SEN WIN SEN WIN SEN WIN

yes bro a multi million organization will listen to 12 vlr users

it was indeed impressive for them to get 7 rounds against an old maaters winner wirh LEGIJA

yeah it is also bold from NAVI to bring ardiis when chamber is dead, and he had average performances on NRG, even with fenis IGLing; but I guess they don't wanna drop ANGE1 as he is idk a retired CS player or some shit I don't get it

I don't expect anything from ardiis either

tbh did not even watch EA GC. that's why I jumped to the assumption that they were just bad

make better bait next time

yeah sorry I thought someone else was igl and that EDG was just shit as a whole

oh they're in the shitter lol

BBL 2-0

bro florescent does not even clear Tier 3-2 players

weird way to spell BBL Queens

nah no way this is East Asia's best. Kru is about to get buttfucked by BBLQ

people mustn't have expected that much from EG, specially after keenc was gone lol

I knew casters were smoking sth when they put TL BR as the event winner

(the caster not mimi the player)
bro how come bronzil cannot beat nerfed EU still? I was sure that TL BR wasn't beating G2 Gozen, mimi (the caster) is breathing huge amounts of hopium lol. G2 Gozen lost their 2 star duelists and still manages to be better than BR

yeah it was probably too expensive for them to buy alive

no way acend is letting alive out if they didn't let him leave for KOI

ok molsi is good, but avova and botcas?

LMFAOO

how many times did gambit make lan?

cNed

can't

if acend's run was a fluke would gambit's run against kru and team secret be also a fluke? provided that both threw bind and gmb managed to clap back?

where is heat?

cned. consistent throughout 2-3 years

SMG 2-1

shiver me timbers

FPX 2-1

Fuck off

don't
just eat less and if you want to get muscles lift weights, being fat helps a lot in gaining muscle

They're still good, if you've watched the latest games from SEN, you'll realize sacy isn't +15 but has had huge impact clutching and with util
Same for pancada

this shit will be fire

Klaus check your right.

oh my bad sorry

not my favourite ending but I guess it works

NAHHH RNG always faces the tough teams on qualifiers

he's the average baiter, no different from y0y t0nz b0tster whatever baiters on this site

xan got banned from val for cheating LMFAOOOOOOOOO waiting for that masterclass

he went against russians and won, that's a big W

apEX clears

NRG daps

I see Braxton I root for that team.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

okobotro 🗿

on a serious instance though, language barriers are a thing, a clear example is sacy and pancada struggling on sen

Too many Emea fans have been going around claiming that language barriers are not a valid argument, since "Fnatic has other nationalities".
Lets look at the stats

Swedish English Literacy = 86% ~
Finland English Literacy = 70% ~
Latvia English Literacy = 26% ~
Ukraine English Literacy = 23% ~
Turkish English Literacy = 16% ~
Russian English Literacy = 5.48%

So not only do the majority of European countries indeed have a higher familiarization with the english language overall, the only country that doesnt break 2 digits in percentage, is Russia, but if we evaluate the Valorant ecosystem specifically, what servers do we have?:

Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Warsaw, Stockholm, Paris, Istanbul

From the experiences of Youtubers, Pro-players and streamers, we can define that the majority of these servers communicate in English most of the time. Why? Because there are too many nationalities for a common experience to arise, therefore a "common" language is defined. ENGLISH
Its also important to mention that that depending on your location you can switch between these servers at will. You are Region Locked yes, but not server locked.

bUt ThAtS rAnKeD WhAt AbOuT tHe PrO sCeNe???

Well, considering that even before the EMEA Franchise League, there were still "international" leagues that granted spots at Masters/Champions, we can safely define AGAIN, that the multitude of Nationalities DEMANDS a common Language, with the exception of the French region and Turkish region, which cultivated enough talent to field a full team. However the French team in question is made, from players who were part of EMEA-Style International teams Anyway. Also the French English Literacy is 56%~.

