Studying is his main focus, so anything outside of that, would be considered downtime. going out and exploring, or just spending the day at a beach. That is also downtime.

If he spends it just playing ranked on valorant all day, go for it. If he goes out, go for it.
Sem1-, was just saying dont do something you could potentially regret. He's going to another country to study, which is usually a once in a lifetime chance. Squandering it by playing videogames just seems like a waste of an opportunity.
We're also not saying he can't play games. it's all his choice in what he does.

Also with countries being interesting, etc. It's all in the eyes of the beholder. I find the UK god awful boring. Some people come here and spend weeks doing random shit I would never think was interesting.

I also didn't read all the comments below either. Was just responding with the comments above, as context. OP stated he was just wondering, about it. That's fine. It's fine if he did stay inside. I'm just trying to add onto what Sem1 was talking about, as he's also talking from experience of handling a similar situation.

Tbh, pretty much everywhere is better than Birmingham.

Did you not read the comment either?

The dude is saying dont spend your downtime playing valorant. Experience the country and environment as much as you can, as not many people are able to study abroad.
Staying inside plying videogames is why he's saying you'll come back with regrets, and you didn't experience the perks of studying abroad.

Also with his comment. he said he studied abroad. there's still so much he wishes he could see.

I'm with Sem1- with this.
Take advantage of going to a new country, and make memories and experiences. Who cares about a few months away from a video game.

That's what's confusing me about all this.

Onur is an old league coach from latam which is killing the highest potential career move he could have, on a basis of principle. I give him credit to sticking with his guns, but it's a really fucking dumb stance to stick on.

Thorin, even with all the shit he says, he'll somehow get hired. Dude has a big thing like this every couple years, and get away with it somehow.

The only difference between the two despite their moronic belifes. Thorin has a resume he can use. Onur has being a kru coach, and a latam league coach, is his only roles.

aah damn, should have read this before making my comment.

Kind of a dumb hill for Onur to die on. Also surprising Germany doesn't require vaccination for travel, but only a negative pcr test.

Wait, so Germany allowed him in without a vaccine? I thought to go to any of the Lan events, everyone must be vaccinated.

I assumed it was getting a booster shot, or updating the vaccine passport.

Kinda dumb to throw away a job because he doesn't want to get a vaccine. I guess he can stand his ground not being on a top tier team, given he left the best team in LATAM, just to get deported.

From your match history, I'm surprised you're still getting that amount of elo. Probably as the hidden mmr is calculated with your placements, aswell as your previous acts rank.

A few acts ago I lost 4/5 placements and got placed plat3. I was d3 the previous act. I played bad in each of the placements, so this led me to believe previous act rank was the main influencer in it.

So if you keep spamming matches against low elo players, mostly causing them to make reddit threads about smurfs. Then you're gonna be stuck there for a lot longer. Best thing I'd say is find someone in silver and just duo with them, so you can at least get a bit more elo from them and make the game a bit more tolerable than constantly going 30-2

Then that's the reason the game is only giving you 10. their formula is seeing previous performances where you could have messed around, threw, trolled, etc. so it thinks you're supposed to be in iron, which is dumb. If anyone is match mvp for that many games, it should recheck the forumla to recent times.

Because AFKing in unrated tends to get you placed in Iron1, where the game uses that as your base mmr. So you're up in bronze, still getting elo because the game is evening out those matches you're playing, with your previous where you were afk, or last act when the account was made, was low elo.

It's the same shit with Wardell, TenZ, SkRossi, etc.

Fans have ruined being a fan of certain players.
you talk good about TenZ, people mention his split game.
you mention SkRossi, people talk shit about the region/he didn't qual for champs and lost to streamer team
You mention Wardell, you get that they haven't done anything this year.

It's unfortunate because all players who get that, are genuinely amazing players. It's just the fans that ruin it. same with teams, like BBL had it in 2020, tsm had it in 2020/21, Sen in 2021, 100t in 2021, Gamelanders since 2020.

I'm not even a fan of hiko bro.

If a top5 sova list, I'd put sacy in there. A long with chronicle, lakia(iffy with this one), and crashies, and potentiall Shao(dudes been placed on everything at this point, but was one of the original goated sovas)

i've been a fan of BR, as I want more regions to be competitive. It's why I had VK in my pickems going to playoffs, beating both acend and envy.

It's fine being a fan. But use official matches and achievements as a standpoint. Not deathmatch. It's moronic and irrelevant when it comes to seeing if someone is better.
Take shroud for example. Dude was amazing in pugs, but was average in pro play. I'm not saying MW is average, but pugs mean fuck all in the grand scheme.

