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.

Don’t you think there’s a reasonable interpretation here that she’s stating that NB, who don’t identify as women, shouldn’t be in GC. I get the GC rules say that they’re allowed, but it’s just a rule. Doesn’t make it a moral law that can’t be changed.

I feel like the statement could be only about sRN. I can’t speak for Bizerra’s intentions, but I would believe Jelly to be included in Meninas.

While sRN would be Menino. Seeing as they don’t even identify as a woman.

It gives me whole KeenC situation vibes. Person joins GC as an NB and is a closet misogynist. Seems hard to believe they're acting in good faith about their gender identity. Especially given the context of #35

He called a woman "whore" on a ranked game (and she was a streamer so it was recorded)
there wasn't anything else but if they are still mad at him he probably didn't change much

The rules of GC are not relevant. If you're a woman and want a safe space to be able to compete without having to deal with the misogyny that is prevalent in gaming communities, are we really going to say GC shouldn't be that?

Again, I'm not saying that it's empirically right or anything, but I think it's hard to imagine being a woman and competing in a circuit to experience misogyny by someone who doesn't even identify as a woman. Not saying it's right or wrong, just hard to say it's either as a guy.

Fair enough.

I will say, that if it's true, I do think it could change the situation a little. Entering a space that is in essence the "women's circuit," as non-binary, and then being misogynistic. I feel like that would create some pretty justifiable animus where, as a guy, It'd feel really hard to tell the person that they're unjustified feeling that way.

Again, don't know the full story, so talking out of my ass here.

I'm out of the loop, but in the BR thread people were saying sRN was misogynistic. You know anything about that?

I've been following most of the GC regions, but I haven't looked at the format for the champs.

What was Riot thinking here?

3 slots for EMEA, 2 for NA, and only 1 for BR?

No offense to the EMEA teams, but outside of G2 gozen, the teams have only ever beaten KRU and Fennel, the teams have yet to win against any major GC region. Not to say they should go down to 1 from 2, but I don't see the point in giving an extra slot to EMEA when BR only gets 1. Like, of all the regions I'd think Riot would give a 3rd slot to, it wasn't EMEA.

How is 2 NA, 2 EMEA, 2 BR, 2 Pacific, 1 China, 1 Latam not just objectively better?

Feels bad for TL :(

I heard this was for Assault, not the financial stuff.

He shared nudes of his girlfriend who was underage at the time. I believe he was as well, but I could be wrong.

https://x.com/aEvilcat/status/1465080531247378440

EDIT: link to “taking accountability post” that he deleted. https://x.com/aevilcat/status/1465083711536472073?s=46

That “he’s from EU” line is hilarious.

Just…what? On so many different levels.

Go to bed now. By the time the inevitable tech pauses finish you’ll probably miss one map at most.

They’ve looked leagues better than most teams this tournament. Should be a clean match with the two map bans.

Junior*

When ZETA made the switch to Junior from xqq, the team looked a lot better (around 2023 LCQ). Then they go to Carlao and look worse.

Hello Riot, I’d like to make a report. JFT have made a last minute substitution by having yay play under the name Andy.

This might be the biggest neon diff I’ve seen just in terms of the two of them in 1v1s

You're acting like people are frothing at the mouth rabidly upset about this guy. 99.9999% of people just saw him as an annoying kid posting shit for attention.

99.9999% of criticism of anyone can be deflected by saying it doesn't impact your life. Doesn't make it any less valid criticism.

Personally, death threats are never okay, and neither is doxxing.

However, you see this pendulum effect with every controversial figure. People dislike them, call for them to retire, some idiots take the criticism too far, so people feel like they need to counter-swing back. That's why you see so many people asking now, "Why did we dislike rocketbullets?" "#freerocketbullets", etc.

Rocketbullets should've stopped posting the spreadsheets, but it shouldn't have had to be because he was getting death threats.

Copying a popular gimmick of last offseason but had zero ethics and responsibility with vetting his sources.

Did he break the news on those trials, or were those commonly accepted things mentioned by others in the community that he just included in his spreadsheet?