I mean out of the teams remaining I guess I want portugal to win (Cr7 last dance please, their results show that my curse is working) and if not portugal then I guess I like how the Netherlands play. So, ez marroco

my football team acts like they are talented but then euros happen and romania 3-0's us and I just find myself asking what's the point of watching sports

I will not be surprised if Monaco happens again

the thing is that all my friends and family are mostly barcelona fans, so I am either dunked on for being a fan of real even if we win, or dunked on when real madrid loses. At least when Real wins I can be a 5iq gorilla and spam ''15 ucl''

they are cursed enough, if I start cheering for them I might nullify their curse.

-my home country has last been at the world cup in 2006. I was born in 2007. Therefore my country has never been at the world cup in my life (this year we got bitch slapped by Gyokeres)
-the country I live in for the last few years just lost to Paraguay on pens (insane that the goal was cancelled imo)
-I am a Max fan in F1. Red Bull built an unreliable piece of shit (praying the car performs well in silverstone)
-A Real Madrid fan. trophyless for the 2nd straight season. Players fighting
-I occasionally watch american sports. wanted the bills to win the super bowl this year. they lost to the broncos. Then wanted Luka to win a ring this year. He got injured and they were swept by OKC
-wanted Topuria and Pereira to win at the white house. both lost.
-a navi fan in cs. They shat the bed and placed 11th at the major.
-then wanted furia to win falcons for fallen. they got swept as well.
who should I curse next boys?

I miss Toni Kroos....

''no matter how long the game drags'' The players are already participating in like 50-60 games a season, if you go through the entire world cup you will have like 40 days of rest before the new season begins. It would deadass just kill your stamina and make you so injury prone you will be missing games every second month

an underdog playing sluggish defensive football and trying to kill and shave off as much time as possible? never seen that one before

Fuck I wanted to find a cadian shower photo but he deleted it from twitter, I can't even describe it with words, you just have to see it, but fair to say I am not surprised

still I mean it was so late, 1.6 the gap at the finish line, that's literally 2-3 laps of that pure tyre diff russell had before max pitted.

agree, russell's pace was so bad compared to max

I just don't get why red bull made max stay out for so long only to hand him hards when they had fresh mediums....

bruh what?

dembele-olise-mbappe-barcola is actually devious

I like how it's mostly people from eu/amer (me included) discussing china's viewership and trying to figure out and extract numbers from chinese platforms while chinese blokes just sit at home ''I love CS. I love Valorant. NiKo the GOAT, KangKang the best.'' Like why the fuck is a 40 year old in Rob Moore beefing with twitter users discussing what game is bigger?

I wish vp 2023 were an english speaking team, but that shit was so funny to watch. basically at the end of 2022 they kicked norb3r7 for kairon, a promising tier 2 player from CIS. They had some decent results, not great, not terrible, playoffs of IEM Katowice 2023 even. But then the Paris RMR happened. they were down 1-2, and then, all of a sudden, they post that norb3r7 is flying from russia to denmark to play the rmr instead of kairon due to visa issues. Kairon posts ''my visa would expire after the last game, so that's purely a tactical decision. for now just support the guys.''. Imagine kicking one guy 2 months after winning a major, giving a young guy a chance, and then when the going got tough at the rmr you kick him mid-tournament, bring BACK the guy you kicked in the first place and still bomb out 1-3.

It's always the thing with jame-dastan led teams, a streak of great performances and then just a steady yet consistent decline

For them the huge problem was that they are a young inexperienced team. nota, xielo are basically faceit players, zweih had like 6 months of tier 1 experience. belchonokk was a tier 3 player. They first had inconsistency until april, where they would have a great tournament and then a terrible one (genuinely seesaw, 1st, 16th, 2nd, 19th, 3-4th). Then they came to bucharest in april, where the only competition was MongolZ and FUT. They went 2-0 but then started losing genuinely stupid games. dastan is a veteran coach, so he was really really fucking pissed, saying that this is unacceptable and that he would refuse to talk to the players if they lost a game vs wildcard. They then got bounced by mongolz (after a 0-CT side performance on map 3 of ancient). And the CIS community also started hating on nota and zweih for their trash talk/comms (like for example nota was meme'd to death for calling mongolz ''fucking bots'' before mongolz came back). Then they had a month of rest, and then astana happened. dastan's home event. Yet they showed 0 character and improvement. And dastan is one of the frew coaches who hosts QandAs with fans after games, and one of them wrote that ''you need to kick players, nota is actually playing like trash'' and dastan LIKED THAT FUCKING POST. Shanghai, they shit the bed. So, they were coming to the major after 3 disasterous events ,where they were playing worse and worse. At first it was ''oh shit they just had a rough day'' and at shanghai it was ''how the fuck are mibr of all teams demolishing you?''. they sneaked into stage 3 due to how good they performed pre-PGL Bucharest, but then they completely collapsed.

chronicle is actually from Siberia, he lived in Kansk for 7 years, which is directly above Mongolia, so he probably also has a decent chunk of asian heritage

funniest shit is that he sees people send him heat index, ignores it, and just starts beefing with esports charts

I aspire to be as rich as him to have enough time to just engage in pure ragebait for the love of the game

understood, thank you!

