thing is, esports cannot be as centralized as real sports. BY default, all football clubs display their country, their town, their district, their political views, their heritage, because the stadium and the club being there all the time. That's why football can raise topics of politics, racism, religion so often, it is a part of the sport. There is no such thing in sports, the top of it is that they show the nationality. And even then, we have a ukrainian org in navi being displayed by a ukrainian, 2 russians, 1 latvian and 1 swede, a dutch org in liquid having no dutch players, a french karmine corp and french vitality with 0 combined frenchmen, and SPANISH-GERMAN G2 fielding a North American roster.

problem is, where do you pin down HQs for all the American teams? are they all in LA? C9 and 100T are in LA, so are sentinels, so are NRG. EG are the only NA Org in Seattle. Orgs like Leviatan, KRU, Loud, Mibr, Furia have another problem, their HQs and home spots are easily seen and spotted, however them being in brazil or chile within the HQ makes 0 sense for their esports success, they need to be out there in LA because that's where their opposition is

oh shit, I like it, like pilots or Anti Air Turrets displaying how many opponents they have taken down

THERE WE LAND

I mean he knows Johnta, who is the head coach of fennel in japan, they worked together in CS. probably not a good candidate, but he might be the best option if angel doesn't want to coach. Yet I still think he can pull it off

might be a crazy theory, what about navi setting angel to coach and splash the cash on a strong 5th?

I feel like the roles in this team went flying straight after g2 on abyss

navi, as an org, said that the only thing stopping them from building russian speaking rosters and russian teams is
A) Transactions with a russian org (not a problem in valorant, given that there is no russian org)
B) Players who pay taxes and represent russia
so in order for navi to get a russian speaking roster they would only need cloud (or any other russian they sign) to ask all the sources where the nationaltiy is displayed to present themselves as neutral athletes (easy part) and move out of russia (hard for some).

well zyppan is swedish so I really doubt he speaks russian, unless he picked it up from angel/shao/suygetsu

I guessed he would, given Derke has the most slavic name out of non-slavic

with cloud yes.

well he has played with russians before, his cs faceit account features ukrainians and russians and kazakhs, his name and surname are of russian descent so I think he is russian speaking

might as well go russian speaking if you have 4 russian speakers no?

angel is blade's bro, blade coached tier 2 players into a major win, I am sure angel, who is his long standing teammate friend and colleague will shit on valorant's meme teams like sentinels. I stuck s1mple there for the LOLs mainly because his contract for navi ends only in 2026 and he said that he wants to play so here is the solution. If he gets his work ethic back then he will be able to find his footing in the game for sure. nitro wasn't complete trash in tier 1 when he returned to cs in 2022-2023, so I doubt s1mple won't be able to do the same in the other direction

Nt, i have the script
navi chronicle
navi derke
navi shao
navi suygetsu
navi s1mple
navi angel (coach)
ez sweep

shit game (I am mad because valve are fixing bugs there in 16 minutes and CS2 has bugs which are 4 weeks old)

''oh shit, yellowstone eruption was real, I ve thought it was fake wtf''

WinniePooh

I mean I am thankful you have thought this was a joke, I wish that you never think a 'national state of emergency due to a volcano eruption'' is a joke.

bro so shocked that he had a stroke, fuck derke for this, literally caused an aneurysm

I swear tyloo are restarted, they had probably the best talent in China yet they stuck to advent who is just a literal bot

I mean valve hand out invites based on strength (first in a long time moment where asia got a 3rd slot, Americas has increased the number of its participants as well). The solution is quite simple, send the best teams from oceania, asia and NA and SA to EU and you will get a growing scene. E.g. EF, Mongolz, talon, flyquest, col, pain, 9z, imperial. Also a huge boost for China is that every EU, NA, SA, ASia team has to play RMRs and Major in Shanghai.That means that teams from all over the world will be in Shanghai for a month, so that probably gives a huge opportunity for smaller tier teams to pracc huge tier teams. ALso next year there will be more tournaments, most in Europe so I think tier 1.5-2 will get the chance to build up experience

I mean Derke has to choose an offer, and then Fnatic have a right to refuse or agree to that offer. That's kinda why contracts made NBA a player led league.

he has a right to choose any offer, but fnatic CAN match it without any problems. So if let's say the highest bidder is navi with 80k then fnatic match it and derke has to sign fnatic's offer

if it's the same as in nba then whatever other teams bid for him, fnatic have a right to match it and afaik he has to stay

let's hope there is no karl malone

Also Leo is Harden

Has a duo with a guy with a questionable rep for years, blows the best title opportunity one year, goes for another title opportunity with a slightly altered team, duo blows the shit completely (bricks and 9 avg kills is the same), balding scorer gets fed up, enters free agency, signs with the best team from the same conference (TH And Warriors), makes them the best team in the league. Boaster 1.5 rating next year, TH to win Champs, KangKang is lebron

2 bald gods in one org is too much, navi needs him

My national football team got fucked by Romania 3-0, someone could have stabbed me that day and I would say "Thanks"

They need more structure, pure firepower and funny comps don't cut it

Need it as a default skin, like it's legit a great way to make kids play valo, they will hop on val to get their dopamine

Valorant needs to hop on the modern problem solving and give us the crosshair with family guy episodes, soap cutting videos, a random film moment and some plumber talking about his job

Yeah, but I feel like navi could theoretically pull off a trade in case G2 collapse where s1mple and w0nderful are sent to g2 for monesy + like 450k

it's not a kink, it's an addiction. Like I swear I can get 3 games in a row with the most retarded human beings only to say ''fuck this, playing until 2 Ws in a row''

they still get the advantage of being able to scrim with tier 1 teams, no?

next time you can right click on the video on youtube and you will get the copy url at the time stamp (2nd copy url option) and there is no need to write the timing :)

''Fucking hate this game''
''Next?''
''Go''
average interaction with my mates

september to january is still a lot

well that's what happens with franchising. Same shit happened with NA CS, EPL closed out for big teams only, those who didn't make it fold and then 0 tier 2 talent

sadge, It's just wild for me as a cs fan that val fans have like 6 months of no vct

fell to my knees in walmart

why won't riot allow other TOs to make off season events amongst tier 1 and 2?

It would probably require higher level of journalism, and vlr is nowhere near big enough for the scene as Hltv is for cs

Probably one of the most retarded managements in all disciplines

I mean I watch cs and there they got a complete bargain of getting a top 5 team for like a million, then they signed a guy who played 18 ranked games in a year, then they got two navi players for 2 mil, claimed to be an era, but then they became a sibling of NRG valorant because both fucking exploded

So true, friendship is friendship, duty is duty

I mean he and other washed pros should legit go back to tier 2-3 na/asia scene.

Back to CS

Because most of the time these are teenage girls (or boys) who have a hormone spike whenever they see any human interaction. This shit isn't new to sports in general, F1 has become a fucking hive of these freaks who write 20 chapters worth of drivers participating in rape. They defend themselves with "but that doesn't hurt them", it does not, but I doubt anyone would want a fanfic written about them where they are freaky as shit