probably worth clarifying that u are talking only to asc+ or smth since i would argue the exact opposite for anything below diamond, especially bronze/silver. they have terrible shooting technique not even trying to aim for headshots but when those people train good technique in some DMs + range they rank up easily to ~plat

which isnt aim training like aimlabs bcs raw aim isnt the issue it's technique

but yea if ur talking about coaching ppl from asc/immo into radiant then idk ive never hit radiant or tried to coach anyone to it so by all means explain more

i wouldnt rely on BMI too much as it's not great as an individual-person scale metric

however yes it does. being very underweight or overweight will impair your immune system leading to you getting sick more. though it's also quite likely that people who are very under/overweight have bad eating habits and dont get good nutrition (vitamins, minerals, etc) which will also make the issue a lot worse and isnt accounted for by BMI directly

yeah idk they're just playing the game not their fault what the refs do. i personally do have distaste for the fans who wont just accept/say "yeah we got gifted a pen we didnt deserve" and things like that but instead try to argue and pretend tho

england didnt deserve to beat ghana they shoulda had a pen against us

leaf is fantastic i will never disagree with that but arent you kinda being short-sighted? the coach made the call to pick up and keep babybay but im not allowed to blame the coach?

idc about messi specifically but when argentina get consistently favoured over and over again winning every "questionable" call, not having their stuff reviewed but having reviews for them it's pretty clear something unfair is going on

argentina are a quality team regardless and even with a more neutral ref they would be deserving heavy favourites vs austria, algeria, cape verde, egypt

i do agree though there are disgustingly awful calls very often this wc. people didnt say a damn thing about belgium's 121m penalty vs senegal because the story was on their 2 goal choke but my god that was one of the worst pens awarded i've ever seen in my life, croatia were robbed hard af too.

"clear and obvious error" basically means they will intervene whenever they want to and avoid intervening when they dont depending on who they wanna favour

we putting 30 yr olds on neon then blaming him for needing a walking stick to help him sprint. he was doing great on chamber/vyse just clownRT keeps forcing him on hard entry roles when it has proven time after time to be terrible for them

i mean they arent wrong argentina have been gifted extremely hard this world cup, even more than 2022 if you can believe it

no reviews when they make full studs up challenges or when mac allister potentially fouls to win the ball back right before a goal but then they get penalties like the one today?? it's pathetic and blatant and im probably falling for ragebait despite not even being american which is probably quite impressive

if messi scored that pen it would be far worse just because he didnt people forgot about it? idk it was a disgusting pen to award and further proof that almost every call goes their way u cant even call it football anymore

you can take the man out of paper rex but you'll never take the paper rex out of the man

he is very good but the "problem" imo is that people tried to make him out to be the superstar. it would simply be too boring to accept PRX as a team of good players without 1 carry or 1 goat people want that 1 guy to glaze and it settled on forsaken as he was the guy calling a lot and got toronto MVP

you're right that people use it as a free excuse to shittalk emea and will do again if emea wins for sure, in the same way people use CN teams getting grouped as an excuse to shittalk their region. or in fact what people used to do to APAC whenever someone like DRX/PRX choked in the playoffs when their region was trophy-less. it's just the way of sports fans best of luck changing it

the reason why it feels mickey is because it's not a VCT event it's just a random event thrown in mid-season because they have the money to be able to get away with it. Sure VCT regionals qualify you for it but they almost never mention it on broadcast. If you watch NBA it feels a bit like the NBA cup they randomly added mid-season, or football perhaps the nations league. Just random nonsense they added because $$$ always wins

there's no history or valid reason for it to exist. I mean it isnt even a world cup lmfao they just stole that name to make it sound cool it's the usual teams. the real valorant world cup is coming later and as you've seen people are genuinely excited and interested in that. i think it's worth noting the difference between the way people treat the two because nobody is calling that a fraud cup or a mickey even though objectively nation-teams are WAY less fairly selected than org teams (some nations have way more talent and there's literally nothing you can do about it)

personally i dont mind it since i get to watch more valo but at a certain point adding more tournaments is just harmful to competitive integrity, particularly when it exists independently of the existing masters/champs system

for cultures that follow the weekend being saturday + sunday then clearly it's monday

weekEND, the week's end is saturday + sunday -> the week begins when the previous week has ended -> the end of sunday = monday

which also aligns with when we take breaks from work or school and then begin again on the monday

i never got why everyone dismissed lightningfast so quickly. as i understand he was on a new role (smokes) he wasnt used to and still played okay

okay isnt great but given the results and performances of the team as a whole it's understandable. nobody from that roster has gone on to do well and half retired after that season and still people act like he was the disappointment

skrossi was legitimately making some bad plays and silly mistakes that arent acceptable at vct level but LF was fine

i think you're confusing me explaining it as me justifying it, im not saying it's okay or i agree or anything of the sort, particularly the death threats and mentioning his family that's just stupid and unnecessary

isn't this whole thing because there was a clip of him saying "kangkang you can't hold sh*t" and people mis-heard it?

