all this hype to get 2-0d by 100T

the entire point of ranked is for people to take the game seriously, it's literally what it fucking says in game. When the actual client implies the purpose of ranked is for people to at least try, and people don't try ofc ppl are getting upset

Feels like SEN only bought teams other than Fortnite and Valorant just to seem more legitimate as an org, they don't actually give a shit about apex or halo

pro players are an exception, but if you are doing that shit in ur ranked games ur a certified loser

I was a TL CSGO fan but am a 100T valorant fan

Best EMEA team is a stretch when FNATIC literally exists

it's childish to want gamechangers to have an actual audience and not just streamer dickriders watching one game? Or for women to get an opportunity in esports?

difficult situation imo. WIth those 4 being such big streamers, it's bound to get more eyes on the GC scene, but there is a fair point to make that this could just be a publicity stunt by DSG to get some good boy points and takes a spot from other possibly more talented individuals. She also brings up a good point about the potential viewers they get being just there for the streamers and not for the actual gameplay, we saw a lot of this with teams in the VRLs last year, where games with KOI or Karmine Corp getting hundreds of thousands of views, while other barely got 1k. Hopefully this gets some eyes on the NA GC scene, but tbh I doubt it's going to result in anything in the long term

There's not enough, and to be completely honest I don't think any, women in the valorant scene that can compete in the T1 scene yet, the closest we've gotten was bob and she was at best a T2 player on Soniqs

Equity exists because of the institutions that exist. Let's take you workers quota example, Traditionally for thousands of years it has been expected that men have the jobs and women stay in the home. It wasn't until around the 1800s when women were even allowed to work in the United States, and it wasn't until WW1 and WW2 that it was even considered normal for a woman to even work. Despite evening this divide out, there is still a large disparity between men and women. There are still conservative groups that encourage women to stay home and not work, and women have not had a long enough tradition of having high-skilled jobs to say they are equal yet. Equitable solutions like making employment quotas in the workforce and affirmative action in American universities allows these minority groups that were initially discriminated against encouraged to gain the skills to work in high skill labor and destroy the institutions that lead to the cycle of poverty that disproportionately affect minority groups.

Boaster absolutely ate that shit

bffr who actually cares

There are a large variety of reasons why a person would be obese, whether it be they have some type of disorder that makes it difficult to lose weight or they're just a lazy little fuck.

If they're lazy, then I completely agree with calling them out. There are so many resources available to people to lose weight that it is not necessarily easy to live a healthier lifestyle, but the path to becoming healthier is very clear and obvious.

There is a much grayer area if this is a disorder. Many obese people became obese because of some type of trauma, or they have some type of medical disorder where it is difficult to not gain weight, like leptin resistance. For the trauma part, many people have for example been abused as children or abused by a spouse, and eating is a very common way that these people deal with this trauma. These are much more difficult to deal with, and it is incredibly unfair to namecall these people because of their weight because it's largely out of their control. Someone with leptin resistance literally doesn't stop feeling hungry, and abuse victims need a long and difficult recovery process to not only get that PTSD of their abuse out of them, but also to develop a healthy relationship with food.

TLDR
Being fat for no reason is bad, being fat for a reason is fine and reasonable and these people often are trying to not be fat anyway

I'm pretty sure the official reason given is that they had a limited budget, and they decided to use a smaller venue to instead focus more on the stream setup and getting more features and extra stuff on the broadcast other than the match

Mr. Netero, do you listen to SZA?

shit was an insanely cool match, idec that America lost, this whole tournament was a banger and is huge for the popularity of baseball across the world

Top 3 Americas
Top 3 EMEA
Top 3 APAC

LCQ = 4-10 from franchising + top ascension team
1 from Americas, EMEA, and APAC LCQ respectively

Top 2 China domestic league/invitation

Last 2 idk, maybe Tokyo winner, maybe they'll do an international play-in or sum

ranked players are like goldfish, got 2 second memories

is the arena seriously an indoor cycling stadium??

