to expand upon my argument:

some people take the relative competitiveness of gc vs challengers/vct as a sign that this group CANNOT ever compete, rather than taking the more nuanced and complicated view of understanding that gc is an effort to develop a marginalized community that has had additional hurdles to overcome in the competitive space and community writ large. the same applies to india. to say india will NEVER be as good as the other regions does not stem from reason or logic, but bigotry. b0tsi

it was an analogy from the community... we must stand up to such bigotry, such hate, which is far more complex and insidious than the nationalistic forms with which we are familiar

liberation!

freaks? bigoted. it is not funny to make fun of others... do you like when people say b0tsi? they make fun of your region as having a massive population but no talent? no... you dont, and you shouldnt!

now making fun of people with disabilities

what if i was on the spectrum?

ultimately, all such phobia comes from a place of fear, a fear of that which is unknown, that which disturbs the signifying systems in which they relied to maintain some semblance of structure in a world of overwhelming complexity and chaos. we cannot buy into the system of hate by being upset at them, see them with pity. they are, in many cases, mentally disturbed--the incells, that is

what context do you want? does someone need context for someone saying the hard R or someone calling australians redneck prisoners? context is he uses this accent all of the time as a 'joke' that approximately 0 people laugh at in tarik's games or the games/streams of other professionals viewed by tens of thousands

its an analogy, but i dont think logic is your strong suit

ngl it IS very funny to mock the danish accent, it has to be one of the hardest accents to take seriously, like when i hear it i just think to myself 'are they joking?' and it tickles me

out of context?

tarik is a central channel for the broadcast of professional valorant

lets pretend its all fun and games, and that we're not full of bigots who are subtly encouraged by the presence of personalities like
Exalt, sinatraa, and crosbycs

he does this impression all of the time.

i have a thicc albanian accent

exactly the problem.

Please do not apply a stereotype to me. Albania is a complex country with people of many differing viewpoints and walks of life. My family come from Gjirokastra, the sky is open and bright

+1

this is bigotry disguised as humor

exclusionary exercise of power by Exalt, likely repeating the same structures of oppression imposed on Latinx individuals like himself, an expression of colonial violence manifest in the Othering of another, the phantasmatic exercise of power that in fact reiterates the very power under which he has been repressed

most sane vlr user.

Please, tarik, get this guy off your stream

Exalt does this all the time, here he is doing it during VCT stream with tarik... Exalt got the whole squad laughing...

vlr users, ask yourself this: is it ok to mock the accent of another culture or ethnicity? the same answer applies here.

if you watch his streams, the vast majority of what he is doing isnt skin or crate opening related.... youre just a hater

i feel like non-eu may have difficulty understanding ohne

americans are used to sinatraa accent, and shanks

xqc... they are totally different.... youre my drillaaaa

WASSSSS?

Ohne clears... who is the ohne of val? s0m is hilarious sometimes, but its a different vibe -- Ohne is the master of dry delivery. We take those all day, all night

i play 99.999% more val than cs, this guy is just hilarious -- feelsad we have tarik... most val streamers have either two personalities -- boring, or sinatraa accent -- i think the reason zellsis is unique is he embraces the madness, same with xeppa, but those guys tooo professional to be full troll like ohne, they have other priorities. val needs an onhe... who is he... who is she??? wass wassssssssss

i see a lot of you calling him a gambling stream: he doesnt gamble, other than openning csgo crates, he is more than just a skin guy, he's now doing all the watch parties for major events, playing with pros, and generally making content in the csgo space (which has lacked such a figure)

also, if you compare him to xqc then you clearly have no idea who he is

tldr: ohne clears, who will be the ohne of valulrante?

Which VLR users are Riot employees? What's Leo's acct?

snoozing here bruda. you guys have to be riot employees

i said he influenced the plan and deserves as much blame as the corporation

then i listed 4 other points about riot's failure -- Zerphyr's response "he said 'greatly'" -- my initial response wasnt about greatly vs not at all, it was about the fact that he did influence the decision, that he's repeatedly failed the community, and riot in general has dropped the ball.. instead you chatbots stuck in feedback loop and your circuits are frieddd

xd yes they are trialing and certainly not just filling to help the VCT teams find practice in a region where NO EVENTS ARE HAPPENING SO THERE IS NO PRACTICE FOR THE REMAINING 4 VCT TEAMS

I didn't say greatly influence? do you eat led? why no brein werk for you?

leo clearly influenced the decision. we shouldnt just 'blame the corporation' as the og poster said

you no brein lil zerphyr

very thoughtful response. adds to the discussion A LOT. responds to my points critically, adding depth and insight. also, you kiss ass soooo well... putting your heart into it, respect bruda

you should do an OF, the way you put that whole boot in your mouth

T2 SHOULD be a way to get into T1, but now its ONLY as an individual -- any good team will have their best players poached, and thus the team that 'ascends' will likely just be random winner of last tournament of the year and not a consistently good team from a year of competition

youre saying the head of global esports for valorant didnt influence this plan? so he's just a puppet? if that was the case, they can get a way better puppet who doesnt tweet like a chatbot the most absurd replies.

