Man the 9-3 curse is real at this point.

I think it would be a plausible strat to just end the half at 8-4 rather than 9-3.

XSET obviously gotta be better than G2. They are no.4 in NA, G2 is just a meme that somehow made it to berlin.

That means SEN will also struggle against a streamer team. KEKW

The tech pauses have been made so cool as well tho.

Just a good day for VKS. SEA now is much better.

LATAM is literally losing RN to Japan and yet Japan is the worst region in the tournament.

Mumbai is less toxic than Singapore where you get railed by racial slurs if they discover you are Indian. Does not matter if you are literally carrying the team.

IRL Anime battle lmao

I played on 120ms ping. Yes, I am a masochist. I have also played on Australian and EMEA servers.

I do it for the experience in unranked games. Compare gameplay etc.

BTW if you have a good connection high ping is not that big of a problem. Packet loss is. Packet loss causes you to teleport and lag. On high ping, you just get delayed peeks and peekers advantage.

Not that big of a factor in low to high plat-low diamond lobbies I am used to. A much bigger issue in pro matches.

Ohh and BTW I clutched so many rounds on Tokyo with this ping with Jett the team was really hyped up and fun to play with. So it's not as if it's unplayable.

This aged like sour milk + ratio

It was Gambit. Gambit could possibly even win this tourney.

Crazy Racoons are not that bad guys. They had a good game against V1 as well.

What I will say is that their mental is very fragile. They are pretty much the quickest tilters.

X10 tilted them so much. So did loosing so many rounds to Gambit.

Japan hands down is the least toxic region here.

I have played many games on the Tokyo server and those guys hands down are some of the most encouraging people you will see.

Some people are really swayed quickly.

One bad day by one bad team especially when you have 0 experience going against maybe the best team in the tourney. That is what Japan went through.

Give em teams a chance.

wrong priorities.

Even if you get IIT, go to a college that is willing to give you Computer Science.

I was one of the guys that thought that you study the subject you have an interest in.

You are basically useless unless you have skills in CS.

Every Indian family has a member who has gone through Roorkee at one point.

Ok Zeta got sweeped on the first half but Laz hit some nasty deags.

Is a redemption Arc coming?

Edit: The first half on split looks promising.

CS is alive in a single region on earth and that is EU.

NA pros shifted to valorant at the right time as their scene is dead.

EU pros don't feel half that pressure and most of them haven't made the switch.

All IITs are crap. Go outside if you want a good college.

If you even compare it with universities from Asia itself, IITs are a joke.

BTW we get single rooms with ACs and better food compared to all other IITs. What else do you want?

Brazil no cap is worse than SEA at this point.

IIT Jodhpur

My dude just does not know that the physical distance between Japan and Singapore is huge to the point that they cannot be merged as a region.

Korea and Japan is much more doable.

Good luck tough journey you have chosen. Get ready for sleepless nights and give up valorant. (from someone who cleared JEE Adv in 2019)

People be real snowflakes these days scared of eating junk food.

Just take the hits like a tank.

That being said if living alone, limit street food to twice a week.

ratio

lol

Suck Ben Shapiro's big D already.

forsaken was a monster in the online playoffs and he showed what he can do on LAN as well. Not a major buff, just consistent.

lol no

"forsaken noob farming t3 regions kekw"

I think X10 were just nervous in the first game.

They rekt CR in the next game.

Lost to fnatic which was also the second-best team in the tournament.

I would blame the seeding. Bad luck.

PRX is also stuck in bad seeding, unfortunately.

Barely a week old actually.

Korea is hyped because apart from CS they were pretty much all over the esports scene alongside EU.

Korea was not good in CS because their cafes don't have that game installed and to play that you need to put in the extra effort.

They are literal gods in pretty much any other game they touch.

Damn

That is exactly what I am saying. Just let them play. We will see the results.

If I hype them up saying they are the best, I would be in the wrong and if someone says they gonna get rekt, they are wrong as well.
After we have seen the results can we really say what is gonna happen.

LMAO you really dug deep for this one.

I am not convincing anyone, It's just that people rate teams even before they have had a chance to play.