''Valorant has regional circuits not just big international events. This is fundamentally incompatible'' But Champs is the last event anyways, there is time to shift it further back, or?
''this will only kill each region and their viewership bases access to an event. Regional representation matters more than solely performance metrics.'' - you still have a base of 4 teams in stage 1, they will play at least 3 games each, and I really doubt a region can be that bad in val that none of them make it to stage 2/top 8
''Region could be elite the year before but piss the next. Then shittier region gets more slots then the better one.'' - which is why I agree with you that val needs a more consistent meta.

nah, I mean every reason has their minimum of 4, so enough to choose the favourite/get the fan favourites in, but if your region is really good, then there are more invites. It would prevent people from crying that ''pacific is so much better than china but they get the equal number of slots, teams like t1 couldn't make it.'' Well there you go, next time you have more chances to make it and prove that one region is better than the other

4 by default in stage 1. So, at the minimum you are getting 4. Stage 1 does not impact the invites for the next champs, just who makes it to the top 16. The top 8 is basically extra invites. If your region doesn't show up at the playoffs, just sends 0 teams, you have your 4 invites from stage 1, but you don't have the luxury of top 8 direct invites. Think of the top 8 direct invites as that system vct had in 2023 when if your region wins masters, you get an extra champs slot. Even like a short explanation. Let's imagine that pacific absolutely smurfs everyone in 2027, and they sent all 6 teams to the playoffs of champs. For example emea and amer get 1 each. The invites for 2028 would be:
10 Pacific (4 stage 1, 6 stage 2)
5 Amer (4 stage 1, 1 stage 2)
5 EMEA (4 stage 1, 1 stage 2)
4 China (no stage 2 invites ,just the 4 stage 1 invites)

I will chime in, but I am a cs frog, just opinion from the side. 12 team formats are dogshit. There is just no adequate way to make them interesting. swiss stage with just 8 teams feels meh. Expand to 16 teams for masters and 24 for champs. Champs gets longer, and yes it's just a cs/lol format, but it works. top 8 seeds (#1 and #2 of each region) go straight to the main stage. Teams #9-#24 battle it out in the first stage. until 3 wins or 3 losses. They advance and you just have the regular main stage masters format. more games, more fun, fair, lower chance of a fluke. Also, but I don't think riot will like this idea, for champs 2028 (if this system were to be implemented in 2027), the placement on last champs dictates how many invites your region has. If in the top 8 there are 3 pacific teams, 2 Amer, 1 Chinese, 2 EU you get less invites. Therefore then, for 2028 the number of invites would change from 6-6-6-6 to 7-6-5-6.

given your track record you probably cursed furia in cs today bro

https://www.vlr.gg/701087/cs-people-come/#1 your logic confuses me slightly

saudi org, spent like 9 million on transfers, killed the g2 roster everyone loved, notorious chokers

first thing niko is doing if that happens is just deleting twitter for 10 years, just throw a phone in the river rhine the moment you leave the arena

just do it wwe style, mouse and keyboard in the middle of the scene, arm sleeve as well, you ain't got it no more

2-0, 3 maps to get the 3rd. if he actually loses this the scenes will be wild

TI?

I will actually believe he is cursed if they somehow get reverse swept

honestly just kinda a weird direction ever since franchising started imo, from a side it looks like 2023 was the peak and then it went to shit ngl

how could you expect a good crowd for example when most of the same people would rather go to lanxess. I don't know when it was announced that masters london would take place, but people knew cologne would be the major back in august 2025. If they cheer for both games they go to cologne without a second thought.

taking after their idols

I feel like hosting vct masters london at the same time as cologne was gigaweird. Even if people wanted to attend masters, they likely bought the tickets for cologne back in december. No one trades a lanxess experience over masters

or spirit, for that matter

came back from 6-10 down against apex on anubis
came back from 6-11 down against aleksib on anubis
called an 8-4 T side vs vitality on their best map
called so well against spirit donk practically couldn't get his impact

called circles around aleksib and apex this event back to back wtf are we even talking about?

nah not even close to their game at astana, there the crowd was actually heavily biased against G2. One lurk and the entire barys arena went screaming. In Cologne it was somewhat decent

falcons/furia/vitality/spirit any of the two is almost always entertaining as fuck

I would get you, but I just do not understand how for example spirit vs g2 could even be classified as boring

I mean that's just subjective, but to say that ''much better entertainment'' when just the fucking falcons-spirit game made me scream like a highschool girl is wild. Fucking g2 vs spirit on dust 2 and mirage was a fever dream

did you even watch the playoffs of this major?

bro cs final is hosted in cologne, we finally have a major winner not named vitality in a year, the final has fallen, m0nesy, niko, kyousuke, karrigan (arguably the biggest stars in CS outside of donk and s1mple), brazilian viewership, russian viewership and eu viewership because there are a lot of m0nesy/niko fans in EU

it's not even a choke, they got 8 rounds on a CT side of Mirage, it's good :D

literally 8-4 on the table for FURIA, win the ct pistol/force you are 8-7 or 9-6 in no time