Lmfao if typing matters that much to you, go watch a streamer where you can chat all the time

As they should. Currently ranked above 100T Thieves in NA atm.

I agree that wippie is a great T1 player. Idk why you are bringing him up though this thread is just about wardell's value as a potential signing, not a comparison.

I never said it was like that. Wippie is a fantastic player. My point is that Wardell still helped this obviously lacking roster pretty far in the first challengers where he top fragged a good bit and that should elevate his value in the eyes of teams.

But chamber doesn't entry frag and create space and I think Wardell has had small problems with that in the past. But yeah he is def one of the best ops.

After seeing V1 struggle again with their main team, I think it makes Wardell look really good with how far they went in the first challengers. Do you guys think he would be a good signing for a top-ish team? I think an issue is that chamber will likely get hard nerfed in the near future and that would bring down Wardell's value a bit but maybe not who knows.

1. I have never seen someone genuinely offended by using the word woman or girl. The argument of "everyone is always going to offended by something" is stupid and people use it to avoid having to change anything in their behavior or vocabulary to accommodate someone else. And if one person is offended by it? Then call them by their name or some shit. I am so tired of people acting like them having to avoid the use of an offensive word is an enormous ordeal and changes their whole life. How is that too much of an effort? It's literally the bare minimum of respect.

2) I'm glad to hear that you would call someone what they ask to be called. That is the only thing I am advocating for. I don't think we should ban words or censor things, I just think that if we can make people more comfortable with our language than we should. I'm not speaking for the every women. In my previous response, I said that some women get offended. Since some women have a problem with "female", than I think we can use a word that is seemingly not offensive to any of them.

3 and 4) I think my main problem in this area was that you said, " if someone would tell me the word male is offensive, i would call him an idiot". To me, you seem you have clear ideas on what should be found offensive and not offensive, but I'm glad to hear that you call people what they want to be called. My only point was that you might not understand why those women were offended and to them it is very much not idiotic.

Anyways, my main thing is that we should call people what they want to be called and respect people who are offended by a certain word. You seem to do that. I hope you have a great day :)

It's literally not hard at all...using the terms girl and woman is an unbelievably easy thing that you can do to make people more comfortable. It's just changing two words in your vocabulary. Also, I don't think most people that are androgynous expect you to correctly guess what to call them. After they tell you, just respect them and call them what they want to be called. Do you struggle with nicknames? If someone told you they would rather go by a nickname than the name on their birth certificate, do you constantly worry about what to call them? I really don't understand what is so difficult about it that prevents you from doing it.

Why don't you just respect what people find offensive? If some women are offended when they are called "females" than why don't you respect their opinion and call them what they want to be called? Who are you to decide what is acceptable to be offended at and what is not? You aren't a women and yet you think you can decide for them what is offensive to them. It's not hard to call people what they wish to be called and respect everyone. Please try to have an open mind.

How often do you say that phrase? The post isn't even about streamers and I don't think the issue with your phrase is with "woman" but instead the way you structured the sentence. Instead of "woman streamer" just say "__ is a woman that streams valorant" like its just sentence syntax

Gotcha I forgot about the difference. Thanks! Also not sure why I got downvoted for asking for clarification :(

How does it reduce people to their genitalia? just curious

Please carry on then

You realize that their positions as players is a job right? Like you saying "Tournaments are just for entertainment" is all good and well for you, but the Sentinels organization doesn't want to pour money into their valorant team for no results. You are right. The Sentinels roster don't owe US anything. They owe their organization, who are paying them to focus, train, and win. I think Sentinels' hate is stupid and childish but at the same time Sentinel players can't just fuck around with their time and effort when they are getting paid to win in Valorant.

Damn...usually you have good takes too what a shame

True I guess they could be the lower end of that tier but I think TSM are near them as well

Faze and NRG should be tier 2...XSET and V1 are proven against the top tier imo while they aren't.

I'm literally saying that his rifle aim wasn't the issue...it was the role he was in. I said it "looked" worse; it wasn't actually worse. He is undeniably better on chamber than he was in his duelist roles.

His rifle used to look a lot worse when he was an entry-fragger. As a sentinel, his rifle performance has really improved. I think the role switch really helped show that it was just a situational thing. He should never go back to duelist imo.

How does it undermine my argument? I'm saying they aren't going to qualify to a major tournament because a) they are a new team rn and b) those top teams are just that good. I'm not saying they are a bad team I was just heat checking OP's statement

Sorry but I don't see TSM qualifying for a Lan tournament this year at least. C9, V1 with wippie, Guard, Optic, and XSET are all on a different level of competition imo and only two teams from that group of five will qualify. TSM look better, but they also just had a very close game with the newly put together 100T roster so I wouldn't overhype it.

Well, the reason TSM are back has to do with Seven being there so I would prefer him if you are a TSM fan.

I think V1 and LG qualify in uppers and Sen and Knights get through lowers (although I'm not sure if they run into each other before that). V1 should still be good enough even with wippie gone to easily qualify and I think LG performed very well in the last VCT playoffs and they beat Sen out for the spot as they have more time to gel with bdog. Sen make it out of lowers and Knights have been looking good lately. My dark horse would be Ghost Gaming making it out of the lowers since they have also looked good recently on their new comp.

