Because he’s eu and he’s been in eu consistently. That’s the edge eu/cis has over all the other regions currently due to the game being based there since Covid. They are always around the evolving meta as where NA, Brazil, and other regions will always be behind unless they consistently stay in Europe.

Even without yekindar though. If naf, oSee, and elige all do what they are known to do. They are a dangerous trio. It’s just yekindar brings that next level and makes them into a 4 headed monster.

The terminal list is a good show but your take is retarded

His play style is the definition of Jett.

Elige been playing well all year. oSee has been the best NA awper since Skadoodle. Man is a beast. Out of the young awpers in t1 cs rn. I think he has shown the most upside. M0nsey is pretty hit or miss but he’s still young.

If the big 3 play well and add naf on top. Dangerous roster.

Not entirely true. It might be more common in Valorant than other games. For teams like Team Liquid, faze, astralis, etc. I think people genuinely support the team/org. But you’re not wrong about people supporting certain players. Pretty much anyone who played for c9 cs has a following with a large fan base.
Tarik, shroud, Stewie, n0thing, autimatic, xeppaa, floppy, freakazoid, seangares, list goes on.

It’s like sentinels I guess as well. Anyone who joins sentinels gets an insta following boost.

Simple answer, the first three you mentioned has a massive kid and casual following. A bunch of people who don’t know jack but just claim they are fans and bandwagon. A lot like the warriors fanbase. They also don’t have Tenz who for whatever reason is treated like he’s s1mple or compared to at least.

It is funny to think that c9 was the most popular team In NA maybe of all time. In CS they have a massive following and they still do. At IEM Dallas there was c9 support everywhere but you don’t see any of it in Valorant.

Well considering there are only 3 tournaments a year. But yes people strive for attention in the Valorant community.

Riot’s marketing is pretty bad. Good location and venue I’m sure. But they need to announce sales for tickets months ago.

The cs major in Brazil announced the tickets back in May and the event starts in November.

Anyone who played esea knows this guy was and is a demon.

Buddy forgot he’s on the internet

zzz

Knowing Riot, this probably won’t change anything.

Considering they have been the most consistent NA team since the game has come out. It would be foolish to not renew their contracts.

Cs is better personally but the games shouldn’t be compared either so.

He’s not wrong lol.

Besides Valorant is a game to stream with the huge casual following.

It is the player break for CS atm though.

Well isn’t majority of the pros in NA VAL from NA CS t2/t3 anyway? Very small percentage of t1 NA cs players switched to Val.
Ethan
Autimatic
Xeppaa
Leaf

Has to be troll right

Almost seems like a troll tweet

Liquid counter strike will replace liquid Valorant as the players will swap games

Cs is still a massive game In china though. To say they don’t have it is just wrong lol.

Ran into him playing faceit pugs few months ago and he was also playing open

They don’t have csgo?

Back in my day I was a 41.9% HS percentager
Was never good enough for 42% 🙏

A game shouldn’t need to rely on co streamers though.

The best viewership team options is either Japan vs Brazil or NA VS EU imo.

EMEA did tell everyone wait till Copenhagen and Champions.

Not to take away what optic did in Iceland but I think the outcome would have been a little different if teams were allowed to bring their full roster.

Guess Iceland is just NA’s event

Pretty nuts

I think it’s a troll post but I think this was going to happen either way if NA or EU won lol. The NA fanboys were saying optic will walk every team and the EU fans were just saying wait till masters wait till champions etc.

Rinse and repeat.

Oops I meant all 5 maps. Was watching something and they said best of 7 and I typed it lol. That would be crazy though.

Depends if it goes to all 5 maps and how close the games are. The best viewership scenario if it were to Japan would probably be Japan vs Brazil or NA vs EU.

One just has massive audience and the other is NA vs eu hate boners.

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Easy bracket and Iceland didn’t majority of the teams were not allowed to bring their full roster?

Cmon Phamous. Just checked HLTV and see no threads on it. I’m not denying that there aren’t Valorant threads on there. They certainly are. But half the kids who make and comment on those threads are just idiots to begin with. They just make the same post every time. But to be fair it happened a lot here after the first Valorant lan which was super successful.

Most definitely. Anytime CS events come to NA it always does well. They need to have ESL New York again or Something.

“Cs is dead.”

Been hearing that one since 2017. They want CS to die for whatever reason.

It’s really not that dead in NA lol. The pro scene is in a rough rebuilding state but still has a good casual player base. NA still brings in good viewership to CS as well.

“I don’t play the game so it is dead.”

Another Val vs CS thread. Makes me wonder if the people who are actually insecure are the Valorant fanboys.

You can hear the crowd at least

The problem with franchising

Franchising hurts the t2-t3 pretty bad. The teams in the league will do fine but can’t say the same for the rest.

Everything is expensive my friend. I mean here in NA we have Biden and Trudeau. Both big tards.

Nah I don’t have a Newfoundland dog. I have an Akita actually. Japanese Akita if you wanna look it up. If I would have to pick between a Newfoundland dog or Labrador. That is tough.

That is weird considering how CS has a massive Chinese following. However back when the events in China were happening I didn’t follow CS at all for the longest time so idk. Funny story but the both times when NA had their runs in CS with the c9 major and liquid grand slam. I didn’t pay attention or use my computer at all. I didn’t know they won till a year later.

I know Valorant has a huge asia following. Specifically Japan and India. I know it’s not that big in China and Korea but we will see. Korea is like a Moba country and the only fps they care about is OW.

At the end of the day it’s Riot. Never been a fan of them and they aren’t the brightest bulb. If I were to host in Europe for Val.
UK, Germany, Turkey. Would be my three. Or Spain/Portugal for the SA following.

Oh ok Where do you live then? If you don’t mind me asking.

Turkey would be a great choice forgot about that. It’s just more of that CS in Denmark is treated like a sport from what I have heard. The people love it. Back when Astralis was prime form they had their games on regularly. Brazil would be another good one.

And yeah Riot isn’t the smartest bulb. I mean I’m not a big Riot guy anyway but they don’t know how to run their scene. Needs to be way more than 3 tournaments a year.

I don’t think Covid is much of an issue anymore. Most of it was over exaggerated anyway but that’s besides the point. I think it’s mainly the visa issues. I mean Navi for example missed IEM Dallas because half the team couldn’t go. Didn’t know if it’s because they are Russian with the whole Russia-Ukraine thing or what.

Where’s my invite to the Irish pub? I’ve always wanted to goto Ireland haha.

I think Germany is a good choice. I think Champions will be there. In Europe though it’s pretty easy to go from one country to another just by driving alone.

In NA it can take you 6 hours just to drive from one state or province to the next where in Europe you can probably drive through some countries in that time.

I mean I live in Newfoundland so only way I’m getting anywhere is by plane unless I wanna take a 6 hour ferry ride.

Are you planning to go?

I just personally think there are better countries in Europe to host them in no offense. If I were to pick I would most likely go with UK, Portugal or Spain (massive Brazil and Latam following) and probably Germany or France.

Hbu?

What are you on? IEM Dallas was a pretty packed arena. CS has always done well in NA for crowds. NA used to have 6 events till Covid unfortunately.

The issue with hosting in Denmark is that Denmark is a huge CS country. I mean I’ve been told they have CS on TV there and treat it like a sport. EU has great spots to host a tournament but they don’t. I think the UK would be a great choice personally.

Valorant has a decent EU following but they pick the weirdest countries to host them in. I mean Denmark is a massive country for CS. Iceland is cool but hardly anyone lives there (Ik there was no crowd).

I know the UK has a good following. That would be a good place to host.