wasnt there something about ego issues?

wtf how'd waterloo get matched up against maryville :/

that aproto 3k at the end tho 🥵
sheriff god

wtf is pancc still doing in the league

only if he has an extra monitor

russ has a dual citizenship iirc

bump!

takas

Contendors:
Victor
Zyppan
qRaxs just because
Ethan
saadhak

Title

sym drops 60 and wins

lotsa new names which is good

Looking at the first term, n=1, we have:
(-1)^n x^2n = (-1)^1 x^2(1) = -(x^2)
Then 2nd term is:
(-1)^2 x^2(2) = x^4
Then 3rd term is -(x^6)
So we can see that n=1, or the a-value, is -(x^2), and the common ratio is -(x^2), since it goes up by a power of 2 each time, and flips the sign.

Like akira said, the sum of an infinite geometric series is a/(1-r), so here we have:
Sum = -(x^2)/(1- -(x^2))
= - (x^2/1+x^2)

something that sounds weird but helps me at least is aloe vera, i have combo oily/dry skin and i cut a little piece off a leaf each day after a shower and spread the gel over my face, really keeps acne away

what the shit

bro put curry instead of pancada

I'm an NRG fan too, and I think its too early to say we're better than LOUD.

y0y

1. Sentinels (AVG rank 2.03)
2. GenG (AVG rank 3.39)
3. PRX (AVG rank 4.09)
4. Fnatic (AVG rank 5.49)
5. LOUD (AVG rank 6.20)
6. NRG (AVG rank 6.36)
7. Karmine Corp (AVG rank 7.04)
8. Heretics (AVG rank 7.83)
9. Leviatan (AVG rank 9.61)
10. NAVI (AVG rank 10.07)
11. EDG (AVG rank 10.51)
12. DRX (AVG rank 10.63)
13. T1 (AVG rank 10.96)
14. FUT (AVG rank 11.96)
15. FPX (AVG rank 13.84)

NOTE: I chose the 15 teams, so near the bottom, there will definitely be teams that don't deserve to be on this list (i.e. FPX).

Thoughts?

do you think one of TH/KC dont qual to Madrid if playoffs was double elim?

didn't want to have only one chinese team lol...

https://strawpoll.com/eNg69jr63nA

I chose 15 of what I thought are the best teams, let me know which teams should be added/removed.

me

demon1 can play smokes on raze maps, marved Viper, crashies senti, Ethan init.

we played bad against SEN. They deserved to win. I still have confidence in NRG though, even though we beat two horrible teams we only lost one match against the world champions. by the eye test, they look pretty good, almost certainly a top-5 and likely a top-3 team within Americas. Doesn't mean we have to keep saying "SEN got lucky".

rahhhh Mongolian valorant

bro does no one get the reference lmao

prx finals comp

JohnQT Astra
Zellsis Breach
Sacy Fade
Zekken Neon
TenZ Yoru

this actually seems reasonable

i had to do a double take when i saw the m8 flair

Duelist - 2022 yay
Sentinel - 2021 nAts
Smokes - 2022 MaKo
Initiator - 2023 Leo
Flex/IGL - saadhak

y0y

At one point TALON had less points than them

Here's what you guys voted for!

S Tier

1. Paper Rex (AVG rank 1.29th)

A Tier

2. T1 (AVG rank 3.18th)

A- Tier

3. DRX (AVG rank 3.93th)
4. Bleed (AVG rank 3.96th)

B Tier

5. ZETA (AVG rank 5.89th)
6. RRQ (AVG rank 6.44th)
7. GenG (AVG rank 6.76th)
8. Team Secret (AVG rank 7.11th)

C Tier

9. Global Esports (AVG rank 8.42th)
10. Talon Esports (AVG rank 8.87th)

D Tier

11. DFM (AVG rank 10.16th)

<3

shameless bump cause no one voted

https://strawpoll.com/kjn180bK0yQ

Here's the results of the poll, I changed the scoring system so now we can find out average rankings.

S Tier

1. Fnatic (AVG 1.71th place)

No surprise, Fnatic as the consensus #1 team.

A Tier

2. NAVI (AVG 3.47th place)
3. FUT (AVG 3.49th place)

These two were very close lmao. Makes sense tho, they do seem a step above the other teams.

