the problem isn't that its attack or defense sided, basically every map is. The problem is that it's braindead design that rewards you for playing in a way that doesnt feel like valorant. Didn't a gc team lock 5 duelists on it by accident and win? even if its gc, that tells you all you need to know about the map.

nah lotus is awful. Worst map in the game by far. You can literally put an entire sentinel setup on a site and still can't hold it. There was even a round where a pro team (i think it was SEN but im not sure) put all their cypher AND deadlock util on C and still couldn't hold it. Playing it doesnt even feel like valorant.

remove lotus and its perfect

The double PHD + Top Secret security clearance requirement was by far the most outrageous one I saw (one PHD in ML/AI/Stats, the other in Engineering), but there's alot of postings that require alot more than what the actual 'job duties' list. I think a big problem is that the people who work in HR have no idea what Data Science/ML is outside of 5 min YT breakdowns they watched on it. You really don't need a PHD and 1+ years of experience to perform and understand a logistic regression. But they don't know that.

Good luck.

The job market is just as fucked as CS if not worse. People with 5+ years of experience at FAANG are having trouble getting interviews.
You basically don't have a chance unless you got a referral, which I was very lucky to (shoutout my college roommates friend).

As a little story, my pc recently had a problem with its ram so i went to get it fixed, and the guy fixing it mentioned that his daughter studied data science. She had went to berkeley (tied for #1 school in the country for this, with Stanford and CMU), and couldn't get a job as a data scientist, so she's currently working as a Data Analyst (sort of a data-science adjacent job, less focus on ML/Stats, more on visualization) and will be for the foreseable future, until she can get enough experience to move up, which she won't know how long will last. This is very common.

if you like stats (its basically all probability and stats, virtually all of machine learning has a probabilistic interpretation) and enjoy it, then choose it. The job market is just as fucked tho. I once saw a posting that wanted 2 PHD's and Active Top Secret Security clearance. - A data scientist.

initiating for people who have no clue how to play the game is self-harm, just lock Iso and run at them until you get into good elo.

Loud 3-0

if we go same roles as your order
best chance is:

aspas (duelist) - something
woot (init/duelist) - N4rrate/Forsaken
primmie(duelist/smokes) - idk anybody that fits that that can keep up with him mechanically / EDIT: Cryo or EG Demon1
texture (duelist) - Oxy
sayf (duelist) - Zekken

Role-agnostic 5:
Less, Alfa, Oxy, Meteor, Something

No Less is criminal, also i'm not so sure about demon1 currently

One month is not enough to be better, especially when its by such a slight margin.You could say he had a (slightly) better month. If Chron keeps this same small distance between him and alfa through champs -> halfway through next kickoff or whatever, then I can say he's the best on fnatic. If its a bigger margin, then less time obviously. But as of now there's no reason to believe that he is better than Alfa, and that's only assuming that stats tell the whole story. In my eye test of watching the game, alfa's mechanics and getting 2 in situations he shouldn't seems to be much more important to Fnatic's success.

Also, GMB was Nat's team, we all knew it. People who say he was carried are wrong, but he was always #2.

The Oxy example is used to demonstrate that stats don't tell the whole story.

But for the sake of clarity, lets just focus on stats:
Having (slightly) higher stats than someone at a point in time doesnt mean you are a better player than that person. This is because past events have influence on our beliefs, which are then updated over time with more data.

As a toy example, lets say the team that just won the NBA championship starts the next season with a record of 1-2, while a bad team starts 2-1 playing vs same teams. Would you say that team 2 is better just off of that? Obviously not, but if the NBA champion continued to have a bad season and the other team continued to have a good season, somepoint therein you would start to believe it.

Going back to val lets make the unrealistic assumption that the Rating stat is a perfect proxy for your true skill level/impact/etc, treating it as a parameter to be estimated.

Alfajer (and Leo) have been better than Chronicle for basically their entire time on Fnatic, and Chronicle having a (marginally) better rating this stage is obviously not strong enough evidence to put Chronicle above Alfa. If this continues in the future, he may begin to have a case, but having 0.04 better rating is not enough data to update our beliefs drastically. This is how rational people think, and it's actually how we are currently trying to teach machines to think in the field of machine learning. If you want further resources on bayesian statistics and the updating of beliefs with data, I will be happy to point you to some resources.

TLDR: Having a slightly better season that someone doesn't automatically make you better than them. Nobody reasonable thinks that way

Even if this happened there would still be 0 women in franchising

not only did I watch, I even stole one of his shock lineups on haven

Eye test, brain test, and past experience point me towards alfajer being better.

Only stats point to Chronicle (and the stats are similar too btw)

The only case for this is by looking purely at stats alone. Like I pointed out, you could make the case that Icy is a better jett than Oxy by just looking at stats (nobody believes that).

By the same token, nobody seriously believes Chronicle is better than Alfa, and we don't even need to talk about a healthy Leo.

he's not better than Alfa or healthy Leo, stop it.

