facts

Factual, split is the worst map in the game, it should genuinely be deleted or COMPLETELY revamped. It's disgusting how CT-sided it inherently is

LMAOO

Bruh https://clips.twitch.tv/TameSweetMonkeyKappaClaus-5Zuv8kDcAD2_NQno

Who the fuck peeks A main from CT with a frenzy when they're rushing LOL. Taking long range duels against 2-3 people with a frenzy.. yikes

Ironic coming from a tsm fan who's made many tsm threads

Acend 2-1 FPX

Rix.GG 2-1 G2 LOL

Rip my pick'ems... All because Gold2 did trash and didnt meet even the least of expectations against FPX... Sadge

Lol stay mad that C9 couldnt even get out of open qualifiers and lost to T2 Rise. Garbage team.

Yeah no, this match against FPX only proves G2 fluked against fnatic. they do trash against the other good teams. Similar to BBG/Andbox upsetting Sentinels. Fnatic will make LB run and dominate once again.

No way G2 makes a comeback down 10-4 in an eco

G2 over hyped hard, I did think they were gonna win vs FPX, but people that really thought their win against fnatic wasnt a fluke, and that they would genuinely dominate this tournament, were stupid AF.

Liquid 2-0 BDS

Agreed, but we have to wait and see to 100% confirm whether it was a fluke. Rn it's looking most likely

Will come back to this once G2 2-1's FPX

I was gonna make this exact thread but decided not too because its too early and G2 might lose this (but I have them winning) lmao.

No, they wouldnt be.

That has nothing to do with anything. Again, the argument is about objectively determining the favoured team. Even if a team is factually favoured, by the valid criterion of match results, that doesnt guarantee a win. It is only the most likely option. You dont have a rebuttal which is why you refer to some random hypothesis.

G2 FPX Fnatic Acend. FPX will lose to G2 here then make a huge LB run.

Nah, you're delusional, imagine editing it later just to suit your stubborn needs and insecurities LMAO. Actually pathetic, and I just noticed. You're factually wrong.

Brier scores or whatever other bullshit you're talking about doesn't matter. This argument was finished days ago, and I proved you wrong even without this proof that we got today. But my point is that the proof today changes the 100% debunking of your argument to like 110%. It's not that major, nor is it the only thing that I used to prove you wrong. Bettors are not reliable and not factual, match results are, to determine favoured team in matchups.

Yeah no thats my point. Betting odds are not a valid criterion to judge what team is favoured, because as you see, they lost, and Fnatic won, and were the favoured team to win by using factual match results and accomplishments and logic.

That... isnt my point or argument at all. Even pre-match odds leaned in favour of liquid, is the point and it proves my argument that betting odds are not reliable for favoured team to win. Match results are. And this only proved it. but again, today's results dont even matter, because I proved my argument to be true without today's results.

no, it wasnt, because it still predicted Liquid to win. That is unreliable. And false. Fnatic was favoured, and fnatic won, by match results. This only proves my argument and disproves yours even more. I mean, i already proved ur argument wrong even without today's results, but this just adds salt to your injury.

Fnatic beating liquid, empirical proof of betting odds not being reliable! Liquid had the better odds, by a lot, yet lost. But guess what, the favoured pick by match results, Fnatic, won!

Fnatic beating liquid, empirical proof of betting odds not being reliable! Liquid had the better odds, by a lot, yet lost. But guess what, the favoured pick by match results, Fnatic, won!

Fnatic 2-0 Guild

Fnatic will be #1 EU

Fnatic need to change their bind comp, its clearly not working, and is trash. 3 controllers is too much, come on Boaster, we know you like to be creative but it's just not working. Before, with their old iceland comp, they were undefeated in bind in EU. They need to revert to that one, and just spend more time practising on it. Its really sad to see, because Fnatic's bind is the most fun map to watch them on. It's like if Sentinels lose on Haven in NA. Their best map. It barely happens.

Fnatic needs to change their bind comp back to Iceland comp. This 3 controller bullshit isnt working, and its just a trash comp. They need a duelist at least to create space, this is the 2nd time they lose bind in EU when before they were undefeated with their Iceland comp in EU.

