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I could totally see fans having that perspective after their 100 to 0 turnaround post-madrid.

I'm not a huge SEN fan, but I like seeing good competition. Hope they bounce back.

Depends on your country and family. I was an occasional driver on my mom's car insurance plan for 5 years before getting my full license and buying my own car. If you're in a major city, it's bound to be terrible. I registered my vehicle in a suburb one of my parents live in. I pay $207 CAD/month, living in populous dense southern Ontario. Next year I'll be 25, so it'll drop even further from what it's at. Wayyyy better than other people I know.

Not sure how it works in most European countries, but in Canada it goes by provincial guidelines. In my province, we have a written G1 which you can complete as early as your 16th birthday, allowing you drive once passed with a full fledged G driver for practice. You can complete your G2 a year after that, and then your G within 5 years of completing your G2.

Get a hearing aid, significantly reduce MPO at frequencies above 1kHz, you'll be fine.

The occlusion might not be enough to drown their voices out, sadly.

Sometimes a break can be beneficial for a team. I imagine part of the struggle for them in S2 was a mix of burnout and other teams having TONS of their VODs to watch.

Imo valorant is way harder to keep form in a team than a lot of other eSports. The meta shifts pretty frequently, and I feel like there's almost always a way to counter how a team plays, as long as the support staff are doing their job. That's what makes team like prx so impressive.

May I ask what you do for a job, or what your education was?

I have a BA myself, and I won't necessarily get something linked to the field it was in, im doing a technical degree in college now. So ill admit that not all uni degrees are useful.

However, AI becoming as widespread in its influence today only bolsters how important STEM jobs are now and will be in the future. You need good grades for those fields, and it'll be more competitive as post-secondary populations expand. I took sociology, a subject I'm pretty grateful to have taken because it gave me a good worldview on things. You seem like a lot of people in my program who were just downright cynical in how they saw the world.

Hope I'm wrong. Otherwise, enjoy bouncing on the social safety net.

I have a feeling there's restrictions on players who already attempted to qualify not being allowed to play for a team who did. Could be wrong, but I remember this being an issue in CS some years ago.

Until I read this comment, I thought you were a troll. Now I realize you're just a piece of shit. Life is not just about valorant.

I don't think you know shit about sacrificing things for a career if you're suggesting someone not prioritize their basic secondary education. Even zywoo, easily one of if not the biggest name in counterstrike, skipped events to prioritize finishing their basic ed.

Good for zekken, that makes him the exception, not the rule though. He's also in an entirely different part of the world, so maybe there's a contrast between the intensity of curriculi, restrictions on exemptions from classes, among other things.

Seriously, you've either gotta be a naive teenager, or a man-child. I haven't prayed since I was a young catholic schoolboy, but tonight, ill be praying for you. Live well.

Idk the whole time I have to hear mimi and the tall skinny cross-dresser cast together all I can think is "get a room" in the most wholesome way possible.

Na'vi has a great team though. I'll agree to someone saying they're inconsistent though

Word. Not enough regular player between players from different continents. While I don't think it's necessarily always better, cs teams have players in EU to get better practice & play in more events

Except t2 because of how little they played between ascension & this past March.

Is that actually something's account? Shouldn't he be verified?

This reminds me of a map TH had against EG I think it was. Keloqz went nuclear first half on defense and barely got a kill on attack iirc

Bros bringing 2023 t3xture when he was delegated to sentinel.

Chill.

Don't they have a watch-party in an office or something??

Could have swore I've seen it through the years during champs/masters events

Maybe that's just for employees/affiliates, idk

Demon1 didn't play on many teams prior to joining EG. He had great stats on mix teams, a true diamond in the rough, hardly playing enough pro games to be seen by anyone yet. Both players are suffering a lot from the fact that they can't play raze well consistently.

Realistically, NRG has a wealth of experience around demon1, the same core that set up prime yay, ironically.

Yay is most definitely in a dysfunctional team, no doubt, but I think he's past his prime. If an NA team signs him next year, I would love to be proven wrong.

Cope.

Corey ain't even been an initiator by choice, verno has played flex most of his career so far, he started flexing senti this season.

Also, isn't nitr0 M80s IGL?

It was at this moment, I realized what a waste of time this website is.

Okay, but this is cope. He's the owner of an esports org, and most of his responses here scream of an inferiority complex with how petty he acts.

Quiting a vice is difficult, but, sadly, being a public figure raises the bar on how one should act. I hope he quits successfully tho fr.

Idk if he was toxic on 100T or not. From watching his streams occasionally, I think he's decent mechanically, but it takes more than that to be a pro.

If sen's bad form continues, I feel like sacy goes back to a BR team of his own free will. The Sen guys have a nice culture within the team, but sacy definitely seems out of place watching their content with him imo. Not that he can't be friends w/ em, but it seems like the cultural barrier is pretty apparent, and I think there's better initiators out there.

I like yay, and I don't agree with the hate he's been getting for the genghsta drama, but he is HOT GARBAGE brother. Even in the rounds he looks Stellar, the man always fucks it up. Him and demon1 have been outmoded in the current meta, but the latter still has a good environment around him to at least strive to old form. Imo yay could be a good duelist on an okay NA team, but I think he's lost a lot of motivation. Moving to pacific was a terrible idea for him imo.

