I think one of the issues you have with Harbor is that he cannot do the same things as a smokes player. I know you probably have a desire to find new things and think you have found something that hasn't been exploited yet but you miss the fundamental issue. Most people don't want to actively use abilities, especially on a smokes player. They want to set and forget.

And at the highest level, you're going against the grain of years of playing a certain way. Asking players to respond differently and act differently is a big ask. They're very much focused on securing kills or playing spots they've played 1000s of times.

Everything you wrote is probably correct but people don't play the game like you want them to. It's a gun game first and abilities 25th.

The problem is that you don't get to pick and choose when to apply responsibility and accountability.

As a fan, you are not in a position to judge the qualities of Kaplan. You may be influenced by the casters or their win rates during certain periods but we are too removed to determine the quality of his coaching.

This is why VLR is entertainment. We are all just full of shit and we pretend we know.

I find it strange that people who enjoy Valorant do not believe that the coach is responsible for the outcome of the game. Winning and losing have a direct results on the finances of the organization. If you win a lot, sponsors are interested. If you lose a lot, sponsors are not interested.

In simple terms, if they win, finances go up, the coach keeps his job. If they lose, finances CAN go down, the coach loses his job. This is how coaching works everywhere except the sports you played growing up.

People who disagree with this only care about their personal feelings as fans and don't live in the real world.

What happened to Inspire is just another example that being good at the game isn't really what matters in tier 1. It's who you are friends with and who you can persuade that the other guy is the problem. The community supports stagnation. You all want to pretend progress exists in this space. It's a rotating door and new people are not invited.

Both NRG games were 0-2. The G2 match that you're referring to was on Corrode where G2 couldn't figure out how to handle Asuna's Sage wall.

They banned Corrode, the very map you're saying they did well and the reason I should be positive. That means the outcome of the map pool would be the same from their last series with cloud9.

The way you use "fortunately" seems like you're passing judgment. From my perspective, you're not really invested in the team. Being positive no matter the circumstances or outcomes is similar to an ostrich sticking their head in the sand.

Anyways, you're confusing as a person. Good luck and I'm sure you'll feel positive no matter which way the wind blows :)

They beat the worst teams of the tourney... reasonable? This is the same story each season.

meta, agent comps.

Oh my... reading comprehension struggles... "We" as in the people reading the comment. The dumb looks good on you.

Tbh, are there other options at this point?

We find ourselves in the same position every year.

100 Thieves coach focuses on meta agent comps. Other teams are better at it. Years go by. Blame team. Repeat.

The game is more than what agents you pick at the beginning on the game.

Sgares, you should have at least responded.

Oh wells... I'll still watch. I'll still root for them. Pain.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Search outside the ice box.

-m4

Virtue signaling.

Yeah, let him play from his house with no cams. Pure domination.

hmm

hyperliquid > 100T

how many r's in strawberry?

how many r's in strawberry?

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There you are...

Damn where did the Potter defenders go... yal don't like the handshakes? xx

I'm okay giving you cane, I'm not giving you ion. That's a hard stop. Great for online clips, did not show up on LAN.

lol... exposing yourself as a person who didn't actually watch the tourney is wild. You're not even a stat watcher either... negative ragebait

Rossy not filling Inspire's shoes very well.

I was available.

You know what's crazy to me, EG pick up of another hivemind coach. I seriously don't understand how picking up a tier 2 coach and adding it to a roster of coaches who don't innovate or understand the meta.

The EG cycle goes like this:

Try to copy the meta. Lose because other teams have better players who play the meta better. Win against the last place team in the league. Play the second worst team in the league. Lose. Flush roster. Repeat cycle.

MY FAVORITE PLAYER DID WELL TODAY! GOAT!

Should have read my novel. Glad he laughed at it. RIP Zikz.

Accountability is the obligation or willingness to accept responsibility for one’s actions, decisions, and outcomes, including the duty to report, explain, and be answerable for resulting consequences. It involves taking ownership of tasks, admitting faults, and proactively correcting mistakes and proactively correcting mistakes and proactively correcting mistakes and proactively correcting mistakes and proactively correcting mistakes and proactively correcting mistakes and proactively correcting mistakes and proactively correcting mistakes.

Thank you for attending my TED talk.

nah that's m2

m80 needs some serious help. I had to stop watching after the 2nd round.

How do three players run through a viper wall with pistols expecting to challenge a bulldog? Are they aware they lose health when they cross the viper wall? Do they think after the first teammate died, the person on defense would just give up and look at the sky?

