I mean even watching trace rn, I am a cs fan, so just an opinion from the side, they are playing in such a dogshit way as if they just either do not care, or like actually trying to lose as fast as possible

bro it's so dogshit I would deadass investigate their accounts for some crypto info, shit looks shady af

it probably is happening, let's be fr. It's not even china hate, it's a fact, both cs and dota scenes were deeply involved in blatant matchfixing there. It's just that teams that are not the very best, or fell off still need cash and go for matchfixing. Chinese matchfixing scene is huge, they are so big and so influencial they were even involved in CIS/EU matchfixing scandals in dota. I remember watching a CIS youtuber Morf, basically ex-OG player Taiga (dota) first match fixxed with the russian matchfixing scene, and then when the russians realized he is reliable and money flows, they involved China.

gosh y'all vct fans are blessed that you don't have a lot of bettors, otherwise half of vct would already be involved in some schizo ''conspiracy'' list of chinese mafia betting spies

probably DMA cards, radar apps, lots and lots of crypto accs, hidden telegram chats

poor man's grand final

I mean yeah, most CIS pros from dota (mostly) say that a lot of teams view EWC as valuable as TI, because of its huge ass prize pool, and it's basically ''TI for prestige, EWC for money'', so I would assume most games function like this

I am ready to sing wonderwall with you if england wins the WC bud, just some lovely banter :D

messi is 39, he is at the level where he doesn't even surprise me anymore, bellingham is 23, any time his national team or his club are in the shit, jude is the man you look to.

fuck that convo, I am asking the question when he gets knighted

norway would be on the level of serbia without him, be fr

never seen a human this clutch since prime ronaldo in UCL, this man is genuinely unstoppable in the clutch, 2023/2024, euros 2024, world cup 2026, just 23 years old, so excited to see so much of him on the biggest stages

if I were english I would shit myself from the idea of going to pens with Eze on the pitch, feel for ya man

WENGER RULE I PRAY FOR YOU EVERY DAY I BREATHE

pedri vs bellingham as a debate is just low iq, they are two different archetypes

ye, jboen replaced him from big's academy until at least the end of 2026 afaik

I mean jboen is amazing in terms of skill, but this series vs jame just shows he lacks experience. can hit a godlike shot and then die for no reason what so ever. Just lacks experience, but a good pick up

you call me a crayon eater out of the fucking blue on a normal discussion of a knife attempt and when I say something back I am the schizo?

holy shit champs winner over here, you are playing fucking PUGs, if you genuinely claim you lose cuz of ''retards who go for dumb plays consistently''', you just don't understand how PUGs work. Fucking IGL wannabe, use fucking teamspeak next time you play with a duo instead of discord for less input lag. fnatic already prepare the contract for your transfer mr. future tier 1 pro

Usually people like you are the morons who die in a 4v4 and claim they went for the ''info play'', when in reality you whiffed a spray in the back and died like a bot

Still, I find what Kane did impressive. Perhaps Olise even, crucial for both bayern and france, but that's my opinion, I love olise's playstyle

Might give a hot take, for me personally UCL should matter more than world cup in ballon d'or convos. Unless norway produces an absolute golden generation, best Haaland can realistically hope for in world cups is like top 8/4, a croatia 2018 type run. Yet this guy is one of the world's best. But, due to their citizenships, mbappe will consistently beat him in international comps cuz mbappe plays for france and haaland plays for norway

I mean, you give a 2023 ballon d'or because of a trophy won in 2022? You give it to Rodri and not Bellingham/Vini? Raphinha ain't even in the top 3 for 2025? one of the best defender seasons of all time in 2019 who led his team to 97 points, a UCL loses to a guy who won la liga and lost to the defender in the semis of UCL? 2020 not awarded even though Lewa was a machine? Haaland loses despite breaking records and having a treble??

wow the probability of a round loss goes from 2% to 17%, holy fucking shit, I will never ever go for a peek when the bomb is planted and there is no fucking time left for the guy in the clutch!

I still scratch my head at how modric won in 2018 over CR7, like, I love Modric, but that was ronaldo all year long, I am sorry

I mean just the idea of giving a guy who went trophyless in a season but ''he won a world cup!!!'' just doesn't strike me as a ballon d'or winner. Great season, Mbappe deffo wasn't the issue in Madrid, but the standards are so high for him they will probably just give it to Kane

esports as a whole are not a stockfish engine, shit may happen or may not happen, the risk is so low you might as well go for style/bold plays

I would call your take ridiculous, but given how weird the ballon d'or has been since 2018/2019, yeah, probably

bro it was an unloseable 4v1, sorry he didn't tap in the back ''to play it safe''

EWC would much rather have 2 really popular teams in the final, even if they don't deserve, purely for viewership. They do not care about feel good stories

are they on some mr krabs level of greed or some shit?

wdym ''if riot has the money'', that shit will definitely be one of the cheapest things they will need for a stage.

bro he is sitting, he won't just stand up in the middle of the round to look over it

You cannot, it's basically long and tall enough for you to only peek around it if you jump up.

I mean just do what CS does, it's not shameful, they also had the same issue vct had with looking at other players. Either use tinted glass for studios or abandon the center stage as a concept and make the teams face the crowd and sit parallel to each other.

And a guy looking past the monitor towards the other players isn't noticeable?

It is cheap AF, and it is fool proof, you set it up ONCE for the entire playoffs and they do not ruin the vibe what so ever, for aesthetics buy 2 and set directly in front of the teams, no fucking way you see anything. It is the cheapest solution because the other is abandoing the ''stage in the center'' concept and making both teams face the crowd and setting a wall between the two booths so that they can't look to the side.

bro it's not a ferrari in price, that shit is cheap af for VCT standards.

bro what fucking motion are we talking about? it's a glass wall you can order from some chinese factory facility for like a pack of cheetos, it is not some ground breaking innovation, the person who built it didn't get a nobel prize for it, it's something you can probably find on temu if you look hard enough

or how about you just do what CS TO's do and install a glass wall in between the 2 teams and it tints itself during the round and untints during freeze time? https://imgur.com/a/56Qyoax the solution is this simple bros

hate for BBL esports is the first ever documented act of elitism and snobbery towards an esports organization.
BBL are a 100% proletarian team, pride of social democracy!

mada showing big respect to his roots, can't even hate the man, showed class even in a trashass map, tier 1 human being

I didn't know mada was hungarian, big respect, his K-D on haven is 3/15, which is Hungary's Independence Day!
big love from Budapest mada!

like holy shit this thing is pure ADHD gameplay, when he found himself in that 1v5 it was like watching a fish jump while in the oven. A lot of movement, a lot of sound, but ultimately no signs of life

I am a cs frog, watching ewc for fun, can someone who can contact asuna tell the guy to just breathe. Holy shit any time it shows his POV it feels like the fucker is running on 3 red bulls + adderall. Fucker treats valorant like ultrakill, it's genuinely amazing how he has crafted this ADHD gaming style. I know y'all shit on him a lot, but please can someone just tell him to breathe in and breathe out. (100T flair just me testing out the support curse I have this year, so I am just larping, not a 100T fan)

bro secured roobet for his cs roster, he is happy af, he doesn't even spend that much money, the bookies do it for him

let's нахуй??? I feel like a certain someone is larping being russian.....

productive dialogue my friend

та блять я говорю по русски какой нахуй ларп сука =(

even with dialects russian is at 500k bratan, english has a million