How did a team with Aspas manage to break Traces record of least rounds won at an event (They only got 19, Trace got 22).

Generational fumble

I mean he did rate all the Chinese teams in last and XLG are strait up replacing a player right before the event so it's not probably just a take an not a leak

Damn, hope Chronicle doesn't have similar visa issues
edit, nvm Cojo said he's all good

We out here catching strays, at least you had a tier 2 scene to being with

Bro must not have watched him try and play raze at the start of the year

Personally quite a fan of Doa's line Big Boss Pine is on the scene. Man built a players legacy in 7 words

I mean definitely comes from the way franchising has been handled is a stretch. You could argue that its systemic of Tier 2 players not making a livable wage from playing in Tier 2 but the bigger issue there is the current expectation that a sustainable Tier 2 should pay a livable wage which would lead people to justify match fixing from a moral perspective.

Tech pauses isn't an open vs closed circuit thing. And I would argue the T2 NA match fixing isn't either

Ok, since it apparently wasn't clear what I meant here's an example
Tier 1
What ever your management is willing to pay for them minus the cost of a buyout if someone else has a contract with them
Teir 1.5
League Minimum is $50k so probably that plus a performance bonus relative to winnings
Tier 2
Somewhere around the equivalent of a full time job at maccas or a higher paying part time job
Tier 2.5
equivalent of a part time job in a customer facing sector e.g. retail or service industries
Tier 3
Aint no world in which someone is paying tier 3 players unless they got unlimited money

Couldn't care about the orgs given as example, just want to know what you think they should be playing at each level

That doesn't mean they're being paid like the players on 100t or NRG

Generally curios here, given the 'cash flow' issues in tier 2 NA, what you guys think is a reasonable expectation in terms of player compensation for each level of play

Tier 1
So your big money rosters the NRG, 100t and SEN kinda rosters

Tier 1.5
The budget minded tier 1 teams: 2G, EG and Cloud 9

Tier 2
Rosters with legitimate reasonable goals of winning T2 events/ascension: M80, ENVY, Cubert

Tier 2.5
Rosters that are in challengers that might get grouped might just make playoffs no reasonable odds of winning: YFP, Night blood gaming, Funhaver

Tier 3
I don't know any tier 3 rosters and odds are you probably don't either

he got an offer to go back to 2g and decided to take it would be my guess

Both are playing under the United States. The other flags just spice it up a bit more for the roster page

I mean as an org, legendary in CS and Dota to be fair

From what I know they're the academy partner. Like KRU and Oxen

Maybe Boo, bros like 27. Really depends on what your age cut off is. Rememeber Texture is like 25, Munchkins 26 even like HeiB from trace is 27

but like for the proper 30+ bracket it has to be Angel on a good day

What do you mean?
Munchkin is the IGL that won them masters shanghai. He's still there why would they want someone else to IGL. Gen-G didn't have a calling issue in kick off, they were 1 game of making the Lan.

My best guess would be Wedid out ( having cancers a shit gig tbh) and bdog over to full time smoke Sato on full time duelist maybe

Idk, pretty sure bro has to either pick between a hard role swap (probably sentinel or smokes as that's where the most old duelist converts seems to be) or embrace that he's not esports young and should probably look to where his life is going to go next and maybe give colligate a try. Bros still got a name worth a full ride at some of the more trigger happy US schools and getting a free degree is probably the best way to pivot and successful early esports career these days

Honestly I think his best shout in terms of a career path is NA collegiate, like hear me out mans 25 (not exactly young in esports numbers). His name value enough is probably good enough for a full ride at most of the esports focused schools in the US (ISU, Maryville, Northwood) and either renew his confidence dunking on college kids in colligate and go back to top tier play or gently ride into retirement with a free degree to move forward with.

Bro aint the loading phase like 6 grams a day not bloody 10

Your a bold man, lets see how this pans out

Honestly nerfs justified for viper. Going to probably end up jett nerf in effect. Will pull back some playtime on the less required maps (e.g. fracture, haven) and claw back some of the impact on must pick maps e.g. less post plant pressure on bind and icebox. Might need a second controller for some maps you could get by with just viper but either way you can't have a kit as unique and valuable as viper and not still be viable.

