well he stretched his career longer than most of the players in 2021, so that's something already

7-1 should happen once more

hltv system works thanks to the fact there are a lot of events played almost weekly. CS actually has two rankings now, valve and hltv one. HLTV one values consistency over peaks, valve one is pretty much power rankings (which can see teams drop from top 3 to top 10 just cuz they placed top 16 once). Also please note that hltv has a database which rivals big sports journalists, vlr.gg is way smaller

average aggro players, either a genius or a n4rrate word

''don't judge, but glaze''

Ayo dafuq have my navi bros done?

When I do that, I am skilless bot, when donk or primmie pulls that shit, they are aim demons, I fucking can't

EMEA can suffer thru 5 wars, 3 pandemics, 4 famines, 6 religious purges, 50 volcano eruptions, 3 defaults, 5 Ice Ages an Asteroid Landing into the Alps, have water levels rise by 10 metres and Team Secret will still be in their home, top 8 Pissific

Now I am convinced primmie and donk are somehow related, donk created the "donk slide" where he wide swings, sits down, and starts strafing to the side from which he came (so he first pressed D, wide swings, presses A, crouches twice, first time to bait the enemy, second time to get the recoil, and then starts crab walking back to the left)

They actually were great at the beginning, the players have founded astralis after leaving dignitas and TSM, they were given unique trainings, breaks, opportunities to spend more time with their family, that's when their era took off. The situation of astralis was really realy hard to deal with when travelling a lot, cuz device, the best player on the team, had an illness which got progressively worse when he was travelling so in 2019 they chose to play less events and still got 2 majors. During covid a lot of players have got depressed, and that's when astralis went into the shitter. Screwed FPX out of what has then become the heroic core (cadian led with stavn) by buying es3stag. Then they signed other players as 6th men while the main players were taking breaks. Still the org was quite poor in terms of player relationships and that just caused device to leave for NiP. ever since then, everything has been in the mud for astralis

happens sometimes, also happens when a guy deleted his account

I have more elo than reazy, EZ (I have 0.1% of his skill in valorant), and it didn't leak cuz faceit is restarted sometimes

maybe 🙂 maybe not 🙂

I would still love some screen at least, that's pretty much just ''he said, she said''

it really depends on what's kr1stal opinion on the war is

man I love accusations with no proofs (unless I have missed them)

https://x.com/natusvincere/status/1849518167401414931 - answer for you

Alright who in the fuck gave valve developers keys to Riot's hq?

Great leader of men, with great mental

I made sure my hands did not touch the text chat for a solid month, like a fucking PTSD

had a similar situation once :D
CS game
score 11:3 - 1v1 situation, I am able to ninja defuse, write ''?'' in chat to troll the opponent after taking match point
12:3 -> 12:8 - troll a round -> 12-12 -> 13-15 - 1v1 clutch, the guy killed me while completely flashed - LOSS
My steam profile was filled with ''?'' afterwards. Had to shamingly clean it afterwards

I feel like if someone here asked Carlos to post here his takes wouldn't be as g2-loving as yours, mad respect on the pure delulu

maybe hype about the fact that China is correctly the Champs winner?

well, kinda happens when you kill the region.......

are navi just fucking AFK?

NAVI Koalanoob is a shit move, but i am not even surprised about that after looking at any discipline outside of CS for them

I went from thinking kassad was a clown to actually respecting him. Him taking jabs at the org just feels so good

astralis in valorant where meta changes month to month and there is only 3 events in a year, for sure dude

it really depends on what you lack. For me personally, DM helps get multikill potential. going 1for1 can be good, going 2for1 or even 3for1 is great, that significantly changes how the round is played. If you hold the site and you get 2 before dying, your team is in a 4v3. If you are entrying the site and trade your teammate out and get one more frag on top of that, that's a 4v3 site hold again.

try playing more, improve mechanics

that + physique

understandable, but that's how sports work, there is no reason to blame them. If I am Real Madrid and my player wants to leave and he costs 100 million, I would pitch him for 125mil. Why would I miss out on the opportunity to make additional cash cuz of emotions? Emotions doesn't win you events or break you even, being a cold egoistic asshole does

my hot takes:

1. Most pros are way too soft in terms of their mental
   Most teams could have been saved just by them either working more or settling their differences aside, most of the time rosters implode cuz they aren't a team, they are 2-3 groups fighting for their interests behind the stage
2. Health Programmes should be a standard for every org
   Not only does it increase performance but it can also stretch the careers of players even longer.
3. Toxicity isn't as bad as people say
   I range Toxicity and straight up Discrimination as two things, Toxicity being the lesser of two evils. Most of the time ''toxics'' are just people who hate to lose and discriminators are straight up assholes
4. first arrivals to valorant were complete ass
   They were way too lazy to improve on CS (and also they were just blatantly gathering friends in their teams) and it showed when their results didn't keep up with the next generation of players.

didn't understand your number 3 point, wouldn't you also hate every sport club for asking bigger transfer fees and trading players for a lot?

Both played in Americas their entire tier 1 careers, wtf is this take, lmao

xqc has found another brother?

Well there is the blast final in Singapore, I wonder how it will do (last S-tier event before the Major)

which ones again goes back to show how shit the tier 2 system is. Orgs are in the risk of getting fucked, so the players are getting fucked

but that's just messed up towards the players

but they earned the slot, not the org. The players waste the entire year grinding their ass, get thru ascension and then the org just goes ''yeah, bye bye''

they cannot pay decent cuz then their RoI goes from bad to worse

So with them parting ways with their french roster and basically going international, doesn't that set a very grim situation for tier 2 players?
Hypothetical Situation:
-play in a mix of players
-play tier 2
-get into ascension tournament
-be bought by a relatively big org like mouz, fokus, sk, ence
-get the ascension slot
-have a number of players kicked cuz you ain't deemed good enough
-org gets slot and franchising money, you are kicked in the shitter
-go back to tier 2
How is that shit even possible

it's crazy to me how some slavic people use the internet everyday and their english knowledge is still ''awoogah'' level

Where does my precious king aleksiB come from then :(

In narrow angles he just adjusts his crosshair so that he aims on the head. Also it's possible that he heard him sprinting and assumed he would peek directly close to the wall. It's a basic mechanic coming from cs (and that comes from quake) If you shift while you peek directly facing the wall, you are seen before you can seem them (cuz you can closer to the angle then they are to an angle). It also doesn't make sense to sprint while on the far side of the corridor cuz you will look slower. (The further you are, the slower everything is.). He hears him sprint, assumes he is close wall, adjusts crosshair accordingly

*hockey goal buzzer"

First cuz most of the time they either develop into consistently great teams or disband and make good teams better

Fer wtf

it's fucking bullshit, also I dislike the idea of the tournament slots expanding deeper into the year, might as well make champs more elite cuz less teams get there. 8 team events are poopoo, 12 teams are a structural disaster, there is a reason most other esports have 16/24/32 slots, that's the better number to work with

I feel like International LANs feel too small for me, there ain't enough teams. Just make lock in the first event of the year and host kickoff before that, 6 top teams from every region assemble together in the region of the current Champs winner, top 3-6 from all regions go into opening stage, run swiss up until 3 wins or 3 losses, top 1-2 of regions are at round 2. top 1s are able to choose their opponent, top 2 will be randomly seeded against leftovers, run swiss again. single elim top 8 playoffs. It's the CS major format, but who the fuck cares, this format is far superior to groups anyways