I think leaf saw the thread.

Is there a former player-coach that is doing well these days? It seems like a lot of orgs have gone for the cs 1.6 super stars only to be disappointed. I feel like at this point we've proven the skills are not transferrable.

I think it works in other sports because the systems stay the same and the level of critical thinking for roles in the pros is high level. But I'm starting to think that the player pool was small and the people who succeeded, while they were the best in their field, didn't have to establish their dominance through knowledge but individual mechanical skill. I think were at the point where those two are definitely mutually exclusive and maybe we start leaning more towards critical thinkers instead of legends from a time before.

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Neither Asuna or TenZ are going anywhere for the time being. You will see them on teams 2-3+ years out from now.

In regards to Asuna on OP vs Raze (which is ultimately his rifle play) , you're basically looking at where he enjoys the game. It's not like his aim is bad on the OP but if you don't put in the reps, you're not going to see the results. https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/100T%20Asuna%231111/weapons?season=all ... OP to rifle ratio is 14x.

For TenZ, this conversation doesn't really need to even happen. He's fine. Optic (former Envy) are not the same style of team as the rest of Valorant. Each player brings something great to that team and you could spend paragraphs describing how FNS implements each talent he has at his disposal.

Honestly the fault is on Riot for thinking they understand what casting is at this point. People are looking for genuine insight and tone variation in delivery. I've watched some of these people go from nobodies to casters and it's the same format. Have examples of your work, find the hiring manager for these jobs for the Company on twitter, follow them and then like and comment on all their posts. This builds your visibility and then you hit up a tier 2 tournament organizer and plead your case. It's about focus. You're either focusing on your craft to become a better caster or your more interested in the actual theory of the game. The people who want the latter usually end up trying to coach or fall off the face of the earth.

Always a popularity contest on these forums with little to any analytic quality.

He got a couple laughs when he had super bad takes. Thinks he's got a point of view people care about. Stick to research and things that are anti-social bud, it's where you thrive.

High sens = more of a chance of to having to correct your aim because you're going a smaller distance physically and translating that into larger distance on your computer screen.

Lower sens = less of a chance to have to correct because you have to travel a longer distance physically to translate movement on your screen.

You can be good at either because humans are amazing. You're also not a perfect machine, so adjusting your sensitivity probably just compensates for you being lazy or hyper in the moment.

I think a lot of people in this thread have an idea of what Jett is supposed to do and what TenZ does on Jett. If you go back to the stats, then you're going to see that TenZ doesn't match up with that idea. I think TenZ adjusted his play because of the pressure but the others didn't step up either. It's not all on TenZ.

Interesting move. While an extra set of eyeballs is always welcomed in any endeavor, I see this more as a move to protect the core of SEN. Most coaches will have a say in roster moves and strategy. I don't see this as Rawkus' role on this team. Rawkus is fairly known to be a friendly and cooperative person. His likely role will be as a facilitator in the coach role.

This sort of fits what Shahzam was looking for in a coach. If they would have grabbed a coach that was a prior csgo professional then there may have been some tension when it came to game decisions. Coming from Overwatch, Rawkus is always going to be learning the game and steps behind someone like Shahzam. There will never be situation where Coach Rawkus will be able to say "x" player is doing "x" poorly as it will just be quickly dismissed as speculation from an Overwatch player. So in the end you get a cheerleader who will probably do some analyst type work for Shahzam. Not exactly a coach but fits what Shahzam was looking for in the role.

Instead of thinking of straight head-to-head, org-vs-org ideas, you should be looking at the style of play. Gambit's style of play relies heavily on team-play that caught a lot of teams off-guard. In NA, there's a standard of play where most teams play retake on most sites. If you pick off one player in a site, you usually get the site for free after that. Most of the dominate plays from Gambit lure you in and you think you're facing one person but another is waiting in another position to catch you off-guard.

The reason 100T and NV do well is because they are more focused on taking map control at a slower pace. The slower pace allows them to usually get to an execute at full strength as opposed to showing up down a player or two. It's harder to exploit teams like NV and 100T in a dominate fashion because they're not going to run-by an angle and not check it. That's more true for 100T than NV (given that NV has been 13-0'd) Looking at the score line of NV vs. Gambit, 3-0, you might think they got dominated but all of those games were close and it's NV's playstyle that got them as close as they could vs. Gambit.

