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.

handle is eeiutwt, kpop icon, "president of nobody fan club"

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.

Also worth noting that any evidence such as video or audio recordings would not be admitted under rules of evidence. Most states have rules that bar nonconsensual audio and video recordings from being admitted as evidence if they’re in a place with a reasonable expectation of privacy.

There’s good reasons for this though, so don’t get it twisted.

I don’t really know about the rest of the shit, but I’m calling BS on the lawyer part.

I don’t have much experience in defamation or torts in general. I also don’t work with celebrities, but I feel like no (good) lawyer is going to tell you to post a claim that you aren’t going to follow through with. It’s just opening your client up to unnecessary liability, and yourself up to liability if your client ends up being hurt by it.

Understandable crash out tbh

I’m pretty sure some of the players of that 100t lineup have alluded to BabyJ being toxic and or a bad teammate. Just from their experience tho.

There is no too old to start. There’s probably someone out there who could start playing at 30 and get good enough to compete in VCT. It’s more of an issue of the older you get, the less free time you have, which means less time to dedicate to getting better. My guess would be if you’re in university, and can’t at least make it to T2, it’s probably not looking good for you.

Rossy calling was actually pretty good, especially on Abyss and Pearl.

Solid fragging igl. Kinda crazy that Americas teams kept passing him up.

I would hazard a guess that there won’t be an official stream, but people like Achillios and perhaps sliggy will be costreaming.

Can you think of all the orgs that haven’t competed in the offseason, and perhaps the ones that have only done a single showmatch. I’m curious to see if at the end of 2025 season if there’s a large correlation between offseason participation and overall results of the year.

https://x.com/queenbobsta/status/1733341551873450331?s=46

I currently have a Game Changers Alum Residency Exception, so I will not count as an import if signed to a VCT team.

Seems like you get an exception for the first team you join, if I’m reading that correctly. Also, don’t know if they’re actually looking for another import, just saying it’s a possibility.

It’s also worth noting that GC players don’t take up an import slot (I believe). Could be that they’re trying to import another player to replace soulcas.

Hey. I've been thinking a lot about the economic instability in VCT and T2 recently. One of the possible solutions I came up with is a subscription service to watch the games, something I think Riot has experimented with in the past. That way T1 and T2 teams will get direct money from people that would watch the games. I have a stable job, so it's hard for me to get a sense of what the average VLR user would think about paying a monthly fee to watch the games, so I figured I'd put out a survey to see what everyone here thinks.

This is just for my own personal research, not for school or anything.

I'll post the results if anyone is curious.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PWG9W52

Thanks!

When I say lock-in I mean more like don’t take duels that are objectively bad but you’ll win because you’re leagues better than everyone else in the server.

She’s going to eventually get on a team where she’s not leagues better than everyone else and she’ll probably get cooked. Which is going to be a massive self esteem hit.

As for staying in GC, I doubt any pro wants to stay in GC, most want to compete in T2, there’s just not enough opportunities for them.

I think n4rrates comments still make sense. Doesn’t seem like she’s trying to hard in GC and is probably building up bad habits in GC. The way she plays won’t work in T2, and it’s probably for the best that she locks in more in GC even if she doesn’t have to in order to win.

Sonofcar

GC is supposed to be a long term project. It’s about developing places for women and other marginalized genders to improve so that they can compete in T2/1 in the future. I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re >5 years off of any internal projections Riot did.

As for why would someone move, because they don’t want to sit on a team that doesn’t do anything. I imagine a lot of the women competing in GC dream of winning champs, and if an opportunity for one of them popped up to play on a T2 team with a shot at ascension, 100% of them would take it.

They’re training intensely almost every day to expresssly prevent things like this. Most esports pros rarely ever see the gym. Would be my guess

Was she the real chamber merchant all along?

Why go to T2 when you can be in T1 on DFM. He wouldn’t be able to go to T1 or GenG. Maybe DRX but they’d probably take stew over him.

I think most will learn English in school as a second language, to varying results. However, the two languages are very similar and have a bunch of similar words. It’s quite a bit easier to pick up one of the languages if you speak the other.

Japanese is also a little bit easier to speak imo

Ah, unfortunate

Just woke up, any reason Sonder isn’t playing today?

OP was 100% baiting, but I think this argument is slightly different and more convincing than the ones you mentioned.

Look at when players like Zekken or older player from CS like Tarik will say they got into FPS, most will say it was playing something like their older brother/father/uncle introducing them to MW2 or CS 1.6 etc..

Go into any GC player, probably not the NB, and ask when they got into FPS and the vast majority will probably say either Valorant, or a little CSGO.

Men have been playing FPS games for nearly a decade longer than most women, and as a result have built up habits, skills, and develop neural pathways in their brain to a level much higher than the average woman.

If you want a good example outside of gaming, find someone who started learning a foreign language for roughly 7 years, compare that to a 7 year old native speaker of that language. Odds are the 7 year old will have a better grasp on the language even though they've learned it for the same amount of time.

RRQ Leo

If Leo doesn't come back, they're probably cooked. My guess is that if the team doesn't win anything this year, players like Alfajer and Leo will start looking elsewhere, whether it be an import or another EMEA team.

I wanted to mention that the languages are very similar. You wouldn't be able to understand Korean or Japanese just on its own, but they have similar grammar, and a lot of the words in both languages come from Chinese characters, so the sounds will be similar. If you can learn Japanese, Chinese, or Korean, it makes it a lot easier to learn the others.

In terms of util, sugar zero still has some of the best smokes in the game. You don’t see people use smokes the way he does. His astra is one of if not the best in the game.

https://youtu.be/YviyMp6yY_o?si=grBK1sUF8SimA1if

RRQ look terrible right now. Their util is so bad and de-synced with the rest of the team.

They look better, but RRQ also looks really bad right now. Need to see which is the more important thing right now.

Da fuck is he doing there?

Flyquest should replace EG or cloud9, but Moose wasn't that bad.

That’s fair. Jelly seems like a nice person from all that I’ve seen. Just feels unfortunate that sometimes bad faith actors will use them as a shield to avoid any criticism.