I need to shut up

Random Danish stack really out here giving me hope in Danish VALORANT again

Be random Danish stack
Have no prior achievements
Beats 2 teams in dominant fashion
Refuses to elaborate

delay over game live

all matches are live now

All swedish people transition to mushroom and berry picking with their grandmother in the Swedish woods when they aren't competing in esports

living in the forest picking mushrooms and berries with his grandmother

make that 50 with sheriff only

Ex-SNS and Requiem vs Ex-Requiem and SNS absolute cinema

Soulcas and Kaajak but they're both wearing glasses to hide their secret identity

I'm in your walls Schnee (your waterpipe needs maintenance)

You got a source on that bud?

Not reading allat bro

Completely agree with Sliggy on this

Gonna waffle a little to help the scene understand why things aren't so simple:

Riot can't allow gambling in VALORANT for one simple reason, their target demographic

VALORANT is rated +16 and their target demographic is teenagers and young adults, therefore they cannot allow gambling sponsors into their eco-system as it would result in Riot potentially being banned from advertising VALORANT to their target demographic in states like California and regions like EU. There is a reason why Valve does almost zero advertisement for games like Dota and CS2 and it is simply because they don't wanna get even more fines from governments. The reason why Valve for example removed in-game banners in Dota 2 right before this years The International is 100% because they got a letter for either the EU or the Danish government about potential fines as teams used those banners to advertise gambling sites which are banned (For example 1XBET one of the biggest sponsors in Dota2 is banned in Denmark)

From a tournament organizer perspective, it is easier to fund tournaments in CS due to how much gambling sponsors and trading sites offer in funding compared to other industries. A snack sponsor gives max around 100k in sponsor money for a full year if you're lucky but 100k is not a lot when running a year-long high-end production circuit especially if you want to pay your staff fair wages like us.

1 matchday can easily round up to 2k-5k in wages (If you pay your staff) and a regular split in Challengers is a total of 24 matchdays which means 1 split can cost anywhere between 48k-120k now count as a second split and then a third split and then you realize this shit is expensive af to run and then you also have fans and teams expecting LAN finals, full studio production and all that which can easily drive up the cost of 1 split to 200k-300k AND THEN teams also expect an additional 5 Billion Dollars prize pool like that can suddenly appear out of the thin air

In CS meanwhile, unregulated gambling sites will just slap a 400k-800k cheque in your face and boom you got yourself a tournament with a 50-80k prize pool + potential LAN + a fuck ton of teams match-fixing + if you're lucky an actual profit from your tournament. The issue with this is the long-term funding though as governments are cracking down on gambling harder each year and CS has become less and less interesting for other brands to sponsor as your brand will be next to a random totally not russian bookmaker site who has been bankrupt for 5 years but is for some reason still running

Open System works in CS right now, but if that's the case in 5 years from now is uncertain tbh

Heesu my OW goat not mentioned this is disrespectful

XXiF hasn't played the game for the past 3 months

Worked with Chiwa back in Who Cars, amazing player, insane work ethic and always cuts the bullshit and says things direct

Need more like him in the scene

Me, Kuba, Tex wearing a wig, Gob B and Aspas

It's an open qualifier why would it be broadcast?

• Aspas
• Niko

This ain't even close to half of the players Apeks has trialed

FREE MY GOAT

McNuggets sweep

Esports is all about strategy, teamwork, quick thinking and reaction time.

VALORANT is available as a course in some places but it isn't popular enough to be an extracurricular sport in schools, mostly local sport and youth clubs offer VALORANT as the game is popular with kids between 10-15 here since most of them come from Fortnite

for example I coach VALORANT here in my hometown once every week

you can't get a degree in CS, but the military does favor people who competed in esports

Esports things.

A majority of schools offer esports as an extracurricular sport, bunch of different local or district tournaments which you can participate in and a lot of the former Source and 1.6 pros are coaches at schools these days

CS is a national sport for us Danes, we'd need another Astralis to make VALORANT relevant in Denmark

Yeah they're only playing the qualifier for HGE, quite unlikely they will continue under the org afterwards

Turns out that money wasn't real

Nille was carrying your ass

Petition for Tarik's Allstars logo to be a flair we can use

Okay fine ._.

I pay my players with Tesco meal deals

Fine I'll do it myself then

now we only need Al0rante in VCT and then DACH won't have good players anymore 🙏

Apeks do better scouting than most VCT teams, they know they can't fight with the offers from other teams so they're actually using the off-season well instead of rushing into signing players

They can definitely cook IMO, get 2 young guns into this core and they can cook ngl

per BoDork on X

I have never said that😂

A Jax er fremtiden

Don't wanna speculate but pretty sure that's what they want

EF likes to play around with Xeus' buyout depending on the organization

Teams put higher buyouts on their players during the Challengers season to avoid having them poached mid-season by VCT teams. These teams are fighting for a spot in VCT so losing a player mid-season can affect performance for a lot of teams

Thanks for bringing awareness of BEACON! <3

I'll start watching GiantX matches if they pick up Click and Profek

I believe they have bought the TO of Polaris and they intend to do it themselves.

False, Apeks has not bought the TO of Polaris and they do not intend to run it themselves. Challengers North was previously under Promod who filed for bankruptcy, in 2024 the license was acquired by MistGames.

But the rumor is they plan to become full time tournament organizers, and that they were gonna shut down operations as a team if they didn't ascend.

Incorrect rumor, MistGames and Apeks are separate companies with separate staff. Apeks is not shutting down, they're re-evaluating their business model to ensure that the company survives and have therefore paused operations in other esports and prioritized the one which had the most success which was VALORANT. If Apeks will stay next year if they lose Ascension that still is up for debate but I would argue they will try 1 more time with VALORANT. Unlike what Ardiis says Apeks is not spending a lot of money on VALORANT. They can get these players not because they offer a massive bag but because of their reputation as an organization and how they treat their players.

Please stop making up shit

Welcome back nataNk

This is false :)

underrated pickup good start from GiantX this off season

I'm blind apologies (also just the entirety of Turkey should just be listed here)