used to be an insanely aggressive op player. Had to change his whole playstyle to play chamber. Now he can't go back to how he used to play Jett.
Chamber ruined this man.

EMEA being a farmers league holds 0 value to the region being the most successful in val. Also every region but Americas is a 2/3 team region, i.e. farmers leagues.
Valorant just isn't that big in EU because the whole genres fanbase in EU is still CS. NA fanbase moved when CS died in NA. Asia never had a mainstream FPS with large international events.

Also Riot wont be making anything off the leagues. Their main, and probably only profit is through the skin sales at champs.

Bro, from the sounds of it you want to watch 10mans over events.
You watch esports for the competition and to see the highest level val there is. It would suck if we had a team like astralis. YOu'd always assume the winning. However if you were a fan of watching perfect CS, no other team was better than it than Astralis. It's why I enjoyed watching them. They showed the game how it can be played, and should be played. It's why we're watching the best teams, and not tariks 10mans.

Like, watch the game for the game, not for the winner. It makes things 10x better. Just appreciate the gameplay itself, rather than who's doing what. MY fav team went out early in playoffs. It sucks, but we move on. it was entertaining watching fnatic play their matches, and watching EG's run. Final match could have been more hype if it went the distance, however even without it, we had 2 good maps, and lotus.

you mentioned loud with roster changes, so did fnatic. Pretty much every single team made big roster changes. It's not restricted to one.
You can't blame lock/in performance on roster changes when nearly every roster made changes and was adjusting.
Bringing up the pedigree of the players is just finding an excuse for their loss.

I agree that fnatic aren't anywhere close to astralis. tbh it's weird to even call it a dynasty, as it's just two events. I guess because there's less than a handful of events in a year, that we can't really find a good metric for a dynasty.

Loud and NRG being out of form, is just unfortunate. It happens at most events. Even DRX who were one of the most consistant teams out there, looked like pure ass this event. PRX missing something, was a shitty situation. If they had something, I see them taking the GF spot from EG. However Champions will hopefully show us every team in form. Would make for better matches.

wait, did fnatic not have 2 roster changes aswell :/

not underestimating. People overestimated cNed, and all his pickup did was fuck with roles, causing inconsistencies.

cNed can only play Jett, and as of recent even that looks pretty meh. What made Navi a great team before, was all of them fit their roles perfectly. Ardis would swap from Jett/chamber when needed, and still do a decent job. So far cNed has been an insanely average Raze. Only his Jett is good, and his sage when he can play.

Unless NAVI run Jett 100% of the time instead of Raze, or at least get cNed to learn another agent and have zyppan as raze.

Just right now the only players who look the same as before, is shao, suygetsu, and maybe ange1. Everyone else looks honestly underwhelming.

bro tried to sneak in NAVI.

man is living in the optic days when yay was the best chamber itw. Dude hasn't realised that their only constant, was yay chamber taking them to finals.

Whoever said Leo was almost equal to Enzo were by far delusional. Leo was a top initiator in guild. Only reason he wasn't their star player, was because Sayf was abusing tf out of Chamber, like every other Jett main did.

I did see far more saying the two were good upgrades

played bad, but somehow still did good on entries.

Mocking people because of their weight is more likely to make them isolate themselves and be depressed, opposed to make them go out of their way to improve. Encouraging them to change is the better way.

I do agree with parents instilling bad habits into their children. My sister does it to my niece and nephew. It's going to fuck their health up for a long time, as it just makes them picky af eaters, who only eat processed trash.

cant be a navi fan bro. Ange1 is on the roster. He's not a fan of players not having a cookie cutter personality.

yeah, I leave the metal clasps off, and if it's too much and I cant rerack. Once it hits my chest just tilt it and gravity does the rest for you.

or ask some random dude if they could spot. Dont think I've ever seen anyone say no to spotting someone.

It's not about the different in game mechanics, but culture. The esports culture in CS is by far one of the most taxing. the top val teams played 17 matches (loud, getting to finals of lockin) matches matches since champs. Champs was last September.
Navi have played 47 matches since September 29th.

the point I'm making is the setup for Val isn't as bad as it's counterpart. It's honestly one of the more relaxed t1 esports. Teams are ofc going to fight to make the event. CS teams dont just think "oh well, we'll qual for the next event".
These esports players are playing for the achievment, not the prizepool. ofc the prizepool is a plus, but they're already getting paid absurd amounts. this is the t1 scene btw.

With the game mechanics being different with flashes etc. That's what scrims are for, and what coaches and analysts are for. A val player playing 8-10 hours a day isn't any different than a CS player playing 10-12 hours a day. They're both putting in server time for their respective game. The semantics of meta changes isn't relevant to having breaks between events. If we look at meta changes, compare with league. Where T1 have played over 100maps since September. There's countless comparisons that show val is one of the more lax esports schedules out there.

