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| Registered: | January 22, 2023 |
| Last post: | February 13, 2026 at 5:23 PM |
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It's not about extra profit; it's about guaranteeing sell outs. Sure, 5k seats could be sold out with a verification system, but the way I see it, they'd rather guarantee it. It's just common business practice, the more barriers you put in front of a purchase, the less likely it is that a purchase is made. Do I think its right? No, but to act disgruntled with this is just funny, like you're still going to watch the event.
Pretty simple honestly, LOL is a way bigger game globally than Val. They implemented a system like that at the biggest tournament of the year, because they believed they'd still be able to sell out. The fact they decided not to do that for this tournament is simply because they don't believe it would be big enough to warrant it. If you think Riot's goal is to "protect" genuine fans, then i'm sorry but you're deluded. Attempting to make profit (I don't think these events are technically profitable, but idk) is the main goal. It always will be. If that means opening the door for bots to scalp tickets, then that's what it is.
Tenz, Nats, Yay, and that's it. Those are the only people to change the way teams play the game.
Terrible take, he's on perma breach and they've played well thus far aside from this one series.
EDG 3-1 G2
Kind of unfair considering they had a two year headstart on their careers, but valid nonetheless.
The first time wasn't a robbery lol, but this time would be a crime ngl.
I don't think there's another argument currently; he looks head and shoulders above everyone else rn.
If he keeps up this form, he's going to have the highest tournament rating of any international event. Even higher than 2021 Tenz. Just ridiculous.
All bias aside, please go look at his fkpr's. As long as the rest of his team plays somewhat decent, he will always win the first blood battle (most of the time taking the most first fights in the lobby as well). Everybody knows a man advantage in pro play is super advantageous and most likely results in a round win, so having someone who's able to create that as often as KK is special. It's actually absurd the fact he has a .25 fkpr on jett (for reference aspas is at .18 on jett) + he doesn't have a single duelist under .2 fkpr outside of yoru (only 6 maps played on him). I mean I don't think people give enough credit to how often he opens the round up for his team. I truly think ever since the overall team level of EDG increased, it's become clearer this dude is a cut above the rest.
I'm done glazing now though.
Anybody on EDG (unbiased). It's super clear if you watched them play earlier on in 2022 and start of 2023 before tokyo. 4/5 of them went from being disregarded to being considered top 3 or 5 in their roles in the world.
You're right, can't wait to see EDG pull it off!
Leo is being carried by a singular year of valorant, ts is crazy. He hasn't played in a year almost; he's not second all time. Chron/Alfa/Derke/Less/KK all have better cases than him.
EDG, Vitality, DRX would lol, EDG and VIT could win too.
Just minimizes your input lag/tracking, cause more info is being sent. Like scientifically that's what it's supposed to do, but the change is so miniscule, it's impossible for a human to sense a difference.
Best performance, V3 Pro. If you're gonna buy a superlight, just spend the 20$ or whatever extra for the V3.
imo tho, shape is more important than "performance", cause past like $80, most mice you won't really notice drastic performance differences. So find what shape you like first and foremost.
w take, people don't get how difficult going +30 in a GF is when you took 52 FIRST FIGHTS. The fact he won half of those is just ridiculous too, we've never seen an entry player perform at that high of a level before.
Pretty interesting project, wonder how you'll be able to quantify something like that. Maybe looking into % of rounds won after 3 in a row? I'm curious to see what you come up with though.
Then do it for 3 months and quit if you haven't grown? I think 3 months is a fairly unrealistic timeline to gain traction on any media platform, but if that's your worry, just do it and if you don't see results, don't do it anymore. Although I think if you really enjoy making that type of content, you should keep making it as long as you enjoy it.
Yeah, but EG weren't really underdogs at champs imo. They had just went to the GF @ Tokyo, so it wasn't a surprise how well they did. But I would agree that they're similar cause they both won a big tournament then let players go and fell off like you said.
All things accounted for imo, yay vs. liquid at champs 22.
Still think going 17-3 in fk's vs fd's is ridiculous and going 30- 9 with a 2+ rating on a map 3. Stats aren't as insane as others, but live it was pretty crazy to watch.
It's pretty much optics. Game looks less appealing to viewers on a stretched resolution than native. At least that's the reasoning Tenz has mentioned. The device manager thing I am more confident was security measures, although super unlikely, but better safe than sorry if your Riot.
Worst tournament in recent memory (Masters Madrid). Had high viewership just cause SEN was in it and winning, but outside of that GF, that tournament was just forgettable. Not enough star power really.
Boss call going to get made, riot saw what happened last time aspas missed an international...
Logically it's EMEA, cause americas and pacific competition is so high that there will probably be different teams showing up to events.