I don't think there's a clear answer why they are losing. I think if you were looking to make a change here it was babybay, Rawkus and Babyj. I don't think you can move babybay because he's your franchise or face of the org for Valorant and if you're moving him your changing the whole squad. For Rawkus, I think he plays a too important role on maps like Icebox and Ascent and he's not producing. He's not someone who you want in a clutch situation. And for BabyJ, he just underperformed when it mattered. He massively produced on the road to LCQ but his viper on Icebox, which can feel like you're on an island, fell short.

Unfortunately for BabyJ , he wasn't in Overwatch League and I'm sure FaZe told them a change needed to be made. I think that Rawkus is in an awkward spot on this team. Babybay needs to expand his game and pick up more rifle rounds. And I would love to see Zacharee do a role swap. I think the man is a caged beast on these support roles. Zacharee > Rawkus aim wise.

If teams actually took the time to watch nAts and how he played, Gambit is super predictable. They ran the same setups (swapping omen for Astra) throughout their tourney run (pre-champions). Especially on their Ascent setups. Their offensive attack is hold wings and play up middle for picks. On defense nAts is able to get kills based on his teammates holding angles and not having to worry about them. He literally could peek any angle in the middle of site and he had support. But he ran the same setups (I think there were 3) over and over again.

Coaches under 25 years old are a waste of time. Zero life experience and barely any life events that give them ability to critically think through problems. A lot of what you get is canned answers they got off of Youtube.

There are a ton of small tournaments. You're just not aware of them :/

These are my favorite games. Since the person always ends up with like 10 kills and we lose 13-3 or something along those lines. I would love for the impact of each round to impact SR gains/losses.

Theory transfers, mechanics don't. Valorant is way more forgiving than any previous cs game.

The game is ridiculous. If you're bored of the current gaming landscape... it's basically crack.

I'm going to keep making this argument until I'm blue in the face. 100T is only stalling because of the meta and the impact of Jett + Operator. The minute this is nerfed in a meaningful way or teams learn how to work around it (which I struggle to see a way) 100T will continue to stall until they adapt to the meta.

A full hour? Come on... I don't have the attention span for this.

They needed a Jett and they got one. Let's see if the meta holds up and if Jett is keeping her dash or not. I'd rather see b0i take a seat and let seven play in as Jett. I don't really see a need for a smoke/utility player unless nitr0 is switching his role in the team.

Just finished re-watching the tournament. The difference that I think is being overlooked by 100T is that Asuna is not an Operator Jett and that was the meta for this tournament. Yay and d3ffo are both getting early picks at a rate that surpassed Asuna hard. I don't see Steel being the issue and swapping him out is not going to improve your chances unless you're bringing in b0i to replace Asuna on Operator duty. Asuna is a god tier rifler but I can't say the same thing about him using the Operator. I'm 100% not shit talking Asuna but if you look at the man's stats on tracker, he practices rifle at like a 20:1 ratio of operator.

If you look at the 100T vs Gambit match, they lost Ascent on forcing him on the operator. In Icebox, he's Reyna so naturally he's rifling. On Split, he doesn't take the same aggressive angles you see from d3ffo and yay. You see him taking more off-angles to guarantee him the round and he doesn't abuse his dash. Most of his kills in the Split game came off a combined pistol and eco kills plus rifle.

By no means do you bench Asuna. That would be insanity. But if you're looking at the reason why you lost in Berlin, it wasn't Steel. They came in with a double info team comp and it didn't do well against the Jett Operators. when 100T didn't have that in their back pocket.

This is definitely one way to not win LCQ. Weird decision considering we are so close to LCQ. This 5 went up against Gambit and won. How do you break this up now? If anything their Berlin performance was shaky because Asuana was brand new international lans and had an underwhelming performance. I don't see how you place that blame on steel.

? ... valve literally never updates their game. We get an update every week. Valve doesn't care about CSGO at all. Like 0 percent. Every time there's an update its like a pity update.

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Depends on the guns you use. Useless stat.

Counter-stratting their defender setups and being very readable. Opening round on Icebox they stacked 3 players on container waiting for dapr to peek. They utilized some interesting boosts mid to attack their slow pick opening strats on attack.

