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| Last post: | June 10, 2024 at 9:42 AM |
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100T without boostio still top 3?
he made like 4 20-40 minute long videos about KC at the beginning of the season
It just makes sense that a person from some city like vladivostok should be in the pacific region, they are infinitely closer to servers in APAC than they are to servers in EMEA, and probably play more with APAC players. Having Eastern Russians fill an import slot just because they were born in a location that's a bit weird geographically for valorant punishes teams for trying to pick up talented players from the area for no real reason
Germans stop bringing up a single world cup match when they haven't done shit internationally in 10 years challenge (impossible)
Pacific is equally as bad as Americas is in terms of location, and the only reason EMEA isn't worse is bc they have a central location in Berlin and don't have any players from MENA or Subsaharan Africa playing
football is an incredibly boring ass sport to watch guys, especially for casual fans.
people can act feminine without being gay
the gulf is too big right now because they don't have the EXPERIENCE nor the PRACTICE that men's teams have. There's no natural talent gap between men and women that exists to stop women from competing. The reason why women's team are shit is because barely any women play the game at a competitive level so the talent pool is obviously smaller, and they don't have the same experience or infrastructure in place to help them to get to those same spots. Esports in its short history is a wildly sexist and misogynistic place, if you can't realize that you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. It's logical to reason that women would have been turned off in the past because it's not fun to be surrounded by all this negativity because of something you can't control. Valorant and other esports are narrowing the gap by giving women and other marginalized people to give them the opportunity to get the experience they were denied in the past. You just have shit reading comprehension and can't understand text that's longer than 2 sentences long you dumbfuck.
I think the highest placing teams that aren't already accepted into the VCT circuit are put into ascension
The first thing that has to change is the coach, they are far too predictable and think they can still get away with running their 2021 ass strats when the game has evolved past the reliance on set plays and more on a flexible play style that doesn't need the precise timing windows and exact utility combos DRX uses. I'm not really too deep in the Korean T2 scene to say anybody that could be picked up to help this team but something has to change
women and non-binary people have historically not had a space in the wider gaming sphere in the past, game changers is that new niche that they can have to hone their skills against others that haven't had the same opportunity. If we just threw GC teams into the main circuit they'd get ripped apart and tbh they'd learn very little. It's been widely studied that the best way to learn is to be with people who are slightly better than you so you can have an attainable goal to constantly strive towards. It's known by basically everyone that the gulf between GC teams and the main circuit teams, even the T2 teams, is massive, so the GC circuit is the best way to get these people the experience and resources they lacked in the past. It's really not hard to figure out dude just use ur brain a lil.
vlr mfs love misrepresenting a group of people with a strawman argument it's hilarious
I disagree VERY heavily with your second point. The reason C9 and EG are running budget rosters is because their financial situation is pretty shit, what they're doing is pretty bad but it's being done in the name of sustainability. Rewarding teams for investing stupid amounts of money just makes rich teams who have the money to throw around that much richer, and those orgs that don't have the clout of teams like Karmine Corp or Sentinels can't compete
Dude went crazy for NUTURN and then does fuck all for the rest of his career
The first tournament I ever watched was the NA FaZe Clan Invitational Grand Finals
He definitely raises their floor, going from one of the worst duelist players in the world to possibly the best in Americas is gonna be massive for this team. I expect them to be competing for deeper tourney runs
Hot take, but Leviatan will be a team in VCT Americas next year
Tennis is not the same as valorant bro, there's no massive inherent advantage in valorant like there is in tennis or in any sport for that matter.
Before any nerds bring up the reaction time studies, reaction time is a very small part of FPS games, and other than reaction time (which is already a very small difference) there's nothing stopping a woman from being on par with men. This is wildly different than mens and womens sports. In the video posted, Serena literally talks about how men serve harder and run faster than women do, and this is because there's biological differences between men and women that cause these differences. Physically, men are far stronger than women, we see this is weightlifting too. In valorant, you have to factor in game sense, utility timing, crosshair placement, map knowledge, and so many other things that don't have any limiting factors for women. A woman isn't able to compete in the men's ATP tour because she will never be as fast or strong as the men, but what's there to stop a woman from competing in franchising?