in any case, he was clearly involved, and the issue is that riot COULD have helped plan international or non-region locked events for the off-season, as people warned about A YEAR AGO being a problem, but they just didnt... they failed. and now hundreds of players are out of contracts for the first time since beta.

friendly reminder: if riot allowed 3rd party alternative to ranked like FPL, non-franchised players would be able to sustain themselves outside contracts. also, if riot used a tiny fraction of skin money to invest into orgs and the scene, this would be a non-issue. this is corporate greed from our new Chinese overlords at tencent. CAPITALISM HAS BEEN OVERRUN BY STATE CONTROL, THE COMMUNIST PARTY HAS WON AND NOW MAINTAINS TOTAL DOMINATION OF THE MARKET, BOW TO THY MASTER, LICK THY BOOT, SCHIZOPOST ON VLR (this was an automated response, I asked ChatGPT for)

exactly.

as for the idea that tier1 should have such access to players, and that players do want this, i think this is a valid argument. nevertheless, this just seems like an excuse not to care about anything outside franchising, and thus undercutting the necessary structural dimensions for cultivating talent worthy of poaching...

How does this make news? Arguable the worst of APEKS players looking for a team... that's like reporting news about ec1s.... come on, way more exciting roster moves than this are NOT being reported on vlr... please, staff, dont just make posts because youre friends with a player, make them for all players or none at all

Challengers has just been reduced to a farming system for talent

Any team doing well will have their top talent poached mid-season

No team will be able to build consistency

Another L from Leo Fraudia

actually, youre right

other than mCe, which scrims featured coaches? I guess C9 is the easiest to speculate for a rebuild

on the other thread you said 'the best gc players are trans' which is just false. the only team to win GC was a full non-trans team (not that it matters) ... incel alert

comments like this are why your comment about GC at Champs are actually negative

bruv, being an ally doesnt make u an sjw, it just makes you not an incel

your name is Valgod, you are peak 300rr MAX and you have liquid flair... botcas redgarted....

with all teams except EG being done for the season, the VCT teams need other teams to practice against

these 'scrims' are just pug mixes scrimming to help the VCT teams during this time of need

these rosters are NOT trials... most players are taking time off and relaxing after a busy year, these are just the players available to help

the point isn't whether GC can compete with non-GC right now.. the point is that GC will help develop a minority of players who face discrimination from incels like you. they benefit from having a competitive league that helps them to develop without the harassment from smol pp monke like u

yungcalc gives context to the fight in the twitter comments

emotions... some people have emotions, but yelling full blast at strangers over a video game isn't one of them

most rational vlr users...

'messing around'... he yells at the top of his lungs... yungcalc didnt know it was yay, and yay was genuinely upset...

you all probably remember when steel threatened to leak the scrim vods proving yay was toxic, but now we finally get a taste of it beyond his untasteful tweets:

witness the greatest battle of egos, yay vs yungcalc VOLUME WARNING, YAY HAS ANGER ISSUES

it goes without saying that most of the incells posting transphobic and misogynistic comments about Game Changers on vlr are bad at the game and have never actually talked with a woman in their lives (im not sure they had mothers, most of these guys are feral)

please, incells, reply to this post to make the lives of admins easier. you post your dumb hate, you get banned.

for the rest of us, show your support for GC

the hate from incells only further justifies the need for GC, the need for a competitive space where a minority have a chance to develop and thrive outside the dystopian hellscape of ranked and ugly men projecting their hate on strangers they'd be afraid to irl

update: didn't expect THIS many andrew tate fans to spawn into the thread. sad sight, truly. such smol breins

top 3 in champs when meta was shoot and kill. now that game actually requires brain, this guy is useless with his big ego brother

he for sure ruined it. he forced out sliggy. he forced out the igl. they were already a bad team, but he didnt offer a fix to the problems, he just raged his way into power and then got dropped for failing

You are silver if you think ScreaM should rejoin Liquid. He ruined that team before, he'll do it again. He was a washed tier4 cs player when he switched to Valorant, his tweets after losing this season are so dramatic, making it seem like he'd return to CS when NO ONE would have him even if he has clout...

the guy can inconsistently shoot, and has 0iq for top tier strategy... all aim, no brain. head filled with clout, useless as a team other than for views

truth is this guy is like Wardell -- will NEVER work in a good team because his ego is too big and he's too toxic to be PROFESSIONAL

Fnatic should be moved to Americas for regular season (the most competitive region by far)

EMEA should be downgraded into a minor league, like those found in MENA, to give time for this underdeveloped region to progress

CIS become its own region

Frankfurt servers nuked

BR > EU

time to be honest, as a European I can admit that our region is horrible and Fnatic are the only good team. they are in their own league, the Fnatic league -- the rest of Europea is just a retirement home for washed talent from 2021... Americas clears. SEA clears. The only Liquid at Champs is piss.

add new talent, enough with these washed bots. +kovaQ or poach something from PRX

he is. many albanians moved after the war... his father is swedish, mother albanian

no, this is the eagle, because the albanian soars above the rest, like leo with his drone