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No. Suffering from the constant EMEA problem of forcing random player to IGL instead of picking up an IGL from T2 or importing.

It has literally never working outside of maybe EDG, and we continue to do it.

The team would be goated with Leo, but I think Kaajak is still too much of an unknown. We’ve seen him choke and have good games on LAN, so I think FNC being top 3 is too uncertain right now.

I hope he’s able to overcome what’s been causing him to have these consistency issues, whether it’s pressure or not fitting into different play styles.

Like how meL knew she was throwing the early rounds by giving up the picks to Yoru. Made the adjustment, and they looked a lot better after that.

Nice to see that they’re able to make adjustments that are needed for comebacks.

Insane

Not 100% sure, but some people mentioned that he might’ve had military service. Not sure if that was ever confirmed though.

Diffing the fuck out of Kamo

Kamo might have secured the worst duelist of 2025 award.

JDG stands for Jingdong (京东）gaming. Jingdong is an amazon/rakuten-esque market place in China. They've been trying to expand into markets outside of China, so they're likely trying to make sure that people know what the company actually is.

you let mini leave the team completely

Mate, what did you want them to do? Chain him up?

Trust me mate.

Get Bo Nix some better WR and a Tight End next year and we have a shot at making a run.

I have a JDG, Navi (for CS), and fly quest jersey.

Outside of that I only have a Denver Broncos jersey.

Just me or are those some hella mid jerseys?

Good luck to flor tho

Drop MrCANI bring in yhchen.

Baby blue ain’t that bad on sova, hence why I think they should ban bind, and stick to maps where you can play Sova. I imagine if he can play sova he can play fade, so lotus is probably a good pick for them to not ban.

Also hot take, but jkuro should go to perma smokes, and have z1yan play yoru on abyss. It fits his play style more than astra.

If JDG make one role change, bring YHChen back, and stick to the new roster, they would be a top CN team next year.

And also stop banning lotus and ban bind instead.

LPL English broadcast just got shut down this year tho no? It's just people passionate about it doing it for no pay now I think.

Isn't there a toggle push to talk option?

Wouldn’t work with G2 play-style me thinks. G2 play very organized, duelist does their role Valorant.

Flor on SR was more known for just going in and fragging.

She would probably look abysmally bad in G2’s system. She needs a team that will let her slot into an aspas/kangkang type slot where they will be the entry, but a lot of it is just letting the player frag.

I thought he was signed to KPI when he was loaned to Fnatic. Did I miss the DVM signing?

Also, I guess the mandatory partnership was a year ago, so they may not have renewed it. Didn’t seem like they did much with it anyway.

I’m partial to Alfajer.

I always liked how he was basically an unknown talent coming into Fnatic, but quickly became one of , if not the best players on perhaps the most stacked roster of all time.

He’s also very wholesome and not egotistical, which I think contributed to why he’s been able to stand the test of time compared to other players that had insane rookie seasons.

I don’t understand why they wouldn’t loan him to mandatory. He would be more beneficial to the team they have a partnership with. Maybe the role conflict with Enzo?

Americas and CN tend to use the new agents first, but I'm pretty sure every region is going to be using him at kickoff based on how op people are saying he is.

I wonder if the game will take off in the esports scene. It’s definitely trying to make it in the space, and I even saw NRG signed a team for their launch tournament.

Will be interesting to see how it does.

No problem.

I literally went to school for this and worked in the industry as a graphics programmer before going back to school because the job market for that industry was shit.

Writing a replay system in Unreal that doesn't kill your performance is gonna take a while.

You're likely writing everything in C++ and changing the source code for the engine to build the custom functionality you want without abstracting it through UE's ass APIs.

UE's source code documentation is pretty shit, and if they want to change to UE5 eventually, it wouldn't make much sense to rewrite the UE4 source code now.

They shouldn't have built the game in Unreal tbh. It's such a shit engine that only provides benefits for people doing hyper-realism. Valroant will only get nominal improvements from UE5, and if they used stuff like nanite or lumen it might add performance overhead.

Should've just made their own engine or made it in unity.

Zeta was actually 11? Kinda low.

Just wait till the event is over and download the streams ez

I didn’t watch the Apex, CS, or LoL games this year. Didn’t feel like I missed much.

It’s not as difficult as you’d think, so if anyone is considering not watching, please don’t.

