oh, maybe im just washed then 😭
ive been fighting for my life to stay in diamond

damn, that's the worst i've seen anyone had it

yeah, I've been playing a lot less recently (compared to before)
the lobbies feel way harder and I feel like the amount of toxicity/throwers has increased by a lot

unironically it's at a point where i'd rather play 0 stake switfplay games where i can stop playing instead of ranked (with vague hopes to run in to a dev)

np! best of luck with your project

im ngl i got cooked
Asc 1 -> Plat 3
https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/Aayan%232005/overview

my stats on my alt are wayy better even though all I do is run it down no comm on iso, whereas on my main i actually try to be useful 😭😭

VCT might be difficult but here's a tier 2 game from a few days ago https://www.youtube.com/live/-6xLf24E8mY

brings a tear to my eye 🥲

(also don't forget mini the goatch)

https://strawpoll.com/BJnXVBN1dZv

where is cloudberry

real

went straight to navi im ngl

u rn
https://i.imgur.com/XL3xzDT.png

I don't think liquid make it either im ngl
but on the off chance they do, I had to post this

https://i.imgur.com/eV4rWqi.png

(meant to put in off topic*)

i went straight to nrg im ngl

lowkey im an npc
i just listen to whatever is on the top charts normally

recently ive been listening to a japanese playlist from n1cf recently and thats pretty good

#cloudberrieswin

bro probably has the biggest grin on his face rn

Aspas Derke plus these 4 are literally on my list lmfao
yeah I completely agree

trust the process
float like a butterfly sting like a bee
(the sting is coming soon trust)

mada is the truth

I don't use reddit
how cooked is this guy
https://i.imgur.com/lucG4iE.png

(yeah, I have a lot of posts here I know its hypocritical)

yeah i stopped solo queuing on my main account like like 2 years ago
now my duo is busy so i barely play tbh

i have an alt where i solo queue with no comms but i get bored after like 1 or 2 games

ive learned one thing today

https://i.imgur.com/TBX1aIi.png

comps DO NOT matter

we lost to clove omen neon jett tejo 😭😭😭

funnily enough
In maps:

yay 9 - 9 aspas

This will be the 7th time we see yay vs aspas

currently the score is:

series: yay 3 - 3 aspas
maps: yay 9 - 9 aspas

this is the tiebreaker

yeah exactly, I've been watching most of TL academy's matches, which has been making me watch more tier 2 in general
I hope more EU and NA teams lean in to them

I think fans gotta learn to give some leeway to the orgs
having only 1 or 2 indo players doesn't make them any less of an indonesian org

it just goes back to this:

it's absolutely fine if you want that, but then you shouldn't demand results imo.

too much time effort and money for too little imo, it wouldn't be practical

The way I see it, if you expect your teams to only pick up talent from one country without regard for merit you're setting you're setting them up to not be competitive. Sure it's absolutely fine if you want that, but then you shouldn't demand results imo. You have prioritise one or the other more often than not.

The reason regions like Korea can get away with it is because of how deeply engrained (PC) esports is in their culture, for example; you want a top tier initiator? you have 5 to pick from, I just don't think that's the case with the subregions in SEA.
I think what GE are doing is perfect, they realised that perhaps they didn't have the most competitive region, so they chose to look abroad and pick up foreign talent specifically for the roles they needed

Language barriers exists in Europe too, especially in the East. It's just a hurdle that you have to overcome.
(The level of English you need to know to comm is actually a lot lower than people think)

Yeah, not to say that they don't need to tap in to their own countries talent, but it shouldn't be a priority imo.

I'll use TS as an example: they are a PH org but they can still pick up talent from other SEA sub regions, maybe they could build a roster around 2 PH players, say 1 MY/SG player and 2 Thai players for example

I will admit I have no idea about the tier 2 SEA scene so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but I think maybe SEA could benefit from the EU approach
Instead of building rosters around primarily one country, they should build rosters for the region as a whole

For example: VIT, KC have no French players.
TH, KOI and GX have no Spanish players.
APK don't have a Norwegian player.
But all of them have 'EU players' + a few imports

I think SEA orgs should take the same approach
The only org to really do it is PRX actually, with 2 MY/SG and 2 Indo players

dawg I didn't even expect FNC to make Bangkok in the first place
I didn't see anyone else saying that they would either

(besides sentinelmain but he's known to be wrong 99% of the time)

It's not that they don't mind, I'm sure they don't
but the last time we really had a home team do well was Champs 2023 tbh

I feel like one of the few advantages of having an 8 team tournament would be that even teams who don't make it too far still get a decent amount of playtime (in comparison to teams that do make it far)

and even Talon have 2 KR players 😭😭

Not because of Bangkok itself, but because there'll likely be no home team
TLN might make a lower bracket run but I think it's pretty unlikely at this point

I think NS wins this but I really want to see a home team at Bangkok

holy shit 😭

I don't think so ngl
I think they just won't sign any new Russians, the only reason they asked Suy and Shao was bc they were already signed

they were signed before the war
NAVI also asked them to become 'non-representing'

nah lock//in not valid for me

if the reason is single elim then you gotta talk about masters berlin and champs 2021

if its about teams being invited, top 4 teams itw at the time made playoffs + nrg (5th best team) made 5th-6th

bahrain*

he must be having the time of his life rn

yeah i think role issues are gonna plague them for the whole year
demon1 needs to go on to perma smokes imo

https://i.imgur.com/VqK0UfL.png

I guess it must've worked in scrims

tbf they're playing against G2 so I don't think it's entirely fair to judge without considering that

its just how it is when a streamer becomes huge, like huge
at some point u gotta tread on eggshells with every sentence you utter, since your brand becomes bigger than you

its why I enjoy watching ardiis now, even though he's immature and often has bad takes I can respect him for keeping it real
(it's also funny when he boldly makes a claim, only to be proven completely wrong)

im free!

https://www.vlr.gg/442716/aayan-not-fraud

kamo and kamyk woke tf up

actually hold on
vlr has two different versions

the pickems is different from the main page
idk what to believe atp, logically they play against the top side of the lower bracket to avoid rematches (EG vs MIBR winner), but im not sure if the EG/MIBR/100T takes priority of if KRU does