That's a real shame, I was really hoping for the possibility of Demon1 vs Babybay chamber and more importantly the interview afterwards of either Demon1 giga ego or Demon1 getting clowned on for his last interview

Your telling me PRX fans wouldn't enjoy watching Dambi.

Dambi plays the game PRX fans think that PRX plays.

Y'all got more options for servers than Sydney, Sydney or Sidney?

I mean Ion ain't 18 until 2027 so Rossy at least has a fair bit of job security (assuming history doesn't repeat and he gets replaced after 1 stage)

What do you mean 'an awful team to have in vct'.

They're a great team to have. They have a distinctive team Identity, the players have a story and personalities which in the world of Esports is a hard thing to find. You might not like those personalities but they're sure as hell good for the game in terms of engagement and attention which is the goal of Esports (given Esports is literally a marketing program).

Like ain't no one excited for some boring respectful shake hands, play game, thank team mates, thank fans, say your opponent tried their best/we'll get them next time, generic Twitter post player, life's better with a bit of spice.

I can see where your coming from and it's generally more relevant to think about your course and where your passion is. Like I'm in my final year of Mechanical Engineering and the maths really isn't what makes me excited about the degree or the field and the really hard non-intuitive stuff that I would throw at the LLMs to find a starting point is not overly relevant to my career path. But if you're in a maths degree then I could see the learning being more important to you than a means to an end.

Also your uni/college might also be pretty vigilant around LLMs, the school of engineering at my university are pretty chill and I've had a lot of lecturers say something along the lines of "every industry partner we have uses them in there businesses and would prefer we send them interns and undergrads that can use them effectively instead never using them at all"

In my experience LLMs are pretty good at differential equations these days.

Always worth throwing it through and reading through the output to see if it actually has the right process. Helps you get started by showing you the patterns to look for when rearranging equations and identifying the processes to solve them more than the raw calculations of derivatives and integrals (which btw derivative.com and integral.com are great solvers with steps to also help learn the process).

Text books are fine but you gotta read a lot of fluff and generally don't have anything useful for the more complex issues where the challenge is more about starting it.

Just what ever you do don't just copy past an LLM response as an answer, use it as a tool like any other calculator and not as the solution to ever problem

Surprising that so many of them are smokes players
Aspas on duelist
Boaster smokes igl
Mazino probably playing flash initiators
Saadhak probably playing initiator
Artzin on sentinel "perma viper"

Mines still sitting in the envelope it got given to me in. Figured it would make a good keepsake at some point even if it's just cash sitting on my bookshelf.

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, but the Kingdom bit kinda feels like a technicality so take that how you will

Definitely OCE challengers... Big things this year

Lowkey the actual announcement video was straight fire.
Lived up to the hype even though it's been leaked for ages.

Me when I kill the entire identity of a team

Ok hear me out. Is it finally OCE's change to get an org spot in franchising. Surely there's enough SEA teams, one spot for little old OCE wouldn't hurt no one would it.

Valyn?
Never heard of it. Must a Chinese brand that never made it to Aus. Does it have those extra buttons on the back?

I get that popular vote is probably the Xbox One controller (there's a reason it didn't swap from the XBONE to the Series X). Personally I'm a big fan of the GameCube controller, Nintendo were low-key a second full joystick and analogue trigger away from perfection.

Personally not a huge dual shock fan anymore the Dual Shock 2 was fire but i wasn't really a fan of the skinny way they do the analogue triggers on the new ones.

And shout out the Logitech F310 for is dual purpose of games and submarine steering

I mean you sound pretty convinced. As someone who also did the 1hr 30 minutes commute (granted that was just living in a different regional town so less frustrating than traffic) if it's killing your passion for what your doing then it's time to either move closer or start a plan to move on. I highly recommend you don't just send it and resign, have a plan find something else 1st.

Always one foot in one foot out, unemployment leads to desperation and taking anything you can get which probably would be just as bad for your mental as living with the commute.

Yay ain't a good fit, yays the up there with cryo for the most passive duelist players going around. Not exactly matching the Cane and Envy playstyle.

Wasn't expecting the KDG Carpe reunion in the big 2025

Tenz was also them buying an established player and the face of valorant just of dominating masters 2 the 1st Lan event of the game. The gambit players weren't known at the time, they were all players without a major social presence in an isolated region and gambit got forced out before they would have resigned new contracts for higher compensation.