There's only a small handful of players I'd trust to be consistent even in T2, and an even smaller group I'd think could even make the bench of a T1 team. That's kinda the reason GC exists in the first place tho so idk why this is a debate
Just a bunch of nerds who get a power trip bc they have “insider connections”, and half the time their “leaks” are unfounded and made up. This whole “yay’s new team” bs is the stupidest shit I’ve ever seen, imagine if Fabrizio Romano refused to report on the Messi signing or Shams Charania decided not to report on a massive NBA F/A signing bc it would be funny, and these mfs expect to be taken seriously.
He was clearly the weak point of that Loud team but he is a young player that'll get better in the future, the ppl saying drop him are kinda braindead
LATAM isn't a country either
it would be a little more important in the VCLs, bc the Caribbean is a part of LATAM north
PR is a US territory but geographically it’s in the Caribbean which is LATAM, do they get to choose which region to represent?
Wtf does him being Indian have to do with anything
He’s been very dependent on Sova for his consistency, and with Sova being out of the meta except for a few maps and specific comps, I just don’t see a spot for him in T1 anymore until he expands his agent pool
The 50k minimum salary does not include sponsorships, earnings, signing bonuses, or incentives, so as far as we know players could make way more than their salary says. Lots of orgs also offer housing for their players, so that’s another expense that’s taken off. But I doubt orgs are even offering their starting roster league minimum, that type of salary is probably gonna be a thing that their bench players/loan players are paid, and players definitely won’t want to play for league minimum, that’s the whole reason why EG is kinda falling apart now. But orgs are definitely able to pay enough to pay a livable wage for players, and if they can’t then riot will keep them accountable.
Dude, the scene will be fine. The whole “budget” stuff is teams realizing they can’t just spend whatever money they want and actually have to be smart with how they use money, which will lead to more sustainable spending in the future. And tbh budget in Americas is still a shit ton of money
They were great players for their time, but they just couldn’t keep up w the meta, Derrek never really developed a Skye which is terrible considering how good she is right now and both had very up and down performances, which can’t really slide considering the talent level currently in T1 competition.
I took a month break and came back to ranked and now I’m never playing this dogshit game ever again
Orgs definitely need to diversify their sources of income but tbh there are so few routes an org could take to make money. I only rlly know the NA scene in depth but I think 100T is one of the better orgs in terms of sustainability, they have a lot of clout in the industry and they effectively utilize that to do things like high profile merch collabs. I know they are also expanding into other industries, I distinctly remember an energy drink but they have a few other things, and their clothing lines are always pretty good and actually wearable unlike other orgs (EG). And on the esports side of things they are usually responsible in their budgets and try not to overspend, and also treat their players very well while they’re rostered.
One of the big reasons why salaries were so high is bc there was a shit ton of VC money in esports bc a bunch of businessmen thought that esports would be a profitable enterprise like traditional sports were. This led to orgs and CEOs spending like crazy, and now that a lot of the VC money is running out orgs are figuring out that they are far in the red in terms of financials, and now they’re trying to just mitigate the damage. After this whole dark period I think the market should stabilize and the remaining orgs that don’t go under are gonna be more financially responsible
I’m going off of the Flynn spreadsheet one
Cryo
Asuna
Bang
Boostio
Eeiu/Flyuh
HC: Zikz
This patches up a lot of the holes with fragging/consistency that 100T faced last year, and hopefully we can keep Mikes on as an assistant coach so there’s more staff to work on game planning bc as seen in the past Mikes is a very capable assistant
Dude if the leaked 100T roster is real then I think we could legitimately be a top level team, maybe not champions winners just yet but I could see a push to be a top 3 team in Americas with NRG and C9 falling apart and Loud possibly losing Aspas
I hope 100T hires some new coaches at least, Mikes isn’t bad he just needs help with the game plans bc the load is too much for one person
that's so random wth
maybe AFK botting for account selling?
He looked a lot more disciplined with sean at coach, I think he just needs a more rigid system to play in or sum, bc when he was playing in more looser systems like 2021 100T or right now he's always just w keying in
why the fuck is Kirito in top 3
what the fuck are you talking about
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