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

VAMOS CARALHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (they fucked my pickem but dav1deus is too good for me to hate)

what the fuck, am I cursed? the second I start cheering for a team they start playing scared

that happens in every country where their home favourite is up against a random nationality. Sometimes you might not even notice it :D JUst give a fella one random sign and tell him ''IF they go A, put the sign up, if they go B, put the sign down''. One guy looks away from the monitor, sees the sign and then he can just call for his team to go A.

didn't emea's last win come over 2 years ago now?

ez fix, if val boring => watch cs
cs boring? => watch val
had a blast when toronto/austin clashed in time

it's just the loud minority, most cs fans enjoy their asia/brazil rise, s1mple coming back, vitality seemingly being beatable, falcons downfall

Fuck MOUZ for breaking Legacy, I hope furia dunks on their ass, VAMOS CARALHO

afaik the last ever recorded citizenship given to a person who is not chinese was to a frenchman (I believe) who helped with transporting medicaments to the ill in Wuhan in January 2020. I have heard of another way tho, you go to taiwan, marry a taiwanese, go to China and because China thinks of Taiwan as their territory you just swap the Taiwanese passport for the Chinese one

getting a chinese citizenship is insanely hard

obvious exaggeration

VIT ARE GOING DOWN TODAY TO VP AND THEN 2-3 ELIMINATION, YALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

you don't understand. My pick'ems are so cooked that I require two sacrifices.........

I am sorry, but my goat EmiliaQAQ needs to die for the sake of my pick'em

They will, but the region will fall further and further

we already have 4 russian teams ready to shit on any asian flukers, 5 more coming up

Riot games have fallen tho

Fortnite has fallen to another foe, brainrot

asian bros aren't as dominant there yet (in before the major final of austin is Lynn Vision vs Mongolz)

Valve games are our only hope then

Just give my boy Drugovich a seat tho

ok so now I see that PRX are very racist towards Europeans, I respect the racism in esports, PRX have got themselves a fan

What the fuck happened how in the world are 3/6 EU+Americas teams out with Americas number 1 seed already on the ropes after round 1?

Team Secret says yes. aspas has put out a tweet, where he said that: I understand that, without my agreement, Team Secret have put out a press release late this afternoon that I am playing for them next year. This is wrong and I have not signed a contract with Team Secret for 2026. I will not be playing for Team Secret next year.

literally never the issue in CS tho...

no clue actually, having a history of employment in EU pretty much secures your visa in CS, but I guess not in val, might have something to do with BBL themselve

since 2022 the only visa issue which has happened with CIS orgs was a 3 day visa delay for degster in Cologne (in Germany only)

Or val orgs just can't apply for a visa like normal organisations in CS. It's never the problem for cs teams or players to get a visa, sometimes it just comes down to time.

not a single visa issue for someone like monesy who plays for an eu org

who wants to watch g2?

ZYPOO GET SHIT ON

it's not throwing them under the bus, it forces you to think about the game. Electronic was the same way, he was a top 4 player in his prime because blade made sure he knew every single fucking mistake

basically it was unlucky after boombl4 got kicked, then elec was forced into this role

asia hatewatching didn't work well

csgo>val=>cs2

electronic never was an IGL, he was forced to since 2022

short summary of what he said, no need for translation, the sheer amount of blyat cyka screams aura (he talks about it post-game with his ex-teammate ceh9 when gambit went on a fairytale run and won astralis in semifinals) https://youtu.be/-bMgaizhmWE?t=97

no way navi are picking up russians, it might be correct from the result-standpoint but it won't happen

navi prefer politics over results.

CIS is a really strange reason in terms of comms and stuff. Zeus, the best CIS IGL of all time (schooled Ange1 in CS), won the Krakow Major in 2017 after yelling at his team for 2.5 minutes straight. REsult? 4 rounds in a row vs astralis in the semifinals. CIS NAVI was all screams no coherency, were winning plenty of events.

watching 1st stage major, and my 3-0 and 0-3 pick looks fucked, nice :)

Complexity is so unlucky man, like dafuq you mean they just got top 4 in bucharest and hallzerk doesn't have a visa?

30 bomb in map 3 of grand final vs the most in form team in the world

I am 100% positive of what is going to happen. They kick aleksi and jL, make iM IGL, get Makazze and dem0n from their academy, team sucks because iM is not the IGL, he is a 2nd caller, b1t says ''LMAO'' and fucks off to falcons, navi stay international and sign some tier 2 player (to save money ofc), s1mple's contract runs out and he just goes to faze for free, then they kick iM because he is bad, they get Krabeni and then finally get some results when they just promote the entire navi junior roster

buddy, ami went 0 for fucking 5 in w0nderfool replacement, who is just koalanoob in CS ( albeit a bit better).
-let monesy go to falcons (monesy is raised in navi and stated several times that he wants to play for navi)
-let jambo walk to fnatic (just completely avoided even attempting to sign him)
-didn't attempt to sign r1nkle (even though he carries dead NiP)
-let s1mple get loaned to faze (he still clears w0nderLUL)
-won't sign device (who is a perfect system AWPer)

or cs, albeit they are kinda underperforming rn...

franchising always leads to this

I really doubt gaimin get in. Their biggest fanbase came from CIS and they fucked off all of them by kicking dyrachyo and then letting quinn just casually shit talk russia and kazakhstan