riot scheduled an absolute clout fiesta for game 1

100T 2-1

C9 still don't have a roster lol wtf are they even doing

100% guaranteeing them bottom of the league, should be relegated for being fucking stupid

W trembo

Playing faceit or ESEA is a far better experience than val ranked purely because the amount of effort it takes to play on these servers is just more work than hopping in a queue. Ppl playing faceit want to actually play csgo, whole ppl playing ranked might just queue up pissed off and with nothing to do

IMO overrating Zeta, ever since Reykjavik 2022, they've done almost nothing in real tournaments

clearly you didn't read the article, this is quoted directly from the article

"Since women have faster auditory latencies [9], [10] and shorter neural pathways due to a shorter stature than men [11], the origin of the slower female Olympic reaction times would appear to be peripheral and not central. Indeed, the plantarflexor premotor time in response is significantly shorter in healthy young women [12]. However, healthy young women do have a 20% lower rate of developing plantarflexor strength and 28% lower maximum isometric strength than men"

Based on the study that YOU cited that you clearly didn't read clearly, the limiting factor of women isn't the time it takes to think of doing an action, but rather the time it takes to generate the force to get off the starting blocks. You do not need plantarflexion to be a sucessful AWPer, and if anything women would be better AWPers because they have faster biological reactions to auditory stimuli.

Say hypothetically Marved is actually playing and isn't just benchwarming, would it be worth it for SEN to play him instead of Pancada at controller, or maybe even replace Depph and put someone else at igl?

vlr user figure out what a joke is challenge (impossible)

100T looked super sloppy in their fundamentals, and some of their comps were a bit questionable. Until they fix those up they aren’t looking like a major threat to the top 4 yet.

Easily a top 30 team in franchising

100T are trying too hard to be big brain

We should keep cryo on jett for as many maps as possible, his omen and raze just aren’t it

no way there'll be nearly as many people as today

Loud

FNC looks hella scary right now, they are shooting on all cylinders and they literally have a superteam. One thing I will give 100T is that they are resilient, and their playstyle lines up with playing against better, more structured teams than the chaos they had with EDG and FUT.

honest prediction, close 13-11/OT on the 100T map pick, 13-7 on FNC map pick, FNC 2-0

As a 100T fan FNC is looking way better now

CS used to do them, but I'm guessing it's because it feels alienating for the experience, this is still a consumer product and idk if a crowd would appreciate having their players locked in a little glass box like its an empty room. Adds more drama, crowd interaction, and adds a mental aspect to make the game more difficult

someone explain, I rlly don't want to sift through a bunch of twitter pages to get context for a subtweet

how is anyone supposed to win against goatzera when he wins 66.3% of his ranked games

imo, this is an easy win for Furia, I just don't see how anyone on T1 can compete with mwzera's 86% DM win rate.

tbf SEN are frauds, can't base the FNC win too much off of that

I can't believe that rito would sabotage the event wifi to make sure Fraudnatic would win, truly disappointing I thought better of you John RIot

1.5

Fluent English, passable spanish (not very good imo but apparently to my hispanic friends it's pretty good)

I know how to say a few swears in Portuguese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Mandarin, German, and Arabic

being shit at worlds definitely isn't helping the viewership

I'm assuming this means that the NA franchise league will get the weekend slot at the riot studio. Looks like riot's gone all in on the valorant hype in NA at least

tbf it's almost impossible to do anything worse than what RRQ were doing

fr Asuna is an insanely cracked player who also has a pretty sizeable audience, he's like a mini TenZ in that way but he has a far better work ethic than him lol

brop just came at y'all for no reason lol

ok that one fooled me bc I didn't watch LoL back then

that was just one example, what about teams like G2, old 100T, or TL that clearly had insanely cracked players but just couldn't put it together. LOUD and Optic were both rare examples of star players that all meshed well together that almost no other team could replicate

If you hate yourself cheer for an NA team

If you like to watch teams win, maybe RGE (EU) or RNG (CN)