what if you require perspective on things? I ve played several games and some people can legit go for hours playing this game 24/7 and be blind to see that wide swinging into 5 fucking people is a bad idea

I don't mean intentionally hating on others, I mean receiving hate. If you legit pull zellsis numbers on map 3 vs heretics, do you deserve being shat on?

but a scene where you have a 6 months off season, 3 international lans, the same overused formats winning over LoL and CS, where the season is running for decades now is wild

imagine you have a completely terrible game, you singlehandedly lose the game for your team, and your teammate tells you ''GG guys, unlucky''. Will you still improve on your flaws or will you go into the next game and risk repeating the process one more time?

what if your teammate locks a duelist and gives the enemy an entry 8/12 rounds, going like 2-11-3 in the process, don't you think that you calling him a fucking idiot and him insisting on pulling these 5iq moves are two different levels of ruining the game?

it might make you tilt, but if you actually want to improve, you will get over it and will get a lesson from it. If you rush like a headless chicken into a stack, get counter util'd 5 rounds out of 6, maybe you deserve to be called braindead

I find it more common to see people hear the guy who carries them the game. the toxic who himself is playing like shit is the funniest shit in the world, but a toxic carry is the one who the entire team can build around. Obviously for an actual team it is bad, but for a random 5 man it's good

bad script, cooked

but how could you big up someone who insta locked a duelist and just dies in the first 5 seconds of the round??? Maybe it's just an Eastern European mindset or I am getting abused by my teammates, but it's fairly common in eastern europe to outright tell your teammate that what he is doing is fucking stupid

it's not about one game, it's about getting better as a player. For me it can easily be described with a quote from Whiplash ''There are no two words in the English language more harmful than 'good job'' Imagine you go 5-20 in a game, whiffing lineups, instalocking jett and baiting the team, lurking and being unable to get the kills in a game where you could easily win. And then your teammate goes ''Well yeah, unlucky game, GG boys''. And then you think ''well shit, ye, I got unlucky this game'' And then you go next and get 10-20, same exact process, going on forever

For improving individually. Now I am not talking about casual gamers, there it's obviously a problem, but for those who aspire to get higher ranks, and this might be a bit of a hot take, getting toxicity addressed towards you can highlight your strong and weak sides. Thoughts?

NRG just need to drop everyone and get c0m demon1 jawgemo and boostio

might be a hot take, but toxicity is actually good. I have seen the biggest improvements to my game after I played like shit and my random teammates told me multiple times how shit I was. quote from the great film Whiplash ''There are no two words in the English language more harmful than 'good job''

in Team Spirit

replay system isn't as big of a problem as valve giving more of a shit about a dead on arrival deadlock than cs, dota and tf2 combined

but I dunno why riot penalizes them, like something had an entire apology tweet because he flipped off heretics, meanwhile shit like this happens in cs https://youtu.be/c_jgBFw5_WQ

but I actually don't understand why they ask this, why even host fucking interviews to the entire team before the game, there is no espn, no cnn, wtf is this

Oh and btw, in case if you look for some content to watch so as to get into CS Esports, I recommend launders, I think he is really good at explaining things

ty bro, hope you enjoy CS. the only events on right now is BB Dacha which features mostly tier 1.5-2 rn and Blast Showdown, which decides the two last spots for the Fall Final

I mean I have nothing better to do, so I will drop a quick synopsis
This year the main heroes of the scene are:
Spirit - the underdog team, led by their 17 year old prodigy in donk who has immediately gone on to fight for top 1 in his debut year, storming to an easy victory at IEM Katowice in February, with donk posting a record breaking debut
Vitality - led by the great Zywoo of France, gunning for his 4th record breaking Top 1, fresh off an IEM Cologne win where a struggling Vitality who were yet to win an event this year have broken the curse of their captain and leader, Apex, who couldn't win in Cologne in the previous 3 finals
NaVi - a team of misfits who lost their major winning core and s1mple, the GOAT of CS GO and who everyone treated as a tier 2 failure has gone on to win the first major of CS2 in Copenhagen and then backed up their claim for being a legit title contender with 2 finals at Blast Spring Final and IEM Cologne and a victory at Esports World Cup
FaZe - the team who initially dominated CS2 have first been stunned by Spirit at IEM Katowice and then, despite overcoming Spirit in the quarterfinals of the major and vitality in the semis, lost to navi in an upset, denying karrigan the 2nd Major Win of his career in front of the danish home crowd and sending FaZe into a downward spiral
MOUZ - a team who lost their leader in frozen to faze in december have seemingly recovered quite easily, making the playoffs and deep runs fairly consistently, but always falling at the final hurdle to more experienced teams. They have picked up some trophies in EPl and BB Dacha, but they are yet to prove themselves at huge LANs
G2 - probably the most CONTENT lineup. m0nesy is probably the 2nd coming of s1mple, joined by NiKo, the GOAT Rifler of CS GO and his cousin hunter have been consistent playoff worthy teams and now they have malbsMD, the Central American prodigy who shattered donk in their first meeting and who came to them from M80 with Snax, one of the greatest polish players to play the game as their IGL.
Other Teams which might join these title contenders soon: Team Liquid, Mongolz, Astralis, SAW, complexity (the NA Hope alongside Liquid) and a lot of south american teams in 9z pain imperial furia and mibr

just FYI, coming month, the biggest event is Blast at the end of september (epl is hosted in malta, really small crowd), Blast Fall Final will be hosted at the awesome Royal Arena, followed by IEM Rio and World Final before the entire tier 1+2 scene arrive to Shanghai for regional qualifiers for the Major and the Major itself.

