EMEA main event for Berlin starts on August 12th, but G2 along with Acend, SMB and Gambit have qualified straight for the round 2 in upper bracket. Therefore, it's likely that their first game is gonna be on August 14th/August 15th. Basically, the aforementioned teams are 2 wins away(assuming they don't lose to their opponents) from Berlin.

I use both of these terms interchangeably. I do think that TR should properly be included into EU wide circuit from geographic perspective(i.e. no seperate TR region), while CIS depends on how many actual pro Valorant players are there outside of Moscow/Saint Petersburg, and from countries like Kazakhstan/Armenia/Azerbaijan/even Mongolia etc. But one has to also admit that TR gets the best viewership in the entire EMEA, so I suppose Turks having a separate region is warranted, even if it doesn't make much sense ping wise. Like heck, Team Finest play out of Israel in EU qualifiers without much of a problem.

Ah, that's true, my bad.

yeah my arm hurt too for a day after 1st shot of Moderna

Getting my 2nd one in the middle of August

CIS players also play on ping like that and it doesn't seem to be causing that much of a problem for them

If shalaby can somehow fix whatever issues he had in his games against Wild and Giants and live up to his hype from MENA crowd, then Vitality have a fighting chance. Otherwise it's straight to lower bracket for them, where they will probably be eliminated in round 2, round 3 at best.

They are being updated manually whilst the map is ongoing, but when the map is finished, vlr website makes an API query call to some Riot server and parses the match report automatically to accurately update the kills, deaths and assists etc.

That's weird, I prefer greek wines over french wines, feta and halloumi(I consider cypriots to be of greek culture) are awesome, breads wouldn't know.

What did nukkye do to deserve a rat title? Genuinely curious

FBI has got no jurisdiction here, this is NSA's turf

Just say that you're not interested in dating her and would rather stay friends, ez

Yeah, you're right about that too

As long as you post it under off-topic, sure. Oh as long as it is not politics either.

Anyway, Austrian school of economics > Keynesians, don't @ me

I agree, but you also can't expect the toxicity to be gone overnight. Humans are fundamentally shit, it's already amazing that majority of 12 year olds today find the usage of slurs cringe. This sort of societal change takes generations to take hold of in my opinion

He was a league of legends pro player, no shit he would prefer LoL over Dota2

You guys haven't played online games a decade ago. Back then homophobic, racist and sexist slurs were much more common because there was no enforcement whatsoever from game developers. I remember being 11 years old and unironically using the n-word like there was no tomorrow. Legit if somebody dug up my gaming past, I could easily be cancelled today.

Essentially, the toxicity in online video games that exists today has got nothing on the toxicity that existed 10 years ago.

yeah, just like obvious baiting and other provocative behaviour

As long as you are not being racist/xenophobic/sexist, then you are not really breaking any of the site rules and anything can go in terms of posts tbh.

I don't get this game sometimes man, yesterday and even at the beginning of today against NiP, Vitality play looked like dogshit. Heretics, on the other hand, up until yesterday's loss looked like a tier 1 team again, but right now they look nowhere close to tier 1. It's like individual match-ups are just like like League of Legends champions, teams just like champs can counter each other specifically and it's impossible to get an accurate view by comparing indirect relationships.

It's as if Vitality have warmed up during their game against NiP while Heretics are looking as if they haven't done their DM warmup routines.

Vitality need to disband and rebuild the roster from scratch for 2022, this ain't it man

what a way to int the very last round of the bo3

amilwa is also the new IGL for heretics, who seems to be better at it than lowell. Small decrease in ACS on sova whilst getting much better IGLing is a nothingburger.

That's my thinking too(or you can call it copium) with all this time they have for practice until EMEA tournament and a bootcamp that they are gonna have in 1 weeks time. Otherwise, I will have to eat my words :D

They were, pyth only benched himself in the middle of June. This caused a cascade effect of mixwell picking up a new role and G2 wasting a week or two doing trials to find keloqz. G2 with keloqz and without keloqz were fundamentally two different teams as it wasn't a single player change, but it also made significant changes to the roles of other players within the team.

Yes, exactly. You can argue if you like wasting your time, but your particular statement and subsequently the opinions around it are subjective(sprinkled in with hype from NA Reykjavik teams) as there is currently very little objective evidence around it to settle the matter. You can come back to this matter after the upcoming EMEA tournament, but right now it's all just speculation.

