flashback is aight, maybe even just as good as zest on viper. but zest's fade and sova are so fucking clean while stax is straight doo doo on sova.
let's not talk about foxy9... rb might be inconsistent but inconsistently amazing vs consistently mediocre is an easy choice.

leo will buttfuk drx while mako tries to carry the team again :(

comparing suygetsu to LESS and ALFAJER is WILD

drx having fb and foxy sucks
cant have an actual fun game from drx
missed chance to set the score even with fnatic even if it doesn't actually matter

calling somone "alfajer 2" and fut a good team after watching two bo1s against mid teams is just as stupid

these casters are actually so hard for NA
sucking off every player on 100t except for nature for a full minute and a half each is wild

NRG only lost to BLG by 2 rounds in group stage
didn't make it any better for them yeah?

new team + fill in from zeta lol
"unlucky" is craZ

idk how this guy keeps getting signed
says a lot about the state of the igl role in valorant

what a surprise!!!

unfortunately the rest of americas clears c9 :(

losing to a new team from japan is CRAZy

yay will ruin a pretty decent apac team

whichever one that doesn't drop a coach that is clearly trolling

kk g2 is prob about as good as guard 2022 w/ saya
contenders to compete at madrid not to win is what u mean right?
u make a point and i would usually give u that but it's off season = literally nothing matters

SEN fans after winning a few games against mid NA teams

responded to my post just a few hours ago he still aroundin

Of course, what you say is valid--any player can get good. But who would've chosen to start a player like Demon1 over yay at the start of the 2022 season (hypothetically)? A proven player is always the safer choice and arguably the better one.

And it's still safe to say that Zellsis is clearly more flexible, even if, hypothetically we knew TenZ would end up being better on Breach/Kayo/Harbor.

Let's be real, replacing TenZ with Zellsis would be so much better for the team's results.
Obviously, they won't do it cus it is TenZ we're talking about.
But Zellsis plays Kayo, Harbor, and Breach so much better than Tenz while bringing Phoenix and Sage (for if Icebox comes back) to the team.
Tenz is only better for SEN on Bind where they can run Yoru. Not exactly the most value.

unfortunately 100t will always be doodoo

what if i have something to do outside of playing valorant

yea he is also the best raze in the game (jawgemo can't c ompare)

can't be on navi without being hated these days
+alfa and less clear him so hard

Nuclear 3-0 TBD

"Akshually it's FiNESSE now"🤓👆

maybe im a lil bit too suspicious
still, if what im saying is true then termi is clearly throwing

literally jinggg by tremendous margins.
comparing sick to the second best player of 2023 is crazy

Why does termi see so many issues in the DRX players?
He obviously picked up Foxy9 while looking for a possibly demonic player like Aspas (a crazy jett/raze), but it didn't work.
In my opinion, he's looking to put Flashback on the main roster because he's looking for a player like Less or Alfajer (crazy kj/viper).

I think it's fine to experiment, but what's so wrong with BuZz and Zest that they have to be replaced within their best roles? They are clearly world-class and all the players on DRX themselves have the potential to win.

Termi doesn't fkin understand that it's his map vetoes, shitty-timed timeouts, and lack of aggression(in later stages of competition) that cause drx to have testicular results.

Nuclear will annihilate ZETA

no korean orgs are literally trolls other than t1

Asuna is nowhere near being the best at his role in Americas.
Bang is nowhere near being the best at his role in Amercas.
Cryo is not the best at his role in Americas.
Unless 100thieves drop Asuna and Bang y'all will never even be near qualifying for a regional playoffs.

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯another kr org coming in to troll
t1 is the only competent org in korea

"it gets good, i promise!!! you just have to get through the first 3000 chapters!!!"

common afreecatv w

how do yall fluke against a throwing team like drx 3/4 times💀💀💀💀

final moments of g2 vs fut
"they break their record"
"manage to find a fifth round"
"best performance"
💀💀💀💀💀

i know. the point of my analysis was to show that there are outside factors. sorry if i made it unclear

what you say is completely valid.

"assuming no outside factors"
read that again carefully

y2y

assuming a pool of 12.6 million valorant players and 150 franchised players, 0.0012% of players are franchised.
assuming the lowest possible percentage, 30% of the 12.6 million valorant players are female.
that should mean, assuming no outside factors, that 30% of the 150 franchised players should be female. clearly, that's not the case.
(i have chosen to exclude lgbtq cus of no clear data)

what this means is that the reason gc is behind can't solely be attributed to a smaller talent pool. there are other differences.
im not giving any opinion about gc as a scene btw, just pointing out that people who attribute gaps solely to a smaller talent pool are wrong.

edit: let's lower that percentage down for experimental purposes. there should anecdotally be less women in ranked. assume that in immortal, you play 5 games a day and meet one woman. so, for every 20 players you meet, you meet one woman. 1/20 = 5%. again, making the same assumptions i made before, 5% of 150 franchised players should be female. again, that's not the case. there are even more factors outside of that women appear to enjoy ranked less.

could be a smaller pool, could be less exposure, could be biological, idk but one thing is for sure
the reason that they are so far behind the regular scene is because their focus isn't to get the best players no matter what
goal of t2 teams: get the best players
goal of gc teams: find non male players, then get the best players
there's nothing wrong with this, of course. that's what gc was made for, after all

Massive L
If it applies to Astra recall smokes as well that would be terrible
riot could have nerfed the judge but instead they make a useless update

true, drx's ascent was bad the entire event (lost to BBL 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀)

0 aggression against a comp that has an extremely strong default is extremely throw
if you watch the match you'll see that drx had no hold on b main and just kind of let loud walk onto site

picking fracture wasn't even the mistake imo
the mistake was that they didn't use their neon comp in that match, which literally has never been beaten in a major

i was just thinking about majors
prx reverse sweep wasn't a complete throw drx were just shittin themselves at the time and prx were the better team

2021:
VCT Stage 2 Challengers: 0-2 vs NUTURN 💀 (but NUTURN was pretty good at the time)
VCT Stage 3 Masters Berlin: 1-2 vs GAMBIT (I can excuse this one)
Champs 2021: 1-2 vs C9 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 (what the fuuuuuuuuuuck)

2022:
VCT Stage 1 Masters Reykjavik: 1-2 vs ZETA 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 (went braindead after OPTIC)
VCT Stage 2 Masters Copenhagen: 0-2 vs FPX 💀💀💀💀 (how do you get destroyed that bad by a team you beat almost every time)
Champs 2022: 2-3 vs OPTIC 💀 (could've won but chose to throw breeze hard, still excusable)

2023
VCT LOCK//IN: 2-3 vs LOUD 💀💀 (biggest throw i've ever seen on ascent)
VCT Masters Tokyo: 0-2 vs NRG 💀💀💀💀 (termi smoking snus on roster and map picks this entire event, doesn't excuse fact that they lost to utter frauds)
Champs 2023: 1-2 vs FNATIC 💀 (unholy throw on haven but excusable since they're finally good on bind)
edit: PACIFIC 2023: 2-3 vs PRX 💀 (first team to be reversed sweep after two failed reverse sweeps on drx's part. admittely though, prx was the better team at that point)

like FS?? the team that vision strikers destroyed at champs 21?

i hate b*n
in all honesty though ban was really good throughout the entire regular season, but most people only remember him for throwing against NRG