You know that Platchat's top 10 list wasn't just the 4 of them. They got responses from like 10-15 people or something (they state as much when introducing it).
Also requiring them to watch every match each week on top of the casting and behind the scenes stuff they do, is wild.
Even with cutting out garbage time from every match, you're still talking like 20+ min per map, with 4 different regions overlapping you're looking at 400+ min or 6.66 hours when all regions are playing multiple times a week. And that's without giving yourself the chance to pause and take notes, write things down or just take a second to do more than a surface analysis of what's going on.
There's a reason they've been trying (and succeeding) to bring in talent who are familiar with the other regions when they talk about aforementioned regions. There's simply not enough time in the week to watch really take the time to analyze every game of every region every week.

Flor was the 3rd highest rated player in all of EMEA Kickoff... DESPITE their team losing out in 2 matches.
The second of which was against the eventual EMEA 2 seed.
I don't see a reason to hate like this.
Every one of the players you are talking about are out there trying their hardest day in and day out to be the best they can at a game you love.
Why can't you just appreciate their hard work regardless of their gender?

Filled out. Good luck collecting data, this is the hard part

seek help brother

D.A.R.E. worked on me growing up. I remember being in kindergarten and telling at my parents to stop smoking because of it. I've never touched the stuff and I don't plan to.

You could be right, but I hope you're wrong.

Stolen from SleepingSnorlax above:

https://youtu.be/fBZjFYU-OX8?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/GIilD9qAzeA?feature=shared
The context for EWC

Of all the companies involved with esports, I imagine Riot is not doing too bad on their own.

What a terrible decision
A sad day for sure
I will definitely will not be watching

I hope the only content I see created about this event is stuff trying to educate why we should be unhappy about it before it happens and then literally no mention of the event during or after.

It's not just Sideshow
Seems a fair amount of us here are also in agreement
Such a sad move to see Riot do this

So you're saying it's all fake news then?

1. G2
2. VIT
3. DRX
4. EDG
5. Trace
6. T1
7. SEN
8. TL
9. GenG
10. MIBR
11. TH
12. FUT
13. Talon
14. NS
15. BBL
16. KRU
17. GX
18. BLG
19. RRQ
20. LEV
21. 100T
22. LLL
23. DRG
24. NRG
25. XLG
26. JDG
27. FNC
28. DFM
29. NAVI
30. FPX
31. M8
32. PRX
33. KC
34. NOVA
35. APEKS
36. BOOM
37. EG
38. AG
39. KOI
40. C9
41. GE
42. TE
43. Tyloo
44. Furia
45. TS
46. Wolves
47. ZETA
48. 2G

Honestly, it's been a long set of tournaments and I cannot truly remember the form of every team (especially the Chinese ones, since that one ended the furthest back). I do remember enough to think that if EDG plays how they did at the start of Kickoff, they'll get rolled out of the arena... but their top form can compete with the other 1 seeds (who all look great imo). Honestly, anyone from 41-30 can probably take a series from anyone as high up as ~18-20 on a good day. And the games between the teams higher than that should all be good too. The mid table is tough because the there are a lot of teams that seem to be somewhat inconsistent.

Yeah I 100% agree. If your coach isn't adding anything to the strategy when taking a time out and it's just to give the players a second to reset and think of something themselves, then you need to find a new coach for timeouts. If the current coach is good for the team they can be general manager or something and sit in the box with the coach during the games if they still feel that's necessary, but at the tier 1 level you gotta expect more from the (strategic) coach during a tac timeout.

I don't have the clip, but I believe there was a post made on reddit or X or whatever with a translation of what he said. Which more or less amounted to having issues with how the coach handles time outs. Usually he didn't say anything productive (in Meteor's mind), only stuff like "____ you need to focus". And Meteor expanded saying that that kinda feedback doesn't matter during timeouts. When a timeout is called he it's because they're struggling and they need a real plan. Even telling them B seems weak is not the same as "Go B". Give the players a plan because you can see everything, don't just tell the players to lock in or focus. I believe Meteor at one point was even like "Is this what you guys have been using your timeouts for all this time?" just frustrated and confused.

I mean I'll throw my name in to win just in case, but I (and the rest of the audience) would be VERRRY surprised if they missed it.

Wait EMEA is starting a Bo5 at 9pm? that's lowkey crazy.

Those two are def the favs for Americas but neither are truly a lock. I'd give G2 ~85% for top 2+ and SEN ~70% probably. Honestly it all seems to be a crapshoot, so many of the Americas teams seem good one week bad the next or vice versa.

1. No Rito buddy.
2. 1110 hours of Swift, 535 Spike Rush, 232 Unrated, 33 Comp, 24 Escalation, 10 DM, 9 TDM, 6 Replication

Nearly all of my Spike Rush hours are from before Swift was a thing. I enjoy Swift as I get to at least pretend I'm playing real Val while also not being locked into a 40 minute game. Also enjoy that people usually don't just give up and leave in a Swift because the game is short enough to just finish it out. Two accounts, one is level 500+ the other is <50.

Edit: FWIW I play on NA East server, so it seems VERRRRRY rare to run into a Rito employee.

For all this talk about wanting coaches who can adapt better on the fly, the thread creator sure hasn't proven they can do anything other than stick to what everyone is calling a sinking ship... Which in itself is a skill, but man, try to take some criticism with grace. Attacking the scene like this will get you nowhere. Even if we look back on this 5 years from now and see that 100+ page docs are the way of the future for coaching, you're not going to see the benefits of it when everyone refuses to work with you due to your nature.

I desire for 100T to win
NRG can do well later in the season
But for now I wanna see 100T take it away

It doesn't have to be something that you think would be important to anyone else.
It could be spending time to make a gift/come up with an idea for a gift for a family member and being proud of how it turned out, making the travel/school sports team, sticking up for a friend that's getting bullied, passing a test that you studied really hard for, finally hitting [insert rank here] rank in some game you play, controlling your emotions when you were upset even when it would have been considered normal for you to have lashed out, or even just "I'm really proud of [insert family member here]"... Or just something little that you do everyday that nobody even thinks of, but you make a point to do... like say "good morning" to your parents every day, never lie to a friend, properly capitalize everyone's name because you learned that a friend of yours didn't use capitalization when they wrote about themselves because they felt they weren't important enough to warrant it but you wanted to make sure everyone felt they were important enough to you to warrant properly addressing them in case someone else was also secretly feeling the same way (speaking from experience here if you couldn't tell). It could be anything, but it has to be something you did. If you fought for your decision to switch schools, then yeah, that's great... But if your family just moved or your parents decided it for you, I think the switch itself would not be something you could be proud of. In that case it would just be something like, my proud of my connection with my parents which was close enough to have them realize I was struggling at my old school and so they researched and enrolled me a new one that I'm doing great at.

What is the one thing that you are most proud of in your life thus far?

Oh wow. I wasn't expecting that to be the reason. I thought they hit a money wall or something, but yeah this makes sense. Perhaps it means DSG will pick up a roster in another region.

This is pretty awesome. Amazing work.

Well it helps that that one country has twice the population of all of Europe combined, and still has more population than Europe combined with MENA.

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.