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| Registered: | March 14, 2022 |
| Last post: | August 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM |
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It is 100% more mentally demanding than most conventional jobs. I mean name one job that requires you to be fully mentally focused for several hours a day. Surgeon is the only example I can think of. Most physically demanding jobs or office jobs are pretty easy in that regard.
10× effort that a gamer does
I've worked a couple jobs and they were all so much easier lmao. As a professional gamer you have to focused during pretty much 100% of tour work hours. As an office worker you need maybe 1 hour of intense focus a day, max. Most is just autopiloting simple tasks. Same for physically demanding jobs, you get used to it pretty quickly and then it's just autopilot.
Obviously gaming casually in your free time is fun and easy but you're not doing it for the entire day, six days a week, with the expectation that if you don't perform, tou get fired.
Always easy to sit back on your ass and tell other people they're soft when you couldn't do half the shit they do.
The kick-off tournament is straight double elim with no round robin or group stage or anything. So there has to be some kind of seeding (like there was in LCQ). Now you could base seeding on last year's performance, but the Ascension teams weren't in last year's VCT, so how do you seed them? Straight at the bottom? Just seems a bit unfair since they haven't yet gotten a chance to prove themselves at tier 1 level. I feel like they should have just done a full league split immediately.
I can't believe EMEA orgs have failed so miserably in developing talent from Botswana. Huge failure on their part, finished region tbh
Yeah but the question is if they're still paying Demon1 league minimums now, because they most likely used to when he was on the reserve roster.
Nobody claimed that you said "greatly influence", as Zerphyr1 said TWICE you were RESPONDING to a guy who said Leo didn't greatly influence the decision acting like they claimed he didn't influence the decision at all. Basically
A: He didn't impact the decision that much
B: you're so stupid, he definitely impacted the decision a little bit
You didn't actually dispute the original point.
The irony in calling someone else dumb for something that they never actually said because you lack the reading comprehension...
Leo is 100% using Morse code anal beads
In literally any esport or traditional sport, tier 2 competition primarily exists as a pipeline to tier 1 competition.
If any team in a second league has a good player, they'll get poached by a top league team. Obviously every player's goal is to compete with the best.
The fact that Valorant has a promotion/guest slot system is already giving tier 2 a lot more value than any esports titles with a franchise league. Although I hope after 2027 when the 5 year contracts with the partnered teams run out, we will get an actual promotion/relegation system.
He literally just reads Twitter though. It's definitely good content but I'm like 95% certain that he does not have any contacts; most of what he says beyond literally just reading out tweets is just his own speculation.
Can you reveal what your source was for the C9 claim? Or at least give an estimate for how trustworthy this source is? Because that will be crazy if it's true.
Crazy how NIP had a team in EU, then BR, and now China
I guess the people who supported FPX last year should now cheer for the Chinese team instead of NAVI
Magnum's international record:
3 attendances
2 playoffs
1 grand final
All of M80's players combined:
0 attendances
Idk sounds like a skill issue
Germany: Ludwigshafen
Netherlands: R0tterdam
Scotland has some nice places though, Edinburgh clears
Detroit: become human a livable city.
The entire South of France minus Cannes clears Paris so hard
Bro actually summoned his Brazilian brothers 💀
Can someone post the zombs icebox compilation I'm too lazy to find it
It's probably the Neon who used to play on Akrew when they beat SEN in the open qual for Split 2 last year
vlr.gg/player/4387/Neon
Actual tournament results from a year ago are worth more than group stage games from last week.
I asked a few people, most of them vaguely knew league of legends, about half of them vaguely knew counter strike
None of them really knew about esports, but a few had heard of worlds (and knew a song or two)
The thing is, for any org to sign a woman to their main roster, this woman would have to be significantly better than the available men. Players like florescent or Mary are definitely mechanically at the same level as any Tier 1 pro.
The reason they're so far behind is that they're lacking the experience, and the reason they lack the experience is that they're so far behind. Signing a GC player to a T1 (or even T2) team is a big risk which for orgs just isn't worth it.
And on the other hand for GC players it's of course also a big risk to sign with a T1/T2 org because in GC of course they have much higher job security. This is why GC is here for the development of the scene and the long term goal is to get rid of it eventually.
There's not really any good reason to assume a biological component, because many of these effects also exist in other parts of society. I'm a bit hesitant to name examples because it often involves sensitive issues. But given the current state of research, it can pretty safely be assumed that it's purely social/cultural.
Why though? Maybe Less can give a bit of an...idk....arrogant? vibe (I personally don't really have anything against him) but I really can't see how you could hate the other four. They all seem like nice people?
I think it's very unlikely that there is a biological component to esports performance. Most likely it's a mix of esports/gaming culture, biases in org structures, social aspects like interest in gaming etc.
Many trans women grew up as boys, and were socialised as boys. The experiences they made during their youth, which have a lot of influence on competitive mindset, as well as the skills they develop early on, are often more similar to the experiences of men than the experiences of women.
FNC was pretty in form with BraveAF at the time. They got 4th in Copenhagen, they definitely could have shaken up the field in Reykjavík as well. I doubt they would have won, but the presence of two potential top 4 teams would have definitely changed things.
100% a joke. NA instead of USA, yay in Canada, so many misspelt names, Türkiye only 4 players, BR and Argentina both having the same amount of Argentinian players (1), Kangkang and Zmjjkk listed as separate players for China. No way this is unironic.
Edit: The more I look at it the worse it gets. Demon1 in Russia is almost understandable, but Ange1?? Oof
Türkiye only need 4 💪🏻💪🏻
Türkiye strong 💪🏻💪🏻
Because if we want to see the DRX roster, we can just watch VCT. Idk I feel like if a world cup ever happens, there shouldn't be more than 2 players from the same org on any country's team (at least the major countries with plenty of players to choose from like Korea, US, Russia, etc).
They are saving strats for finale against Roy's kitten shelter
"Brown" is a pretty established umbrella term for ethnic minorities in western countries that aren't black (as in, ethnically of African origin), Latino, or East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean). It's clearly not used in a derogatory way here.
That wasn't a choke, they genuinely looked super lost on their attack side. Loud's C hold was just too strong. Remember FNC also struggled early on against Furia on Haven with the same Harbour/Viper comp. Against Furia they were able to adapt, but Loud is a different beast.
It was probably more a lack of experience against that team comp. Loud simply had a good read on the meta and were well-prepared.
the way their personality is
💀
Just Google bracket reset bro it's a very simple standard concept
Obviously if there were a bracket reset you wouldn't give the top seed ban advantage.
NA finished 😂😂😂 Lemon1 biggest fraud in history 😂😂😂 Alfajer the goat 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 Glory to Armenia 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲
This better?
Clearly specifically baiting out the vlr intellectuals into arguing that because of this one match loss, NA's 2 trophies are somehow worth more than EMEA's 5, only to then be wrong about the match anyway.
That is an absurd expectation.
Not counting support players who have pretty few FKPR (specifically D4v4i, Chronicle, Suygetsu, C0m, Boaster), there are only two players at this tournament who reach this quota: Keznit and Sayaplayer. Keznit played two series, Saya three.
Among the playoffs players who have at least 0.10 FKPR, the best FK:FD ratios are (possibly with slight rounding errors)
Boaster: 2.2
Alfajer: 1.875
Aspas: 1.72
Demon1: 1.7
Nobody else is even above 1.5. According to your expectations, the only good duelists in this tournament are Saya, Keznit (and Boaster? Haha)
Ok? And T1 beat EDG at Tokyo. How is that an argument lmao
Wait what tables have turned? Where's 100T?
Boaster micromanages pretty much all the team's util
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