young upandcoming prospect forced to change teams after 3 games, sounds like a great atmosphere to improve

I still dislike this trend, like why would a prospect join someone who tanks for 3 years like KOI if someone like liquid offered him even 3 months to prove himself?

just grind your favourite activility bro, diamons are made under pressure

wouldn't getting a one-for-one improvement make them get at least a few more wins?

oh i have thought he was toxic or racist or something

trexx
chrono
shao
suygetsu
nats
russian domination, signed to spirit, Yet another game for dragons to claim

just wondering what was the issue, I don't follow val that closely

i mean they still clear players of apeks, koi, giantx, navi. Thing is that this pre-stage 1 shuffle almost always takes part within the top, not within the bottom, so the serviceable players leave and the subpar players remain cuz bottomfeeders don't make shuffles

I would argue that all of those who got kicked after kickoff/bangkok are better than 70% of players of their role across all leagues, so it isn't the worst of the worst getting kicked, rather A-B tier players in their role

All victims of too few events, had there been more tier 1 events teams would have more time to gel and figure out issues, meanwhile with 3 regional stages and 3 international LANs you can have your season last just 2 months, sadge

crazy how eu is so shit knowing that the closest fps to val is completely dominated by EU

ange1 cuz unc wasted s1mple's potential before 2016

navi not signing russians :) yes it is zellsis word, but that is because navi's management is zellsis word

he brings da vibes

3 finals he lost were against teams which went on to win big events and cemented themselves as number 1? I don't know how is that an excuse?

I mean 2/4 of those finals were unwinnable
SK 2016 - era team
Astralis 2018 - peak astralis vs navi with zeus edward and flamie
G2 2021 - masterclass
navi 2022 - half dead navi vs prime faze

holy shit that's detective Pardo from hotline miami. basically the entire city of miami is following cryptic killers in masks, who would just barge into the Russian mafia points, kill everyone there and disappear. some people a few years later who are "fans" of those killers go on the same spree against the Columbian mafia. meanwhile, the detective Manny Pardo says that they are just lunatics, and that the case of the Miami Mutilator is way cooler.

I dunno, he wasn't that good or something, but when his cfg showed up, everyone just went ''wtf''. Like people are used to some weird settings, like amanek playing with reverse sound, dupreeh having scope on Q or jame adjusting his WASD keys to TFGH but it was still crazy

top 2-3 player on a goat team

mezzi (team vitality cs player) has walking forward on mouse button 2, backwards with space, duck on C, shift on W.
but the most zellsis word config goes out to fashr:
Move forward: Right mouse

Move backward: ;

Jump: ?

Move right: .

Move left: ,

Crouch: M

Reload: K
also has inverted vertical axis

bro I sit with my legs crossed and on the chair itself, wtf

but what if spirit took someone's slot? :))

Finally, a fellow broky believer, he would single handedly shit on everybody, he just doesn't want to

CIS with a great coach ( and I am not sure that CIS has one in val) would fucking shit on everybody, it's literally aim + tactics

play with the very best of your country men, comm in your native language, play under the biggest russian org in esports, cement another game for cis to dominate, attract thousands of fans to the new game for a region, yeah sounds like a once in a lifetime opportunity

personality of a soap, has 0 aura, I still believe my goat s1mple will come back and take back what is rightfully his

I mean why would they need a duelist, just go into a methodical gameplay like what most cs teams do, as great Zeus (CIS IGL GOAT) said: ''No matter how hard you pracc your strats, your splits, your nades, your set ups, if you go out on a site and a guy just one taps, you can't do anything about it''

I want to hate them in cs but I fucking love flamez, ropz and apex, just can't force myself to hate them

-By far the most dominant nationality in the game closest to valorant (CS)
-Has a lot of young guys who have nothing better to do due to poor infrastructure
-esports are actually seen as an actual profession and not some sort of dream (Spirit were honoured by fucking Putin after their win at TI 2021)
-Mentality and subcultures are close for egoistical and hard working beasts to appear (e.g. monesy, donk, sh1ro, kyousuke, jame, fl1t, fame, fl4mus)

wait so these 5 actually kinda make sense role wise??? y'all are so cooked when they get together

I am sure that getting all 5 of them will cost less than what they paid just for sh1ro (rumour has it was 1.5 million). Val buyouts are way smaller than those in CS, and spirit know when to splash their cash. Oh, and Spirit are literally the biggest org in CIS who have won the biggest prize pool in esports history

likely won't happen immediately, but all it takes for CIS is just 1 dynasty team and then the game is crowded.
CS boom in CIS teams started after navi 2020-2021, after that VP/Outsiders, SPirit, Betboom, Aurora, Nemiga, Passion UA, monte all became tier 1/2 teams
Dota boom happened after Vp 2017-2019, after that their 2nd younger roster came up, Spirit, Aurora, BetBoom, 1win, C9 are all tier1/2 teams
Spirit domination in Val, BOOM

chronicle flex
trexx flex
SUYGETSU - Controller
SHAO - Initiator
nats - IGL/Senti
I am shit at building val rosters, but I do not care, these 5 will shit on any team in EMEA after Team Spirit signs them in 2026 after navi forfeit their slot in VCT after buying monesy
#SPIRITED

best run org in EMEA across all games I think

their decisions wasted them. They knew that device had an illness which gets progressively worse with intense travel, and they forced them to endure stints like New York - Malmo - Copenhagen - Beijing - London - Copenhagen - bahrain

astralis takes the cake easily
have the most dominant team ever -> dismantle it cuz you hate the players -> make them shorten their pay check due to covid -> sign like 4 substitutes -> waste all careers at the same time -> device gets mad and leaves -> team goes to shit -> dupreeh and magisk and zonic leave for pennies (become major winners btw) -> sign baitF and k0nfig (ufc fighter) and mid awpers -> fail RMRS

south east asian popular team which specializes on mobile games (which are at ewc) who have a huge social media gather around them in their home region, obvious candidate

I am not a g2 fan at all but some of their one-off jerseys are fucking fire, like their shanghai 2024 jersey or the worlds jersey they had in baseball style

sen is just way bigger on their socials than nrg, so that's the main reason

it's just 500k, wonder how much demon1 cost

no one denies how stacked the EWC is, some people just don't like their politics

lol, lmao even. It's just for the EWC, a.k.a Saudi hosted ESports festival

has nothing to do with riot, saudis just realized how washed PNS (Penissed) is 😭😭😭

https://imgur.com/a/ZolTM3y NRG were at the 2024 partner system
https://imgur.com/a/FRC80QC not anymore :D
yes I know that it doesn't mean that sen literally took their spot, but one is out, one is in soooooo

nrg was actually ousted from the list to make room for new teams :D We live in a world where you can say that sen have taken nrg's spot

they don't choose orgs purely based on their region, they choose them based on their popularity, fanbase, game performance, number of disciplines, etc. Example given, an org like sentinels doesn't have many games, but they are massive in terms of online viewership, an org like twisted minds, while not being the best in any games has a lot of these squads, so it kinda balances out

the value is also in the fact that these points will go towards the overall club standings. If someone like team liquid was in a close standings fight with falcons (who are the favourites), having such a massive game which hands out a lot of points would be key to win 7 million

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)#War_crimes_by_the_Saudi_Arabian%E2%80%93led_intervention

point still stands, they operate on the same basis of improving their image thru sporting events. qatar hosted world cup 2022, saudi will host 2030, qatar hosts an f1 grand prix, so does saudi

yeah but then everybody talked about messi's historic win, ronaldo's biggest loss, marocco in top 4, japan shocking germany, no one bats an eye on those who died