I dont think theyve had time to practice the map with kanpeki, i mean honestly its looking like they barely had time to even practice Split and Haven and the only map theyre looking good on right now is Bind and only on attack
Id say its a good thing they didnt qual cause now theyre gonna be able to get more match practice which really does help. This time around it'll also be easier to qualify

I guess when you look at it that way yea, theyve already made a name for themselves and in fact that makes it easier to hate on them and dissuade them from pro play. Its honestly disgusting how immature and misogynistic the valorant and just gaming community is in general, it makes you question parenting skills in this day and age

yea i know that but that doesnt change the fact that there are still a lot of female players that are in high ranks in valorant and compete in the vct yet somehow NONE are able to even make a decent showing. Theyre already passed the point of toxicity theyve already made a name and career for themselves in this esport and they still arent doing anything much.
Not even just valorant but other esports, you wont find a single good female team and i feel like its impossible that its just down to circumstance and poor sample size

ik bronze is the standard over there in bangladesh but its a little different over seas buddy, thats why SA is going nowhere, theyd probably lose to C9W actually

no yea lowkey its kinda meme but legit tho they keep whiffing their shots and its so fucking painful to watch them. This is pro play, theyre supposed to be the best female team and theyre struggling against tier 2. Its honestly sad to watch. Its so bad to the point where people didnt even know that the VCT has always been mixed and that C9W has literally been entering VCT since day 1.

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Im not saying that aim is the problem here but what im saying is their aim isnt even consistent enough to win gun fights let alone win a series off of a team that actually scrims and practices with keeping productivity in mind.
If its meta theyre struggling with that means they shouldve been fine in the previous season of the vct but they still werent winning anything in fact they were doing worse than they are now.
If they practice and genuinely plan out comps and have intention behind the plays they make and they play like this, then honestly female esports doesnt look to be going anywhere anytime soon especially in valorant.

I think honestly they just need a little more time to practice considering they brough kanpeki on like a week before the tourney.
Sick isnt comfortable on his role yet, hes clearly playing too aggro
Kanpeki needs to build some chemistry with the players
Shahz is clearly playing really poorly these past few games which is unlike him and i suspect that hes still trying to figure out how to make kanpeki and their new team comps work

Dapr is doing Dapr things so hes still doing quite decently
Tenz is actually fragging quite hard when they need him to, he still overheats but i mean to be fair the match that they lost they wouldnt have won regardless of if tenz overheated or not

The biggest problems right now are team comps which theyre still figuring out and chemistry issues cause honestly id say Sick is like a whole new player right now considering hes on a different role so Shahz has to acclimate to how he wants the smokes to be played and how Sick can better fill that image Shahz has. Kanpeki is doing ok considering he just came onto the team and now all they need is to make some set plays involving Kanpekis utility and id say theyll be in good form to reach top 8 again

man istg 100T fans never fail to make it exceedingly clear how stupid their takes are

Id say Derke is definitely in contention though he isnt as consistent as yay and chronicle, but id say that Derke at his peak is potentially better than both Chronicle and Yay

I think honestly it isnt even a question that Yay right now is the best player in the world. Chronicle however id say is still right next to yay though we werent able to see him on stage so id give it to yay right now. Its crazy how inhumanely consistent and good this guy is, I honestly would not bat a single eyelash if there were allegations of him cheating. I would believe it in a heartbeat cause the guy is just on another level of Cracked

Thats like saying Marved is wasted talent cause hes on the smokes role

oh babey i heckin love stokes

They won masters 2
They have a team of big streamers and Sinatraa being big also helps
They dominated NA VCT for so long
They have Tenz
Tenz being in contract jail for the longest time also helped
Tenz fragging out crazy hard in Masters 2 making him by far the best player at the time

