They really needed a strong initiator. B1ack is ass tbh. RyanCentral said he was too good to be sitting on the bench but I have not seen anything special from him to understand why they're keeping him.

We'll see but I'm predicting them to lose to PRX in the upper round and either GenG/DRX in the lower round. I think the #1 reason people are expecting them to do well is because of Meteor. He was one of the best players in the world last year. But I just don't have faith in the coaching team and while Stax/Buzz are both good players they have a ceiling.

Jett
Killjoy
Astra
Sova
Kayo

Maybe substitute one of the initiators for Viper/Harbor and there's the perfect comp

ngl coming back after months of not streaming and then putting your vods behind a paywall is peak shameless from ardiss

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/ded6bbc1

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/1c51efd9

What the fuck is this roster

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/501fb8aa

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/e338922b

I'm guessing x3b is playing instead of bunt or monk?

NOVA 2-0

TYLOO has new coaching right? They might actually win this

Should be a good game, Wolves 2-1

I think Wolves makes a deep run in the upper bracket

I don't agree with anyone calling for a permanent ban but mooda is a clipfarming low IQ moron

Drop B1ack too and sign actual talent pls

mooda is dangerously based

Low firepower team and has never had a great structure. Bail and Nephh seem like they're trying to bring some structure to the team recently. I think Knight will be next on the chopping block if BLG flops next year.

losing to a tier 3 team that isn't even better than revenant is CRAZY how the fuck can you be an nrg fan

Didn't they release a video revealing their roster and both Rossy and Moose were signed and ready to play? Now they drop both of them? Moose is a mid player but this org has bad vibes right now.

I mean I agree that people in his chat are stupid, that's really just Twitch for you. Twitch watchers are braindead idiots. But anyone who's trying to swing the narrative to "Shanks is a right-wing racist" when all of his friends (curry, marved, s0m, fns, flor, etc) are ethnic minorities is just being disingenuous.

No one is buying this cheap attempt to cancel another person

bunch of pussies in this thread, twitter/vlr is an echo chamber of people just waiting to jump on someones back

the vast majority of pros/streamers enjoy being around shanks and playing with him, and I mean players/pros of all genders, sexualities and races, I think I trust their judgement over the kooks on this site lmao

Am I the only one who thinks Foxy9 and Beyn were better on DRX than what we've seen from Athan so far? Of course too early to tell, Freeing and Hyunmin were no brainers to pick up but I don't know the reasoning behind Athan.

He made a thread about Jay Z and diddy but no one laughed so he crashed out, literally what happened, just look at his post history

Nah people are legit stupid by taking these games seriously. Their comps and roles are the most obvious troll ever. EDG aren't taking this offseason seriously at all. They're just having fun.

NRG 12-5 C9

x0oppa shit

You're mentally ill

Luckily Free1ng will carry them to their first trophy

jingg really is the best raze in the world

Well that's the thing, DFM is actually good

daddy s00dh00k?

100 replies for someone that used the sentence "better shooter than 90% of franchised players" shockingly successful bait

I could see Potter wanting to work with Icy or Victor

Up until this point there has been no convincing argument for why Flor should be in T1 over other T2 prospects. It's really that simple. People get rubbed the wrong way when Flor is lauded as the best pickup for a T1 team when other T2 talent is more deserving of the opportunity. People act like Flor deserved tier 1 because of how they play in GC, but that's irrelevant considering the low level of play in GC compared with tier 2. Flor probably hit #1 Radiant, but NA rank 1 doesn't mean anything either when guys like Curry get it so easily.

But considering Flor trialed with Apeks and was good enough to be picked up, I'm looking forward to seeing how things go. Getting picked up over Cned and other Turkish duelists is a risky move for an Ascension team that's fighting to keep their spot.

most delusional man alive

Sym played poorly against tier 1 teams
Flor plays good against tier 5 teams
Sym played well against tier 2 teams
Sym is likely better

Flor has to beat Shanks in a best of 7 on C long Haven before we even consider this

For India it's mainly the fact that PC gaming just isn't big over there, Indian gamers can't own a PC that runs at 100 fps and wifi issues on top of that

I don't agree with women not having their own league but I don't think that's going to be the reason why women won't have a high representation at a high level. Men typically are more competitive than women, this is how it's always been in gaming. In League there's no women who could compete in even T3 leagues. Women circuits have existed in Lol and CS for 20+ years and there aren't many tier 1 ready women in either of those games. Some women have proven to have a high ceiling at chess, but not a large amount of them either. Men are more dedicated to esports/professional gaming, even high level female players have said this. A lot of women would rather focus on other careers with longevity. I think there will be some girls who will be in valorant tier 1 but it'll never be close to even.

where is sato

If you want to shut people up real quick, you could find the games where they played against Shanks

Ryan Ngo > Floor

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/1041608095900039#:~:text=It%20is%20argued%20that%20a,of%20an%20implicit%20understanding%20of

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00128/full

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022096500925943

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1316909110#:~:text=Overall%2C%20the%20results%20suggest%20that,analytical%20and%20intuitive%20processing%20modes

https://blog.mindcrowd.org/reaction-time-as-a-measure-of-brain-health-mindcrowd-study-findings/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40296069

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22390656/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0026141

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5999374/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4129348/#:~:text=These%20cognitive%20attributes%20are%20different,abilities%20%5B2%2C3%5D.

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284542074_Gender_and_Gaming_A_Literature_Review

Can you say that to me without lying your ass off?

W

I'll talk specifically about people in major institutions and influential billionaires. I think It's more about a wealth and power / control thing. When you gain a large amount of wealth and influence, it makes people seek out more and more degenerate things, and often times they want to hurt people, and they want to get away with it. When you are wealthy or well off, you can hide it better and enjoy more opportunities to gratify yourself through connections and wealth.

These people run international cliques. The top of the music industry, Hollywood, the FBI and other intelligence agencies, the most powerful churches. There are cliques of powerful people in these institutions who are connected, some of them might run blackmail rings, but they all protect each other. Look into Epstein and Maxwell and all of their connections and you see a glimpse of what the international clique really is. There's a reason why they were arrested for sex trafficking to... nobody. Evil people protect evil people.

We're comparing Logan Paul to the Epstein list? I think we're talking different tiers of people. There's a difference between being a rich asshole and human scum.

1. EDG
2. WOL (replacing V1ya with a better player means they're 100% going to be a top 3 team for CN)
3. TE (I see this team only improving)
4. BLG (they look rejuvenated)
5. FPX (have the talent to be the best in the region, but they've looked off since Shanghai)
6. XLG (lacking firepower, but I could see them having solid results)
7. NOVA (they can shoot, but lack a great coach or igl to really tie things together)
8. JDG (hard to judge right now, could be higher)
9. DRG (I don't see them having great results)
10. AG (this roster is a downgrade)
11. TEC (firepower isn't there, whole team needs to be rebuilt around rb and haodong)
12. TYLOO (the leftovers, had no idea how to utilize their players and repeatedly switched them out, hope its different next year but off season hasn't changed my mind)

Neon goes against basic fundamentals of valorant. You have to have calm aim in order to rank up, but Neon challenges how you're taught to aim.

swerl and jemkin are good

W, I agree with vlrs decision