Dude thank you so much! Comments like this are so kind and really motivate me.

Lol I appreciate it. I guess that's just the tone I write in, but I'll consider that in the future!

Great comment, I really appreciate it! Noted for the future

Oh haha, BenPom is my team strength rating algorithm. It's a personal rating metric I tuned. You can check out its applications and how it works here: https://bobo-gg.net/mapelo/

Pythagorean is a sports metric that uses differentials in any sport to determine what percentage of games a team should win. In this case, its using round differential, but in baseball (for example) it uses run differential. It's just a slightly more meaningful version of Win%. You can read about it on my website here: https://bobo-gg.net/mapelo/pythagorean/

I'll respond to this once, but every single word is written by me. I spent >10 hours writing this over the past week, so I don't appreciate just calling it AI slop because there are a lot of words. There's an AI disclosure on the home page as well. All words and narrative are my own writing

https://bobo-gg.net/articles/masters-london-preview/

I would love for people to read it and share any thoughts!

This guy came in and saved the most clouted org and won a masters in his first event as the IGL

Quite literally the dream start, and then bro's done nothing since then

Crazy

What is the time window for making transfers between W1 and W2 for VFL?

Are they all in America now with VISAs? Will they be ready to play for split 1?

Kinda a niche question, but wondering what y'all think were the best team reactions to winning an international

Off the top of my head:
2023 EG was great with Boostio in shock, Demon1 on the desk and cursing in the interview, C0m's dedication to his grandfather, Potter hyping up the team, etc.
2025 PRX where all of the players were crying and relieved after years of second-places, esp with Davai, that was so cute

I'm just watching them back and getting emotional lol

Who is the igl for gentle mates? I thought it was minny, but my friend says starxo

MIBR went from qualifying for Masters Toronto and getting top 4 in Champs for 2025, to failing to even qualify to a Masters in 2026. They let Aspas daddy MIBR and pick up T0x while dropping actual good talent like Cortezia and Artizin. Aspas wasn't the reason MIBR was good in Champs (he just baited) while his teammates like Artizin and Cortezia were the actual fraggers/selfless.

Before people say I'm wrong, why is Artizin the first seed at Masters Santiago? Where is Aspas? Probably in Cancun.

MIBR should've dropped Aspas instead of letting him run a fascist regime over them and picking up his amigos.

this is unfortunately correct

https://www.twitch.tv/n4rrate

This dude sounds the happiest I've heard him since joining SEN lol

Bumping Drake and saying vibes are immaculate

Dude couldn't wait to leave SEN

Alfajer bro

Holy negative ball knowledge

Didn't watch the Pacific game - what is the round where Kushy planted that everyone is referencing?

Who y'all got

https://www.twitch.tv/florescent

Curious about others' opinions. She's at 2.4k viewers which is an absurd amount (for reference, jawgemo is at 800 rn), and chat is barely moving.

Yeah, but I disagree with that, dude was frying on initiator. Anyone complaining is stupid. He was the best player on SEN when he was on initiator in Toronto/Split 2

I'm a big believer in this team, especially N4rrate, but idt N4rrate duelist is gonna work out (especially his Waylay)
If they bomb out, the fix is obvious:

• Drop Kyu and put N4rrate on initiator
• JohnQT back to IGL'ing
• Reduxx full-time duelist and pick up a cracked flex (e.g. JonahP)

You're not wrong yet it's still ragebait lol

Thinking about being on FNATIC rn

This is a thought I had from a recent FNS stream where Crashies straight up said "I wasn't close with Chronicle"

Back in the prime FNATIC days, Chronicle was clearly closest with Derke and Leo as a close second
Especially with it now clear that FNATIC isn't the highest paying org, I'm surprised Chronicle didn't leave sooner, with his closest friends from the roster gone in 25 and better pay elsewhere

Imagine being JonahP and G2 win their first international with fucking BABYBAY while you're benched

Fuckkkkkkkkk

God bless

Why does this dude talk about reduxx like it's a fanfic lol

"the flashy teenager says 'don't forget about me...'"

yes

I'm pouring honey on you my goat

They're legit joking about a handshake LOL it's good vibes

Lol I been saying I'm glad he's gone

Don't miss having to watch this

I don't follow gc too closely, but how is she competing? Every time I watch a game, she's at the bottom of the leaderboard. Every time I look at VLR, she's the lowest rated player in a match. Even if I look at Pro City, she was at the bottom of Pro City's leaderboard. I don't even think she's radiant, iirc, like she's barely immortal. How is she allowed to play pro? Genuinely, this isn't even hate, just usually a player like this wouldn't be allowed to compete.

Who are the best free agents left in NA? Eeiu is the only one the really comes to mind, I think he's insane - maybe a top 3 initiator in Americas. Other than that, Demon1 and Dgzin are up there I guess?

so down

https://www.twitch.tv/zekken

this chat genuinely unreadable LOL

Nats is on his hands and knees begging to leave

Verno punched Zekken

NATS COME, I KNOW YOU DONT WANT TO BE ON KEIKO-LESS TL

Zekken doesn't want to be the star LOL. He likes being the sidekick. Did it for Cryo on XSET, TenZ on SEN, and now Aspas on MIBR. Doesn't matter if he's the best player, he doesn't want to be the core of the system/franchise.

Please drop Zellsis next

Purely from the start of 2025 to the end, who's strengthened their argument for GOAT more?

Chronicle: went to 3 grandfinals, was maybe the best player in one of the tournaments (EWC), and won stage 1 EMEA

Aspas: took MIBR (LOL) to two internationals, bombed out at one of them playing horribly, but then also dropped one of the best performances of all time at Champs, including a top 6 finish. He also got two records:

• Broke the bo3 kill record at an international, taking it from himself
• Tied the record for vlr rating at an event post-franchising (1.33 at champs), tied with Tokyo Alfajer

Everyone blaming N4rrate is braindead, watch any Johnqt stream or comms video, this dude is perma tilted lol

Gonna come back to this <3

Prob Pati with Woot -> Duelist, but leaks suggest they're trying to reach for Keiko or Zekken but those two would be hard to get

Yk what that means

Bye bye Bang

Source: https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/SEN%20reduxx%23777/overview?platform=pc&playlist=competitive&season=5adc33fa-4f30-2899-f131-6fba64c5dd3a

W eeiu shout

Why Leo overrated?

Title

Name one player you think is overrated, properly rated, and underrated

Where are people finding these official photos of pros crying? I want to see them, but they're not in the main flickr stream I found

Who winning the playoffs, I got Seattle