Nah, pretty sure allegation was that bro was watching to much Overwatch 'content' on the hub and he got hella memes for it

I heard on a stream Hastr0 was planning for Envy to have a tier 2 roster for next year so Cane and Ion don't just have to ride a bench. Anyone able to confirm/find the source for that one?

BBL Pacific isn't an academy team it's an affiliate team. As long as they separate from BBL if they win they're fine. Think KRU and Oxen instead of Lev and Lev academy

There's a better way to look at this question.
Is 2 Turkish ascension teams make it to VCT enough to prevent Cojo finding a cracked Turkish tier 2 player for Boaster's system to mould into an absolute weapon?
If not, I can only assume the old challenger Turkey sort by ACS might win out

From memory the global contract database listed him as an Americas resident for import limits.

Do you like other Pokemon games? if so you'll probably enjoy it if you buy it. If you don't, then problem solved don't buy it.

In terms of more nuanced takes,

• the new combat system looks interesting, a more interactive twist on the old turn based jrpg formula Pokemons built off
• the new Megas are pretty cool (granted gen 6 hits some peak nostalgia for me so probably a biased take)
• story and characters will probably be what your expecting, not the most overly complicated plot but with hype moments that (kind of like the crap TV everyone secretly loves to watch)

No maple no wins
Unfortunately you get those on the big jobs sometimes

Hear me out here, if the match goes 1-1. Gentlemen's agreement to sub in Babybay and Carpe for the greatest final map of the century.

I mean the traffic lights are looking good for it
Win last week against NS and DRX
Lose this week to PRX
Win the next week of games in lower bracket final and PRX rematch in the grand finals

Might come undone though if it counts weeks that games aren't played on

Unfortunate for nongshim. Got them on the wrong week

Have some faith. For dreams to come true enough people need to dream

It's pretty clearly pipson. Old mates running on years of straight mediocrity, personally surprised he is still coaching giants

Based

EZ for babybay

Unpopular opinion but this was the single most entertaining sub G2 could have gotten.

A player with more personality than the rest of G2 combined and who knows what the fuck it's going to look like. Are they going to player him on sentinel? Are they going to send it on double duelist? Is G2 actually going to play fast?
And they'll probably lose some games and completely throw off the group's/playoffs qualifications for champs for unexpected stories.

Is it the best move to win games probably not but who cares they're already qualified for Paris, let's have some fun with it.

To be fair, ask a team if they're satisfied only winning a masters, they will still say no. (Hell most teams probably wouldn't be satisfied in just winning champs)

Idk, kinda sits around the 2022 Reykjavík level in my head. Yes, it is a big lan event. But there's also all the asterisk on it. In this case it's right between a masters event and international play starting again. A couple subs and roster changes.

At the end of the day the grand finals was a 3-2 reverse comeback holding on for dear live. Enjoy it for what it is, a good game. In an overall decent event with pretty interesting results heading into stage 2 and champs.

Actually worse than bad

Starlinks ok where I am in regional Victoria but the main Telecom options are really poor. Before we swapped we had roughly 10-15 mbps download 5 mbps upload

Idk, probably just put on a co-streamer like fns or something. Didn't look like they were blocked when I try them.

Also going to be really weird when my Nan inevitably asks me what this esports world cup thing is when it shows up on her TV guide in Wednesdays paper.

I mean it make sense when you think that EWC was almost definitely already flying AVRL out anyway to cast mid season clash (The Overwatch event at EWC)

Fair cop for the man, interesting to see Valorant start to transition towards its collegiate tier 2 "if I can't get a job I can probably get a degree food and housing" era.

Low-key will never understand how the US college's justify all the money they throw at these programs

It's looking pretty clean tbh.

Good thing paper rex would never lose a grand finals from the upper bracket.

Nah, Billi Billi Gaming were the owners of the Hangzhou Spark

God I hope they don't try and off role him onto smokes to have Veqaj play duelist.

Track pad gaming, I respect it

So not considering the bag / financial stability of signing to gentle mates.

Is it not just in Comeback's best interest to just sit back and watch them burn to guarantee 2 ascension spots and an easier run for BBL Pcific (who are an affiliate not academy team so they can ascend). I mean this team swept Emea once already and swept through their regional league twice.

Is it really worth the reputation damage from losing with gentle mates and the chance of losing a spot on Pcific if they ascend?

They literally are, they're on the partnered teams list

I mean people wanted tier 2 Brazilian talent and they signed 3 players who have never played vct before

Furias management must be malding when they blow up the roster and sign the tier 2 Brazilian players everyone wanted to see and people still ain't happy