Genuinely playing like they're drunk.

I'm with you on this. I'm fully expecting it to be G2, FUT and TH with their sub win the first round games somehow. It'd be so fitting for the Valorant standards of being a clownfiesta

I blame meta shift whenever a good duelist falls off in Val.

I play the game like once a month and every 3 months there will be agents either added or having their abilities changed around. If you translate that to people who play a lot and only do 1 tournament every 4 months it probably is going to be amplified.

In recent years it's G2 for placements, for play style it's Furia.

arT is goated for that IGL style.

It's still not really wrong. The vast majority of pros have played CS for a long period of time and now play Valorant professionally. Even if they weren't pros in CS they still had enough of an interest in it to make an ESEA or Faceit account.

Obviously not all Valorant pros but it's a huge amount of the franchised players. It genuinely makes sense that people who like tactical shooters would play one that was around when Valorant didn't exist and CS was that game. Theory applies mostly to players 18+ obviously as they'd have to be old enough to even have an interest in CS when Valorant didn't exist, like cNed for example.

He was also permanently soloqueueing and made it to Immo without even knowing what half the agents did. You have to respect the raw talent there.

Fuck I didn't realise Victor was food from CS.

Pretty much all of original SEN, 100T and Envy were CS players

I fucking love Nitr0 but let's not pretend he's been tier 1 in CS since 2020. His last period in Tier 1 was 2019 tbh. Liquid has been tier 2 since 2020.

"Only" like donk isn't probably the most valuable player of the last year. He could carry spirit and they added shiro to back him up

cNed take my energy

Goated throwback

Damn Chronicle really broke your brain when he cooked you last year.

I hope you recover some day.

Tier 2 most likely.

I am unironically fully expecting a FUT upset. Every single time the community unanimously backs or shits on something it ends up going the other way.

I believe in the VLR effect.

Yet another retarded take from the guy who got voted stupider than Trembolona.

You forgot your crown King.

Nice shifting of the goalposts again.

From NA to Americas as soon as it suits you. This is why nobody takes you goons seriously. NA has been treating SA like shit ever since LOUD, KRU and Leviathan have started having issues.

Keep coping though.

And people said I was delusional for saying Trembo isn't the most retarded person on VLR.

NGL I reckon this tournament will end with an upset win. EDG seems like a stretch though seeing as FPX struggled and still looked better than EDG.

Fully expecting a FUT or G2 upset tournament win at this point.

Ah so we're moving goalposts now. Nice to know you don't even truly believe what you say.

Keep coping I'm sure it'll change reality.

Oh really? I was under the impression Nexa would have been. Wonder why his performance is struggling a bit his tourney then.

He's the only player G2 could have picked and still got Hooxi's stats. Feels bad that Nexa is having to support him and IGL in Hooxi's absence though, Nexa hated the stress of IGLing previously.

He's a stand in. Stand-ins are almost universally shit, he's probably only got it because he's friends with NiKo and anything is better than letting TaZ play.

Stewie didn't even make it onto a Tier 2 team. Last team he was in crumbled so hard they replaced him and his friends with EU Tier 4 players.

Why would you want that Reddit feature? It's the most retarded aspect of this forum.

If it was removed I can assure you there would be about half the bait.

Pretty much opposite over here. People tried Valo for like a year or so then all seem to have gone back to CS.

I genuinely haven't heard of someone playing it in years. I assumed it just died out.

People play that game as an eSport?

I think it's more nostalgia because EDG were the first Chinese heavy hitters.

Literally only people I've seen talk shit about him are either NA or fake flag APAC (The Majority of PRX flairs).

Unironically I see PRX losing to G2 in the first match then storming through lower bracket.

I really don't see EDG beating Heretics though, FPX looked so much better than EDG has for a while and it came really close with an eventual loss.

If we're talking a Valorant year then you're forgetting Tokyo last year. Otherwise you're deliberately moving goalposts to include only 2 tournaments when a Val year is 3.

I think it'd have to be both strat development and growing talent. It doesn't matter how good your strats and players are, sometimes you will still lose due to the minutiae of the game. You have to ensure you're going to get as many chances as possible at the trophy which means you need to ensure you're going to have top end players permanently.

Basically you have to play the percentages, it's what Astralis did and they've had the most prevalent era of any team.

Turkish-American. Pretty sure he speaks the language no?

Talent spread was an issue everywhere imo. The development scene was the big issue but it was to do with where NA orgs out their funding compared to EU orgs.

Imo the match fixing issue was earlier than that considering iBUYPower happened. Remember although he wasn't involved in the scandal, one of the teams members was in the only major winning team for NA. If the match fixing didn't happen maybe that IBP team would have achieved a lot more.

Franchising stupidity imo

NGL FPX looked better than I've ever felt EDG looked.

They clearly changed their gameplay as they went and improved or tried different things.

These are possibly the worst superteam proposals I've ever seen.

CSGO was uncontested by Valorant in eSports until 2021. NA collapsed in CS because players demanded ridiculous pay for average performance and orgs started pulling out. As a result orgs that remained only picked up tried and tested players instead of developing homegrown talent which led to teams aging and getting worse.

The only region that actually had a player base issue hindering their growth was APAC in CS. Solo spent his entire career working on it in Korea and AUS likely would have done something crazy if they had more players/orgs to keep their scene active.

Not even a chance. Tarik struggles on faceit these days. He's not going to be able to win tournaments against young prodigies like Donk.

It's been analysed to death but the core of it is that NA CS focuses too much on individual heroics or executions whereas EU focused heavily on mid rounding and small team plays (i.e 2/3 person treats). Astralis changed how the game was played and NA never caught on to it. The 2 times an NA team got high again later were Liquid and NRG/EG and both times it was insane individuals carrying them but its not consistent for tournament to tournament.

Ah shit that hurts then. At least he got a long time on the team so will likely have been noticed. Valorant franchising is dreadful for players getting maybe 1 tournament then being dropped down to tier 2 again and nobody even getting a chance to see what they're capable of with high tier support and development.

You genuinely don't even need bait with the shit takes so many people have for this eSport. As it is the forum is just a bait fiesta, especially during match times.

How long was he on the team for? I know he's been around for ages in general.

I can't say I follow Americas outside of playoff matches. What happened to Net?

I would say all bait merchants need to touch grass tbh. This forum is borderline Reddit tier because of them.

If everything is bait there is no point responding to any of if

Nobody cares who you think deserves a win. Winning is winning whatever copium you huff.

I actually respect it if they win. Absolutely nobody believed in them during Americas playoffs it felt.

Plus leaf got death threats from BR CS at 16/17 for being too good. Nice to see him continue to do well.

You keep yapping but they still have 2 trophies. You'd try and claim a FIFA world cup as a fluke.

He genuinely believes his shit though, gets mentioned off site weirdly too. Only similar things I can remember were I think it was babysasuke or Revlo who got roasted on the forums by Chronicle.

I weirdly respect that more than bait merchants though. At least stand by your shit takes.

If there was less bait merchants I wouldn't have to filter out flags and flairs when in threads.

If you believe in fluke tournament wins I don't know what to tell you my guy. You're clearly delulu.