The main thing that burned out CS pros was the travel. They'd go to an event, travel ,play, travel, play. Especially NA pros in EU. They'd spend majority of their time travelling and going from event to event. Past 6 months val players have been to 3 places so far. Brazil, (where their respective league is held), and Tokyo.

I'm just adamant that the current schedule as it is, isn't as big of an issue as it's made out to be.

You argue that he's cocky.
Then say he's a bottom fragger and not a good igl, despite DRX being one of the most consistant teams since the game was launched. This is their worst performance in over a year btw.

You might not like the guy, but you can't deny that he's a good igl. The results literally show that.

past year of international events;
lockin - 3/4
champs - 3rd
master copa - 5/6
master reyk - 5/6

constant top6 team itw, this being their worst placement since champs 2021.

The team was on a rise every event, and then had one bad event being this one. Hardly a cause of having him dropped. DRX main issue is not sticking with a stable 5, and constantly swapping their Jett player around.

I find it far more entertaining to watch a cocky player.
If they win, storylines develop. if they lose, storylines close and karma kicks in. Then it repeats the next time.

Dude hates stax because he's cocky lmao. Must hate quite a lot of pro players then.

This guy must hate atleast 1/2 players on every team at this point.

I always go by this. Walking 10 minutes a day is better than not. Lifting 5kg is better than lifting 0.
Any type of actively you do tends to be better than doing nothing. Even if that's just walking to the store and back, or just walking around your house for 10minutes.
Just getting used to being more active, and learning to enjoy being active was the most important, and beneficial thing that happened to me. Now I feel like shit if I dont go every day, or take more than one rest day. My body just feels uncomfortable if I'm being lazy.

also with benching with no spot. Just dont put the caps on the side to secure the plates. That way if you fail the rep, you just push the bar in one direction and the plates slide off. I've been doing that for awhile, and it's saved me a few times where I didn't have anyone to spot me lmao

I think majority of my meals was wholegrain pasta with chicken and a cream sauce. I'd have that like 4/7 days a week. Other than that, I'd make chicken burgers, or prep some wraps for a week. Wraps/burritos are great to prep.
I just aim to hit my 150-180g protein a day. The real workout is having to actually eat constantly throughout the day, and reach macro targets.

Soup, I need to actually make a nice soup. Easy to prep and freeze, and reheat.

Even if the time between the two was a bit longer, they wouldn't have rested anymore than they did. They'd be scrimming everyday still, and still constantly playing. Most of these players are accustomed to practicing everyday.
It's usually the travel that burned a lot of CS pros out, and val players aren't hugely forced to travel every month like cs players are.

I honestly believe them constantly swapping back and forth hurt the chemistry and playstyle of both foxy9 and drx as a whole.
It was clear when foxy9 first started playing that his playstyle was far different than how drx play as a team. This was clear through his matches. However swapping buzz in as a Jett when it didn't go to their plan/allow for enough time to get accustomed to it during official matches.
It just looks like it hurt them more than anything. Not having a consistent duellist playing, just hurts their performance when they do.

concept artists and designers are still part of the development process. They're still game devs. You dont need to be a technical developer to be a game dev.

The start of gym is the worst. You're not used to muscle ache, and the initial boost to get up and go, was horrid. It's the same with diets.

The start is dogshit, however as soon as it becomes a habit to follow through, it's more uncomfortable on the days you dont go.

For diet, look for recipes that cheat. Learning how to cook breaded chicken that isn't high in fats, or grease. Find low calorie dense foods. Dense low calorie foods is probably the easiest way friends of mine lost weight. They'd be too full when dinner came, yet only consumed around 1100 calories before dinner.
With chicken, or pork. Get cornflakes, or low fat potato chips. Crush them and use that to bread the meat, and put it in the oven, or airfryer if you have one. Just with that it makes the food actually nice, while still being mostly healthy.

The worst part for me about having a healthy diet, is it's a lot of effort to prep everything. The issue I had when I was eating unhealthy, was how convenient shit was for me. I could just go to the shop, get a frozen pizza, put it in the oven and in 16mins I was eating food. Now I end up spending 2-3 hours prepping every couple days, which is pretty aids as a uni student. However after a few months of it, you see how it pays off, and how it's worth the extra effort.

What ruined drx was not having a superstar Jett, and then getting the wrong one and constantly swapping back and forth between buzz and foxy9 on Jett.

Their roster shuffles are the worst by far. Picked up lakia, played him a handful of times before he left. Gets foxy9, keeps swapping between buzz and foxy on jett.

