EMEA stands for Europe, Middle East and Africa, so a mostly middle eastern team is part of EMEA

verno is brazilian

the gaming racists are at it again

AUUUUUUUU

ok

they already beat lev

bold of you to assume teams actually learn anything

saadhack is argentinian

where's the guy keeping tabs, just in case

solution: AG should loan some players to 2G

"best region" "apeks" "koi"

nah loud's choke was worse 💀

did he win? there's your answer

I was betting on one tournament favorite crashing out and was between G2 and EDG
because I couldn't watch many games during kickoff, I trusted people creaming their pants for G2 instead of trusting my gut and believing in EDG

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/c8f4f553
could've been better, shouldn't have believed the armchair analysts and should've had gone with my gut feelings

beginning of the season, so the meta is still forming, teams are experimenting and there isn't much footage of other teams

crazy raccoon iirc, like two 13-1 maps

reread what I said and check the finals stats by ACS

aspas is literally a champs finals MVP what are you on about??

you feel it in your what?

I may bet on losing dogs but I don't lose arguments

you're focussing too much on ascension and T1 instead of seeing T2 as it's own ecosystem
the only way for T2 to thrive is for it to attract viewers, because that's what makes orgs money, and players, who need financial support to see playing valorant as a viable career
more viewership means more orgs wich means more players who in turn creates more competition

also, most of the academy teams so far are just... not amazing? they're mostly consisting of 1 or 2 young prospects who see a chance at playing in T1 eventually but can't right now and mid experienced players who want job security in the end of their careers
for a lot of players, a shot at ascension is still more valuable than the security of an academy roster

personally I think players getting better pay and orgs getting more viewership is a net positive for T2, but go off I guess

they accept that orgs have these sponsors, but they can't show these sponsorships in vct tournaments
also riot themselves aren't taking these sponsorships for official tournaments

said the american

having gambling money and gambling addicts helps

nzr played two champions with furia

ship of theseus type of problem

but if you close your eyes, doesn't it almost feel like nothing changed at all?

"team A won against team B who won against team C, which means team A will win against team C" is awful analysis and anyone pedaling it should stop

they're looking better each game and most people put them as a team that still have room to grow, they'll be fine

game recognizes game

if you expand beyond official games, yes
https://www.vlr.gg/63976/royal-ps-vs-pancada-e-amigos-champions-tour-brazil-stage-1-challengers-1-ro64/?game=all&tab=overview

and MIBR
and FNATIC

I miss my wife tails
i miss her a lot
I'll be back

you have too much faith in loud and lev

lol. lmao even.

... do you know what the word "could" means?

cortezia on sunset top fragged while having 70% hs, just insane

your first mistake was taking platchat seriously

no

socialize with actual people and be normal instead of posting "how do I get a hot gamer girlfriend" on vlr

they just hate both trans people and cis women, it's easier to just ignore them

habla

are you blind? there's so many comments lumping jelly as a "man taking women's place" because she's trans
like fuck srn but let's not pretend like a lot of their haters aren't just using them as a excuse to shit on trans and nb people

it's impressive how blinded people get from hate cause that was one of the worst games I've seen liquid play since their lost to g2 in the first championship

I'm not as well versed on the specifics of the drama, but I'll try to give a straight answer:

on the one hand, some of the hate comes from some videos that surfaced of srn being misogynistic in game before playing in GC, but I don't exactly remember exactly what they said in those videos. This is the main one especially after it was propagated by some of team liquid players
there's also the fact that they tend to be kind toxic in game, so a lot of people take issue with the idea of someone "pretending" to be non binary to play on GC and be shitty to the women playing

ON THE OTHER HAND a lot of the hate they received comes from people who couldn't care less about GC and just want a excuse to be transphobic and say that "man pretend to be women to dominate GC", wich is also kind of misogynistic because it implies women are naturally worse at videogames and ignores the social and cultural barriers that created GC in the first place

TD;DR: it's a mess

nothing worse than losing a grand final at home, NT o7

people said the same thing about m80 btw

apeks was supposed to lose for the funny but PCIFIC didn't get the memo