I absolutely love f0rsakeN and am so happy for PRX that they won, but I feel like not giving Alfa MVP after his performance pretty much just guarantees nobody will ever get it unless they win, my god he deserved it
at this point, it's already been concluded in another thread (I'm agreeing to the point that, yeah, Alfajer should have got the MVP award, if it's based on his performance).
But what's bothering me is the amount of the same thread, with the same of conclusion being added, just to fuel more bait and stupid arguments
I remember when s1mple lost 2-3 to Faze Clan at IEM Cologne with Twistzz having an all time great impactful performance and making the winning play in the last fifth map
They gave the MVP to s1mple because stats and he only got hate because he robbed Twistzz. Its better to give the MVP to a player that actually won the event
I know ur sad Alfa had an amazing performance and was not the MVP, but it would be worse if a PRX player was not awarded
how do you know its not meant to be like that? has there ever been a precedent set for the mvp bracelet to be given to anyone other than a person on the winning team? kangkang on edg, meteor on t1, and now forsaken on prx. all on the winning team.
so while its MVP is usually meant for the best player in the tourney, it seems riot has just silent locked the MVP spot for the winning team's players.
i mean if they told alfa that then maybe. still feels like they've just soft locked it to the winning team (kangkang and meteor both deffo were the outright mvps, but for this tourney would've been the perfect spot to give the MVP spot to someone who didn't win for once, thats why i feel like they've most likely just soft locked it)
I think we just differ on what valuable means, if a player went 3-20 and was on the team that won vs a person dropping 30, I would still argue the person doing so much better is more valuable, despite losing. Valuable just means what they're worth, and most people would rather have the person performing better
I know it's just an example but f0rsaken didn't go 3-20 while alfa was on 30-x. That's a bad example.
If you are talking about "worth", you should take note that f0rsaken performed great and won while IGLing.
I'll say it one more time, your stats doesn't worth anything when you lose.
You can say anything you want but losers are losers and don't deserve an award for losing.
The example is not to pretend Alfa played insanely better than f0rsakeN, it's to prove that the meaning of value is not purely based on winning or losing. If it was a single player game then sure, the MVP would obviously be the winner, but it's not; someone can do better on a team that loses than other people on the winning team. I would absolutely award someone for how well they did and the effort they put in, I think looking at it so black and white as someone is more valuable just because they were on a team that won instead of how well they actually did is not true