Rad 8
Honestly ranked is just too easy ngl

it honestly seems that way. It doesnt look like they even practice. And im not referring to scrims and set plays or util combos, im saying it doesnt even look like they practice their aim. If this is the level of Radiants/Immorts in NA I can without a doubt say that NA ranked is definitely really low tier in terms of the skill of play and if the players on C9W were picked up based on ranked, they fucked

because with male teams there are ones that actually make it. However no matter how big the sample size for female teams are in all of esports they somehow have still achieved nothing notable and there just seems to be this invisible barrier between them and male esports that literally no one can explain cause in theory they should not be worse than males at moving their mouse and clicking their keyboard

no im p sure in the KRU case its quite telling that they became a dumpster fire. Lost all semblance of their strategic depth and counterplay, NagZ wasnt doing shit, Keznit also wasnt doing anything impactful, they didnt know what being patient meant. KRU after losing their coach has now become one of the worst teams undoubtedly. They honestly are at the level of NIP rn and it shows, no in fact id say theyre worse than NIP cause at least NIP were fragging and knew how to play together as a team

I mean getting 13-2ed on your map pick id say is quite telling. When it comes to opponents in the tier 2 scene it just shouldnt be this dominant at all even if youre having a bad day. The level of play of Girl Kissers isnt that much greater than ranked so C9W if thye actually had some protocols should be able to take at least a few more rounds

I mean to be honest it doesnt even look like they practice though. Girl Kissers actually have a few set plays and some (be it very little) protocols for specific scenarios. They have decent aimers and they look like they have quite good comms.
In comparison C9W dont look like they even practice the game or scrim. I havent seen them pulling off any really coordinated executes, util usage is CONSTANTLY poor from almost all their members, no semblance of util combos to be seen anywhere, and when Mel isnt popping off on the chamber and Kat is having a not so great day the whole team just crumbles and no one is able to step it up. I dont know how much they prac but it definitely looks like they dont do a lot of it thats for sure

I dont think its sexism tho. Theres no way sexism has stopped any semblance of competitiveness from females in ALL esports. There wouldve had to have been at least one team in one esports that were actually good and competitive but there really arent to my knowledge. Ik sexism would decrease the likelihood but it cant be the sole reason to completely eliminate the possiblity

why is that a braindead take? Is the fact that I have a 40-50% hs rate on almost all guns and the fact that they keep whiffing their shots in game braindead?
Im not stupid ik when I see bad aimers and half of C9W are that. They really look like a team that dont practice it honestly looks like theyre just 5 stacking in the open quals. If they had actual aim then the fact that they have no strats wouldnt matter since they would be able to win the gun duels, but i implore you to go ahead and check their hs rates in game and come back here and say braindead take.
If you cant beat them in a gun duel then im worried for your rank honestly

thats isnt gonna happen, they arent just gonna sub in someone they dont even have on the roster to play on one map because tenz cant do it.
The thing is it hasnt been working with him on raze, they moved him to the jett since he started practicing the operator and i could see them moving him back to it and having someone else play raze like kanpeki or maybe theyll have tenz play raze and instead of dapr or shahz this time playing the chamber role, kanpeki can do it

i rlly wanna see tenz on neon honestly, i feel like that would be crazy. Id say hed have a play style similar to victor on neon

Honestly ive been asking this question for so long cause it makes no sense to me why gender would play a part in skill when it comes to an esport. First of all I think it probably has at least a little to do with the average male reaction time being than the avg female. Another thing i think honestly is they just dont practice enough. They really dont look like a cohesive unit when theyre playing. A lot of them whiff shots and other than Katsumi they all just have really poor util usage (I guess mel doesnt but i mean shes on chamber).
I dont know how much they practice but i assume its either wasted or that they dont do a lot of it. Maybe scrims as well, maybe the male teams just dont want to scrim them.
With all of that into account its still weird how there hasnt been a single successful female team in any esport so i would honestly say its just down to something in the male body that is simply better at doing whatever we have to do in games than females. Prop smth in the brain we havent yet been able to explore

dude honestly i would usually say youre dumb for having such an idiotic take but i know for a fact that i would beat almost all of their members in an aim duel. NA valorant in general has poor aim compared to SEA but their aim is truly abysmal.

ppl need to stop telling tenz to get on chamber it just isnt gonna work

harshest sentinels critic right here. Buddy I dont think ppl talk that way about a team they support dude. Point out their issues but you dont need to say it like theyre absolute garbage

yea exactly i think he just needs to be allowed to explore a little bit more

they changed cause im p sure there were internal issues with zombs and also the dude isnt very motivated or inspired to practice or to actually win. They switched him out cause they wanted to change the ethic on the team and to improve motivation. Not a bad move imo but i think he needs to get comfortable first on this team

ah yes... "Men"

It only changed sicks role, dapr is still playing everything that he was before kanpeki was on the team. He was the one that was originally running chamber on the team if that is what youre referring to

I think thats probably the comp that theyre practicing with cause i dont think their bind comp are what theyre actually gonna run esp after looking at their Split comp o_0

I dont think that would work cause Tenz isnt able to have the explosiveness onto site with chamber and there isnt anyone else that is able to make space or actually clear anything on site other than breach. they would get destroyed on attack

holy shit that has to be the most atrocious comp ive seen yet

"blame everything on that man"
clearly another sen hater but ok. In Shahz's eyes he thinks theres potential for Tenz to pop off on split and there definitely is but it just feels like there isnt enough time rn. Shahz has the style of leadership where he wants to make sure his players are comfortable in whatever they pick so he wants to make sure thats the case for tenz but it just isnt working, at least not so far

I dont think its tenz fans at all. Its just the emotional attachment that people have to Sen since they were the first team to ever show true dominance in valorant and people have that investment into them due to that and the fact that no one else has ever been able to replicate it yet. People want to see the day that sen get back to that level of dominance again. Ofc there are the tenz fans and thats inevitable but I feel like people dont want to accept the fact that Sen at their best were just a really entertaining team to watch
The way they play with their tendency to let the opponents back into the match when SEN have a huge lead is just the kind of thing that attract people to scripted television. Like in a TV show or WWE where they make sure the tension is high throughout the broadcast, in that sense it looks like SEN matches are scripted and produces more interest and excitement

Yea thats just the truth honestly. I dont watch a lot of the matches where I personally dont have any emotional investment or attachment. I honestly dont understand why people cant except some facts when it comes to this stuff just because SEN are in the conversation.

