Was anyone else annoyed that yinsu wasn’t hosting the desk for playoffs? I swear if they put that goofy dude as host for the finals instead of our goat yinsu… I’d so much rather see full time valorant personalities getting this opportunity idk about you

EG knew NA couldn’t make it a month without drama and releases and signed as many players as possible to limit the good players in the FA pool.

Evil GENIUSES

I feel like Trent doesn’t want to leave guard

I’m pretty sure but I’m not too sure

Loud wins if fnatic wins because alajafer will underperform, but Navi wins if they can get past fnatic.

Let’s all hope for DRX tho they deserve it and hopefully have the deepest map pool

Guard can’t afford yay.. that’d be so sick if they lay off everyone in their company to get one player.. not a great business policy

This is why yay is leaving clown 9

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Asuna fits the awkward weirdo kid persona of 100T and Ethan is too much short king gigagod

I feel like the round 2 stinger force never works and sets up 4-0 almost guaranteed. Is it actually worth it?

Loud called the perfect game. Don’t give NRG time to figure anything out and just hammer execute after execute, no mid round just double duelist bum rush site. And aim like gods. Perfect tactic.

Now, after regular season I don’t see this gameplan working again, but I’m starting to think LOUD could win this entire tourney with double duelist and fast executes.

It’s one map y’all but yeah louds gameplan is literally don’t let fns mid round. That’s a lot of respect to give, for a good reason

I’m putting my life savings on C9 because of this thread so either thank you or gosh darn you

Translation pls

cs odds change constantly based on just whoever is getting more bets placed on them. Doesn’t even come down to the bettors win rate. I’m sure the same is true for val

If EU had 5 teams 3 of them would be exactly the same they are now.

I can’t fathom TH being favorited here. I never liked mixwell even on chamber and keloqz idk maybe he’s ready for T1 now but I have doubts. EG is underrated and has a chance to make playoffs

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https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/60cfdfdf

ez 4 NA

Hope the 9 weeks fly by and are enormously successful. You got this!

No I don’t think it’d make sense to go entirely 50/50 aim duels at all. I just think the ability to use utility to entirely neutralize a portion of the map or an entire enemy needs to be harder to use or something. And the amount of utility or frequency it can be used or something.
Those plays where someone gets their angle smoked, then kayo flashed, then breach nade, then breach flash, then raze blastpack closing space, then kayo flashed again before getting domed with no idea where they are… those are stupid plays imo. And I know that’s an exaggeration but like just something about the power and quantity of util in valorant isn’t fun or clever or skilled or anything.. it’s just like. Too much

That’s fair. Just my opinion. I think every single agent should get a fat utility nerf. Imo, it’d make the game better.

I still do love it though

You’re missing it bro. I’m not saying no utility only shooting… I admit, the best pros have more skill and prep with utility. Now you admit that valorant utility is OP and ruins some rounds

Liquid look so awful 2023

Never said no skill. Said too powerful. You literally my point with “combos”.
My point is that there’s too much utility and it’s too powerful, it makes for a lot of chaotic execs and holds that could otherwise display people skill more frequently.

Pluses and minuses, I would just prefer less impactful utility and less of it.

No I mean utility doesn’t require enough skill in valorant. Yes, there’s team play and stuff but just look at how brim can pop 3 smokes EXACTLY where he wants at the exact same time. You can fly your flash where you want. You can lay a Molly down and then hide and pop it off whenever you want.

Not saying there’s no skill, and it’s better for casual play, but it makes utility entirely too powerful in pro play for a fps (imo)

I love csgo and I love valorant.

Sometimes I wish they’d change eco around in csgo and stop having 90% of plants turn into saves. Best thing valorant had over csgo is that retakes are a vital part of the game, leads to way more 1vX highlights and displays of insane skill.

Sometimes I wish there was less utility in valorant, it gets too crowded on execs and utility is typically a low skill ceiling in valorant (too easy too place exactly where it should go).

Sometimes I wish riot production wasn’t so gimmicky and also games should be first to 16 cuz 13 is too quick and puts too much importance on pistols and also overtime should be longer. Also fix your dang tournament styles. A 32 team single elim is just silly and ALSO a double elim to the final is dumb, make the quarter finals to finals single elim it makes every game insane and important. The amount of times a final is a rematch of a semi finals is so anticlimactic.

Thanks

Down here in gold someone said “go sage, we need a healer” the other day

Guard 2-0 DSG,
They meet again on LAN and DSG wins tho

Who?

Was it possible to predict demon1 and screwface?
I’d guess someone from soniqs, maybe pure?

It’s something like 5% of sexual assault/domestic violence agitators get a guilty charge. I’ll never understand how people like OP don’t recognize they’re part of the broken system.

I do, however, believe in reformation and forgiveness - and I know I’ll catch flak for that - but these Sinatra apologists aren’t saying he’s changed, they’re saying the fact that he didn’t get a guilty charge makes him innocent.

Do better people.

Is he on a team right now? His vlr page and Twitter were no help

How can someone go 28/12 and lose? 13-8 at that…

L format that we only see one of these teams once in Brazil

Ty

No city boys? That R64 loss killed them huh?

That’s all super dope, I respect.

My thoughts too

Imo the banter didn’t land is all

Thank you lmao

Sounds like he’s done big things for the community tho, so I respect that. Just would never hop in his stream

True, true.. just not for me I suppose

I respect that. Maybe I’m wrong, just the vibe I was picking up.

The way he interacted with sen ceo. That moment that he was trying to convince the guard that he believed in them from the start. The smug look on his face… idk. You ever just not like someone, maybe even for no reason? I might be the only one here

There were a few times it felt like he was being so douchey that made the rest of the couch uncomfortable. Just seemed like he felt out of place there and overcompensated by being more of an ass. Maybe I’m wrong

Just read through that thread, easily my two least favorite people I’ve seen around valorant

I had never heard of him before but he’s a pretty douchey guy, no? What does he do to have such a following, I swear he had some of the shittiest takes and cringest moments of being disrespectful. Was one of my favorite non vct events otherwise

First banger of 2023. BT 2-1

There’s a round of 256 in LCQ

S1mple is fat? Wut