Imagine having to play two BO3 in the same day, the second one against a team that hasn't played at all that same day. Having the chance to reach Tier 2 in your first year coming from Premier.

All of that while constantly being one defeat from being out of the ascention, as the Tier 3 teams start from the lower bracket in this tournament.

Of course the 17 years olds would get nervous. Give them a break...

It started with Gustavo Melao saying that it could be possible (and really funny) that KRÜ could place 4th and start playoffs from the lower bracket. Then the KRÜ account mocked him with his same opening "Attention, people".
The guy said that they should be calm as Aspas is coming.

To which a random a-hole responded calling him "Macaco" (Monkey) and a son of a b*tch because... reasons.

Just some usual slander between KRÜ and a guy to which a troll just responds stupidly with racism.

The Smash or Pass one? Yeah

"There is no law against pokémon, Batman" has to be one of my favorite pokémon jokes. But, man, do I hate people that unironically sexualize pkmn...

I haven't really liked any post-DS games aside of Gen 9. I played those titles once and that's it while I have replayed Gens 3-5 a lot of times (I have even played gens 1 and 2 like twice each, but the remakes are straight up better).

However, the only Pkmn game that actually has generated some hype in me since gen 6 is Legends ZA. It looks fun and with PS3 graphics instead of Gen 8's N64 trees (I mean, if you actually look into the trailers it looks better than PS2 and for Pokémon that is quite an achievement). I hope that the game is in fact a good pkmn game.

I am not really that worried as, for example, Krü tends to mock Lev due to their amount of non-latam players and BR teams tend to be much more centralized towards their own players with some degree on SA talents (considering that both BR and SA tend to train together a lot, which also result in a lot of SA players being able to speak in portuguese)

The thing is that there is in fact a maximum imports, iirc, it is one player per team (could be two, but I rrally think that it is only one).

But the region is Americas, which includes North, Central and South America.

So, while LEV is a LATAM team, as the region is Americas, they can get away with only one LATAM player as long as they don't have more than one player from China/EMEA/APAC. They are not breaking said rule about imports.

In fact, their only import was Natank, who was benched and then replaced by Rossy.

Edit: Keep in mind that while Demon1 and Tex have the russian and german flag respectively, they are also americans. So they do not count as imports.

The thing with FPX was that the chinese org had a team based in Europe and participated in the EMEA during the time when there was an open qualifier.

After the franchises were stablished, the whole EU roster was dropped (later they were mostly taken by NAVI, iirc), and they took the chinese one to participate in that region.

Somethig similar happened with G2 and NiP. G2 dropped the EU roster and went with a NA one (mostly The Guard), while NiP went to BR.

LEV has only 2 members that are from their region (1 player and their manager) while they are supposed to represent LATAM (I know that the rest of the or is mostly latinoamerican, but they are not usually seen/talked about when refering to a team

I won't comment on the LoL part as I don't follow that competitive scene, but I would appreciate the context if it doesn't bother you.

I wonder if that will be badly perceived by Riot.

I mean, LEV is one of the two teams that represent Latam (not including BR teams) and they have an almost complete NA roster. Next year will be the end of the 4 year contract that T1 teams have.

I wonder if Riot won't renew with them due to that and favor another LATAM org such as 9Z, FSN, AK, etc.

KiNgg used to play Raze years ago. He was really solid.

However, given that he hasn't played her in a while, I am not sure if he will come back to her.

A chance is a chance

As I don't really want to continue the conversation. I will say that we both have different points of view towards toxic conducts.

While you think that racism is a whole other level, I am more inclined to the everybody sucks.

At least we can agree that they both acted like shit in some degree.

I have, under no means, excused racism. My words were that both, being racist, and insulting are the same shit, just a human attacking other due to differences.

What I said is that both said shitty things.

How is calling someone fat (which, while I can agree Keznit is fat) better?

Being overweight can be due to different disorders and can cause severe depression to people. Even a relative of mine took his own life due to comments such as the ones said by Dgz's team.

But it is ok to insult them if they attack you with being black? No, you are just getting down to their level.

As I said previously both parts acted like shitty people.

Which is why I do not stand by Keznit, Dgz or the other parts' side that participated in that discussion.

Calling someone slow and being racist are the exact same stuff in my opinion.

You are being a shitty person to another human. That's it.

Dgz started the bad mouthing in a scream against Mazino, Keznit called him a bandit, GL's coach started calling Keznit fat. He got mad.

Keznit was an asshole for calling him CJ? Sure. Dgzin and his staff? They too. Grow up.

I only meant that in-game the regions are split in BR, North and South LATAM, while IRL the three are one region. Maybe it came out wrong due to how I phrased it.

I support teams in the following order:

KRÜ-MiBR-LEV-Loud-FUR-2G

I mean, MiBR has as many South American players as LEV and BR has historically been SA's training partner.

Our cultures are so similar that BR is, in fact, a part of LATAM, but Riot split the regions.

I'm really enjoying watching Dgzin. From a Jett only player to a really solid Jett and Raze

He is and he, in fact, has gotten a lot of people talking about him.

The only reasons I didn't include him in the list were:

a. He is underaged for now.
b. I only wanted to mention SOME names. Not all of the Latam talent.

Btw, Latam includes BR, but as I don't really follow their T2 due to the language barrier, I decided to not add them.

If you look at the latam scene, there is quite a bunch of players that match the skill of LEV and KRÜ's player.
We don't need new players, even less NA players. We need the teams to actually look into the scene.

