Horrible format, no Lan so far, poor scheduling, horrible production, and first time the tournament has been run. What do you expect?

The first few games weren't even streamed.

Money is only one factor. I could hold a 3 million dollar money match bo1 in my backyard and it wouldn't make the victor the best team in the world.

The team did matchfix tho. The cheater allegations are the only ones that are weird.

There is definitely match fixing

Grooming is not worse than it was before. Obviously not. It's just taken a different form.

Sinatraa's case had a lot more supporting evidence than Flor at the time, including a pretty damning voice recording. The way they're handling this honestly isn't too inconsistent with how they've handled other similar cases.

I'm pretty sure Sinatraa's case came literally right before the first international masters too, whereas Flor isn't even currently playing.

fr tho they're hyping up the investigation like a crypto scam that will never deliver...

Definitely real though. Wouldn't make much sense if it wasn't, and there's plenty of corroboration.

surprisingly, truck driving is significantly worse on your health

And CS hasn't?

FNS with his achy joints

I don't understand how we still have the reputation as the "woke" country with Trump in office. there are plenty of more left-leaning countries...

If our second-third seeded teams get exposed again like Sentinels did at the next international then yes. These teams are random as fuck tho so who knows.

Unironically some people are just better at playing on bad teams. Others look bad, but then bounce back once they're off.

She's playing on the worst EMEA team. The vast majority of duelists would look shit on Apeks. I don't even have that high of expectations for her outside of Apeks, but this is clearly not a fair shot or a good representation of her talent as a player.

I don't really know of anyone calling him the goat IGL unless they just don't know any IGLs. He's also really not as bad as you're making him out to be. He's been pretty bad this year, but the end of last year can be forgiven with how sudden it was, and he's been consistently fine besides his standout optic years. All his other teams succeeded and were pretty good. Might be washed now, but saying he's always been bad is revisionist.

Unfortunately, trans hate is one of the number one talking points for the right rn. In gaming, where most people ignore politics or social issues because they aren't effected and are used to toxic in-game lobbies, they also tend to have little to no empathy or understanding of trans people. Valorant is actually one of the better of esports for them since they actually try to keep things civil and fish out some of the weirdos, but it's still not great by any means.

There are still many pockets of the scene that are trans-friendly though, which is a rarity for an esport. I would seek out and enjoy those, since you have little way of changing the minds of people who don't care or aren't empathetic enough to see reason

val is actually really balanced compared to a lot of other games.

People will never be happy tho, just want to be mad at the game.

mid off

alright then, back to not caring.

Is this content creation or actually on the team?

me when im dumb

G2 number one.
2G, Furia, EG bottom 3,
Random number generator for the rest

Can yall take us over instead?

honestly not a lot of people actually say it, but it's silly so it's peak

dont worry I prejacked the disappointment. I'm expecting win against only 2G and maybe EG. No way they do worse than that... right?

wait I just looked it up NRG didn't apply either? Is this a rare NRG W in 2025? I thought I'd just be getting disappointments all year

you aint normal buddy. ur ass is on vlr

he wont get arrested or charged for it, but people don't have to like it lmao

what?

I love the content of the Re:Zero webnovels a lot, but holy lord is it sooooooo slow. They be dropping 1 million words on one arc that could've been a fourth of the size

its a 2 sentence twitter apology, that shit takes nothing to do. prob just him and the org want to put up a more professional front and not drop pseudo-slurs on a podcast.

every team except t1 is bad, actually.

very normal forehead actually

what you mean?

You're taking shit way to seriously bro. You're writing literal fanfiction about them wanting to clown on every player.

They spent a lot of time gassing up T1. More than G2 that episode, actually. They just also think G2 looked really good and was the best team over all at the event. They also think T1 is clearly at least second best team and is also really good. They are allowed to have opinions.

damn you cooked him

its his cachiest tho

It's kickoff. Regions always feel weird in kickoff. Teams will probably get a lot better and a lot more even as the year goes along.

I just hope 2G and Furia stay the same. They're funny

If you're gonna bait at least make the bait readable. This capitalization is hurting my eyes

Most of the time they only criticize the team as a whole, and when they do call out specific people for poor performances they aren't actually that harsh about it. They don't act like some people are "absolute shitters" and I have no idea where you got this idea.

Let the analysts be a little bit candid. It's refreshing. You're giving way to much special care to the players. They're public figures, they can take some criticism on their gameplay.

"Also, it annoys me when platchat nerds present 'Oh, sideshow said this' as a shield to their argument." Has anyone ever actually said anything like this? Most of the posts I see are always clowning on plat chat preds on this site.

They're podcast is made to be entertaining and talk about the game they are invested in. They've always openly said not to take their predictions or power rankings too seriously and that it will all probably be wrong. They also often call each other stupid for wrong takes like this. And, I mean, if you don't judge teams based on what you analyze or see in the moment then what is even the fucking point of predicting?

Also, we forget that Trace was literally in 7th but Bren single-handedly put them in 5th because they decided to let him have a free spot change because he got something right in the past.

OW too, and a lot of fighting games (especially in the past)

I also don't buy the Korean eventual domination narrative, but they still do notably well in a lot of esports.

nah. Grand finals may be boring, but most matches were pretty entertaining.

they dominate in way more than 1 esport. Just not as much in fps games.

all of them

I was on ur side then I realized u might actually be racist.

I don't think the crowds are as hype, but everything you talked about still happens in non APAC crowds. I like this current one better than most tho

i mean any team can get burnt out, but also this core has been steadily improving for so long we can probably afford them some faith to not fall off like some others. who knows tho

your looking at the wrong viewer numbers friend

The Guard is one of the few orgs G2 can claim they actually have better management then

me when i spread propaganda

surely we're not deadass right... he PROVED he was the best in NA last year...?

brother, you have to at least make the international stage to prove anything.