xantares top 1 2025, bro dog walked zywoo as if he is 3k elo vs silver 1

Literally Ws all around
Every single team who made a roster change got better
Exciting new talent
A lot of events
Skill > sponsors, franchises
Level of competition> hype

isn't there a gentlemen agreement on not using him?

longest running and living esports titles like lol, dota, cs have a consistent gameplay with little to no changes or changes which fall under the same vision of the game

are you underperforming cuz everyone around you is cheating
or is everyone around you cheating cuz you underperform?

did bugorant finally embrace its older brother bug strike 2?

ngl most esport players are kinda ugly but suits give them aura

hltv is closer to espn than vlr.gg is to hltv. Not even hate, hltv stores stats and data on CS stretching up to 2000s

it's basically heroic who got top 8 at playoffs of Shanghai, but magisk = sjuush and niko > nertz, so it's an upgrade

kyousuke is like donk in playstyle, the only reason he isn't at a top 20 team rn is because spirit have him on the contract

bro he played with 0.9 star player grim, 0.8 fl0pper, ''genius caller'' JT and ''rageawp'' hallzerk

every battle royale, CS aim aspect, osu, geometry dash, mobas

4/5 players are top 5-25 in the world, top 2-3 in a region

CS started going away from nepotism, I really can't name nepotism cases, most are getting kicked for being shit, maybe falcons signing dupreeh and not anyone else on the market (who was with zonic for 8 years in one team before zonic mysteriously went to falcons and then somehow invited dupreeh)

https://www.hltv.org/player/19681/childking did I stutter?

china has some great nicknames outside val as well, Ferrari_430 and Paparazzi in dota, ChildKing in CS, straight up aura

Also true, I see two aspects to this, either "number of teams at international gets smaller with each international" or "number of teams at international gets bigger but mediocre teams run a swiss system before that"

Like it's fucking crazy that Valve have started giving more fuck about their two games and meanwhile Riot are for some reason dodging giving val the same treatment as for lol

But why does it suddenly change from "How do we make the most optimal strat" to "how do we abuse Tejo the most?"

Not gonna lie, might get some hate for this, but vct's commissioners aren't after actual tier 1 competition, they are just after the clout. Double round robin can be done for regional leagues, masters 1 and 2 can easily get 16 teams in with champs being 24. In my opinion VCT needs actual competitive changes, 3 year contracts for teams instead of 4, double round robin (each team faces each other twice for the region). This Tejo change basically gives some teams a "get into international and then get exposed when he is fixed card"

No way this isn't standard practice at vct, I know for a fact ESL tests their dota and cs pros for substances

wtf

Aspas:
-Champs winner
-One of the most consistent players for 3 years now
-S-tier duelist
-each team he joins gets better and each team he leaves gets worse
Flor:
-GC farmer
No disrespect to flor, but that's like asking why the hype for Lionel Messi is bigger than for Marcus Rashford

problem is that valorant's mechanics are made for abilities to set the difference between players. Movement isn't as crisp as it is in CS, spraying isn't as hard as it is in CS, Operator isn't nearly as good as the AWP. Getting a better tactical aspect would require changing the game's base, and why would you want to do that? CS fans aren't going over, val fans might as well leave too cuz some people find abilities fun

how would you want valo to get a better tactical aspect than CS without becoming just CS 2.0?

watch tiktoks while you are saving cuz your reyna who said: ''bro trust me, I am a smurf'' is going 4-16

I mean i guess with bookie sponsors allowed by riot, maybe there is a chance?? at least they can try getting the likes of tundra, Gaimin Gladiators, Spirit into valorant

even that can be great, not asking for millions of prize pool, but give the tier 2 scenes at least part of the effort they give for GC and that would be great

wait is it the tick rate spiking?

it still doesn't mean BR and SA shouldn't get more investment

NA could still have had more orgs like faze or col or nouns for that matter, eeven more opportunity for talent to grow.
Brazil and Latam are providing talent, but there is even more out there, don't let it be the last generation of SA LATAM players, rather one of many

It was an instruction for everyone attending

but TSM aren't really that big, arent they still struggling financially due to the entire FTX shit? in EU the only big orgs are the likes of Mouz, in NA it's only TSM and maybe M80 (not even massive, just big), SA is almost dead cuz no investment

yeah that's a huge ass problem, afaik most CS and Dota teams dodged this problem by just deleting any shit related to social issues before announcing that they are going to Saudi.

but then what if Apeks get an invite? What happens to flor?

EWC is just another saudi hosted event, but it would be kinda funny to see orgs from NA and EU who are pro-LGBT rights then go on and attend an event in a country where being this said minority endangers your life

Huge +1 on the "highest comfortable sens", it basically provides great micro adjustments and gives flicks

np, faceit changed a lot after cs2 got released, elo abuse got way harder now. Fun fact, current complexity AWPer, hallzerk, has the longest recorded win streak on FACEIT with 136 games. Problem is that he and his buds were abusing the high elo faceit by sweating 2-3 maps and getting matched against lower elo. They would also dodge anyone who could beat them in skill just to farm the win streak

basically when you get way above the competition (around 5k elo) you almost always play for +12/+15 and not +25, and you lose -35 or -38. Basically you need to win 3 after 1 loss just to make it all back. Going from 5k to 7k would need around a 90% win rate and +133 wins. Everyone above 4k from the last season gets dropped to around 3.3k and then you need to get 3.7k in 6 months with that massive elo drop after a certain threshold.

or maybe it's because val first offered a bigger salary than he could have in CS, switched, was great for 4 years, then got dropped by giantX and CS market, which is now fully open circuit (meaning no franchising at all) seems a more viable career?

level 10 just starts at 2000 elo, and I think stats from CS GO claim that there is around 2% of lvl 10 out there
What is named radiant in valorant is just top 1000 rank on Faceit. Whenever you get a top 1000 spot in the elo ladder, you get a banner on your faceit profile. afaik highest elo was 5k by donk in cs2, 7k by monesy on csgo, but Faceit has only recently started resetting elo every 6 months so there is no point in actually getting 7k elo or higher

I hope they show their cajones and put together a Brazilian super team

The mad man, and c9 floppy, oh my god, this shit is real, it's actually happening

Imagine they go NA :D

They have done some contract jailing in CS, currently one of the best support players in the world is benched for 200 days there

I mean I guess they can cash out something, heavygod can cost up to a mil if they are lucky, icy will be around a million (cuz Virtus pro are idiots), ax1le and boombla go to bookies who pay a lot so they might cash out

It came out of nowhere, there were rumours going around the other news, but then this shit comes and now boombla+ax1le are in betboom (instantly making them top 15 imo), heavygod in g2 and icy in Virtus pro

I would say yes, however they also -jks I think so we will have to see who is their 5th. Boombla likely goes to betboom where he gets magno(great player), zorte (best awper outside monesy and shiro in russia) and ax1le goes with him, as well as s1ren, who is cracked for an anchor.

CS roster mania kicked off today, and amongst one of the biggest rumoured transfers where Falcons bought heroic's core for around 5 million, Ropz joining vitality and Virtus Pro spending a million on a rookie, C9 FUCKING DISBANDED. WITH NO RUMOURS BEFORE THAT. JUST KABOOM. This piece of shit org fucks up in every game they exist, riot, just kick them the fuck out

nope, they moved to serbia actually and denounced the war