Money has nothing to do with it. It's all about tourism and public perception. Would highly recommend listening to this bit of the uncoachable podcast about their experience in Saudi, how the event ran and also a bit on why the saudi govenment is throwing money at it.
This 1st bit
https://youtu.be/pA88OHSmEoo?t=93

and this last bit
https://youtu.be/pA88OHSmEoo?t=11184

Nah, bros got tenure. He aint going anywhere. He might not play but he aint getting dropped

Surely JD gaming make the list, the hype around the rare atom roster into 1-4 stage one sent home in single elim stage 2. Surely that a fumble

Anyone at all got pickems that are still 100%

Surely if they win this one they get an English broadcast for next year

https://www.teamfortress.tv/
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Just a bit of family history for the newbie's

This is going to age like milk when sen get sent to the airport by fpx.

Honestly though respect the NA grind, go to Lan and get back into to co-stream the playoffs bracket

Is NRG doing a show match?

No wonder they run it at 2am in NA, a beat down like this would be considered unsuitable for a young audiences

but which ones speak Russian?

Childhood friend of first name billy last name billy

Who on earth do you bring in to replace Sayonara because he's underage. Like let alone trying to match the flexibility, finding someone with that firepower that also speaks Russian and can play at the tier 1 level.
Like of the current tier 1 players
-Purpo, Trexx and Sheydos are signed to partnership teams until 2025
-Cloud would be available but igl's are in short supply so someone else will probably come knocking

After that it's time to scout tier 2 and even there theirs some slim options
-One of the R8 players but their probably not at the right level yet
-D3ffo maybe but it would require bisk to move to full time flex
-One of the players of NASR but we're reaching at straws
-Their devolopement player Desire if he's solid. But he's not even 18 yet either and bros in the Ukraine so being allowed leave the country might be an issue when he does turn 18
-Hope drunken pony can magically find himself another Sayonara?

I have solved the problem in the most ethical way possible, don't have to worry about child labor laws if you don't pay them for their work.

Pretty sure its mainly a child labor thing. Was a pretty big thing with some of the earlier lans where teams couldn't technically play certain times or numbers of hours because of child labor laws in places like California or berlin.

Here's the joke you missed, its an old thread but never one to be forgotten
https://www.vlr.gg/61081/mwzera-appreciation-thread/#1

Yall aint familiar. Allow me to educate you in copy pasta
https://www.vlr.gg/61081/mwzera-appreciation-thread/#1

An extract from Facts by Tembo
"can you take your time to appreciate how insane mwzera is? without a doubt the most talented player to ever touch the game

I'll try to explain briefly why I think he is the best player in the world
Despite his insane aim and movement
The best way to know if a player is a good duelist is RAZE. There is a BIG difference between a good duelist and a jett abuser
If he is a good duelist, he needs to be good with raze.

heat? not good with raze
aspas? not good with raze
xand? not good with raze
tenz? not good with raze
cned? not good with raze
scream? not good with raze
d3ffo? not good with raze
derke? not good with raze"

Honestly turning old jett players that never learned how to hold w or play raze into smokes players is a tried and tested science at this point. But also jett players that never quite figure out how to play raze raze is a very NA only kinda issue. I mean Tenz, Cryo, Demon1 and Yay all went from absolutely nuclear when they could just sit hold an angle on escape agents to just kinda useless placid and unimpactful on raze

Good, but its all down hill after competition wraps up in the pool. Same as always tbh

Ok so hear me out here. I got a banger. In true dream team fashion no double ups

-Smokes Demon1 (Brim jail for life, with a side of omen), man was always a cracked brim (and some astra) and his time on NRG showed he's in the Tenz, Cryo role where they're cracked at holding an angle and getting some timings but can't entry or have the flexibility across multiple duelists to play primary.

-Sentinal/igl JohnQT, I think he just edges out king but its more of a coinflip but no double ups and well you can't have an americas dream team without Aspas

-Initiator Heat, Honestly just the correct answer. Bros the best thing that could happen to KRU after Keznit joined

-Duelist, Aspas, Self explanatory move on

-Flex initiator , JonahP, Hopefully man can function outside of the G2 System if not it's probs over but like it's that or double up igls with saadhak

Damn, if only they could put a roster together where it counts

The OCE dream lives

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Just some of the swimming,
1st Olympic games since I've been teaching/coaching and it's just really interesting to watch some of the obscurities in top level competition. Like the way Ledecky has such an odd kicking pattern in the 400m and 800m free. Or watching some of the sprinters just say fuck it to efficient technique to be be able to just throw their arms forward faster and gain more speed.

