no I mean ESL do organize EWC, since Saudis basically own them.

a small price to pay for propping my goats (been forced to consider EWC a legit event since navi won it in 2024 :(

sorry to break it to ya but it's pretty much ESL

that's why I cheer for tyloo, mongolz, aurora, lynn vision, 3dmax, iberian soul(soon to be gentle mates), b8, tnl, legacy.

wouldn't have enjoyed the event if not for the goated final where 10/10 players are Asian (turkey is mostly asia), with only one player born in Europe (maj3r)

the 2nd half of the year might generally not be so hype. pro league is a studio, starladder fall is likely a studio, pgl bucharest should be a studio, london is on the arena arena, can't wait for shanghai and chengdu and hong kong tho

2 teams with not a lot of physical fans present
bad location
generally not a hyped event in CS

studio event, can't wait for the next arena lan

not really with trophies, more to do with individual performance.

I am pretty sure it might have gone from cs/hltv. A lot of cs players had 1s in their nicknames, like s1mple or dev1ce, b1t, sh1ro. So every time they played poorly haters would rename them into s0mple, dev0ce, b0t. Then the folklore slowly developed and went personally into every player. ZyPoo, Defecto (instead of perfecto), ChoKo, midnesy, div0rce (device got cheated on, so it was really unfair).

I would suspect that the trio of autumn-stax-buzz just hang around each other because they are rats and they can sway opinions in the team to keep their jobs.

be ex-DRX
underperform consistently
be a running joke of just hanging around the international events
.get offended.
Suck more
.Leave for T1 (Daddy Meteor olease carry us)
Lose to the org you left
Win the international LAN
Think you are the Astralis of Val
Reality knocks
"Let me scapegoat someone real quick"
Get hated by everyone - WE ARE HERE
Get kicked and become an irrelevant streamer

dude won't do shit, it's so obvious bro is flaming anyone just to continue paycheck stealing. Shittiest type of toxics, I would understand if he would be someone like meteor

inshallah Buzz and stax together with autumn are learning Portuguese in between rounds (Furia need to turn into a bigger meme)

Meanwhile T1 turns into a toxic shit stack + Meteor aura maxxing

bro was training in CS with the major winner JL
SEN TenZ
SEN Stanislaw
SEN jL
SEN s1mple
SEN NAF

same reason why f1 teams agree to getting filmed by netflix. Same reason why Dota's true sights were massive hits. Same reason why CS Fans enjoy Point of View from ESL. It gives you perspective on what goes beyond the game. Everyone knows T1 are underperforming. Everyone is guessing. It's also pressure. It's noise. Now they release the video and people see what is going wrong.

because valve are too stuck on their own ideas. That's why I for myself rank Cologne and Katowice higher than Major in terms of team level. you need to win 4 bo3s and 1 bo5 (if you are not losing), and possibly 6 bo3s and 1 bo5 (with 1 more bo3 lost)

Bo1s are shit, unbalanced, and too random.

LCQ for upsets, drama, action. Champion Points for determing the most deserving one

CIS league would only have:
spirit
vp
betboom
aurora
parivision
forze (mb?)
the list ends there pretty much

bro they kick iM and jL, you think there is anything left in the brain for this org?

because our opinions differ, for me 1 event is enough to stop being considered choker but not enough to redeem all of the chokes

I feel the timing of the win also has something to do with it. Aspas won his first ever champs, then remained a contender. forsaken was a contender for quite a while so people naturally will treat his win not as a success but just retribution

redeem their own reputation, without comparing them to others. Do you seriously believe forsaken deserved only ONE S-tier event? Fuck no, he did improve from his ''what if he just had more luck in the grand finals in copenhagen or LA'', but it's not a full vindication

Perhaps our viewes are different. In my opinion 1 event won does stop your choking reputation, however in order to be the goat you need to get more.

