactics (chamber comps in 2022 as an example). in ranked, though, your point makes sense.
10. why so?
11. yes

never drunk alcohol before, but other than the fact that you're a baiter, I'll answer genuinely:

socialization and workplace culture often bring people together through drinking, and it eases up the atmosphere

on the other end, people socialize when stressed or when coping, and that's when it becomes an addiction and detrimental in the long-run. relieving stress via alcohol can promote γ(gamma)-aminobutyric acid, aka GABA, disinhibiting/activating the VTA dopamine.

basically it makes your dopamine desensitized and is the cause of alcohol tolerance, which makes you need more alcohol (a depressant) to produce the same "low" you feel when getting drunk, which leads to a cycle of increased alcohol doses and "cravings" for the dopamine hit.

well explained, and the reason why i think NA/EU is moreso like this is because of the normalization of the trashtalking and "free speech" culture.

on the other end of the spectrum, from my experience east asian teams tend to have a silent rule to exhibit politeness because of their cultural upbringing

both sides of the coin bring value to the esports scene in terms of sportsmanship/competition and pulls a diverse fanbase

my take is that divisions between regions and teams are the backbone of esports culture and rivalries

i think that treatment is reserved for the unhealthy prx fans (immature and annoying, sound like iPad kids at times)

other prx fans are cool

no one said otherwise that i know of

thanks for explaining.

its still offseason and anything could happen in vct 2025, so in no way do I think this scenario could NEVER happen

however, I do think that t1 wasn't playing at their maximum potential (moreso than zeta) while zeta already had good synergy and capitalized off of t1's mistakes (in other words, zeta played good, but the results were a byproduct of t1 playing horribly)

personally, I love syouta and the way he maneuvers around site, but is the FL + ZETA core strong enough to defeat 23/24 titans like GEN, DRX, and PRX? I disagree. and I think people are underrating PRX now because of recency bias and the fact that the squad is still mechanically gifted, just a bit behind on meta.

also, I see autumn trolling this and trolling that in VLR, and while I do agree, I definitely see a lot of room for improvement for t1.

My list would be:

1. GEN (you still have munchkin texture karon as a base to work off of which is nuts)
2. T1 (if they lock tf in t1 might be the next GENG)
3. PRX (bit high, but I think they still got it in them)
4. DRX (volatile, would rate higher or lower drastically depending on how their structure looks in their upcoming tournament)
5. ZETA (huge improvement, will likely stay in this spot for the prospective future)
6. SPG (I put them lower than others because I've noticed that they've been garnering crazy hype/overrated)
7. DFM (not sure how I feel about them, but they look interchangeable with current TLN)
8. TLN (talon needs to go under a huge shift in playstyle IMO, they can perform with better strats and mentality)
9. RRQ (Idfk whats going on with this team. this might be too low of a ranking, but its too early to tell. if jemkin bounces back, and kush keeps this performance, they're around placement 5-6)
10. BME (solid team, just can't see them beat any of the teams above but they seem consistent. hot take, I feel like they hit their ceiling, but id have to watch them more to affirm what I'm seeing)
11. TS (dude...)
12. GE (dude...)

i've been learning japanese as a korean-american (native fluency in both) for 4 years-ish, and there's a lot of borrowed words in respective cultures which made the transition easy.

I also have a background in hanja/hanzi because I took Chinese for about a year when I was younger so I also think this helped with kanji. hiragana and katakana only took around 2-3 days to fully master.

not really? i get where your coming from but ivy has played initiator primarily stage 1/2 with a side of deadlock and fade throughout ascension as well.

not enough of an agent pool. he used to also play skye a bit back

I think its safe to say he's an initiator (sova fade --> scan, skye --> flash)

to add:

K and A is pretty explanatory

Surviving just means carrying over next round (so if you didn't get a kill or die, but survived, this would count)
Trading is usually within either a 3s/5s period where a teammate kills the person who recently killed you.

However, KAST% isn't always a good indicator, since it discredits multi-kills/multi-assists, and disfavor duelists while favoring controllers (very easy to exploit smoke assists or assists like brim stims unlike initiators, which take a bit more effort to get an assist)

And obviously you can't really see how much IGLing impact an IGL has, but neither can other stats

KAST% = (# of rounds where the player secures a kill, assist, survives, or is traded)/(total # of rounds) *100%

I like stax but currently ivy looks like he's on a heater im ngl

underrated choice, i agree.

im confused

other than my obvious discontent for drx at 10, there's some ridiculous takes here, with the most surprising being:

zeta at 1?
spg at 2?
dfm at 4?
prx at 7?

this just seems like a mishmash list birthed by recency bias and roster fluctuations