I've seen everyone get credit this tournament thus far except icy

...but he's been having an AMAZING Champions so far. His Raze is the second best so far with a 1.29 rating and a K/D of 1.4. Overall he's the best player stats-wise for G2 this tournament thus far, a little ahead of valyn. In the series against EDG earlier, he was the MVP on map 3 and the team MVP on map 1. He had 2 3Ks and 4 4Ks, adding on to his 4 3Ks against Paper Rex, giving him a total of 10 multikills in 2 games playing Raze, Yoru, and Gekko. He's so good right now, and he's not getting any credit for it. I'm glad the hate is dying down, though, at least.

Did you just list every team that won their opening game

Didn't wanna say much about Talon because I'm not sure about them yet. Still feels to me like they're trying to find they're identity. They've only played 4 series with Primmie, believe it or not

Throw in DFM because they're fun to watch when they play well, GE because they do the silliest things and don't seem to care, and PRX because they play every game in Pacific like they're trolling and win anyway

True

Leviatán and Vitality are great teams. They losing mainly because they're trolling the map veto. Ascent to TE is like Fracture to 2023 EG

I love CN games but you can't tell me Pacific games aren't fun to watch

What I'm trying to say is he could be wrong

Group C is NOT the a bad group.

That's another problem. They actually kind of overlap. Where I am the Pacific games are at 4 and 7, while the CN games are at 5 and 8, so you'd have to choose which ones to watch, which isn't good.

Then again he had Trace losing to Leviatán sooo

VODs

I don't know what it is, exactly. But anytime they lose, I feel if they just changed one thing they could've taken the game.

Also they always lose in playoffs. They have a major problem when it comes to choking in playoffs

Do you really think 2 extra seconds on the ult will realistically make much of a difference? My thoughts when adding it were: you could probably clear an extra angle or two with this change. I don't really see what you could do beyond that, other than the occasional highlight play

I've thought they were the best all year, save for when FPX was playing at Shanghai

The real question is why is Apeks orange

Here were my ideas, posted around two weeks ago:

• Blaze (C) no longer stops when it comes into contact with a wall (i.e. it can go through walls)
• Blaze (C) no longer deals damage to allies
• Curveball (Q) cost decreased from 250 >> 200 credits [this one was slightly controversial]
• Hot Hands (E) charges increased from 1 >> 2 (second charges costs 200 credits) [this one was very controversial]
• Run It Back (X) duration increased from 10 >> 12 seconds

Good idea

I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt here

I have almost 170 hours on Harbor and I can tell you the ability to weave in and out of his cove is super useful in almost every scenario

This is valid

You mean so you can't go in and out? So you're trapped in/out of it unless it's broken?

Probably not but I am tweaking all of Harbor's abilities in at least one sense

Working on it 👍

Question: how have you heard it's been "heading that way" for two years if CN hasn't been a thing for one full year yet?

The prior

You've given me some ideas. Thanks

Hey, I'm doing my part. Y'all do yours.

Just watched that, it's actually really really funny seeing what pros are saying about VLR forums. Kinda wanna try to find more. Someone lmk if they've got any clips or something because it's actually entertaining to watch

Thank you

Link? I'm kinda curious

VLR when arguably the best team in the world loses a BO3 with a round differential of -3 to one of the best teams of the year:

Not even trying to beat the allegations

I don't gamble but you do you I guess

They're not exactly the undisputed favourites going into the game, but come on, those odds are disrespectful

Close game for sure

Seems reasonable

So you changed from South Korea to Kiribati because a Spanish VALORANT team (with mostly northern Slavs) disbanded?

Why are you Kiribatian now

I don't know which of your two accounts are you but both need to go

Vamoo 🐮

I'd love for it to happen.

That doesn't even begin to cover the mess that Viper currently is, or the fact that Clove is the worst agent in the game, or that Brimstone literally only sees play on two maps and on both of them he's a necessity

https://www.vlr.gg/378092/im-bored-im-gonna-try-to-balance-every-duelist
https://www.vlr.gg/379291/im-gonna-try-to-balance-every-initiator

Currently drafting controllers

I can vouch for this one. Had to learn it the hard way

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHY IS BALANCING THE CONTROLLERS SO ANNOYING AND TEDIOUS AND HARD

What if they did what LOUD did and grind but in secret so they don't show their strats and then come into the year with a horrendous take on the meta and suffer for the entire year as a result

Well no yeah, obviously. VALORANT's been an esport for 4 years. CS first had tournaments at the turn of the century, if I remember correctly. That's almost 25 years ago.

Yes he is in fact not applicable