Because EMEA is sub divided into VRL leagues where you can have max 2 players from outside of the VRL play on a team I believe it was a big issue in some VRL's and caused a few teams to be forced into roster moves

Bro nationalism built esport's. 90% of what makes international competition hype is nationalism

They signed a roster with 3 Russians, a Belarusian and a Portuguese Ukrainian. With a Slovak and a chinese sub. Are they even eligible to play in any of the EMEA leagues? Did they change the roster construction rules for next season of T2? Are they reintroducing a CIS region to EMEA? Are KPI just burning money on a roster that can't compete?

Lev Saadhak would be kind of cracked for the team. I mean if the spreadsheets right about shy to Kru that would open a spot

so mate, your code ain't going to run properly, your using a char so it's not going to be able to store "no" as a response, your going to need to swap that out for a string then probably swap the logic check to something along the lines of

if (opinion [0] == 'n' && opinion [1] == 'o' && opinion [2] == '\n')

coding isn't hard, it's just mind numbing and tedious

I love uni(learning thermodynamics was actually the most fun I've had in a class since high school chem) , I just hate programming

kind of easy for dfm to take this title tbh, then again global are on track to overcook the sauce

Anyone else have a uni course that 1 programming unit that you have to do any just hate it. Like the next thing I write in C++ is going to be a message for the coroner (for legal reasons that was a joke)

https://twitter.com/Reinforce/status/1662323390710190080

Uber clears tbh

Nah mate, FIFO out of Bali I reckon, I mean it's mostly Aussies there anyway and I think it's a shorter flight from most of the mines to Bali than places like Perth and Melbourne (though double check that)

I don't think you could really make the call that his top 2 igl's in the world (I assume you mean all time because right now fns is getting grouped) given from a stats perspective there's at least 3 who should be in contention FNS, Saadhak and Boaster. They're really the only 3 with longevity and results.

Of them in game implant wise the order would be Saadhak -> Boaster -> FNS.

In terms of international results Boaster has the most with 2 international titles, Saadhak is next with a champs win then FNS with a masters win.

Consistency at big events goes to Boaster with the highest avg finishing position at s tier events ( international lans and the 2023 regional vct seasons ) of 3.88 then FNS at 4.11 then Saadhak at 4.55.

Anyway all this aside you can't order the top 3 but of them fns definitely has the smallest claim to the number 1 spot (not without some NA cope)

I don't know, I reckon Carpe probably stays on the starting roster. At least for a bit, this team is going to be very unstable if you think that there is probably role changes coming for a number of players. xcurrate is going to have to adapt to playing on a korean roster from being on a indo team. Odds are the perfect storm doesn't happen and I think you could definitely see carpe starting on smokes for next year

Kind of in the same place as last season though. Stacked roster with a lot of raw talent but someone going to changing roles which didn't exactly work out well for Ban last season

I got the title, T1 sign king and 2 more jett players

They speed writing an article about the T1 signings right now

damn that was quick

he was also the only player on a multi year deal from what I remember

I mean odds are if your G2 and see this you sign him and reunite him with the guard team he put together

there is a fair bit more too it than just how stable they were financially, though that could be the case for xset....

carpe was strait up the difference maker as to why they qualified for masters and champs and thats in his 1st season playing the game. Man went from not playing the game to flexing over like 5 agents and 2 bloody roles. Also he's really only underperformed at champs. Doesn't matter how he got the spot your trippin if you think he doesn't diff the other options

I mean I can think of a few. Depends on how you justify failed. There is a few I would say probably would be classed as failed but they were also fucking washed (or not very good to start with) overwatch players. E.G. Nus, SanSam. I think the only one that you could claim didn't achieve anything in val (long term) but was a top overwatch pro in a relevant position is probably soon, unkoe and neptuno. But then again for someone like neptuno do you really count getting the bag and placing 2nd in vlr spain at 31 years of age to be failing

imo if overwatch esports dies the needle gets moved a bit here when apac gets swarmed with the current generation of cracked out overwatch players in their prime instead of the older generation that were kind of washed when they switched (shout out saya who was benched in OWL but managed to run house through NA and APAC)

You love to see it

Imo its probably leo, fnatic were undoubtedly the team of the year both of the had an MVP from fnatics back to back wins but leo had more of an impact of the tokyo run than alfa had on the sao paulo run.
But really its between leo, alfa and derke

man says only 2 years like 2 years is a small amount of time in esports

Yeah this is more of a nerf to fun

To talk about the pay, It's roughly 1167.02 USD (based on current conversions) fortnightly (after tax). Only working 20 hours per week across 2 work days.

