well the entire purpose of gc is as a developmental system to get women and marginalized people into tier 2 and the wider valorant ecosystem so if gc teams dont give a shit about getting to tier 2 then something needs to fundamentally change about the entire system to change this ideology

well that just goes against the entire purpose of having the gc circuit in the first place, its express purpose is to facilitate pathways for women and other marginalized populations into esports but if you just stick them in their own circuit and never interact with the wider esports ecosystem then how are they gonna make their way into the competitive valorant pyramid

well a good way to help teams improve would be to expose them to better competition, if SR and other gc powerhouses just stomp on objectively inferior competition all the time that's not exactly conducive to growth which is why I think getting them a guaranteed challengers spot may be helpful to the development in the scene in the long run

I'm not gonna be a weirdo here and say "why do we need game changers if women are equal to men" bc thats just stupid, but there's a real problem with pathways from GC into the tier 2 scene. The way it stands right now I don't see any real incentive for a top tier GC player to EVER compete in tier 2, as GC teams have more consistent support from orgs as well as more guaranteed salaries. Why would someone who's on a top tier GC team to ever move to a tier 2 team if thats the case. There needs to be better pathways to facilitate gc talent into tier 2, but i don't really see how, possibly by making the top gc team from a region auto qualify into that region's challengers system?

putting a ranked player on this list is very unserious

fake tourney in my book

every 1 seed was mickey mouse

least we got knocked out SEN's been watching from the couch for a while

where Sentinels?

TL fan talking

fuck it man I'll take a 4th place finish here considering the expectations I had after Madrid

I saw u with a US flag and 100T flair like 5 minutes ago

brazil in general brings some of the best crowds, its one of the reasons I love watching the Brasileirão

I would say idgaf about biased crowds but theres deadass no excitement in here even when PRX does do shit, give us real biased crowds like Brazil at Lock In

is PRX actually washed chat

play jett and reyna run it down a site and scream at your teammates when you dont win the round

if Jinggg did that his averages would go up

nobody could possibly compare to my pookie wookie Peter "Asuna" Mazuryk

respect the greatest valorant player of all time pls

yeah east asian beauty standards are absolutely insane, this is a bit of an extreme example but the plastic surgeries they do on aspiring idols is ridiculous, those poor teenagers should not have to be doing all that for the entertainment of insane fans

East Asian makeup goes insane, Korea a lot more than China but they still go crazy with their products

usually when a team opens up their permaban they have some type of plan or gimmick they think has a chance to carry them to a win but the whole win condition was give Jinggg reyna and let him try to dick on 100T

actually embarrassing to watch for PRX

you don't get it tho Jinggg's cock is fucking massive and he'll just aim diff everyone trust

what the fuck was that dude just complete braindead activity through and through, I thought that when they let their permaban through they actually had a plan in mind but it was basically just them trying to aim diff 100T

think this is off Zekken's stream

the ranking system is an elo system that heavily favors good T2 teams, I think there should be a poll system where vlr writers make a top 10 or something and then we just compile their rankings and that's our ranking

edit: OXG would still be top 3 NA tho

1550 depends on ur def of a good college, if you mean top 20 then yes you will probably need at least a 1500 but to get in ur local state flagship? depending on location (ie. not a state where the state flagship is a t20 like Michigan or California), you can get away with a much lower score and still get a very good quality education

idk ppl can get burnt out pretty quickly if they do too much of anything, I'd rather my players play the game less if it means they are more focused during practice or on game days vs having them be tired and unmotivated to play the game because they spent 5 junk hours playing solo queue every day. Still a bit concerning tho that they really rarely play ranked there's probably a balance to be found there between playing absolutely no ranked and only playing during specific practice times and playing too much where they get burnt out and unmotivated to play they game

scale changed, minimum is 400, 1130 is still really bad lol

it's good for if you want a general understanding of what's going on in in valorant for people that don't watch every game but they never really go super in depth about anything other than general surface level analysis in their show. It is a very funny show tho

cned is one of the players in VCT EMEA for sure

a team making a roster change in the middle of masters is insanely stupid you just wasted months of practice and developing chemistry for what a slightly better player?

me when I don't understand immigration

95% KAST Jesucristo

as long as its in a decent timezone people in NA and EMEA will probably watch but from what I've seen Japanese fans are wayyyy more willing to watch in unfavorable time zones than Korean fans

everyone knows skyline gtr clears both

egos would go insane I think

that's kind of the problem with being an isolated region like South Asia is, some type of thing happens to OCE players, they are virtually blackballed from T1 scrims because nobody would want to play 100+ ping scrims against T2 teams when there's equal or better comp closer by with better ping. It's one of the massive problems that people had with the International Leagues, where teams from locations faraway from the IL centers would be fucked over for scrim partners. It hasn't really happened yet for South America because they have a very strong esports/fps culture but for countries like India that have a much weaker presence in the fps scene, this lack of competition and development is very bad for them

Indonesia has a lot of talented players and no disrespect to India but they aren't the most talent-rich region in the world

I need TenZ balls deep in me fr

his one redeeming quality was that he used to have a top tier raze in NA but now its just mediocre at best

Saying this as a former Asuna believer, we need to have an honest discussion about Asuna atp. He's just not the star that he was in the First Strike/VCT 2021 days and it was probably his time to be off the team in the offseason, but he's too clouted in the valorant community and he's just barely good enough to justify a place in the team. If he had 1/10th of the twitter followers he has rn he would be a T2 grinder rn.

D0rke glazing in big 2024 I thought we were past this already

rawr nyaaaaa ~~

maybe with time it'll get better, it was a recent addition so there's possibly some chemistry issues that need to be ironed out

one of my favorites is Blue Period, there's an anime to it but I heard it was shit and the manga is way better

there's a romance manga called Blue Box, it's getting adapted into an anime soon

another one of my favorites is We Shall Now Begin Ethics, no anime adaptation yet as far as I know

it better be better than last year we picked up boostio didn't we

I haven't touched the pro scene since the end of champions, can someone explain how the new 100t roster stacks up in Americas

me pls