Don’t forget c0m, jawgemo, Shazham, tenz, johnqt and many others, cause they’re not the ‘standard American’

Just someone who doesn’t Identify with male or female, I can understand why you might find it dumb, and you don’t have to respect it, but just don’t hate on people who identify that way

This is in reference to the comments made towards the gc players, especially flor, which have been disgusting. No one is Identifying as a dog, that’s a whole different situation/problem. GC is open to trans/nb people, yet people are hostile to that notion

Yeah I know, but even if one person reads it and changes their perspective a tiny bit, then that’s a good enough response for me

Yeah, it sucks, I wish there was more talk on the actual val being played and less on the players

Fair enough, I just had to put it out there

Now that map 2 is over, I wanted to make this thread just to shed awareness of the correlation between GC and transphobia.
As a trans person, some of the comments I have seen on this site have been disgusting, I shouldn’t really have expected more, but it feels like the threads are never on the actual Valorant being played, but whom can be the most controversial, without getting banned
Despite being trans, even I was critical of the roster EG put together, and that criticism only increased after the keenc situation. Riot made it clear that they were attempting to put more effort into the ‘screening’ process of players, but the Malibu and Keenc situation disproved that. That split was nightmarish for trans people as myself and others, as all the threads were basically just transphobic. (In retrospect, keenc and Malibu deserved the hate), but for the players who identified as NB, there is a clear line between criticism, and hatred.

Now the flor situation is very different, yes flor is transgender, but that’s it, she’s transgender, and actually is transitioning. Yes she is absolutely cracked at val, but I don’t think that would be any different if she was assigned female at birth. GC is meant to be a space where gender minorities can be represented in an open and accepting space. Comments calling her ‘he’, or mentioning her ‘adams Apple’ or saying she should get ‘surgery’ or take ‘hormones’, is uncalled for and just mean. Flor is still young, and a person like the rest of us, let her live her life how she wants to live it.
Us trans people are humans, We live our lives just like everyone else, and we don’t even want your respect, we just dont want to be hated for existing and wanting to feel comfortable in our bodies
This is very long, and no one will probably read it, but if one person reads it and changes their mind even in the slightest way, then I know I’ve done good
And if it gets deleted, well, to the silent but strong trans community on vlr, I tried :)

Well, make sure you take breaks every now and then, addictions are hard to overcome, but with slow progression you can overcome them :)

Then log off for the day, you don’t need to get banned to do that

That’s the Czech Republic, not the Philippines if that’s what you’re thinking

As much as I want smg in the franchise system, and any org would be better than dfm, Japan deserves two orgs, they have a massive fanbase. It should have been CR instead

Legija is the coach, we’re you expecting him to be like aspas or something

I’m only saying rip to rng and Weibo cause of the Australian players on the roster

Rip to rng and Weibo, especially rng with swerl and minimise

There are more games tomorrow, it’s a show match event

This might be a bit weird, but
G2 -glance, + Bob (from c9)
Bob is probs the best gc player not at champs and imo much better at the Flex than glance, both aim and flexibility wise

smg 2-0 kru blaze

Yep, pain

i can see

why does roxi need to have her legacy game while facing smg, like where was this against half the teams in europe

Yeah it’s still moving under gunfire

I don’t disagree

It should be stated that one of the bbl players (not sure who) is playing with sickness in isolation I think, so take that into consideration

She came from supernova galaxy, she was ‘Nora’
It’s the best eg could get for keenc

Woke up early to watch this, and it was so worth it, smg trolling is goated

The main duelist is the cypher too

Yeah, I was so clueless

Boaster, fns, Ange1 and sadhaak are definitely the top 4 (In no respective order)
The 5th however is up for debate,
If you go by team results then stax could be considered, but I don’t really consider Stax’s igling to be the crux of drx’s consistency
If you go by peak achievement then boostio and benkai could be considered
Honestly, it might be early to call, but if boostio continues at this top level then he might be that 5th spot

Holy, dfm did something that isn’t braindead, so happy to see most the cr roster be picked up

unlike na, the rest of the world is a lot better with imposing gc rules and who actually is behind the monitor, especially with the bigger teams such as edg

i dont think so

Trace esports and Rare Atom, give these two teams some more time, and they might cause some damage.

Well the Brazil games are hard for me to watch cause of time zones, as I live literally half way across the world, but I did watch the highlights of the loud vs liquid finals, you’re right, they are really good, but imo smg, bbl and sr are better, but if tl win, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Honestly I might be underrating them and overrating smg and bbl cause of the dominance shown by those two teams
I guess we will see

smg, bbl or sr
smg has the highest overall firepower imo, and if they all perform then they should win, but florescent is cracked, and sr has probably the highest ceiling in regards to stratting and counterstratting. BBl has a mix of both, but if what sliggy said about their scripts is true, then they might be easily counterstratted

Players named ‘laz’ are just destined to be cracked sentinels

Even though fpx lost, seeing autumn perform this well makes me so happy

Honestly fpx have improved a lot since last act, Berlin’s aim is more crisp, and during the split match, they were antistratting te really well, huge props to them, hopefully they don’t just crumble against EDG

Yeah but you work, as stated previously, so it’s more than one post per hour

Let’s go fpx

northwood uni 13-2 FNC (northwood gave them 2 rounds out of pity)

oh wow, a team from Pakistan, with actual playing experience, defeated a team of aussies who have probably played like one match together, none of whom have previous vlr matches/experience
congratulations, massive victory for sa, couldn't beat us in ascension nor the world cup but beat us here!

they wont be top 3 or anything, but I think people are underestimating c9, sure they lost to furia at super dome, but they were probably jetlagged and tired.
if oxy plays as well as he did at redbull HG, then there is a lot of promise to this team. during this off season, they beat EDG, Drx (with subs) Fut, zeta, and took FNC to 5 with a sub. I fail to see why people are putting g2 higher than c9 when c9 have showed a lot of promise, whereas g2 haven't.

Yeah they’ve only dropped 4 maps in their last 30 matches

I honestly really agree with this, and was thinking about it myself when watching, like chichoo should always be on viper, and smoggy is a great kj, I don’t understand why they’re switching it around, this kind of unnecessary switching never works

damn the ai does not like the chinese teams

fpx 2-0, autumn legacy game
(I'm on high aussie copium, but fpx 2-0)

man this one hurts, was hoping these two teams never matched up, but oh well, as much as i love minimise and swerl, fpx 2-0

Weibo will probably get in just because they’re huge in league and have a semi solid team, I think Weibo, edg, blg and fpx are locked in

udotan is the korean jett

uk 13-8 germany