Looks pretty nice its like Prime, Protocol and Singularity together seems like it. But not like huge fan based on this pics. I still want Recon AK Vandal ffs

Never been into racing games, but Need For Speeds used to be best during PS2 era and I surprisingly liked the 2015 NFS game. But overall its pretty shit franchise nowadays.

Going to depend on how well the teams gel up. In the end of the day most of the teams haven't had much time to play together especially when it comes to tournaments.

type of music to be echoing in the backrooms

Water confirmed? oh nvm im dumb its the sites...

3 sites is nice. Adds difference to the rounds. For example on Haven B is usually that fast, pretty high risk site to hit and then C and A again work differently. If they do it well then 3 sites is good. Haven one of the best maps in Valorant and one of the most fun to play attack and defense.

all time IMO:

Ascent: LOUD - no explanation needed really
Bind: Acend - their streak on that map was insane
Fracture: FPX - insane win record and only team to beat DRX on it
Breeze: Gambit/M3C - they were just really good on this map
Split: don't remember
icebox: G2 or Fnatic - G2 changed the EMEA meta on this map and were really dominant even as team with problems, Fnatic has been good on it as well and tried to copy G2
Pearl: too early to tell
Haven: DRX - didn't come up with anyone else

Yes, but some teams give more resources to their stars and those stars might not perform as well when/if they don't get as much resouces but its more splitted. For players like Yay, Derke, Cryo etc their teams have always sacrificed a lot for them, but team that has multiple stars might not do that.

I get you, but I guess its because they have always went in as one of the favorites and have ended up placing in like top 5 every event pretty much but have never won anything and now their roster is more stacked than ever.

At least this time around it was visually good, but didn't really add anything to lore if I'm not wrong outside of them wanting to find something from the new map

Derke - duelist/op
Molsi - entry/flex
Koldamenta/Boaster - controller/IGL
nAts - sentinel
Leo - Initiator

maybe too much star power to work

Its because their roster is arguably the most stacked and they have had history of good performances even if they didn't win anything yet

Overwatch clears Valorant in animation, but hopefully this is good.

I guess easiest is just to sell items/clothes etc that you don't use or that you see as worthy to sell for money. Or just try to find work. Seasonal stuff usually last shorter so you earn faster and maybe can get in easier, but obviously there isn't too much seasonal work atm. If you live in place with snow you could find work to to plow snow out of people's frontyards etc.

What? RedBull Homeground doesn't mean shit. Vitality got formed like 2 months ago while 100T has been together for many months now. Tournament full of newly formed teams.

Also Bonecold was playing in VRLs at the time and Guild were playing LCQ 4v5.

Stellar's biggest achievement so far has been winning NA LCQ against The Guard who didn't even look that good, like both Bonecold and Koldamenta have achieved more.

I asked you a question and you didn't answer. How is that insecure? But yes let's agree to disagree.

He meant IGLs that have led multiple teams/rosters to success. Redgar is most known for his time in Gambit and FNS for Envy/Optic(same team). While for example Koldamenta led Acend, G2 and Guild to success with different rosters.

And are you time traveler or what? If there hasn't been single Valorant LAN in NA then how can you say anything about how NA crowd would be? You likely based your claim on some past events so I wanted to know which one. I don't remember watching single esport event in NA where the crowd was any more impressive than EU counterparts. I remember NA Rocket League crowd being pretty quiet when EU shit on them not that long time ago (game where NA is actually competitive).

AM, AME or AMER

Very likely, but I also assume they mainly brought Wolfen in as this operator Chamber player, but now when Chamber is likely going to drop out of meta its interesting to see will we see some Wolfen Jett or will he just stay as sentinel for most part. And Trexx/Starxo play kind of same, but are also really flexible.

Yes it is a reply to you. You claim that "NA is the only place where u will find a good crowd" and I asked "in what games" meaning when has NA crowd been good or cheering for all teams? When it comes to esport events.

In what games? NA sucks at LoL and there's many people with Chinese/Korean heritage etc that cheer for China or Korea. Look at Worlds for example. And same goes for CSGO. And when it comes to COD, Halo etc they are just mainly NA only games so why would they be silent? If your region/country isn't competitive then you are most likely less biased.

So? Cryo hasn't played a match in Americas league either. Past NA achievements don't mean anything. Ardiis has been more succesful Chamber on international tournaments.

Nice! Going to be interesting to see how the roles work on this team. Koldamenta main controller and Sheydos main initiator makes sense, but rest is up in the air. Trexx makes sense as entry/flex, but starxo could do that as well. While Wolfen has been sentinel main(Chamber, KJ sometimes) and is heavy operator player, but Trexx has also played sentinels in the past. Interesting to see who will play Jett for them if that is needed. Trexx has played little, starxo played like couple maps and playstyle kind of suits and then Wolfen has been heavy op player so it could suit him as well.

good list

based EMEA enjoyers

Why is Giants so low rated in most lists? Their roster is really good and only matter of how well Rhyme can IGL. nukkye, Cloud and hoody trio is really good if they can figure out the roles and Fit1nho looked really nice in G-Loot as well and works well in his role. Them being under FUT and Heretics is just non-sense. Also KOI under Heretics? People are underrating some of the pieces of that roster.

I think its between Turkey and Polaris personally. East is up there as well with teams like Acend.

Seems to lack quite many CSGO countries IMO like some eastern european countries and Denmark etc, but we don't know how this was measured. I've seen some people measuring the popularity by Google searches for example that is such a shit way of doing it.