B+ Tier

4. Vitality (AVG 4.47th place)
5. Liquid (AVG 5.29th place)

B Tier

6. GiantX (AVG 6.45th place)
7. Karmine Corp (AVG 6.67th place)

C Tier

8. Gentle Mates (AVG 7.98th place)
9. BBL (AVG 8.37th place)
10. Team Heretics (AVG 8.92th place)
11. KOI (AVG 9.14th place)

This last tier I felt was close enough that there wasn't really a good place to separate them.

Thoughts?

nah this is vlr's overall rankings through a poll

https://strawpoll.com/xVg7j0b1enr

Here are the rankings for the Americas teams as voted by you guys. I've split them up into tiers as some of them were pretty close.

S Tier

1. NRG

No surprise there.

A Tier

2. Leviatan
3. Sentinels
4. LOUD

When I checked the results throughout these 3 teams were consistently changing places, which makes sense, I think these teams are a step above the next ones.

B+ Tier

5. G2

B Tier

6. C9
7. 100T

I wasn't expecting such a close gap here tbh, maybe Boostio's signing contributed to recency bias because at first 100T was a lot lower, below FURIA even. G2 was quite a bit above the other two, hence the separate tier.

C Tier

8. FURIA
9. KRU

Not much to say here.

D Tier

10. EG
11. MIBR

Also not much to say here.

Might do an EMEA one soon.

Thanks for all of the votes guys, I'll make a follow-up post in a bit

A section of the agent metas would be cool! If you need help with any of the writing then I'm sure a lot of ppl here would like to help

I've seen a lot of different opinions so here's a poll for everybody
https://strawpoll.com/eJnvvlRw1nv

ThatsCrazy

ASCENT

Demon1 - Jett
Ethan - KAY/O
Victor - Killjoy
Crashies - Sova
Marved - Omen

HAVEN
Demon1 - Jett
Ethan - Skye
Victor - Killjoy
Crashies - Viper
Marved - Omen/Harbor

The other route is to put Ethan on Omen, Marved Viper, Crashies Skye

BIND
Demon1 - Chamber
Ethan - Skye
Victor - Raze
Crashies - Viper
Marved - Brimstone

LOTUS
Demon1 - Astra
Ethan - Skye
Victor - Raze
Crashies - Killjoy
Marved - Viper

SUNSET
Demon1 - Chamber
Ethan - Breach
Victor - Raze
Crashies - Fade
Marved - Omen

These types of comps fit this roster the best IMO, chamber double initator allows victor to play duelist, ethan on flashes, crashies on scan, and demon1 to cook on chamber.

BREEZE
Demon1 - Jett
Ethan - Sova
Victor - KAY/O
Crashies - Cypher
Marved - Viper

i think victor off of cypher is best as he hasn't really played it, and crashies has.

SPLIT
Demon1 - Jett
Ethan - Skye
Victor - Raze
Crashies - Viper
Marved - Astra

Overall the main player going off of his comfort roles is crashies, but he's played Viper and Cypher a bit in the past, so it shouldn't be a huge deal.
This roster would have worked really well in the Chamber meta. E.g. old OPTIC comp, Demon1 on Chamber, Ethan on Breach, Victor on Neon, Crashies on KAY/O, Marved on Brimstone is basically everybody's comfort role. I'd see them using Chamber a lot if they do end up with this roster.

are you my homework, cause i want to slam u on the table and do you all night

contract stuff + them getting stellar and corey means they probably wont keep all.
boostio is alreaedy strongly rumored to 100t, which leaves demon1+ethan to NRG most likely.

breeze could be Sacy Skye, TenZ Yoru, zekken KAY/O, johnQT harbor, pANcada viper

so it'll be aspas duelist, kingg flex, tex sentinel, mazino smokes, nzr main initiator?

e.g. ascent, aspas jett, kingg kayo, nzr sova, mazino omen, tex killjoy

lotus, aspas raze, kingg viper, nzr skye, mazino omen, tex killjoy

bind, aspas raze, kingg viper, nzr skye, mazino brim, tex chamber

etc

i think the meta for this map is Raze/Neon, Harbor/Omen/Brim/Astra, Skye/Fade, and two of Chamber/Cypher/Viper/Breach/(maybe even yoru)
E.g. for Fnatic, we could have:
Derke Raze
Boaster Omen
Leo Fade
Alfajer Cypher
Chronicle Breach

Or for EDG it could be
Smoggy Neon
Haodong Astra
CHICHOO Viper
KangKang Chamber
nobody Skye

all seem like viable comps.