I understand your issue very well, being a part of the group is cool and nice since you have people around you that you like. I do think though that they probably wont really mind if you wont smoke with them,try to decline in a friendly way if they offer you cigarettes with a small explanation if they wonder. I also had friends back at school who smoked frequently, but they were completely fine for me not smoking with them. They were still very kind to me and accepted me the way i was. Its likely they are the same, just young people enjoying their break between sessions with people they know.
Also, if you buy cigarettes before uni, try to avoid the place where you buy them. Maybe youre connecting the place because you get yourself some food for the lunch break. Maybe go to a bakery or a cafe if its close to you.
Its okay to smoke, but the amount needs to be controllable. I had a case where someone died because of that. Remind yourself to not overdue it, set yourself a limit you wont exceed and stop once you reached it.
GL on your journey :)

Easiest: Reyna, BY FAR(But also the most useless)
Hardest: Astra

Astra is very difficult, as your ability timings need to be very precise(Grav well and Pulse). But you CAN play her as just a normal controller. Pro Tip: Be a lurker, do your best nats impression, give your team all the util you have, lurk up somewhere else and go on a big flank. Astra doesnt need to be with her team, she has infinite range on her util, so dont feel enfoced to be another wagon on the one-way--train to the next rush onto a site.

Nope, its not in my nature to be mean.

Reduce the amount youre smoking little by little so your mind can adjust, but its just an idea. Another helpful idea might be therapy, yes it sounds bad, but it isnt, its okay to get yourself some help if youre feeling too weak to sort things out by yourself. Be open-minded and honest, its not like the therapist will say ,,OMG youre smoking???Get out of my office!!". Talking to friends or family about this will help too, im sure they will be supportive, theyre close to you for a reason. GL on your future journey!!

nvm thought it was a Bo3.

DRX 2-1 T1

Soft tyre go vrooom

the whole thing turned

100%, in GER we have to buy it in a big pack with other sports aswell. For 20 eur initially, but goes up to abt 30 p/month after a year. You need to spend more than 300 euros per year to watch a series that was televised for free just 3 years ago. IMSA can be streamed from their own website for FREE, the same goes for WEC(shoutout to IMSA btw, they got a great broadcasting team with Radio Le Mans). And Le Mans itself can be watched for free on TV(not completely on Eurosport, you have to buy a subscription to the player, but at least a part, with the start and final hours to the finish on the main broadcast) aswell.

Not everybody has 300 quid left on the table after the bills that they dont need, not everyone can afford a pay tv subscription. RTL wasnt the best, but it atleast gave us the opportunity to watch our favourite sport w/o having to be a millionare.

Hamilton led, Latifi put it in the wall, SC, one lap shootout for glory, Verstappen won, regs change, RB good car, Mercedes not so good car, rest is history.

Havent watched a full F1 season for 3 years now(thanks to Sky buying all the rights, so that i need to subscribe for 30 or whatever euros per month which isnt affordable for the average person), so i dont know exactly how the race unfolded

WEC/IMSA < F1

which resulted in

Cypher

Maybe Chamber

Otherwise i dont see any other sentinel being any good(Kj is insane on B, but A is her weak spot, also there arent any really good ult spots, you can theoretically retake A if you have back pyramids, but otherwise the ults can be broken easily(B halfwall) or just dont take any space. And Sage and Deadlock......are better not mentioned)

Alternative for those who wanna lurk but dont wanna invest time into learning setups: Viper. Put the wall where the team goes, and lurk mid/elbow.

BMW ,,BIG M8" M8 GTE(2018)

if i speak

orthoboy did too

The problem Sage has is that once all her util is gone, shes basically worthless(yes, the heal is good in SOME situations, when you need to heal someone, but if we compare it to a Skye flash, a Breach stun or even a Cypher cam, its value is most of the time lower than most of the other mentioned abilities, you can 4-stack the other side just bc a cam gives you free info at the start of a round f.e.). Like someone else here said, i would swap the heal and the slow orb. The slow is soooo much more useful, and it would give her much more impact mid- and late-round. The util she possesses is good, the wall is annoying and needs a lot of bullets, and the slows are also pretty damn great, anyone who has run into a slow-nade combo on Split can confirm that.
She only has 2 slows and 1 wall though, once these things are thrown out, its over. This swaparound would likely change that.

Indy
Le Mans
Daytona 24h
Spa/Nürburgring/Bathurst
Sebring/Petit
Italian GP
Watkins Glen 6h/Spa 6h
Monaco

Except the fact that it is a long-standing event in the history of the sport, its quite boring. Its like the Hungaroring but with the glamour, very hard to overtake on. It has gotten a bit better with the new regs, but still id rather watch GT Masters or DTM if its on for the day. I wanna see action, overtakes and a exciting, thrilling race till the last laps and Monaco just doesnt deliver in that aspect!

Destrian

FNATIC

But when do the stats count then? If this tournament isnt representative in your eyes and GC has ,,worse" players how are we going to make an accurate assumption of her overall perfomance?

To all the users who go on this post:
No, rhyme isnt dead, hes retiring from Valorant to focus on his studies. I just wanna inform everyone of that because the title of the post is incorrect regarding his personal status and could lead to confusion. Have a good day!

Did you also just read that thread for the first time despite it being 3 months old? What the hell is going on?

Please elaborate further, i dont know what the heck you talking abt

Okay, that i didnt know

Im actually surprised that RNG isnt in franchising yet, theyre so popular in China as a org bc of League and they had a roster this year aswell(although they werent that close to actually qualifying for either of the international tournaments over this year)

But it would be more ethical in my eyes. Also, he could make it interesting for the viewers if he could make it so that viewers could join his unrated games and play with him. The mmr is going to rise no matter what happens, he gains popularity and it would give the viewers a reason to join in. But yeah, make it fast and buy an account :/
(No critic against your comment, it is faster, but in reality, the action should be bannable and it would shine a brighter light on a guy whose content is highly questionable in my eyes)

He couldve also just made a new account and grind it to lvl 40 through unrated so he doesnt have to play against bronzes and silvers since the mmr is going to be higher(yes even in unrated), but nevertheless impressive. No need to shit on lower elos though imo.

