Makes no sense for Navi to keep almost full russian roster, when all their russian fans are gone and will never come back, basically no marketing growth

If I were them, I'd invest into other parts of Europe and build new fanbase from there, or just fuck Valorant and leave for good

How many views would T1 get in Nerd Street mickey mouse tournaments? Not more than 10k I'm pretty confident

Being in Korea would give them a real chance to do something, they would actually win with less expensive roster

By the way esport isn't just about views statistics, I swear people are too obsessed with it

You're clueless

T1 in NA:
Stuck in nerdstreet weekly tournaments, will never qualify for VCT event, endlessly wasting money on insane payments for mid players

T1 in Korea:
Would definitely qualify for top-8 VCT league, don't have to pay as big salaries, guaranteed 7+ group stage matches per split on arena in front of KR crowd (if they make it to playoffs, it will be at least 9 matches), could buy the best players in the region and yoink Masters slots, much better chance of going to Champions (JP/KR LCQ << NA LCQ) and getting 600k+ from skins alone

Also Riot love Korea so much, they stream all their games on main Valorant channel, this is exposure for you

You're delusional if you think Navi roster will ever win anything again

They're done, the pressure between them (mostly because of electronic/boomich) is unreal, Russian fans don't root for the org anymore since it has opposite beliefs

This says a lot, considering Gambit CSGO roster played TIMES more games/tournaments than Gambit Val roster, yet they're less popular

Guys from Gambit Valorant have more charisma and they know how to act online and offline

Guys from Gambit CSGO treat esport like a clerk work - you come, you do, you leave, no fun whatsoever, they're not entertaining anyone and not interacting with fans

It's not just about CSGO being less active on Twitter

Nah, Gambit's CSGO team is just 5 skinny quiet boys who never post anything on socials, all of them (even superstar sh1ro) have like <30k followers on Twitter

Gambit CSGO are not even popular domestically because of how boring they are, Navi/VP players and staff are more active in that side of things, although right now most of CIS community (russians) rejected Navi due to their pro-ukrainian media

Even if SEN lose for a year straight starting from now, missing every international event, they will still be the most popular team

Their fanbase are mostly casuals teenagers who don't follow esports that much

Memento

Had 100T kept that ec1s babyj roster, things might've been much better for them

They only lost to Guard / C9 and thought it was bad lmao

Dumb bronzes who consider themselves experts and force opinions something like "fragging isn't important, zombs was insane anchor, zombs utility is perfect"

Of course fragging is important, it's a fucking FPS game

Maybe because VK players don't know English for them to read these troll websites?

Last time I watched VK, all of them except murizzz needed translators to answer interviewers' questions

There's no point, each VRL champions will be sent to another tournament called VRL Finals (standard double elim), that's pretty much it

Then September-December is time for non-Riot tournaments

Lol what a waste, VRLs are really not worth it given the shitty system

I bet they'll pull out of Valorant by September, unless ESL/Blast will be allowed to host some big shit in off-season, which I doubt knowing Riot's totalitarianism

Not crazy, esports fans tend to be geeks in real life

We spend a lot of time browsing web and watching pros play, so it's obvious we would spend a lot of time studying something related to IT industry as well

Thespike is VERY slow, it takes up to 2 seconds to load a fucking webpage, when VLR loads in about 0.5

Getting flamed doesn't hurt your free speech, people are just giving their opinions which contradict your opinion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_theatre_airstrike

Ukraine accused the Russian Armed Forces of deliberately bombing the theatre while it was sheltering civilians. Russia’s Defence Ministry denied the allegations and instead accused the Azov Battalion, a far-right Ukrainian militia, of blowing up the building.

It's same shit for everything. "Far-right" Azov is responsible for every act of terrorism they did. How funny.

Every single war crime that Russian forces do in our country, bombing buildings and shelters, killing battleworthy men, raping defenseless women, they say it was all done by local ukrainian nationalists for some weird fucking reason, and never admit that it was done by Russian troops

They are lying to their own citizens about literally everything

True, but I never said we should cancel Braveaf for it

It's just kind of weird for a guy who regularly interacts with foreigners and foreign media to still believe his president's lies about "special operation" and "no harm for civilians, only killing nonexistent nazis"

Braveaf is more exposed to western media and legitimate, not made-up news, than 99% of Russian zombies who consume domestic propaganda, since they don't know English and don't bother to visit English websites.

If we take some work class redneck Ivan from Siberia, him supporting the war makes absolute sense, he's uneducated, he barely uses internet, he gets all info from lying TV or brainwashed friends like him...

Braveaf is complete opposite of that. He has no excuse for being blind.

