sup elek, how is your shift going? btw you know where the USB cord goes or nah?

I am trying, don't push me!

Leo Faria is actually busy making the schedule for next year, so that's me, I am just using the help of my friends!

CS has been in EU for like 25 years now. Val for 5. Figure out if it's that developed

all good, people find it a bit strange to see me anywhere near technical equipment, but I just follow my heart and riot have given me the opportunity!

I will just send you a picture of me so that you realize what problems i have, this is so unfunny and disrespectful https://imgur.com/a/nJ8sVGM

Hi guys, I’m the technical engineer guy at VCT Champions Paris. I wanted to express how honored I am to be the first illiterate technical engineer at a Valorant tournament in history. Thank you Riot for this amazing opportunity, and I’ll try my best!

ah yes, I remember the first humans as well. Adam, Eve, and nAts lurking somewhere in the distance

There's no single "inventor" of lurking in Counter-Strike, as the strategy evolved over time, but Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund is widely credited with popularizing and making it a recognizable professional role, especially during his time with Ninjas in Pyjamas. While others undoubtedly lurked before him, GeT_RiGhT's mastery elevated the strategy to a significant and famous aspect of professional Counter-Strike gameplay.
AI can't lie bro

oh yeah, I forgot about that. Actually, a trusty source inside CIS has told me that nAts was actually the person responsible behind the fall of USSR, he then spread out his genes across several prominent CIS pros, donk, s1mple, monesy, zeus, edward, ange1, shao, suygetsu, chronicle. He is like Genghis Khan basically

jokes on you, the off season is several month long just in case EMEA production stalls the event for months

dafuq you mean nats invented lurking, that's basically every FPS mechanic

nah I mean the pc situation

still crazy this happens tho

Jeff Bezos working overtime to fix valarante games (ever wondered why aws decided to sponsor vct clutches?), honestly game's gone

I would still guess it's the same people working, so I can see why some people have concerns..

wasn't vct emea delayed for like a few days/weeks because the tech issues were that horrendous?

obviously it's sentinelmain behind the scenes plugging PCs and gear off to break APAC's momentum, so that DRG can win and then another copium can be born: DRG win => carried by demon1 => demon1 is russian not american => russia is emea => emea number 1

s1mple might join their CS roster with Elige, would honestly cook

there is a fine line between lurking and baiting

so remove skill element even more? sprays aren't that consistent, models are slow, movement is basic af, counter strafes are near instant, and you want it even more basic?

I mean that shit can improve with time (as AI does naturally), but rn it's just horrendous :D

I mean T1>>>> any other team in esports in terms of popularity + I think europeans tend to cheer for europeans in sports where europeans are present, so like having teams like Vitality, KC and M8 should enable almost everyone in France to cheer for either of the three, so switching just for an event is meh

Not even close to what russians do in dota

FNC maybe, I doubt EDG or PRX are that popular in europe.

I really doubt it will come close to the CS crowd. I highly doubt the golden hornets or karmine corp fans will be present

didn't play their own game, internal issues, chemistry issues, different mentalities, acclimatization period

Oh, same venue which was used for CS GO's last major in 2023. I still feel like the crowd will be worse simply because vitality were in paris and there are no french teams

15 round halves, albeit more balanced, tend to go way longer. If you go for 6 more rounds in regulation (30 instead of 24) you add 2 more time outs (1 for each team), you have way more eco rounds https://imgur.com/a/HxKA7cS HLTV went into it once, basically where you see CS GO it's MR15 and val is MR12, when a bo3 lasts longer than a fucking NFL game, you know it's way too long

You don't get it, LoL is far more profitable. Profits from LoL go to make LoL even better and profits from val go to make LoL even better because LoL > Val

Joke so good I hit a swish from 30 feet deep

is it why you do this high level maths in school? To calculate the racial background of an internet person to use as an arguement?

the strongest minds of Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Johor Bahru have all identified leafdagoat ethnic background with a 99.99% precision

Even a little crowd doesn't change a lot tho, it's like 300-400 people, and it's a low stakes match, I just don't think the costs are worth the show

yeah I can see why most vct fans don't enjoy regular cast, a professional caster had his balls nailed with a hammer during Viva's 1v4

ngl wanted to mute the stream during Viva's clutch when one caster had a seizure, like wtf was that

nah I am just explaining, this guy is the biggest dota streamer who is in contact with a lot of current and ex dota pros from CIS, so like he can easily get a lot of viewers on his own, but then he gets someone like Miposhka, who is a 2x time TI winner and everyone is watching him

but won't studio games be ultimately less interesting than any arena game?

this someone has basically taken the slot left by the biggest streamer of all time in CIS (Arthas) and since 2021-2022 has been the biggest esports streamer in CIS after evelone (who is focused on CS)

Nix for Russians (biggest scene). Not a watchparty, just co-cast, but he invites a lot of ex-pros to watch the game (dyrachyo, Miposhka)

Bro CS has been doing this shit for like 15 years now, ofc even regular events like Blast London or IEM Chengdu will fuck VCT Champs especially when Riot focus on Worlds

Yeah, so why cut cost for a game which can still grow?

1. China has their legendary players + coach (Ame, XinQ, xNova + xiao8) as the favourites to win TI after Spirit got eliminated
2. Twitch is inflated by Russians, since Nix (Russia's biggest streamer) watches TI rn with Miposhka (goat CIS Captain)

But then having crowd for groups is useless? most of group games will happen when Europeans have work (except for Sundays), then axe the crowd for this time and focus on great production. Stage, Arena, Replays, OBS, HUD. ''OOo we have a crowd in groups'' but then the arena looks like a backstreet 5v5 Local LAN, like I am pretty sure you come from CS, doesn't it look to you like something Starladder would host at CyberArena in Kyiv?

Would I organize better? No. Can Riot do better? Yes they can. I don't know why you settle for this when LoL will get x10 better than this

It would not, CS left Katowice because Katowice is an industrial city, Krakow is way better

Chance of a team defusing. Welcome to the aws graphics, a.k.a inaccurate shit f1 had and has

Riot chase hype. They don't chase quality. At least for Valorant. Belgrade, Budapest, Bucharest, Krakow all are way cheaper than Paris, but you can agree that Champions Paris sounds way more hype than Champions Bucharest

Arena is ass

I meant everyone related to the event. Those who left ESL or Blast just went to PGL and Fissure, they didn't go to VCT.