Selex
Country: Nigeria
Registered: July 5, 2021
Last post: May 5, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Posts: 882
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Yinsu, Bren, Sideshow have all said that their wardrobes are chosen for them. They have some influence but that's it. So yes, it is true and the stylist did choose those emo sleeves.

posted 2 days ago

Fair enough.

posted 3 days ago

Every single caster/interviewer/hoster on riot broadcasts have their wardrobe chosen for them. Not sure how it's "unprofessional" when her employers are choosing what she wears.

posted 3 days ago

No, he did not say that. He said that furia last year had players that were far more individually talented than his current roster and if they had been able to work together, they'd have been able to win something. Obviously this talon roster would crush furia of last year, because the furia of last year did not work well as a team. But that doesn't mean he's wrong in what he said, you all are just mischaracterizing/completely changing what he actually said.

posted 5 days ago

It's map differential followed by round differential. Never have we used map wins as a tiebreaker in valorant.

posted 1 week ago

The teams that get byes get one extra point since they bypass that first match.

https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VCT/2024/Championship_Points/Americas

look at KRU's points. They have 6 despite only having 5 wins. It's because they've confirmed 1st place in groups, thus receiving a bye and getting an extra point as if they've already won once in playoffs.

posted 1 week ago

incorrect

posted 1 week ago

You people realize that the idea that the teams just stop giving a fuck after qualifying for playoffs is absurd right? Qualification for split 2 playoffs takes into account both your record from spit 1 (now) and split 2. No one is just "throwing and playing for fun". If they are, they're morons and throwing their chances of getting to champions.

posted 1 week ago

Potter is the goat. Period.

posted 1 week ago

You're acting like you actually have proof of that, instead of a fucking pic with like 5 lines of conversation. He could've never said it or just been clearly joking. We have absolutely no idea. I think your bias clearly shows if you can't recognize that.

posted 1 week ago

GE's coaches are great (this season). The player quality is the issue.

posted 1 week ago

You're an example of a person who just wants to shit on GC. It takes two brain-cells to notice that both teams are running 3 duelists and obviously it isn't a normal format.

posted 2 weeks ago

By default, you have to prep more because of all the weird comps from M8. No way around it.

posted 3 weeks ago

Yes, yes they are.

posted 1 month ago

No. They're not.

posted 1 month ago

Just how it is. English is probably the most widely spoken language in the world. People watching the english broadcast (more so than other language broadcasts) can be/are from all over the world. Gotta be unbiased with that many different types of ppl watching.

posted 1 month ago

Definitely not how it works based off a quick google search, what people are saying and the actual tweet from PRX. Whatever it is, it's a serious medical condition. You can't dodge military service in Singapore otherwise.

posted 1 month ago

Peak viewership with china included is literally several dozen million in LoL. Lets not try to compare to LoL viewership. We're not hitting those numbers.

edit: https://www.cynopsis.com/11-10-22-worlds-2022-shatters-viewership-record/ 73.8 million peak for the 2021 LoL world championship final including Chinese viewers.

posted 1 month ago

They literally had a dog run through like a second earlier lol

posted 1 month ago

Yes, typing like I graduated high school = unemployed. Totally. You really owned me there. Good night.

posted 1 month ago

Please stop acting like a child. You've said and continue saying nothing of substance or logic that would lead a reasonable person to believe your assertion. I'm clearly not the one who lost this argument.

edit: also fyi, capitalizing things for the sake of emphasizing points does not mean i'm heated. It's also very funny you chose not to actually address anything but respond with a nothing-burger

posted 1 month ago

Wtf are you talking about? Valorant WAS NOT at a 1% PC bang play rate a year ago. Holy shit. You didn't win the stat arguments. The assertions you're making given what we've seen in the stats is absolutely absurd. If Korea is such a surging region, why didn't their representative in Ascension last year even making it out of group stage?

You keep referencing Overwatch but the circumstances surrounding this game ARE NOT the same. I have no doubt that Korea will manage to be more prominent on the global stage in the coming years but there is 0% chance you see the domination we've seen in LoL where they're taking champions year on year for long periods of time.

I'm clearly not the biased one to any reasonable person reading this discussion.

posted 1 month ago

You're the one turning off your brain. Even with an ~80% increase in talent/player pool, you're not gonna go from a region where only a single team(now 2) managed to do anything ever internationally(with a best placement of 3rd in DRX, 2nd in GenG now) to a region that can systematically dominate EVERY SINGLE OTHER REGION.

