See ya later. I did some similar stuff and it helped me a lot. It's been years since I've used tik tok, Instagram, snapchat, etc. Hope it does you well too.

...yeahhh

Honestly, I wouldn't even mind the title beb0p's alt. But yeah I see where you're coming from, there aren't a lot of T1 flairs, especially back then. And I did kinda show up around the same time.

Who knows, maybe I am. maybe I'm not. Perhaps it's so.

uhhhhh no comment haha

public shaming got him sweating more than those squats fr.

But yeah it's different when you aren't the only one holding yourself accountable.

you've activated my trap card!

a real og of the community, a nigh lost forgotten relic of the past

that would make it interesting for sure

man... sad times

akrew flair :(

Cannot wait for the flair. I will change to it immediately.

jokes on you I'm broke af. I have two African pennies and a shekel of unknown origin, probably from Mesopotamia of smth. Take it or leave it.

Why not all?

I cannot disagree. But there are some based users here. Like Sprouts and archetype for example. Just off the top of my head of course. There are a lot of good users here too.

spoken more eloquently than I could ever imagine to be

cars

upvoting yourself is infinitely more cringe than writing paragraphs no one cares about, asked for, or is going to read.

finna change my account name to SpaceParastratiosphecomyiasphecomyioides

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yeah Thwifo was talking in a twitter thread with Xeta and he was like, "Funny enough, I'm Korean but I only know like 3 words".

"who cars"

would you rather make more money doing what you love and entertaining people, or be successful, making an average yearly salary, while working at least twice as hard?

edit: this was a bait. the first option is what shaz is arguing for. he wants to stream and make sure he is financially stable while doing what he loves. on the otherhand, the other side is for pro players that do not stream/do content and only focus on winning.

so will you stop hating players for making the right choice?

I'm not a Shaz hater, I don't care what he does with his time nor is it my place to judge. But your premise is wrong.

financially stable while doing what he loves

This implies that by not streaming or streaming less he is not financially stable. Shaz would be fine if he streamed less. He gets paid from Sentinels. He also gets paid by winning. It's not a matter of financial stability, it's a matter of making more money than the money he would already get if he didn't stream. Of course, there is also building his brand, connecting with other content creators, receiving more sponsors, etc, but at the end of the day, he would be fine monetarily if he streamed less. Streaming for as long as Shaz does is by no means a necessity for his survival. And if streaming mattered so much to Shaz, to the extent that it's more important than his esports competitive career and winning, then he should just retire and become a streamer/content creator.

making an average yearly salary, while working at least twice as hard?

I assure you that Shaz even by streaming less is making way above average yearly salary. That is just wrong, he is making good money. And being a pro is his job. No one put a gun to his head and said, "BECOME AN ESPORTS PRO!". He competes out of his own free will. You say, "working at least twice as hard" with a negative connotation as if by working twice as hard and not streaming Shaz would be just as skilled and have received the same results but only just be less rich. As if working hard was pointless and all you should care about is that bag. In fact, the question as a whole revolves around money. There is more to life than money. It's important, but when you are a pro athlete, results matter a lot. You should be working twice as hard. You should be putting in those hours. That is a requirement to succeed in the pro field. And Shaz knows that, I'm not trying to lecture Shaz right now I'm just trying to say that the question you posed is inherently false for supporting the claim that you proposed.

so will you stop hating players for making the right choice?

I agree that people should stop hating on pros, but calling Shaz's choice the 'right choice' is very subjective. Everyone has different priorities and ways of balancing their schedule. But at the end of the day, Shaz is a pro esports player in a competitive season and he nor his team achieved good results. They haven't for a while now. It's a sport. It's a competition. And Sentinels lost. A lot. That money Shaz makes from streaming won't buy him a win. It won't buy him a good season. It won't buy him a trophy. It won't even buy him a qualification slot to even try to get into masters or champions (although it might help them get franchising lmao). It seems that Shaz did not in fact make the right choice in terms of competitive success. But that's okay, no one is perfect, so long as they strive to learn and improve (which Sentinels have been slowly doing it seems). Look at M3C choosing to put purp0 in for Breeze at map point during the grand finals. Some mistakes are bigger, others are smaller. But Sentinels have been consistently performing poorly for a while.

Lack of practice has been an issue following Sentinels for a while now, even to this date. The amount that people connected it to streaming hours may be exaggerated, somewhat, but it's still one of the problems Sen has had.

But yeah. Shaz's choice was not the 'right' choice. It was a choice that has its pros and cons. An arguably shallow, excusatory choice when interpreted the way you have.

I could write more, and say more, but this is VLR, no one cares including me and I've been writing this for a couple of minutes. Minutes I could've spent doing anything else lmao.

Again I'm not trying to bring down Shahzam. I don't care about how much he streams. It's his life and the people who blindly hate him desperately need to get one.

