I mean tbh, It's not particularly like it's an "easy" community in the first place, it's hard to stay sane here while playing val, as a white male with a normal accented voice that doesn't get called out, i get teammates in plat/diamond who don't even understand basic things like containment etc and it makes me wanna scream at them but somehow it's my fault for not calling something, nothing is ever the average valorant players fault, that is the issue, that is the community that has already been built, u act like the community is still building, it was still building when sentinels were on top of the world and teams had no idea how to play pro properly yet, that's when the community was building, the community has been built and the toxicity around it has been allowed, i'm not saying it's nice or it's right in anyway and i personally don't agree with it but it's how it is and it's gonna be hella hard to change about 15 million peoples minds as few people, I like people like AverageJonas etc, because i feel like he isn't that type however there are people like that and that's just how it will be, a lot of the pro scene is toxic as heck and that's just because it is sometimes, This is how Valorant is, it's how it has already been moulded,

the "mocking" the situation is because he doesn't see it as a big deal, personally like i don't, because i think of other people and not jason's actions and feelings, what is a girl actually gonna think if the game just gets dodged "oh someone dodged queue again", the situation from the girls pov is kind of that simple to me, if u go out of your way to find out jason dodged you for no reason i feel like that's going out of your way to find a reason to be annoyed at someone who doesn't even know who the hell u are, which to me is petty as hell

I said this above, but toxicity is in the pro scene too, there are scrims which get cancelled because male teams just ghost and start messing around in them, that happens. u just don't hear about it usually, it's why they have a girls only league, and why woman and men don't wanna compete against each other usually i think.

"sexism in esports has always been a huge issue", Sure, But that isn't down to people, That is down to the fundamental's passed down, u aren't sexist because u "just hate women" usually, u get it from family, genes, relatives, same with racism etc, it's not learned, it is taught, it's down to the people at the top, not the people accusing jason of sexism.

"but to be shit talked based on something you can't control is frustrating", Fair.
Also imma go make my dinner brb

ngl bro TL not looking so good in qualifiers rn

U gotta love to see someone make it about the other person, personally, and then comment on how the world doesn't revolve around them when they reply by saying their own experiences.

The issue is like it's made out to be, an issue, but it's one persons issue, Sick may not be supporting it but like with the sinatra situation he didn't exactly support or deny support for him, he stayed neutral and i don't see anyone calling him out then for being a sympathiser to a "rapist", quotes because it wasn't proven.

So why is he involved with JasonR's situation when it's so much of a smaller and less meaningful issue, wow content creator mutes women in valorant "CANCEL", Pro player accused of rape "nah he's chill", Like tf is the consistency here, riot may not be consistent at punishment but neither are the community.

So many people wanna jump on jasonR for doing something which could literally for him be a good thing in reality if he is sexist, think about it for a second, if your sexist it's not your choice, u were grown that way to have the urge to hate women, usually imbred in you from birth, family or religion etc, that's the basics, same with pedophilia etc, some may like it, some may not, JasonR's choice if he is sexist actually minimalizes the issues caused, if he dodges or mutes if there is a woman, he cannot be sexist, if he dodges a game because there is a woman, who is it actually hurting in reality, the woman can queue again and then get another team, it's literally that simple, she is never gonna know why or give a shit why, I don't really understand why this is such a big deal tbh.

feel free to explain

did u not see the whole thing about girls being trolled in scrims by guy teams and stuff because they are women, there's absolutely no way women will fully integrate because of "boys being boys" mentality, look up Sinatra i don't doubt he's a good example

how am i seeing a tsm fan form competent sentences that actually make logical sense wtf is this

I don't think u people understand Keloqz properly, He joined G2 to "prove himself" and then just flopped, then derailed to the point of being on "team heretics", That should tell u enough about how he cannot compete at high levels period.
He is hardly comfortable with any other agent in the game than jett and that's why he got dropped, he was literally just 1 agent, and it's not like he is yay or CneD who is actually insane at aiming, He holds angles with an operator and still loses fights, i've seen better holds from shazam in valorant competitive.

He reminds me of your typical immo/radiant instalock jett who gets mad that the whole team doesn't play around him and then gets mad that he can't perform because his team can't play with him when he's out making dumb plays and missing easy shots, I know it is hard to perform in pro play and stuff but if you are looking to pick up a consistent or flexible player Keloqz is not the person for u, He's just your typical no gamesense jett that cannot play anything else imo

No hate onto him he's doing well for being a pro period, but if he wants to be on a better team he's gotta realise his mistakes and correct himself.

no idea

I didn't say I cared who did it, I said everyone does it

Thank you for helping my point and adding more evidence

They have held the treaty no matter the situations going on, using simple deduction, china are responsible for the genocide as well as burma, logically speaking if we are using the logic of russian players getting banned because the government are ass.

