Maybe my estimates are inaccurate but I genuinely believe that for every low immortal queuing theres like 3 more ascendants queueing

so you realistically for the 9 other players in the lobby, each of them have like a 25% chance per player of them being immortal, which means you sometimes queue into full immortal lobbies but mostly queue into high ascendant lobbies

so like the odds of you getting a full immortal lobby are 0.25^9 = basically zero

the odds of you getting at least one immortal in your lobby are 1-(0.25^9) = almost certainly

joined

I think relegation for all teams should be put in place like 5 years down the line if money from team skins and champs skins and subsidies from riot goes significantly up,

Once a spot in VCT genuinely becomes a financially lucrative venture, teams will fight tooth and nail to keep their spot, and orgs like C9 and EG will stop it with the budget rosters. But if you keep them permanently they'll just leech off of riot paychecks like they have so far

Supposedly the increased funds from being in partnership should make up for the ramped up costs of needing and not just wanting to maintain a competitive roster

I use lancome tresor midnight rose but im not sure if thats what you're looking for 💀

there's only like 50 or so immortals queueing at any given time.

~20 of them are immortal 2 and higher and the mmr gap between you and them is higher than the mmr gap between you and high ascendants.
of the ~30ish immortals that you could queue into you're more likely to queue into the ~200 high ascendants that are still close to you in mmr

Allgood

T1 had Daeda and Rossy, I don't think that's true

Demon1 cannot play Raze and Neon

With this roster they'll never have role issues ever again though and about as much firepower as they'd have with Demon1

coaches don't count as imports do they?

Ethan, s0m and FNS are already confirmed

Verno and bonkar are currently free agents and Oxygen esports has fully disbanded

Sayf's contract expires 2025

Duelist - Sayf
Flex - Ethan
Initiator - Verno
Controller - s0m
Sentinel (IGL) - FNS

HC - Bonkar

That's fair. I also just wanna add that he's one of like a very select few duelists who can play Raze, Jett, and Neon at the highest level.

actual blessing to the coaching staff of whatever team he joins

We can't be counting 2022, Derke and Sayf were both just abusing chamber (which they were both damn good at tbf)

2021 doesn't feel real, I genuinely think DFM today could go back to 2021 and win both masters and champs. by that logic TenZ is in the goat conversation

I'm not basing it off achievements, I'm basing it off skill displayed, even if their team lost.

Sayf, even though he's not on a top EMEA roster, has, to me, shown he's undisputably the best duelist in EMEA for the last 2 years now

Dude just reply to me instead of editing your message for the 10th time lol

People are sleeping on Sayf man, he's the only duelist who is, skillwise, on equal footing with Aspas as a duelist

XD

Duelists:

1. Aspas
2. Sayf
3. t3xture

IGLs:

1. Saadhak
2. Boaster
3. FNS (Valyn here if he wins champs)

Smokes players:

1. MaKo
2. mindfreak
3. Marved

Sentinel players:

1. Less
2. Alfajer
3. Suygetsu

Scan Initiators:

1. Leo
2. Shao

Flex players:

1. f0rsaken
2. Ethan
3. Chronicle

Whether they're residents or not on the contract database doesn't matter iirc.

When any player joins a VCT team they get a choice on which region is their "home region"

Short term? Yes, long term? No.

Pretty sure the creator of crab game was a youtuber

Can you explain what you mean by this

Coach: Potter or bonkar

If bonkar

FNS
s0m
Ethan
N4rrate/Sayf
Verno/N4rrate

Pros: will never have role issues ever again
Cons: maximum structured, basically another G2

If Potter

FNS
s0m
Ethan
crashies/verno
Jawgemo

Pros: more aggressive, suits current meta better
Cons: potentially high highs and low lows

With NRG: I think for a no-info senti comp they did really fucking well on their attack side, and their disaster of a defense side was moreso caused by lack of practice than anything

The only viable-long-term yoru comps on haven that I've seen recently have been from G2 and NRG.

The fnatic iso one has been stated to just be a throwaway comp

If they wanted to run the G2 comp they'd have to switch roles around for zekken

He's a rare desert flower in an otherwise dead, lifeless sea of sand

LATAM still dry as a desert unfortunately ToT

Everyone, even you and I, has done things that we've come to regret--especially when we're young like she was.

Assuming they didn't hurt anyone in the process, it's basic human dignity to not bring up someone's past when they clearly want to move on from it.

People deserve to be allowed to develop into people they want to be

Aim training players can be insufferable at times, and you can certainly improve your aim by just playing the game, but aim trainers are a genuinely faster method to improve your mechanics, which for someone like me who started playing FPS games at the old age of 18, has helped immensely

Not too fond of 6 person rosters, but honestly if any team could pull it off its probably PRX

Not all US states adhere to a national education standard, so there is no one answer

A lot of the southern states like Alabama and Mississipi score worse on overall education than Northern Mexico, while New England states like Massachusetts and Connecticut score higher individually than even the Scandinavian countries

TheBigBoiPenguin

trust me this guy is NA's future

If I was riot I would not take anything I read on here seriously.

While there is occasionally a good point here or there, you gotta admit no riot employee is going to sort through dozens of bait posts just to potentially find something helpful

Let her walk away from her past, jesus

did this just happen?

"The Taste of Food is my Reason for Living"

i only like 1 song in the entire album but cover goes hard

In a tournament where 2 losses means you're out, consistency and the ability to adapt after a loss gives you higher chances of winning over teams with highs and lows throughout.

Additionally there are no easily exploitable flaws in their gameplay, and their map pool is incredibly solid giving them map veto advantage against most of their competitors.

All of them are individually very capable of picking up slack if they need to even if they can't hard carry like a lot superstars on other teams. (besides Leaf who is one of said superstars)

As a cherry on top, all of those factors probably make them a very tilting team to play against if your team's performance is usually carried by individual performance to any degree, since they always swing together and trade each other perfectly, shutting down playmakers

Penang in Malaysia was a popular retirement spot when I was there; cheap but good food and cheap high quality apartments and housing, and mostly everyone speaks english.

20 bucks a month for godspeed internet too

99% of my neighbors were Chinese, Japanese, and British expats or students

Lot of semiconductor sector work: AMD, Intel, etc.

Its hard to get a work visa there though unless your company can convince the government you bring a unique skillset that a native malaysian cannot provide.

I think it's because everyone knows good coaches are a scarce resource right now

I'm not talking about football play style, but football culture.

Like I know a lot of fans treat their support for KOI like their support of a football club whereas SEN fans treat their support for SEN like they're supporting a Basketball team

fake T-T you only liked it after we won on it

I mean by that logic, KOI.....

Fracture was the best map to ever grace this game, and they took her away from me.

Robbers and murderers at riot

its not just SEN i feel like a lot of NA teams revolve their banter and discourse around NBA analogies and comparing certain players to Lebron, curry, etc.

hey josuke

For me its:

SEN - US Basketball culture
KC - French Football Culture
LOUD - Brazillian Football culture + CSGO legacy
GEN.G - League of Legends legacy
Any others?

Spheres, even

the SEN fans arent even awake at this hour tbf

it's literally impossible for them or Trace to not make top 4 bc of interregional matchups, and they're faavored against trace.

They're realistically one actual game away from upper finals

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