Drake is commercial. Whatever is the most popular sound out is what his album is going to sound like. Pretending this isn't a generational trash album because the current set of popular artists in the current era aren't generational trash, is cope.
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Drake is commercial. Whatever is the most popular sound out is what his album is going to sound like. Pretending this isn't a generational trash album because the current set of popular artists in the current era aren't generational trash, is cope.
Asuna is being overflexed and lost his identity. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw him on sentinel next game.
Another VLR member not watching the games. Bang has been a crucial part of 100 Thieves success this season. If you want to put any blame on anyone it's Vora, Timotino on Phx and Cryocells not showing up on Cypher. Vora has struggled not only mechanically but from a utility stand point, this team dies more to dry peeks than anyone. Timotino on Phx has been a bottom fragger any time they have played and forced an agent switch onto Asuna. Everyone wants to blame Asuna but the dude switched up his agents so many times this season when it was because others were not performing. And poor Cryo, he's constantly being forced into impossible situations based off of over commitment from calling.
There are too many shifts in agents on this team. For most of the split, we saw Asuna run Neon. For whatever reason, this changed during the playoffs? I don't know why the coaching staff or Asuna would volunteer/voluntold to change. While he was giving up First Deaths, his elimination stat line was improving. You also took Timotino off Raze to put him on Neon. While Timotino plays Neon, he's played almost half the number of rounds on Neon than his Raze. For Cryo, the dude is not being setup for success. We've got a team full committing to suicide runs when Cryo is on the other side of the map.
Once again, I'm pushing CQB on this team. The number of times the team did not prioritize security of the team over aggression was gross. Multiple 3v1s where the team did not attempt to help each other. Instead each of them went for the kill instead of running the rabbit.
SGares picked up two coaches that are focused on strategy and nobody to help the team progress skill wise. It showed and was the downfall of the team in this map. Per Nbs, the team makes micro decision mistakes but they only do because I doubt there is any corrections in practice.
100 Thieves need to go back to what they were doing during the season. Focus on putting your players back on comfort picks and getting attack side first. Play slower and protect each other. Let traps play out instead of rushing into them. Watching this after doing research on the team for this season was really rough.
We're d00med br0. Nothing but sadness.
Asunaluvr wavered belief... we are doomed bros.
I know that Asuna had a good game on Phx but Asuna's Neon was improving and he was less of a defense merchant and actually converting on attack.
The only kill he got was from a guy name blowz. i<3vct.
you're right, I'm not lonely and bugging a random persons on the internet with low effort burns. good luck fam in leveling up.
How do you not see in your head that you are just making things up? You don't know what happened on that team. You don't know what level of contribution existed. You just presume to know what behinds closed doors? This sort of cognitive dissonance is why this community struggles with reality. You definitely still believe in the easter bunny and santa claus because hey, your parents told you so and you never didn't see them, so they must exist. lol.
You can't just say someone had an impact. You need to show evidence of impact. Don't just say it, show it.
Like he drove them there? Does he have a pilots license? Unless you can actual show me what the assistant coach did, I would argue that the general manager or even the CEO of the team has just as much impact. You know why? Because I'm making it up, just like you :)
I would need to know additional details to confirm your statement. But once again, we run into the same issue, no one knows what goes on in NRG except the people in NRG. We don't get much insight into the process or what their roles and responsibilities are and so it seems that in the end, we are left making assumptions that don't amount to much but internet babble.
Okay, then please help me understand the impact that Strong had that isn't result based. I'm happy to take evidence in the form of people saying nice things about him on twitter when he left. Any videos that we have on YouTube that show him in action.
But this idea that s0m leaving doesn't have a larger impact on their current form than Strong leaving is where I draw the line and require some level of proof. s0m has eliminations, deaths, a trophy he held up based on his performance.
Strong has...
That's what I'm trying to understand. Not that I'm throwing shade at the role but the impact seems overstated.
Really? An assistant coach is your reasoning for that? Not a change in players? I'm sorry but that seems far fetched.
What do you think Strong did that had a larger impact than s0m from the assistant coach role?
Can you show me where he was "pivotal in NRG winning Champs last year"? Is that an assumption or are you referencing something other than the results?
"Still good" isn't worth 50 million a year. We live in such a weird time where the popularity of a person does more for them than the actual skills they possess.
Everything these teams do is based in some hope that it will have an impact on their game.
The Spaceteam, improving comms outside the game. Instead of working on scenarios that play out in the game and talking about what you're going to say and how you're going to react, nah, Spaceteams. It's the same approach of playing Aimlabs to be amazing in Valorant. It's not the same game and you're getting better at something that is only tangentially related.
From nose breathers, high value mice, mouse pads, bringing toys on stage to make them feel more comfortable... literally everything under the sun except playing the game. Oh but don't worry, I'm sure they do scrims... I'm sure those are very productive.
I'm looking for sites that do heat maps and player analytics and both my sources are showing wrong data. Anyone have any insight or know what's going on? I don't see any x.com messages about statuses? Did they just get abandoned?
The final bosses of nepotism. o7
Nah the first 5 pages were 100%. The rest was pictures and grammar edits by chatgpt. Surpriseface when the internet jumped to conclusions. But that's the past. We are only about new things in the big 26.
Because you're a fan of the org/team? Curiosity? Idk bro, I wrote a 100 page report on a team for one map. I like to know things.
Oh VLR, you don't know who the ownership group of PRX is... you're so cute :)
Even if it's not a throw for crypto. Just the idea it could be is gross. Ban GAMBA.
Trainwreck is trying to capitalize off the status. GamerDoc isn't my favorite person but this is justified.
Gatekeeping in Tier 1. People want to see the walls come down. 2027 is going to kill ALOT of careers.
Nostalgia is the Valorant community’s favorite drug.
Manufacturing and distributing is illegal. It's more like selling drugs not using.
It’s definitely common. I’ve heard from multiple VCT coaches that this is often how players are selected.
The problem is that stats without context aren’t a reliable way to evaluate talent. In a game like Valorant, a lot of variables influence performance and winning alone doesn’t tell the full story.
At the same time, online performance doesn’t always translate. It’s much easier to play well in a familiar env where you’ve spent thousands of hours. That’s why you can’t assume a strong Tier 2 player will perform the same on LAN at a VCT event.
On top of that, Tier 2 players joining Tier 1 teams are stepping into established systems. They won’t always get the conditions they’re used to and they’re now competing alongside players who are fighting to keep their spot at the highest level.
What’s frustrating is the constant assumption that success is predictable. We still don’t fully understand what makes a player succeed at the top level. “Next up” players often fail and the development pipeline isn’t strong enough. Teams seem to rely too heavily on surface-level metrics, as if scouting is as simple as picking top performers off a stats page.
It’s not a compelling system, especially given how little time the scene may have left at its current level of popularity. Many VCT players are streaming to less than 300 viewers which says a lot about the ecosystem overall.
Weirdbait.
Are we saying having high stats in Challenger equates to doing well in tier 1? Cloud9 has some questions for you... Online vs. LAN, there's a difference. It's why Babybay is employed.
You are aware that stat padding occurs on this site by participating in MrFunhaver tournies right? Actually curious, no ragebait.
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