astralis in valorant where meta changes month to month and there is only 3 events in a year, for sure dude

it really depends on what you lack. For me personally, DM helps get multikill potential. going 1for1 can be good, going 2for1 or even 3for1 is great, that significantly changes how the round is played. If you hold the site and you get 2 before dying, your team is in a 4v3. If you are entrying the site and trade your teammate out and get one more frag on top of that, that's a 4v3 site hold again.

try playing more, improve mechanics

that + physique

understandable, but that's how sports work, there is no reason to blame them. If I am Real Madrid and my player wants to leave and he costs 100 million, I would pitch him for 125mil. Why would I miss out on the opportunity to make additional cash cuz of emotions? Emotions doesn't win you events or break you even, being a cold egoistic asshole does

my hot takes:

1. Most pros are way too soft in terms of their mental
   Most teams could have been saved just by them either working more or settling their differences aside, most of the time rosters implode cuz they aren't a team, they are 2-3 groups fighting for their interests behind the stage
2. Health Programmes should be a standard for every org
   Not only does it increase performance but it can also stretch the careers of players even longer.
3. Toxicity isn't as bad as people say
   I range Toxicity and straight up Discrimination as two things, Toxicity being the lesser of two evils. Most of the time ''toxics'' are just people who hate to lose and discriminators are straight up assholes
4. first arrivals to valorant were complete ass
   They were way too lazy to improve on CS (and also they were just blatantly gathering friends in their teams) and it showed when their results didn't keep up with the next generation of players.

didn't understand your number 3 point, wouldn't you also hate every sport club for asking bigger transfer fees and trading players for a lot?

Both played in Americas their entire tier 1 careers, wtf is this take, lmao

xqc has found another brother?

Well there is the blast final in Singapore, I wonder how it will do (last S-tier event before the Major)

which ones again goes back to show how shit the tier 2 system is. Orgs are in the risk of getting fucked, so the players are getting fucked

but that's just messed up towards the players

but they earned the slot, not the org. The players waste the entire year grinding their ass, get thru ascension and then the org just goes ''yeah, bye bye''

they cannot pay decent cuz then their RoI goes from bad to worse

So with them parting ways with their french roster and basically going international, doesn't that set a very grim situation for tier 2 players?
Hypothetical Situation:
-play in a mix of players
-play tier 2
-get into ascension tournament
-be bought by a relatively big org like mouz, fokus, sk, ence
-get the ascension slot
-have a number of players kicked cuz you ain't deemed good enough
-org gets slot and franchising money, you are kicked in the shitter
-go back to tier 2
How is that shit even possible

it's crazy to me how some slavic people use the internet everyday and their english knowledge is still ''awoogah'' level

Where does my precious king aleksiB come from then :(

In narrow angles he just adjusts his crosshair so that he aims on the head. Also it's possible that he heard him sprinting and assumed he would peek directly close to the wall. It's a basic mechanic coming from cs (and that comes from quake) If you shift while you peek directly facing the wall, you are seen before you can seem them (cuz you can closer to the angle then they are to an angle). It also doesn't make sense to sprint while on the far side of the corridor cuz you will look slower. (The further you are, the slower everything is.). He hears him sprint, assumes he is close wall, adjusts crosshair accordingly

*hockey goal buzzer"

First cuz most of the time they either develop into consistently great teams or disband and make good teams better

Fer wtf

it's fucking bullshit, also I dislike the idea of the tournament slots expanding deeper into the year, might as well make champs more elite cuz less teams get there. 8 team events are poopoo, 12 teams are a structural disaster, there is a reason most other esports have 16/24/32 slots, that's the better number to work with

I feel like International LANs feel too small for me, there ain't enough teams. Just make lock in the first event of the year and host kickoff before that, 6 top teams from every region assemble together in the region of the current Champs winner, top 3-6 from all regions go into opening stage, run swiss up until 3 wins or 3 losses, top 1-2 of regions are at round 2. top 1s are able to choose their opponent, top 2 will be randomly seeded against leftovers, run swiss again. single elim top 8 playoffs. It's the CS major format, but who the fuck cares, this format is far superior to groups anyways

