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It means he only lost the scrim partners because of his conspiracy schizophrenia.

Salute for you

Almost all Tier 1 teams rarely scrim each other during competition.

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The LCK is still the strongest in the world, even though 85% of the spectators and fan clubs are female and fans are always mad every day.

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Holy shit biggest banger of vct pacific history!!!

It's quite possible for DFM, but please put SSeeS in, gyen's smoke play isn't even tier 2 level. PRX will bite an rattled asshole like him like a dog. if gyen comes out as he is, it's 2-0 PRX.
What's the guarantee ssees will do better? Shooting blah blah blah, at least he won't be using skills that help his opponent.
Stop with the delusions of 'possibilities' 'Talent' like shitbags, you guys need to win now.
Meiy, resist the urge for nepotism for a while, he can stay with you for a year anyway.

B-b-b-but cned has a trophy...

SK is not the smallest region in the PAC (even demographically, as SEA is not really a single region and is disconnected), but the largest. As a quick example, there are more PCs capable of running Valo at 120+ frames in Japan (125 million people) than in SEA+SA (more than 1.5 billion people), and South Korea (50 million people) probably has twice as many as Japan.
Riot planned to give KR five slots in the early design stages of the league, and they were probably right.

I thought GE looked quite better, but thanks for the free win again.

DRX 2-1

It's not as easy as you think. It's not part of the same language family, so it's much more distant than the Spanish-Portuguese-Italian relationship, and the writing system is completely different.

Saya is a huge weeb, so he probably learned it as a hobby, but Korean players usually learn whatever they need to. In Valo, usally it's Japanese, but many league players are familiar with Chinese. They won't hesitate to learn a difficult language like Arabic.

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Good smartphone benchmark program / Shit as game

Ask looks exactly like a friend I was close with in college. I have no idea who he is, but I'm rooting for him.

Actually these DFM random guys look quite better than the Zeta's I've seen sometimes.

Honestly, he did many great jobs, except for a couple of predictions he got wrong.

This is because the organizer of VCT CN is not Riot itself. It is organized by TJ esports, a subsidiary of Tencent, so there is more independence. This is already the case for the LPL.

I remember Lakia was very complimentary of JA. But he's too old.

Wouldn't 'COULD play in Tier 1' be meaningless if gyen is a Tier 1 player?
Do you think they all could have 1.0 ratings?

Then jerkoff time

It has nothing to do with the esports scene, but just an off topic, younger players could benefit from learning a bit. They should only play HK instead of Tokyo. The culture of Japanese ranked games is a disaster. They dodge and delay decisions even in rounds that are only 2 minutes long. If you want to be a pro you should never get into this habit.

The funny thing is that the playstyle is the same from Ranked Games to Semi-Pro to Pro. Old Zeta had the most boring playstyle in the world, where the only strategy was to sit in front of the site and do nothing until 30 seconds.
In every other country, the styles of ranked and professional teams are dramatically different. Japan is the only place in the world where this is the case, which is what you can feel how strong their avoidant tendencies are.

There are plenty of videos like this in League already.

Japanese are genetically identical to Koreans; there is no biologically meaningful difference between the two.

Kicks should be able to do a little better than it does now.

Syouta is more proven and valuable than whole 3 rid players. xdll and Clz were similar to the 3 rid players and not too bad. at least their stats do.

Their teammates make a difference too, Seoldam was the dominant player in the league and Joxjo is the most prolific winner. TENNN, on the other hand, came down from tier 1 because of vision problems, and GON is just a meme player. Nevertheless, the final was intense.

Also, whereas Joxjo's igling was a necessity for rid's performance, Clz is an igl. He's just ready to use.

At least on paper, it wasn't that bad choice. Weren't every Japanese happy at the time? Their hype was quite loud, like a decade-old wish come true.

Umm... In Asia, the export market is monopolized by KR and Russia/CIS, who have proven to be relatively good at adapting to foreign environments.
In Korea, it's become an industry because of LoL, and there are agents and managers who specialize in imports, and English teachers who only teach pro gamers. If you want to recruit a Korean player, you can buy him like pressing the buy button on Amazon.

No one will choose a Japanese player when they are equally good. If he's slightly better, still he won't be chosen. He has to be very, very much better than everyone else to be considered. But in reality, on average, Koreans/Russians are quite better.

It's not easy to break through this. There has to be a change of perception, not only of the Japanese players, but also of the clubs. That's why I have some respect for Evi and Team heretics.