So no fnc probably wouldnt have been as popular considering they doont have half the things that made sen really popular in the first place but they definitely wouldve been really big

buddy no one said he invented them, if you had a brain you would be able to read the word popularized". The stinger was in the game since its inception but no one ever used it, once sinatraa did however everyone realized it was a broken gun and decided to exploit it as well. Use your brain for once youre actually embarrassing yourself

this was expected wyoa, their previous comp was clearly a troll comp

first one ive seen mocking them, lowkey kinda like it

no even during iceland they had so many haters. I do agree that the twitter being the villains online has smth to do with it but shahz doesnt have anything to do with it at all. He isnt even the one that tbags in game yet somehow he gets some of the most hate next to zombs and tenz

jesus VLR is filled with racist 10 year olds its crazy

but making him igl doesnt change how the calls would work. He still mid rounds even though shahz is igl it wont change anything

Theoretically this might work cause it might make him quit streaming which might lead to more prac

flair doesnt check out

the guy carries them when theyre one round from losing and he whiffs one round and suddenly everyone blames him
Sen fans really are the worst

BUDDY YOUR NAME IS APAC_JIMMY YOU GOOD????

damn man speakin hella fax lmao

mmm yes im coming!!!

flair doesnt check out

damn these sen fans are straight cannibalistic

Yea its crazy that ppl send hate his way instead of the diehard tenz fans

SEN are on a crazy win streak against Faze but this might be where it ends hoenstly faze are looking crazy. SEN need to make sure they go at it at 100% cause Faze isnt like akrew they are a completely different beast.
If they come in with their actual comps theyll win but if not then Faze will take it

id prob say TG and Optic are far ahead of the pack. Optic is inconsistent just like C9 but at the very least theyre able to make up for it with yay while leaf on the other hand still fluctuates in performances. V1 seemed like they just broke down against C9 last time and LG, and Xset just arent up there yet. SEN is rebuilding and starting from the ground up with team comps and roles, TSM is doing ok but they tend to overaggress and lose fights but it seems like they have quite good util THEORY (they seem to make a lot of misplays but i see what the idea behind the util is they just need to perfect it), and 100T... well i mean theyre just a completely new roster theyll probably start showing promise in either the second qual or stage 3. LG are meh, Ghost are gonna go crazy in second open qual (they were sleep deprived this time), and NRG I cant say for sure yet since they still look a little shaky but I have a feeling theyre gonna go hard this time around

it isnt that the skill ceiling is so low its just that for some reason teams have not explored the very intricate details of the game other than teams like M3C and... well just them honestly. Most teams are still at the level where theyre struggling to consistently use strats and set plays along with util combos that they arent yet able to hone their adaptability and their discreet game

I mean idk why anyone other than SA would care. They usually start a thread and then racist ppl come in and start hating on them cause theyre indian

says the indian C9 fan

I mean i dont see how that would make them braindead but it does seem that there is a correlation between them.
I mean first of all the valorant community is filled with neckbeard incels and 10 year olds who are all sexist as fuck, you can literally watch any female streamer thats below immortal and youll see the amount of misogynistic shit is said in this game.
Secondly, the gameplay from the female pro scene is actually so bad its laughable that they call themselves pros. There have actually been cases where these so called "female pro teams" have been wiped by a full radiant 5 stack that has had no practice with each other before so I mean theres your answer.

No im p sure they still can. If you finish in first place then it doesnt matter when you do it cause youll still get the same amount of points and youll automatically be sent to masters which if you do well there will send you to champs

Rad 8
Honestly ranked is just too easy ngl

it honestly seems that way. It doesnt look like they even practice. And im not referring to scrims and set plays or util combos, im saying it doesnt even look like they practice their aim. If this is the level of Radiants/Immorts in NA I can without a doubt say that NA ranked is definitely really low tier in terms of the skill of play and if the players on C9W were picked up based on ranked, they fucked

because with male teams there are ones that actually make it. However no matter how big the sample size for female teams are in all of esports they somehow have still achieved nothing notable and there just seems to be this invisible barrier between them and male esports that literally no one can explain cause in theory they should not be worse than males at moving their mouse and clicking their keyboard

no im p sure in the KRU case its quite telling that they became a dumpster fire. Lost all semblance of their strategic depth and counterplay, NagZ wasnt doing shit, Keznit also wasnt doing anything impactful, they didnt know what being patient meant. KRU after losing their coach has now become one of the worst teams undoubtedly. They honestly are at the level of NIP rn and it shows, no in fact id say theyre worse than NIP cause at least NIP were fragging and knew how to play together as a team

