valorandom

nah it just ruins the neutral fan experience the most. Just pure example. IEM Cologne 2026. Vitality vs Falcons. You see the desk before the game and see apex giving an interview and it shows that he has won 4 majors, 37 LANs, with the little (14 since february 2025) sidenote, just to understand how dominant he was in the last 18 months. You hear analysts talk about vitality's era, so you just immediately click ''okay, these are the dominators, they have an era, they won the last 2 majors back to back, they go for 3 in a row, they are really good.'' Then you see falcons, 0 trophies ,but you open hltv for example and see m0nesy - top 4, top 2, top 4 in the last 3 years, niko - ungodly consistency and you go ''alright, so these guys are good, but they are chokers, can they get over a hump?''. in valorant you just get ''yeah so these guys finished 7-8th in their region 3 months ago, but the new meta really fits them, so they finished as the #1 seed in their region, and their opponents are kinda the same, exciting game of high seeds''. The level falls, I as a neutral fan think of these teams not as ''dominators'' or ''the best in the world'' but rather as cinderellas. And when everyone is a special underdog who turned over a new leaf, no one is.

pretty common Indian team name if you ask me