bump, love this stuff

You're not getting my point; I don't care about the semantics of this argument. What I care about is making you understand that it's ok to be impresed by and happy for some people who achieved something without always comparing them to other people's achievements you view as better.

I loved the guard run and I love this run. I appreciated the hard work of the guard players and MCE then and I appreciate the hard work of the dsg players and Ocean now. That is all.

Exactly, he did it because he cared! We need more people like him in the valorant scene.

Dude look at what you wrote. I said, "I'm super happy for the players and ocean, they did great!!", and you went "nah ocean's scouting wasn't great, besides everyone expected them to win, it's not that impressive"

Nobody likes that energy, I hope you don't bring it irl.

Mjtchell you KNOW I respect the hell out of 100T. They're an awesome team and MikesHD is one of my fav coaches. I know they're gonna do great things in VCT. That being said, they just don't quite get my fire burning like TGRD used to and DSG just did!

But! If they play amazingly at kickoff and are the last NA team standing (and aren't against paper rex or someone else I love), I will wear their flair with pride for the rest of the tournament.

I could bother arguing with you, but I'm trying to be positive here and support the players and staff who just went on an awesome run I didn't expect. Also realize the pros read this every once and a while and I'd rather they come away happy than sad. You don't gotta hate on shit for no reason man!

It's not wrong to root for someone in t1 over a challengers team? Also I really like MCE sooo

Why :( !!

I forgot how baity vlr can be tbh. Ty for reminding me.

Love you too Mjtchell!

Probably C9 because Yay was always one of my favorite players and MCE is obv my favorite coach. But I'm not entirely sure yet, I'll need to see some more at kick off before I truly decide. In the Americas t1, I also really like Zekken, Sacy, Ardiis (bc he's funny af), BCJ, and MikesHD tho. Oh and Sayaplayer in T1 naturally (excited to see them THIS WEEKEND WOOOO).

ok mr debbie downer over here. Scouting isn't just identifying good players; it's also convincing them to want to join the team (which Ocean DID). More than that, are you really telling me steel, exalt, xxif, and gengsta were even considered in the conversation for "best in their roles" in NA before this qualifier?

? What's your deal?

In fact these runs are even better because they don't jeprodize the tier 1 scene by havning more flukey teams make it! And I'd say the hype behind this qualifier was just as much if not more than that around the orginal tier 1 NA open qualifications for the group stages last year.

Between his decision to take the leap, Ocean’s incredible scouting, and the hard work of all the players (Exalt, Gengsta, Xxif, Clear, and Steel (god I never thought I would be praising steel but this dedication made me like him much more)), it was an amazing cinderella run.

Remember when people were going on about how we would never get exciting open qualifier runs anymore in franchising? Huh.

I mighttttt have to support DSG in ascension. TGRD will always be my true love, but the DSG run was so fucking awesome to watch. Watching a group of motley players no one expected to even make challengers qualify SECOND out of all teams in open quals? That's my kinda cinderella run! I don't think they'll win ascension, hell I think it's likely they'll get slapped around, but I'll still root for them :)

Also it was awesome to see Toast get so excited and proud of his team. We need more people like him in the Valorant scene (and their viewership plsss).

Zexrow KJ on Breeze is cracked out of this universe. Unbelievable scenes in the BoomTV tournament!

This game is kind of banging tbh

But we don't know valyn's going to eg right? Pretty sure there was a chance but it's not confirmed or anything. We'll have to see.

Yeah he had one shit play lmfao, what's your point? That one play is all that matters? People can't get better? Absolutely braindead reason to shit on a player.

Yeah but the rest should've been dropped for free agents imo. Like why wouldn't you want Trent over C0M and Skuba/Supaman/Zander over Apoth?

We've known that Valyn's cracked, but ppl like to discount neT's team impact too

JonahP was pretty crazy too, good on Chamber/Smokes/Initiators. The only role he didn't quite pound in was that awkward jett entry time when Saya was on Chamber.

Exactlyyy

Even ignoring his great sentinel performances (which will be far more important after the chamber nerfs), if you listen to tarik's team comms, he's super active as a caller and emotional support guy. He brings a shit ton of energy in addition to his play, and tbh EG completely whiffed by not picking him (and some of the other guard boys, Trent, Valyn, and JonahP) up. Really hope to see him playing in franchising someday!!

She's incredible, can't wait to see her in main VCT

IMPORTANT EDIT: False alarm!! I'm an absolute moron, but tbf they framed it confusingly. They put knights weekly 14 games and called them knights weekly 15 games.

Meteor on GenG

That guy fucks

Also if anyone is struggling mentally or needs help in the US, 988 is a new 24/7 suicide hotline number where someone will talk to you and listen. They speak English and Spanish. If anyone knows suicide hotlines for other countries, please feel free to drop them below.

https://twitter.com/SideshowGaming/status/1584895215156228098?s=20&t=ikzlgIEWf8jSt-rXqKiisA

Such an awful thing to go through for him and his family. Even tho a lot of you like to shit on plat chat for bad takes, lets come together for once and wish him the best.

Can't blame him for being gone from the ep tho, he's dealing with a lot. Wish him the best.

??? For Ghost? I loved that team but they didn't ever make internationals or anythings.

Literally third best proven coach in NA. I'd only put Chet and Sykko above him in terms of awards.

Marved's not playing in ascension for a bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaL7sdMzbr4

Deadass I wish every org/val team did this. They're both super down to earth, and it's a great insight into how players chose teams and how NA valorant works behind the scenes. Really good video.

Holy shit with Yay + MCE I might have to become a C9 fan

Boostio is the IGL, I think he's staying on that role

but worse midrounding

Very surprised. He's not IGLing, and Trent or BCJ or most of the other top initiator players would be a good upgrade.

Without MCE it'll be hard but I'm sure they can manage

Rachmaninoff and Ravel >>>

He did say hazed was retiring a while back, but that's about it as far as I know.

I think Sliggy wants to be more of an analyst and just make strats. If they pick up Sykko AND Sliggy that could be insane.

Dephh is also an insane IGL and I'm happy for him if he goes to Sentinels. So let's recap:

C9 has Vanity
NRG (likely) has FNS
Sentinels (maybe) have Dephh
EG has C0M (I think they're gonna stick with him)
100T has Stellar (also probably going to stick with him)

So unfortunately, if Dephh goes to sen, Valyn will likely play in ascension unless he's gonna be a 6th man (possible for sure). Hell he might even stay with Guard. Considering the free agents available even for ascension, I bet we'll see him back in Tier 1 someday. Consider a roster of Valyn, Nismo, BDog, Mada, and Moose or someone. That would fuck.

Same, he DESERVES it. Can't believe he's still underrated after Guard got 2nd in LCQ.

I'm now a C9 fan lets go MCE!!!

That's it I'm a c9 fan now. Where MCE goes, I go.

Yes, very. Both were core parts of what made their teams good (mce more than Kaplan imo)

He's def top 25 lmfao, he can play literally ANY agent at a high level

Guard is gonna make a crazy good team. Get like Nismo, Skuba, Poised, Flyuh, and idfk Demon1/some other insane chamber, and it could go stupid.

This has to be cap