in every ranked you need to be a healthy egoist, you are responsible for wins and for losses in exactly the same way, your team cannot entry, you go entry, your team can't hold onto B, go to B, you are getting fucked by the enemy OP, buy an op yourself and counter him.

Demon1 to Team Liquid CS2, Here we skidaddle

I ve thought it was bigger ( not familiar with NHL stadiums), ye, basketball/hockey venues are perfect for any esport in my opinion, going to 25-30k stadiums is just a waste of money

I don't think you really understand, it would be a lot to rent a stadium which holds like 25k, Scotiabank is literally perfect, esports usually do operate at basketball/hockeyesque capacity stadiums

scotiabank is probably too big, coca cola coliseum is the best bet prolly
I ve thought scotia was 30k, dunno why, 19k seems reasonable

ranked in any game is a fucking casino, I remember seeing an interview from zeus (CS GO legend) . ''In CS(or valo as for my point) you can have perfect utility usage, perfect strategy, comm everything perfectly, outplay your opponent tactically, but if you into site and the enemy just one taps you, you can't do shit''. Same for fucking ranked, an autist pushing into a smoke just because he feels like it will probably shit on the guy who plays the percentages

pretty sure chelsea can have two full lineups just of wingers

no one cares about most franchising shit teams, no offense

doesn't play cuz his buyout is huge

Good enough, welcome to Valorant Thorfinn, Son of Thors

Console sweats are probably the saddest people to exist tbh

Navi could technically do it for the LOLs. He is under contract for a year and a half

every event has open and closed qualifiers hosted, it does favour legacy orgs, however tier 2 teams have a higher chance to attend events ( due to load management from tier 1) and knowing there will be different formats like Blast Rivals with 32 teams, plenty of teams will get rated, will get more tier 1 exposure therefore improving their team's level.

so approx. 1.2 mil for champs and 600k without them. Pretty sure the difference between going to champs and spending more on salaries and missing champs with lower salaries is +- the same no?

CS has growing viewership, developing tier 1.5-2 scene in different parts of the world, several TOs, full sold outs at every event and growing prize pools yet the game is dying?

there are 25 tier 1 events and like 30 tier 2 events, some with 100k dollars, you tell me there is no chance for tier 2 to attend? with constant open/closed quals?

and so riot just waste money on trash orgs to exist, nice

how large we talking?

and those teams get this share twice a year, giving them plenty of cash to operate.

except right now cs has both Louvre Agreement and Blast franchising, which settled a huge difference between tier 1 and tier 2. And stickers are really proftiable

so then they don't have incentives to actually improve as their share is the same, lol

For real? That's just stupid

I think copenhagen might even breach 150mil tbh

so then tier 2 teams are just punching a hole in this case, got it

for cs it's 110 for teams and 220 overall

how is 110million/24 same as 35/16?

but the playerbase is already there, why don't people buy it as much?

210 million? do you count it with valve's share as well?

understandable, have a greatday

how do you even compare pros of other games to valorant. there is no s1mple, faker, device, zywoo in valorant YET, valorant's goat changes every international event, you need to get a clear goat first

was it really that hype?

nepotism, simple as that, he knows someone who he should know, and his links will secure him the paycheck before anyone else

Bro those are Friday tickets, Fridays are rarely sold out

There are countries like Romania, where getting a visa is relatively easy.

CS has so many events because it has multiple TOs with a semi-open circuit ( next year to be open). If cs had only one TO, then CS would have +- the same number of events. Thing is, CS goes into a complete opposite way to Riot, instead of locking the circuit, it opens it completely and now new cs calendar for 2025 looks like this
January 13-26 - BLAST tournament
January 29-February 9 - ESL tournament
February 10-23 - PGL tournament
February 25-March 16 - ESL tournament
March 17-30 - BLAST tournament
March 31-April 13 - PGL tournament
April 15-20 - YaLLa Compass tournament
April 21-27 - ESL tournament
April 28-May 4 - BLAST tournament
May 5-18 - PGL tournament
May 19-25 - ESL tournament
May 26-June 1 - StarLadder tournament
June 9-22 - First Major
July 23-August 3 - ESL tournament
August 4-17 - BLAST tournament
August 20-24 - ESL tournament
August 25-September 7 - BLAST tournament
September 12-21 - StarLadder tournament
September 23-October 12 - ESL tournament
September 29-October 12 - PGL tournament
[Unknown date] - YaLLa Compass tournament
October 18-November 2 - PGL tournament
November 3-9 - ESL tournament
November 10-16 - BLAST tournament
December 1-14 - Second Major

tried it, I don't like the fact I overstrafe sometimes, I am just used to the feeling of knowing that I am standing still and not just thinking I am accurate

legit came into this thread thinking what team you preferred to play as on Team Fortress 2 ( team RED btw), I guess it's enough internet for today

top 12 faces off top 3 and not top 1, seems weird

sadly every pro scene is covered with nepotism

maybe soon the crowd can have emotions

Ever heard of sarcasm?

Rome doesn't mean better, there are cities like Stockholm

Let's host the biggest event of the year in a dead region, seems great

lock//in Pyongyang

and Taiwan seems very fucking realistic knowing riot's ties to china?

I am predicting a HOT 2026 calendar
Masters Tel Aviv
Masters Taiwan
Champions Moscow

I mean valve are improving the game, don't get me wrong, but valorants esports scene is a bit shaky imo, but valve are just chillink

I dare say 5d

broky has no copy, broky is love, broky is life

reverse psychology 101