"all the world" lmfao ethnocentrism is just an ignorant outlook on life please educate yourself

They are really good at Breeze, people just ban it against them.

Yeah.. I think losing those close maps against Optic (11-13, 13-15) broke their mental and it showed against Zeta. Even if they had to face Optic again in the Grand Final, I think DRX would've had the advantage since they could ban Optic's best maps (Fracture and Bind), and play Breeze and Haven (their best maps). Unfortunate that DRX had to play Optic so early but what can ya do.

They went to 3rd map OT against optic, the champions of the event. How is that overhype...

Why are DRX catching strays damn

Yeah I know it was just frustrating to watch them run into their deaths since I was hoping for Zeta rip

Literally every round Marved or someone else plays in smokes and gets 1 kill at least every round. You would think eventually Zeta would just not enter smokes or spam it thoroughly after losing a player to it so often. Feels bad for Zeta

Exactly, Zeta and Optic both lost to DRX in roughly the same manner so I think that if Zeta anti-stratted they could pull it out. And I don't see Optic being able to do the same with Breeze because they haven't had a single good result on it but idk if Zeta are good on Breeze either so who knows.

I think they have a very real chance on paper. Their map pool works nicely with Optic imo with Fracture and Split being available and I think they could steal a map on Icebox or Ascent (which I think they should leave in the map pool and anti-strat Optic hard).

I think Zeta should pick their perma-ban Ascent, and anti-strat super hard against Optic since they probably won't expect Zeta to pick it. Then, Zeta would be allowed to ban Bind, where Optic have looked insane recently. Also, I think the operator is more effective on Bind than Ascent (because of Mid) and yay is basically automatic on that map as well as victor being strong on raze. I think this surprise ban would be a huge potential map steal for Zeta if they put the work in, and imo would be their third map win with Fracture and Split.

LG should be around 6 or 7 in my opinion. They are coming back with a more experienced and practiced roster and looked good and challengers 1, especially since bdog was new at the time. Get 100 Thieves out from above them lmfao.

yay plays clash royale ig

From what I've seen of wardell on TSM, his lack of flexibility really hurts the attack side of whatever team he's on. His oping is tier 1 but his vandal/phantom isn't. So if you are relying on an op on attack, who is going to entry and create space on site? I think Will provides the oping they needed and is better as an entry on attack but who knows ig.

I wasn't expecting them to immediately be the best considering they just signed new players recently but good for them

Cloud 9 Academy. Placed 2nd at Nerd Street Lan Tournament where they beat Complexity, beat XSET on Breeze, and went to overtime on Haven against XSET. While I'm sure XSET weren't pulling out their entire strat book, this was still an impressive result from C9 Academy to compete with a Top 5 team in NA. Plus, these were the first matches that the C9 academy team played together with 3 new players arriving.

Top 3 Academy Teams:

1. Cloud 9 Academy
2. TSM Academy
3. BBG Academy

Pansy owns you

I'm pretty sure he pressed a button to use an ability and it kicked him out of the game to the desktop screen (home screen).

What an L take. Zeta played really well against G2 today and really only lost because they lost almost every clutch moment. G2 didn't play their best but hoody was out of his mind along with Mxwell's oping. Stop disrespecting the Japanese region they are doing better than teams from EMEA, BR, LATAM, and SEA already.

Who asks for anyones opinion on this fucking site everyone just jumps in anyways its an open forum dumbass

Did Xerxia ever call a tactical timeout? I have no idea why you wouldn't take one to try something new. Try to retake C since you can't stop them from taking it? They are not getting anything out of their omen or breach flashes. Somehow their operator is always out of position. Honestly their util play was very poor and showed a lack of preparation imo. Sad to see it

I think the majority of credit to this map win for Optic should absolutely go to FNS. Almost every round on attack, Optic were hitting the weaker site and easily taking out the two or one Xerxia players there before planting. Also, Victor finally showed up to a LAN match and played to his full potential. His Neon seems better than any other agent he plays besides maybe his Raze on Bind. Everyone that says Optic is yay and friends is shut up after this map tbh. On a more macro level, I have no idea why Xerxia picked Fracture over Icebox (severe misplay imo). Optic seemed more prepared for this than them which is kinda embarrassing for them. Hope Xerxia can pull it back for a map 3 but I just wanted to highlight FNS's igling (in addition to his fragging out)

It's not that they don't want viewership, they already have a set schedule for 2 match days and 3 match days and they won't deviate from that to cater to a particular match. It's catered to NA/EMEA because the tournaments are in EMEA. I think you would be better served pushing for an international Lan tournament in a different part of the world so that local region could be the host and have an easier time watching :)

Give Xerxia the respect they deserve. They are a good team that have proven themselves on LAN, even after losing pati, and honestly might have some of the best aim in the tourney. You saying any NA team would beat them is just disrespectful, NA isn't levels above the best teams in SEA.

Kids downvote him because his baits are stupid and never funny. Maybe one day you can understand that, I'll give you a chance.

Why are Loud favorites to win? I'm not saying they can't go far but to call them favorites when they have yet to prove themselves against other regions is a bit too far imo.

Also he got killed 3 times by having his knife out and jumping around on site... I was hoping for KRU but I feel like they threw 5 rounds on Ascent alone

You guys complain about anything...Everyone has patterns and habits in their speech. I'm sorry he can't find a new synonym for you every time he gets excited.