I prioritize the amount of regions they've been been in, and Australians have been in APAC, China, NA, and technically EMEA if you count elmapuddy

Not really part of a diaspora if you're playing close to home

1. Russians

They show up everywhere; whether it be EMEA, NA, SEA, Japan, or China, if you see a random russian player(s) on a team, there's an 80-90% chance they're deadlifting their teammates

2. Koreans

A mainstay; 3 Korean teams isn't enough for the overwhelming amount of talent in this sub-region. From Xeta putting up numbers on Cloud9 in early 2022, stew becoming the crown jewel of Rare Atom and subsequently JDG, to Zest getting signed by Bleed, the Korean talent pool is deep.

3. Americans

A new addition; from N4rrate in EMEA with kcorp to Rossy performing incredibly on T1, Governor going 25/6 in his debut match with talon, NA t2 is proving to have been much more competitive than it seemed last year

4. Australians

A people without a region to call their own, cursed by Leo Faria; forever doomed to wander from roster to roster, be it Indian, American, or Chinese.

5. Turks

Mainly imported from within EMEA, a lot of Turkish pickups become the mechanical superstars for their teams; the most obvious example being Alfajer, but also CNed in 2021, and hopefully wo0t once (or if) we see him play

HM: Brazil

LATAM is struggling and has to dig into the Brazilian talent pool from time to time to make up for our shallow talent pool. Brazilian talent rampant and very talented in LATAM. Plus Sacy and Pancada two members of the best NA team rn

If so there's a chance they put Leaf on Sentinel and clear on duelist

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I experiment too much in ranked; I try out stupid shit on the off chance that its repeatable and the moment that someone counters me I keep doing the same thing over and over again seeing if there's some way to account for it and make it work still

I've gotten some cool lineups out of it tho

Gridshot is done standing still, in valorant you're gonna have to be constantly moving and able to stop and shoot at a small target in quick succession

Improving your aim definitely helps, but I also recommend doing a bunch of deathmatches until you internalize where head level is for most angles that you'll peek, that way you only have to move your mouse horizontally when you want to kill someone and not have to memorize a bunch of ways to flick someone vertically at an angle.

my #1 tip is to improve your horizontal tracking with a very small target (I suggest learning to move your mouse with your arm a bit more; the best way to do this I've found is to do a bunch of gridshot with just your arm making sure your wrist is stiff, and make sure that you only move in straight lines and don't wiggle around too much)

make sure your aim is as least shaky as possible, be able to move front left to right in a horizontal 180 degree line as best as possible and once you get it practice following faster and faster targets. From there your crosshair placement and horizontal flicks are theoretically all you should need to get good. You'll need to learn to strafe and combine your aim with movement in the actual game as well, although some tracking scenarios allow you to move so I recommend finding one like that.

optionally you can try adding verticality to your skillset for situations like jett updrafts or simply getting caught off guard by someone on an off-angle on top of a box or something, but that bears less fruit imo

P.S. Don't expect to see results after just one session, give it like a week and you'll notice visible improvement

k1ng the epitome of amazing player who's horrible at working with others

Sayf has issues with teammates who don't share his particular vision for the game, but when he gets teammates that share that vision that's no issue

Yay has issues with undisciplined teammates

Marved can play on any team and perform well, he just goes for his own plays on top of his team's plans for the round without anyone asking him or telling him to do them. He has a good understanding of timings and exploiting weak spots in a team's defense

Zellsis is good on any team he plays with

Steel ironically enough has similar issues with teammates as yay

Chronicle is a perfect teammate

they talk to each other using their IGNs which i think is interesting

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im telling you man those Titan Esports Club flairs are vicious

I feel like there's less storylines at the start of the year; that's how I felt about lock-in

all the forum really has going for it rn is SEN fans and NRG fans acting like english football fans in every thread

I sense a lot of hostility in this thread...

DDK's minigod and Derrek interviews were interesting,

Sean interviews a lot of interesting people in esports aside from just players so they're really insightful

I guess that's true for players like Flyuh, Rossy, and aproto, but thi3f, sym, brawk, and governor were all up-and-comers.

ngl tho I kind of agree that winthrop won't be good but its not bc of the players I just think it's going to be hard for them to get enough practice in compared to other teams while also having to juggle their classes--since they're like actually attending college while playing lol

Tier 3 talent pool is individually a lot more on par with Tier2 and Tier 1 than people realize imo

Last year nobody really believed in BreakThru and Turtle Troops after they made it past open qualifiers, whereas now their players are on MxS and getting poached to farm in Tier 1 APAC.

I think yeah they might probably suck at the start of the season but if they get their reps in scrimming the VCT teams they'll be fine

snaked by 100t and plotting his revenge in stoic silence

That would only be the case if GC teams and players hadn't been playing exponentially better and better every single year, which they have.

It is visible in NACL open qualifiers runs like those of SR and Burgerville, and Brazil Challengers open qualifiers runs like that of TL Brazil, especially when you consider that V1 last year couldn't even make it out of the closed qualifiers.