Then who is "top franchise igl"? Koldamenta has more recent success than Redgar for example. I don't really get the Koldamenta slander. Guys is one of the most proven IGLs in EMEA and even in the world. Who is clearly above him? FNS, Benkai, Saadhaak, Boaster, ANGE1, DRX'S IGL? And rest is hard to say considering that Guild got fucked for LCQ so they never even had a chance of making it and we don't know how well they could have done in Champions.

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They would have gotten rolled by Fnatic and FPX and maybe even by G2 during their playoffs form.

I'm kind of out of the loop with VRLs, but can bonk qualify for Polaris or will they? I think they would be decent team in any league as well tbh. Or at least not push overs. Especially with Chiwawa addition.

Polaris for sure and likely going to follow Acend(East)as well. And maybe some others if I don't have anything else to do.
And then likely going to watch some NA games, even though I think people are overrating the level of teams a bit, but we will see.

Famsii signed with UCAM recently so he isn't available.

Pretty good! Magnum has been pretty good in tier 2, Mistic is still decent and good for tier 2 level and Enzo maybe didn't impress me individually, but he just seems so smart when listening him talking about the game and how he sees it etc (really hope he started appearing more in podcasts and maybe even desks I think he would be amazing for that as well just random thought). All of them have good experience.

Now its just matter of finding the final 2 for this roster and coach ofc. Like guy above said Keiko would be good option.

Polaris and Turkey. East is likely going to be pretty good as well, because that area has produced many good players and will in the future as well. Sadly these outside of Turkey just doesn't generate much viewership.

I would suggest going into story that has good selection of them (not just some grocery store that have some cheap ones unless your on a budget). There's just a lot of difference between fragrances when it comes to smell, projection, price, longevity. Best is to test different ones in store and then read maybe experiences and then order one online because its usually slightly cheaper. Esp if you are actually spending bit more on it.

Something like Dior Sauvage(like the guy said) is really popular and liked. I personally use Dior Homme 2020 that is pretty similar. Ones that smell similar to those are really versatile and good everyday wear. Versatility is something you should consider as well.

But I would suggest you testing ones yourself or watching YouTube videos about it or reading online like I did.

Reykjavik 2022 didn't have FPX and Fnatic tho. Both Liquid(4th) and G2(2nd, realistically 3rd) arguably looked better than The Guard, so imagine if FPX(1st) and Fnatic(3rd, but real 2nd) could have played there when out of any EMEA teams they were the most suited for the meta and played it.

Also the timeline of those wins have been: NA, EMEA, EMEA(champs), NA, EMEA

Because it makes you smell better (arguable) and that leads to you being more confident, as well as potentially looking for compliments/attention obviously. But if this is a real problem then you should ask teacher if you could sit somewhere else or overall tell them about this problem. They would understand and do something about it.

Who cares if they are in bubble when that bubble massive? Everyone knows CSGO is pretty dead pretty much everywhere else than Europe, South America and somewhat North America. Asia never got massively into CSGO for some reason, likely bad marketing from Valve where in the other hand Riot pushed a lot of marketing and we can see the results. But if you look at like EU CSGO is really healthy.

And when talking about esports imagine the viewership if any other region was actually competitive. When talking about Valorant viewership you need to remember that there's way more representation in international tournaments from NA, SA, EMEA, SEA, KR, JP etc. compared to CSGO where EU/CIS teams dominate every tournament with like 1 NA and BR compeititor who usually doesn't go to far either.

Yeah he usually gets overshadowed by like 1 player every tournament while still having some of highest stats. He was beast in Champions 2021 tho, +20 vs C9, +21 vs VS(DRX) and +13 vs KRU. He kinda got diffed by Keznit in final game, but he still went +13 and you can do so much when rest of the roster is playing worse as well. I just feel that if you mention 3 M3C players or 3 SEN players then Derke must be somewhere there being one of the best for almost 2 years now. Maybe I just understood this wrong and I think Derke will continue reaching top positions.

What about Derke? He has been statistically really high up in pretty much every LANs he's been in and ended Champions 2021 with the highest ACS and KD. Fnatic didn't get further than top 8, but he played like a beast. Same with Reykjavik 2021 where he obviously got diffed by TenZ when it mattered.

Ex Machina

I know and obviously its possible that Guild wasn't looking for The Barbers when Famsii was still on market. But just example of young player who could add fragging.

Yeah I don't really get Luckerrr on this team especially if ec1s does the calling. If they could replace him with some young talent they could actually do well. Just based on what I've seen all of these guys are just inconsistent and even Polvi who is likely having to frag hard doesn't do it that consistently. Biased, but if they could have gotten someone like Famsii they could have had potential.

Not bad tbh. The Barbers looked kinda decent vs NaVi(yes they were shaky). Just feels that they don't have much firepower with this roster and that could become a problem. Just overall low fragging players who are inconsistent af as well. But nice for them if they get paid and can actually play in VRL league under real org. Much better than just pugging.

Shit and boring. Typical hollywood for the masses movie.

Good. Its just awkward when KOI is just officially 4 players even though we all know that starxo is joining them.

If its in EU then its Spain likely. NA might have visa problems so I doubt they would have Masters there. "Masters 1" in South America(NA timezone as well), Masters 2 being in Japan, Asia and Champions in EU could make sense especially with potential visa problems.

But its also possible that Riot just says "fuck EMEA and Russians" and just have it in USA. Because they def want to make it big like how they invited bunch of people to Istanbul and this year is the start of Valorant esport in a way.