not even on some revisionist history shit, I knew that some slop like this was going to happen from the start which is why i didnt care to watch it
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not even on some revisionist history shit, I knew that some slop like this was going to happen from the start which is why i didnt care to watch it
ngl bro u made me feel old as shit lmfao I've been watching ts for 6 years
honestly anyone taking the tenz awards seriously after knowing how the voting was decided was fighting a losing battle, asking current pros and coaches to rate their peers is such a stupid decision because of not only the inherent biases of most players, but most of the time players and coaches don't even watch teams other than their own except for VOD reviews
That lower bracket is going to be insanely spicy, 4 of DRX, GenG, GE PRX/T1 and FS/DFM being eliminated is going to cause some very interesting conversations between now and Stage 1
I think when you're rating just the top end of the league, EMEA first Pacific second and Americas third is decently justifiable, but like I said the Americas midfield is so much better than every other regions midfield that it pushes the region up when it comes to average power across all 12 teams. You don't get any free games in Americas (unless you play loud), while in Pacific you can't really say that when TS and Zeta are running around
Yeah I'm biased bc I'm a primarily Americas fan but I genuinely think that this is top to bottom probably the most competitive league of the 4. Out of the 12 teams in the league, I'd say everyone other than Loud can realistically beat each other on any given day. The middle of the pack in Americas is the highest level midfield of all regional leagues.
As much as I like to meme on EMEA I think in the grand scheme of valorant, they have incredibly good teams at the top end like Vitality, BBL, M8s and FNC who seemingly can compete with any of the best from around the world. Turkey is one of the best valorant subregions for producing young talent. The issue is that the dropoff between the top end and the midfield is fucking huge, when teams like liquid and heretics are your 5th/6th tier, then somethings pretty bad.
Pacific has basically the same issue that EMEA has, but even worse because they genuinely might have the two worst teams in all of VCT, Team Secret and Zeta Division. The fact that these two are real and serious franchising teams is genuinely mindboggling to me. I must give my props tho, the top end of the league look like genuine competition.
I will not lie, I've watched like 3 games of vct china, but from what ive seen in my limited perspective and what ive heard from more avid CN fans, this region is producing some genuine glue.
I promise I'm not ragebaiting, these are my genuine opinions. Also CN fans come and tell me if my take about CN is right or if I'm just being sinophobic
idk if this is a hot take but C9 really needs to be talked about more in the conversation of completely dogshit orgs. In their 6 years of playing valorant, they made one single international event other than Lock In, Champions 2021, and the path they took to get there through NA LCQ was incredibly weak. And in the franchising era, they are one of the two regular franchise teams in Americas to not make an international event. If teams like EG and Furia are on the hot seat by riot, C9 should be right beside them due to their lack of performance
because they are broadcasted across the nation? No shit ESPN would get more viewers than Bally Sports Cleveland, RSNs only get broadcasted in a the immediate proximity of a team and ESPN gets broadcasted to every single TV that carries ESPN in the country. It's a difference of a million TVs to a hundred million TVs.
They literally do? Ask a Mets fan if thry prefer ESPN over SNY. Ask a Lakers fan if they prefer TNT over over Spectrum Sportsnet LA.
one thing that I’ve heard about the japanese val scene is that valorant is treated a lot more like a spectator sport and the actual playerbase isnt super competitive compared to other much larger fps markets like NA, Korea, and Europe. IDK how true that actually is bc I dont live in Japan but it would make a lot of sense for why a lot of times Japan never really stacks up mechanically with most of APAC
edit: it would also explain why JP produces so much viewership
I still don't understand what your issue is. NOBODY has EVER had a problem with casters and commentators using nicknames, unless a player specifically asks for them not to use it. It just seems like you have some weird desire for commentary and esports to be highly professional and polished when in reality that's not really what anyone wants. The reason why basketball fans and baseball fans prefer local sports broadcast over national broadcast is because of the personal connections that these broadcasters have with the team, and a massive part of that is the nicknames that they use. Fans crave feeling connected to the players that they root for, and nicknames are one of the many ways in which you can humanize and create connections between players and fans. Seriously dude, get out of the esports bubble and realize that for sports broadcasting, being uptight and professional hasn't been in vogue for almost a decade at this point. Fans crave connection, and overly corporate commentators kill the personal touch that fans so desperately want.
viper is functionally a sentinel man be serious
idk dude he's defending been defending it relatively seriously in the replies
im ngl if you could watch an entire 45 minutes of valorant and still not make the connection that "alfa" and "alfajer" are the same person then you might genuinely be stupid. Nicknames have never stopped sports broadcasting from being considered professional btw, nicknames are used constantly on broadcast. Rob Gronkowski for basically his entire career got shortened to "Gronk" and literally everybody knew who was being talked about. So does Justin Jefferson with JJettas, Giannis Antetokoumpo with the Greek Freak, Sidney Crosby with Sid the Kid, Alex Ovechkin with Ovi, Lebron James with Bron, Brock Purdy with Mr. Irrelevant, Sergio Aguero with Kun Aguero, Javier Hernandez with Chicharito, and Guillermo Ochoa with Memo Ochoa.