Wish you and your country the best, even though the times are hard atm(inflation, earthquakes etc...).

Acend won that tourney on merit, whatever we might say about the players. This was their peak, and yes Gambit could have won champs, but they didnt. They had their chance at 12-11 on Icebox, but they lost. The Vivo Keyd game aftermath is still somewhat weird, but that wasnt their fault either. They 2-0ed every team after that game, including TL and Envy. And in the end they were holding the trophy in their hands. There is no undeserved victory after a Bo5.

RIP DaveeyS, condolences to his family, friends and to his team at KRÜ. They were just getting started, we lost a big talent.

FNC
NAVI
EG
C9
DRX
PRX
BLG
EDG

Winner: Cloud9 after a mCe masterclass with a 3-2 victory over a resurged NAVI

You could say the same for every tournament that was ever played in any kind of sports. It gets broing if you do the same joke every goddamn thread.

Pretty good reasoning posted above. I like k1ng, but a team can not work if one is constantly killing his tm8´s confidence. Thats just not healthy in the long-run, we saw it during Pacific. And if the IGL isnt keeping everybody on the same page, its just very difficult to obtain the level they could play at.

Me too, the takes here are too hilarious. Also i think being one of the highest rated players in the whole damn event is a sign youre pretty good(yes, the stats are a big non-telling as she played less rounds than others, moose, Reduxx etc..., but still, better than 70% of all players who competed)

Anlaki

Sorry for posting a opinion, blud. No need to get aggressive, mate.

Already won something

If FNC are dropping ANYONE on this team, theyre hard trolling.

I dont know if ardiis would go want to back to NAVI, but he certainly would be an instant upgrade just because of the flexibility and the knowledge of the team.

I do think that replacing cNed with Cloud would make a lot of sense. Cloud is a really flexible player(Initiator + Raze main like Zyppan, but focuses more on Sova and Breach than KAY/O and Skye, but only a bit more, hes cracked on these two aswell). It would allow NAVI to play comps that their players can make better work of compared to last year. NAVI tried to put cned on Raze or Omen, it just didnt really work out as expected. Clouds flexibility allows for better execution of their comps(their Fracture f.e. would look better with Zyppan on Raze, Suy on KJ and Cloud on Viper as two players could play their main agents and Cloud plays an agent that hes averages 170 dmg and 235 acs on). He also knows most of the players(he duos with Suygetsu in Ranked if they have time) so they would have a easier time meshing along. He would also learn a lot under Ange1 and doombros, look at SUYGETSU, they brought him in from a high tier 2 team and transformed him to one of the best players on his role in the world, if not one of the best in general. Cloud has so much potential and so much firepower, its in my opinion a no-brainer for NAVI to get Cloud from Giants.

Edit:
Other good options:

• ardiis, return to the roots that brought him to glory in the first place
• Duno, underrated initiator who got unlucky during rostermania
• tomaszy, duelist who can play every duelist on a top level, dont know though if he would fit in ANGE1s system
• trexx/Sheydos if KOI would let go of either of them, same level as Cloud/ardiis imo but unknown how possible this is, unlikely imo as they were the light during a lackluster season from KOI

Edit 2:
This is only a theory based of personal opinion and some rumours roaming around atm.

2 1 FNC, but BLG impressing everyone

2-1 NAVI
I still believe, yes they looked shakey af during LCQ, but they have a crazy ceiling and remember, Acend was also doubted at Champs 21 and look at what they did. The results somewhat overshadow how good this team really can be. The game against EDG is the perfect example for that, look at what EDG needed to win this game(no front against Edward, theyre gaming hard and could be a contender for winning the whole thing)

Optic got cleared by XERXIA twice, and they were regarded as the best team of your entire region, sooo....Also who won the last four international tourneys? Yep, not NA

Cool stuff. But what about the droid attack on the Wookies?

Understandable arguments, the format was a bit weird for a 32-team tournament and the drawing was pretty nuts for a first round(C9vs PRX, FNC vs SEN). And i agree with you on the format, with the time it took for the tournament to come to an end, they could have done a better format(lower bracket, group stage, whatever). But with the rest not so much, except the price pool couldve been bigger(250k?). The event was meant to be only for the franchised teams, so qualification wouldnt be there either way for other squads like Northeption, Dplus(ex-DAMWON), Parla, G2 etc.. And even though it was a show tournament, its still a tournament with competitive integrity in mind. They all gave their best to win this event, otherwise we wouldve had troll comps and a much lower level of gameplay. And the draw might have been truly random at first hand, but except the FNC/SEN game, i dont see many direct storylines. I believe that if we would randomize the draw, we would have had other big games anyway(DRX vs NRG, LOUD vs NAVI f.e.).

Why are you sooo heated up about LOCKIN being called a international tournament which some people(including me) count as a major tournament? Isnt a major tournament a competition between the best teams in the world for a title? Why do you not consider it a major tournament despite all of the partnered teams and the 2 (at the time) best chinese teams attending the event? Why dont we have a debate about this topic?

Still won tho

Lockin is a major in my books, its an Riot-sponsored international tournament. If the tournament is organized and sponsored by the company that runs the game, its absolutely correct to call it a major championship in my eyes.

Lightning usually doesnt strike twice

GGs! That was a banger of a series not gonna lie! All the way to the top, EDG!!