I don't think its anything serious by the wording, it's not as if the condition was discovered by the medical test. A lot of minor conditions can disqualify you from military service, eg bone spurs.
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I don't think its anything serious by the wording, it's not as if the condition was discovered by the medical test. A lot of minor conditions can disqualify you from military service, eg bone spurs.
People tend to forget that his job is dictated by senior leadership at riot and, ultimately, riot's shareholders. That's not to say he is just a pawn, but there are some decisions he simply cannot take regardless of how popular they may be. Riot commands their esports economies, Leo has to decide who misses out and who prospers.
He could do with a social media assistant. His hair and makeup in videos are flawless but every tweet can be picked apart, it's A level english language stuff.
The message he gives is very clear to me: This is a command economy, if you don't have a seat at the top you are in service of the top. If that is a dealbreaker for you, go play cs. See league and dota 2 for a parallel.
At the end of the day, the team felt he was a better 6th than benkai. He's mostly been in watchparties and showmatches bc of his popularity in thailand, but still a pro in his own right. He's been in scrims all season so should fit well. He's good, if rusty, but he's not something. Noone else is.
this is 800 words, if you don't like reading you won't like this
It was all over bar the shouting. A superteam versus what should have been their closest competitor but on the night nothing more than a canvas. The pundits cooing, fans relaxed, players mentally preparing their twitter post while still performing at a level beyond 99% of the general population. Anyone who then switched over to watch the football would have had another 90 minutes of the same, apart from the team jerseys. And while comparing Haaland's headers to Derke's headshots still feels a little ridiculous to me, it is only because I was raised to view video games as, well, games. Executives in all parts of the esports hope that generation alpha will have no such aversion. They may well be onto something.
One the one side, we have City. This was a football club that has since become, by and large, a soft power vehicle. A monarchy, for a state with a king too unpopular to be a tourist attraction. Sheikh Mansour has done an excellent job, convincing the world's greatest coach to live in the UK, then simply providing him whatever he desires. The end product is the most expensive, most expansive team in the world, with a world cup winning striker only a substitute. They're on for three major trophies this season, yet the real prize was won last winter: Messi in a bisht. The world's attention on the Arabian peninsula for something other than war, or the deaths of migrant workers, or OPEC disputes.
On the other is Fnatic, more specifically their Valorant side. Just as dominant, just as pleasing on the eye to watch but with polar opposite optics. The players are also the best available but are likable to a fault, with backstories that are genuinely inspiring and unique. There is a captain who spent his 'prime' vlogging for a league of legends team, grinding to stay in the industry and finding his feet at the top. The 17 year old prodigy who had to ask his teammates not to bang the surfaces when they win, lest they stir anxiety borne from the earthquakes in his hometown. The 5 make decent money, but noone had parents pushing them into this career for the money. There were no summer camps at 5 years old, Valorant academies at 9 and professional contracts at 13. The result is 5 well adjusted people who are crowd favourites despite winning 19 games in a row. Tom Brady would have killed for this. IPIC could well do.
In a world where mainstream sport has been commodified, politicised and marketed to a mind numbing degree Fnatic, and tacFPS as a whole, is now a truer definition of the word than what 52000 went to see at the Etihad stadium tonight. Where else can you find such a complex contest, a battle of wits over 7 different shaped chess boards, that has the action of a great F1 race? Nowhere physically, and that is why stadiums sell out for majors and why hundreds of thousands will happily watch someone watch someone else play a videogame, to the bafflement of most people over a certain age. Esports is still in it's amateur era, much like traditional sports in the 1800's, but available to the international rather than domestic masses. People fly the white horse in Sau Paulo and Stockholm alike - the potential is alluring to even the most risk averse investor.
And herein lies the problem. Every intuition points towards this thing being big in the future. American VCs spent most of the 2010's piling cash into esports teams, wanting that future, that 140 years of cultural development, within one economic cycle. It would be like buying a mining town's football club in the Victorian era and then being surprised at your merchandise not selling like Ronaldinho's. The other half of the problem is that games are maintained by a firm, as opposed to the communities who play them. There are no player unions, only associations with superficial power. If the East India Company had sole ownership of every football field, would the game be as ubiquitous as it is today? This issue is not solvable in one article.
The uncertain future fades to nothing when I watch a match though, be it VCT or a CS major, or any other open tournament. I nod sagely at the pregame analysis, laugh at the mistakes and cheer for at least one of the teams, when neutral usually both. When it comes to taking my mind off things, nothing even comes close - especially if Paper Rex are playing. And while riot games is a Tencent subsidiary, Boaster won't be wearing a hanfu in Xinjiang province for a good long while yet. By the time someone does, I'll probably be so old I'll forget it the next day.
Instead of forcing all 10 teams to play in one stadium, Teams that are able to play at home should have half their games at home. The biggest, best crowds are home crowds, look at Sao Paulo when Loud was playing, Look at the blue wall , Look at any Japan cround.
It is way, way more expensive to run, but there are (imo) big benefits.
Sources: it came to me in a dream.
Obviously this will never happen because it would require Riot give up control, because visa issues, because most orgs are already broke having spent VC money on huge salaries and crypto, etc. But a fan can dream. I will say that the current set up is a waste of potential for all 30 organisations involved, and we all know it. 300 people to watch KOI vs KC? Give over, they could get 10x, maybe even 30x that if it was in Madrid or Paris.
I think KCorp vs Untamable Beasts would be a banger series. What other teams would you love to watch KC play, because it's clear they won't have many competitive matches in franchise for a while.