having a good AWPer is probably one of the most important things to having a good team tbh. The gun is so fundamentally good that not trying to capitalize on it is just stupid. Not to mention that the outlaw is one of the best guns in the game right now to punish half shields and ecos
miss that guy, he needs to come back when the goat mwzera plays
I feel sorry for the casters assigned to this game they have to watch the worst game of valorant of the year
i wonder who said that single elim take
that's why I said that group stages/regionals should have group stages and round robins in order to filter out the teams who are just trying to pop off a few times and win it all. That's the beauty of a regular season/postseason format, a regular season favors teams that can consistently put up good performances, but once the playoff comes around you can't get away with just being good anymore, you need players who can be great at times.
Say for example, we invited 16 teams to champs, 4 from each region. We play a round robin or swiss stage in order to filter out 8 of the teams in a way that rewards consistent performace against a variety of teams, before we then throw them into a single elim top 8. That's a perfect combination of volatility and stability that allows for upset runs to happen while not making the tournament into a complete crapshoot. It's literally what they use for Worlds.
premier league = VCT regionals
champions league = Masters/Champions
its actually so embarrassing for spurs that they had one of the best english footballers for over 10 years and never won anything
KC is just an anomaly man idk how they are such a massive and popular team yet throw this slop into vct every year
seeing world class teams lose is good for entertainment value imo, that's why March Madness is one of the most beloved American sports tournaments, because of the volatility in having a 68 man single elimination bracket
new torture idea: make someone watch Team Secret vs Zeta Division 24/7
Single elimination brackets are so much better than double elimination, especially after a round robin stage. The dynamic between a round robin stage that rewards consistency over a longer period of time, versus a single elim playoff where you need single popoff performances to survive is an incredibly exciting way to watch competition, and the tension that comes with every single game in a playoff being life or death is incredible. Having a lower bracket to fall down to takes out so much of the tension from the upper bracket games even when its between two objectively good teams playing against each other, and makes the viewing experience far less fun than if every game was win or go home. Also, if they would go to single elim instead of double, they should also make every playoff game bo5 like they do in Worlds for League
EG are holding on to the 2024 champs run like their life depends on it man that's literally their only feat keeping them in franchising, bc otherwise they've literally invested the least into the league and are one of the least successful.
KC are garbage but I could see them staying in out of the pure popularity of the team
TS need to go now
prx needs to livestream an alecks cam so we can watch him lose his shit when PRX throws a 3v5
if ur a spurs fan ur supposed to hate all the other London teams, but its mostly Arsenal and Chelsea. Spurs-Arsenal is one of the more iconic rivalries bc they're both in North London, and Spurs-Chelsea is kind of a "secondary rival". Man United are the biggest fanbase in England and ngl it's not even really close, so hate watching them is always enjoyable.
I'm a chelsea fan btw
midweek games aren't as bad, but weekend games are fucking terrible lol most of them start at like 8 am pst
Premier League coverage in the US is on NBC, the USA Network, and Peacock, just look it up on espn or something to find the times. Btw get used to waking up at ungodly hours to watch ur team bc Tottenham plays at 4:30 AM PST this saturday lol
Electromagnetism
Differential Equations
Vector Calculus
Sociology of Race in the US
people getting mad when other players use intentional game mechanics is so funny ngl
mibr look by far the best team in the world ngl
EMEA is a CS region, there's just nothing we can really do about it. They can get the players for the occasional hypercompetitive team like FNC and Heretics, but the fact is that the best EMEA tac fps players want to play CS, while the best North American and Asian tac fps players want to play valorant.
brazil are an anomaly, those mfs can put up top tier cs and valorant teams
Lev looked pretty demonic (it was vs KRU but still), they have the easier path to Lower Round 4 with -Demon1 Cloud9 too
Tbf, it's always kind of been like that, it's just that the primary investigators always got the full credit. The reason we say Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and not Watson, Crick, Franklin, Stokes, Wilkins, and Wilson is because the paper that got famous had James Watson and Francis Crick's name on it. Newton is called the father of calculus even though it was combined, separate efforts of Newton and Leibniz that contributed to our modern understanding of calculus because some English scientific academy (that Newton was the head of by the way) said that Newton did it first.
Scientists clearly peaked in the 20th Century
Albert Einstein
Werner Heisenberg
Marie Curie
Niels Bohr
Louis de Broglie
Max Planck
Wolfgang Pauli
Erwin Schrodinger
Paul Dirac
Linus Pauling
All revolutionized their field. Hell I'd even say the 18th Century may have peaked higher than the 19th Century purely off the contributions of Newton Lagrange and Liebniz and the development of Newtonian and Lagrangian Mechanics
edit: tbf I am incredibly biased towards physicists because I'm an engineer
no world Furia replaces someone right now with how hot the team's been playing, just ride the hot hands until kickoffs over
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