I got no idea how good bro is at val but MN3 was a bit of a weapon in Overwatch

Lowkey can't wait to see MN3 little bro Carpe again. Man's just following his career choice 1 for 1 at this point.

You forgot instant dash away Jett. Man's really a get out of jail free card merchant

I remember seeing something about their building constantly getting ddos attacked and its was drastically hitting the LCK teams practice and solo queue. If it was the internet that was getting nuked was it also an issue for the Val roster?

sounds good an all but like I feel like a fix they could actually just do tomorrow is just swap polvi for bazzi. Bazzi duelist on the right day was putting all of KR in its place. Surely someone with a 1/5 god game is better than 0/5 good games

Ok but like is Heat playing kayo or like is keznit playing, both kinda feel like a waste.
Or are we getting heat jett for jett maps and keznit raze for raze maps with the other filling when they're not on the main entry?

Bros an Aussies, Hawaiian pizza is just Aussie culture

You won't do a shoe of half VB long neck and half warmed butter milk. Footy boots preferred, gym shoes if needed (someone elses if necessary)

High key, this one aged like milk

Honestly, yall really do be sleeping on quality Aussie pub food. Nothing hits like a counter meal at a good country pub.

Mixed Grill, Based
Chicken Parma, Gods gift to food (ps if you order order mash and veg instead of chips and salad your citizenship is about to disappear)
Surf and turf, Need I say more
Aussie Pizza, yall about to yap and say its Italian but I'm pretty sure nona would cry if she saw a bbq chicken pizza or a fully loaded meatlovers from the local
Beer batter fish and chips, Poms wish the could make food this good

All that served with a pint for less than the cost of a meal at maccas, Aussie pubs are the peak

I mean, carpe has never missed a Valorant lan in his career, I believe in the fish

Currently ruining 1 am OCE unrated with a fair few beers and couple shots of jack in the system. Anyone else enjoy a bit of sauced up Valorant?

rng was 7th highest on points, only rare atom and ase had more circuit points. I assumed they were a lock but I guess the disband must have hit when the org learned they weren't getting a full partnership?

Can someone explain to me why LDG, Royal Never Give Up, Top Esports and Weibo didn't qualify for ascension when teams that finished bellow them on China Evolution Series points did?

Cracked off season into mid vct is the most on brand Sen move to be fair

Theres a surprisingly large number of pros with cheating in their history. Long story shot kids do dumb things. I mean babybay got vac banned mid match and has been a pro in 2 games since.

From an Overwatch fan just be happy they aint kiddy fidlers or groomers. Cough Cough Aspire, DreamKasper, Mouffin

That pretty legit

Sounds like he's partially medically retired due to laser eye surgery complications. Unfortunate that

How much the Brazilian fans going to scape goat that Pancada would solve every problem?

Depends if your going base camping or hiking. I recommend you start out base camping with a few day hikes then transition to full hiking trips. Gives a bit more comfort at camp and a fair bit lighter pack weight if your starting off hiking. Also means you can do stuff like fishing, paddle boarding and surfing depending on where your camping

Yeah sounds like you just need the tried and tested combo of big fire, good mates and cold beer

Any of you guys big into camping, like being in rural Aus camping is such a standard thing that everyone does but I don't know whether its really popular internationally.

Also if you do go camping what kind of gear are you taking?

that's definitely an announcement they really went for the father goes out for milk and never comes back. I can respect the creativity

Noice

Lord hope for a full time chamber sentinel meta then overwise this going to get messy

I don't know, we know the players going to be from NA and we know they going to be on the same role as shy most likely (given they're the current front runners to sign aspas from what I remember of the leaks) so thats probably going to translate into either a sentinel initiator kind of role and I mean they're already willing to drop the bag on players if they want to sign Aspas. For all we know its definitely possible they're trying to secure C0M from EG