I will admit that Br tends to get looked over. THe same with SEA, and Apac(outside of VS). However going around and showing useless stats to everyone, just makes people shit on the teams even more. all we'll get from that is people making threads ridiculing the player, just to get a rise out of you.
We got it when GE didn't qualify for Champs in LCQ. We get it for TSM. We get it for Sen, and we've had it for G2, Fnatic, Liquid, etc. People just use your passion for a player as fuel to troll.

Like, not to be rude. You're probably the main reason people shit on mwzera if he performs bad, on this site. It's fine saying he's a great player. going straight and saying he's the best in the world, it didn't make sense then, and it's proven that he's not now. He has the potential to be one of the best, but right now he isn't. He's amongst the top echelon of valorant right now though, and hopefully he only goes up.

ofc we'll hear about him in the future. The dude is a good player. It's just you suck his dick no matter what it is, and make it out like everyone else other than him is hot garbage.

you constantly try to compare mw to other players, just to try to justify your opinion that he's the best. You even bring in dm stats, or ranked stats like they matter at all.

It's the same shit that people had with TenZ, SKRossi, etc. People go and suck their dick on forums which just makes people dislike the player because they can't go anywhere without hearing some random dude online gargling on his nuts.

Like, nobody actually dislikes Mw as a player. He had a good performance in Berlin, and it was great to watch him play. It's just tedious when we used to have constant "Mwzera is better than tenz" then you post dm stats and ranked stats.

Ec1s can have the most experience achiveving nothign except having scream drop 30-40 and still lose. Experience losing is still experience losing.
His only t1 expeience was also with liquid, nearly a year ago. Since he left liquid, he never got back into t1. NIP was the closest, and they were by far no where near t1 anymore.
A prime example of a player who was just put on the bench, Iyen.
In EU, I'd take Ozzy over ec1s.

I'm not saying ec1s is the worst pickup. It's just picking up a player because you cant afford the best, isn't what will make 100t win events.

*when I say afford, I'm talking about in their budget

You mention South America isn't known for having good igls, GB isn't known for having good players. We have 1/50 pro players who are good at their game. CS we have smooya, and that's mostly it. Mezzi is getting there. In siege we have ctzn, who is the only world class talent we have.
EU as a region has world class talent, GB as a place, doesn't really have a lot going for them given their history in esports.

Also with players willing to leave their team. What difference would it make from another player in SA/apac leaving, paying the buyout. Than what 100t would have done in NA? Taking a free agent because you can't poach, it's just them putting tape over a hold in a sinking ship.
If they're settling for players they're unsure of because they can't get who they ideally want, they wont really win. The same shit happened with G2 in siege. they had to settle for players who wernt their first option, and their dynasty crumbled.

I'm not saying ec1s is the worst pickup. It's just he's nothing fantastic, and I can't see 100t winning against other top teams. It's just going to be Ethan, and Asuna trying their hardest, unless they can get an insane 5th.
The one good thing I'll say about ec1s, is he has better mechanics than steel, but that's about it.

oh ofc. There's always something we dont know. From an outside view, it looks questionable. We dont know the impact he could have on the team. Hopefully he has a great impact on 100t, as it'll be great for a viewing experience.

Do you reckon picking up an igl from eu who wasn't good enough in t1 eu, was the right pick if they wanted to win?

If they looked outside of na/eu, you have asia, or even br. Both regions are known to having lowish buyouts as the scene isn't as invested as Na/EU is.

100t in the last few months lost steel - veteran igl, questionable mecahnics.
lost nitro - by far their best player next to asuna.
boi was a temp from what I believe. Can't remember if he was just a load or full time pickup.

So do you reckon ec1s who is an inexperienced igl in t1, would be able to fill the shoes of either of the three 100t lost.

An ideal situation is find an export in asia/latam/br, over NA/EU. The only people you'll find for a cheap price in either region, isn't a player that can get you to qualify for international lans.

I hope ec1s proves me wrong. He isn't a bad player. He's just not at the stage where he would win anything meaningful. I could be wrong, but my gut tells me he'll be dropped in 3 months and 100t will make numerous changes this year.

I think even with a 5th, I can't see 100t going far with ec1s as igl, unless he's improved a lot. Like from previous teams, liquid at the time was scream dropping30+ to lose 11-13.
Nip was just a dysfunctional team full of inconsistencies, outside of Jady who went to Navi.

Unless they get some insane player, I can't see them qualifying for a masters with the current 4.

I hope they prove me wrong. I just think other teams in NA are better right now than they could be with Ec1s.
Especially with their competition being sen, c9, envy, rise, xset. Just think it's gonna be a rough ride for first challangers for 100t. Hope the surprise me and perform insanely well. Just my gut is telling me otherwise.

