experience builds skill. no opportunity, no experience. no experience, no skill.

Please get a brain.

Yes because activeplayer.io is very accurate. Definitely not guesswork.

Nobody knows the numbers except Riot.

How is "not giving a fuck" cool these days? Why do kids think someone is automatically inspirational if they just claim to be indifferent to everything? Feels like some sort of weird Andrew Tate effect.

I'm ReBelLioUs

Whatever region he plays in he is from. Simple. Something has never played versus EU players given the geographical distance, so he's not EU.

bruh

Some misunderstanding going on here. This works in ranked because people are stupid. It works in pro because people are not expecting other people to be stupid. Big difference.

It's a low-percentage play that you should not really use...

What does this post even mean or achieve? I don't get it.

New players can form new rosters and create new opportunities to win new trophies. You're acting as if splitting up these teams ruined their chances of success. It's on the teams and the coaches to forge new teams that can win. Fnatic has rebuilt its roster three or four times at this point...

Why is that relevant in any way though?

When we talk about regions we are talking about what region they play the game in. You should not be associating region with race or skin color or whatever the hell you are thinking. We all bleed red.

This is why the whole "EU sucks without CIS" thing used to make zero sense. All CIS teams scrim and play ranked vs. EU teams. Therefore, it is the same region.

We're all out here trying to find out WHERE the best Valorant is played. In which REGION. If you're thinking about countries and races and skin colors, you've got it all wrong.

Nobody in FUT is playing against people in Korea and Japan.

they are just playing defaults. commentary is being far too harsh. liquid is defaulting and playing map control, but they're not hitting their shots and getting entries. It's just valorant.

They're just casuals who don't watch Liquid. Try not to pay attention. There's a reason why soulcas is on the team still... one of the best aimers in EU. Great players, lots of experience.

You just compared watching partying with a Valorant coach to a professional streamer whose entire job is entertainment. Sliggy is about analysis, and if you vibe with his personality that's a bonus.

Ranked is completely different from pro play.

Ranked is completely irrelevant, yo. There is no similarities between ranked and organized team play, let alone Tier 1 professional play.

Because there are way more Tier 3 male teams than Tier 1 GC teams. Very simple. More competition = higher skill.

But the GC scene is massively improving over time. I've scrimmed top 16 EU GC teams for about 18 months and the difference between now and back then is like night and day.

Wow.

There is very little difference between Diamond to mid-Immortal, imo. When you play scrims, you realize that rank is completely irrelevant.

Casting is about reaction, not analysis, right? Right? RIGHT? lmfao

No, Sayf. I interviewed Jamppi this morning. Check my article above.

some info on changes and playstyles for the tournament here - https://twinfinite.net/2022/12/breaking-team-liquid-to-play-with-stand-ins-at-red-bull-homeground-as-nats-redgar-denied-visas/

meddo on sentinel, sayf IGL

Idk what elo you are, but walling mid is utterly useless, lol. Who isn't just instantly destroying that as part of the default in the first 10 seconds of a round?

ok, I'm an IGL and a big believer in the importance of the role, but 65 ACS is absolutely criminal.

Football and Valorant have so many parallels, positionally speaking. I coached football, now Val. It's actually amazing how many similarities there are with respect to positional play and the expectations of each - striker/duelist, initiator/midfielder, sentinel/defender, etc.

Football, like Valorant, is a game that demands immaculate synergy but in which an individual can prove a difference maker.

I mean, idk about nobody hating on him, lol. People always giving the guy shit. But whatever! #JUSTICE4EC1S great Haven performance.

All these cNed threads and you're not gunna shout out the lad ec1s for a 20 bomb and some great calling? Stop hating on this man. He's a quality player. Wp!

T2 competitive play is a crazy high standard, wdym? Literally any Ascension team would wipe the floor with 90% of teams around the world. Even Tier 3 teams are high Immo 3/Radiants.

I guess you mean T4 or something?

wtf is a "boomer org," you absolute muppet...

I mean, he would say that though, wouldn't he? lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDRPbyrvZto

Huge W.

