No. Wake up to reality.

NA is made fun of on regular bases. CS, League, Val, whatever esport.

It isn't up to you, me, the casters, or anyone. Respect is EARNED not given. Remember that.

It's best to practice and train everyday so you can earn that respect at a major moment. Most pros who end up being successful understand this because that's reality.

This is one of them. Now you wait and see if VK can vindicate your region for you.

Brazil, up until now, hasn't earned anything. VK is full of great players, the casters have said this, but will that matter? History says not. Let's see if VK proves otherwise.

For the past 2 tournaments, Brazil has disappointed. It isn't up to the casters to state the region or team is equal at that point.

That's for the teams to prove themselves.

And to be quite frank, the pros don't need to be babysatted or protected. They should take the criticism on the chin and prove themselves.

Cned is great and all, but the team got destroyed tactically.

The team performed quite equally on icebox lol.

I mean, he's really good man. You gotta give it up.

Switching from starplayer main role to a role he never played on the biggest stage for valorant and he's top performer only behind Heat as duelist?

Come on, man. Be fair to NV. NV is a lot better than Acend. Plat chat put Yay as majority #1 player, and also crashies within top 10 and viktor at least in top 20.

Man. Looking at Acend stalling out BR momentum with the tech pause, right guys?

People are really sleeping on VK. I don't know why. People say they "know about Mwzera and Heat", but do they really...?

I honestly think 2-1 VK. Brazil has growing competition and amazing rosters. VK being in that kind of environment, with 2 BR greats in MWZERA and Heat, I think it's a honest 50/50. I'm rooting for VK because I like the Heat and Mwzera narrative.

However, according to my pickems, I have Keyd losing to acend now, but Keyd winning rematch.

Yea. There totally wasn't any form of tactical pauses during Sentinel's comebacks, correct?

And this whole Bias towards NA. Besides the overwhelming amount of evidence that makes such an argument no more than a tin-foil hat theory, I just can't understand the logistics behind such an argument.

Furia is a lot better than Kru according to analysts and public opinion. It'll be a close game. On the other hand, Sick was performing quite poorly.

https://www.vct.gg/news/136026-engh-im-not-very-happy-with-the-preparation

I think Sentinels personally. Sentinels pretty much changed their entire strat book it seems.

I hope it's that simple because I just can't imagine how many people are losing confidence in their entire fucking region enough to defend themselves against 1 player with a following.

Shit, if it was this easy, it makes all political figures look like idiots.

Bra, people on VLR getting baited left right and center.

The tweets aren't only jokes, but wake up calls to expose people who take this game way too seriously, more seriously than people getting paid millions for it. That's how sad this shit is.

Good link. I'm glad you stepping forward my guy. Keep going. Because we are all in this community, a lot of us are prone to ending up in the same echo chamber, echoing the same thoughts that may or may not be healthy.

One of my college profs once told me I was part of this "era of anxiety" -- didn't understand until recently what he meant by this.

Stop taking things so seriously -- but don't let that stop you from learning and how to use that to improve upon aspects of your life that you want to invest time into. You'll get far that way.

Yep

what the fuck? Is their COO and Nadeshot going to be filling in?

Na. I think people just need to wake up and realize every now and then this is a fucking video game and opinions on it hold barely any matters of shit unless somehow some insult about how they perform in a video game makes them feel insecure about their fucking nationality.

Playing video games and taking it so seriously, it's hard to not remember, but rather mature the fuck up and realize what other people think about you should mean absolute DOG WATER unless you are legitimately a psychopath.

If you are insecure. That's fine. Own it. Accept it. Then realize other people's fucking opinions shouldn't affect your life unless it's actually something you want to do about it. (i.e. if you're a bum at home).

Idk what shaz has been saying exactly, but every time i tune in, he literally ends all his shit talking and the shit in chat by saying

"guys chill it's just a video game. we are just speaking shit. why do you give a shit about a video game; don't be so invested, we are all shit."

Shaz probably reacts prior to that more violently because it's his job so he feels he needs to be good at it.
But I agree, it definitely takes time for people to realize that you shouldn't give a shit about every single thing people think about you or else it'll hold you back.

Hey man if that's what you think that's cool.

I just hope some day people learn to not be sensitive fucks and not give their entire lifebeing's worth of effort into arguing with other people about shit they'll never come into agreement to.

What a waste of time to give a fuck about what insignificant people think about your opinion

I want you to realize people have opinions and those opinions should literally mean 0 shits to you UNLESS YOU want them to mean something.

No one is preaching the truth. It's literally just opinions...on a video game.

Edit: here's an example. You hate my FAVORITE video game. Why should I give a fuck what you think?

Ok. Whole Movement. Who gives a fuck? And why does it affect you?

Bra. Why does one man's opinion make you react with opening a thread?

No offense to Navi, but 100T has been bringing revenue into esports as a whole, while being a relatively young company.

In last years report, they reported 16 million dollars in revenue.

In comparison for established organizations, liquid is apparently valued at 310 million, TSM 480 million, and Cloud9 at 350 million, which is all according to forbes.

For being a establishment for about 5 years as opposed to these behemoths, 100T is already valued at 190 million...

If sports has taught anything, winning is great, but branding is everything - UNLESS, you are THE era defining talent, (e.g., Messi, Ronaldo, etc)

I would be more worried about mwzera.

People should respect Keyd Stars more than they are right now, and i am not even a fan...

Not sure what the new roles are, but just having 2 such players in heat and mwzera is terrifying.

Not getting Tigg is a mistake imo

Any team can beat any team.

I'm just hoping for competitive games and game 3s in Bo3s and Game 5s in Bo5s

I would wait for one more year to make a conclusion

If the game pops off in China, it would bring the fanbase pretty much equal if not slightly in favor of Valorant.

In an ideal world:

-hiko -boy

+wardell +leviathan

Here's hoping TSM releases Leviathan and Wardell and 100T picks up those 2.

It solves pretty much their awping issue, their Jett issue, and Hiko not being very flexible. Also let's Nitro focus solely on astra/omen or someone like cypher. Besides, Wardell offroles as Sova/Sage if he really needs to. So it gives them lots of room. He's also an aggressive element.

Also hoping that Subroza goes to a better team as well - hoping for something like autimatic/koosta/subroza/purer/temperature.

I'm tired of NA teams holding players hostage in favor of boosting their brand instead of making the region more competitive as a whole.