band wagon the winner ''because I like their playstyle'' :)

there are things like being in shape (sen are on a holiday and m80 are in the gaming form), dedication, what teams are trying. even if you lose 13-0 13-0 in a pracc, it does not matter, you have more material to work with. If you win comfortably, you can see what you are doing right. if you lose, you can see what went wrong. Literally any experience is a plus when you pracc

nothing is decided yet, anything can change

scrims wins and losses do not matter at all. actually surprising some people don't understand this

unc needs some chill, I, as a professional malder, suggest you switch games for today and watch the vp-furia game of pro league. its chill and meme cast alongside VP's boring ass slow ass gameplay is perfect to calm down before losing braincells

TSM get the 4th slot based on round difference and then fluke it to ascension, making riot think that the format is shit before introducing relegation

I just smashed my Razer Huntsman V3 Pro RGB in front of 10 guests at my watch party because of the game. My e-girl just took our crying teammates and said they’re all spending the week watching CS. This team has ruined my life and my party. I can’t handle this anymore. Goodbye TSM. I am no longer a fan.

just fyi, heretics were hot ass last year, this year they were at every tier 1 event this year, what even is the question, boo is a cornerstone of heretics

year 2024, 13th September, nihso has invented theory of evolution

not watching cuz my pookie bear Mira isn't on stage, GG 3-1 liquid in finals

Poop break is the epic moment, like seeing a goalkeeper scoring off the corner kick

Moves VCT Amer to LA, locking tier 2 in SA out of scrims
Attracts all the clout orgs to tier 2 of NA, not SA
Gives them opportunities to practice with tier 1
0/4 ascension playoffs teams are north american

Emea lost when ruskies laughed at "xild game" and proceeded to gamble on their bettor orgs

Enough with the oceania copium, I cheered for you lot in CS, 2019 Berlin Major gave me hope.... Now I stare at alistair going 0.8 rating with an AWP

Fuck franchising

I would cheer for Oceania, buttt unlucky ((

Bro lost the qualifiers to the major qualifier, it's that bad rn

I figure out what approximate sens I want to get, overshoot it slightly, play a few dm sessions with it and then set into the sens I wanted initially. Either I A) hit the perfect sens by overshooting the sens B)will hit the sens I wanted by just going closer and closer towards my designated sens. I guess I am more of a high sens player ( at least in CS, there I have pretty much the s1mple sens)

valorant and cs are still in the league of their own when it comes to first person shooters

valorant needs some Launders LANs, free for all, plenty of teams, open circuit, peak racism, peak toxicity, raises absolute units
downgraded because I rate Mason ''Lake'' Sanderson as NA CS' saviour, wtf

who knows what happens, we will just see

what other description I expected from a southern state with no huge landmarks or talk around it

what about arkansas?

I like it, then I can just say that ''my bad G, this mechanic stopped me from healing you''

I play moira, obv I use the health orb to self heal

FC Copenhagen had North
technically not football clubs, butttt Oleksandr Zinchenko (arsenal) owns Passion.UA, Casemiro is part owner of Case I believe and I think Artur melo is in some team as well

the best doesn't mean there will be no rivalry from NA/SA/asia

I mean nitro wasn't that bad, autimatic isn't that bad. I feel like what can theoratically save NA CS is the VCT NA baloon popping. There is no stable org in VCT NA, I just feel like the baloon might pop

chinese spyware adds a vegetable to your team any time you launch any game made by valve.

that's why my dopamine peaks at friday evening/saturday morning, truly appreciating that freedom

those aren't nationalists, those are populists

I feel like this initial push might sway some tier 2-3 talent in NA valorant to CS. NA teams in valorant have 30 slots in franchising (possibly 35), yet no way to get into that closed club. It makes more sense to grind an open circuit

thing is, anything will piss them off :) funny shit is that I as a ukrainian know exactly which pricks will show up talking their shit and their solution would be ''just don't sign russians lmao'' while those idiots still want to use the russian audience because they are pests. talking shit about war and stuff, attacking people like s1mple but they still were attending events in Moscow after Crimea was already occupied and Donbass had a conflict there as well

