we likely have like 20 more chapters of NEL+Pre U-20+Post NEL

highest viewership - LOL ( they take Worlds 2023 into consideration)
biggest number of tier 1 events - CS
more underdog stories - CS
names - LoL (Faker alone clears valorant and cs without s1mple)
location diversity - CS with Dallas Chengdu Belgrade Cologne Katowice Shanghai Rio Copenhagen and valorant with madrid shanghai seoul
most hours viewed - pretty sure it's CS
it just don't make sense for valorant to be above both of them

overwatch is a dead game

blue lock (manga) fell off when Neo Egoist League started, it focuses on Isagi too damn much

I mean I guess I share that trait with s1mple ( sadly not his skill), he once explained that he is ''toxic'' when giving advice not because he has the intention of traumatizing his teammates but because he wants to win the game. Same for me. When I see an easily winnable game and my teammates or me are just costing us the game by throwing, I cannot feel calm for some reason

a wise person once said ''you go into a game and think you are locked in a lobby with 9 retards for an hour, but the truth is that the number of those retards is 10''

I just want to see if I am the only one who actually thinks that some people are either too ignorant or too foolish to notice how they pull the same exact moves expecting a different result. I appreciate this thing even when I am the one getting shouted at. I sometimes go into fulltilt or fullsuck mode where I cannot focus for shit and getting blamed and receiving toxicity kinda wakes me up ( in game obviously, hate this shit IRL)

it's not really about a team, more about random teammates who might cost you free RR

what if you are on defence and one of your site anchor just gives a free enry to the site?

well I had an example recently where I go ahead and drop 17 kills in a half where we went 6-6, my teammate goes 2-10, he cannot hold onto A site if it meant getting a gazillion dollars, I tell him that he just holds them from the same angle all the time and they just get a free kill on him, he says that they kill him while running and I tell him that he needs to either get close to dodge all utility or stay deeper and wait for help so as not to get caught out by their utility. his response? ''go ahead and play there, idiot''. I went there, did what I told him to do and got a 3k resetting their economy. The guy didn't learn shit

It can't get worse than going 4v5 into the first 5 seconds of the round

but why am I supposed to waste my own time and concentration on clearly explaining to my wanna-be s1mple/tenZ that his move lead us to waiting in the starting menu after we lose 5-13 due to starting every round 4v5?

some people don't understand without getting shouted at. Experienced this shit in CS, had a guy in my stack who would wide swing one angle 11/12 rounds on T-side, lost 9/10 fights he had there, I told him two times that he doesn't need to fight there, it goes nowhere, and he just ignored my advice and kept on pulling this shit

some people actually want to play this? It feels like a weird mix of valorant overwatch cs tf2 and dota2 and somehow feels shittier then all of them, wtf

wait the players left??

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