Ec1s was far from a t1 igl in eu. The time he was on liquid, it was scream dropping 30 a match just to lost 11-13. You had an inconsistant soulcas, kryptix performing decently, etc.

Just find it odd that an org as large as 100t who want to win, would get an igl who wasn't anything special, just because they cant afford a better choice. It just tells me that they wont achieve anything more than what they did with steel

Like I want 100t to get back in their old form. Just can't see it happening with ec1s unfortunately. Hope I'm wrong, but my gut is telling me this was a panic pickup because they dont have time left.

*When I say afford, I mean in budget. Not saying 100t dont have money. Just they can't justify a large buyout much like Sen could.

tbh from his track record he wasn't ever that special of a player. Even as an igl, people are expecting players at the level of nitro, Jamppi, shahzam, Vanity, redgar, boaster, stax, etc.
His run on NIP wasn't that special either. They beat low t2 teams in eu in Challengers 3, and Redbull Homeground. He was never anything spectacular, but was just around.

I hope he's improved since his nip days. We dont know how large his impact is given we dont know coms. all we know is, he hasn't igl'd a dominant team.

Edit* Meant to reply to thread, not you. The bit about nip was to the OP. my b

Dude in NA ranked who constantly jumps around like a moron in game. People have been saying he's the savior of NA, because his playstyle in ranked is really fucking dumb, and he gets away with so much random shit.

He was also on brimstone gaming earlier this year, but just jumped between different agents. In ranked he's a Jett main, in comp he was a bit of everything but Jett. Think he has like 4 maps on her.

Just converted my cs sens, but okay.

scrims, as in trialing. Trialing is still scrims.

You also know he was on brimstone gaming right?
He wasn't a Jett player in comp all that much, and his gameplay wasn't as addy popped as his ranked matches are.
https://www.vlr.gg/player/8847/prod/?timespan=all

Dude was average overall. Just in ranked he's an actual specimen with how he is always jumping around.

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He's also said on stream that he only plays like that in ranked to mess around. He said he isn't usually like this when it comes to when he's playing scrims, etc.

Well they're doing that domestically in NSG monthly, not qualifying for anything that pays well.

Like, I guess congrats for winning $1500 - $3000 a month split between 6 people.

Other than that, they're not a bad team. They're just not good enough to actually achieve anything in NA. R

He's so frustrating to watch. It's like with the op, he hits every third or fourth shot. Like, it's 3 rounds or so he holds short, and misses 2 shots that should be hit.
idk if he's panicking or what. Just for a top team, he looks shaky for his role. Especially considering other Jett mains that play at this level, and event.

Like, dude performed fantastic this game given everything. Just he seems odd to watch when oping.

that's like watching an amazon produced video on what it's like to work at amazon.

I never said he wasn't consistent. He's the most consistent oper in the world. However for the rounds without an op, he's top tier but not top1. I also don't think scream is the best duellist in the world either, as he can only rifle, with sub par oping. he's the opposite of cNed. Both the most consistent on their roles, just different kits to achieve the end result.

cNed is also the best Jett, not most complete, but the best at utilising her whole kit. Scream is far better suited to reyna, than on a Jett. That also showed in his performance aswell.

Reason why I said scream is the most consistant, is it's assumed an oper would be top of the scoreboard with acs, and kills. Given how oppresive it is in this game. Scream is one of the only riflers who constantly outperforms opers.

I do say they're both equal overall at top tier. Just different masters at different sides. One oping, other rifling. Their redbull homeground matchup is a perfect example of them. Both same stats, and near exact acs aswell.

Liked for the dot crosshair

tbf, both matches each team played against eachother this event, yay and scream performed better than cNed.

cNed is the better awper than anyone else in the world right now. Yay is just the most complete Jett, who can rifle at a high level, and op.

Scream is just the best rifler in the world, and probably the most consistent and versatile duelist out there atm.

Come on bro, their mental was chalked after they were caught exploiting. It's riot fault they tried to cheat and didn't get away with it.

From this and the last event, his gameplay hasn't changed much. It's just people are shutting him down.

At masters, he got away with murder every round, from his lurks. This whole event his lurks are shut down, as he's a one dimensional lurker.

Like even now his stats aren't horrible. 1.1kd, on supp. Ofc it's nothing compared to masters. Just I feel teams have just got the jist of what he does, and figured out how to counter him.

I agree there's something that isn't as hype as iceland, etc. However I dont know what people expected. The current champs is more trial and error right now, as it's the first one.
Just wish they had a second elim, as lower bracket runs build a lot of hype. Event lasts a bit longer, but that was the exciting thing about iceland. Fnatics Lowe bracket was so exciting to watch.