ironic given that natus vincere means born to win in latin :D

it would require any russian player to become non-representative and leave russia completely. oh, and navi might still get the hate from some PaTrioTiC people

it's actually a good midterm solution
full region teams drop their 2 worst players for imports = retain region BUT get stronger
those 2 players who didn't cut it in tier 1 drop down into tier 2 where they are the best players.
tier 2 team gets an upgrade and therefore pushes its competition to grow.
undiscovered talent makes its mark and goes into an upwards trajectory. has been working in cs for 20 years bud. NA CS didn't die because eu killed it, na killed itself by going for the same 4 tier 2 teams but with these people mixed in another way

CS2 is the most established esports out of the three, the talent pipeline is so diverse it's insane
are you a young PUGGer who just grinds the ladder for elo? Get scouted by an academy team like b1t, m0nesy, donk and many others.
are you playing in a team with friends? go from esea open to pro league by being a better team like spinx, flamez, w0nderful
are you a tier 2 player? grind tier 2 events and get your breakthrough like iM, jL, sdy, demqq and woro2k
valorant and overwatch cuck themselves with franchising. CS is open circuit, the stronger team wins

furia assembled all the hype talent and that gave way for pain mibr imperial to just get everyone else and now imperial has beaten mouz at pro league, mibr has beaten spirit and pain are like top 10 team rn

imagine col with JBa and slump instead of hallzerk and grim, maybe even get stanislaw if you want full NA

wdym, brazilian CS is literally on the rise
pain are a great team who is capable of beating tier 1 teams
mibr literally have beaten spirit and put upa fight against g2
imperial won mouz
stand proud, bra71l, we can't troll you :(

It's looking promising. as a rule of thumb of how good the region appears is a question if that team was good if you assembled a region only team, would it do well compared to navis g2s mouz, spirits.
twistzz - IGL
elige - 2nd entry
naf - anchor
lake - entry
slump - AWP
the only one you doubt for this category is the awper, osee is inconsistent, junior just doesn't have any lans to prove himself, slump is the newest kid on the block. I feel like when complexity implodes, jason lake needs to get slump and maybe, sadly, raid wildcard for JBa

I feel like NA CS can somehow turn into a sequel to CIS scene. reason why CIS is so cracked INDIVIDUALLY right now is because some of those kids attended lans since they were 8. There still is a lan culture in russia and ukraine, w0nderful (major winner for navi) spent his free time after praccs in the beginning of his career farming lans in his hometown (he got banned from attending cuz he was too good). Launders lan, NA revival series, CCt are those events, just FFA to enter and wreck noobs

there is nothing stopping the orgs from changing regions bro :D Vitality can just sign a 3rd israeli on the team and Zywoo will farm Asian RMR

I feel like some TO will come into the American scene. PGL took international, Blast took Europe, I feel like there is just that juicy NA market left for the taking

and Shanghai has a huge chance to become that next step. Right now americas has 7 team slots, asia has 3, europe has 14. Given that europe will likely have shaky teams like falcons, virtus pro, astralis and NA+SA+asia has teams like liquid-m80-wildcard-9z-imperial-pain-mibr-mongolz-furia-complexity barging in, I am sure americas and asia have a chance to claim more slots

I mean spirit aren't at their best rn, but I am sad for wildcard, only a historical game stopped them from the biggest upset of round 1

except that it does exist, the org isn't locked to the region, the region changes depending on what players the team has.
3 or more players from the region = locked to that region FOR THAT time frame
2-2-1 split = the org chooses the region

This. A person outside of the game and in the game are two separate entities. Michael Jordan outside of the NBA is a petty bettor, on the court he is 6-0 in the finals. Ronaldo is an egoistic maniac, but on the football field he is one of the best to ever do it. You can get away being a prick if you are talented in something, but you cannot get away from underperforming despite being a nice person

I would, but it would require A) no war in Ukraine B) Higher Ua/Ru population in Valorant;(

Because being a nice funny guy doesn't bring you trophies. People are attracted to winners, those who aren't winning are immediately a target to hate.