ok come on there's baiting and there's this, the current series is not worse than black and white let's be real for one second

i gotta respect the bit though

you know ball

Mostly fine but I think fns isn’t Indian, that’s the only part I think that could be taken negatively, def not cancel worthy as is though

i mean they're also the only NA org to win two so maybe they're just Like That

Nah I’m supporting trace here

I’ve had this damn e xolos flair since 2022 so I can say first hand that liking this team is actual torture, they will find some way to miss ascension mark my words

can someone explain the verno punching thing i think i missed some vlr lore somewhere

massive L

they are literally team secret i think they did get more chances

supporting a player because they are from your country/region is crazy work

VLR has JFT as inactive and Focus as having only two signed players which is why I went with JJH because I knew them as Bonkers but I guess Focus might make more sense

tbf I did say that part was cope

that was the cope part

huzzah

ukw my bad goat

why even make this if you the post creator don't have a team for each region? anyway

americas: -c9 +optic (do i have to explain this one)
emea: -koi +astralis/fokus (let me cope) (no aura anywhere except their skins)
pacific: -zeta +JiJieHao (how are there no other relevant australian orgs wtf happened to order)
china: -all gamers +rare atom (was gonna say tec but i like their gun skin +rb and haodong are chill ig)

I dunno, I’m not as confident in TBD after their last match, I definitely think TBD has room for an upset here.

Blue lock is a really good manga it is not a really good football/soccer manga

It is soccer Naruto complete with powerscaling and special eyes

Are they trying to do the 2023 EG strat?

Hell yeah

In front of your friends and family is insane but yeah I can vouch it’s a good show

This ^

If I remember correctly Team Liquid and Vikings stocks were particularly high going in

Could you do mine? Thanks in advance!

Meiy is the future

We already know champs 2026 is going to be in China otherwise I would have believed you 100%

Nice bait but bro forgot dgzin

GE could pick up the 5 best players in the world and greatest coach, give them the ability to psychically communicate with one another so no language barrier, and they would still somehow go 3-9 that org is cursed

nah losing to fut is an L

wait is zander the m80 igl or is it someone else

i mean it puts pressure on m80, they might now feel like they have to win the series in 3 out of 4 maps as opposed to 3/5 but then again i am not a coach

the rumor is KC

NO stop talking now

erm what the sigma

wait is that even allowed? i thought juicy couldn't play on bleed this year because he was <18 even though he won and that's why they signed yay?

*apeks

i saw that

wait will any of them turn 18 before season starts next year, i assume at least one will or they wouldn't have bothered with this roster

the thing is i don't trust bbl or fut to pick up the pcific players so winning is maybe their only shot at t1, on the other hand everyone will be fiending to sign kaajak and soulcas even if apeks lose

bbl probably won't pick up comeback or rose, but a lot of teams will certainly pick up kaajak and soulcas, so rooting for pcific

reply pls no one

good bait but just in case you're actually being serious, riot's franchising rules dictate that you need to be 18 to play tier 1, a rule that did not exist in 2022

I’m so sorry to hear that you’ve been trapped in the year 2023

Consider the global esports effect: texture and monyet were on GE last year and then went kind of insane this year, maybe they just need a role change lmao

thanks, this is actually pretty interesting to look at. i still wouldn't personally say that the numbers are big enough to justify your sentiment that most people in kr who would be good already play valorant, but we can agree to disagree.

i don't really think we have enough of a sample size of ow players to say for sure that the transition is easier for them. sure back in 2021 it was definitely easier to transition from cs, but i genuinely think that in 2024 with how much the meta has shifted towards setup plays dumping massive amounts of utility (play that one clip of the guy watching eg v prx on bind and having no clue what is happening), players who understand ability usage more will start to thrive aka overwatch players. of course, this is just what a nobody like myself thinks about it, i am not an expert.

point still stands, there are a lot of talented people across regions who get funneled into different games simply because the culture is different. americas players into r6 (from my understanding) and cod, emea players into cs, apac players into ow and mobile games, cn players into whatever games are legal in china because they have the firewall to deal with. every region has talent that could kick ass if they transferred into valorant, we just do not know, and we can't know. so we compare the players we've got.

i actually would like numbers on this because the number of people watching korean vct, both before and after franchising, does NOT line up with your statement. maybe the casual community is higher but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding interest in the pro scene

I mean you could say this for Korea too, something like “The moment they lose interest in Overwatch we’re all cooked.” Excuses don’t mean shit, results do

I remember copenhagen being good too

Benkai returns to paper rex and polvi gets picked up by koi. Both teams place top 3 at a LAN next year. The GE tradition must continue