"ALSO, AND PLEASE READ THIS AND CHECK IT.
the only time acend lost to gambit was a bo5 XD do u realise how awfully wrong ur statment is."
??? ur schizophrenic or 5head and are gonna requote me quoting u to pretend i said it first.
yes the vetos would be different, the maps at the end would be bans MAYBE icebox is map3 and that was ot as is. they were better on the maps they won is a really good point. means alot. better than those mickey mouse accident games where the better teams lose.
they choked, thats not "easily couldve won" thats "they massively fucked up". all u have to do to win is not make mistakes 4head.
Liquid had the worst performance ive seen from them vs ascend i dont know why u think any other day matters. bring ur car to the mechanic and tell him "well normally it runs GREAT" he wont give a fuck. that was the worst(boring) game of the whole champions event. scream had 1 round and that was the series.

"about the run if ur gonna tell me every time acend wins against a team, that the other team had a shit showing then maybe let's not argue about this" ur right. liquid looked great but cned rode in on a horse with s1mple on the ground praying to his awp capability and decided not to lose. Liquid as an org across multiple titles isnt a meme for choking when it matters. that never happens theyre pros they dont play bad.

and aside from ALL THAT. you're just tryna take it away from the only point i give a fuck about which is that bo5s are 2 long. game doesnt matter lmao its 5hours minimum for 5 maps, and thats at peak emotional investment for the players that entire time if not longer w/ prematch headspace. cs games are longer on average but theres also more "nothing" eco rounds. every round is important in this game u dont have writeoffs. cs has almost entirely eliminated getting glock/usp full ecod at the top level.

ditto

pros have been talking about bo3s>bo5s for a longtime, since b4 valorant even existed. If u think its belittling then thats ur problem, trophy aquired is all ppl give a shit about. and the point being made was ascend legit wouldve lost if it was a bo3 and it wouldve ended with gambit just looking absolutely dominant over them. this match is a prime example to use in that convo i mentioned. bo3s better to play, better to watch, better to cast.
"fluke" what?? and aside from whatever thoughts ur tryna act like im sayin, what do u mean harder bracket run. mfs played secret and the worst liquid showing ive ever personally watched. x10 and kru both showed up at least. sure as fuck werent easier opponents, THATS belittling. those mfs made storylines.

is that including champs? so if u follow the idea of my original comment then itd be 50/50? and gambit wouldve won the bigger matches.

what did it take for zywoo to beat simple in HLTV ratings? titles. doesnt matter who is better its who does better. also i guess i have to explicitly say, that doesnt mean its not close???? im not calling cned shit???? hes amazing. You're trying to tell me the biggest title the game has had yet is worthless? thats not the direction i assumed this would go in replies. Surely "but he still won" is a better argument. all 3 of u so far.

well im not really trying to comment on whether they earned the bye vs worse oppo, moreso im tryna say that it is technically more fair to have worse oppo vs the bye. Bye is literally a pass. it is a 1up: free win to "easier win"

i try to reply to someone and it just posts as a normal post

it is less fair

nah fuck me. i wont reply to anyone again vlr. mybad. am i just that retarded or does this happen to other ppl

tend to benefit by playing a worse opponent not playing less opponents

bo5 being done over bo3 is the only reason u can even try to say this xd

the fuck kinda backwards shit is happenin with these flairs rn

doesnt change the fact it goes for both teams.

yea that goes for both teams. c9 just lost this match(effectively) due to an error in that 4v2 with xeta spotting main.

We are exiting the tunnel of "overbuff overnerf" patches now (imo) with having any controller be viable, flex picks galore, no solid 1 comp meta really, etc. Surprise factor obviously is a weighted choice over the potential loss of comfortability, but its unlikely any team worth talking about is changing comps off a whim. Funny enough, Ascend's comps honestly pushes the concept that pro teams are where viability is tested. Astra was dominant, ascend didnt give a fuck and managed to make it work flawlessly on bind. The comfort factor comes with any comp u like running as a team. Time is not everything otherwise updates wouldn't even matter.

Can also tell you that just because a comp is "more successful" does not explicitly mean it is more comfortable for the team.

