Riot decided to host it in Iceland due to their knowledge of the area and their self-cited lack of confidence in safely hosting a crowd.

https://www.vlr.gg/event/pickem/885/champions-tour-stage-1-emea-promotion

I'm pursuing a three-year degree in Communication Sciences right now, which branches out into Journalism. This semester, an investigation-based essay/article is 50% of my grade. The other 50% is a written test.

my guy just wait until you reach college lmfao

hey I see some people are confused about the format so I tried to make things a little clearer here.

A suspension can be easily lifted by an organization. Visa issues... not so much, and that was the official reason given by Fnatic.

Simple stuff.

12 teams in VCT EMEA.
Two worst VCT teams (this Stage, BIG and SMB) play the VCT Promotion. 2 slots will be available for VRL teams to steal or for the VCT teams to keep.
The other 10 teams keep their slots, nothing changes.
The only slots that change are the last two of each group.

Terrible, terrible luck.

first time huh? + counter + no one asked

this didn't age well, did it

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I detailed exactly that at the start of start of the article

losing in the upper final means you go to the lower final. if you lose there, you end 3rd in the standings. if you win the upper bracket final, you reach the grand final. if you lose the grand final, you end 2nd in the standings. if you win the grand final, you end first obviously.

clear enough?

acend vs gambit champions is still the best match

only Bo5 i've ever watched without skipping a beat, end-to-end. and i've watched a whole lot of them for these recaps.

assist king

Head-to-head is the first tiebreaker

What org is Russian besides Gambit? NAVI are Ukrainian, FPX are Chinese. Not trying to detract from your point, you're right.

That's why the most well-received reaction has been ESL's: exclude the organizations for their ties to relevant people and lack of action; let the players play under a neutral flag.

Riot has no official stance on this yet -- which is sad, to say the least. But they have their motives, I'm sure.

FPX are looking to field baddyG as a substitute for ANGE1, and Fnatic probably brough otom in as a sub for braveaf. ANGE1 currently is forbidden by law to leave Ukraine and resides in Kyiv, which is obviously a major target for the Russian invaders.

assist

Make something up and shoot your shot. Who knows?

didn't you read the tour?
denied.

LEC hasn't been cancelled.

"We've decided to move forward with today's show," they said in a statement.

so... this?

you mean their placements etc?

read up on AP, Reuters, AFP, Wikipedia.
Avoid American media.

we're not allowing these discussions on VLR.gg.

for clarification purposes

discussions about the ukraine-russia conflict aren't allowed, as no other political discussion is. discussions about how that might impact valorant esports will be tolerated.

also read this you freakin' babies.

very true and an oversight on my part, thanks

Did not know you were half Russian, thanks.

FPX have two Russian players (Shao, SUYGETSU) and one Ukrainian player (ANGE1).
Guild have one Russian player (trexx).
Fnatic have one Russian player (braveaf) and one Finnish-Russian player (Derke).
All of Gambit are Russian, coach and manager included.
Acend have one Ukrainian-Spanish player (Kiles) and two Polish players (zeek and starxo, whose country is on high alert due to its proximity to the conflict).
Natus Vincere have four Russian players (dinkzj, Duno, Jady, Cloud) and one Belarusian player (7ssk7, whose country maintains a very tight-knit relationship with Russia).

anything is better than nothing

assist

counter counter + assist for since_beta

of course :)

i care about this ratio

deny + did you not read the thread?

• good tour
• lacking direct mentions of active staff
• lacking mentions of certain personalities (milan, vortex)

start small. get good at the boring and basic stuff. don't go for the world immediately, it'll fuck you up if you're really trying to pursue this. make yourself known locally/regionally/nationally, then worry about the rest.

if you put in the work and it's good, you'll be doing more than most. glhf.

ratio

np

the issue wasn't running 5 duelists.
the issue was not upholding competitive integrity by not playing to their fullest.

been at ~100 for like 2 years

just ratioed myself to prevent that

<3

<3

i only ratio the dumb spaniards

you're clearly not one of them

still alone but thanks bud

counter

ez

no

was the wrong tagged roster. there are two SCYTES. apologies, ty