зонтикс, разлогинься

low return on investment. FOr example in CS, if you get a major attending lineup, you are looking at around 2 million dollars, that's probably enough to break even if you spend a lot and a W if you didn't spend a lot. (reason why a team like g2 were willing to spend 600k on monesy, cuz one major attendance clears the payment). acend wasted 700k into nothing, they got nothing and paid a shit ton

cuz it's objectively the most fair format (unless you go for random seeding, then you are just an idiot). With great rule book, it turns into the best format of all. last CS major featured all 8 strong teams in the playoffs, set up 4 great quarter finals and had 3 great teams and 1 underdog in both sides of the bracket

also say bye bye to groups, dog shit format, go for swiss system (madrid was not a swiss system, that was a glorified double elim). Run a swiss up to 3 wins or 3 defeats, seed them based on overall strength of opponents, ez pz

map 1
heretics lead 11-1 -> lose 12-14
map 2
PRX lead 10-0 -> lose 11-13
map 3
PRX lead 8-1 -> lose 10-13
map 4
TH lead 12-4 -> Lose 13:15
map 5
12:0 -> 12:12 -> eternal overtime

will never forget how astralis singlehandedly shat on NA's hopes and dreams, truly one of the moments

you posted a few days ago that ''we have bottles with attached caps in boston'', therefore, you are from boston, therefore, you are not european habibi, you are murican

if riot actually funded a russian server, Kazan would be a great choice, as it offers somewhat of a decent ping for middle asia. riot need to unblock russia, or else emea is fucked

You are not european, but the reason why EU isn't as good in Valorant is because there aren't two staples of eu cs present in valo: scandinavia and cis. Talk as much shit as you want, Spain and Turkey together have completed less in FPS genre than Scandinavia, it wasn't wise of riot to cut off Scandinavia from franchising

The fuck did Theodore do bro

I legit thought all those fucking nerfs nuked the game

Last bit was blown out of proportions, but their scouting system is by far the best in both cs and dota

HenBabyH punching air the second he hears the song "Starboy" in his local Walmart

They had 1.7 million to splash for sh1ro, while relocating to Belgrade fully from Moscow, I am sure they will be able to do this. And their scouting network in both CS and Dota is insane, they might as well not buy any top talent and just get 5 cracked ranked pros and then just shit all over anyone

cannot wait to see NadeShot on a Trump rally

I'm telling you TenZ is as cracked as he is jacked, i saw him at 7/11 the other day buying adult diapers and a 6 pack of redbull. I asked him what the diapers are for and he said "they are to contain my full power so i dont absolutely shit on these kids" then he Jett Dashed out the door

what would it take from CS TOs to win over SEA fans, if, of course, the entire SEA region got upset with Riot?

sad that the entire SEA region left CS just to be given the same treatment over in Val

navi cuz they are the most based and successful org from my country:
-donated millions to Foster Homes/hospitals/volunteers/military
-Have the most understandable policy on how to deal with russians in esports
-their CS roster approach and the playstyle is how I like CS (I am a cs Frog, and I would say I am quite decent in CS)
-watching navi kinda helped me when the entire war started so I appreciate them
-s1mple is my favourite esports athelete of all time

crazy how I get downvoted for stating the fact that goat blade will just complete side quests next year

miposhka is there to chill out donk, all good

blade wins Shanghai in december cementing the navi era and becomes the first coach to coach in two games and then grants Navi all 3 international LAN wins in Valorant and 2 more majors for navi cs as well as an intel grand slam and 7 million prize money. B1ad3 will outcall Kaplan so bad the entire sentinels brand will go bankrupt just cuz of paying for kaplan's therapy

from the clips I have seen he is at the level of people of countries which are adjacent to russia, like Ukraine, Balkans, Finland who can speak russian, that's mad impressive

I don't give two shits on who gets kicked, spirit clear those poverty orgs

nah bro, ESL and Blast and PGL are for sure for sure retarded and they will never expand into a region which gets ignored in the other game (please ignore Blast hosting World Finals in Singapore, ESL hosting events in Malaysia annualy in Dota and PGL hosting TI11 in Singapore as well)

donk duelist, collapse initiator, miposhka IGL, sh1ro smokes, yatoro senti

Spirit are literally the best CIS org since NaVi left CIS, and turns out they also have the funding to function without betboom (like navi are without gg.bet on valo)