Big smoke

Also their 2-3 run included a tonne of overtime games… they also threw a lot… they easily coulda made it outta groups at the bare minimum

Nice

Brawk/nismo - Mitch on sentinel

Dual citizenship exists except ur from ghana, Singapore (only 2 I can insta remember) then ur trapped with one

smoggy slides under the radar cuz of kk’s impact

That’s not how “multiple top players works”

Used to be temi diamz (still is on some platforms)

Temi- means mine in Yoruba n one of my numerous middle names
Diamz- just shortened diamonds… I was obsessed with diamonds by Rihanna when I made the moniker… the z combo came from diamonds platnumz (Tanzanian artist)

Now I drop the diamz

Aliexpress is a marketplace; it’s one of the few ones u can find the 7500f at a good price, u just have to filter out the riff raff.. like look for sellers with a solid amount of stuff sold, read the reviews etc…

If u ain’t comfy with it get the 7600/x

r/gamingpcbuildhelp and r/buildapc

Dedicated subreddits that help with this stuff, can also ask there for advice

Yes but if ur gonna spend 700 and up might as well

With 1k am5… even less 800-900
Ryzen 5 7600 or 7600x or 7500f (from Aliexpress)
20-30 bucks for a cpu cooler
B650 mobo - gamers nexus pick something form their recommendation that fits in ur budget; they’ve tested a tonne
Rx 6750xt or 7600xt or heck even an intel gpu
32 gb CL 30 ddr5 6000mhz (mts)
1tb ssd
650w psu

If you live close to a Microcenter go there, they usually have nice deals on cpu, ram, mobo bundles etc; u will find everything u need there

Ask questions about pc build stuff on Reddit… there are mutilple easy to find subs that will recommend stuff based on ur preferences like rgb, all white build, which gpus to consider based on what u intend to do etc

Look at yt videos; u can take the specs from a vid and look into min maxing it; Scattervolt makes vids like these (his website pcbuilds.gg also has spec guides etc)

r/Gamingpcbuildhelp and r/buildapc

The only thing I beg of u is please an AM5 cpu.

Gl

Introvert- little Simz

Sub for off-season events only… Leo will be back for the regular season

Critical ops… it’s a tac shooter,, u can check out the game on yt from creators or a comp standpoint… I’m pretty sure the biggest tourney of the year just started.

Chess

If he plays more selfishly it would look like grumpy or temet

Why sign n4rrate and stick him on senti…

You can’t make everybody happy…also a lot of esports orgs aren’t running at a net positive across the board so when players make demands salary and bonus wise if you can’t keep up you have no other option but to let ‘em go…
Some players want to play with others or try something new pr move to a diff region or go back home if they were an import previously

There’s also behind the scenes stuff, personal stuff that hits closer to home

The player can also decide on a whim to not stick around

Etc

Money, friendships and personal reasons

Depends on the pro

Igls- broadcast talent, coaching
Star players- stream

Some go back to school or start random businesses
Some start esports projects or help run some , coaching etc

A lot have no backup plans

True but if we compare it to the costs of the logistics and or teams travelling to different locations around the world regularly surely their operating costs has to be significantly lower than that of an esl for example

Isn’t the facility theirs for most of the year;
I’m pretty sure they also run/ran lcs from there simultaneously

The closest was faze but after losing to c9 in Boston they sank

After what they achieved yes but before twistzz

Broky was an fpl/pug star
Karrigan was/is now hanging by a thread
Rain was did his job but he rarely pulled out the strap like did during that period

English comprehension…

Is what I’d say but icba to check my message history 2 see which bombs I’ve dropped

Accélération, virgule, petit-pont, frappe
Kylian Mbappé

Yes.

Past
Current players barely attempt to flex their individual capabilities… a lot of the time from academies to senior teams players are taught to be system players and just pass and move, build triangles… rarely attempt 1v1s, takeons or any flair

Huhh?
I get that ur a Milan fan and he got the winner but giving him ur wife is crazy

I didn’t say only ranked… however pick rates in both ranked and pro level play a decent part in the decision making… icba to check pick rates in pro tourneys so based on my eye test:

Ancient - jett
Bind - raze
Abyss - jett, yoru, raze (at least once), neon (at least once)
Sunset - neon, raze
Haven - jett, neon

Icebox - jett, reyna, iso, neon, raze or no duelist
Lotus - neon, raze

Pearl - who knows
Split - neon, raze, jett

(Icba to include every duelist I’ve seen on every map, cgn phoenix, iso haven, etc at pro level)

