what servers do you play on?

It's reaching the heights of CS which is inevitably gonna lead to a roadblock

Before that point, growing viewership meant attracting existing esports viewers to your game's competitive scene--but there's ultimately a limited amount of esports viewers.

It's now more a matter of growing esports viewership as a whole rather than attracting viewers from other esports

and riot is already trying to do that by promoting the esports scene within the game itself via skins, the esports hub, twitch drops, etc.

tl;dr riot have taken hold of a sizeable enough slice of the esports pie, and now they have to focus on making that pie bigger

to be fair, it's a lot harder to for a low elo player to learn from radiant games since they make a lot of midround decisions, make certain plays that rely on assumptions about their teammates and their opponents and how they're supposed to play.

Being self-sufficient is it's own skill, and seeing what's essentially a live tutorial on how to punish the stupid mistakes of gold players does have its learning value whereas you'd never get a chance to demonstrate that in a radiant lobby where those mistakes aren't made

11FK/42 rounds = 0.26 FKPR

During that KRU game actually

updated

kind of agree, but I need to see more of Meiy playing neon for me to consider him good on that agent

I wanted some way to represent how good t3xture's micro movement is compared to everyone else

might change the scale to 1-6

--Ranking Criteria--
Duelist Flexibility: 1-3 points (1 per meta duelist mastered; raze, jett, neon)
Entry Ability: 1-3 points
Aim: 1-7 points
Positioning: 1-3 points (Being at the right place at the right time, reading and punishing opponents)
Movement: 1-3 points (Strafes, jiggles, etc. when taking gunfights)
Awping: 1-3 points (Self-explanatory)

Divided by total points

--Rankings--

Aspas: 0.954 (DF: 3, EA: 3, A: 7, P: 3, M: 2, AW: 3)

t3xture: 0.954 (DF: 2, EA: 3, A: 7, P: 3, M: 3, AW: 3)

Sayf: 0.909 (DF: 3, EA: 3, A: 7, P: 3, M: 2, AW: 2)

Zekken: 0.818 (DF: 2, EA: 3, A:6, P: 3, M: 2, AW: 2)

Jinggg: 0.818 (DF: 1, EA: 3, A: 7, P: 3, M: 3, AW: 1)

OXY: 0.818 (DF: 2, EA: 3, A: 7, P: 2, M: 2, AW: 2)

Icy: 0.773 (DF: 2, EA: 3, A: 5, P: 3, M: 2, AW: 2)

will update with other duelists as I think about them. Let me know if you disagree with any of the individual factors and why.

NOTE: This is not a definitive ranking yet since I haven't included the stats for all duelists in VCT

worst decision imaginable

3/5 of the top EMEA teams that found success this year took risks on 2 or more tier 2 pickups

Please Americas do this more :(

by that logic Sayf already won an EMEA title

100T stole it from FNC and they admitted it's a curveball comp and not something long-term.

I think the slides have more versatility but the stuns were better for site execs

;-;

FPX LIFE

Swap 3 with 5 pls

Whatever gets you above 300 fps consistently should do the trick, make sure to tinker with settings to get you over the edge, and minimize your spec costs.

Make sure it's all properly cooled as an overheating CPU will drop performance by like 400%

The one upside is that TL's content team is probably the best (or at least the most professional) out of any franchised org's

Oh, wasn't watching the first few rounds; I thought they still had wo0t on jett on icebox

Waiting for the Wo0t-Sayf h2h

The young prodigy vs EMEA's most consistent best duelist, and the self-proclaimed boomer trying to nurture the next generations of duelists.

I want Sayf to be all like "not yet young padawan" if he wins lol

End my life

Its kill or be killed in this cruel world

I dont really drink, so wine cus I use it for cooking

As if carrying LEV wasn't enough now he's carrying SEN too

He turns 18 in april of next year, so we might see him getting poached mid-season

😍

They hate you for speaking the truth

i fucking hate lothar

Pavarotti- Vesti la Giubba

idk if you play for NRG for at least 2 years and dont burn cash like an idiot I feel like you could definitely have enough to live out the rest of your life carefree by putting it into US treasury bonds or something similar

xccurate making them wait for the third susantoo brother lmao

GCD?

that last point is mute since every caster struggles to call out bad calls from every team, steel is the exception

Are you saying
+Leo (IGL) -Boaster +Hiro is a possibility?

Just study pop flashes and figure it out from there

He still hasn't responded to my yoru tactics essay in his twitter dms 😔

slowly become one of the most unlikeable people on this website

Pacific and EMEA have way better scouting than NA; it's a lot more necessary to take gambles on players and give them trials when you can't be sure if their 1.3 KD is against bots in VCL Italy or actual skill

NA vs EMEA (-France)

Oh I only read the title. Yeah he definitely backs it up

Surprised nobody's said boostio

his sova is really good but with how much synergy he has with the rest of the team and how well he's performing on duelist, it's a waste to take him off that role--especially if he doesn't want to

they're friends all good

Reduxx - Duelist
Verno - Scan Initiator
FNS (IGL) - Sentinel
s0m - Smokes
Ethan - Flash Initiator/Flex

Just like with wo0t, use a sub (maybe Governor, N4rrate, mada, or bdog) until he turns 18 midseason and slot him in

Alternatively poach Sayf from EMEA

I agree they should go for a full Korean speaking roster (-Rossy even though he's individually good) where Xccurate speaks korean--assuming he speaks it well.

I sort of have faith he can do it though, he learned and used to IGL in mandarin for Tyloo during his CS days and gave some pretty banger performances at some majors.

There's a very clear issue regarding Izu and Sayaplayer; they're both good on duelist but Izu is only really good at Omen when put on smokes and Saya can't play smokes at all. If we're speaking long term you have to drop one of the two and put the other on perma duelist while you find a better smokes player.

I'm inclined to keep Saya even if he has slightly worse fragging because of his proficiency with Neon which we're seeing become more commonly used across all regions and I haven't seen Izu's Neon yet

I'm also not big on keeping Carpe after his performances the last 2 years, I used to have faith but not anymore, especially now that he isn't igling. Maybe bring in K1ng

Izu/Saya - Duelist
Stax - Scan Initiator
Xccurate (IGL) - Flex
? - Smokes
K1ng - Sentinel

I said KRU are a top team, not the best team. While I agree that they're slumping right now they're still a top 4 team in the region.

I think the DRX changes are more long term in scope; too early to tell

the NRG changes aren't really that disastrous, they're better now than they were with Demon1 and Ethan IGLing; it's worth noting that KRU is a top Americas team rn and stage 1 NRG was only able to beat the bottom 2 teams in the league

https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/Lucy%23Faust/overview they're right next to each other

I got my answer from yukky tho it was probably my KAST

oh i mixed them up, thank you that makes sense

I got less combat score in the 13-2 game than in the 13-11 game though