I simply enjoy looking at the odds that betting sites provide as a general representation of how people feel about the squads. I often feel like the odds are far too heavily favoring the favorites than they should (ex sometimes odds are 1.2x to 4.0x when I think the match is truly only a 60/40 or 65/35)

Wondering if anyone knows of any betting websites that are taking bets on who the winner of Champions is going to be this year. I'd be really interested to know what teams people have faith in to be good down the line. Currently I imagine the top four would be (in no order) GenG, PRX, Heretics, and Sentinels. Personally I'd throw my choice to heretics.

Is anyone aware of any competitive/casual alternatives to traditional ranked matchmaking for mid-high elo?

I love Valorant and I've played it for the last 3 years on a team for my university but during that time I've absolutely fallen out of love with ranked. The randomness of half your team having no mics and not trying to play the game well by communicating and cooperating has driven me away from playing. I'm looking for some type of 10 mans server where people actually try and communicate while playing, while still understanding the balance that we're playing to win and for fun. I may not be the best player topping the scoreboards every game, but I always communicate and strategize and try to play the objective for my team and that has led to me finding anger instead of enjoyment in ranked.

Id like to play the game more and I think that I would, while having way more enjoyment, if I just abandoned ranked for some random discord organized 10 mans. Anyone know of some good ones that accept mid diamond-low immortal players?

Yalls preds aging like milk

Im not sure what time this game was played at but if tarik has a couple people playing with him and they all want to keep the games going, they're willing to invite good players like (ex)tier 2&3 players who they know will com and have good teamplay. It gets much harder to get the best pros to keep playing the later it gets because they all go to bed on a consistent schedule.