Its not. They shouldnt have to know its a bug bc theres no way of knowing if its a bug in the first place. No one benefits from it, if anything it makes people more scared of finding cams

Yeah, and once again, your premise is completely wrong. Sure, they cant shoot it back, but you're assuming that the people who used it knew it couldn't be shot back at all, Maybe they thought that it was just a really good 'nerd' cam that wasnt known well and therefore didnt get shot at all? That still doesnt prove that they knew it was a bug. Ur argument is still invalid

what is ppc

FNC 2-1. #alwaysfnatic

Guild vs BDS, im not interested in. FPX vs G2, im VERY interested in, and it's a must-watch for me personally. luckily i'll be able to wake up around 11 AM to watch the G2 vs fpx match.

Garbage time schedule for one of the best match-ups in EU for people in NA, dont know what Riot's thinking with this schedule lmao. matches shouldnt be earlier than 11 AM EST. People in NA arent gonna wake up at 8 AM just to watch a valorant match when its summer break as well..

I'm not trying to play devil's advocate, I'm just talking about how the situation is genuinely unjustified for the Giants getting punished for an invalid reason.. I dont particularly care about the team at all, just for precedents, and if this were to happen to an NA/EU team I support then I'd feel the same way

To be honest TSM should've rebuilt a long time ago around Wardell and Subroza, they need the G2 treatment to actually get some results, but at this point, due to bad management from TSM, it's just too late. This is their last chance, and they're desperate. If they lose here, TSM valorant has no hope and no purpose for literally the rest of the 4 months of the year, because they'd have no chance at Berlin, or Champions. They'd be better off disbanding, or laying off the roster (not paying them but keeping them under contract or something) until 2022. It's sad to think about, but it's just the reality. Better management from TSM could've solved this issue in like February/March when we had a consistent string of bad results. Or even after the conclusion of Stage 2, when they failed to make it to the playoffs. But no changes came until the replacement of cutler with bang, and even that didn't fix their problems. This is just a synopsis of TSM in 2021 tbh, and it doesnt really have anything to do with ur question but eh who cares

They're not though, they have no way of realizing what is a bug or not. It doesnt matter that it's their job to play the game, that doesnt instantly give them some sort of superior knowledge or analyzing abilities to determine bugs, lmao. Your logic is invalid. From the pov of the cypher cam why would they have to check it? They could've easily been dicking around in customs and then found the cypher cam, and saw the gap in the wall in the pov. They obviously wouldnt notice its a bug. Literally no one in gold ranked would realize its a bug without prior knowledge.

I'd rather get Leviathan over Critical tbh

No they didnt, they literally stated they didnt know it was a bug and even opened up a ticket with Riot Support to talk about it. They had no clue it was a bug. And the statement that they would've had it days to weeks in advance still doesnt matter, because they were unaware of it being a bug for days to weeks in advance as well then? If they didnt know it was a bug then they wouldnt have any reason to go to a TO in the first place... so that's invalid

Of course its not 'ok', but that doesnt mean its their fault and they should get punished for it? They literally said it was not intentional, they did not know it was a bug.

What? that's completely false, because again, your premise is wrong. They didnt KNOW it was a bugged cam, thats the point. they didnt know it was a bug and that it wasnt allowed to be used, they had no warnings or heads-up from anyone prior. They have literally said it was not intentional abuse

It could be actually, if u went deep in site. Just because the ones using it didnt know doesnt mean they were intentionally abusing it. Again, I am not arguing against it being a bug, because it is a bug. Its about them getting punished, which isnt justified due to not knowing.

Thats not the point. Theres no proof to suggest that they KNEW it was a bug and took advantage of it. It's a bug, whatever, but again, it wasnt intentional, the giants players stated. They didnt even get any warnings at all.

No? U could only see A main entrance and front site

https://twitter.com/GeorgeCGed/status/1410237857143443458

They didnt know it was a bug, it wasnt intentional, it wasnt listed. Its not justified to punish them, they didnt even get any warnings.