You're the one clearly not using your brain if you think that's how it's truly gonna go. Keep watching Valorant. You'll wake from that delusion sooner or later.

posted 1 month ago

Lol. My math is just fine. You're acting as if we've been far off these numbers for a long time. I might be recalling incorrectly but wasn't the PC bang rate at 5-6% like 18 months ago. So why hasn't Korea been dominating?

Also, you're being way too simplistic with that math. 1/4th as much popularity doesn't just automatically equal 1/4th as much promising pro talent (Not that they would actually be able to dominate with that number). When you have such a high play rate for LoL, the most promising talent is gonna flood LoL at a dis-proportionally higher rate. You can't just compare % play rate 1 to 1. Real life doesn't work like that.

posted 1 month ago

No, it's really not.

posted 1 month ago

You're more or less proving my point. 10% play rate. At its' height, Overwatch surpassed LoL with over 40% play rate. Valorant would have to hit that level of popularity for a sustained period of time for what you're saying to be possible.

posted 1 month ago

Koreans may very well dominate Pacific but they won't do it globally. This game has never seen the type of peak in popularity in Korea that it has in Overwatch, LoL and brood war in the past. That's what allows/allowed Koreans to dominate everyone else in those titles. That doesn't mean they can't do well or even win an international title, like GenG has a good chance of doing tomorrow, but they're never gonna absolutely dominate everyone else. That's just not realistic unless Valorant becomes drastically more popular in Korea and can pull upcoming talent/youth from those other titles.

posted 1 month ago

Yep but unfortunately they seem to have downgraded in the "brains" department.

They better show some innovation come stage 1 or as the year progresses or they definitely won't be coming near any trophies this year.

posted 1 month ago

They definitely haven't peaked. They're average to terrible on like 3 maps. And ignoring split, they can also improve substantially on their other good maps. I'm not sure how you can logically call that peaking. As long as they keep grinding, they'll only get stronger as the year progresses.

posted 1 month ago

Ok fair enough. Was just responding to your comment above/original unedited post.

posted 1 month ago

Those are stupid comments but ultimately irrelevant. We're talking about a single person, JohnQT, who has expressed that playing while fasted has been a challenge. Nothing wrong with people wanting to commend him with that knowledge in mind.

posted 1 month ago

Not everyone is the same. I personally have 0 issues with fasting and doing sports/other competitive activities. But that's not necessarily the case for other people/johnqt. Stop pretending as if your personal experience is perfectly representative of everyone else in the world. It never is.

posted 1 month ago

The last time an EMEA team not named Fnatic beat a NA team. lol

Not saying this trend will continue but it's honestly very funny.

posted 1 month ago

Randomness is the only way to make it fair. You, nor I have any idea how strong the teams are compared to each other. How would it be fair to penalize what potentially could be the strongest team for winning a close series against another team that could hypothetically be the second strongest team in the tournament? How would it be fair to reward what could potentially be a mediocre team smashing what could hypothetically be the weakest team in a tournament by far?
I'm not saying this describes what's happened thus far in this tournament, but in any tournament with this format (where you aren't in groups and given the chance to play all other teams in said group), you can't just arbitrarily decide all teams are equal and use hyper-specifc criteria of performance (maps/rounds won) when you don't have the same opponents. It doesn't make sense to do that.

posted 1 month ago

You're talking about non-existent seeding. The only thing that matters in swiss is whether you win or lose your match. 1-0s vs 1-0s and 0-1s vs 0-1s all randomly drawn. That's it.

posted 1 month ago

so?

posted 1 month ago

First stage you play opposite group

posted 1 month ago

Said the brain damaged fan.

It's been more than 3 years. This sort of logic doesn't apply anymore. Valorant and CS are NOT the same game. If all of the CS talent switched over right this moment, do you know what would happen? The vast majority of them would get shit on because of all the differences and how much valorant has evolved in the last couple of years. Sure, some might be able to adapt pretty quickly but most wouldn't and might not even be able to in the long run.

The "best players" are playing Valorant right now in T1/T2.

posted 1 month ago

Sentinels are 10-1 on Sunset

posted 2 months ago

true

posted 2 months ago

?

posted 2 months ago

Sen bans icebox

posted 2 months ago
  1. SEN
  2. LOUD
  3. KC
  4. PRX
  5. TH
  6. GENG
  7. EDG
  8. FPX
posted 2 months ago

3-1 SEN

posted 2 months ago
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