The guy saying "south NA" is trying to clown on others' mental abilities? Stay in school kid.

What is lil bro on about? Seek help

I tried setting up a twitter yeeeeeears ago when my girlfriend and I thought it would be a good idea to sign up. Didn't know much about how to use it at the time since all we were really used to was Facebook where you can friend people. For some reason Twitter was slow at updating and we couldn't see each others accounts right away. We thought there was a problem of some sort and so I deactivated my account, intending to recreate it in hopes of that fixing the problem. I read 7 of the 8 warnings they gave me at the time of deactivating and decided to continue. The 8th warning was about not being able to use the same user name as the deactivated account. I never went back. While there have been plenty of times I would have loved to join or promote a raffle of some sort for a company/content creator I liked, I'm really glad to have dodged the bullet of the hellscape that Twitter has become.

I'm certainly not in the shape I was in back in high school, but I'm far from unhealthy somehow.

I don't eat fruit. Never really liked any of them.
I can deal with bananas (preferably with pb and chocolate on them)
And I used to vibe with apple sauce a bit growing up (preferably with a bit of cinnamon sugar).
But I can't remember the last time I had a fruit
I've never had a berry or melon or anything like that that I've liked
So when I moved out I stopped eating them lol

And just a Bo1 at that

That Agent does in fact look like a new cast member. Cool find.

Isn't 99% of 0 still 0 though?

at least babybay was bearable on the desk/casting. I was not a fan of Steele as a caster, I thought he was quite poor and didn't improve near as much as babybay over the season.

Glad to see them go back to Pati after playing so well with him in Kick Off

The BFG was my favorite book growing up.

My friend illustrated two children's books (Tercules by Marcy Pusey and The Zebracorn: Adventures of Zizou and Friends by Afonso J Henrique). Both can be found on Amazon and are prob not the kind of reading recommendations you're looking for, but I don't read much lol

I agree I think Babybay has been doing well and getting better. On the other hand, watching Steel right now is painful sometimes. It shouldn't be work to get your co-caster to bounce off you especially over trivial things like on the spot predictions. Pansy asked like 5 times who he thought was going to win on Breeze and he just deflected constantly. That's just the most recent example that sticks out to me, but he has shown to be incredibly hard to "play catch" with in my opinion. His knowledge and insight is welcomed though.

I know this is a huge bait, but does SicK even stream anymore?
He was good back then, but has he kept up with the game through all the other shit he's been going through?

Make a hamburger out of hotdog meat

I don't know the full extent of how much it has effected the various teams, likely no one outside the orgs does. But I do know that in the interview it was stated that the DDoS attacks have also effected their Val team.

Being the class act that Faker is, he also said that these DDoS attacks do not excuse their poor performance. They know what they're going through, give them some time to work things out. They generally haven't looked lost or anything in their Val matches (the DRX game being a slight exception, though I didn't get a chance to watch those games so maybe it was closer than the scorecard indicates).

I mean it's probably worse for the League team than for the Val team, but Faker literally came out and said teams were cancelling scrims against them because the scrims would get DDoS'd and that they couldn't play ranked at all even on alts because the attackers were able to find them so easily.

The T1 org as a whole gets DDoS'd so much that it effects each of their team's practice. Their Val team struggling due to not being able to play ranked or scrim is understandable. I'd say it's impressive they can play as well as they can if they aren't able to get efficient practice in.

Oh I didn't even contemplate the DDoS problem stemming over from LoL. Is it really hitting their Val players too? Man that sucks.

Wasn't the EG reserve roster from last year supposed to also be kinda cracked by the end of the year?

There are plenty of health problems you can have that wouldn't prevent you from going for a night out
Could be a common wrist or elbow injury from playing too much with harmful form, usually these issues don't prevent you from doing other things in life
Or he could have just gotten sick after attending aforementioned club

But also who cares? The man is allowed to party if that's what he does to unwind. No matter how much you grind, at some point you need a break. I know plenty of people who embody "work hard, play hard".

Yeah aren't they from Edinburgh?

Did you mean Sentinels (Sage, KJ, Cypher, Chamber) or controllers (Brim, Omen, Astra, Harbor)?

I think that's the joke.

TH played super well in kick off quals, but as a brand they pale in comparison to many of the others in EMEA. I'm not surprised if their fan base isn't that big, though the chants during halftime got good response

I play a few times weekly, but mostly just a swiftplay warrior (formerly spike rush warrior), but I really just wanted to have shorter games. I ranked when I first started playing in the beta and was placed like silver 2 or something, and though I often don't finish my ranked placements each act the games that do play are full of plats and diamonds. So I imagine my rank to be closer to that than silver 2 at this point.

K Corp did a similar thing in EMEA. They didn't play nearly as many off season matches, but they went through play-ins to get to playoffs and then won in the finals in a revenge match against the team that put them in losers in group stage. Madrid is shaping up to be a great tournament.

