We back to 2021 gambit with this one 🙏🙏

Mistic must have read this cause hes cooking right now

The fact people act like this on this site and on other sites to a literal child, just cause she’s cracked and trans, disgusts me so much, like just let her be and leave her alone

Zest looks horrendous right now but he probably just came off vacation so I’ll cut him some slack, stax on the other hand, like I know he’s the igl but his aim looks awful

Literally Lebron and AD on the 2022 lakers, they’re actually carrying so hard

D4v41 can play sova, and if you really want, forsaken can play the sova

Well that hope is going splendidly right now

potter's scouting? you mean toast's scouting and potter's poaching

while there are a few exceptions, the aussies and kiwis (and anyone else from the pacific islands) are mainly chill and just enjoy val. I know for myself, I dont really feel represented by any of the 4 leagues (i feel china represents us the most somehow) so we dont really care where people are from or not

please leave us pacificers out of this

bro is god when playing reyna on haven

that would make sense, navi is an ukranian org, so the fans might not support the russian flags next to the players

we were robbed of having a russian superteam, and it hurts.

his flexibility is really underrated, such a great player

He literally has health issues, what are you rambling about, he’ll be back come regular season next year

Her viper’s pits literally won them the series, her and Alexis are so underrated on that roster

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

Well no, Riot have made it clear that a ‘screening’ process will be implemented for GC, how good it’ll be in stopping stuff like this? Who knows. However it should limit these actions

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