Any team from Group D could get out of their slump and make a top 4 finish

there's a lot of really terrible history about race relations in America in the 20th century, like the Tulsa massacre, the CIA infiltration of the Black Panther Party, the Little Rock 9, Brown v Board, the Japanese Internment, red-lining, a lot of bad shit.

esic still hasn't released the Marved papers yet

They'll finish the riot investigation by 2050, when this games been long dead

Jazz music is a genre of music created primarily by black musicians in the 1900s. White people in America claimed that this new genre of music was an "attack on American values", but this really meant that new ideas are being introduced that may destroy the status quo at the time of white superiority over minority groups. By attempting to delegitimize this new genre of music, white Americans were trying to maintain the status quo and fight the change that could possibly swing the balance of power more equally, which they didn't like.

water obviously

it's kind of tough to make them distinct when they have such similar formats

Ppl used to see Jazz as an attack on American values, so maybe h786 agrees with those racist mfs

endurance sports for the most part are largely mental, you can do all the training you want but if you don't have the willpower to push past your own conceptions of your physical limits you never can be great

I prefer modern hip-hop, but you still have to admit Sinatra is a legend of music, one of the greats of Jazz/Swing

Open qualifier is more exciting but for the sake of the longevity of the game, we need franchising. The partnership system we have now is a way for orgs to have security, and know that even if they make a shit roster or make some mistake then they won't be too badly punished for it, as long as they don't just sandbag the season for profit. This encourages teams to be a bit more big-picture with their rosters, instead of signing a bunch of big-money F/As and hoping you make it deep, teams can try to start from the beginning and sign an exciting young squad of talents who need development. In an open system, it's very difficult to pull off this type of long-term project, because one slip-up in a qualifier and your season is done. It also encourages orgs to invest smarter into the scene, where instead of all the money going into signing big name F/As, they can go into talent scouting or the coaching staff. It can even allow for some super long term projects like an academy division. People don't like to admit it, but partnership systems are the future of esports. It allows for org stability, which leads to smarter and more investment in the scene, which should lead to an increase in the level of play, and spectator enjoyment.

fr, being a player under him sounds like a high school football coach powertripping on teenagers

not BCJ, there's better initiator players out there

people in the community refer to masters winners as world champions, and whenever people talk about Majors and what regions ahve the most Major wins, they include Masters in that Major tier

I don’t think it’s the prize pool, Cologne has a very similar prize pool to the Paris Major in CS

Feels like valorant has a weird relationship between how people view the distinction between masters and champions events vs how riot expects us to view them. The community sees champs and masters as on the same prestige level, while riot sees it is a step higher, a more important trophy than masters ever could be. As far as I know this doesn’t really happen in other games, in CS it’s clearly more prestigious to win the Major vs winning Cologne, Katowice, or the Blast World Finals, and in League, Worlds is far more prestigious than MSI ever could be. Is it just a product of us not having international tourneys until like 2 years after release? Or something else

Mfs really lost in the Legends stage at Paris and got grouped at Cologne, S0mple is too busy playing Clash Royale to carry the team anymore, sorry to all NaVi fans but ur team is finished, pack it up

I was debating between KK and something to start, and it really just came down to the fact that a lot of KK's value comes from his stellar awping, and something is more well-rounded with his rifling and shit. Not to say that KK's rifling is shit or something AWPing is shit, but comparing the two, I'd rather have the player with the top-tier rifle and still very very good awp bc rifling on jett is better for T side.

probably bc a lot of the valorant pros were born in areas where there are big Asian populations like the Bay Area or NYC. interracial dating isn't the craziest thing in the world

thank god I'm not here

start something
bench KangKang
drop Demon1

difficult decision based on how highly you value awping

2024 NaVi will be the 2018 Astralis of valorant

Try turning it off and turning it back on

Imo, no matter what the coaching has to change. They come into matches with an incredibly strange approach to the game and their roster decisions to sub out Foxy and Zest mid-tournament is a mentally crushing blow to either player

Unless DRX literally win champs, changes have to be made. This roster has shown time and time again they don’t have the legs to make the jump from dark horse to real contender. The first thing that has to go is the coaching staff, and then a solution to the whole Zest and Foxy9 situation.

I think you have to had appeared in a tournament, like literally any tournament even in some random T3 weekly

should have gotten carti, 0/10

the headline implies that NaVi has an argument for being a title conteder, and the language used in the article is clearly building the narrative for a potential comeback from NaVi to the level of title contender.