If a higher power told fnatic fans they would replace either Alfa or Chronicle with a mid, normal pro with the same agent pool every rational one would choose Chronicle.

If you just look at stats you'd think Icy was a better jett than oxy (someone actually tried to say this in a thread a few days ago).

Nobody think's hes better than Alfajer, let alone Leo.

and how can someone be the best of all time if he's never been better than his own teammates? (ever)

I bet half the people saying Kendrick were max 4 years old during Wayne's peak, and I love Kendrick.

The thing is tho mechanics isn't just raw aim (which i think Less is the best ITW at anyways). If you look at mechanics at a whole aspas is better.

1. Aim - Primmie
2. Movement (General) - Aspas
3. Agent Movement (raze, jett, neon) - Aspas
4. Awping/scoped weapons - Aspas

Winner: Aspas

unironically Zellsis

Cloud, N4rrate, Oxy

Primmie is the truth, but Aspas is Terence Crawford 😈😈😈😈

against a GENG or TH

not taking BLG seriously huh fnatic fans? Not wise...

nrg inshallah

W. Adopting a DRX flair

That first Lev clip with the ghost is actually filth

Unfortunately for FNC, no mickey mouse single elim format and no visa issues, so their 2 win conditions are gone.

He's insane and has been for a while. Valorant isn't played on a stat sheet.

Hopefully no matter what happens he doesn't waste ANOTHER year. This guy is so insane, good enough to be a top 2 player on a trophy winning team imo.

surely they stay together? (hopefully)

There's gonna be alot of roster moves after champs

Who are some players that are gonna be the most sought after?

N4rrate, Cloud, Verno, Zander are the ones i'm most excited for

Verno has close to 500 rounds on both fade and gekko (1.32 and 1.16 Rating all-time)

nah perfect would be Verno

• cracked on same agent pool (init)
• alot of room for growth

edit: double posted ignore this comment

That guild (sayf twisten Leo trexx koldamenta)

The guild that lost to OG LGBT MRI and Navi had 4/5 of those players that you just mentioned. I also severely doubt that even with 5/5 they woulda beaten M3C or Liquid for that spot, especially given how scream was playing.

Guild beat optic after 13-11 map1 Triple OT map 2 (shanks won more decisively), then never made a LAN again cuz they lost to nobodies in Navi and OG whatever in LCQ. Optic made it to Champs finals (and did better against PRX at copenhagen). If anything the razor thin victory vs optic was the fluke

Arctic Monkeys
Tame Impala
White Stripes
Black Eyed Peas
Maroon 5
Selena Gomez and the Scene
Beastie Boys
Linkin Park
Wallows

No i will not choose one 👺👺👺

So OPTIC goes down 5 for FPX, who they outplaced at champs, and avenged later:
https://www.vlr.gg/220290/nrg-esports-vs-natus-vincere-champions-tour-2023-masters-tokyo-opening-a

But FNC only goes down 2.5 after both EG and PRX outperform them next tourney, and PRX have outperformed ever since?

Go ahead and switch ur flair back to FNC buddy

If FPX Copenhagen gets extra points for disruption of practice due to visa issues, then Fnatic Tokyo must lose points.
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Both of the best players/star duelists on the other region's #1 teams had that issue

EG - Wasted 2 weeks of tournament preparation playing with sub until demon1 return last minute. The only maps between Fnatic and EG (nerfed) at Tokyo that were decisive were Fracture and Lotus. Every other map came down to 2 rounds, the closest margin possible. Next tourney we saw what happened (Champs MVP).

PRX - missing Something entirely (Pacific MVP). PRX with something has also outperformed Fnatic at every tourney since he could play.

and both teams at full strength also beat Loud at Champs.
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Since you gave OPTC M1 22 a 5/10, FNC M1 23 should be max 3/10.

Also there is a spelling error where SEN's M1 is misspelled, and GEN.G's should be M2

+4 rounds

This guy is inventing new ways to cope I can't 😂😂😂😂😂

counterpoint: https://youtu.be/iNoRMGN3Uzo?si=cxmtAp74B6xlIFGq&t=2815

gimme bron

can it be a gc pro? some of them are deadass ascendant

now keep that same energy for Nats

if you've never had IRL friends i can understand why you would be unfamiliar with the concept of playing with them

Mine are

PRX vs FNC
LEV vs VIT
TLN vs FUT
G2 vs DRX
FPX vs TH
PRX vs TH

its a ranked match tho not a pro match them being 'tier 1' or 'tier 2' is pretty irrelevant they're not gonna have set strats and protocols they're just playing. And enzo and magnum don't strike me as ranked demons.

I got the EU team winning the ascent 13-10ish (because of FNS Kayo while Boaster comfort role) but I felt the lineup was pretty balanced

now that i'm looking him it looks like almost all of his content is chamber, but it shouldn't matter much its a ranked match and most people at the top 100 level can play any agent well (for ranked purposes)

i have no clue i just know he's a popular eu streamer who's hit rank 1 and is known for his aim routine