They were very good at antistrat on bind. we have to face it. T1 had a similar default setup to the offseason, where stax's kay/o flash didn't work at all for bme, while prx fell victim to the same strategy.

NS matches were just shooting and not that high level. But they seem to be mentally comfortable in BIND.

Dude, in a tournament where you're eliminated after 2 match losses, you're an asshole for letting own team lose 3 in a row on one same map. juvnile bro...

They lost two straight to zeta in Haven.

Zeta players are famous for not play ranked games(especially dep). Well, at least they're just a 'team'.

I wonder if Boostio will still be tweeting hilariously the day he finally loses his job. Do you think he will?

I hope he signs a lifetime contract with 100T. Including a hefty piece wage for jumpshot tiktok he makes. I think every Sentinel fan would agree.

Wow, it feels good to be a god. By the power of the god, I can perform the miracle of seeing the future.

Of course so can you. Believe in JoHnTa, and watch your team truly come together, yes, yes! Witness the miraculous progression over the course of the stage 1 as you watch -20 players become -15, and 0:2 losses become 1:2 losses. Faith will lead you to the golden path.

And after that, you'd better find a good player at next Japan Split 1 for replacement anyway.

If T1 wins, there will be at least one Korean team in Bangkok.

Pure coaching can't turn a trash team into an invincible one. Termi knows this, and since the end of the Old VS era, he's turned around and kept changing players at every stage, which is why he's one of the greatest coaches of all time.

Sylvan was who chosen over Akame.

Please just go with ssees, gyen's split omen is neither tier 1 nor tier 2. I've only seen him use paranoia correctly once in 26 rounds long game.

GE spends $2m to just build a base camp in South Korea. Can other Indian clubs do the same?

Honestly, I think RRQ is more composed team. I hope I'm wrong.

There are only three 0 korean teams in the PAC. It's just a coincidence.

Kushy>primmie, primmie eats up time and bait as much as he can for just adjust shooting angles, while kushy is the perfect team player and uses his skills damn well, and can frag while doing so.

NA?CN?KR?EU? OK it's probably unfair to compare them.
Japan has had 100x the interest of the entire SEA (oh yeah, they have a better past than Japan, but can you really call 1-2 CS teams a solid base?) since the game was released.

Of course there's no time for them.... Valorant is a 5 year old game. Modern esports as a whole is only 25 years old.

I understand the choice to bring in FENNEL instead of RID. It was a bad choice, but it's logical and makes sense.
Syouta was more valuable than all 3 of RID's players combined. He is the only Japanese player who can match the import corps' ratings for many years. Meiy was also not as good as Syouta in tier 2.

The other two and riddle's 3 were similar, they were all just 1.0 rated players. Just because xdll and clz got completly smashed in tier 1 doesn't mean that suddenly RID players were much better.
Besides, Joxjo's shotcalling was what made the 3 rid players stand out, and without him, their strengths may reduced, and if they were to bring them in, they'd be left without a player who adapt at igling on Zeta.
Clz, on the other hand, is an igl, and you can solve your problem by just bringing him in.

Easy solution, right? But Hiroron was also a tier 2 player with a 1.0 rating. You should have been able to intuit the problem here.

The root of the all problem is that Laz is retired. He was the best player in Japan in 2024 (even Meiy has a lower average rating than Laz across all stages average.) If Laz remained and you had just brought in Syouta and CLZ, it wouldn't have been as terrible as it was. but he retired and xdll came. Instead of your best player, you added a mid player 1.
CLZ, Xdll are not significantly better than Hiroron, Yuran, which means Syouta would have to be very good as Laz to make at 2024 Zeta power at best. And the 2024 Zeta was shit.

And Syouta got mashed in the first two games. Now you have an even worse team.

I don't blame them, because they didn't really have any Japanese players to choose from. If they had one more player who was as good as the imports group, I'd be calling Zeta org stupid. But tier 2 japanese players of last season are all pretty much the same and bland.

I've said on VLR about 3 times since the Zeta roster was formed that even if they do well, it will be just the same as 2024. As you sow, so shall you reap.

This is because it's not actually a valid comparison in terms of regional position.
The Americas country equivalent to SK is US. Both have 45% player stakes, home stadiums, and Riot branches (Americas - Riot HQ, PAC - Riot Korea) that control the other subregions and organize the leagues.

The APAC equivalent of Brazil is Japan. But this is fucking preposterous!
It's a ridiculous comparison. The subregion structure of the two leagues is not the same.

If you're talking about pure skill and not league structure, we should just watch the real game.

Unfortunately, it's unlikely to remain into next season...