there is no one way to appreciate your favorite players or teams. fan expression grows naturally in ways you may or may not like. there will always be downsides to them but by discouraging one way you end up alienating that part of the fanbase entirely and losing fans for any esport is never a winning battle.

and just so we’re clear

idk who you’re calling frauds my guy LMAO i been here since the days where TSM and Sentinels were the biggest rivalry in valorant right around the Faze Invitational. if you wanna stick to APAC references for “kpop” continuity, it sounds like you forgot about korea’s first hope in NUTURN who made the first international event in reykjavik. i’m well aware

if this was about issues of racism sexism or any real form of hate crime within the community i would agree, but im convinced anyone who complains about the “kpopification” of vct doesn’t actually care about those types of things and is just angry that the vct community doesn’t fit the alpha male sports stadium type of crowd that you’ve come to expect from sports events

1 champs and-

you are so obsessed with this idea of becoming some analyst pioneer to the point where your work amounts to nothing but a pretentious publicity stunt that shines light on arguably one of the lowest priority issues in the val esports scene. take some accountability for once in your life and own up to what you could do better. it’s not a good look to destroy your own image in the eyes of a community you so desperately wanted to be behind your ideas

quite possibly the most entitled post ive ever seen and im here for it

whichever one who's team is winning enough to give them hope

and you expect us to just trust you on this instead of support a player who’s breaking the social stigma of trans people in esports??

uber easily makes top 5 already, his play by play rlly translates from ow

i had a stroke reading whatever bs this was

kangkang and its not even close

this just makes me want val to have more fun gamemodes. like i get wanting to fine tune the competitive esport part of it but we need some fun ass modes to just have a good time

y0y

gambling sponsors are to help mitigate financial issues that have to do with esports as a whole and nothing to do with their tournament format which honestly isnt boring at all

appreciate the bait brotha, the fans would be nothing without the haters

i would hope not, it'd be pretty crazy if he could move you when he's all the way in korea

dont forget for each regional playoffs after stages 1 and 2 its gonna be 8 teams instead of last year's 6 in the playoffs so at the very least that adds a couple more teams in contention for longer and less teams playing the bare minimum

straight up kk's op performance in tokyo clears anything something has done with an op

2022 loud??

tbf it’s not just LANS tho, the top teams play the regular season + playoffs to qualify to LAN, then LAN + playoffs again in a condensed time frame while the rest of the teams barely play.

i pray to god uber casts an international event someday

this is hilarious coming from the one that be saying "fuck sen" just say you want them damn

this is legit every team in valorant ever LMAOO u just picking on sen bc its convenient for you. if u wanna ignore how they beat gen g twice, prx twice, th once in madrid and a still formidable fnatic with their backs against the wall thats on you buddy

tell other orgs to host more events then, cause sen legit the only ones hosting somewhat relevant offseason shit. and if u want better teams take it up with the governments that make it hard to get visas to travel across the world

who are you dropping if you go through with this

dantedeu5

you got a long way to go if you wanna make a mark in this website with rage baiting so good luck!! hope you make it far

an in n out burger every once in a while still hits the messy burger craving

mindfreak

prolly zander for some continuity since he's played with johnqt or zellsis at points in his career

no, NA’s talents are all on teams that were in contention to win their ascension. EMEA talent is more individual and are highlighted as such so they can easily be picked up by franchised teams.

id go one step further i want uber at an international event even tho it prolly wont happen given how active he still is for other games

i dont think 2 FULL splits was confirmed, so as of right now its still likely that its just 2 splits with 5-6 games.

you would not want longer regular seasons like that if it meant less international events to fit the year and numerous more tech issues than there already are

ur done buddy

will hit its peak as an esports product in terms of most hype and fan engagement and least problems with production, format and all that other stuff

closest to this prolly would be n4rrate tbh

i was there, i used to be a wardell fan sadly. then i saw tenz clutch against tsm at first strike qualifiers and realized wardell wasnt even in the same league

its alot going on with their executive producer, who was accused of trying to take full control of the company, and the parent company investigated her and fired her and newjeans didnt like that

*4 months, redbull in november and soop valorant league in december are the 2 biggest tourneys this offseason i think. alot of other smaller ones like ludwig/tarik, but idk enough bout the others

pretty much all of oxygen

no, because none of their placements resulted in wins. it is the combination of global tournament wins and placement of the ones they didnt win. global placements take precedence over all other factors when we're talking about the best team of 2024. and the fact is gen g made 2 grand finals in the internationals and won 1, giving them the best argument for team of the year

except international placements are the direct determination of the best teams over the course of the year. and since edg did not even come close to placing top 3 in the first 2 international tournaments, they did not have the best overall year

even then that's not even remotely true. regionals are nothing more than qualifications and seedings for internationals. making 2 international grand finals and winning 1 is far more relevant to the question of having the best overall year than winning one after bombing out most of the year

how can you say "regardless of money" and then go back to using the total prize pool argument?? also edg "placing" at all 3 internationals means missing playoffs in madrid and not winning a game in shanghai. thats 2 out of 3 international tournaments in the year that they didnt do well in, which means they are not the best for the whole year

yeah bc riot put the most money into champions. doesn't excuse only 1 international match win prior to champs

if the question is asking best team of the entire year, then the fact that EDG bombed out of the first 2 international LANS should automatically disqualify them as the absolute #1. regional accomplishments hold far less weight because we have to include all other regions to answer this question, and international results are the biggest factor to this. sure champs was the most important tournament, but it doesn't make up for showing 0 success in 2 out of the 3 global tournaments in the year

i guess u havent been paying attention to the changes that are happening starting next season

kinda racist to use a japanese phrase for a korean production idkkkk..

thats a funny way to spell victor

say TH does ban haven first, why would sen not pick lotus before sunset