idk i think the cn fans are just mad that people have been talking sh*t abou them being a weak region so they wanted to let it all out but that's hard to do without an individual target

dragged his arm lookin for the pen idk about this chief

they literally changed igls, changed entry players and had their coach show up all only halfway through stage 1 - wtf do you want them to do lol. at least give them a chance to rebuild

this current series isnt even over and their loss ytd was literally to lev who are top 2 in americas how is that shameful

rob is enjoying tapping into the indian market with jerrwin he isnt getting dropped nor should he yet. at the very least give him a chance in post-neon meta

many sen fans just have the patience of toddlers and fail to reflect back historically that they NEEDED a 2023 rebuild to become the 2024 powerhouse that won a trophy you cant always be strong

combination of fun + trying stuff

saadhak got a fire history of innovating new comps/agents quite successfully so whatever this process is imma trust it

as i recall saadhak loves to experiment with rarely used agents. in loud's qck era they were pushing phoenix hard, loud were also the ones who came up with the harbor viper 2023 stuff and im sure he has done other stuff. if memory serves me wasnt it also loud who came up with the original ascent big 5 comp (sova kayo omen jett kj)?

this is literally an online tournament that isnt vct, im sure they care and wanna win but on some level why not just use it to experiment? they didnt even play dante on neon on either map so already prepping for stage 2

also just saw less on reyna lol

no doubt one of the best itw since 2024 but until heretics get their masters/champs trophy i dont think many will consider him for goat

esp since heretics overall have had other plays really shine it's not like you can point to riens and say he's carrying. woot was an absolute demon in shanghai, 2024 benjy was a big time shooter, miniboo was great when he came back. boo's calling was solid too so it kinda falls in a similar enough place to the other goats anyway

okay but isnt every goat candidate the same thing? 2022 loud was an unbelievably high level team, the only one of their 5 who "fell off" was pancada the guy who MVPd

NRG already beat em chief you dont have to do this just to qualify

was great at the start of the year just randomly he's on perma neon assignment because someone is an idiot. lets see what they do post-neon meta ig but based on that i have limited faith

if the abilities are balanced then yeah i'd argue introducing more variables absolutely raises the skill ceiling of a game, at least up to a point of having way too many. you literally just have more skills you need to learn and be competent in. this is generally true outside of video games too

1v1 basketball vs 5v5 which has the higher skill ceiling obviously the 5v5. or to use your example chess where every piece of either pawn, king or queen VS chess as we know it today - obviously the one with more variables has the higher ceiling

hope this helps!

valo has more variables so it has a higher skill ceiling (we are nowhere near the ceiling)

cs players probably have significantly better mechanics (movement, aim) and fundamentals (map macro, trading/spacing etc) compared to valo players because valo players simply have more variables to focus on. which is more or less what you're describing

anyone who thinks one game is objectively harder than the other is being a bit short-sighted unless they specify a smaller context "harder to do this exact thing"

underrated comment gave me a lil chuckle thanks chief

this would be great yeah, or at least have an available tab that really shows the entire schedule including the less relevant ones so the main page isnt cluttered or whatever but the info is still easy to access

Can someone explain why there are matches missing when i press "All" in upcoming matches?

I see vietnam SEA qualifier matches, LATAM and NA GC but there are literally games in 1 hour for VCL EMEA that are more or less the same "tier" as LATAM challengers but not shown at all

This seems to happen somewhat frequently and i don't get why because it says "All" so why would it not show all? If you search up one of those VCL EMEA teams like fokus/navi junior/joblife/reborn/barca etc the match shows up just fine they just made a choice not to put it on ANY kind of schedule for upcoming matches?

Not trying to attack people with this thread I just genuinely would like this to be fixed or at least have an answer as to why some tier 2 games are allowed to be shown here and some arent when it literally says "All"

I think you're selling the 2023 tournaments a bit short. Lock in was a bit of a meme for its format (all teams invited, no double elim, no group stage) but there were some strong teams there. NRG (yes they were good), DRX, Loud, PRX

Even some of the other teams like Navi were coming off a great 2022 and they changed only 1 player from that 5 who won copenhagen

Tokyo also had a bunch of strong teams including the EG who won champs a few months later, the same Loud who dominated americas that year etc

If you look for reasons why any tournament is mickey-esque you can find em. Fact is they won vs the best players of 2023 and deserve their flowers

i completely agree that's why i said "went" past tense. last year benjy was noticeably worse than he was in 2024 and this year he jumped back up again

honestly i think all this "vibe merchant" stuff is hurting his individual performances. too much focus on that, too much energy expended and encourages a mindset of low mechanical confidence. im not good enough to have impact with my own gunskill so i need to do this

lowkey benjy and boaster went through smth similar too imo. boaster's weird antics on stage got wildly more exaggerated last year