It's also visible in their gameplay if you compare the vods of SR vs G2 Gozen in 2022 with SR vs TL Brazil in 2023.

It's doing its job as far as development goes, although Riot never gives it any marketing which is a huge issue it faces.

Even if it did take 5 years, whether it takes 1 year or 6 years, seeing non-male players more prominently in challengers and in VCT would be an overwhelming success, not just for esports but society in general

I hope you have a great day, week, and month.

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Katsumi put Sonofcar in a meatgrinder just letting you know

it's not a safe place; it's a developmental league meant to bring more than just men into esports and nurture non-male talent.

Talk to any GC team and 99% of them will tell you their end goal is to compete in challengers

It's an illusion of more dominance than there actually was, EG only played fracture in 6 times between Masters Tokyo and Champs so their winning-streak on fracture is easier to maintain than something like Fnatic's Lotus or Optic's bind which didn't go undefeated, but still remained dominant over a larger period and with a larger sample size

Still incredibly impressive though and Imo on par with the two examples I mentioned

d4v41over f0rsaken in flex category is crazy

Idk I'm definitely biased toward NA as a region but this year I'm not actually that interested in any one team besides maybe sentinels and EG (and even then it was more fun to root for SEN last year when they were underdogs)

I think all the Americas teams are really good but theres nothing spicy about them anymore, especially when you compare it to all the storylines in APAC and EMEA

the teams I want to root for are orgs like gentlem8s, Karmine Corp to see Kameto's reaction and representatives of scenes that have something to prove like EDG and Gen.G

I'm not really that entertained by the game anymore as much as I am by cool storylines

Do 5 hours of the Voltaic Beginner then intermediate then advanced kovaak's playlist every day. make sure you have an arm rest.

Play a carry duelist and int on attack until you get good enough at entering site and getting at least one kill, then play like a rat on defense. Make sure you're not "hoping" people aren't playing in a certain spot, make lineups with your character or ask for util to clear spots in order to meet the conditions for your entry, or take educated gambles if you feel confident

Don't blame your teammates if they're bad, nor expect anything out of them; just overcompensate by doing more than you're supposed to

radiant smurfs don't expect their teammates to do anything for them and they still go from iron to immortal in days, so if your goal is to go pro then you should aim to be able to do the same no matter what rank you're in

(Disclaimer im not pro but this is how I got from Iron to ascendant3 so I hope its a start)

good luck

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Don't worry they just don't understand

Congo1 is the most real french person I have ever met, he can confirm

already liked breakcore but all the songs from this montage channel https://www.youtube.com/@nomoayo/videos

with your timezone it might be thursday in the morning

SO TRUE

Just shut it bruv. You are embarrassing yourself. The fact that you think that every team that made it to Madrid got there by fluke is a JOKE. It tells me that you didn't watch any matches or you're at max silver and have 0 knowledge of how the game is played even at a fundamental level. NRG just got outplayed and outaimed. They had to win that sunset game in which they won both pistols, an eco and that round where they stuck the defuse and despite that SEN brought it to OT and closed it out. Split was as one-sided as one-sided can be and ascent is one of SEN's weaker maps. FNC played shit. They didn't change shit and got hard anti-stratted. SO TELL ME, WHO? WHO? WHO? would've made this masters more than just a 'mid' competition. YOU BRAINDEAD FUCKING IDIOT. I didn't watch pacific so no clue what went wrong with T1 and DRX but as for EMEA and AMERICAS, these four teams deserved it because they played the best valorant in their region. Do me a favour and delete your account.

Dephhs calling is a lot slower and more defaulty than johnqt's; in hindsight he probably would've had better success with a different roster

But no, I think johnqt's calling fits SEN perfectly rn

Good list; Izu marteen and tenz are my top 3

Hm: Rb, he didn't show it much but he has a deep understanding of his flashes

sen sacy

Lol

The old gods are falling one after another. A new generation is stepping up.

Say goodbye to seeing the same 6 names at every international event.

I think it'll catch EMEA off guard, but brazil is definitely not being caught off-guard by an aim-heavy team; thats kinda what they're known for, and NA is used to playing against said Brazillian teams.

Americas league wants to maximize viewership

Install Kali Linux (It's free) read their pdf on penetration testing, then go to hackerone.com and try your hand at finding vulnerabilities; if you're still struggling go back to learning or keep trying until you get it.

Once you get good enough at it you might make some money finding vulnerabilities for a wide variety of websites that offer money if you can find them. just make sure they're actually offering bounties and go about it legally

Id guess its a little different since in valorant every role can theoretically "score" and aren't limited by being positioned far away from the goal

Well said

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Johnqt my handsome prince

Even if it is a mistake, to make that mistake would require them to change the contract terms in some way that would make the edit prone to errord

So at the very least I think something did happen to them

Depends on your team's playstyle. If your playbook is made up of set plays or protocols then having an IGL is really useful to keep track of them and being a decisive voice on which ones to use or whether to use them at all

PRX still has that but there's something about the way they play that doesn't necessarily require an IGL but I honestly can't pinpoint what it is

You're right but its just funny when you can tell that someone formulated their opinion based on FNS' stream