But enough about Fraudmea, lets talk about the subjects of subjugation, LATAM and BR.
Now, lets see, what are the servers these regions have?
LATAM - Miami / Mexico City / Santiago
BR - São Paulo

But wait, 2/3 of the LATAM servers dont even reach LATAM properly? hell miami is in the US, and Mexico is Central America... which only leaves us with Santiago.
And BR only has São Paulo, are these regions Server Locked? yes, if your account was either made in Santiago or Sao Paulo, you cannot play in other servers.
Which means not only most BR and LaTAM players dont interact with english speaking countries, the languages spoken in game are the same as the country of server origin.
Hell, the LATAM and BR players barely interact, with the ocasional LATAM player with disgusting ping on a BR server.
But thats not all, lets look at events, Before VCT Americas, the Tournaments were separate, BR fought itself for a spot and LATAM fought itself for a spot. with LCQ being when these teams would face each other in a non-masters/champions event.
Now looking at Off-Season tournaments, not only are half of them either FULL BR or FULL LATAM, the other half simply Doesnt have english speaking teams.
The only one i could find is Superdome Latam 2023, THIS YEAR.
So, not only does LATAM and BR mostly only play themselves and each other, outsider teams simply did not express interest in interacting with national teams.
Most BR/LATAM teams will only interact with english speaking players ON INTERNATIONAL EVENTS AND BOOTCAMPS.
And im not even mentioning English Literacy (Average of under 3%, with Argentina being the only outliar), you can visit the biggest cities in these countries and find less than 10 people that actually speak the language of English.

In Conclusion; not only are the Ranked and Professional ecosystems COMPLETELY different, with EMEA having the requirement of english as a common language, and BR/LATAM not interacting with it at all. The Levels of literacy are also worse in the South American region, meaning the pool of players with english as a second language is incredibly smaller.
EMEA needs English, BR/LATAM doesnt.

A Helpful note is that usually EMEA players have different backgrounds, meaning, everyone communicates in a "broken english" or at the same level, there is fewer chances of power dynamics, while on a team like Sentinels, the majority of the team is fluently speaking, with 2 teammates who are learning as they go, even if not intended, the fluent players operate on a "higher placement" the Brazilians dont need to learn enough english to talk to other english speakers at the same level as them (EMEA team format), they need to learn while the other half of the team not only already knows english, they have been communicating in it since they were born, there are expressions, sounds and intonations that to a fluent english speaker are obvious, but to learning speakers are still new. You need to remember, they havent experienced the same culture you did, to expect them to think the same is asinine.
Summary of this Note: EMEA players are usually at the same "level" of english, while Sacy and Pancada are operating in a team were they are the only outsiders.

THIS IS NOT A SENTINELS SPECIFIC CASE, NZR HAD THE SAME ISSUE WHEN PLAYING WITH FURIA, HIS PERFORMANCE SKYROCKETED WHEN HE JOINED LEV, ALTHOUGH HIS DIFFICULTIES WERE NOT AT THE SAME LEVEL AS SACY AND PANCADA. SAADHAK IS AN OUTLIAR IN THIS RESEARCH

SOURCES
https://www.ef.edu/blog/language/why-learn-russian/yway
https://howwidelyspoken.com/how-widely-spoken-english-turkey/
https://howwidelyspoken.com/how-widely-spoken-english-sweden/
https://howwidelyspoken.com/is-engish-widely-spoken-finland/
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a vlr player profile

i am surprised nobody's talking about the rumors

might be just rumors, but there are apparently negotiations regarding a loud rebrand in partnership with real madrid. also rumors about s1mple joining LOUD in a new CS roster, which made most of the sane people think "wait, just how? s1mple is rich enough to also own LOUD". except if there is an org bigger than both LOUD and s1mple involved, which would be real madrid

if these rumors could possibly be true, they would be one of the biggest moves we've ever seen in e-sports history

and yall should take everything i just said with a grain of salt, obviously. this could as well have been made up.