Why are teams not progressing? We are legit almost 6 years into this game and I do not see an ounce of improvement. It's absolutely bewildering. It's hard not to believe the accusations when such blatant misunderstanding of the most basic things.

I love that in the end, I was right. Time for me to ride off into the sunset.

Definitely going to have job security this season.

I love how the whole community overestimates the impact of the agents people play and just can't see them whiffing or incorrectly holding angles... Valorant Fan Blindness Syndrome or VFBS is highly contagious.

LOL... they won round 1... oh no.

I might lock in for fun.

They said they're picking someone Monday. Hard to prep 200 pages in two days.

Nepotism gave the greenlight. duh.

12x on the multiplier...

^ this.

"We don't have footage"

HAHAHA... that's insane.

Immi coaching like its 2022. You simply just can't send someone out to get openings anymore. The situation has changed. But whatever, I know an infinite money hack now.

nrg stomps because no real coaching staff. Vibes and macha are fueling this team.

Icy vanished after they introduced encounters to tracker.gg.

One more try.

Aim trainers teach you that where my crosshair is, the bullet goes. There is spread in Valorant. In Valorant, the crosshair does not indicate exactly where the bullet goes. You are training for a situation that does not exist. Aim trainers can typically teach you how to recover from poor play. Proper play requires you to not open yourself up to multiple angles at once and where you do, utility should assist you. You should be controlling your peeks, pre-aiming, understanding where the players can come from and prepare for enemy movement.

Players are not static. Players have unpredictable movement. Why do you think that even pro players mess up shots when they encounter multiple players from flank? I play dynamic aim training scenarios. I, once again, have extreme amounts of time in these scenarios. I have placements higher than pro players in scenarios that account for this. Aim trainers are not what prepare you for that situation. The understanding that mirroring movement is better than mouse movement, does. Understanding that spread becomes random in Valorant and is not like CS where it follows a consistent pattern.

Aim trainers can teach you mouse control. Yes. I have 4000 hours in aim trainers, this point is not lost on me. But even for the "some" players you identify, aim training is not what makes them better. What makes someone better is the theory and understanding about the game. A person who puts 1000 hours into the game is not better because they have mouse control. They are better because they understand better the theory of the game than a person who is brand new.

You have no idea how much time I've put into this. Go through my post history and you can see the things I've posted to this website specifically about aim. And if you've feel you've lost and you want to recover, just ask me where icebox is. But I promise you, I'm not speaking for a place of ignorance.

If it makes you feel any better, I would argue for a 1:4 split in time when it comes to aim training vs game time. But any more than that is diminishing returns.

https://imgur.com/a/LUM5QAv

Go back and read my response. I'm not going to insult you but you didn't read what I put and assumed my argument. Mechanics without theory is useless was my statement.

If you do not know that each gun has a spread value and that you can just point and click, you will not understand how spread affects where you should aim. You will assume the center of the target is going to be hit every time. It doesn't. Vandal is a .25 degree spread and Phantom is a .2 degree spread.

If I don't know that with a Phantom I need to land two shots to kill, then once again, my aim mechanics do not matter. I don't know how to adjust for spread, so I am assuming that the crosshair is where my bullets land.

If I don't know that the speed of how fast my gun shoots demands I play from a certain distance or move in a certain manner, then once again, I am just shooting center of mass or at head level, and assuming the gun should take care of the rest and get me the kill.

How you are framing it is that mechanics should be developed prior to learning what demands the development. And that is just simply incorrect. Maybe you believe this and will out right reject what I'm saying because you believe you know best... but that's your decision. Your decisions don't affect the end state that Valorant is a different game than others, that it requires different demands on your aim positioning and player positioning. Playing Kovaaks is not a one size fits all and people constantly tell people to jump into Kovaaks to learn Valorant.

It's frustrating because it is supported by people like you and misses the point of the whole development process.

Yes and it completely leaves out the movement aspect of Valorant. This is why the all aim no brain concept exists. When you just have mouse control and no theory on how to apply it, you struggle and you're inconsistent.

Mechanics without theory is useless. Kovaaks doesn't teach theory and if you focus all your energy on aim training, you're not going to be consistent.

This is coming from someone who has 4k hours in aim training.

Good angles are not subjective. Aiming is more of a timing thing less of a mouse control thing in tactical FPS games. People try playing hero valorant consistently get slapped for it.

he's just abusing deadzone and spread values.

pos > aim.
theory > brute forcing aim practice

Waiting for the "100 Thieves are back!" thread when we win against LEV...