China and Burma signed a treaty of friendship and mutual non-aggression and promulgated a Joint Declaration on 29 June 1954, officially basing their relations on the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence. The relationship with China was under the spirit of the term "pauk-phaw", meaning kinship in Burmese.

Introducing initial testing of a new “deterministic map system” in LATAM. The goal of this system is to increase the variety of maps that players will encounter. If there are no issues, we plan to activate this system (explained below) for all regions within the next few days/week. Although this is LATAM region only, we are including it here as a heads up if we decide to expand. Stay tuned to the official VALORANT channels for updates.

Deterministic map selection follows 3 rules when picking a map, after players have been selected to play a match.
The system will look at all maps players have played over the last 5 maps for that mode.
The system will remove any maps that a player has played twice in the past 5 maps.
The system will pick the least played map.
If all maps have been removed due to the “Twice Played” rule, those maps will be added back to the pool and the least played map will be picked.

Let me take advice from VLR and drop my girlfriend because she has problems and drop my irl friends because they lied to me once, thanks for the advice guys

Mb.

For me i think Russia's ban wouldn't of mattered tbh, There were multiple statements put out from England, Etc, etc's national teams saying they wouldn't play against Russia in the World Cup

Look at China's genocides against the Rohingya and Russia outlawing gay people, everyone kills people based off different things they believe in, Ukraine aren't the only ones guilty of that if they even are.

Look at literally any criminal, ever

There were questionable reports from fifa based off corruption etc and who would really be surprised if qatar paid them, I don't know why fifa banned Russia

I don't think Gambit will be banned, Either way this is Valorant not cs, So i'm presuming they will be fine, they are all russian but i don't know if their org is predominantly russian or supported by the government there, i think it's pretty based in the U.S at this point, so i don't see why they'd be banned if Russia did get banned from Val too

I think every country kills civilians to a certain point, Your point?

https://twitter.com/luismmira/status/1498626422784638979 This is the reasoning behind it, presumably to prevent orgs who actively support or get support from russia's government out of competition, tbh it seems pretty ridiculous to me however i see the point
Adding more onto this, I mean particularly teams like Virtus pro since they have RUSSIAN sponsors and possibly Gambit because they have a russian telecom company as a sponsor, etc, it just seems like they are targetting everything russian with no remorse for people since russia had no remorse for Ukraine, In short terms, All is fair in love and war according to blast

Because they have literally 3 other people who can play Astra and cannot play other agents that shazam can, It'd just not really be a good idea, I think shazam should stop playing and become a coach, I feel like with someone like shazam as a coach another team would be insanely good because he honestly seems to be really good at advising and helping anyone no matter their situation in the game, i feel like u can bring a horse to water but u cannot make it drink, (which is the situation right now with Sentinels) if shazam found a team (the horse) which then ended up drinking they could end up being very strong as long as the individuals in it are good, At the end of the day, It'd be up to him however

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I don't think the latest match was very fair tbh, both teams weren't equal, Optic were very clearly aiming better and tbh i feel like recently Tenz has been really overrated since everyone knows how to counter him now tbh, which is just by confusing him most of the time, he can aim well but he can't aim at someone behind him, if he got fair fights he is a good player but pro league isn't about fair fights it's about forcing the fights into your corner, and Tenz just doesn't fit into that box i don't think

Well, for Bind particularly, It's one of those maps where if u have a good setup, Like Optic, People struggle to get onto site let alone u needing to retake. (That's why Optic and SEN are so strong on it
For the jett pick, It's frankly quite useless on Bind apart from B site, and even so if tenz dies, There's little chance of that getting traded out, since the person is probably backsite, (Therefore he opened up literally 0 space and there was enough rotations to hold site anyway because rotations)
Optic hold 1 Elbow 1 somewhere like spawn or right side of site (From atk side) and 1 back and 2 a, possible 2 a 2 b and 1 spawn for rotations, and it's honestly quite simple, Bind is more of a gamesense map than a aim map, u need to play properly, aim can't just carry u imo.

