Idk, it was fun during that era because it wasn't Sentinels domination. TSM v Sentinels rivalry existed, upcoming teams like 100t and Envy were showing up. T1 recently picked up Dazed and became ibuypower 2.0 and GenG having a crazy duelist (at the time) with Shawn. It was more competitive I guess if that makes any sense because it wasn't a one sided victory.

Xset probably

final score was 13-5 or something

that's not how the contract works.

I honestly thought that they didn't really face any big teams to get their way to Masters 2. Like neither of them played Acend or Heretics to get to where they were.

Granted, TL and FNC were still phenomenal teams so it's not like they didn't earn their spot in the end.

Well when it was Sen vs TSM, it was still decently "toxic" but it was respectable since both teams were rivals with one another. Nowadays, its just bandwagons from TenZ's side.

Sinatraa is already the top 2 best paid valorant players. I don't think TSM would offer him anything higher at the current moment unless they go into a full rebuild mode centering around Wardell.

Bro, it'll be the same thing all over again. EU fans can be as toxic as NA fans and vice versa.

I can understand that to an extent.

Watching your favorite player become a streamer because of his lackluster situation with his team, but jumping when the opportunity arises.

It's not his fault that he jumped at the offer since anyone would. But from a fan's perspective, I can certainly empathize with that.

Get a smurf of your own, queue with 1 or 2 ppl, get better, or just get really lucky with bad opponents and good teammates.

I watched since the beginning so around the time Twitch Rivals for Valorant or even slightly before that. Watching Wardell and Drone helped me improve at the game and at the time, they were the best this game could offer in terms of how to play a duelist.

He's downbad for both Asuna Yuuki and 100t Asuna

Bro, if you use VLR and aren't a fan of brimstone gaming, you're just lying to yourselves.

Why is 100t fans part of the best 5? They are just as bad as TSM, Sentinels, and Acend fans lmao. Any big org team like that is going to naturally have a relatively more "annoying" fan base.

Because Sinatraa plans on returning to pro play. Though, considering the price of Sinatraa, it's very likely that Sentinels might just drop him. Granted, the contract lasts for a decent amount of time so they'll have to 6 man unless another org buys him out.

unlucky really

more like the rise of the XSET era rather than the end of the Sen Era

Coldzera would be big for valorant even though he started falling off in CS recently.

Just look at his country

I've yet to change mine since day 1.

If you change your flair, you ain't a true one.

Sage is a staple on Breeze because her wall is far more useful on that map despite it being a large map.

0/8 bait

XSET 3-1 Sentinels.

Sova isn't actually that great on Breeze. It's arguably his worst map other than split.

They arguably had the better team composition over Sentinels but just couldn't execute at all on T side (which breeze is very t sided).

I mean, you always have to hope anyways, otherwise you can't really call yourself a fan if you're only a fan when they were good.

Granted, it doesn't mean you should annoy everyone else as a fan so I can understand that.

A major would be like Valorant Champions. The biggest and largest tournament of the year.

Iceland, while the first LAN tournament, is more like a big IEM tournament

Ploo is objectively better because IMO, she didn't get her "kickstart" off with those TenZ videos/streams (the compliations with TenZ and Kyedae that gets the community all downbad).

Zekken is such a strong addition and Dephh's IGLing abilities are finally shining.

I think it'll last a bit longer since there is so little footage of their new styles of play and coordination under these new players.

Current Astralis is in quite the slump though compared to their former selves. I think gla1ve complained about not having an awper like Dev1ce or something recently.

SUBROZA LMAOO WHAT A LEGEND

Fair but still......it's just such a large dichotomy.

You're comparing a team that has won 4 CSGO majors and was the undisputed king of CSGO with a team that has yet to win a major (although impressive stats so far)?

Well the reason for that one was because they said that Bang was far more aggressive and talked a lot. Brax, from given history, is a lurker and doesn't com too much which is what a duelist absolutely needs.

What's the exact math conversion for this? (in terms of time).

I've always thought that Steel was a formidable cypher even during First Strike. He locked down sites so well and had so many different camera angles on any given site.

TSM's biggest problem is their IGLing but they won't/can't fix it because they are afraid of letting go players since many of them are really good friends.

They originally brought on Bang as a controller I think. His duelist potential is good but they really needed a better controller (a person that played controller as a main state).

His statement is fine but calling Bang as "not that great" is questionable or 50/50.

You can judge it off of how he dealt with ABX and Noble. It's one thing to lose a game, but it's another to lose like 9 rounds in a row; that demonstrates poor midround calling and reading his opponents (I doubt he even analyzed Noble so it was purely based off of midround calls).

TenZ complained that he wasn't able to do anything he wanted to do so micromanaging him even further accomplishes nothing.

If we are really going to complain about a alleged "lack of micromanagement", then what about Stewie2k? He was signed to be the IGL for C9 and was moderately successful at the start of his career with C9.

Yeah, I only ever heard of Sentinels after Bugha lmao.

Hazed has poor midround calls which is why he suffers as an IGL. TSM definitely need a new and stronger igl but I haven't seen enough of Oderus to really say that he would be a better fit.

If we were going solely off of CS, then no team in NA should even light a torch towards 100t, so using that as justification is just premature.

Plus, Shahzam and the rest weren't too great in CS either. Granted, you could argue that Shahzam played for C9 briefly but its not like C9 was doing great at all during that period (this was before stewie's pick up).

I mean, TenZ still choked a lot in CS regardless of how they utilized him.

Plus, his other teammates were criticizing his plays as well iirc.

first nv sold the match now sentinels... not obvious at all! it makes absolutely no sense to let a team compete in this challanger shit when they already qualified! i understand they need practise and stuff but its still trash af! what a shame! sentinels losing to this like this. 1.25 Million Doller for this trash! everything makes so much sense now! tenz actually plays llike any other random good player against good teams. esports getting abused at its finest and the only ones who enjoy it are children who can sleep better or worse after seeing this trash!

unlucky really

never even heard of this person

Guess I'm making money

Doesn't matter, phantom is superior in all aspects.

0/8 bait kekw

He was always a solid player but DIG had pretty poor results despite his really good performance on a support role.