most active? yes

most fun? arguably, other competitors like csgo and apex are less fun imo

biggest esports? yes, it surpassed csgo this year

growth potential? was high a year or two ago, I think it's going to plateau in the coming years and have small incremental yearly growths afterwards, until a better competitor arrives in about 7 years and the game stagnates

so overall, I think Valorant is the best shooter in the market rn and will be for the years to come

for your sake I'm not gonna continue this conversation

just know nobody accused you of lying, I just don't trust the way you crunched your arbitrary numbers

also, I'm a big fan of single elim too

rematches favor WAY TOO MUCH THE PEOPLE WHO LOST THE FIRST SERIES, its kind of statistically mindblowing

On CS:GO teams literally play brutal single elimination BO1's against 16yo onliners from Russia and nobody is complaining

arent all the top csgo teams directly invited to playoffs or something?

havent followed the scene in a while so Im not sure, but I remember complaining about single elim existed in literally every esports because it's a valid complaint

I totally support VLT management to take a risk and aim for better results

I just dont think they will finish top 4 in apac lol

I mean to be fair to ec1s, I've never seen such a dick move like that before

Im sure he can be a decent player with VLT, and doma is cracked

but you cant get rid of your problems of never beating SEA teams by replacing 2 players with 2 good players from EMEA

why would u trust this person's information about his salary if he was egregiously wrong about his buyout?

yeah tenz is not sscary

and bleed isnt an NA org

tenz has a multi million dollar income from his stream alone

that buyout was just a fake number given out by a reporter who knows very little about finances

same reporter who said japan teams paid as much as NA teams

and this was literally in the middle of a recession with high inflation too, no shot anybody would shell 1 mil for a mid esports player unless it's a very complex money laundering scheme

someone legit said they will finish top 4 in apac ascension

the top 10 in ascension will be the best team from each asian sub region that's not in franchising, they won't finish top 8 even if they brought in tenz

prob as good as the bottom tier franchise teams, which tbh also gets shit on by the top ascension teams

basically, 1 tier under t1

LMAOOOOO no chance

cheapskate org but paid a FULL NA team salary (about 90k a year per player) for 2 years that achieved jackshit

Chovy

I forgot about him, super excited to see him play too

GE as a whole will be very exciting to watch, the entire team has something to prove

theyre a new roster, nobody rates them lol

1. Seoldam

dude had a rough tournament in a japan, but was also his first professional debut in a year

will be interesting to see how he performs internationally for the first time ever, korean jett is back

2. Secret

young player who clearly has a lot of potential, heard he's a mechanical god in prac but never really showed it on LAN

now will be his time to become a star on the international stage, which was a dream of his (from interview)

3. Foxy9

now that we know he will be given a starter role on DRX, all eyes will be on him if he can elevate DRX to a even higher level than before

in japan he showed high numbers and cracked mechanics, can he replicate his success on the best team in Asia?

4. t3xture

tbh I forgot s3xture was playing, yeah he's pretty good I guess

jokes aside this dude is like korean sinatraa, loves oni phantom and has very jittery overwatch aim

5. ban

it's an actual travesty this guy needs to play smokes for T1, I would've put carpe on smokes instead but seniority is real in korean teams

still, looking forward to see if T1 did any role swaps and if ban can elevate his game even more than last time we saw him vs guard and TSM

BTS TenZ

you need something called progressive overload my friend

Second real test for Dplus

Dk 2-0

Maru are a stacked team that had a slow start, maru wins again

Honestly, WGS could upset here

SDC learns from their losses 2-0

Banger game, happy SDC got their first loss will be good experience for them long term

Dplus cleaning things up and looking better and better

Holy fuck sdc are the real deal

I saw them play cnj they looked good but kind of shakey

But wow today Im impressed, they played so fluid with their offense and was the best midrounding I saw in KR outside of DRX, and all the members are solid cracked no slackers

this guy trying his best to make Brazilians look like idiots

LOL 50% no pacific teams in the top 8?

do you know how odds work? you do know even ZETA division has had a top 4 finish before right? PRX top 2?

you know DRX has NEVER finished below top 5 for the entirety of 2022 right?

saving this

literally free 20% return

should be even lower odds for geng, these are reigning world champs and they have aspas

I wanted to go for underdog bet on geng but these are just terrible odds

Scarz lost to allways incheon and shadow corp, LMFAO

No they wont lol

If prx beats c9 I will be so happy because drx doesnt need to face yay again

I think I can work with that, that's not bad nerf at all

rio should win this

Yeah I'm thinking maru wins today, but the odds are ridiculous

on fav he was above average, average for a duelist

honestly think he got most of his roles thanks to clout

depends what distance is the damage fall off

if its still the same damage from close medium quarter its still a good buy

well all the good korean players went franchising

and reject, igzist got a free bye to mainstage because they didn't play a single good team, leaving out jadeit and fav gaming

def the weakest japan league weve seen since the beginning of valorant

reject doesnt even deserve to be here, shouldve been jadeit but japan has the worst format

nah, stew, banger and yoman are next up

this match will be hype, I predict a fennel win

Wallhacks are internal cheats, and actually cost a lot more to procure than external which are 90% of the cheats out there

90% of cheats are color aimbots and I'm telling you it's borderline impossible to tell if someone is cheating ESPECIALLY if the player is already good

Look at valo frogs exaggerating, there are cheats out there that have never been detected for years yet here you are saying they only last a few weeks

Found the silver player

GE t3xture lmfao

people underestimate how hard it is to play with cheats and make it look like u r not cheating. and with no offense to valorant lowmid immortal players, they r too braindead to be tricky and hide it. they r shaking in clutches, so hiding that they r cheating is unreal thing for them.

Its the opposite, you will be surprised by how a color aimbot looks very similar to a good old flick

Literally since 2 years ago Im in a discord server of a private cheat that has never been detected and will likely never be detected because the cheat has kernel access

Vanguard being unbreakable is 100% a myth, and the cheats are actually quite cheap

100 euros for lifetime is well worth considering you get paid 100 euros for boosts from plat to immortal

Also there are cheaters that are signed to pro teams rn

DK 3-0 NS a few days before and lost in a rematch

It's just overreaction from rematcH

holy fuck bet the house on TLN this is free money

Dplus gonna win