you can switch over to cs esports any time. if you are looking for hype, then almost any S-tier (almost any because fucking Pro League exists) can pull a huge crowd, just look at dallas, chengdu, sydney, lisbon.
https://youtu.be/-0AqxiWHZYI?t=2102
https://youtu.be/rwAwug7Ax5o?t=42
https://youtu.be/7cwvBj_i3nU?t=35

I still wonder what it has to do with trashtalk?

different demographics imo. valorant has a younger viewerbase, that's why trash talking is sushed down. CS is more mature. Also investors as well might not take trashtalking lightly, like imagine seeing a RED BULL CLUTCH followed by zellsis double middle fingers while screaming ''you guys fucking suck''

https://nerdstreet.com/news/2022/12/game-awards-esports-categories-winners

she shoots IRL content afaik

yawn, blade needs 6 majors for every pimp retarded comment

you can't really rank the teams when you have 3 events in a year with 3 regional events in between them. if you had like 10 events, then yeah, sure, you can rank the teams, but they will change coming into the next event

I mean I guess they wanted him to solo carry spirit to the major, while shitting on every team with a 3.5 rating. I mean this shit put yay over s1mple once, genuinely not surprised

That's actually peak entertainment, skipping the boring eco and going directly to full buys

some mexican streamer, literally KEK. She has 4 million subs on youtube. Speed literally is 7times bigger.
nah I feel bad for valorant getting voted at the same event when shit like this happens

Community: ''We don't like this''
Riot: ''OK fixed''
Community: ''Can we get an update''
Valve: ''Fucking kill yourself''

YEAH OK STREAMER OF THE YEAR IS SAMY RIVERA,
NOT SPEED
NOT KAI CENAT
NOT TARIK
NOT XQC
NOT JXNZY
LITERALLY WHO?

pimp winning analysist is actually a disgrace, also give my boy donk his award

why would they leave ( despite obviously being better), they have 4 more majors to win

I mean this reward is honestly quite weird, they just choose those who were at EWC and glaze them

sportswashing, soon want valorant to join this horseshit circus

on fucking god, how do you give the best analysist to a player who shit talked the current best and most consistent team in his own sport, this is actually stupid.

exactly

to fucking malr1ne, a guy from falcons, such a surprise

well yeah, it has such great games running as rennsport,

so no one from heretics :)))))))))))))))))) HAQHAHAHAHAHHAHBAAHBAHA

Surely a bigger esport scene than vct.
It's either lol or cs. LoL if you value viewership, CS if you value number of events, TOs, general prize pool and Etc.

not riot, it's hosted by esports world cup, who realy really really want to get valorant into the pool, giving them these awards MIGHT attract riot into regging valo, just as LoL. Other winners are also questionable, malr1ne over donk, pimp the best analysist (NOT EVEN the best analysist in CS). Riot have nothing to do with this, just that EWC want to get Riot to compete in EWC, got LoL and TFT this year, looking to get valorant next year

I mean they do take Worlds into consideration, and they say that valorant has the highest viewership as one of the reasons, meanwhile Worlds has 6 mil, what is this logic

via Esports awards
https://x.com/esportsawards/status/1827437130680877405
Imo it seems a tiny bit rigged, it's either LoL or CS objectively, but these whole awards seem retarded af, donk not getting a breakthrough player of the year is already bullshit

the OP is retarded for making such claim, but there is no reason to switch when salaries are really big in CS. why would s1mple switch when he can afford to buy Porsches every year, why would zywoo switch when he earns 80k, it's not a sinatraa situation where overwatch league was dying. CS scene is growing and at rapid pace. IF cs were to die in 2020, then yeah, you would see way more pros leaving, salaries are the reason most pros left. players like subroza, wardell, dappr left because they weren't good enough for Liquid and EG, got mad at this, still wanted big salaries, and when orgs KNEW that riot would implement franchising they gave huge bags to subpar players. Everyone got what they wanted, valorant got a part of the pro scene and first orgs, players got the bag and orgs got acknowledgement from riot that they are willing to spend money

retarded tenz, my nickname is chromosomeZ

because they dedicate their time a whole different game with different mechanics?
And you forgot how many valorant pros had a background with CS?
Tenz, Zellsis, aspas, c0m, ethan, FNS, s0m, xeppa, leaf list goes on and on. Obviously now you have more talent without cs experience, but they layed the foundation for the game

ethan was the only top tier pro to leave