source?

edit: nvm i saw your username

sadge but true

common boom W

he better drop more than 10 kills map 1

more importantly,
if team A beats team B once, team A is better (even if team B has beat them multiple times in the past)

i agree with you! leviatan could’ve gotten further in playoffs if a single extra round in OT went in their favor against fnatic. they’ve always been good, they’ve just been unable to show it

true, which is why we should strive to give credit where credit is due to every team, not overhype them to hell (like what fans did to sentinels)

a pic of davai in the hospital (sources say it was food poisoning), according to bodork he’s okay now

it was 3 but now that we’re doing elim matches we’re doing 2 a day (as of tomorrow)

yeah but it would just make more sense to have 3 games tomorrow rather than force 3 games to be today

cause they’re not prepped maybe? it would be kinda shitty to force them to play a day early

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM 💥

fair, maybe the teams that win get an appropriate amount of praise, but my point on the teams that lose still stands. people are way too reactionary when it comes to vct

how do so many people get sick at val tournaments but not cs or league tournaments? its wild how many teams have had to play from an isolated room since the start of international events.

i mean yeah, if you're confident in your team then that's great! i'm referring to people seeing a team win/lose and determining how good of a team they are based off of that one game.

im hoping for a boom win :) Berserx has to pick it up though

all good, glad to hear that. thanks bodork

fpx vs xset got postponed till tomorrow, there's only 2 games today

covid?

davai i believe

https://twitter.com/aleckzon/status/1566369741786304513?s=20&t=dlzvwq5xBI7hQCfBL1mllg
-from the paper rex coach

wtf is going on man

i blame xset

It's kinda annoying seeing people say "PRX/Fnatic is bad" or "DRX/100T/Leviatan is good" when not even 4 days ago most people were saying the opposite. These teams play 1-2 games and all of a sudden they're a top 4 or a bottom 4 team?

This isn't meant to discredit each individual team's performance, i think leviatan proved everybody wrong and counter-stratted Liquid and PRX, but to see everyone switch up so fast when Leviatan has always been a good team (only lost 12-14 and 15-17 to fnatic in Copenhagen) is crazy. Also, calling 2nd and 4th place at Copenhagen dogshit because of a few games in champs is so incorrect. People called 100T onliners and now that they beat fnatic they got a shit ton of praise. People kept calling DRX chokers and now that they beat 100T they're getting a shit ton of praise too. 1 game does not prove that a team is a top contender or not. Region match ups, strats, team chemistry, and mental fortitude all matter too.

I bet if XSET beats FPX tomorrow, most people on VLR would say XSET is a top 4 team or FPX is washed even though that couldn't be farther from the truth. Lucky games happen and unlucky games happen.
(LMAO THIS CAME TRUE)

P.S. I don't think this is me getting baited either. I've seen some respectable users on VLR fall for this recency bias too. I'm happy for the wins each team gets, but that doesn't automatically make them better than the team they beat. If you think a team is good/bad, great! Don't change your opinion solely based off of 1-2 games.

edit: thanks for 50 upvotes, i didn't know my opinion resonated so much with people. just to reiterate, if you're a fan of a team mentioned, i'm not criticizing the teams, only the viewers who praise/shit on them for 1 good/bad showing

Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no. 2

Wdym by that? can you send an imgur link?

edit: nvm ignored

i never said kru was bad. i said they had close games with another team. how is it an easy champs win for them if they can't stomp another team (regardless of their skill level)? stop making assumptions from my words

ange1's yoru

cool, we're not talking about boom

W, i was gonna write pretty much the same thing except for aim labs. I’ve spent 10 mins a day and climbed from p1 to a2 since e5 act 1 started and my headshot% has increased as a result too

i’m a good igl but my aim has always been the issue, you just need to pinpoint what issue you have. there are a lot of things you can adjust to get better but it’s specific for each individual

check their tracker, they’re clearly a higher rank than they should be and they’re queued with a silver 1 so their hidden mmr is extremely low

with the addition of ascendant, the average rank shifted up about 2-2.5 ranks.

source: https://www.theloadout.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/valorant-episode-5-act-1-rank-distribution.jpg

Love- Boom
Hate- V1

masters 1 rekjavik 2022

there’s too many sen bait accounts, delete this and restart with a new account

you seem like the type of guy to smoke in front of children

you are the reason why speed bumps exist

*they (boom) made history.
it was their strat to do a stupid 5 man ropes play

didn’t fpx have close games with kru? i wouldn’t say fpx is certain to win.

i got boom qualing through elim and decider, there’s about a 5% chance that comes true

no matter what anyone says, you can’t deny that boom made history

rip, they were my first flair :(

now all they have to do is make the galleria 2.0 skins and we’ll all be happy

no one said you’re homophobic… bit of a self report there buddy 🤨

i think the point of making a super team is to use players that aren’t currently on an international level team

wake up. wake up. wake up.

i use my middle finger and my thumb to snap

bump so people see it

please don’t steal my original work

idk man, i always enjoy an NA vs EMEA match up

can i be the caster

I have to give riot credit for writing a great script for this year's champions. I was already impressed with the LEV 2-0 twist, but then Optic breaks their group stage curse? Additionally, DRX with that 4-12 comeback against FURIA and EMEA losing to NA and SA? I gotta say, riot's script writers have gotten much better for this event. Hopefully the script stays well-written and riot strays away from the same region matchups in playoffs, they rely on that trope way too much.