This is Paper Rex's first stint internationally and people assumed that they are one of the worst teams here. They lost 2-0 but at least they showed that they deserve to be here.

Same for India. It's not an Indian team's fault for not going international before this. There are tournaments every week and at least a dozen proper teams in India. Judging from the population on this website and viewership breakdown in general, India is also one of the biggest regions, It's just Riot who wants to suck up to China instead of fairly distributing slots.

I will repeat, I am not convincing anyone when I say this because I know Indian teams have done it before. An Indian team went against prime time NIP (your flair, you must know it) in the 2014 CS major and faced a respectable loss. Losing like that to the best team in the world with no international experience is very good for a first attempt and that was back when no one even gave a shit about esports. Given how NIP went to beat other teams without any competition suggests that Indian teams could have done better than a lot of the teams there. They just had bad seeding going against NIP in a Bo1 in the first round itself.

Ohh and did I mention PRX is SEA no.2 seed and also, the best teams in SEA are not even playing here because Patiphan is injured and Bren could not make it? Indian teams scrim PRX Bren and X10 regularly beating them a few times as well. Well, I agree that's scrimbux, and yes they don't matter much also, most probably not gonna happen in a tournament, but this is just to let you know there will not be a day-night difference between the two.

I don't think it is correct to overhype or underhyped any region if they haven't even been given a chance yet. That being said think what you want.

That is exactly what my post says.

forsaken. SkRossi is 80% of forsaken for what we have seen.

Going head to head on SEA servers in pugs, they both top frag.

People calling Korea overrated hard because they went close with Paper Rex on Haven but you forgot that Paper Rex is not a bad team either.

Just because you don't follow a region, it does not mean its bad. Its scary to play against forsaken. Deal with it.

IMO Paper Rex is underrated.

Edit: People calling forsaken a farmer in t3 region but you gotta admit on a good day he can rekt top 5 jetts in the world no doubt.

You will see the same in APAC LCQ what you are seeing right now.

SkRossi will pull off some crazy rounds and shots. Will still lose to some other team from KR or SEA in the end tho.

As a player, I would say he is established like you see forsaken is right now. As a team, a long way to go.

forsaken effect man

Forsaken is better jett no doubt. Patiphan is a good player but his team X10 is better than Paper Rex overall.

1) Riot does not give India slots. They are doing well with what they get. 1 slot in APAC LCQ is enough to prove that they are decent in Asia

2) Riot gives 2 slots to Brazil. They have done jack shit with those slots. Its fine though take your time. All Regions are trying their best.

3) But we don't send death threats to people when we lose and act like fucking crybabies and then literally come to a forum the next day and act like we are the best region.

4) Don't act like actual dogshits on forums in general (except those few rotten apples, will find them everywhere)/

5) People hype SkRossi and spam his name, spamming is not appreciable but at least harmless as compared to death threats and 0 iq arguments. Hyping Rossi is just people showing support for him.

Finally, but not least, this thread is in your region. Defend your own region. My post has nothing to do with India. Trying to target India does not make your region any better.

wdym? Benkai literally broke all of VS player's wrists recently.

It would be a miracle if anyone from VS is even able to hold a mouse.

A BTS stream team just gave an EMEA team a run for its money. Very close game.

Nuturn was one of the best teams last event.

Vision Strikers is yet to game.

Brazil did not even take a single map close against Korea, NA or EMEA in both the events so far.

ratio LMAO?

People just using words they see on this website without knowing what it is to look cool.

I have played on Bahrain and Istanbul. Yes, Istanbul is cracked AF.

Those guys don't need vandals just Sherrif headshots.

or maybe it's the ping difference. I get 40ms in Bahrain and 80 in Istanbul. I also get 90ms on Singapore and 50ms on Mumbai so its kinda the same thing.

your a little late, dont use Internet Explorer next time (10)

COPIUM

I like how people don't even know what the third world means.

It has nothing to do with economic or social status.
It just means that these countries were not aligned with the USA or USSR.

Just say if a country is poor or rich.

At least Indians can have decent education to know the difference between such definitions that does not concern them. Learn some history before making such comments.

G2's owner was last sober 15 years ago.