WARNING DO NOT SCROLL DOWN FOR SPOILERS DO CHALLENGE FIRST

Another day, another challenge for the VLR hermits. Today it's something simple:

I will provide a silhouette of a player and I will be giving hints. After revealing each hint, guess who the player might be and write it down with a new line for every guess after each hint. Afterwards compare your answers!

Here is the silhouette

Hint #1

Hint #2

Hint #3

Hint #4

Hint #5

The answer was:

No winners for this one since you already will know the answer in the end. The winner from last challenge was iquickscopei for being on point (somehow).
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Good luck!

they didn't release all their players iirc some of their contracts still go into next season they just letting them explore options obv this most likely means they don't want them but 100 theives havent finalized a coach once they do their vision could involve some of these players or not but from what I am seeing the orgs vision is building something completely new so I wouldnt be surprised if max 1-2 players stay

yo

For people that like a little problem solving and a challenge. Identify the specific match, map and round this screenshot was taken in:

Here is the picture

Rules:

1. Only one submission allowed so your most earliest post will be considered. If you mention multiple in one post the first one out of those will be your submission.
2. Editing your post is allowed thus editing your submission is allowed.
3. I will not comment on wether or not a submission was correct just so I can let everybody guess and play then tomorrow I will check the first three who guessed it first to be the winner(s).

First person to get it will be mentioned in the next one. The answer for last ones was Mid Nest, the winner was Abcdefg for guessing the closet!

Good luck!

Today's challenge is a game of Valorant geoguessr but it is pixelated and you don't what map is it and you can't move around its just one picture!

Here is the picture.

To win you have to guess the map and exact callout for this position or area!

Rules:

1. Only one submission allowed so your most earliest post will be considered. If you mention multiple in one post the first one out of those will be your submission.
2. Editing your post is allowed thus editing your submission is allowed.
3. I will not comment on wether or not a submission was correct just so I can let everybody guess and play then tomorrow everyone that guessed correctly will be a winner!

Winners will be mentioned in the next challenge. Last challenge had many winners feel free to check them out here

Good luck!

oh...all good at least you finished it!

Today's challenge is a game of VCT connections.

For people who have never played before: There are 4 categories and you have to find the 4 items within those categories by finding items that would make sense to be under the same category. Like one category could be smokes and out of the 16 players there are only 4 smoke players so you would select those 4 and submit.

Here is the link.

Rules:

1. After you get everything right, you scroll down and press "copy results" after that you paste it as a post in this thread to be considered as a submission.
2. Do not share the answers with others.

Winner of this challenge may get a mention in the next post if there is not too many. Last challenge's winner was serot for connecting the 2 players in 4 steps, congratulations!

Good luck!

(If there is a mistake lmk)

yall be overrating hype man like yeah they are nice to have but there are good teams that don't have one (or maybe Im wrong I dont look at every teams comms vidoes)

yeah

Cryo won't be on a team for a while if he doesn't make the cut for 100T. Most good teams aren't looking for someone like him, I doubt he would be willing to take a cheap offer on a smaller team and will probably just wait until a spot on a good team opens up. Plus I am not entirely sure what roles he prefers but from what Ive seen the roles and agents he is good at gives him an awkward agent pool that doesn't really slot in easy on a team and him saying he can play a role doesn't mean teams would want him on that role.

Today we got another round of VLR connecting 2 players. Where the challenge is to connect 2 seemingly unrelated players through their teammates teammates teammates etc. however many times until you have connected both of these players.

The rules are simple:

1. You must connect them through teammates not people they have been in a lobby with (so opponents don't count)
2. You must connect them using matches that were recorded on VLR
3. It doesn't have to be formal teammates it can be pug rosters

For example to connect Zekken to Koalanoob:

Zekken played with Zellsis https://www.vlr.gg/530912/sentinels-vs-nrg-vct-2025-americas-stage-2-lbf
Zellsis played with Zander https://www.vlr.gg/105015/version1-vs-knights-academy-mel-premiership-s3-w4
Zander played with Koalanoob https://www.vlr.gg/399770/2game-esports-vs-m80-champions-tour-2024-americas-ascension-gf

The 2 players you guys have to connect are:

Struct to Jet

The person to do it with the least amount of transfers will win and will be mentioned in next challenge!