Wardell is the biggest awp crutch in the scene, and he's not even on the same technical skill level as KangKang and other top awpers. His rifling and entrying is also shit so he can't play jett, there's a reason why he's just a streamer ranked demon now

Trembo's stats copypasta and the 0-16 shit are the furthest reaching thing this forum has created

you cannot call a team that lost to KOI anything close to a title contender

Not getting ur players passports sounds like an org problem, riot should have mandated something ab getting all rostered players the proper documents bc I know a lot of Americans don’t have their passport bc they don’t travel

Is that just because of the Ukraine war or was that a thing even before

I’m talking more in general, off the top of my head SUYGETSU at Copenhagen, D1 and something at Tokyo, and the entirety of FPX at Reykjavik had visa issues, while for example in CS, valve got 32 teams out to the Rio Major with few issues, and they had open qualifiers to deal with

Why does valorant have so many issues with getting visas for players, I feel like every tournament there’s somebody who is having trouble getting a visa to attend, or are even unable to attend entirely, yet other esports with significantly more events in other countries are able to get players visas even with open qualifiers and last minute additions title be team

It will get worse with CS2, riot is supporting Chinese valorant more right now than valve ever have in its entire lifetime. CN gets like, a playoff spot to qualify for the challengers stage of the major every year, some S tier event invites for like 1 team, and that’s it. Riot gave China a whole VCT circuit, and 25% representation at every Masters and Champions event. The difference in support is unreal.

#2 feels like insane copium from a CS fan that their game won’t just be an EU only game. CS2 is basically just the same game with updated graphics and some slightly new mechanics, is it not? Why would they suddenly have the sauce for making it succeed in Asia? SEA/SA have had little support from Valve in the past, and riot built half the countries in the region a solid challengers circuit, JP is firmly a valorant region, China is all Crossfire with a growing crowd for valorant, and Korea have OW, Sudden Attack, and Val. APAC has simple moved on from CS, in the same way NA will in the coming years when the talent pool from NA starts to dry up from all the best young players moving games. We are already starting to see this happen now, there’s barely any NA orgs left and they are kind of just cycling the same players back and forth, or TL just going and becoming an EU roster.

From my understanding of the article you linked, it’s saying that the presence of testosterone has very little to do with a higher spacial ability, and has more to do with how men are socialized into participating in hobbies they would increase their spacial ability more than women

FNC lose a stupid match in the group stage

Have the T2 circuit play year round, open qualifiers happen maybe a few weeks or a month after ascension to give a break, and after that they go into the regular season into a playoff for circuit points. Any team who didn’t make playoffs has to make it through another open qualifier again, cycle repeats, and the teams with the most circuit points makes Ascension. This allows players to get practice year round, while also allowing for a healthy cycling of new talent to come into the system.

T2 never should be and never will be a space where teams can buy in with an all-star roster and expect to succeed every time, I believe it would be more fit for orgs on a budget who scout out young talent and develop them to try and make Ascension, but that ultimately isn’t the reason behind the roster construction, it’s to flip this talent for profit.

He could be better bc his ct awp is world class

On CT he carries because his awp is insane, but his lack of aggression stagnates literally anything 100T want to do on the T side. Moving to sentinel allows him to continue locking down sight lines, and possibly even more effectively with sentinel util as well as the awp, while allowing a star, and more importantly more aggressive, duelist player to lead the T side.

They still aren’t totally accepted and the lower player base historically means there’s a much lower playerbase ready for comp play as they exist now. GC teams basically have to teach their players from scratch how to play the game at the highest level, meanwhile most of the open quality teams not only have equal or better skill just because they’ve been playing longer, they also have more experience playing. I expect as time goes on more women will be ready for the T2 level, and eventually (hopefully) the GC circuit will have ran its course and VCT can be fully integrated.

Cryo’s awping style is already passive as fuck, him sitting in the back of site and holding main with an awp won’t really change much if he’s on Jett vs on sentinel. He’s young and skilled enough to adapt his awping style to this new agent class. This allows him to play chamber more often without messing up roles, and then 100T can sign a much more aggressive duelist player to pick up the pace. Who says no?

7/10

I can never fault someone for trying to innovate with their production, but it felt like he was trying way too hard to make an overproduced bombastic art experience.

Well if we are making subregions for some stupid reason then why arbitrarily make them when we can just use the ones riot used before franchising

Dude is one of the most mechanically talented players too, it’s so bad that his ego fucks over every team he’s on

Get Scream off IGL and a GM that doesn’t ride Screams cock all day and they’ll be good, France/Belgium has enough talent to manage at least a playoff level team

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a player with so much control over a team, if he wants to IGL he gets to IGL, if he doesn’t like Newzera, that fucker is gone, if he wants to play no duelist then they go with it, if he wants to play with Nivera, then Nivera is on the team.

he's definitely not talked about as much as his teammates tho, and I'd say that's underrated compared to his skill

Nats has to be #1 bro, never seen anybody use the prism phantom before him