From an earlier thread:

There are rules in Chess for Swiss tournaments with an odd number of players, so they could theoretically break it down like this:
30
15 15
8 15 7
4 12 11 3
4 6 12 5 3
4 6 6 6 5 3

Assuming initial matches are Bo1 and your qualifying/elimination matches are Bo3, this would be 36 Bo1 and 24 Bo3 matches, with 5 teams receiving one BYE at some point in the stage.

This also has the advantage of dividing the field into 16 winners and 14 losers, so you can easily set up the following stage of the tournament.

“VCT Participating Teams are required to arrive in their respective Hub Cities by March 19, 2023.”

could have been such a cool reveal if I hadn’t been cursed with leak knowledge two weeks ago

Sayaplayer came to the U.S. in 2018, it’s highly unlikely that he has citizenship

I think all that can really be said right now is that SEN and C9 are rated toward the top with NRG, 100T, LEV, and LOUD being strong contenders. There isn’t any dominant team that is definitely going to qualify, but probably not the other four given our current knowledge of the rosters.

koldamenta IGLed G2 and GLD to LAN

Without having actually played him:
I think C is fine, Q smoke should have a minimum duration (maybe 7-8 seconds), E cooldown five seconds shorter, and X should apply a slow when the circle appears at your feet to make it slightly harder to move out of the stun

In general, he seems pretty viable to me on most maps so I don’t expect any major changes

even if you’re practicing for 60 hours every week, you should still have time for yourself and your relationships, and you’re going to get very limited benefits from an additional hour or two per day if you’re already practicing for 8+

Mistic was in the same deleted picture that Leo was in, just a bit further left

the only player on SEN, NRG, C9, and 100T not including whoever they get as their 6th*

also I can definitely see the potential that FNS or Chet would have seen in s0m, he’s better than a lot of people give him credit for

If it’s true that the global contract database will be public on the 17th, then we should still get announcements before then cause it’s obviously pretty lame for fans to find out from a spreadsheet

i don’t even think she’ll be eligible until the 2025 VCT season

i feel like TenZ should learn not to trust his aim so much in certain situations, cause a lot of the time he should have a clean shot but he chooses to flick or spray instead, and obviously you always run the risk of getting one-tapped if you wait for the more guaranteed kill but on average it seems to work out well for other Chamber players

buddy i’ve only ever played valorant on a laptop (with a monitor) and i often dip below 100

He said that he would rather play in ascension than be a sixth so probably EG

@katarinafps

C9 win: C9 and SR qualify
C9 don’t win: C9 and winner qualify

There’s a CGP Grey video called “7 Ways to Maximize Misery” so just watch that: https://youtu.be/LO1mTELoj6o

idk if it has to be for the full duration, but I agree that it should stay up for at least a few extra seconds

basically just running tests to find potential problems with your game

is this your way of saying you’re pulling on scaramouche

Yeah I think there’s a much higher chance that he replaces an initiator or duelist than a traditional controller. Omen + Harbor or Astra + Harbor on Ascent/Haven seems possible in ways that Viper never was.

Is this what you want? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Womyn%27s_Music_Festival

Isn’t this the same guy who was making up rumors about SEN roster changes a few weeks

EDIT: just noticed this tweet is from September 20th, so yeah same interview

The only non-cultural reason that I might consider for men being better than women on average would be if it was discovered that something like hand size was positively correlated with being better at Valorant, but that seems unlikely (the one study I could find seemed to imply that small hands are better for speed while large hands are better for stamina). All of the psychological arguments have always been super weak.

As for Bob, she has probably had more experience playing against top NA teams like SEN, LG, V1, etc. than any other player in GC so that seems like a more likely explanation than any biological argument.

wow this does not work well on mobile

They’re saying leaf played a single map of Chamber and he’s going to be on a team with yay so he’s not going to play Chamber again, leaf’s stats from that one map aren’t significant

sorry I’m saving myself for Harbor’s motorcyle

so is their duo name pronounced TenZ-ekken or Ten-Zekken

Foursome?

you don’t need notifications if you never leave the site

maybe Seulgi is a reporter in the day and a stripper at night

yeah she and I re-enacted the spaghetti scene from lady and the tramp, it was quite romantic and she’s a lovely person

your mom gave my fingers a nice workout

https://www.vlr.gg/148659/sentinels-drx-gc-team-liquid-news-almost-missed-oct-8

they wanted to hop off the plane at LAX with a dream and their cardigan

isn’t that what happened to the guy in Tangled

they should just drop him on December 7th at this point for completion

in theory it’s always going to rely on trust unless the government introduces a formal legal process to change your gender, but of course if the tournament organizers find any evidence that you may be faking it they can always just ban you and you’re going to get a ton of hate for it

wheorge

apparently they’ve been trialing a lot of people, but beyond that there isn’t much to report

East coast on average is nicer, but there are some good cities on the west coast

Apparently there are rules in Chess for Swiss tournaments with an odd number of players, so they could theoretically break it down like this:
30
15 15
8 15 7
4 12 11 3
4 6 12 5 3
4 6 6 6 5 3

Assuming initial matches are Bo1 and your qualifying/elimination matches are Bo3, I believe this would be 47 Bo1 and 24 Bo3 matches, with 5 teams receiving one BYE at some point in the stage.

This also has the advantage of dividing the field into 16 winners and 14 losers, so you can easily set up the following stage of the tournament.

are you saying the round-robin stage would be Bo1? because they’d have to run like 10 matches per day to make that fit in the current timeframe

i was trying to think of context for when a player would ever say “i killed 2 on haven”, but then i found it:

https://www.vlr.gg/99720/cloud9-vs-sentinels-champions-tour-north-america-stage-2-challengers-w5

Detroit: Become Human is a pretty obvious one, also Hazelight games if you have a friend for co-op

Oper - TenZ
Entry - zekken
Initiator - Sacy
Controller - pANcada
Flex/IGL - dephh

what part of this doesn’t work? dephh has played a ton of Cypher and Killjoy in the past so SEN should be fine if they become meta again

i think they might just be waiting to do a full team reveal now that they basically have everyone, cause if they were going to keep doing it one at a time we probably would have gotten a dephh announcement by now

shockingly I was actually able to find one: https://youtu.be/g_OXaUFGsvs

George Geddes said that the Lakia leak is not true, so did Autumn but he’s part of the team so it makes sense for him to deny it