I feel like when you had a huge reputation of a choker you need at least several wins to redeem yourself

Riot will run out of cash in like 1.5 years if they attempted a cs like schedule

I mean cs you might have your miracle on ice, and in val it's just a regular international

910 absolutely fucking shat on zywoo, everyone except mzinho locked in

Senzu Mongolian Pride about to school zypoo

chron about to activate his new prime with the help of hatemaxxing. he has learned from the greatest CIS has given, s1mple, donk, yatoro. None of them are positive, they run on pure hatred. Witness the Chronicle rise

I hope so

astralis was dominating. Vitality is just a better team.

kyxsan+degster+teses was the falcons core. The position is given to the core, not to the org. Hence why heroic moved down to the Sangal roster spot (youngster+LNZ+xfloud) and falcons got their spot.
''In the end, they opted to bring in a HEROIC core that comes with an invaluable eighth spot on Valve's Global standings, the be-all and end-all for invitations to tier-one tournaments starting from 2025.'' https://www.hltv.org/news/40676/falcons-lineup-complete-with-triple-heroic-signing here is the report

He would never

Since when is Russia not Europe?

pretty sure there is no viewership number, it's heat index

You need to migrate esport players same way you migrate athletes and scientists. Give donk the green card, rename Faker to John Walker, give Wolves a fucking citizenship, you need them wins

And I would assume any Asian team annihilates them at a meaningful event?

Like how do you have your HOME major and get outshone by your southern neighbours and 5 dudes from Mongolia as well as crossdressers

Europe - CS
APAC - LOL
China - Val
North - America

both probably trophyless, but hey you have beaten your neighbour across the pond in head to head, here is your 3rd best region award

no it doesn't, you need to have 3 people for a core, it's just that their new core of teses-kyxsan-magisk-niko played enough to get points for S tier invites

the ranking is stuck to your core, you can't just do -5 +5, you are limited to 2 roster changes max, and you lost a shit ton of points if you do that

ESL, BLAST and any other T1 TO is forced to send out invites to the teams you want, you need to follow strict guidelines. Any team can farm enough VRS points to get into this prized tier 1 section. And let's see who riped the benefits of these fruits? Tyloo and Lynn Vision, who outplayed their european and american peers? Legacy who went on a miracle run? NiP who grinded the shit out of tier 2? Fnatic who did the same shit? ECSTATIC and ENCE who guess what also grinded! Lynn Vision and Tyloo then come to Asia where they have a target on their backs because beating them gives you VRS Points and puts you closer to tier 1 events!

OK, what would happen if valve gave equal rights? Game wouldn't be as fundamentally loved across all of europe, and asian teams still would lack because they don't have the same practice space as european teams? It's not val where every single region got the brand new game at the same time (except China). Valve does it in the best way, natural growth. Mongolz grinded their way to the top, became the first team, they pracced with Lynn Vision and Tyloo the most, hence why Lynn vision are in stage 3, and tyloo are in stage 2. Both LV and Tyloo now have enough points in the VRS to get the same experience Mongolz have, meaning they will get better. What happens after that? Other asian teams get better! Wanna know the reason why NA died and doesn't look good? Because none of their fucking teams were brave enough to do what mongolz did. I don't wanna hear no tenz or twistzz talk about how it's hard to go pro in NA CS when 5 random fucking kids from Mongolia pracced EU teams with 160 ping, then grinded tier 2-3 events to get enough VRS points to then get invited for S-tier events. look at their ranking! https://www.hltv.org/team/6248/the-mongolz Ever since this starting five got together, they were on a steady growth ever since. Copenhagen 2024 - top 16. Shanghai - Top 8. Austin - Top 4 MINIMUM.

valve doesn't treat asia in any worse way than any other region. Slots for the major depend on the way the teams perform during the last major. So now Asia has 1 slot in stage 2, 2 slots in stage 3 I believe. That means it's 3 more slots

people who hate on either game have to be the saddest people on earth ngl

Trace (2nd best team in the most growing region) goes from being almost out of champs after sucking every single masters and defeats NRG (the optic gaming core) to claim the spot in the top8. Yes I know trace isn't nearly 2nd best in China but both Pain and Trace have been second for so long it's actually painful