Speaking english does not mean he would be comfortable/good igling in english. Just look at redgar, he had a lot of issues igling in english at first. Sacy's english is better but doesn't mean he won't have issues. And he also hasn't igled since 2021 I think.

yep, it's gonna be hype

Is next week and has 8 North America vs South America match-ups out of 10. I can't describe how excited and scared at the same time I am. >_>

athxna, currently on MxM GC i believe

Honestly, think sen are screwed either way tbh. Either tenz stays in and continues to play poorly tanking the season or marved comes in, but roles are thrown into chaos again and they need time to adapt to a new player which again tanks the season.

There is no picking up players, rosters are locked until september

huh? dont understand

Ten essentially solo losing round 15, walks straight into enemy with utility out after hearing enemy break his sage wall
edit: they were up 4v2

ALL HAIL ATTACKING SOUL ESPORTS

Yep, the more I watch NRG, the more I think they won't be nearly as successful internationally. They just don't have the same firepower they did as last year with yay in the chamber meta. Thought ardiis could serve as workable replacement, but he's no where close.

no

No, tokyo winner determines who gets extra spot for champs
edit: meant tokyo winner*

I've never been the biggest fan of tasteless' casting of games outside of starcraft.

Outside of maybe split, double duelist isn't meta. Why would they do that?

DRX 2-1 PRX
TS 2-0 RRQ
C9 1-2 100T
NRG 2-0 MIBR

There's nothing illegal about it. There's just no point as no GC players are good enough to play at that level yet.

If they can perform on lan, sure. But that's the big question. Even if V1 dominate super hard for the rest of the year prior to GC championship, there's no way we'll know until they get there. Unless they put one of these NA GC tournaments on lan before that but I don't think that's happening.

Being hopeful≠delusional. E-sports≠Physical sports. It's impossible for biological women to compete with men in almost all physical sports. Just because it hasn't happened in valorant and it's unlikely to happen in the near future doesn't mean it will never happen. But you can stew in your pessimism if you wish. I'm done responding.

Lol sorry, you just sound like an asshole. Doing this is better than doing nothing. People also just want to see woman compete in valorant, even if they never get good enough to make it to the main circuit. Game changers kills two birds with one stone. Please stop your bitching.

Valo definitely has a large player base of women but how many of them are actually grinding the shit out of the game with the intention(or maybe not even the intention) of going pro? I can't tell you the ratio of men vs women doing this, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was literally 1000 to 1 despite valo have a huge female player-base(40% i think?).

This is one of the major reasons men dominate in e-sports. Besides the minor differences in reaction time, the greater tendency of men to throw them self into such competition is what creates such crazy disparity. Realistically, there is no way to address this, there will always be far more men in e-sports but a good start is to make it as easy as possible for women to enter competition. That is what game changers is doing.

And yes, no main circuit team is gonna recruit a gc player just because she's popping off, but a t2 hopeful team might. No one is expecting this to quickly work. It might be futile, but there's nothing wrong with putting in effort to try to elevate the level of play of women.

I'd truly love to see how'd she do in a potter-EGish situation where you just threw her in with good talent. Probably end up being disappointed but still, would love to see her try.

The goal is to pull more women into competing in the first place. The hope is that some of them might eventually take the next step, join a co-ed roster and do something of significance in the main circuit. Without game changers, you just have no women competing at all and no hope of that scenario panning out.

Nahh, probably not. Flor would hold her own and the rest of the players would get aim diffed unfortunately. Although, with the way KC's been playing, I could definitely see them maybe taking a map.

yes it is

Hmm, read this pretty fast but my general take away from this: George is pretty creepy. That's about it. I miss anything?
edit: Also see people calling this pedo? lol she's 18, and this started less than a month ago, definitely can't be calling him a pedo, he's just creepy.

Yea, it really was too much. Hyping yourself up that much can really be problematic, especially if you under perform expectations. Just puts you in the worst psychological state to recover. Also, just obnoxious for your competition lol. Hopefully V1/meL can do better at this years GC championships (assuming they make it, which they should).

uhh huh, and last year it was bob>>>> i wonder why it's suddenly changed.

Convince me otherwise.

7-5 at half. Tech pause for whatever reason and when it ended we had a visual bug putting scoreline at 8-4. Score wasn't corrected until we arrived at 12-6.

Lol you might not see it, doesn't mean it isn't in his dms.

Glad EG lost, that is all.

vlr rankings had some meaning pre-partnership when we semi-regularly had open qualifier vct tourneys. Now they're absolutely meaningless and should be completely disregarded.

The title says americas, why you guys talking about EMEA/Pacific in the first place?

Yep. They can look to make us change our minds next week but I don't think it can be debated for now.

"Don't disrespect scream like that" someone said.

I don't think these games are as closely moderated and DSG won anyway so they probably didn't bother intervening.

Yep, looks fixed now. Guess i shouldn't be too annoyed since i'm sure modding this place must be tough, just weird, i've never noticed them have issues with anything till now and it's just gc stuff lol. Good luck with your matches, rooting for ya and have you guys winning in my pickems.

They've been really slow on all the gc stuff lately. The NA gc event didn't go up until the day it began. They also didn't even post/update the LCQ portion of the emea tournament until after it was literally over. It's kinda annoying tbh.

Sorry, who is that?

I'm confused. What do we think about what? Teams are allowed to freely use their 6th man. There is nothing to think about.

It's obvious they would. The viewership from this morning is proof of that. The Japanese viewership for the PRX vs T1 games remained much higher than what we usually see for non Zeta/DFM games. At least that's what it seemed like to me.

detonation will dominate. EZ

ego

Define normal. It's definitely not normal if you're working or have a busy school schedule. while plenty of people with the time will, riot don't expect valorant viewers to watch multiple regions. It doesn't make sense to expect them to schedule around that possibility, nor is it reasonable for them to do so. Valorant is a global e-sport. Choose a region to follow closely and loosely follow others if you don't have the time to watch everything.

Definitely not that one sided. Could even be close. This team almost beat Xset.

people are a little slow on here sometimes

Might be right. Is it actually spelled kyedae? Never seen that before.

Nah i haven't actually played since last summer. Just watch now. Peaked ascendant 2 but would be much worse now.

nope, minutes at most

The DSG players are streaming all their games