Like I said, top-2/3 teams of Liga Radiante are stronger than bottom-2/3 of VRL Spain (Bisons, Arctic, Riders)

Unfortunately 19 had to disband because of a single spot promotion opportunity

Gambit is owned by the biggest russian mobile network operator, they're not "tiny", they deserve all the sanctions they get

Navi have already lost almost all their Russian fanbase, due to Navi's actions on social media accounts, which don't coincide with the thoughts and ideas of ordinary russians (mind out that 70-80% of them are fine with ongoing situation)

The org is done domestically, they can try whaveter they want but russians won't buy Navi merch, won't watch Navi games, won't care about Navi content anymore

They also kicked / ready to kick every russian player of Navi who refuses to move out of their country, imagine how many supporters you're gonna lose with that move

Cloud9 is EU team, vanity european, leaf european, mitch european, xeta asian, xeppaa asian, but 3 > 2

This is how you sound

Are you denying that europeans were the first to achieve many things?

If it wasn't for us, the world would be stuck in 1700s right now, well maybe east asians would figure something out, but others wouldn't, africans would keep living in the stone age since they're used to physical work and not intellectual work

Europeans were colonizers and spread their influence around the world for a reason, they evolved much faster than every other race, they were the first to invent a lot of things that modern people use nowadays

So what he wrote is just facts and nothing else, if you become pissed at "EU brain" I don't know what to say

And at the same time if you lost both pistols you're fucked, is that good?

Someone posted stats that when a team wins 4/4 pistols + following spectres, they are already 80% likely to take the map, lmao

How is your post not related? I'm answering your question about CT/T balance in Valo, there's no such thing because every match is too short and momentum-reliant

There are no CT or T side maps in Valorant, this game is very random and full of RNG

Anyone can dominate on any half on any map if they win pistol / gain momentum / win a narrow clutch to demoralize opponent

I think you overrate zombs

Yes he was on a tier1 team until yesterday, but tbh I don't think he's good enough even for tier2, the gap is way too small for him to be relevant among "lower competition"

In fact there gotta be at least 50 NA controllers pros, all of whom can click heads more efficiently than "Mr. only spectre" zombs

Trembolona is better analyst than all of them

This is so random lmao

CIS VRL might be cancelled again so KPI won't play shit for another 3 months, no matter who they sign

We are done in all esports anyways

Not cancel culture but rather collective responsibility

It sucks for russians who don't want to see things that are happening right now, but majority of them support it, so all russians result into facing these tough restrictions, including braveaf

As an atheist, I don't understand what you're trying to achieve with praying

Like do you really think that somebody "up there" (if it even exists) cares about your miserable human problems and can save you from any kind of threat

Certain people's deaths are the result of other people's actions, everything that happens in the world is just a matter of chance

I can make a 1 hour compilation of Magnum whiffs in crucial moments, where he starts to panic and misses all the bullets

KRU didn't want him back after all the controversy, I'm sure Onur would return if it was in his power
Imagine your coach is not able to be present at a LAN event just because of his odd beliefs, as a team owner I'd be pissed

Onur is a great coach but LEV players are simply not tier1 material, seriously don't compare adverso, vaiz, melser to mazino, klaus, delz1k, it's two different levels

You can put an infinite amount of time into the game, but if team members can't get kills, you will never be the best in your region, let alone in the world

Brazil being bad for the entire 2021 = not getting any slots cut for 2022, keeping potential 2 for Masters and potential 3 for Champions

EMEA being bad for a single event as a result of Russian invasion = less EMEA slots please!!!1!1!

The logic of Valorant fans is incredible

Tier2 is not good at all unless you play in Spanish / French / Turkish VRLs, which have the most engagement with domestic esports fanbases

These will keep on grabbing the best Nordics / East / CIS talents since the latter leagues are not popular by any means

For example East is already done, Awaria disbanded, Anonymo kicked by org and subsequently disbanded, Gamerland kicked by org and 2/5 left, Finest about to disband

Never said that, just the title of this thread is inappropriate

Inappropriate title

Hello I don't even remember who you are

What I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't expect EMEA to perform at their standart, when FPX are not participating, when Fnatic have 2 subs...

You're saying that EMEA, biggest playerbase, biggest fps history, 2 internationals won, should lose a slot to KR/JP just because of one event?

Besides, KR/JP already have 3 to Champions, just like us...

We've been dominating the entire 2021, we shouldn't be judged based on a single tournament

Love how fast people change their opinion about slots, evebody agrees LATAM don't deserve 2 right now although KRU's run convinced all fans otherwise

I think it's safe to say Zeta lock in Champions, because it's hard to believe any other JP team will come to 2nd Masters and get 250+ points at it

I don't care, he can do whatever he wants

It just seems weird... In Valorant all players in all regions are about the same level, there are no s1mple and Faker-type guys, everybody is equal, it's dumb to overpay foreigners when your region has just as good players

What a moron this Bleed owner is

Like I understand you have 50 million dollars in your pocket, but throwing it away like this, to bring players from other regions, to overpay them and never get the money back...

Valorant is a lower ceiling game and there is no fucking reason to hunt for someone like cNed when you can discover 10 slightly worse cNeds in SEA alone

Optic don't respect others so why should others respect them

Bro white americans are europeans, american people in fact don't exist /s
Sentinels EU pride