Only plays smokes, would cause role conflict with Bang

Well tbh there really isn't anyone in NA that can replace Stellar right now that is readily available. Maybe johnqt if M80 doesnt make franchising.

He's not a great IGL by any means but NA doesn't have any good IGLs right now besides FNS, johnqt, Valyn, and maybe runi.

Though runi was a complete nobody, so they could try to take a chance on a relatively obscure IGL.

another Bzk win

For someone named Marved-NA-Savior you sure underestimate your idol. bro's been performing like a god recently, He's one of the main reasons sen went from being one of the worst teams to top 5--recently while IGLing with barely any experience besides when he did so for faze 2 years back

4 way tie, map differential

The Guard already dumpstered the same Sentinels who beat 100T. They win a lot of their scrims against T1 players.

Same with M80, their team comp is actually fucking perfect. Koalanoob is one of the best awpers in NA, I put him about Demon1.
johnqt and Valyn are actually both better IGL than most of NA except for FNS
Zander can IGL in his own right but is an incredibly smart and cracked smokes player
All of the guard players have more perfect teamwork than all the americas franchised teams except for NRG

It's not even a valid argument that T2 teams don't get good competitive experience playing against each other. Every single T1 team uses almost all the T2 teams to scrim so as to scrim each other as little as possible

I promise you whoever makes franchising from the ascension tournamentt is going to instantly be top 4 of their league--at least in NA, idk about the other regions

Up until 6 months ago, half of these tier 2 teams in NA were competing against today's t1 teams. The Guard beat Optic for god's sake.

For a time, Faze genuinely looked like the 3rd or 4th best team in NA right before Champions

Raze, Killjoy, Viper, Kayo, Jett

NGL Victor's gonna get offers for years to come even if he ever leaves NRG for whatever reason. He can fill pretty much any team comp

agent-wise, Chronicle

Role-wise, ngl it might be Marved. dude is always at his peak, gets put on igl duty and still performs.

In my opinion p1 is true.

If you learn more about how neural networks work in AI you'll find that the method to construct a machine-learning algorithm takes inspiration from the idea of neurons firing.

That being said, the concept of "experience" is an entirely different issue.

I can make a simple, one-way web of artificial neurons (Multi-layer perceptron) and teach them to recognize letters in an image, but I can't I can't ask it to draw those letters. It only recognizes but it doesn't understand.

You can make a multi-way web of neurons all firing at each other to remember certain patterns in images (Hopfield neural networks), but you can't "teach" it, only make it remember.

You can make have a self-teaching one-way web of artificial neurons that starts off doing something random, but who's success given a certain criteria (kills, score, items obtained) serves as a validation method to slowly change its neuron configuration to whatever maximizes that score. You can even teach it to draw something.

But none of these things have anything you could consider a conscious. You could try to combine them to mimic a human, which has already been done, but we know from the exact values of every neuron exactly what they'll do given any situation. Their responses are all mathematically calculated, and it's impossible to tell if they're really just experiencing something or if its just a machine following the precise instructions we gave it.

Furia just had coaching issues + EG and SEN got bettter. MIBR just became dumpster fire idk.

Leviatan just hasn't changed since the beginning of the split, they're still playing the exact same comps, doing the exact same identical things every time on every map. Teams just learned to read them.

I'm not saying they're good right now, I'm saying they're practicing to become better than everyone else in the future.

Call it cope but I think Onur is playing for the long run here.

He's trying to make his players as disciplined as they possibly can, and drill into them the most efficient protocol for every situation so as to play perfect valorant.

While they may be predictable for now, the more protocols that Onur teaches them, the harder they'll become to counter even if predictable, and eventually they'll be able to choose between multiple protocols to throw off their opponents.

It's gonna be like 2016 Korea in League of Legends. Minimum aggression, maximum efficiency.