That was honestly even more unstable than things are now. No motivation to sign a roster as an org if there's no guarantee they can get all the publicity associated with being in the T1 valorant scene.

Most of these orgs just need to get their shit together. They keep/sign garbage players (i.e. mibr, 100T) scramble to organize their comps before the season starts (I.e. furia), or have no roster stability across the season (I.e. c9).

Only benefit to the old system was an influx of new talent coming in each new season. Still happens in the current system though (I.e. wo0t, havoc, keiko, et cetera)

Lose, not loose.

This gave me a headache

I feel like invy/jremy on any other team in pacific would turn them into a potential title contender. TS, imo, have always been an upset team. Probably not making it to any international events imo

They're

Wo0t will do the same and frag better. Pati hasn't been in tier 1 for a long time, and it showed during his time with TH.

Also, 10+ assists per map is anything but difficult while playing the roles he was on

You are = formal (I.e. the form of English you would use in business or academics)

You're = what you say to random motherfuckers at the BBQ when talking about how lifted your truck is

There's a massive talent pool in turkey, that's why one of the masters events was hosted in Istanbul. Turkey also has a better connection to Europe at least. Indian players will mostly just be founded on mumbai/Delhi servers I think. Far too isolated for the Indian talent pool to increase in quality & quantity.

Fr, great initiator player, but Trent and verno have both mained sova. They can also both flex onto senti/viper, but brawk can't afaik

I'd say it's the most important sport in terms of coordinated team play and importance of a good division of labor. You need big tough guys on offense and defense (moreso than you do in hockey), players who can run, dodge people trying to tackle them, and understand where they need to be on the field for a given play. Your QB has to have an amazing arm and on the fly thinking, as well as being a good communicator between the coach and your teammates.

TDs / field goals are scored different than you probably think. Saying a TD is easy in the NFL is like saying it's easy to score a goal in football/soccer in champion's league.

I'm saying all this and I hardly even watch American football.

KRU gonna beat at least 2/3 of the NA teams on this list imo

Well, let's consider that they bought the gambit cs roster, made their trades, then bought a VCT spot, and then signed the most high-profile player in NA (at the time) for what would presumably be a high-paying salary. Even if they had a lot of money before all of that, they can't just spontaneously generate the revenue they would need to try to break-even for the year. It doesn't help that through all of those investments, they had 1 tournament win with their CS roster before getting Perfecto and electronic, and no results for their valorant squad, outside of a pretty successful regular season in vct.

All in all, the org took on a high amount of risk over a pretty short period of time, with barely any results to help attract more sponsors and/or merch sales.

idgaf about what mCe said about the org or about yay, I also don't care what some russian on vlr says while unironically using xD in 2024.

No point in even having groups tbh, they play each other anyways

LMFAO, fax.

in what world would you sign shahzam as a secondary duelist when you have tenz on the team

Hmmm, could be verno/alfajer good. He has nuts aim, I've never seen him in matches tho ngl. Could only see him improving TH tho, better than half the roster

I think it's just played out, world-building and character development are top-notch. The pacing could have been way better, but Naruto set a standard.

Meanwhile anime like JJK and Solo Leveling (the latter being very new still) have pretty great pacing. Also not unwilling to do flashback arcs which I sort of wish we had more of with anime like naruto.

Tough.

Naruto (if we're just talking main story arc)

Hunter x hunter

Bleach

One piece and/or Jojo

HM to JJK because it'll probably be my favorite by the time it's done, or I stop watching anime. There's a bunch of others that I love but are too short, sadly.

I think it's the best out of the three. I hate sunset, and breeze I hate even more just because of how monotonous the comps get. If I play 10 games of breeze, it will be virtually the same composition in 8 or 9 of those games. They should take breeze out and bring back haven or fracture. I'd even take pearl back if it played differently

getting downvoted by BRs. Trent is a monster. It's probably more of a modest and accurate prediction to say Trent could be just as good in VCT. High bar though.

TIL you get jacked on treadmills

I don't think they 'made' TenZ play controller, I think he genuinely likes the role. Hopefully they don't keep pancada in contract jail, would like to see him replace Tuyz on LOUD, or see him go to FURIA.

But as much as Zellsis is a bit of a meme-streamer, I also think he brings a ton of experience from other teams and is someone who can be a real solid emotional leader. Zekken and tenz are pretty quiet, so is Johnqt, and English isn't a first language for pancada and sacy. I see john also getting a lot more help for mid round calling w/ zellsis.

I think flyuh performs better with a team with lots of structure. Not that I don't think sentinels has that, but they aren't org trying to sign a team long term. They seem to sign talent and think it will amount to success. I think a lot of NA ascension teams have shown better strategy and team play, I'd like to see MXM stick together, same for M80.

It was pretty nice of that guy to do OP's whole presentation on AI though

probably related to roster buyouts. I wouldn't be surprised if players from teams like M80 stay pursuing the extra franchising slot, but I could see an org like the guard trying to increase capital with their recent layoffs.