There were many winners in the last one! feel free to look through them here

Good luck!

(By the way if you have unique challenge ideas feel free to reply with your idea or DM me it)

bump for ppl who missed it

Im glad you had fun! I will for sure do more of these!

Im acctually suprised how many people are doing pretty good on it. I gave it to my friends and they took like at least 10 guesses each so I tht it was hard enough so I suppose they are not versed enough in vct knowledge

Edit: now that I think of it, its acctually pretty easy if you think a little I dont think my friends are good at connections

tbh this one is pretty hard like you start by looking for something in common in between the players but its not very obvious what it is

Congrats u won!

Today's challenge is a game of VCT connections.

For people who have never played before: There are 4 categories and you have to find the 4 items within those categories by finding items that would make sense to be under the same category. Like one category could be smokes and out of the 16 players there are only 4 smoke players so you would select those 4 and submit.

Here is the link.

Rules:

1. After you get everything right, you scroll down and press "copy results" after that you paste it as a post in this thread to be considered as a submission.
2. Do not share the answers with others or do not get the answers and do it again flawlessly (There will be no winner if I see this happening a bit)
3. Everyone that eventually completes it will be the winners mentioned so there can be multiple winners so don't be discouraged if others already finished it!

Winner of this challenge gets a mention in the next post. Last challenge's winner was chasethefuture for getting the exact skin and variant combination of Glitchpop Gold, congratulations!

Good luck!

Note: I don't play connections I only today learned how it works so if there are any mistakes feel free to correct me.

Apologies for not doing a challenge yesterday I fortunately have a life.

Today's challenge is you have to guess which Skin this is based on a colour palette of the gun with 5 colours.

Skin

Note: it can be variants of a skin too so make sure to mention that as well.

Hint:

Rules:

1. Only one submission allowed so your most earliest post will be considered. If you mention multiple in one post the first one out of those will be your submission.
2. Editing your post is allowed thus editing your submission is allowed.
3. I will not comment on wether or not a submission was correct just so I can let everybody guess and play then tomorrow I will check the first three who guessed it first to be the winner(s).

Winner of this challenge gets a mention in the next post. Last challenge's winner was ggd12345

Good luck!

That's the first one in 4 steps! well done

Yeah! that was the purpose! have a little fun problem solving challenge you don't have to do it competitively vs other users. I do this often when I am bored with my irl friends where we would put 2 random 4 digit id number in the link for the players and we connect them!

maybe I will think about it but for now Id recommend you do my daily challenges without looking at the comments and I can add a disclaimer for that on future posts but if someone does raise the issue again I will consider it

Wow that one is a good one, you are now in 1st with 5 steps

Well done! This one was a hard one so you did good (it took me 20 on my first try LOL)

Amazing! Well done! lets see if anyone can beat that

Rule 1: You must connect them through teammates not people they have been in a lobby with (so opponents don't count)

For people that like a little problem solving and a challenge. This time around the challenge is to connect 2 seemingly unrelated players through their teammates teammates teammates etc. however many times until you have connected both of these players.

The rules are simple:

1. You must connect them through teammates not people they have been in a lobby with (so opponents don't count)
2. You must connect them using matches that were recorded on VLR
3. It doesn't have to be formal teammates it can be pug rosters

For example to connect Zekken to Koalanoob:

Zekken played with Zellsis https://www.vlr.gg/530912/sentinels-vs-nrg-vct-2025-americas-stage-2-lbf
Zellsis played with Zander https://www.vlr.gg/105015/version1-vs-knights-academy-mel-premiership-s3-w4
Zander played with Koalanoob https://www.vlr.gg/399770/2game-esports-vs-m80-champions-tour-2024-americas-ascension-gf

The 2 players you guys have to connect are:

Wheaties to SugarZ3ro

The person to do it with the least amount of transfers within the next 24 hours will be mentioned in next challenge

The winners from last ones were Laundry and Jayde

Good luck!

yer im kinda dumb

whenever I feel like it

tomorrow

tomorrow

you too!

yea sure good job! :D

wait shit I forgot to cover that up LOL

good job!

what about which round?