You’re spitting, but I recommend taking a look at this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop

What the fuck?

They need to improve their SEO for this.

A couple other players on JDG, namely Jkuro and Sword9, posted cryptic messages about changes a couple of days ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/s/QrdPj53fYu

Yesterday, Stew posted on Weibo three dots http://m.weibo.cn/status/5113856634650887?

Many people in the comments seem to think it’s him being kicked from the team, which doesn’t seem too hard to believe.

The recent move of jkuro to duelist and moving stew to senti seems to indicate they are trying to integrate him out of the roster.

If this is true, what could be the move for stew? He’s an incredibly good duelist, but he’s not clearly better than Texture or Buzz, so geng or T1 are out of the picture. I think he could replace Hyunmin at DRX, but it’s probably too late for DRX to make any roster changes.

I would personally like to see him on GenG and reunite with Yoman. Maybe if he can improve his senti, he can replace foxy9 if he doesn’t improve.

I was gonna ask if xset paid you to post this, but then I remembered.

SR dominated GC before Flor, but whatever man

Investing in NA GC is hard rn. SR basically guaranteed a spot, and you have 3-4 signed orgs fighting for the final spot. You're gonna have to spend a lot of money, or get lucky with scouting to have a shot at making champs.

Now, if SEN set up a KR or JP GC team, that would probably be printing free money.

import suzu

I was a Demon1 doubter when he replaced bcj at the beginning of the year. Probably one of the best roster substitutions looking back at it.

Yes, but I believe the rumor that most people thought was referring to Rossy said something along the lines of Apeks "importing one more talent"

That was before Oderus, who that probably refers to.

tldr: Could they? Yes. Will they? Maybe, but not likely.

I thought everyone was down on oderus? Like people were blaming him for MxS doing poorly.

Or am I misremembering?

Less > Saadhak ngl.

Less talent outweighs Saadhak igling.

I agree with you 101% on Koalanoob tho

3 NA players, 2 actual NA players and 1 who played mostly NA what a joke

Wait which one of the 3 NA players isn't actually NA? I'm pretty sure c0m, Tex, and Demon1 are all Americans. Tex and Demon1 just use family history for flags.

Some GC players will go to T2, but if you're on a top team in GC there is literally 0 incentive to go to a mixed T2 roster. This is partly why the only people that have gone to mixed teams have been people cut from the orgs in GC.

Flor going to apeks demonstrates that even if you never compete on a mixed T2 team, if you're good enough in GC a team might pick you up.

Knowing that precedent exists, I would only ever go from GC to T2 if I thought it was the only way I could improve, and even then financial considerations would be a heavy factor to weigh that against.

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brother, pick a team

I’m with you there

You're not ready for
+moose -moose +moose -moose
he's next.

C9 truly bewilders me.

We didn't think Rossy was a good fit for the team, so we're going to go back to our old strategy of recycling a player who hasn't achieved anything with us since 2021. Surely it will work this time.

Is this just a nepo org? Like if it was just this once I'd get it, but this has started to become a pattern.

Depends on the contract between the org and the player.

Riot probably has requirements for these contracts that at least require a significant amount as severance, and any player shouldn't be accepting contracts that they can just be fired at will with no compensation.

He was good in 2020, but not only was Tenz better than him in SEN, but it’s not like the guy was ever going to be in the contention for goat.

It’s the same shit as Gambit in 2022. We don’t get to see what would’ve happened to the team, so people only remember the highlights. People never saw him play against any of the top teams such as Gambit or Envy from that year, so they never saw him fail on SEN.

The point is that, and maybe you weren’t making this point, it’s not like beyond a reasonable doubt gets you to justice. In some cases it prevents justice. Beyond a reasonable doubt is a good system for making sure we don’t convict people who aren’t guilty, but it also lets a lot of guilty people walk free. So I don’t think it’s fair to say that getting rid of it gets rid of justice.

It’s also worth noting that we only run this standard for when we’re imprisoning or executing people. For civil cases, we’re completely fine saying that 51% means you did it.

Ignoring the part about Sinatraa, and talking abstractly. If you know someone is guilty, but the nature of the encounter means that someone will never be found guilty because the only meaningful evidence will be kept out by exclusionary rules. Do you think there’s any justice in that situation?

Also as a side note, there are things such as preponderance of the evidence in civil trials (essentially >51%) but you’d still need to get the evidence in.