FNS making outplays both in and out of the server, most intelligent player in the scene!
All the people going "L crowd"... what do you want?
This isn't NFL/NBA this isn't a family event where you go for food and entertainment. This is Sport , you go to war for your team! The away team has to earn your respect, and your ultras will never respect them, even if it's 0-39!!
I would far rather have partisan crowds who back their team all the way, than 'W' crowds who cheer anyone on the stage like bots. Would you expect Barcalona fans to cheer Real Madrid? Of course not, why is Fnatic vs Loud any different!
Vlr stars are overrated idc.
I feel bad for up and coming casting talent that doug/balla are still getting booked for lans.
Cloud 9, one of the largest Esports orgs in NA
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kj alone with a sheriff
old TENSTAR's breeze
Paper Rex. love the playstyle, the merch, the vibes, everything. Hopefully they get into more international lans!
Benkai phoenix incoming
Choosing not to have a player side replay viewer surely goes against their marketing for the game.
unless things change serbia is the only way for russians to get into the EU, unless they defect.
The Turkish scene will be sad to see him go, great talent.
Because America is the land of the individual, at least more so than anywhere else in the world. In Europe, your local team is part of your life! Like, supporting your team becomes a weekend hobby. American sports have short seasons, lots of ads/ breaks in play, and no away fans.
OFC teams in NA have fans, but the fan culture is not there. You see this in VCT when they cut to watch parties for teams like Kru and Zeta, these teams have little history but the people support them how they support their football teams. Compare to NA watchparties... well I haven't seen any in valo yet, at least in VCT.
1-1, zombs announced as sentinel's analyst after game 2. SEN proceed to 13-0 the third map.
Alternatively, 2-0 Clanless, FURIA sign zombs as a content creator.
Could be worse, but it's getting worse.
how are guild and tenstar meeting in the r16? rito explain
Are they really as bad as twitch chat says? I thought C9W and Shopify were at least tier 3. Or are the monthlys not open to GC teams. Looking for enlightenment from vlr.gg......
2 duelists probably instalocked, cypher player who always lurks, jett's duo slampicks a sage. The guy with the worst PC wanted to play jett but sighs and plays omen. Just good vibes and cracked aim all around.
https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/vct-2022-stage-1-masters-reykjavik
Riot might notice these numbers compared to the numbers last year at the same venue. SEA has high populations, defo worth growing the game over there. Big Hopium though.
Saya is used to playing in front of crowds in OWL these probably feel like scrims for him.
No shot riot do this, val esports must be on a shoestring budget the way these tournaments are being ran.
It would be so hype if they did though, imagine DRX vs '//, prime time crowd if 200k are watching a 2:30 am start. Idk if even NA would bring so many viewers at that sort of time.
watching the spanish or japanese casters is the move honestly, I watched a game on LVPes a couple months ago and never looked back at the english language casters.
Why does riot break up the best commentary teams? I thought twiggy/lothar (emea) and ddk/sgares (na) were a cut above everyone else. I mean they weren't the greatest (drink every time sgares says the word 'insane') but they had more chemistry than the rest of the pairings at least.
I'm not aiming to beat down on the rest of the casters, like they're better than they were a year ago and riot clearly does not care about the production so long as it gets them engagement on socials. I will still be watching the Spanish production though, they're another level of good.
edit: twiggy not sliggy
Guard down 0-1, 0-12 to m3c. Valyn sighs, calls his last timeout. PROD walks on stage with Ploo, fresh off his family yacht. He kicks Saya off the chair, says "One last game before the wedding, huh?", downs 160mg adderall washed down with a tropical flavoured red bull. The guard win 27 rounds in a row. NA is saved.
Mercilessly stolen from @mike_fras on twitter.
Tired of putting florida mayhem on his back, flips to valorant instead. Put on smokes??????????? Guard scouts watch his widowmaker montages on youtube and make him duellist. Now Jett differential on tenz. What a gamer. Saya vs Cned when?
It's a big NA L.
Compare to EMEA: 8 regional leagues below the main VCT League of the top teams. Round robin league play. Promotion/Demotion events where the 2 worst VCT teams and the best teams from the 8 RLs compete for VCT
For me Patiphan has lit up almost every map he's been in, highlight reel jett plays. I haven't seen every match though, who do you have as MVP?
1000 @ 0.4 , I don't have a big mousepad so need the high sens.
240 best, mostly 270-290 range
119 hz
Gold 2
Just watch the Spanish/KR/JP stream, with ESP there's enough cognates to get the gist of what they're saying.
ascend>haven>breeze>icebox>split>bind for me
fanatic are not at the same level they were during iceland, either that or the other EU teams overtook them. They looked inconsistent this last qualifier.
This has been a great series to watch so far!
If What's Going On? makes it here, they're gonna get all the way to Berlin.
Check reverse ACS, potter is second worst (156 acs) but notice zombs is also down there at about 170ish acs and not many people say he's bad at shooting. Another example, Boaster sits at 204 ACS while also being IGL for fnatic. ACS isn't the be all and end all stat, but I think it's fair to say that unless potter improves the rest of the roster will always be feeling kill pressure.
You can argue for "the valorant world", but lots of very good pros are playing csgo instead of valorant. That said, you can only beat what's put in front of you! Also I don't think it's that crazy, one of the themes of Iceland has been NA and EU playing viper/astra and the other regions struggling to adapt. The one time they played EU, fnatic almost took icebox off of them and most would back fnatic against the likes of ANDBOX.
Edit: forgot icebox was fnatic's map loool mbmb, ice cold take
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