LOUD, C9, and NRG are going to tokyo, 100% I've never doubted them

do people hate him as much in brazil as people hate dasnerth in NA?

oh I see, they should collab im not gonna lie

the ultimate cancer duo

is otsuka a shotgun only radiant?

still their map pick, doesn't matter if they're good at it or not it's what they picked. double standdards much

yeahh yeahh i wonder what other team at the top of their league keeps getting into dumb overtimes with bottom barrel teams on their first map

their strength is their teamwork, individually they can't hard carry a game. except for crashies and victor but that's only ocasionally and not consistently enough

https://www.vlr.gg/204985/team-strength-by-individual-players

https://www.vlr.gg/204985/team-strength-by-individual-players

subreezy my motherbord arrives on tuesday i wont be ble to play premiere :(

find a replacement

I said Xeppaa was S tier. None of you see the potential in these players. He's the 2nd best player on C9

Yeah how bro lol. The majority of its users will be valorant smurfs, people in their main ranks won't try it out to the same extent.

It's not a good business scheme unless the house wins as a whole, and in this scenario there's going to be too many people winning and not enough people losing.

Twistzz has that headshot aim, he'd do well

FNS came from the 90s

Yessirski has the finnish sniper genes

Yay and vanity got kicked out of C9 2 weeks before the loud match

nAts dropped 30 on chamber? 6 first kills?

Who do you think was C9's roster against Loud lmao

With a week of practice with their new roster which included 2 tier 3 players

NRG is one of the only teams with a chance IMO, not necessarily because they're better than other teams, but because they're the absolute best team at anti-stratting and building preparation against strong teams. There's never been a team that NRG/OpTic couldn't beat in a rematch after all.

Especially now, when Fnatic has a whole bunch of vods available, I think is when NRG is at their strongest.

I wouldn't doubt an NRG upset at Tokyo

LOUD has a chance due to being their own superteam which they proved at the lockin grand finals.

As for C9 I trust McE's ability to provide the same level of prep work as Chet against international opponents

After replacing Russ with Yacine, and now bringing in Wolfen, I'm scared of who Barbarr might replace him with.

mate, seriously, get past diamond and you'll realize how little the disparity in aim is

Yessirski is biased obv but so am I, overall hes a good finn

m0nte throwing my NA games fr

bro yelled his name out like he's shouting at Griffith

honestly, looking at Niesow's clips nowadays, they don't really seem that sus tbh. i really wanna believe he was just too good for his era

this is why valo better. chinese spyware in my pc = hardly any cheaters = only 1 pro has ever gotten seriously accused of cheating

Ok this is a fair argument

honest question, what rank are you?

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That was all the way back in Lock-in. They've been running a different comp ever since. Also yeah maybe that would've been the case lol

You're using 1 example from lockin that they never used again, and 2 other isolated examples. I said they're not experimenting "enough" not that they aren't doing so at all. I'd like them to at least try an EMEA comp or something similar.

There's a lot of inspiration to draw from with proven results.

Take split for instance, it's only Americas that run that double duelist comp, EMEA runs raze breach cypher,

and it's not just any EMEA team, FNATIC runs that comp. Pacific is all over the place when it comes to comps, but some of those comps have managed to get close games against DRX and in one case won against them.

There's still a LOT of room for experimentation in this meta. Imagine how good EG would be if they ran exclusively EMEA comps and never scrimmed anyone else. I think that's something worth trying out.

Crashies

This is not to say that EG isn't good, the team they currently have is incredibly good, but the whole 10 man roster thing is not going to work out for them the way they intended.

The whole point of a 10 man roster is being able to scrim yourself, be able to hide strats from other teams and prevent counter-stratting as much as possible while experimenting as much as you possibly can with no limit.

EG so far has not experimented enough, they're just playing the same standard comps as everyone else, and as a result of other teams scrimming each other against the exact same comp, they already know how to play against it. In these situations EG only loses in the end because everyone else has practice against a bunch of slightly differing styles with the same comp while EG only gets practice against one.

Their main roster is good already the way it is, they don't need to waste more resources into trying to make this backup roster work if they're not going to capitalize on its main advantages.

They denied scrims from NRG ffs, if they want to be good then they need to play against the best or try to figure out a strat amongst themselves that can challenge the best and switch up the meta.

THAT WAS THE SEXIEST 2-4 I'VE EVER SEEN, THAT WAS SOME FNS LEVEL OF MIDROUNDING