Besides lotus and sunset u can argue that neon isn’t a priority pick on other maps

Considering the product they put out, money ain’t the main issue here… the main stream is bare bones, the matches sometimes have replays other times they don’t, a tonne of tech pauses… if u ain’t already interested in t2 u ain’t checking it out or sticking around long enough to find out

There’s always gonna be a broken mechanic… not every team, and even on a lot of teams their neon players don’t know how to use her… there are exceptional players on neon but if we assume a baseline for the average amount of players that play her at the pro level and in ranked queues then those exceptions are minuscule compared to the larger player base

She’s only op in the right player’s hands and that isn’t a majority of the player base… if a significant amount of people learn how to play her then she might get nerfed

Black

Space creation
Aim on rifles and the op
Confidence

I don’t want necessarily want someone who will take to much risk and die for free as well as someone who takes little to no risk… If they are the best trade fragger on the team idc if they are playing duelist they can go in 2nd in some rounds; as long as the team is fine with it

Nah Lieth’s the prodigy

Lev and vit underestimated them especially lev because they chose to play TE on their 2 best maps in a best of 3 and with the way they played it seemed like they barely discussed what trace liked to do

Prx best strengths was they had wacky comps with very good ideas… this year the ideas weren’t there… it’s like kc im the first half of the season… tonnes of strats and ideas to the midpoint midrounding was pointless but they got figured out and their momentum died out… if prx keep the idea bank full and maybe a couple of their players try learning new agents in the off season they should be alright next year

The faker equivalent would be s1mple however he took a break sometime last year after the game transitioned to cs2 to sort his personal ish (he’s Ukrainian). He did comeback earlier this year as a stand-in for falcons on loan from Navi in an online tourney but they got insta knocked out and since then he’s just living life I guess… still signed to Navi so it’d take a lot of mulla to buy him out of his contract and he probably hasn’t played a lot of the game

I’d add MOUZ, G2 to your top tier teams list though mouz have a tendency to choke after group stages (very young team) and g2 had an igl who couldn’t frag to the standard level for igls and they sacrificed firepower with jks for a vibes guy and friend of the squad in nexa however they have since brought in snax as the new igl and malbs who’s a fragger

Well known: there’s a tonne highlight and clip montages from tourneys are the best ways to identify them but in no particular order they include:

Shiro, monesy, zywoo, niko, twistzz, frozen, ropz, donk, xertion, jimmphat, b1t, broky, spinx, electronic, device, elige etc

You must be lucky your twitter aimt corrupted… I see stuff like this regularly aka within every 5-10 posts

Seems decent… likes to have a scoped weapon in his hand a lot of the time so imo you’d need some1 who can snipe on the team to be able to constantly switch weapons for him to entry (if he’s on duelist)

Being following since beta.. already a cs background (still follow cs aswell)…

I guess Tarik also helped because I’ve being watch him for an eternity

Idk just started watching cuz seemed like the best thing to do since I was interested in the competitive side

During kickoff and stage 1 he played controller senti and I remember at least one game on kayo; they didn’t even toy with any double dueslist comps if I’m not mistaken…. He was still a beast but the team just didn’t click

and ur statements in quotation marks literally mean the same thing

Also this wasn’t a team decision, he made this decision to switch roles probably before he got the vitality offer but he spoke about it with sgares on a podcast type ish… he wanted the newer emea talent to flourish and thought it was best to help them shine by being in a supportive role

Says at the start of the year didn’t wanna play duelist; he was on cypher, kj, viper till when vitality made coaching changes and things were not working out then he switched back because he wanted to do everything in his power to win so while liquid may have trolled a lil by selling him at the time if he wasn’t gonna play his main duelist role it didn’t make sense to keep him to flex on senti/controller considering they already had nats

Heart attack - santan Dave

Wasn’t he also throwing… I’m pretty sure he popped his Raze ult in a 1v4 with just a pistol on ct side and he was whiffing early on their b defence

Sadly it is what it is

Koalanoonb already said on his stream that if they don’t make it this year that most of them including himself will take any t1 offer they get

I don’t know much about riot’s stances or could I careless to do the research rn but esl probably won’t make the cut because of their deal with Saudi Arabia however since the ewc wants valorant to be an event they might let it slide

How’s chronicle not original… did I miss something… let her take a break from player name ratings