Actually Sacy ended the tourney with the worst rating of the 5

Heavy underdogs feels like a stretch to me

VLR be trippin then. I came to the page after the match was over and your post said "posted 1 minute ago"

I honestly do not know why they were so sure about NAVI. They looked fine, but TH looked GOOD.

My man posted this after the first game was over...
Trying to look like a prophet... and for what?
XD

I used to be a big Vanity advocate, but he is so streaky. Sometimes he has the read and he looks untouchable, but sometimes the enemy gets the read on him and he cannot seem to adjust. In those cases nothing he calls works and the team looks miserable.

G2 had interesting ideas but did not look polished in their first match vs KRU. I was not able to watch their match vs EG, but they looked much more polished against KRU in the rematch.

I agree that Furia looked like the worst team, 100T are maybe better than C9, KRU and MIBR as well.
Regardless, one thing is for certain, the bottom level of play in Americas this season is drastically higher than it was last year (which was drastically higher than the bottom of other regions as well).

Maybe I'm just huffing hopium though.

Based on the way the teams played in groups, I would be surprised if the overall outcome changed. I think the GenG v Zeta games are probably closer, but still go in GenG's favor. GenG actually put up a fight against PRX, I think it's possible both go to Madrid.

What a weird take
Also, calling this team "legit the strongest" is only hopium until we see them in action.

classic keyboard warrior using his feelings as his facts

I'll preface this with I'm much more of a Val enjoyer than a CS enjoyer (re: I play and watch Val a lot, but don't play CS at all and only watch occasionally at best).
But, I am watching some of IEM Katowice and one thing that I've noticed (and don't like) is that in between rounds the replays often go 5-10 extra seconds into the next round.
I don't even feel like the length or amount of replays even adds much of anything.
Iirc missing more than 2-3 seconds at the start of the round while watching a Val event is unusual.
I want to see all of the round if possible, even if it is just the few extra seconds of briskly walking out of spawn. But often times smokes or mollies have already landed before the camera is back on the live match. As a Val player I like watching the start of the round to steal lineups, but I feel like cutting back to it mid round really just takes me out of everything.
Am I the weird one here or do you guys agree too? Is this normal across all of CS, is it just ESL events, or is more like a change that happened after CS2 came out?

Oh wow. How did I miss the RA core getting picked up by JDG announcement? Lowkey kinda wild that they are seeded second though lol

Time for Munchkin to change his name to MunchKIM to join the squad.

bro said in terms of raw mechanics, not in terms of game sense and other factors

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I mean if you're just looking for a Shonen... In no particular order:
Demon Slayer, Attack on Titan, Hunter x Hunter, My Hero Academia, Yu Yu Hakusho, Mob Psycho, One Punch Man, Fairy Tale, Undead Unluck, Chainsaw Man, Bleach, G Gundam, Saint Seiya, Saint Seiya Omega, Fire Force, Soul Eater, Mashle, Magi, World Trigger, Noragami, Jojo, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Seraph of the End, Hajime no Ippo, Haikyuu, Slam Dunk, Kuruko's Basketball, Blue Lock, Diamond no Ace, Major, Air Gear

Some of these shows are better than others, but a lot of that will come down to taste. All of these have good... fight scenes. Even if they aren't what you're thinking a typical fight scene is. I implore you to give one of the sports anime's a try even if you have no interest in sports because for the most part they end up just following the Shonen formula of training arch into tournament arch.

What have you already watched and liked? Post your MAL list

The Tokyo Ghoul anime got worse with each successive season. The last one was so terrible I considered dropping the show entirely.

Yeah, dude was actually exciting to watch before he fell off into obscurity.

SR have now gone 1-13, 2-13, 3-13, 4-13 in order. Obviously they are just going to keep counting.
So 5-13 and 6-13 against G2 then 7-13, 8-13 and 9-13 in Grands.

Hope my data helps.

Karmine Corp is doing wonderfully in France. I think if an org starts off with a commitment to a certain locale it goes better. But most orgs, especially old ones, were essentially just some random org. So in OWL where it was essentially an org buying into a team tied to a location (and losing their own brand in doing so) it really didn't help the esports scene. You don't have to have the location in your org name to represent a place if you want to (ie K Corp is not French Corp), just make a commitment actually commit.

Josh was their coach after mCe left to C9. They've talked in interviews about how good Josh is and how mCe seemed to have more strength at finding and helping the talent grow/mature into the scene, but after the players have been around a bit, had grown and were comfortable, that mCe's style of coaching wasn't as effective as Josh's.

Idk about best, but when I was a kid I played nearly 600 hours of Pokemon Gold. By that point I was just taking my favorite team of 6 and going to fight Red or the Elite Four over and over and over again. My team was all level 100 so there was no real point, but I enjoyed doing it for hundreds of hours apparently.