Need to see how they play on other, non double duelist maps first, but like from what we've seen and on paper, they should be finishing top of emea no doubt. Vitality vs. TH gonna be a movie.
Lol i'm sure it will die down as the season goes on, but this is the first time we're seeing a gc player in VCT, it's a milestone. Can't be mad at it.
I said in the pool right now, so Lotus is the only map that rlly matters in that data. And its last year's data, from over 6 months ago... pre neon nerfs, pre chamber buff, pre phoenix buff. All things that will contribute to flash agents being mandatory basically. We'll see though, i'll come back to this after kickoff is over.
What teams run no flashes on any map in the pool right now? I'm fairly sure like 95% of teams have a flash agent in every single comp, so idk how that can mean no flash comp would be good.
Yeah, then they killed her immediately lol. Actually crazy cause it took them longer to nerf chamber even though he was way more op.
I don't agree, I think teams will realize that Yoru is a great pick, and that frees up a spot for an extra agent. Sure, teams could go triple initiator, and that will probably be good too. But if you look at the map pool, like 5/7 of the maps are attack sided imo. Fracture, haven, abyss, lotus, and pearl. I think it'd be better to invest in a defensive comp at least on those maps, since you technically can negate some of the attack disadvantages that come with double sentinel.
I was thinking how it was back when optic first started running chamber on every map, and then almost every team followed suit. With the agent diversity and balancing now, I doubt we'll ever get an agent that is played on every map, but do y'all think it can happen potentially? I think the only agent close enough to that level rn is yoru.
I think we're going to see more comp variety than we ever have before honestly. Double sentinel in this map pool is strong, triple initiator could come back, and with more teams adopting yoru, I think double dive with a raze/neon/jett might get some play too. I'd personally like to see a comp with yoru/gekko/breach, maybe on bind or sunset if it comes back.
TBH, there's really no buff you can give the stun without it being too broken, especially if they increase the bullet spread.
You're not wrong, can really only play no duelists on maps that have larger/multiple choke points available to attackers. There are only about three of those at all (icebox, pearl, ascent) and two of them are out of the pool. All the other maps have narrow chokepoints where an entry is almost necessary.
YES, if you're able to beat teams that have been practicing for MONTHS because you innovated the meta faster than anyone else, no matter how many days' notice, that literally takes skill? And it's not that teams haven't mastered those agents, it's that most teams think they have better comps without those agents. Bottom line is, a team playing an agent on 5 days notice is a RISK, and if that risk pays off and they beat the standard comps that teams have practiced for months, you're telling me that it isn't a serious win? If so, then no need to continue this.
So a team being the fastest to discover a way to utilize the new agent = no skill. I'd actually argue that takes as high of skill than anything else. You can literally look at the flip side argument, a team that decides they want to play tejo only has 5 DAYS to practice him. So if a team decides it's worth it and is able to actually have success with it, how exactly is that a "joke" and "no skill"?
I mean his util can literally clear a site almost by himself, I think we're going to start seeing no sentinel comps, and people run triple initiator again. What sucks if that's what happens is the meta will become even more retake heavy. Like against a comp running Jett, Tejo, Sova, Breach, Astra? You just can't hold any site realistically.
Once again, ALL the teams are going to have this "problem", so it effectively isn't unfair anymore. If a team is able to implement the new agent in a way that helps them win with short notice, how does that discredit their win/the event? They were able to adapt their comps faster than the others, who once again also have the choice to try to adapt or just go with what they practiced.
That's on them for not adapting then lol. A team that wins off "abusing" an agent better than other teams deserves to win, and if they can't adapt after that agent is no longer "abusable", then they won't be able to win and that's fine. Idk why everyone complains about stuff like this like not all the teams can play the agent or something. It's on the pros to be creative and see where he can fit in comps.
I mean she might be the easiest agent to play in the game, idk if there's really a way to not use her properly. Literally just smoke and take fights, that's all her kit really is good for lol.
Makes no sense to me how they can go from releasing a balanced agent like Vyse to this. Shouldn't be a way for a breach ult that kills people to make it into the game.
ngl, I was including imports cause they play in that respective league, but even excluding that, EU still has the best sentinels. Benjy, suygetsu, yetujey, alfajer, nats. It's not even remotely close honestly, that might be the role that's the clearest.
What regions do you think are the most talented for each role?
Imo, it's Americas for duelists, EMEA for flex/sentinels/initiators, and Pacific for Controllers.
Bruh I just checked his stats. Was he too young to be picked up by a team? Cause I've genuinely never seen numbers as high as his.
Raze/Neon
Fade
Breach
Astra
Deadlock/Vyse
I think whatever team(s) run some variation of this comp will have the most success, but it's all dependent on if these agents stay near their current state.
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