On the same note, a comp can fail with 4 players comfortable and 1 not being up to par on an agent they need to be able to play. I am making this point because when a team's comp choices are noted you are going to have a very hard time accurately guessing how "uncomfortable" it actually is for the players. Tiny errors can lose whole rounds; singular rounds can economically lose you a whole match. This isn't a tailored argument for any team's recent history its just the broad reality that goes into the decisions.

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pro players are the literal frontline of finding out what is actually viable. the whole world follows what pro teams run b/c they would rather trust what they see the pros do. so yea, kayo buffs made him meta but there would be no meta changes if nobody played anything new my guy. There is a time and a place for testing certain things but they've had their time to develop what they are using now.

And if u need a broad example of meta testing, just look at the difference in pickrate of sova in EU vs NA. nothing got changed with sova yet the meta did. (ratio below which region got it right.)

do u have his pov

thanks

to get there, with years of time.
to stay there, easily.

i shoot decent

it will take me a while to actually make and im not gonna begin until i have some of these vods to watch but i think its something the community NEEDS.

im thinking about making a "guide" of some tenants to being a decent teammate/player. In CS i think alot of ppl gained insight to things as they progressed up from open-IM-etc. but in this game you have nothing. Even at radiant you have people that feel like they are 1v5 even as soon as the round starts and it KILLS ME to play with it. I need these vods tho because i legitimately do not know what the games are like and i dont want this to be a half-assed "im better than you" guide. Im not perfect but i know enough to do this. you can dm me @miniatureval on twitter, idk how many im gonna watch but preferably not matches with "clear smurfs" (40-5 bitches). I know its a reality that they exist but you can't really deal with that other than getting better.

life exists outside the forums. i heard rumors so i went and checked it out.

unban him where else are we gonna get our c9 updates pls

call his teammates to pick him up. actually he might not go with them....

bruh what the fuck?

2 stars but i still dont know if it makes me wait to post it wont post as a reply

lemme win a ratio battle bro DAMMIT

hacknaija best 0star. soniqs best NA. do it for hacknaija. See you in the next life gentlemen o7

<3 im on the hunt. ill find my way. people on here keep telling me im shit like i dont know; ig people are unaware of the fact that nobody they love watching was this good out of the blue. its a grind and soniqs was the true beginning for me.

that motherfucker can play neon I PROMISE YOU MY SOUL that i speak the truth. this is not a ranked experience.

<3

i jumped the gun lookin for gold. spare me gentlemen

I feel like this isnt a commonly accepted thing, but if you are helpless without ur star player leading u into battle, ur problems are not on that players agent pick.

what is the L LMAO mf got more kills than his team combined cuz he has a pocket 1deag every round and the godawp ever other. jett aint capable of what he did on chamber there. doesnt mean uc ant frag obviously but that was a chamber game. and they sure as hell didnt lose bc of him

puT YaY on JeTt, why NERF L Diablo with StUPid sentinel put him on JETt. Cut FnS chamber suX!!!!!

little bit before hazed, and theres a reason he stopped xd. point was more to the things relevant about "he could do tex's role better than him" tho anyways

yea im not gonna say hed be good or bad but u cant say youd know bc of ranked and thats the only place hes done any of that.

used the original years ago when it broke alot but it wasnt bad when i used it from memory

never really stuck to one comfortably before this, model d wireless just b4 this, but roccat kone pro air was prob favorite aside from this. very different grip but it worked. this fits me more-claw is more natural for me

g303 shroud(idk if the shroud part changed anythin) and im ending like 50something

lucky is not the right word but they sure as fuck havent been humbled which eventually happens to every team. the real test is what happens after that. theyre definitely killing it right now

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is that riot or disc. i dont think i can add u from an NA val account.

what

who do u think ur +1 frag is. who changed this in the time that i posted this you ruined it. yes you can

gotta have 2 things to be a ratio. what u tryna put it against

The awp in val is closer to a piece of utility than an actual gun but its made to be like that bc there isnt enough util within a round to have it work any other way. "free kill if ur past silver" like its any different in cs LMAO. its like that bc utility is poorly used if any is at all at lower ranks in both games. u have more individual capability at dealing with it in cs but like i said above, the gun in both games fits the pacing/capabilities of the players within rounds. Ofc its more fun in cs u can do more with it and against it.

who do u think ur +1 frag is. who changed this in the time that i posted this you ruined it.