90% One team will make top 8 that will never see an international stage again this year
50% no Pacific teams in the top 8
10% MIBR top 4

Eh, I don't have the energy to dig into this deeply with advanced stats. Both of their overall statlines are similar, and they have similar ratings, so any differences will be small and nuanced. Its probable that artzin got slightly more eco frags or slightly less impactful frags (i.e. kills in 5v2 etc. scenarios) than shion.
"so it's obvious that controllers and sentinels will always have a high rating"
By the way, controllers and sentinels have, on average, lower ratings than duelists. All of the agents are relatively close (much closer than ACS), but jett/raze/chamber are still above KJ/omen/etc.

Generally APAC does include all of East Asia. When game devs and TOs combine regions is when names get wonky. i.e. Brazil is part of LATAM but is generally considered to be distinct from the "LATAM" Valorant region. Its easier to call CN/JP/KR "east asia" than it is to call the assorted SA/SEA/OCE regions anything other than "APAC" since not all of their countries are in Asia.

urgh. I hate that there is a team called NaVi sitting in the archives just waiting to be mistaken for the real NaVi when I tag them. 😂

I would say that tomaszy's stats are pretty close to his rating. 1.11 is relatively normal for just a +4 K-D. Its a little lower than you would expect from the stats that you can see there, but it isn't absurd. Obviously his ACS is going to be huge because he took so many fights, but he lost fights a lot as well. A good number of his kills happened when his team had a significant man advantage as well.
It mainly looks weird because addicted is about the same as him. Addicted's rating is higher than normal because a whopping 8 of his 13 deaths came when his team had a big man advantage and those deaths didn't matter much.
Also assists matter a little bit, and tomaszy had 0.

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No spoilers, but something is in the works. Not exactly the same as previous LANs, but stuff is being written.

assist

Damage differential. Damage dealt - damage taken I believe.

oof

In order from best to worst: 3, 8, 1, 5, 6, 2, 7, 4

I'm not saying there should have been better seeding. I am saying that there are ways to build a tournament format that are more resilient to bad seeding than single elim.
https://www.vlr.gg/79207/the-power-of-double-elimination
here is a forum post I did a while back where I compared some 8 team formats, and in it, I stated that single elim is usable, but only when there is good seeding. Without good seeding it is extremely vulnerable
Also, Im not advocating for 32 team double elim either. That would be way too many games. there are some compromises that could be made to get the best of both worlds

This had the potential to be my finals matchup although any finals matchup would be hard to predict with random seeding and single elim.
What a ridiculous format.

Noyn casually showing up and dropping a bomb.

I might not be completely in the loop, but I think dimi is still with us and Flynn joined although he has been busy recently.

:o
oh shoot

Sorry, I interacted with one of his posts then got a serious case of baiteritis. I will strive to provide only quality content in the future.

You challenge us to join your pickems group, but you're down there with 155 points and Im at the top with 405?

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/23d6e1ac

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/1c81053d

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double u talyx

Who?

LMAO

In my opinion, "mutual" is often used in circumstances where there isn't bad blood regardless of whether one side would have preferred to keep the contract going. No idea what iNTRO's story is, but his tweet does not have enough info to say anything substantial other than to repeat the translation.
I adjusted the title a smidge to make it sound less like he was kicked.

Someone went to the trouble of avoiding my twitter?
https://twitter.com/FerahgoTheGreat/status/1601721274438680577

It includes clutch stats implicitly when it weights XvY fights. i.e. 1v1 fights are worth quite a lot.

There was an update to the economic modifier. Since you only had two games played, it changed your rating a bit.

This rating has implicit impact because every fight is weighted differently. Baiting is punished quite significantly if a player waits until his whole team is dead and then gets some kills.

The main "combining the stats" part is linear, but believe me, there is a lot of more complicated math going on in the background to calculate the contributions, kill/death in particular. EVERY fight is given a different weight based on the situation inside the round.
Also, I don't think you understand the linear part. Not all contributions are weighted the same. Kills/deaths are more important than assists for example.

The rating is on the "stats" page on the top bar. You can put all sorts of sorting criteria there. For example, if you sort by "all time", minimum 2000 rounds played, against minimum opponent rating of 1550 (default), all regions, you can see a list of most of the top pros in the world.

this may be the highest for a map
I haven't done a thorough search, and it might be very difficult to search every map, but this is the highest ive seen so far.

I was so confused until I realized it was an old thread haha.

Yes in theory, but quality of competition REALLY affects it. For example, OpTic would be nowhere near the top even though they were clearly a top 5 or higher team in the world because they almost exclusively played against good teams instead of farming the tier 2.

That was something I would have liked to add, but unfortunately the data just doesn't exist.

And just a rough estimate too. VLR (and thespike too probably) do not use a simple algorithm of constants*stats = rating.

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nutab1e vs poopastyx

I don't know if anyone has ever kissed you if they weren't on autopilot. 😜

Its all manual.

Yeah, the stats page can't handle displaying every game ever, so it needs to be broken down into chunks. I found it easiest to sort by each agent when looking for max kills. It should? cover every match ever.

Its also less OTs than most of the other big ones.

56 by ZmjjKK
https://www.vlr.gg/23124/lizhi-vs-underdog-imbatv-fearless-invitational-cup-closed-qualifier-ubqf/?game=38156&tab=overview
There are a couple other 50+ bombs, but that is the highest I could find on VLR.

going by the roles you have laid out there:
heat > gaabx > Jonn > Liazzi > artzin > chase > gobera > cortezia
shion > Brinks > CTC > silentzzz > pollo > murizzz > ryotzz > myssen
krain > jzz > adverso > denaro > bnj > gust1nha > leozin > v1nny
rglm > Txddy > gtn > mnds > Maverick > pleets > luk b4rtin?
frz > matheuzin > bezn1 > prince > rnd > xenon > fuzari > flainzzz

If I thought about it harder, I would probably rearrange a few, but here's a rough estimate.

imo, MIBR will give LOUD a run for their money as best BR team.

I'll be honest, I would have changed 24/35 of those symbols.

Its just some template that the system uses when it can't find the tweet I pointed it to.

The tweet needed some time to register in the system, I added it a few seconds before I published

aargh. I was so close. 58 is basically 60

Even if these articles get less pageviews than others (forum posts are not necessarily proportional to views btw), it doesn't mean it was a waste of time or effort.
Thousands of people have viewed these articles in the past day, and plenty of them got more from them than if they were a single condensed article.
Even from a purely material point of view, articles get ads on screens and drives revenue.

You saw nothing ;)

you spelled bstrdd wrong ;)

I've been a lava hound main since 2016.

I haven't played in a year or two but my deck is:
Lava hound
Graveyard
Lumberjack
minions
goblins
cannon
arrows
dart goblin