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No org can afford 1 mil yearly except bleed maybe. This salary is unheard of.

Even Yay is not immune. Yay barely has 1 year of excellence. Valorant is too young to judge RN.

There are more prominent names than Yay disappearing. It is a risky job, even for the best in the world.

Yes, Flip was racist during a ranked game. Nothing new for him. No Indian Org would ever pick him or even try to be associated with him in any way.

*1 year, the first year they did not even compete in any games apart from APAC LCQ which was just breadcrumbs thrown at SA valorant so that it does not starve.

Imagine upfragging yourself.

Imagine waking up one morning only to get baited on VLR on the 10000th SKRossi thread by a guy fake flagging for India.

Best duelist in SA for a whole year?

Last time I remember, GE has only played a handful of tournaments this year, the first LAN in which they won, Qualifiers 1 in which they were second and Enigma did not qualify, qualifiers 2 in which they were first and Enigma lost in the finals.

Rossi has very consistently beat Rawfiul with enigma. Given the fact that Enigma has a better team and more talented players overall compared to the GE squad.

Rossi has to basically carry GE, if Rawfiul does not pop off, others take the charge.

Having said that, any player in Enigma is not even close to players LFT in APAC right now.

Imagine SScary who is potentially one of the best controllers in the world (top 10 for sure) is LFT, then there is entire ONIC, BOOM, MiTH, Full Sense squad with JohnOlsen and PTC. Who do you think compares to these players from SA?

I don't think this is enough. Considering how powerful other superteams in the franchise is going to be, I think for now they should go with even better players.

Rawfiul chokes all the time.

SkRossi delivers constant performance which averages above Rawfiul and his explosive peaks are really really huge. I don't think they compare.

GE has multiple years to try and experiment.

If they get thrashed in Sao Paolo, they will inevitably have to include other country teams.

However, considering other SA players is just out of the question. GE needs SEA or KR representation to be better than the current all-Indian team. Who will they pick from SA? I doubt there are better players in SA than the GE core itself, SkRossi is easily the best duelist (and no Deathmaker does not come close) so Shooter is out of the question. SSSami from Bangladesh and Hikka from Sri Lanka are the only other decent SA pro players. But naturally, there are better flex options in India itself.

GE just embarrasses other SA teams from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Bhutan might not even have a single immortal player.

Considering all of this, the best way other SA teams have is maybe Orangutan winning big in Ascension (cause they have money but they are new) cause OG has already invested in Shooter and maybe will in the future as well.

That was a division that Riot made for valorant.

Geographically speaking, APAC contains everything from Iraq to Pakistan and India to Mongolia to China to Japan to Australia and New Zealand.

RRQ has existed for as long as I have watched esports.

They were good in CS they must be big in other sports as well.

Players will struggle and really want to get into one of the franchised teams.

Want to add to this that a lot of Indian players felt veeeeery proud when the Indian team won a bronze in Dota 2.

TLDR: Compared to a lot of other orgs in Asia, PRX is much newer, does not have boat loads of money and does not even have any teams other than valorant.

Compare PRX to some other orgs that got in - T1 and GenG, goliaths in the esports scene successful LoL rosters huge in other games as well, investing in NA(imagine) TS who is huge in Philippines and a big name in Dota, GE who has had CSGO male and female rosters PUBGM and valorant rosters which have been successful and all of them have very stable financials.

I think PRX def scored less points over on that side but made up for that with their resource management and fan base. Probably the first SEA org to have so many fans outside of SEA.

The issue is, PRX is a much newer org and honestly glad that they made it, even though their announcement video was targeting the individuals who thought they would not make it because of how small the org is and how deep their reserves go, their fanbase and content talent has maybe caught the attention of Riot.

They know how to spend the little money they have, hire a good content team, have a good roster, get a decent enough BootCamp etc.

Compare that to Bleed who has too much money and honestly doesn't know how to handle it. Even with 50M they could not set up a content team, they have a beautiful BootCamp but the only glimpses we saw were from when GE visited them and just wasted money everywhere.

He is already pretty good and a common name in APAC radiant leaderboard. All that while still playing CSGO as a pro.

Maybe we might get to see the brother buff right here in APAC.

Damn I thought it was during champs.

Champions is over, when are they announcing the results?

The analysts are hinting directly into the fact that some teams have already made it into franchising (Loud for ex, not that we are surprised anyways).

When is the official announcement?

Remember when the stinger was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy better than it was now?

You could argue the aspas knife was not luck, many Jett players do that with the OP when flashed. Even if you get flashed in an awkward spot, its better to spam in front of you rather than switch to a knife and run.

Quite common, you rarely hit shots but this was the one in a 100 shot that did + Aspas is a demon surely that helped with some mechanics.