Astra is overpowered on either side of Bind because of the suck, the possibility to just stop a push with a single piece of util is insane, With Viper there's insanely defensive walls u can use on A and good 1 ways on A, It sometimes makes A completely null and void if there's a good viper in the game (https://clips.twitch.tv/FrigidBeautifulBobaRaccAttack-jpA946BeIb6ZfXvN example of how overpowered viper can be on bind if u have a good viper)
With Raze she is so overpowered again because of the util, Bind is a map where u need to push after u get picks, if u have astra on 1 site and raze on the other u can completely hold up pushes until your entire team has rotated, that's why it's so defensive sided imo (Why u need to push just after u get picks is because if u don't u will get util stalled for like 5 centuries)

I feel like the only actual difference is their Synergy, Look at Gambit for example, They have amazing Synergy and it causes them to be able to clean up mistakes like clockwork and retake like clockwork, And causes them to not make mistakes themselves.

The reason i feel the guard is like this is because they probably actually like who they are playing with or are friends with most of the people on their team, Which surprisingly is unlike other teams, But i feel u need this factor to actually trust each other to play properly, to trade u, etc.

If u are in a 2v1, On The Guard and the teammate u have left is Trent, You are just baiting for him, That is that simple, IF u lose, u were just baiting for him, if u win u did a good play, i feel like that's the mental they take into it, either way u made a good play, they never let themselves get down and always know they can win, I don't doubt there's a bit of luck in it right now because they seem to be absolutely on fire, I think the C9 game vs them will be a big eye opener to how good they really are, C9 seems a worthy opponent for them.

Sentinels have said they haven't even practiced for vct this year.

Another thing quoting what Jasonr said is that "NA will fall off a lot more because most teams have typical "Streamers" which care more about streaming than actually playing"

The Jett pick opens up so much more space than the Reyna or chamber for Tenz which would be the 2 alternatives, I'm guessing that's why

for Shazam he doesn't really care who he's playing, He's less of an agent player and more of an Aimer.

Idk why dapr is on chamber, seems useless judging half the time he can't match other people who play chamber or duelists, he'd probs be better on a sentinel or initiator

My guess is that average is better but NA's peak is higher is because in EU they have more exciting games, i don't mean better teams etc, just look at VCT for NA VS EU, IN NA group 1 u got basically a guarantee that either EG and LG are dropping out or 100T's and EG are dropping out, There isn't anything in it same with group 2 there, Either Knights and NRG drop or Rise cause an upset and lose out.

Look at EU now
U have TL throwing pretty hard considering they got top spots last vct, Then u have Navi and FPX Completely coming from nowhere and maybe qualifying, in group 2 u have Guild absolutely destroying when they weren't even expecting to really be in the running for VCT.

There's more teams which are bigger in EU which are losing and causing upsets, while in NA the groups are going basically as planned, There's more hype around EU, That simple

forfeit doesn't mean by any reason, they literally just forfeited the map

Russia has closed it's borders so let alone the EU, IF Gambit, FPX, Etc resided in Russia still, They wouldn't be able to travel to Europe anyway, But i don't doubt they'd still be able to play from Russia, It'd just mean no pc checks or people could monitor them while playing which might cause an issue for some people, I personally don't know where the members of gambit are or the members of FPX are so it could be a problem but i doubt it since there's still months until the actual main tournament

looking at his past, He's topfrag ACS in most of the matches i viewed (which were more recent than the guild game and he was usually playing viper, kj, sova, etc, support ops, he shouldn't be top on ACS as kj and he dropped 577 ACS as killjoy one match most recent match Team Heratics vs Rebels, With that in mind he could probably be in a much better team playing at much better levels tbh and he'd probably still be performing pretty well.

His team seems very weak compared to him just looking at kd's, When he doesn't perform, usually his team loses, when he does perform, they win, he should probably get a better team

The fact he's either mid or top ACS in a pro league team that has a jett and a reyna player, Is a joke and it shows he probably plays at a higher level than his team does, If u look at wins, u see every time his duelists may perform but even so he isn't far below them on the scoreboard

Never heard of him before this thread but if he doesn't have a brain he sure as hell makes up for it with aim

(I constantly say this shit about 100Thieves, TL, G2, Etc, Look at literally any other world class team, Sentinels, Acend, Gambit, They all don't have these problems, i feel like maybe with the slight unfairness of TL since they look to be ironing stuff out and not dropping anyone rn, but the problem is just that they don't work stuff out, they don't actually look enough into why they are losing, why they are winning and just focus on playing more, I think that's the issue)

kind of proves it isn't the players, it's the team they are on

At this state 100T's might be the most ridiculous team in NA, And that's saying something since TSM are in NA

holy shit that's a find if it's real

this is just saying, he played the best he could in the situation he put himself in, but he put himself in a shitty situation is my point which was more losable than any other situations i've just named, i just don't think mentally he was in the game tbh

