genuine not racist question

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vlkwgn

has their been any black pros in valorant, at least T2 or maybe even T3?

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zeldris

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sheahhhh

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also HackNaija

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blaezey!

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YaBoiDre

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zen-o

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he's a quality engineer at Riot now iirc

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FireII

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M8 TakaS

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BrotherMan

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somebody said valyn is black/half black.. yaboidre used to play for 100T and luminosity way back then.. hes now an engineer for Rito

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thenutoriousPRO

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yaboidre dgzin etc

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grenji

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Dgzin and Valyn no?

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michaelisupset

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valyn (im pretty sure?), dgzin, virtyy. thats all i can think of off the top of my head

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Lebron James will join SEN next year

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Yistyy

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dgzin aka "the CJ of valorant" - keznit

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BoF7ooM

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TakaS literally in franchise. Dgzin was in franchised league last year.

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saebr

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is there a reason why there's not that many black players in franchise? are there more in esports for other games? idk i dont watch other esports

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thenutoriousPRO

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black ppl dont play shooters that much(im black)

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vlkwgn

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I've seen a lot of black FN pros though but maybe its just that FN is super big especially at its peak

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thenutoriousPRO

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fn is more engraved in black culture. lots of big celebrities like drake and travis scott play it, and lots of "w/l" streamers like adin ross and speed play

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are you saying that black ppl are more likely to be a fortnite pro because drake played with ninja once and travis scott had a concert?

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thenutoriousPRO

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yeah

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It's all about representation isn't it? Have any black artists done any of the cinematic music or tracks in valorant? Are there any famous black people who aren't famous for playing valorant who have played the game and promoted it? Even in terms of agents, there are only 2 black agents out of over 20 now. I get that riot tries to appeal to all ethnicities when it comes to agents, but these are all valid point, on top of the fact that there is no market for valorant in Africa either, so it makes sense that there aren't many black pros because there aren't that many black valorant players to begin with.

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ericdoa made lightskin anthem does that count

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FireII

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ericdoa is a goat bro 😭😭😭

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jvre

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black people definitely play val wtf do you mean bro, its just massive in the black community yet because pc gaming isnt

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TM06Nick

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It's more so that they arent PC gamers. Console/handheld gaming is bigger

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thenutoriousPRO

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true

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saebr

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i see, this makes a lot of sense! thank you

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TM06Nick

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Like the FGC is a fairly mixed community whereas pc pro fps gaming is not

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jvre

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This is true, not many of us play on PC when i switched from PS4 to PC i ended up buying a PS5 because most of my friends refused to put the money into a PC and switch. I'd personally love to see more representation in the league but console is still the current meta for black people

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vlkwgn

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thank u guys for answering my question

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pa1nt

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Fhhtfgh

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Takas, dgzin, yaboidre and in t2 there’s Pa1nt, zeldris, virtyyy

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whizmeister

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Yaboidre luminosity legend

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Skuul13

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gtn
played for vikins, mibr and most recently red canids i think

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FireII

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VCT legend
Always gonna remember the yoru on ascent and haven against TL in 2021

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gtnyorugoddestruction

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0fcuZ

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Why would you add not racist in the title... It's a valid question.

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vlkwgn

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so people don't get the wrong impression just incase

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eeee333e

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ive already reported you many times

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mxchelxz

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yes there are, but its like 5% of the pros or even less, sad to see this difference

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Fns

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0fcuZ

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LMAOOOOOOOO. He is not black, he is brown my guy

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sleeek

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Didn't he said hes from africa instead of india

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FireII

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He’s Indian
He was born in Tanzania or something

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koromast

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wait idk if you baiting but tanzania is literally on africa how is he indian

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FireII

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like ethnically brother
his family from India
his name is Pujan Mehta if that ain’t indian idk what to say

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koromast

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i know he is indian but i got confused by the "born in tanzania" part

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sleeek

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so... can he say it?

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there's a small representation indeed, but there are a few.

however, this is not a valorant pro thing, nor is it an issue of potential talent, rather it's a PC gaming thing. most black gamers (in NA and UK at least) are console oriented

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They should give direct slot to Countries from African Continent to Masters

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asian plays pc games from young age cuz parent aint buying no console to them. they play on their dads' thick ass slow laptop to start their gaming journey.
white and eu folks play pc games too cuz console fps aint that big overthere.
american white, half console half pc
american black, black family dont got money for pc. if anything, they will buy their children console to play games.
africa black, no access to pc and internet.

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jvre

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ok lets relax a little bit, there are wealthy parts of Africa that can afford pc's and internet. And most black american families contrary to popular belief can afford nice things, PC gaming just isn't advertised a lot to us until we get older.

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african americans play fps games just not valorant rlly
they are rlly good at console games tho especially fighting games (ninjakilla in mk, sonicfox in every game, light/kola in ssbu)

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LTG ☠️

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afflict3d

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he is not good

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curry

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afflict3d

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curry is pakistani/indian (imma be fr i dont remember)

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bruddah

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that brother is indian not black

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dre
takaS
bramz (idk if hes of african heritage but ik he was born in tunisia)
gtn
dgzin
zeldris
valyn
pa1nt
virtyy

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koromast

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i see people counting virtyy so i guess mininiwde and xhowi they are cracked on vcl latam and NA collegiate but idk if they are vct ready ngl

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gentlemates

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dgzin

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cioccolat

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dgzin, havoc is mixed, stk (Loud coach), gtn.

there are also quite a few in BR Tier 2