I feel with nats is he just got read by other teams. With his performance in Berlin, people just read that he lurks and analysed what he does. Shut down a lurk, and he's next to useless.

Chronicle has stepped the fuck up though.
Deffo just looks as lost and inconsistent as usual.

Nah man they lost against the team that knocked the previous finalist into lower bracket. Liquid obviously washed and need a roster reshuffle. /s

On a real note, nobody has realised that liquid pushed through LCQ, got to semis. Them losing a match after not losing a single one for a solid 3-4 months.
People need to realise that some teams have a better day than others. Acend deserved this win, liquid didn't.

ngl I think they (acend) just didn't prep for vk. The difference in them vs VK, and against Envy/TL. Both night and day.
It's why I have a guy feeling if Kru beat gambit, they take the event.

I have a weird gut feeling Acend beat liquid, and Kru beat gambit, just to take the finals.

Hopefully liquid wins the event as an ultimate scream redemption. I just have a feeling acend knockout liquid, and kru win the whole event.

His recent match history shows he got a bit better, but idk if it's t1 better. Especially as most of his games were against t2/3 eu, and only a few during t1 teams.

I guess since they're picking him up (if they do), then he must have improved.

idk people bro. Dude said it in iceland, and lost. This time he said it as a meme.
People reading too much into a joke.

Exclusivity.

having it drop and not drop again, will be a huge reason people want it. Plus free shit.

That tends to happen for orgs that try to play a villain and stick by it. G2 likes the banter, but they meme on losses.
Sen like the banter, but they dont meme after they lose. Well, not as much as G2 does.

The idea they're going for, I'm down for. It brings storylines, and viewers. A nice tame esport tends to be boring after awhile.

100%

He was a god for highlights in MM. In pro play, he had a few moments but nothing at the level he's hyped to, or at tarik.

Shroud was a PUB god. Every match he played, he got a highlight. In competitive, he was average. Nothing jaw dropping, but he had moments of amazingness.

Tarik, was far better in his peak than shroud ever was. Shroud just got insanely hyped by reddit when he was on front page every day.

CS is like 200days of travel. Think it was Tarik that said you're travelling so far. It's why even he was surprised nitro was going back to cs. Especially as his child was just born.

I guess Cs is that much of a passion for him, so props to that.

Majority of Na players prefered CS, and have said on stream before. Just their scene died during covid, so they migrated.

Nitro going back is purely for passion, as there's no guarantee he can perform at a T1 level anymore. Him staying in Val is smarter for his career, than going back to CS which liquid has been so shaky recently.

I also agree with you. Was just adding onto your point :)

ikr. I've only heard hype about mwzera, heat, and sacy. Everyone else was just there.
Plus doesn't every region hype up some new person every few months?

Bro, they need to take victor off skye. Dude has great mechanics but I dont think he's had a solid performance on skye in a long time.

Surprisingly out of modern fps games, I've had the most grown up discussions about Siege. Every region has had good fans when it comes to how they treat eachother.
ofc we have the EU>NA or NA>EU, etc. Right now it's BR>everyone. Which the biggest surprise is how respectful the siege BR fans are, compared to what I've encounted on cs, and val. Like, I've never had a bad experience with BR fans in siege, even when Eu/NA memed on latam(all SA siege is under latam), for a few years. right now they're ontop, and fans are humble. Scene is honestly a bit too nice at times as NA just hates on NA. Eu hates on EU, etc. game has 0 storylines which is sad.

like 200k viewers max on a good day. Think last OWL got 135k or so, with a 3.2mil prizepool. Guess that's the perk of having activision as the owner of the game. Can just pump money into it, even if it's a deficit.

It's because we're all anonymous behind a screen. no repercussions for chatting shit, or being a moron.

It's the same shit as league. Immature 18yr olds who have grown up on the internet, not knowing how to not be a cringy fan of their team/region. it's odd that you find people who just genuinely want to see good games, or good storylines. Like the newer set of esports fans take shit way too personally.

I miss the good days of 1.6 or early csgo where it wasn't as toxic as what we have now. Pretty sure so many toxic people have pushed away the people who genuinely like the game.
A few friends of mine refuse to use hltv, reddit, vlr, etc. Just because of the forums being cringy as fuck, and people taking shit way too personally.

The main bit that annoyed be with how he was playing, was forcing the guardian. He's been spamming it in ranked before the event, where it worked. Only place I saw it work at all, was on bind against Liquid, where he was hitting everything. Other than that, it just looked like 2.2k down the drain.

Other than that, I just dont think he's a split player. His last decent split game was the first match against f4q, where he went 22-16. Other than that, he's not played well on that map.