Bad decision, bug wasnt listed as an official bug within riot's list of banned bugs according to many people

link?

can you give a source showing stellar talking about it? this is actually interesting stuff, im curious

Today was a slightly scary day for me, and the story revolves around a slightly irrational fear of lightning, which I will delve into with more detail. This is a real story, and it happened just today.

It was a nice day, so I decided to bike to the library and pick up a few books and spend an hour or two reading there. The time passes fast, as I do enjoy reading a lot, and it gets dark even before I notice. I check my watch and it's only 7:30 PM, yet it was still dark outside. I think in my mind, "Huh, that's strange, usually the sun sets around 9 PM, not 7:30." So then I proceed to assume that my watch might've been behind or inaccurate by the margin of an hour or two, yet I still thought it was unlikely and strange.

I exit the library, and notice the sky is extremely cloudy and dark, this being crucial information that I did not yet know about when I was in the library. I obviously jump to the most logical conclusion- it's about to start raining, and from the looks of the sky, raining VERY hard. I started to panic a little, because though I've never been particularly scared of thunder or lightning at all (until today), I realized that it's possible for something bad to happen, albeit unlikely, but still possible. I've never really had any bad experiences with severe thunderstorms because I'm usually in my house or in a car when they happen. So I decide to bike home as soon as possible, before the rain would start to turn into a torrential downpour. 5 minutes pass, and it's simply a light drizzle, but I notice that the rain is slowly yet gradually picking up the pace.

Here's the part which genuinely had me a bit scared of thunder and lightning for pretty much the first time in my life, and also the first time I genuinely thought I would get struck by lightning.

After the 5 minute mark, I hear a rumble in the clouds, a sign of a thunderstorm, and then the rain starts pouring very hard. I realize that I cannot keep biking, because I still have around 8 minutes of distance left to bike. I was biking through a neighbourhood that I'm familiar with, and desperately tried to find a house with an outer roof I could take shelter under. (Hard to explain what I mean by this, but basically those side-roofs attached to the side of houses, where it's like shelter for your car but it's an open area similar to a parking lot) The rain at this point is a deafening roar, and the thunder rumbles turn into thunder bombs. The constant flashes of lightning, as if there's a paparazzi taking hundreds of photos of me a second. I realize that this might take half an hour, or even an hour to settle. I think to myself, this isn't that bad. But then I'm proven wrong, when I see an extremely bright flash of light and an almost deafening, RESONATING sound of thunder which I could feel in the very core of my body, it was louder than even the loudest of bomb explosions, genuinely, it caused my heart rate to instantly start beating extremely fast.

Why was I scared, you may ask, but think about the conditions. I'm not even in full shelter, I have temporary shelter under a side-roof, and most of all, I'm panicking about the bomb explosion sounds from this thunder. It genuinely frightened me, and even though the chances of getting hit by lightning are nearly 1 in 500,000, I think anyone would develop an irrational fear of possibly being struck by lightning when you can vividly hear the lightning so close to you, sounding off like a detonated bomb in a warzone. And it's' not like the bomb sounds were just once every five minutes, it was nearly once every few seconds.

I tried to calm myself down by rationalizing the situation and telling myself, calm down, there's literally no chance you get hit by lightning, it's incredibly unlikely. But honestly logic had no place in my mind at that moment, I couldn't hear anything but the thunder claps. After 30-40 minutes, the storm subsided, and the rain was a light drizzle, and I made my way home.

TL;DR I just felt like I had to document my scary experience with thunderstorms somewhere tbh, and this site is definitely one of the last places to put an experience like the one I had today, because of obvious baiters and idiots on the site, but to those of you who aren't braindead baiters, I'm just genuinely curious of any similar experiences you might have had with thunderstorms, lightning, or any natural phenomena? Like maybe tsunamis, earthquakes, avalanches, etc.

No, it's not only the coach's job, it's mainly the IGL's job. But I do know that you're quite unintelligent so I'm not surprised you'd think this. ShahZam and FNS are both IGLs who are successful, and have thrived without coaches. The role of an IGL is primarily for strats, coaches are not NECESSARY, they are supplementary. It's to divide the work. But the IGL should be the MAIN one calling the shots, doing the work.