For people that like a little problem solving and a challenge. Identify the specific match, map and round this screenshot was taken in:

https://imgur.com/a/FZbcOVH

First person to get it will be mentioned in the next one.

Good luck!

I am at Masters Toronto right now. I am wearing a Canada hat and blue polo. Feel free to meet up with me. Everyone else let me know what should I do here.

https://x.com/ShafanKhaja/status/1934257936492372138?t=hzj5HvBvPRjTPQ8Liho0vA&s=19

Demon1 + c0m = poop
Demon1 + boostio = bigger poop
Demon1 + jawgemo = sigma

what is this for? the win traders or cheaters?

I hope so

I don't mind that personally just its really unstable and hard to accommodate them like visa and stuff idk how it works in cs but yeah

pretty fun to watch the drama unfold

lol

yeah lol

Did bro just copy Nurfed or was it other way around

I mean they are Tier 1 teams but with all the shit going on who knows at this point

I think the idea was good for the short term to really lock in big orgs to get them invest into the scene but there are many other issues that come with it that Riot just mishandled. Plus long term it may not be feasible

fair enough

Obviously, Tier 2 has been simultaneously exploding for the past few days (TLDR: https://x.com/Takumi_Val/status/1923250822562857401) and then last night a nuclear bomb was dropped. I don't doubt that more leaks will be coming in the upcoming days from Mr.Funhaver, Neema, Seangares, Akamaru and Ari. Obviously, they touched on many issues, but you guys don't know how deep these issues go. Last night and the past few days are just the tip of the iceberg. If you guys have any questions about the topics feel free to ask me I will try to give you answers from what I know or my players who have tier 2 experience.

Now I will not be addressing fixes to all of these issues because it will just be too much but I will propose what Riot could do right now to fix this.

Firstly, they should have 2 more ascension slots in VCT. So this means there will be a total of 4 ascension slots across each region.

1. More opportunities for Tier 2 team in Tier 1 which means bigger orgs are willing to invest if they have an actual chance.
2. Maintain stability of big orgs of franchised teams and the chances of other orgs to still make it there.
3. Longer stages with more matches. I think this was an issue that has been recently brought up, but in Tier 1 there really aren't many matches to prove yourself with minimum 5 games per split. This means only after 5 games or 4 losses you can be dropped. Which can be heartbreaking to some players who have worked so hard, put in so many reps in Tier 2/3, put in so mny reps in scrims all just to be gone from that. I know this will only add one game and there may need to be a format overhaul this is a step in the right direction.
4. Brings more views and eyes to Tier 2 as more people actually care what new teams will be there next season.

Secondly, more financial support to Tier 2.

As Mr. Funhaver said yesterday, Riot picked LIGA ACE because they were the cheapest option. This has shown to create many issues even their first impressions were bad if anyone played in OQ you will know what I am talking about. Other issues include inconsistent ruling, being bribed, satellite situation, premier situation, not paying prize money etc. I know its not that easy to just drop so much money, but they have the resources to do better than whatever is happening right now. What I suggest is making bundles for the Tier 2 scene and all or at least portion of the money generated goes to funding Tier 2. Or maybe at least negotiating with other better TO's on how to make something financially feasible like offering to do some Tier 2 streams for them. Right now, it just feels like they are neglecting Tier 2 doing whats best for them and not whats best for everyone.

I am sorry if this is all BS, and I am just ranting, these are just my opinions at the current state.

Goat

Im pretty sure if G2 goes to champs which I feel like will be the case then 2g has to go to playoffs to fight for their spot at ascensions which may be the case but if they dont change up something and miss playoffs then its auto relegation