they did lmfao, fns and s0m only want to be on a roster with each other and fns said he will not join another team unless he can make his own roster. so for now, they have said they will be streaming and unless that offer comes through from another org they will not be in vct next year. check the stream vods

yes go to fns' and s0m's stream vods from today and you'll hear everything, you can also just go through the reddit posts on r/valorantcompetitive or the earlier threads here on vlr

fns just said on his announcement stream that he never trialed for anyone since nrg lost champs

for nrg s0m and fns just confirmed they are stepping down to stream

sadly he probably won't, but im ngl he is right some teams are too focused on building a core around certain players that hurt them in the long run, one example being an NA org this year where there were lots of role issues through out the season

you're saying it like johnqt is a bad option considering now that fns was never there it was most likely him cooking prx and fnc in trials

hmmmm

ngl i was not expecting both of them to step down to stream this is crazy

one can hope so for the future, cause leo's leading for the tier 2 system has already led to almost every team that didn't win ascension leaving their respective regions lol

after yes, you can find interviews of stewie looking up to shroud and him saying that he was taught a lot by him when they were on the same roster for that short time, so although shroud comparatively isn't as good as most people make it out to be, he did have an impact

i mean to be fair, at the time that he played cs, he was seen as like THE north american prodigy kid but compared to what other players from NA did like stewie (and the rest of the 2018 c9 roster/2019 liquid roster) or twistzz he can't compare anymore

LMFAO

this may be a questionable take, but i was thinking about how leo said that the goal for t2 is purely to just be a scouting league for partnered teams and how each team that wins ascension is only in the vct circuit for 2 years. i need one of those teams to win champs one year so he can realize that no relegation is braindead. like genuinely what would riot do if one of those teams/orgs won champs one year? tell them that oh well you still have to go but sell all your players! stupid system

I was thinking about chamber trips and the 2.5s of smoke timing and I feel like if a jett wants to sneak by a chamber trip (placed in more open areas like on of the sides on fracture) they might have to end up using both smokes just to get by now which is pretty stupid lmao

I really hate this trend of nerfing all other agents to increase pick rates of the other agents. Just improve the kits of the worse agents? I don't understand what meta RIOT is aiming for, do they not understand that nerfing certain controllers just promotes the pick rate of double controller selects that are easily the most boring games to watch, which is funny cause they only look to pro play to balance the game. This is probably a hot take cause I kinda miss the chamber meta just because of how chaotic and fast paced the rounds tended to be.

What do you guys think about this round of nerfs?

you just made your account to post this.

no north american sports leagues don't believe in relegation sadly, its due to the fact that the rich owners had to pay millions to buy a spot in their respective league. if a new team joins the league, its cause new owners made a new franchised team and the league wanted an additional spot

ahh i did not know about FNS' contract length thats why i made that post earlier lmfao

that's what i've been thinking since ascension ended, cause i don't think guard will split apart for now and johnqt is the next person that makes sense

do you guys legitimately think that FNS will go to SEN? after all the lengths to get crashies, victor, and fns as the core for NRG for the 2023 year, they would just split after a poor champs appearance? i feel like i'm going insane with all of these scrim threads and posts, and I don't see them splitting unless there's internal issues

yea Nadeshot has said that he would rather get cheaper younger promising players and develop them rather than spending crazy amounts of money on established players so he wanted cryo

our next game is sometime april 2024, weird schedule i know right?

not tenz either -ardiis +zekken or -ardiis +yay cause the chemistry will be there for yay

we can hope but it doesnt look like they're gonna add community servers sadly

yea it really sucks how inconsistent hes been this year cause he was in such good form before

mikes should be the one gone if im being real cause i think the team could do well with a better coach, but they probably will drop some players and sadly the most likely is derrek

Unironically, I think that the most unbiased takes I've seen on here so far are the people that have tier 2 flairs when talking about Tier 1

w bait

crashies said in his interview after the EG game yesterday that chet has not been getting a ton of sleep so thats why hes looked like that this week, but idk about the rest of the games lmao

im not gonna lie demon1 clearly has to be in contention for the americas. this man saved a team that would not have even had that chance to make playoffs

unless the updated roster improves their chemistry and get some good strats going, no

fenis but it doesnt matter cause he has a massive brain

as much as i want americas regions teams to do well, im annoyed that eg made tokyo purely for the reason that demon1 cant go. its actually a wasted slot if they stay in the same form they were pre demon1. but what do i know lmao eg is clearly able to surprise

saw this on my feed too lol, im more into the cs scene than val but the whole argument between the fan bases is really exhausting. and his arguments between the crowds was so biased LMFAO, he used clips from the paris major and compared it to the small little venues for crowds they had for the franchised seasons in val. still dont get why other cs people cant appreciate that there is a competitor to their game, it only makes both better in the long run

POISED is up there for me cause of his wrist injury/surgery

someone said on here that demon1 said his parents are both from russia

holy shit, are you my chem teacher from high school?

i was boutta say this, i dont think many people who watched the streams could tell by looking that that arena did NOT look like it was properly ACd, i wasnt there but i could tell that place looked like an oven

you're right about fans not caring about teams outside their regions, but i think why people were mad about lock//in is cause half of the fans in the arena left after fnatic won. i could care less that loud fans left cause obviously they were there to see them win and they had to work the next day, but its disingenuous to act like this playoff game and the final are the same. i can understand the complaints if this happens in the playoffs lower bracket finals and grand finals

i do agree but it is a bit different, this is playoffs for teams to go to an international event vs lock//in was THE start of the year for franchising and it was an international event

their fundamentals are really good but the issue with them they dont build off them with a bunch of different strats, they've kinda just been sticking with what they've done the whole season and haven't tried any new stuff

nrg lost to them the same way they lost to mibr, fucking around with roles

ah ngl ive never seen it shortened to youtu.be before so i was just wondering

scam link? youtu.be?

this is the exact reason that there should be a proper relegation system in tier 1 rather than just growing each league