I honestly don't mind Balla, I am however, not a big fan of Doug. Personally, the way he talks like he just saw someone actually get murdered gets a little tiring.

Outside of Berlin, Chronicle was easily better imo

Idk about that, has he ever even played in any of the open qualifiers?

Did the Guard actually have a training facility? I feel like I always saw them using the complexity one in the behind-the-scenes videos, but I could be wrong.

Who is Kamyk? Was he a good T2 player before being 6th man?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/ur4ms7/guard_net_on_twitter_when_ur_own_biological/

Flashback to after Reykjavik when this man was getting so much hate that his own dad made a twitter account to shit on him. I really think that got to him and that's why then underperformed for the rest of the season.

Valorant's not a copy of csgo in my opinion. They both are the same genre and share core mechanics of the genre, but Valorant innovates in terms of having a ton of gameplay that is created by the interactions between agents, and the different maps' special characteristics. It's not like Valorant literally just waits for a csgo update and then just copies it.

I believe playing on SG was the first time he actually played in Japan, the rest of the time he was just playing online from Russia.

Surely Zeta and GenG are above Prx? Zeta beat Prx in the off-season and GenG looked better against a much harder opponent.

Yeah, I remember thinking d3ffo's performance at Berlin was a huge step up from his online performance. I think his Champ's performance was a little subpar though.

Even if you don't like someone, seeing them lose their job because of something completely outside of their control is always tough to see. Hope he can find a new oppurtunity.

Does anyone know how the attendance for the first GC championship was? I remember watching some games and it looked pretty empty, but I don't know if that was because of a lack of interest in going, or just how small the amount of seating was for that event.

I forgot exactly who said it, it was either Shroud, Tarik, or just9n

I remember hearing someone in a watch party say that shotguns have no place in a tac shooter. No clue why every game feels like they need to add them.

What happened to Parla? Don't really have the time to watch the VRLs, but it seemed like people thought they were one of if not the best ascension teams in EMEA.

I sometimes am surprised CR didn't get the franchise spot over DFM. They've been in the scene for a long time, have been consistently either 1st or 2nd best in Japan, barring Copenhagen quals, and they even do some of offline events. From what I can tell, DFM has a league team, so I'm guessing that Riot felt more comfortable working with them.

Idk, I remember seeing a tweet from his ex saying he asked her to bail him out or something to that degree, and his family might be believers in the whole, some time in jail will solve all the mental problems you have mentality, kinda similar to Stellar's Dad's reply. Just a guess tho.

Bro's never seen American prisons.

To elaborate, in America, don't know about other countries, when you're arrested, you have a bail hearing where the state will either ask for a bail or for you to be remanded for serious crimes or flight risks. A judge then will either remand or set bail at a reasonable amount, and if you pay bail or get a bond for it, you don't have to stay in jail until you're on trial. Which makes it weird that you'd still be in prison on, I believe, 5K bail with a streamer/pro like SicK.

Not a lot of orgs in that region, no?

I think add3r or Zeldris are fair for the last.

If he can take a break and get his shit together, he should be fine. I think most people are aware of the circumstances surrounding this.

Honestly, fair

I'm going to die of old age before people stop making threads about this situation.

Really? Interesting. Wonder why he is so interested in regions other than EMEA.

Imagine 2021(I think?) Gambit -D3ffo +something

I disagree. I think ZETA's only losses since NTH have been to really good teams, Loud, DRX, Fnatic, TLN. I think if they start putting TENN back on raze instead of Kay/o, they would start doing better I think.

I think people have become accustomed to their play style. They were able to get some wins and get 2nd at Copenhagen, because people weren't used to their play style being so uncommon, and they're all good players. They need to either do something different or actually start following the meta instead of redefining it I think. They have 5 good players, but every team they play seems to always have a perfect read on them nowadays.

Decent, and I think the most he contributes to PRX is more his personality than being a cracked player. Probably difficult to find someone that will have the same type of personality to replace him, which seems to be what PRX wants.

Didn't you know, criticizing bad sportsmanship is xenophobia?

I never really watched any of the Faze games last year, but I remember from the clips I saw he looked really good, though there's a selection bias with that.

Ravish is still the goat of casting.

Actually not a bad lineup.

I think EG is really invested in fostering the Boostio, COM, Jawgemo core, so I don't see it ever being a thing.

EG is the only likely one, each other team already has a player that is really good in that role, and doesn't make sense to switch up all the practice that you've had with them. Jawgemo is the only really obvious one Yay could be an upgrade for. I could also see NRG trying to pick him up since it's essentially reuniting 4 out of 5 of the old optic roster, but that wouldn't happen until next year would be my guess. His salary is probably just too high for most teams to justify.

I don't know much about the csgo equivalent of GC. Do you have much opportunity to play against male teams, even if they're t2 or is it completely separate?

Honestly depending on the day it's a tossup between Yay, Derke, Aspas, and cNed imo

Then no, probably not. I don't know for sure, but I would guess the majority of Val's player base at this point didn't come from CS. Don't think they would start playing it now.

FUT also surprised me, it looked like they couldn't win anything in offseason, but looked good against RRQ, and even pushed 100T. Can't tell if that was just 100T underperforming tho.

Based on how good fnatic looked, SEN probably would've gone a little bit further, but probably not anywhere past quarter finals. GenG comes to mind as well.

If the twitch dataleaks are to be believed, didn't he make 8 mil from subscribers alone per year (not including donations and sponsors)?

When I first started learning Japanese I had a similar feeling. It felt like every time I spoke, people were judging me to make sure my grammar was flawless, but the vast majority of people don't do that. Most Americans, and even British people, don't speak "proper" grammatically correct English. If you ever get the opportunity to talk to people, don't worry too much about what you're saying. Outside of that, I can only recommend trying to watch more things like movies or tv shows that you've already watched in your native language in English, and if you're comfortable with it turn off the subtitles. You'll normally be able to piece together words and grammar you don't know.

It still blows my mind that he's only 19.

When I hear him say "police is involved." It makes me think that he's either going for a restraining order, which wouldn't really be affected by this or pursuing damages, which could be. Bro sounds like he's off a perc right now tho.

I don't really know anything about the situation, but if you're going to be suing someone, you really shouldn't be doing a live stream and talking off-script. So many random things you can say can be misconstrued in court by the opposing attorney.

The statements about BR in 2021 were mostly true. In most tourneys, they looked like the worst region except Japan. However, they had a massive power up, and are looking like one of the best subregions in the world. They have the best team in the world, and the rest of their partnered teams look good, although more so Furia then MIBR.

Tons of people that do bad shit don't get taken to trial due to the cost, and how hard crimes can be to prove before a jury. An unfortunate aspect of most judicial systems.

Pretty sure him being blacklisted is just a theory. More likely that there's no reason to really have him on a t1 roster over any player currently in franchising, and t2 rosters don't make enough money to justify the brand risk.

Esports bubble bursting, and we're likely going to see everything become consolidated by the actual companies that make the games soon. Something like the Ludwig x Tarik invitational, or some similar summit-style tournament, can still happen, just going to be hosted by riot would be my guess.

It's worth noting that someone like Tenz who had a huge buyout isn't only because of his skill. Tenz and similar players also have huge content creator revenue that the org can profit off of. I don't watch a lot of EMEA player streams, but I doubt they're as big as NA or other regions.