This man's aim is just on another level, which makes me sigh at every stupid thread criticizing him. Anyway, enjoy! The first clip is probably the best ace I've ever seen. Also, some interesting scrim results there!

There's no possible way you could conclude American Football players are more athletic than Rugby players unless you had absolutely no knowledge of Rugby.

Rugby players are elite athletes who are some of the strongest, fastest, and toughest sportsmen in the world. The game is harder, more skillful, and tactically deeper than American Football in every way.

you really don't like Liquid, do you bro?

it's almost as if cs and valorant are two different games

weird take, Jamppi is cracked with a rifle and yay is second only to Wardell in OP pickrates.

Remember when everyone used to hate on Jamppi? Ah, how times have changed.

My guess is that these local people do not really care for Loud and Leviatan, which I can kinda understand.

Soulcas is very consistent, what are all these threads? Frags aren't the whole game.

Dear all Immortal 2 and 3 players in my ranked games, expand your fkn agent pool out of the 6 duelists, or atleast learn how to play those 6. It's really frustrating seeing 3 duelists in a lobby out of which none know how to help team enter site

Yo, PRX had a decent run in one tournament... that doesn't make them miles better than every team at Champions. Is it so surprising they got grouped when they were up against Leviatan and Liquid, two teams which have insane talent?

What people fail to understand is that every team and every region is very close. Teams that are on a roll and feeling it have a very decent shot at winning... Liquid might actually win Champions after having been written off by 99% of vlr, every professional analyst, imagine. FPX might get grouped... Valorant esports is very close, the margins are tiny, and you cannot judge a single team by one or even two Masters runs.

The only team which has demonstrated impressive consistency is Optic. Liquid actually hasn't been bad either if you judge their entire tournament history (they're generally always in the mix at the big events).

tl;dr - team form will rise and dip, you need to judge their performance over months/years, which we've barely had in Valorant esports yet.

Typically in casting/commentating, you have a play-by-play and an analyst; Doug is the play-by-play, Balla is the analyst (within the casting duo).

What is about kids these days where they just want shouting and screaming reactions for entertainment? Collectively as a species our intelligence is definitely dwindling, lol.

You really need to find out whether scrims suit you. I've played with a lot of Immortal 3 players whose playstyle really suits ranked but they are just totally clueless in scrims. Rank is really not a great indicator, imo -- I've lost to Ascendant players in scrims and beaten Radiants.

haha, a team loses a series and suddenly their entire story of success was a fluke.

You kids just can't live without having some goat team to worship, can you?

It's a fucking esport, you win some, you lose some. 70% of winning comes down to which players are clicking, and that's XSET right now.

bro, it's called timing... it happens, sometimes out of your control.

lmfao, what are you on about, mate? they aren't at some giant Riot compound where they are fed food like dogs. They literally order their own food.

There is a bug going around in Istanbul. It's well known.

Interesting? It's kinda logical... you invest in a region, that region plays the game, and then they become great once it takes off. simple. It's a new game, everyone is on the same page right now.

I assume you're comparing this to something like CSGO, which is totally different because of the history of CS which is 20 years old. In the case of CS, regions like EU and NA were playing CS 1.6 to a high standard 20 years ago while the rest of the world was playing other games / didn't care. There was a CS culture in Europe that was incredibly passionate and strong before most of the world even had ADSL internet.

soulcas has some of the best aim in T1 Valorant. Look at his HS stats.

I mean, there's no way you could possibly deny Liquid played far, far below their usual standard, though. Credit to Leviatan, but that's an atrocious Liquid effort if I've ever seen one.

Oh, no! Not 33! How will he sit on a chair, move his mouse, and click some buttons. Way too boomer for that.

Come, on, yo. This isn't 2005. We should all know by now that playing esports like CS and Valorant isn't about reaction speeds (which don't even substantially drop off until you're in your 50s anyway). Crosshair placement and gamesense don't ever really leave you as long as you're playing consistently. Angel can play for years yet if he wants to.

Yo, idk if you knew this, but Riot did not make the song. John Riot is not a musical artist.

What? This is the best format possible.

real intelligent, bro.