As an example, All Knights went head to head against M80 (lost 2-3 ). Were we have NicoMachine, Cebando and Tinchoff who haven't been in T1. In Fusion, Darker was really named for a while but wasn't taken by any team. Or even Daveeys who, unfortunately, passed away was a really good player but wasn't taken seriously until KRÜ signed him.

Right now, 9z. But as the team disbanded, I should probably change it. Probably to Krü

In Chile we also play Tejo but it is slightly different according to what you described.

In our tejo (also called "rayuela"), we also use metal chunks (tejos) and throw it into a wood frame filled with mud which sounds really similar. However, we don't use the gunpowder targets, we use a thin rope. The closer you are to the rope, the better. If you manage to land right onto the rope, it is called a "quemada" (a burnt) and you get trice the points.

As a Spanish speaker, "Te" is pronounced as in "Tetris" and "Jo" sounds like Santa's laugh (Ho ho ho)

I think that it will be low as he is too new, but will be really increased as the leagues advance

It depends.

Some people despise Lev since 2024 as only 2 out of 5 players were part of South America (3 from Latam if you count Aspas). Now that Aspas and Mazino left and only Kingg remains, I have seen that dislike increased by a bit.

Other people, such as myself, do cheer on Lev as they still have Kingg and their staff is part of our region. I do believe that this is most of the region's way of thinking.

Then again, I do prefer cheering for Krü if they go head to head.

At this point, I just don't care about scrims.

I have heard a lot of times that x-team is destroying everyone in scrims and then just suck during the regular seasom

There are, but they suck.
All have the same character and pose, only changing its color to match the team and EDG's says "Champions"

Leviatán is also a latam team... even if they only have one latam player now

Hope that she (they? [I honestly don't know which pronounces Flor prefers]) doesn't underperform. Making so that GC talents actually matter for some more people.

You know, I always wondered what happened with Jingg.

Before he had to quit PRX for the military, he was really loved by the community. But once that he returned, I had read a lot of hate towards him.

Yep

While the team is stacked, the whole sinergy among a team and a group of players that just got together for an event should be an important factor to take into consideration. Which is why a lot of "super teams" have had a lot of lame results.

While the match is just for fun, so SEN won't really play as if it was an official match, one has read enough threads to know that if SEN loses, they will be clowned in VLR.

Yes, they get in. I forgot that TSM is currently at 5/7.

If AK gets 6 rounds, they qualify too, I think.

I think that Liquidpedia also confirmed Galorys being in playoffs.

I am not sure about TSM, even if they beat AK. Due to round difference.

If h2h is more important than rounds, TSM gets in (if they win). If not, probably AK goes in given that before the match, they were

AK: -1
TSM: -25

Map 1: TSM in overtime (+2)
Map 2: AK 13-6 (-7)

AK: +4
TSM: -30 Which would be impossible to overcome, as the max rounds would be a 13-0 (+13)

Edit: I forgot to consider AK -13 rounds if 13-0

AK: -9
TSM: -17

If TSM wins, we will have a 5-way tie break. So I doubt that h2h will really matter.

Reta > Tsm, AK
AK > 2G, Galorys
Galorys > Reta, 2G
2G > Reta, TSM
TSM > Galorys, AK (hypothetically)

If I remember correctly, Galoris is in playoffs due to map difference

That Breach Ult was so unnecesary. IT would have been much more useful in the next non-eco round

As someone who is into speedrunning, thinking that it is only now that games come with lots of bugs/glitches is quite fun.

Games used to receive updates (fewer, but still received them), however if you didn't have the latest version... too bad. For example, in Metroid Fusion, there is a certain unintended interaction that was only patched in the japanese version which was released after the other versions.

Lev is a South American team. Not North American, so I guees that they don't count.

SEN gets 13-8, 13-5: Dominant sweep
Krü gets 13-9, 13-4: Stay alive

Bruh

Iirc, Ruination and Sentinels of Light are both inspired by LoL.

Also, there is the Arcane Sheriff.

I am not sure if there are other lines inspired by League, tho.

You do know that Klaus is argentinian, right?

While I think that volume would matter the most, while also considerin its population and people who actually play Valorant.

Chile, for example, has 19.6 million people.
USA has 333.3 million.
China has 1.412 billion.

Also, we would have to take into account the number of slots in VCT.

Latam has 2 spots for both, Latam South and Latam North; China has a whole league. Obviously, this also depends on the population. (Then again, India has more people than China, but I guess that not as much people play or watch Valorant, so they don't have their own region).

As such, it is much more probable that a country as China develops more talents due to sheer amount of players than Chile. And why I am quite happy for the amount of chilean players attending champions.

Knowing the BR community, that ship sailed a long time ago. His best shot, imo, is to improve his english and end up playing in EMEA or NA.

I think that G2 is better than LEV. Yet, we still have to wait for today's game.

Man, do I hope that KRÜ entered another winning streak with the previous match against C9

Keznit has stated that he wants to win in a LATAM team. Plus, unfortunately , his English holds him back.

If he leaves KRÜ he would probably end in Tier 2, as I doubt that the other LATAM team (LEV) would pick him. And he is not liked by a part of Brazil.

Edit: Just to clarify: by no means I think that Keznit is bad or isn't good enough for NA teams or other T1.

Fo be fair, Mini decided to step back.

I don't even know how to react

I am gonna go and split some spaghetti in half because of you. It was you who forced me to do it

I actually think that he was. BUT that was because of the whole dynamic that EG had. It allowed him to play Sova in every map. Look at Fracture, for example, he was one of the few people that managed to make him work and get kills with his ult consistently.

I think that his biggest problem is the lack of his previous strats while also playing agents aside from his main (he used to be like an OTP Sova, I can't remember him playing anything else).

Then again Nzr >>>> C0m