Time to be alive, workin' for the hive
Spending my hours flying to flowers
I'm a pollen collector searching for nectar
Turn it to honey, the Queen gives me money
Now I'll buy some chicken
the one that's finger-lickin'
Oh! I'm a bumblebee, I'm a bumblebee that likes to eat KFC!!!!
Spare me the celery
I'm a bumblebee that likes to eat my KFC

https://www.vlr.gg/user/beb0p

it's a politicized question

oh shit, that's cool. Thanks for the info!

I agree that they needed to change something, but I disagree that the change was a good idea even on paper. It was sort of meh. Even on paper, it was still very evidently extremely high risk, and I feel that they weighed the pros and cons rather poorly, at least at that moment. It really hinged on Chronicle having an insane game. I understand the logic of course, and I always support confidence. If Chronicle was confident and the rest of the team believed in him then I can't really say anything on that. But in the end, it didn't work and neither was it surprising nor unexpected in the slightest. Now their year is over. Hate to be a hindsight harry, but they did throw Purp0 in at map match point... oh well... They'll come back I'm sure. Not worried about that.

I'm one. I'll always be one idgaf what the shitters will say.

Is Thwifo lol? No shame in him not knowing Korean at all but it's just funny that Steel would know more Korean than him haha.

100% for sure

yeah me too...

Trembo would absolutely dumpster Xand while decked out in Mwzera merch

xand would 'tremb'le in his boots once he begins to feel that classic delusional vlr aura.

you really be getting downvoted just for saying 네 lmfao

I didn't lmao, but I don't really care what your flag is, it doesn't really matter unless you're being disrespectful. Besides what could I really do about it haha, I'd just be getting riled up over a Valorant forum.

damn... that's deep. You're a genius.

it's fine, all good. Lots of liars, shitters, and baiters on this site. That's not your fault, it's not on you.

unfortunately, it wasn't that simple :(

purp0 got thrown in map four of the grand finals when his last official time playing was over a month ago

I have no idea why they thought it would be a good idea, even if they had been practicing with him, but oh well. It was a risk and it didn't pay off.

yeah, definitely a questionable decision if I'm right though. Really put Purp0 in a bad spot and did him dirty. They just sort of threw him in the deep end. It would've been okay if Chronicle had a pop-off map... but unfortunately, he did not. Oh well....

Do you believe Jesus has watched Waluigi porn?

Ima need an in-depth, complex, 119.78-page video essay book report on this thought-provoking topic of discussion.

my guess would be that it was because chronicle didn't want to or wasn't comfortable playing Jett.

a mix of liars, memers, and confident people lmao.

congrats guys, we finna see Derrek on the international stage.

are those players underrated? I feel like it's just that the teams don't get talked about as much as other teams or aren't in the middle of competing in events. But I feel like everyone knows those players are insane.

ethnically.

ban's entire career has been based in NA, he has never played in Korea. He might've been born in Korea, and most likely speaks it fluently, but he has American citizenship.
Xeta and Autumn have been working in NA since January 2021, over a year ago.
Thwifo (even though you put him as NA) can't speak Korean and similarly to ban has only played in NA.
Munchkin is in NA right now and it's where he wants to be as well.
Plus you forgot two other staff that are Canadian.

Ban was picked up by T1 in NA. Xeta and Autumn were traded for an NA player in NA. Thwifo was picked up in NA. Munchkin is in NA.

It's more like

Steel NA
Thwifo NA
ban NA
xeta NA
munchkin KR
Autumn NA
stunner NA
branchies NA

even if you still count xeta and autumn as KR, it's still majority NA. Just because some players are ethnically Korean doesn't mean that T1 is going to move that entire roster and staff to KR to compete and play in KR. They wouldn't be allowed to nor have shown any intention or interest in doing so.

i mean i got cookies

most likely Gen.G considering T1 just recently picked up an NA player. T1 hasn't really done anything to indicate they're moving to Korea, even if they applied to APAC franchising as well. Then there's Gen.G who released their whole roster.

i take it all back POISED is my king and my god, the ground he walks on is holy ground

they're doing great but jobs not finished yet

57 acs is pretty bad even if it's just one map... Stats aren't everything but... 57

i think they're the only valorant team, so ig yeah can't argue with that

G2, I would rather see M3C qualify tbh.

To be honest I'm okay with any of the teams qualifying. I like C9 and Guard better than FaZe and 100T, and I would like to see Guard get more international lan experience, however, it would be fun and exciting to see FaZe at Champions as well. I would be perfectly fine seeing FaZe finally on an international stage, in fact, they're one of my favorite NA teams. As for 100T, I would also be intrigued to see their new roster internationally again. It'd be cool to see their players and staff at Istanbul, like Derrek, Sean Gares, and Asuna. Something new and different.