How did F4Q get defense first on both maps? They were clearly an aggressive team based on yesterday's performance and putting them on defense first on both maps was a clear disadvantage. Confused how this worked like this...

KR views on gaming allows for a large player base. When you have a lot of people and a positive outlook on gaming as a culture, kids will want to pursue it. The pursuit and hunger of being good at it causes competition. You get enough people who are hungry enough to put in the time and energy, you're gonna get something good out of it.

The scene had its legs cut out from under them when Valve destroyed the FPS LAN scene with their price increases. But Sudden Attack popped up and then Overwatch and all of a sudden you have a generation of gamers where FPS is their genre.

It's the result of Riot's "analyst desk" not having actual insight to the game. Even Shroud on his couch lazy af, drops more insightful comments on a regular basis than the casters and analysts. Shroud is authentic. Sure over time people will like the personalities of the casters Riot provides because they're there. But at the end of the day, Riot's casters and analysts are cheap mannequins at a dying department store chain dressed up in what they think zoomers think is cool.

It's always been a matter of trust. Most players don't believe a coach offers much if they're not on the same level analytically within the game. If you remove that responsibility from the IGL (i.e. watching other teams demos) then you're giving something away and putting your trust in another person to deliver a similar quality product that you would have derived if you watched the same demos. You find teams find value in providing analysts who can do this but giving the team direction as to the in-game plays in each round, I can see that being hard for a coach and an IGL to establish that level of trust.

However, sometimes a coach is necessary when you are unable to critically analyze yourself and your team's plays. But hiring someone with little not life experience or game experience to identify those things, it's a bit of a stretch.

Because at some point you have to use your brain. And sometimes experience helps.

The twitter media mob :)

In watching First Strike and JBL, I've seen nitr0 misplay his smoke + teleport more times than I can count.

What I'm getting at is that it's a new game and it takes time to be proficient. Pyth had a lot of issues in First Strike but he is definitely an investment player, like nitr0. They may not be the best now but the potential upside is exponentially higher. That's it.

Not sure why they didn't keep the roster. Davidp was not the problem. Pyth was the problem. But pyth is only a problem because he doesn't understand Valorant yet in the same way nitr0 struggles on Omen.

Any org would be crazy not to instant pick this man up. He clutched out hard in First Strike. Constantly made smart plays. oof. pyth better work out :)

They had a week's notice. You think that a team with a weeks notice is going to prepare on the same level as First Strike? It has nothing to do with trolling, it's literally a lack of time to practice.

And yeah Nitr0 calling defaults is not the same thing as Steel calling. They were trying things out. It's not about "playing serious" they will always play serious. It has more to do with the lack of time to actually practice. Then you went ape shit on my post and started talking about EU? I'm packing my shit and not coming back to comment lol... yal r weird.

I guess what I don't get by your response is that you say they will "get destroyed" and talk about how EU and NA have way more firepower... but only 3 posts below this one, "They get hype because they are tactically the best team in the world and have some of the best executes in the game."

I mean... thank you for proving my argument? I mean unless you think individually talent over team play, if so, this isn't useful.

Here's my not-so-controversial take... If we could have a global LAN after First Strike... this is how I would see it play out.

1 VS(KR)
2 Heretics(EU)
3-4 SUMN
3-4 100T
5 TSM

Just outside: NV(even after getting 13-0'd it was a comp issue) SEN(TALENT), G2 (great coaches).

It's based on the thought behind their strategies both on defense and offense. VS is the only team I've seen with both mechanics and thought behind what they do. Everyone below them can't find a way to put those things together.

They're legit mind gaming their opponents. They streamed today and let nitr0 call. Notice who called for icebox at the end? I'm sure they didn't view this tournament as serious since they just won first strike. Essentially free money, why not play?

Scream: "Valorant isn't about 1-tapping" ... still best player? :P kk

You need people to liven up the desk. I thought he did a really good job delivering energy. All of the casters are going to get more comfortable the longer this goes on. I've watched it in CSGO and Overwatch. At first they're all bad at analyst. But over time, and unfortunately it is a long time, they get better. For Jordan he's just going to get better and better. Give him time :) And don't worry where people come from, worry about the performance they put on. For a first one, it wasn't bad.