wtf are you talking about

overwatch+crossfire

doubt, even when gambit was on top of the world you only really have a few people from the russian region that are actually strong in the game.
its pretty much how you described it right now (less popular region but players like nats, something, krystal, jemkin (although hes not slavic), suygetsu, shao, demon1 (if he counts), trexx, cloud, chronicle, purp0, etc)

probably not, not as popular in those areas

you should tell McE why his stats don't compare to theirs (its because he has a negative winrate in tier 1)

tbf gmd isn't a bad player but they both do very dissimilar things, I think maybe stellar would be a better comparison but gmd could probably replace supa if hes at his peak

yeah

No, the whole issue with old C9 was that he couldnt

who's playing sova?

yes

he’s talking abt franchised teams

100T 1-2 PLUG

I am sure they will be more than capable of proving themselves

Dambi???? Margaret is probably the only reasonable senti option in Korea too

he makes enough money and all he cares abt is yoru anyway

It said October 2024 lmao that shit was fake asf

especially since they don’t have an actual IGL, keeping the calling structure very similar is probably the only way for the team to function properly together

still though, we're acting like they're not still guaranteed top 5 off that. Im not delusional enough to say talon is like top 3, but they're definitely punching up harder than a lot of the other teams in apac

Talon beat DRX made it farther than T1 in a tournament and played GENG close but people still don’t rate them as top 5 in apac lmao

Why is he off smokes?

you put him in top 5 lmao?

substitute along with victor

how is dgzin in the conversation when he wasn’t in the league last year? Oxy, Keznit, Cryo are better no?

I mean technically it was 5 but I didn't need to use prefranchised results to prove anything

Yeah, same for Americas. How does that make EMEA a stronger region than Americas? Especially when Americas has had more top 4 finishes along with more grand finals appearances along with a higher average placement than EMEA. I really don't give a fuck but make a better argument dude. If you reply to this, i'm not replying, you can say whatever, I could care less outside of that one point

I agree, that wasn't my point though. I literally could not gaf about the region discourse but saying Americas is worse because they "only have one good tournament a year" is crazy. Americas was in 4 grand finals in a row, does that mean anything to you?

that's my point though, how can you say Americas is worse because they "only have 1 good tournament a year" when EMEA hasn't had multiple title contenders in years. Nothing to EMEA as a region, but it's pretty braindead to mention recent achievements as to why a region is worse than another when you haven't won

dude you didn’t even have a tournament in 2024 wdym one good tournament a year lol

Those guys on GENG have actually worked their way to Tier1 unlike K0r0n. Guys like Lakia have actually been a part of the scene before you toddlers even got to know about this game.

That Karon bot will get farmed lmao

yeah he was never the flashy playmaker tbh, his style of duelist died out already

I’m only going to argue against the baiting the defuser shit, that is what you’re supposed to do, you don’t want to give the enemy player a 1v1 for free while your defuser can’t do anything, you want the defuser to take the hit so you can guarantee a trade

It’s the same in every country. All sentinel mains are scum

Idrc about the argument but I think you misunderstood what he meant by off tourney

First resource published in 1995 without an actual study
I don't understand how large scale spatial processing is the difference maker. I wouldn't consider a valorant map large-scale nor are either of the IGL's identified males at birth so this is irrelevant.
Comparing by averages is stupid. That's like saying the average income of americans being around 58k is more representative of the actual population rather than the median income which is around 38k and is more representative of where the whole population scales to. It is impossible to know whether or not the overall set of women had lower scores than the men or whether the study purposefully misrepresented itself because there was a few women who had significantly lower scores and the men had rather average scores.
Idk why you think a study comparing 14 year olds where more of the women are younger is a strong source especially when published almost a decade ago on once again something that is irrelevant to the conversation.
Again, averages, but also... only 35 milliseconds...? If that was significant enough, no woman would be above immortal but clearly that's not the truth.
you did not read this article + its 16 years old
Over a decade old + no study
study of 30 people
This study implies that women can perceive and react faster than men and that is definitely not what you're arguing.
This magazine article implies that women would be logically better at the game and have stronger strategy and coordination. I am sure you have watched champs.
You DEFINITELY didn't read this. 2013

"as a woman myself"

ur welcome king

wow make every duelist the same thing what a fun game to play imagine if every character had a sova dart because sova is good !!!!!!!!!!

the "men's league" isn't exclusive to men; women aren't required to play in GC they just generally do.

this wasn’t the season. Season starts with kickoff and they literally didn’t lose until they were qualified for Madrid already

I mean think about it: Hes closer to home in korea, hes playing against people he already knows, hes playing with people hes already familiar with and he probably has more control over the team

I agree EMEA teams should have tried to get krystal but koi is not appealing at all

koi dont have the pull for krystal, if any EMEA team was getting him it was not koi lmao

joke

what a universally agreeable tier list ranking the masters/champions tournaments in hit tac-FPS shooter "Valorant" by riot games (chronologically)

Masters 1 NA, Masters 1 Brazil, Masters 1 latam, Masters 1 CIS, Masters 1 Korea, Masters 1 Japan, Masters 1 SEA, Masters 1 Turkey, Masters 1 Europe

yeah they got shit on by DRX and FNC who got shat on by SEN

geng tsm
Boostio was picked up because he did really good at the XQC tournament during val beta im pre sure (it was some tournament

singapore

doma, mistic, enzo, braveaf, magnum were pretty mid. Derke, alfajer and hiro were pretty good (although hiro was already pretty known in t2)

and alfajer