Also it's one place where the Aussies are a lock for a few golds which is a bonus

Very simple, NZ's greatest Deck Commercial. A true classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6c4Nupnup0

Imo 2022 Reykjavík was big in the world of Micky mouse. I region straight up didn't send their top seed and sent 2 subs for their highest performing players.

I mean zeta division got 3rd. That's only possible in a full Micky mouse house major

Bro really out here proving he's the lakia of Valorant

God I hope he's learned his lesson and doesn't touch sentinel again. Like surely he doesn't decide to waste half a season not hard carrying on duelist

To be fair, the only other Phoenix players this year are qck and natank

Ain't exactly steep competition

Lowkey who would have thought com would be the only player with even a chance of running it back

it's just the unhinged wording of that one that I think gives it some merit
like someone had to think it, write it and then send it and all that time bloke never questioned what his life had come to

pretty sure he trying to rip into chronicle about his performance at lock in then got called out after he went and won the grand final

Please add some of the all time quotes from vlr stuff thats a bit out of the ordinary or just plain funny (here's 3 to start you off, 3 classics and the one that made me think we need to keep track of the shit some of yall say) also you gotta include the link to the post

"where are you?" - Chronicle
https://www.vlr.gg/post/1875636/babysasuke

"Thats why I think he is undoubtely the best player in the world. If RIOT by any means decides to nerf jett and shift the meta we prolly not gonna even hear names like cned and tenz again :>" - trembolonaRage
https://www.vlr.gg/post/510836/mwzera-appreciation-thread

"My favorite racist will destroy SEN fans' hope today ❤️" - AVE_TRUE_TO_CAESAR
https://www.vlr.gg/post/3827099/leviat-n-vs-kr-esports-champions-tour-2024-americas-stage-2-ubsf

Regular season head to head or playoffs head to head?

So for Sen not to qualify, They need to lose to 100t in single elim then either
LEV go 0:2 in bracket and win have the spot on champs points
or
100t lose in the 1st round of lowers meaning they tie sen at 12 points each (then does 100t qualify on champs points or sen?)

Just wondering some math here
In the world where Sen lose to 100t in single elim both teams would then be at 12 points each. (sen has 12 currently, 100t has 11 and would get one from the single elim win)
If 100t then lose the next 2 games.
(assuming LEV don't blow out 0:2)
Who goes through on champs points Sen or 100t?

Since he's been allowed explore options by wolves. Would Pl1xx be eligible to play in ascension on an OCE team?

Mates going to need a chiropractor after this deadlift of a performance

As TS have moments where they look good and some where they look bad whereas zeta are just consistently bad

Bro doesn't know shit about 1st aid.

Apply pressure to restrict the bleeding then bandage to maintain that pressure.

Who on earth would want to miss our on the toilet bowl of GE Bleed. Imagine the comedy of errors. And then follow it up with watching zeta reach an all time low while Mei does his best to 1v9 for a dfm win.

https://www.vlr.gg/361620/leo-steps-down-as-fnatic-starter-hiro-to-stand-in

Honestly I kinda want JJH and JJH bonk to qualify so that the OCE boy would have to get sold to an org like PWR

Idk aint like Weibo, Invictus Gaming, Royal Never Give Up and LGD pretty big orgs in China

Yeah kinda, a lot of it stems from ownership. Face It and ESL are Saudi owned which means they own the back bone of CS and Overwatch (overwatch is unique for being the esport they're actually pretty good at if they luck the right meta). And also have there hand in other games like dota and starcraft

I can't see it happening, mainly because it would drop the games average play so much and fucking ruin the life of players. Imagine having to run the same site hit 20 times in a prac then being told you need to run it again 20 more times with a whole different comp in case they ban sova and now you can't clear cypher trips.

I think a lot of it is EWC. The 20 million dollar payout for the winning club overall. Like otherwise who on earth is paying for a pubg team these days

I don't think theres any properly clouted teams left in China (maybe cause they don't have VCL?) most of the orgs will probably only buy in for ascension. Like I image NIP will gamble on a Chinese team again.

Same with a few of the EU regions, I can't see a world where a team like only fins upset and qualify to ascension and don't rock up wearing ENCE jerseys

You get 1 per region, not who you think will take it. Who you think will be best have in partnership

Give me your best case scenario for each ascension region, be that your own preference's or Valorant's future (e.g. either a clouted team or one that can actually compete)~~~~
-1 for Americas
-1 for EMEA
-1 for Pacific
-1 for China