I understand your point but my point is that any good player wouldn't have given himself a tragic positon or situation like that, they would be on site trading the skye as they kill your skye or killing the person holding them or at least trying to, idk what hiko was thinking tbh

He uses his dart right side of site only revealing one presuming the other is holding him or at long he can either take the chance on a 150 hp to 150 hp fight and win the fight or lose it either way giving ethan more time to fight his battle or he can play passive and let his 4 hp teammate keep getting into scuffed close combat fights with a spectre that he's never going to win due to his hp, Even after Ethan dies and the opportunity is up instead of taking the situation into his hands and like i probably would pushing to backsite when bomb is going down or trying to clear angles when i know only 1 single person can hold me, he just holds, waits for plant knowing sova has ult, knowing he has a miracle to work, he just doesn't pressure enough, with the whole time they are planting he could have instead of just peeking the drone and giving himself more reasons to play passive, he could of pushed garage and possibly caught the sova off guard while droning, he could have picked skye off and then killed the sova, chances are the sova calls hiko isn't spawn anymore before anything but it's still a chance, like there's just any other option in the world which would of been a better play from my pov

This isn't addressing anything i said, He shouldn't even be back off site in that situation, He should be either fighting left side of site while skye holds right or the other way around while pushing up, with skyes util if they use it properly hiko could rotate right side and get on top of the black box, preventing long from seeing him and maybe getting a free pick or he could of pushed left with a flash and got a free pick and made it winnable, my point was that he had literally so many other options in the situation and imo any of them would of been better due to the situation his team was in and the state of the game, It is 1-3 and 100thieves have just lost, this is their last buy before an eco anyway, why is he playing so passive, both have maximum 20 hp, His skye is pressuring them so hard, He DOESN'T end up saving so why is he playing so passive, IF he pushes with skye's pressure chances are with a bulldog he 1 or 2 taps both of them, Ethan worked miracles to get 2 kills there and instead of pushing anything after ethan dies, he stays back, lets them heal, lets them plant, gives them literally all the space they need to run up long and hold on a post plant, like how is that not a throw imo

u kids need to like go outside and get a job instead of doing this, i beg.

hiko just trolling by baiting so much kekw, making it interesting for the games yk

having Hiko on your team at least for 1 situation i saw in the haven map when he just sat in spawn while his teammate was sitting on site fighting, there's utterly no reason, he doesn't need to clear it, if one was holding it they are stupid because it'd be more value to just simply run and kill the Skye from behind, there's no reason for him taking his time, only angles i check there is left to b as i run to c and garage as i run to c once again, if Hiko is on the site on peeks the right side while his skye flashes long for him he could have gotten a pick, if he pushes left once again with his skye flashing for him, he once again could of gotten a pick, that'd make it a 2v2 and that makes it winnable, but instead he is shifting all the way along spawn waiting for his Skye to die the whole time so he has an excuse to save, if he had just pushed onto site with his Skye he could of made the round winnable with the util, and maybe he would of lost it but sitting in spawn is just guaranteeing the loss, U cannot have players like that on your "tier 1" team

what happened with haven is a review of what the hell happened in the first half, they realised they were playing dumb as hell and alone, they went back into 2nd half and actually PLAYED TOGETHER, that's why they had such a comeback, then going into the next map they forgot everything again, it's just like they cannot learn

at this stage with the history between everything that's happened it doesn't seem like 100T'S or the players are the problem, it seems to be the management, I think Ethan and Asuna should move on, they are much better and would be much better on other teams, they are team players and Hiko, Ec1s and babyj are all just not good enough for T1, Ec1s and babyj u can excuse due to not saying they were that good in the first place and not having that standard but hiko is just a joke at this point, idk what is happening here

Hiko probs only even on the team because of nadeshot tbh

i feel like that's the one thing that t1 and 100t's will just not figure out which other teams have, your problem isn't the players not performing, even if u have 5 of the best players in the world, they need chemistry or they can't play together, it's that simple, i kind of look at Team Liquid like this as well but i have to give them credit, recently they have been better with it, but teams like gambit, acend and c9 have it down to a T, They have their world class rosters and chemistry, and it works. simple

i disagree with scream here because of his potential on reyna on this map, it's all long distance fights where scream can just tap and dismiss away, i doubt they would give up that for soulcas' raze, on the contrary raze ult on this map is so overpowered it's insane, because u can just clear a path with raze ult, i think l1nk would be better on sage or viper scream on reyna, soul on raze and nivera on cypher or sage jamppi on skye or sova, i think personally that's their "best comp", that isn't considering the players themselves, some might be bad on the agent picks i said but it's not including that factor,

if tl actually thought like that they would never Qualify for anything ever

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