And besides, you must realise that there is very little you can do to change what the 0/8ters actually post until 2/4 TR teams qualify for Berlin. In that case it will be EU who is trash and TR > EMEA.

Some people can also say that cned is a bot, or that wardell > cned. Doesn't mean that they are right.

of course he is trolling, because big chungus would immediately be utilised to alleviate the effects of lack of food supply in North Korea.

Yeah I don't think anybody is watching pokimane for skilled gameplay or entertaining streams.

I think it's all about them succulent feet

Hm, that's true.

Yeah, but there is no time left for that. If Vitality lose today/tomorrow/the day after, that's it, they are not playing until 2022. And besides, I don't think that Vitality's problem is the 5th player, I think the entire core is flawed. Either foreigners or the frenchies need to go, and because Vitality is a French org I think it is most likely that they are going to drop the current roster entirely and just rebuild with only French speakers. When I see them play, they all look so lost as if they had bad comms, crappy teamwork and coordination and stuff like that and this might be partly due to French players having to comm in English.

I think it is also the best for both vakk and cender if they left and joined another core, perhaps revive nolpenki(or upgrade to nol septyni) with the likes of krea6on, dreamas, boo, l0udly, feqew and even miniboo maybe and give this grind another go for 2022.

At this point they dodged a bullet, OG's issues start with the crappy management of Valolrante division

Because US federal enforcement agencies don't have jurisdiction in Brazil?

shalahabibi

Frankfurt servers are where all wannabe valorant pro players play who are stuck in gold 2 because of "bad team".

Switch to Paris, Madrid or London and there it is much more casual, but a lot of times you will get stacks who speak little English.

Hoping miniboo can improve over the next 6 months as he did choke yesterday against OG

Thank you, appreciate it!

Yeah I get that, just saying that m5 organisation should get "dolbaeb organisation" status because of shit like "we know u are under 16 u dont need a server switch"

Yeah that's the issue, if you miss Berlin, you basically don't get to play officials until 2022.

Really hope that some 3rd party can organise tournaments in EU alongside Riot's Masters Champions so that these smaller teams with potential could keep themselves busy and test themselves in official matches.

That's why I am worried that all these orgs are gonna be even more prone to dropping entire rosters and building new teams from scratch even if there is significant potential in current rosters. Imagine how many 15 year olds will be turning 16 in the next 6 months that could become new tier 1 players.

Could you make a seperate thread about this with necessary translations? This is scandalous and m5 org should ridiculed for this behaviour.

yeah, brought out a sova. If he can play it decently against no poaching that would allow heretics to come back from being 0-1 behind, then I will take my words back.

But so far it's only proving my point - lowel playing more agents is one of the things that heretics need as it seems to be actually working, at least against this no poach team

phoenix bad hehehe

And a killjoy against freya, but the rest of the games that he played in the past 90 days were all sage.

IGL or coaching is the problem with this roster, not the players imo - well except for lowell as he seems incapable of playing any other agent besides sage.

If Vitality doesn't qualify for EMEA, then in my opinion they are very likely to revamp the roster by dropping non French speakers and go full French. There are many French speaking players who are not signed by big orgs and are showing very good results in these qualifiers. Very possible that Vitality could be the key organisation to design Valorant's first French super team(like LDLC, Titan and others in early CS:GO era).

And I hope that vakk and cender can find decent new homes or perhaps 2022 see a proper org funding a full lithuanian roster

"gydom galva" in lithuanian translates to "(we) treat (somebody's) head".

Contextually has a meaning of attempting to "cure stupidity" or can be used as an insult to suggest that another person is an r-word(if the verb is changed to "gydyk")

OG management definitely needs to "gydom galva" of theirs due to all their decisions over past few months

Looks like OG management literally need to "Treat Head"(literal translation of Gydom Galva) of theirs due to the decisions that they executed over the past few months. From fucking over fizzy and shed, to kicking their head coach just mere days before the final qualifiers to Berlin LAN which has a domino effect of them not playing any valorant officials until 2022 minimum.

miniboo is gonna be a 36 year old valorant talent in 20 years, mark my words

y'all forgetting POV stream: https://www.twitch.tv/dievasbootv

ez for 16yr old apprentice miniboo