motherfuckers got the same script of winning all the annoying teams before losing to a team who was on fraud watch + another script from Boston where his EU contender gives the region which owns the game its first major/champs

well they are now celebrities in China, pathfinders you would say, they will be honoured there just like the US football team would be honoured for winning the World Cup. Now they will probably still be china's number one team but I think the general level of valorant china will skyrocket, maybe even it will become the strongest region

''they hate us cuz they ain't us''
EG is being slandered for pure jealousy, they turned things around going from like 1-4 to making it to Tokyo and winning in CHamps

movable object vs stoppable force

really depends on who makes it there, seeing the golden hornets for vitality would actually be wild

best crowd Val is getting is probably inside the US, cities like Boston or LA or anywhere in texas can be a locked in event for every year. We will see how the crowd fares in SEA, but I think that the crowd in EMEA will be good, but when compared to CS in the exact same venues ( chances of them hosting champs inside the same arena as cs go hosted Paris Major is high)

'' don’t have the finances''
Believe me, these orgs have plenty of cash, it's just a matter of them not wanting to spend this money

Scream set a world record of being washed in 2 FPS

VP went for electronic who already was suspected for having an ego (like his buddy s1mple), paid a shit ton for him and have gotten progressively worse with every event. They haven't qualified to the Blast Fall Finals, they will probably bomb out early at EPL, so shit looks bleak. This whole "CS is a one region game" will probably die soon, the only EU teams I am certain will do damage at the major are Navi, Vitality, FaZe, Mouz, G2, Spirit ( unless they collapse before it), probably SAW and Astralis and it leaves 6 slots open for questionable teams. Maybe even Americas and Asia will be able to get 4 slots together off of EU

Saw basically improved from just being a tier 2 team to an actual tier 1.25 team in my opinion, them playing is actually a joy to see. Hopefully American and Asian teams get more slots off of Europe, because teams like VP do not deserve being at the major

Latam has a team in 9z, Brazil has 5 solid teams, NA has M80 and Wildcard and NRG, Asia has Mongols and FlyQuest and now Talon, an interest brewing in China and small European scenes making a case for themselves with Portugal, Turkey and Czech Republic. So I do believe that CS will become a global game soon

I have 2 possible explanaations
A) valve are lazy - most logical answer
B) valve are playing the longest game possible and I will go into more details. I feel like valve allows the scene to shape itself naturally. CS can have as many TOs as many Events as many teams as they actually want, valve aren't stopping the TOs or the players from this. same goes for regional invites, it has a set minimum for each region ( being 2 for asia, 3 for europe and america ) and the other slots being decided on how good the regions actually are. and I believe that this system works. CS has 4 generations of players now in some countries like Ukraine and Russia and Denmark and Sweden.

what missing champs does to a mf

either it comes down to 0.01 or he gets it imo

can confirm, kangkang used game deficit to see aspas' fraud ass

ange1, should honestly focus on making valorant popular or go coaching in cs or valorant

GL with that!

oh ye forgot about that complexity JUGGERNAUT winning Blast Spring Final. kinda miss NA CS, but they wrote their own story by recycling same old players

he is if you add his valorant accolades, he is around 40k behind Skadoodle, 71k behind autimatic and 244K! behind RUSH, surprisingly

it's only a minimum, something you might give a stand-in, these things are mostly private or they just get incentives and bonuses for accomplishments, like salary boost if finish in top 3 of the region or salary hike for winning an international event

depends on the org/region, minimum is 50k dollars a year for americas I believe. But then you have to also take into consideration contract length, hype around the player, previous accomplishments, etc

it's what they have earned from the prizepools of events. THese are realy really approximate

ethan is hella underrated, 2nd in valorant in earnings and I am pretty sure he is only behind C9/Liquid boys in cs american earnings

ok, so potential to be donk, got it. is there a m0nesy perhaps?

if he were to get a decent roster, would he be top 5 in the world?

sinatraa
zellsis
wardell
shanks (height)
ardiis (fat man)

I have seen comparisons that primmie is the donk of valorant, is that true chat?

Punjabi Vikstar the cracked god

send 300 indian kids to one facility somewhere in mumbai (14-16 year old)
1 of them has to become the most cracked duelist in the world, others will be tossed around, that winner will have the entire team built around him
have the roster of 5 of the best players from this system fight Global Esports for the franchising slot
this projects ends in India winning the 2027 Mumbai Champions

I wonder what viewership valorant will get in Paris and then also see what viewership CS has in Shanghai

well yeah, true, but the viewership without china seems slightly concerning

it was like 2.9 mil in china and 900k in other parts of the world before finals no?

the strong roster is probably EG 2023, but EG are just a really special org with a really unique way of management

astonished at the hustle bro, keep up the good work

:(

americas has the problem of spreading the talent rather equally amongst all teams instead of having 1 strong team with all the best players

where is the racism, I swear I didn't mean anything, invasion was the first word which made sense in the context? will it be better if I change it to expansion, rise, revolution ( this one is even worse)

LoL 2.0?

and emea hasn't won shit since Tokyo and if you need to find a team not named fnatic who won something from EMEA it was FPX in Copenhagen 2022. Americas are literally the saviour of valorant, they need to hold off the chinese invasion

took teambuilding to a new level

Tom Brady after scamming his wife during the divorce trial had this phrase in his mind

I got astonished by the fnatic copium at first but then I saw who they lost to at lower round 3

leo fartia is actually a lazy motherfucker

what rematch do you want to get from navi when most of them are probably getting benched?

so then it's EDG this year, FPX next, DRX in 2026 and Trace Esports in 2027?

probably Gen.G
they were 2nd in Madrid and that's while storming the upper bracket and the swiss system
won in Shanghai
got grouped in Seoul while losing to two teams who then went on to finish top 4 and top 2. That group was just a matter of someone having to be eliminated. If we rank teams on pure strength, then Gen.G are probably thru every other group

''Old players that couldn't do well should be forced to go back t2 and prove themselves in t2 again to get a slot in t1.''
they will never do it, those are the same people who would recycle the same players on every org they went to

shit with ''CroWd CheAtinG' is that anything can be treated as such. E.g. Sentinels set up a person with a before hand seen banner saying something like ''BUY SEN BUNDLES'' They are placed directly to the side of the players with a set instruction: ''If they go A = show the banner, if they go B = don't''. SEn players look at the side, see the signal and rotate easily

or the crowd going ''USA'' after a ''wtf is a mile'' banner, or the Sydney crowd chanting Henry is a cunt

I mean you can try CS, being a fan of both is quite neat