Depending on who you ask there are either 2 or 3 actually relevant international tournaments in a year. I don't think theres enough time to be consistent at the highest level to have a fleshed out top 20 that isn't extremely subjective (obviously, any ranking is subjective but the more games you have to look at the easier it is to come to a consensus on where players, especially those outside of the top 5, belong).

Don't understand how sexual crimes bad is a take that will get you downvoted on this site

Him get don't giants

It's just very poorly phrased, especially considering he regularly writes english language articles. The opening implies DaveeyS's life had less meaning for him, and it would be good of him to clarify

Tried to defend himself from the transphobia allegations by implying trans women are men 💀

Massive Owen W never thought I'd see the day

If you want to rail against the rich you should be angry with the literal wage thief corpo not the employees asking for their full pay check what is this

Zombs isn't even a pro anymore though 💀

Even if you don't like their personalities (which I don't) you can't say they don't deserve it and played absolutely brilliantly throughout

As much as I'm not a fan of some of them personally they were definitely the best team playing and looked phenomenal throughout. Fair play to them

Nope, he just broke his own record (99) from Tokyo lowers.

Boaster has more trophies as an igl than faze has international LAN appearances

People can't have friends anymore smh

Old Astralis is gone, I guess they never won a major. Must be pretty irrelevant

No way it's another tomato

If you can live with a watermark (I've had this for about 1 and 1/2 years now) you can use windows media creation tool to create your own pirated copy. Will not be licensed but will give you all the functions of a windows PC.

I think what they meant was "they have two great flex players AND Alfa and Derke". Confused me for a sec too

Massive sympathies for your situation but I don’t think asking a valorant forum is the best way to understand your condition.

Derrek will bang asuna is no more, sadge

IMO reasons for fpx looking out of form are:

1. Less time at boot camp due to visa issues (CIS team etc)
2. One of their players having to rush to the hospital right before the game was meant to be played

What does someone being Australian have to do with their ability to predict whether fpx leaves groups? Now that’s the real shit take

The available stats to compare cryo and ardiis are from one tournament where Xset got eliminated so quickly that their stats aren’t even usable due to sample size issues. Cryo is a really good player btw, I’m not here trying to put him down. And my point about coaching staff is that you can’t really compare them without looking at their achievements. In a certain way the same can be said of IGLs - we don’t know what they’re calling, how they call, how effective it is other than by examining the end product. You can’t compare teams on individual differences, and looking at the players for a team and sorting by acs is not even a good way to see how good a player is.

If you think teams work like this idk what to say
Not only are some of these highly questionable it’s just not how an org that wins works in a developed esport
Do coaching staff not count in your comparison? How about analysts? Why not? Is it because you can’t open up stats from masters 2 and filter for acs? And this is even assuming that you can claim stuff like cryo > ardiis when their teams function very differently - Xset is set up to lean heavily on cryo and encourage him to frag as much as possible whereas FPX have a different setup. Point is teams don’t work on individual 1v1 fragging ability. Believe it or not its a 5v5 TACTICAL shooter.

Also their cs following is huge so that would presumably give a lot of weight to their application

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Anything trying to do world record

Neither team has made any roster change. If you’re talking about the team improving overall, yeah I agree Xset probably has improved, given they actually made LAN second time round. Xset improving does not make fpx a fluke. And I doubt XSET has improved significantly relative to an fpx team that is obviously always improving themselves etc.

Oh I agree but it’s not “completely destroying”
Liquid deserved the ticket to Istanbul for sure but to say liquid were dominant in their encounters with M3C in Lcq would be a tiny bit uncharitable.

Fpx this year:
1st place Emea challengers 1
Unable to attend masters 1 due to visa issues
2nd place Emea challengers 2
1st place masters 2

Xset
4th place na challengers 1
1st place na challengers 2
Lost both games at Copenhagen

But yes Fpx is definitely the bad inconsistent fluke team and Xset is the better team for sure

Liquid had a 1-1 record against M3C in the tournament. They won one additional map. Not exactly “destroying M3C”.

In many games getting headshot applies flinch. This is because being hit in the head by something travelling very fast will cause your head to move. Vandal headshot kills you, so it doesn’t apply flinch outside of non lethal wall bangs, where it is absolutely noticeable. Flinch generally increases with damage dealt. As the phantom deals the most damage of any non 1shot weapon, it applies the most flinch.

Wception

Even assuming comparing IGLs and non-IGLs in a discussion about dropping a player is valid, including FNS is unfair as he has only played breach on initiator as his APR on breach is well below mistic. Most of his APR seems to come from viper and that’s just not a valid comparison. That leaves benkai, d4v41 (who to be fair actually has better apr on initiator than his overall stats due to him also playing chamber and who I probably should’ve included first time mb) stax, shy and Leo with higher APR (though the difference w shy and esp Leo is statistically insignificant). I will also admit that while looking at this, i noticed that though his breach is very solid and his Skye isn’t bad either for support, his kayo isn’t the best when compared to others in a similar role, and that is probably his biggest weakness in role. The acs point is eh as his role is basically not to frag ever

Also just checked and of all non-igl initiator/support players in playoffs only shyyy and Leo have more apr

Of teams that made it into playoffs, looking at non-IGLing dedicated initiator/support players, only shyyy and Leo have higher apr. Am excluding IGLs because im comparing him to anyone who would have “done better”

My guy is doing fine on assists per round, esp on breach and Skye leave him alone he’s doing his job as a support player

Man’s got 4th most APR on breach and 5th most APR on Skye this tourney. If you watched him play against lev you would see how impactful his flashes were esp at dominating tacolilla’s op play. Mistic was always going to bottom frag, that does not make him a dead weight. He has a role to fill in the fnc playstyle which he has done. However bad tonight’s performance shouldn’t detract from what has been a very solid tournament for him as a support player.

Until they did.

This aged like milk

I mean the val category atm is higher than the ca category (on twitch) despite cs being deeper into a tournament and the games esports scene being far more developed…

Zeta got big circuit points
If nth don’t get bigger points then zeta qual on circuit points
If nth come 3rd or better nth qual on circuit points
Whoever doesn’t win on circuit points, will play in LCQ for a place

nvm FPX better ig

How are FPX a fluke
They qualed for LAN last time and couldn’t come bc of visas
They are now within 1 game of qualifying again
That’s pretty consistent over the course of a year where the CIS region has entered a very chaotic state.
Compare that to say SEN, who you pointed out as having beaten FNC, once, over a year ago.

Guild vs M3C
Guild 3-1 or 3-0 but M3C will go further in masters