Already exists in CSGO. You can try it for the experience.

Valorant has no plans of making something like that though.

They do tho? Just not as consistently as him. Yay's consistency with these plays is what is insane.

Just watch the post match press conference.

XSET very clearly wanted to put out the fact that THEY DID NOT INITIATE ANYTHING. They lost and they started packing their stuff up, it was Riot who asked them to return and replay the round.

The XSET coach also very clearly mentioned that FPX was venting out on the players themselves. Honestly who cares about what anyone says on twitter, but when you lack basic decency and refuse to shake hands/fists that just shows how sour you are. Also why tf do I need to shut up about boundaries? There is a clear difference between banter and straight disrespect/sportsmanship and it seems your small brain cannot comprehend this simple fact cause you are too blind of an FPX stan to see clearly.

Also quoting Ardiis - "If I gave my opinion, I will be fined by FPX, I will be fined by Riot and my career will be over" just shows how salty they really were.

"you're soft" - Dude your star player Suygetsu got mad at Stax for doing something on stage the rest of the audience did not even notice. For all, I know FPX are the ones who want to talk shit but cannot take anything in return.

BcJ is much better in this aspect because he does seem to be confident enough to have some banter and can take Ls unlike the team you stan so much.

There is a difference between banter and sportsmanship and it seems that EU frogs don't understand that boundary.

An FPX flair is like a flag of shame at this point.

All I remember is that Beyn is quite the cracked Aimer.

Beyn actually featured in Aimlab's all-star tournament as the sole rep from Korea and actually gave decent competition even if he got out first.

It was not a bunch of no-namers too, it featured TenZ fresh out of his Iceland win, Zexrow and Kariyu who is kinda decent in osu!

I am not sure how much pure aim translates to valorant gameplay though, pretty sure he can hit pretty cracked shots but his game sense and team play? I have no idea.

In the DRX vs Fnatic match, you could hear a woman screeching the entire game. Not sure if the audience is muffled.

In fact its better if the audience is muffled. It kinda gives the effect of being in a huge stadium filled with a crowd. With very clear audience mics you sometimes clearly hear hecklers and it kinda ruins the experience tbh.

Its all about money and clout.

If they make it to franchising (which they 90% will) they are guaranteed to go to the 30 team LAN regardless of their performance.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOO.

There are profitable orgs.

You are a clown. Riot passed this ruling in the name of competitive integrity.

You would have to be an idiot if you denied that chance.

Are you serious? You would have to be on a really high moral plane to reject this. If you were there I bet you would have taken this chance. Literally every single team would have taken the chance.

Russia doing BR cosplay.

Cannot say anything before you see the code yourself which I can bet both of us have not.

there are way more difficult things

Ofc don't put it in a relative sense, tell me in absolute terms? It's documented Riot is aware and tried to fix it and has not yet. Ofc there are harder things, does not change the fact that it might be quite hard to fix.

Who knows how they coded that shit.

You never know how things will behave when you code something. It's the basics of software engineering lol, you just do something without realizing the consequences later on. That is why there are so many rules and structures to be followed while coding.

Maybe a programmer wrote some obscure code with no explanation. Really hard to fix such things.

Once again, I am not commenting on the decision to replay the round, it was a round but FPX did not exploit anything.

More like the video game punished XSET for picking KJ. Either team would feel cheated if they replayed or not. Its a strange situation for Riot.

Ask Riot, making software is not easy. Who knows how they coded that shit. Maybe fixing the turret breaks other things. Read #7, the patch notes say they tried to improve it but it was not fixed completely.

Riot improved the situation, but was not able to fix it completely.

The patch notes says the turret tracks the opponents better, not completely fixes the issue tho.

https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/game-updates/valorant-patch-notes-1-07/

read KJ's section, Riot wants the turret to shoot at the enemy's last known position. Resetting to the original point is the unintentional behaviour of the turret.

Not commenting if the round should be replayed but this falls under the category of a bad very clearly and this resetting mechanic is not mentioned anywhere in KJ's utility kit.

"its not whats intended to happen"

" its not a bug "

Make up your mind.

We saw what happened to X10, every other org did compensate players pretty well prev champs.

An intended mechanic? Are you sure? If something happens in a program without the developer's intention its called a bug. People exploit bugs and call it mechanics, does not change the fact that it is a bug.

Not arguing if this round should be replayed or not, I am pretty neutral on that but this KJ turret behaviour is a bug.

EU has free healthcare, free college, and gives free rounds to XSET.

Speedruns coach POV every round.

Pros care, noobies in silver and gold should not care.

Apparently Pakistan, Australia and a couple of other countries better.