I work weekends at a gold mine. I'm a lab tech so its mostly manual labour and some brain stuff. I started at 18 and trained in the workplace. A fair few people come from uni degrees in Science. I'd absolutely recommend mine work as a temporary thing, but long term it isn't really worth it. The money I make now is a huge amount compared to most over 22 year old uni engineering students (mainly due to weekend penalty rates 1.5 pay on saturday double pay on sundays). But long term it's not really enough money or compelling enough work to sustain a long career.

TLDR: Mining Lab Tech
if its a temp job while studying 10/10 pays great with very little time commitment

as a career 4/10 wouldn't be able to sustain a single income house long term and the works pretty boring and reasonably labor intensive, could probably fuck your back after 5 years if your not careful

aged like milk

I mean it seems kind of obvious, cNed doesn't have the presence in comms ardiis did that challenged Angel to put his crack pipe down and play the game and NRG is to to restrictive and locked down a system under FNS for ardiis to actually play his style. Seems like a no brainer to me.

FPS has kind of been a cultural thing in china for a while. 4 of the 20 Overwatch league franchises operate from China, one of a regular season MVP winner from China. Cross fire was huge within china and a reasonably experienced history win Counterstrike

Yeah, I aint a tac fps but its one of the biggest fps games going around and has pumped a tonne of cracked out players into val

I don't think you can really talk about the rise of FPS in china without talking about the huge influence Overwatch had in china

There is legit nothing wrong here, this is just a symptom of the map pool with breeze and icebox out the maps left are all rather small with really tight sections
judge is fine, anything works in ranked. Its ranked

Chinese orgs got proper names Billy and Edward none of this edgy DRX NRG PRX. Just good honest real names

because they practicing for champs, out here playing how ever many hours of scrims a day. probably don't want to burn out at/right before champs

Mang0 clears. Mans been winning since 07, man's got more accomplishments in some years than these blokes have in there careers. Still at the top of his game did it all while being a legend

Hot take: there are no good esports formats, both open and franchise systems have same issue

• Franchise systems struggle due to the need for stability making the necessity of an open tier 2 circuit make no sense for tier 2 orgs to invest when they can gamble on another game they can build a bigger brand in than being a tier 2 team.
• Open circuits are just money pits for orgs that provide no stability, they are financially unstable to a point where it's just a ticking clock until all but the tier 1 orgs can afford to stay and then the cycle of no tier 2 orgs continues.

I think it really would depend on how they win, if its dominant as fuck and no one stands a chance. I'd be impressed from a competition point of view but not particularly interested from a spectator perspective. If its a tough game like the lock-in finals with the ups and the downs and the tension and fnatic take a hard earned win then I'm probably hype for it and excited to see where the next challenge comes from and what rosters people are building going into 2024, as they say "if you aim for the king, you best not miss"

I mean history would say which ever region builds a super team next. So like maybe 2024 paper rex where they drop the gigabag for like monyett on smokes or something like that

6 feet, 7 inches

I agree koalanoob doesn't have a spot no one really needs a new duelist other than sentinals but that's complicated. There is definitely teams who need a new IGL and johnqt is strait up the best free agent option to bring in a new IGL. Also aint no way C0M is getting dropped

quality content, based take.

Vamos

Must have forgot to install word.exe on his pc. Easy mistake

Bonk Clears

Does fnatic have a big fanbase in japan, I know their Rainbow 6 team is Japanese but I don't know if they're popular there?

People going off when EU casters talk about the EU team

I believe