Alecks is the objectively correct answer imo. Crazy longevity + 4 grand finals + 1 trophy + consistently one of the best APAC teams which is the hardest region (cry about it)

mini very solid but he quit a while ago. if we count his PRX contributions he's up for sure

Americas doesn't really have any 1 coach who has longevity + results maybe joshRT but g2 havent won a big trophy yet

Edit: 4 GFs

Cut termi already. People were calling for it all last year until they cooked at champs with waylay yoru stuff.

termi is a mental health terrorist who benches and re-picks up players for fun every few weeks and my conspiracy theory is that he bullied flashback so hard he retired. also this whole free1ing 2nd duelist thing isnt a good look imo let him play what hes good on

they just need to fix their mental from collapsing after a map loss. i swear every time they have a "big" match as soon as they lose 1 close map they get absolutely rolled in the next one.

not even a roster issue imo just stop giving up on yourselves

yes if you lose then you can no longer call yourself undefeated because you have been defeated

even if there's a rematch and khamzat wins he will still have been defeated so he will never be able to claim that word "undefeated" ever again

they got enough shooters bro they need someone to help with midrounding and take pressure off the verno igl he's not there yet

also wtf is this random mazino disrespect

i think there are ways to communicate that you just wanna play the game and win without the drama

"lets just all mute him and play the game normally please i wanna win"

more or less the same things you might say when you get a raging sexist and a girl teammate on the same team

okay fair enough then i retract my statement. free flor

i mean i dont see why everyone else on their team is forced to suffer a thrower (flor) just because they have a clown trash human (sick) on the team. the other 3 people on the team didnt load up valo just to waste their time for ~30 minutes on a lost game to throwers

but idk what all this "throwers make me more angry than pdfs" nonsense is bro time to open the windows and at least sniff the outside air

realistic answer: i dont think it matters, jerrwin lets rob moore tap into the indian market for new fans so as long as he plays okay he's probably staying for a little while at least

also imo he played noticeably way better today than the last 2 series so it could be that he's growing and becoming more comfortable with the team

as far as reduxx goes i actually think mechanically he is really goddamn good and his struggles come elsewhere. im not sure what the vision is here but he definitely doesn't look super comfortable on the omen. harder to make a 2nd tenz than they thought i guess? idk personally i wouldnt mind trying john back on the omen and flipping reduxx over to the sage/viper/flex. sage in particular could give him some freedom - i think when playing roles like omen he just isnt comfortable. sage is much simpler (split comp)

i think it's worth noting that sen needed the full 2023 to rebuild into their 2024 roster that won madrid

a lot of fans just wanna win now and realistically that's just not how it's gonna work unless you pick up absolute stars and get lucky in a sense of personalities and playstyles meshing well together on limited practice

you just got a new coach, changed IGLs and replaced 2 players. trying to instantly switch to win now mode is kinda insane and unrealistic imo. you are already 2-1 with half a brand new team and the 1 loss is to furia who are one of the best in americas

jerrwin is an aggressive entry and sen have capitalised on that really well on a lot of their attack rounds i dont think replacing him would even be useful unless it's for someone who is clearly one of the best in the world (zekken, etc)

this is how most 100t series have gone for like 2 years atp. they look really good for 1 or 1.5 maps and then awful the other half it's super weird idk adderall crash or what

bro just hates IGLs they're all gone

my understanding is as follows:

talent is what you have naturally

skill is what you develop through effort

so talent is more or less identical to genetics in my view. you could argue a grey area for the circumstances in which somebody grew up (loving parents vs bad parents) but i don't see how that's really a "talent" that somebody possesses innately

yes it's a skill not a talent. you arent born genetically with an "intention to improve" my guy that's a mindset you develop intentionally

yes but you are assuming this is genetics. vast majority of pros have prior FPS game experience or at least competitive experience in other games which gives a lot of transferrable skills and the right mindset for improvement instead of autopiloting

im sorry bro but that's just hard untrue if those 700 hours were spent poorly

someone super talented for bench press might spend 5 years benching with terrible form and awful programming + commitment they will never reach a high level of strength let alone world class even if they have a great "talent" for it

people use talent as a cope far too often particularly in an esports setting like almost all these skills that pros have are learnable. not 100% of them but a very significant portion

what exactly makes up talent for an esport? much easier to tell in physical sports. and how can you even know if you have talent if you're bronze and just beginning to "try"? you have no idea. even people with great physical genetics have very little idea of where they stand for sports performance until they start training (unless growing up in physically demanding environment like on a farm)

that plat kid with 700 hours how many of those were spent actually trying to learn skills and apply them vs autopiloting? not a clue. nobody knows except maybe him so it just seems crazy toxic to be taking a dump on other peoples' dreams when we know nothing about them

why does it matter where you start as long as you are willing to work hard it could happen

and even if it doesn't it's their life and their goals bro let them be at least they're trying at something in life

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