I completely agree with you that Abo is a pretty good player. I mean, he's an experienced Valorant player and has been in the scene for quite the long time. I just don't know if they'll be able to contend for mid-table when the other teams like Wolves get their chemistry figured out.

To me, this isn't a long reply at all. In fact, I'd go on to give you credit for being clear and concise with your message.
I think you are indeed correct in the sense that TEC did indeed beat a mid BLG, and does indeed look to have good synergy between the players, which is great.
To be fair, I didn't account for synergy at all when making my rankings, and if I did I probably would place TEC above WOL and below TYL. TYLOOs core has been together for quite a while, and with hfmi on the team they're most certainly going to be a force to reckon with (unless they throw all their matches).
Cheers!

Thank you for all these updates. You're spearheading and sharing all the news with us and I cannot tell you how thankful I am. Keep up the good work!

I mostly agree with you, your top rated teams are great. The way it looks to me probably goes something like this:

EDG
--------------------tier gap--------------------
JDG
TE
FPX
--------------------tier gap--------------------
BLG
DRG
--------------------tier gap--------------------
TYL
WOL
TEC
AG
NOVA (roster unreleased)

I don't think TEC is better than TYL or WOL. I know they're rumored to be getting Rb but I have some doubts about the other players.

In my opinion, it looks like a mix of TEC and TYLOO.

Quite!

Yeah! That's something I agree with and also something I covered in my first paragraph, sorry for the confusion! I know for a fact though that some people will choose competitive over unrated simply due to the stakes involved.

This is pretty good.

Man no shot you still use Internet Explorer! I thought they retired that garbage.

Surely you jest. You can't possibly be insinuating that Masters and any other official VCT International LAN doesn't matter.

I think you're cooking to a partial extent.
If you're level 100-300, complaining all the time about your teammates, and still iron/bronze, then yeah might as well stop wasting time on a game you aren't good at/aren't enjoying.

If you're somewhat new to fps game/Valorant, and get stuck in a lower rank for a while, I think it's alright to continue playing. Ranks like Iron and Bronze are excellent for building up your basic skills, but are quite difficult to get out of (smurfs etc). But I don't think it's too much of an issue, especially if you're having fun. Some caterpillars take longer in the coccoon phase than others.

Ultimately, games exist to bring fun and entertainment to people, and I think that if you, regardless of rank, genuinely dislike playing the game, be it due to teammates or your own personal skill or whatever, then just stop playing.

When I started playing I was stuck in Silver for a long, long time. I took my time learning my basic mechanics and by the time I got out of Silver, I was riding the high tides of ranking up. But of course, everyone is different.

Watch JDG cook so hard on international LAN lol.

I appreciate it man! <3

I don't know about you but I think those blinds do a pretty good job at creating a small distraction for the team to enter site.

:)

I think Reyna is very much a double edged sword. Either you have a great fragger who knows how to use their flashes to help the team, or you have a selfish, less intelligent player who can't figure out how to provide value to the team. I think that's part of what makes Reyna such a unique agent and in my opinion there is no reason to go as far as to completely remove her from the game. I do think that a massive rework should be favored in order to allow Reyna to be a more viable option in general.

Interesting interesting... Thanks for telling!

Interesting! I don't know much about NZ aside from the fact that they filmed some Lord of the Ring scenes there. Is there good cuisine in NZ?

I'm sorry for the confusion caused by my comment. I meant to say that Abo was both IGL and duelist for TEC and he was really good for them, got a couple 40 frags which was really good. I do agree with you that it would make sense for someone from the RA core to IGL for the majority RA core team.

So somewhere like New Plymouth?

If I recall correctly (which I might not), Abo was both duelist and IGL for TEC no?

Was he? Maybe I'm remembering wrong again. Smh I'm not even at that age yet.
Anyways, if I am indeed wrong, then I apologize for any misinformation communicated on my behalf.

Oh🗿

I believe he was IGL for TES.

Oof

Touche.
I agree with you.

I'm not quite sure myself. Perhaps they want to pursue a career path in language studies or something?

Oof

It's so enjoyable to read imo. I plan on re-reading the webnovel when I have time.

That's actually pretty nice!

But of course! The internet is very wide in the sense that there are so many different people you can meet. For example, never would I have thought that I'd be asking questions to a New Zealander lol.

It almost brings a tear to my eye how accurate those statistics are🥲

TBATE is among one of the best for me. I think Solo Leveling is really fun to read due to the concept and the art.
Its story might not be great, and its characters might not have too much development, but I agree with you that it is a "light manhwa that is just a joy to read".

That is an amazing analysis of my behavior. Are you correct? Maybe!

Yeah it's basically useless unless you're into archeology or something among that career path (i.e historian).

I still think they're good as a region. Perhaps I was doing EMEA too harsh by placing them last. It could be attributable to some sort of extension neglect, or anchoring bias (I don't know too much about pacific).

This is factual.

I don't know about DRX considering their recent roster changes, but I think PRX was probably using the off season tourneys to test some things (I read somewhere that they were playing different roles or smth some time after the afreecatv tourney). I don't believe this is the year for them to be winning any trophies yet again though.

Do you live in Wellington?

That ruins all the fun of it lol. I will say though, while I have grown up in Italy, I am actually ethnically 0% Italian.

Structura. rb

Structure for the super organized Valorant DRX is used to playing :)

Those are wonderful guesses!🤣

Here are two interesting questions in my opinion:
Where do you think I was born?
Where am I from?

I'm down to discuss it because I've never really talked about it on this site.

Yeah. I have a friend who is in a "Latin club" or something but I haven't bothered with that obsolete language that's only used in the Vatican.

Stolidus. retardiis

Americas is indeed too stacked.

I forgot about VIT getting trexx. Yeah that's pretty good. I always overlook NAVI as well idk why they just always slip my mind.

I think APAC has upgraded by a lot this year, and ZETA probably won't be in the picture much imo (I hope this take doesn't come to bite me in the rear end).

CN is definitely behind, but I think their unexperienced playstyles may just catch some teams off guard or smth (copium from getting too into China VCT league lol).

Well, actually it was created by people living in ancient Italy. Those from Rome specifically. You're welcome for the new knowledge! :D

Thank you! All I need to do is exercise a bit more and I'll be even healthier :)

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