Tenz playing duelist on split just doesnt seem to be working for sen honestly it looks like their Achilles heel on that map at least. Get tenz on sage or KO or something, he definitely has the skill to get those characters well or at least well enough considering that they arent very complicated to play and it will incentivise him to get rid of that Jett playstyle on every agent he plays since those agents have no movement

No i dont think so at all actually. If you mean the exact same way as stage 1 then maybe yea but i feel like we need the champions sen to come back soon cause that sen were actually quite a good team they just needed a few more protocols and more discipline which should be solved now since kanpeki is there to improve the environment and work ethic of sentinels

Thats true honestly, this masters' viewership was clearly not as high as it wouldve been had 1 sentinels qualed and 2 (ofc the more detrimental one) FPX, M3C qualed or at least FNC looked good. There was no hype this tournament in any of G2s or Louds matches. Ofc that second one was the bigger factor but i feel that sen wouldve probably saved the viewership and allowed val to reach another viewership peak this tournament. The amount of upsets and the teams that werent able to qualify this time around just destroyed it honestly

ikr lol, G2 are just not it. I still think they got an incredibly lucky run in the lower brackets to be able to qual. They played against M3C that were in shambles and then they went against the common Team Throwquid and then went against FNC that were saving strats. ON TOP OF THAT they got first seed because FPX couldnt go. The amount of fortunate happenings are uncanny and i feel like they wouldnt have even made it out of groups. TL are definitely the better team but they have a tendency to start throwing when they get cocky and they just first of all play like theyre throwing and second of all they play with weird ass comps and they start taking crazy risks

I dont think Optic are FPX level, this would be my Top 5 (ACTUAL top 5)

1-2) FPX > M3C (right now M3C is dealing with D3FFOs back problems and political issues and they just arent looking too hot so rn FPX higher)
3) FNC (I cant say for sure but their 2 new signings should allow them to have more firepower which is the thing they were lacking before so im quite confident that with a few games and a month of prac theyll be back to stage 1 form or even higher)
4) DRX (I think DRX have really good setplays but they arent adaptable enough which is a bad thing. But I think they shine so much in the set plays that it makes up for that. They just need to fix their mental and Id say they could be in contention to possibly win an international LAN)
5) Optic (yea i put the winners in 5, not because theyre bad or because I think DRX are better than them but because I feel like Optic looks really different from match to match. Sometimes youll see a top 3 team, sometimes youll see a top 20 team, sometimes you wont even see a top anything team. This isnt even from match to match sometimes its even map to map. So I cant confidently say that with their weak map pool and with their fluctuations that they would be in the no.4 place)

wyoa KRU was clearly really good in champions, they were counterstrating and they had really good util. You dont fluke a triple overtime on bind against Gambit. Since their coach left theyve been looking like a really weak team and NagZ is now back to being an average jett instalock who cant frag at all. Now it looks like they dont have any strats and NagZ is really weighing them down so no they shouldnt be on the list cause they lowkey looked like the worst team at masters even worse than FNC with 2 subs and NIP

also the team that wiped gambit and fnc both teams being champions level teams but ok

top 8 but ok

yea really sad honestly i was hoping that Kanpeki would create a sudden increase in performance on the sen roster but alas that was too much to ask for. Now all we can really do is wait for their prac and actual comps and see how they do when theyre fully trying to win

nah lowkey kinda weak, ive seen better sen haters

so basically what loud did against optic?

damn all the teams are getting upset on first map huh?

Sentinels rn in the Open Qualifiers is already getting numbers that Masters matches got on the main stream. If they had a chance at getting to masters I wonder what the viewership could possibly be

literally played raze in his last match but ok
-16 frags lol

true, honestly unlucky for sen, they might even drop Kanpeki cause they just dont understand how insane TBD is

not very

Uhuh... keep coping

bro ur Brazilian... i dont think i need to say anymore

TRUE

true and real

change your name to dumbass

but men are better at holding it in tho... Everyone says its toxic to not be allowed to cry in front of other people but i can tell you right now ive never met another man who has wanted to cry in front of even their closest friends. It doesnt matter how toxic it is or isnt, the truth is it doesnt feel good for anyone (speaking from a male perspective) to cry in front of people they know no matter how close. Crying in private is completely normal and often times its completely impossible to hold it all in.
Im a person who has never EVER turned to crying in my younger life and i barely ever did cry. I would at most sulk or lock myself in my room but that was it, no tears. And even for me once everything started to pile on me and the stress of the real world got to me i broke down. Id say its an inevitability and I feel like the modern world at this point has come to terms with it. I dont really see people syaing its weird to cry alone, usually just when in front of others.

mans changed his name cause he got bullied on the internet lol

yea they would need a hell of a budget to buy the whole roster out

youre braindead if you think it isnt a bait

g2 got a lucky run, FNC, FPX, and M3C wouldve wiped masters honestly the level of play other than drx and optic were so low