I mean getting 13-2ed on your map pick id say is quite telling. When it comes to opponents in the tier 2 scene it just shouldnt be this dominant at all even if youre having a bad day. The level of play of Girl Kissers isnt that much greater than ranked so C9W if thye actually had some protocols should be able to take at least a few more rounds

I mean to be honest it doesnt even look like they practice though. Girl Kissers actually have a few set plays and some (be it very little) protocols for specific scenarios. They have decent aimers and they look like they have quite good comms.
In comparison C9W dont look like they even practice the game or scrim. I havent seen them pulling off any really coordinated executes, util usage is CONSTANTLY poor from almost all their members, no semblance of util combos to be seen anywhere, and when Mel isnt popping off on the chamber and Kat is having a not so great day the whole team just crumbles and no one is able to step it up. I dont know how much they prac but it definitely looks like they dont do a lot of it thats for sure

I dont think its sexism tho. Theres no way sexism has stopped any semblance of competitiveness from females in ALL esports. There wouldve had to have been at least one team in one esports that were actually good and competitive but there really arent to my knowledge. Ik sexism would decrease the likelihood but it cant be the sole reason to completely eliminate the possiblity

why is that a braindead take? Is the fact that I have a 40-50% hs rate on almost all guns and the fact that they keep whiffing their shots in game braindead?
Im not stupid ik when I see bad aimers and half of C9W are that. They really look like a team that dont practice it honestly looks like theyre just 5 stacking in the open quals. If they had actual aim then the fact that they have no strats wouldnt matter since they would be able to win the gun duels, but i implore you to go ahead and check their hs rates in game and come back here and say braindead take.
If you cant beat them in a gun duel then im worried for your rank honestly

thats isnt gonna happen, they arent just gonna sub in someone they dont even have on the roster to play on one map because tenz cant do it.
The thing is it hasnt been working with him on raze, they moved him to the jett since he started practicing the operator and i could see them moving him back to it and having someone else play raze like kanpeki or maybe theyll have tenz play raze and instead of dapr or shahz this time playing the chamber role, kanpeki can do it

i rlly wanna see tenz on neon honestly, i feel like that would be crazy. Id say hed have a play style similar to victor on neon

Honestly ive been asking this question for so long cause it makes no sense to me why gender would play a part in skill when it comes to an esport. First of all I think it probably has at least a little to do with the average male reaction time being than the avg female. Another thing i think honestly is they just dont practice enough. They really dont look like a cohesive unit when theyre playing. A lot of them whiff shots and other than Katsumi they all just have really poor util usage (I guess mel doesnt but i mean shes on chamber).
I dont know how much they practice but i assume its either wasted or that they dont do a lot of it. Maybe scrims as well, maybe the male teams just dont want to scrim them.
With all of that into account its still weird how there hasnt been a single successful female team in any esport so i would honestly say its just down to something in the male body that is simply better at doing whatever we have to do in games than females. Prop smth in the brain we havent yet been able to explore

dude honestly i would usually say youre dumb for having such an idiotic take but i know for a fact that i would beat almost all of their members in an aim duel. NA valorant in general has poor aim compared to SEA but their aim is truly abysmal.

ppl need to stop telling tenz to get on chamber it just isnt gonna work

harshest sentinels critic right here. Buddy I dont think ppl talk that way about a team they support dude. Point out their issues but you dont need to say it like theyre absolute garbage