It hasn't even been a super long season, wym. After last champs there was like a 4/5month break from official events, and then they played 12 matches over 2 months.

bro people made fun of his weight when he was on g2

It would be pointless. IT's like watching 2 ai chess go against eachother, or any sports game on the hardest difficulty play against eachother.
At that point it's just a simulation game. It would defeat the purpose of esports, and sport. Like there'd be a market for it. A niche market, and would be more like having esports for football manager or something similar. However it'll never be mainstream.

I also think it'll be boring af to watch. What makes esports and normal sports interesting, is the room for error. The whole purpose of professional sports, is to see who is better than the rest. Having AI would be counter productive to the initial essence of competition.

DRX

Do people forget that during peles era, he didn't play in a farmers league.

S1mple is the better player
Dev1ce had the better team.

In peak form, s1mple is a better individual player, be it rifle or awp. dev1ce just had a better team to set him up, or clutch rounds he couldnt win.
Astralis peak > navi peak
S1mple peak > dev1ce peak

bro, they've been struggling against every team, besides eg. Not just the best team.

His team was falling apart, but also him forcing chamber wasn't an agent that complimented his skills.
cNed during champs was the best Jett in the world, and he had no competition for how dominant he was. After that his team was falling apart, then him trying to force a chamber wasn't the best plan. On defence it was fine, on attack they didn't have the setups to play aggressive.

cNed at his best was on Jett. On chamber he was just another chamber player amoungst a sea of them, and he didn't stand out anymore. there may have been more factors involved, but the second he went back onto Jett, he started to shine again. cNed was always great at dashing in site and playing his life, over waiting for picks on chamber, or having to get a shot then tp out. It's no secret that chamber messed with a lot of previous Jett mains, with making them change their playstyle due to limited aggression on him during attack rounds.

cNed was an average chamber because it favoured the complete opposite of his playstyle.
His Jett during champ1 was by far the best Jett in the world, and he utalised the aggressive nature of Jett, perfectly. Chamber was the complete opposite, forcing him to play more passive, compared to a Jett.

I also agree with you that raze is not the key to a good duelist. Most teams are subbing an initiator flex onto a raze, as they tend to have better rifling mechancis than Jett mains. If teams shift away from Jett, they'll just reallocate opers onto another agent.

Yay was a better chamber, 100%. However Derke is hardly recency bias, given he's been consistently a top 5 performer in his role since 2021. He is one of the most consistent duellists and opers the game has. Most likely next to Yay and Aspas.
Shao was the same. Can't compare yay and shao as it's been awhile since shao played the same role.
All three being mentioned are consistent demons.

Derke was always a slightly better Jett player than yay, and a slightly worse chamber player.

that's the best situation you can have for competitive integrity. Just dont think tournament organisers see it as enough of an issue to invest in booths.

It's not the audio noise, it's the vibrations it can cause on the stage.
It's been an issue in CS with danish crowds doing so with Astralis. I'm pretty sure there's a compilation somewhere with xyp9x being accused of abusing the vibrations.

He was a jett/duelist main since he joined fpx at the start of 2022, before that he was as sova main from the g2 days.
what they did was take someone off more agressive roles, and put them on sage/killjoy.

They brought someone in to replace yay, just to take him off the role after lockin where he showed a decent performance on Jett. Ardis was a duelist main for a year, and didn't do horrible at lockin with it either.

I do agree that making him a jett one trick isn't the best plan. Do what other teams have done. Jett/sage/Raze. He's mained them for the past year, so having him on a Jett/Raze is the best plan. Putting him on sentinel is a waste of his talent. At that point just pick up babyj, or an actual sentinel player.

tbh when he was on xset, chamber meta was in full force, and cryo was abusing tf out of it, so he could play raze/neon whenever he wanted.
He was just always a raze/sova player. Even before chamber meta, and the current. He'd play raze when needed, and sova and other initiators whenever else needed.

People still living in 2021. Same shit with SKrossi. People still hate on both of them because of cringe fans two years ago.

Depph as 6th, teaching sacy more about igling. right now he's the main liability ingame. his calling might be good in their comms, we dont know. However he gets nearly 0 impact most games. He's far too inconsistant, and caused a huge role change that threw the team off, because he didn't feel comfortable on his original role. Dude went from being negative on KJ, to being just as dogshit on kayo and harbor.
People shit on tenz because he isn't what he was in 2021, yet forget nearly every duelist in that event fell off at some point. The only duelist who kept his form, was Derke.

Sen best bet is prob waiting for the split to be over, and work on sacy moving to main igl. right now they cant do much as tenz isn't in the best health, but their best thing they could do is work on sacy igl.

It's a lot easier for a girl to relate to another girl.
It's been that way for guys aswell.
It's also been that way through normal sports aswell. Given a few outliers, but in general people tend to idolise who they can relate more with.

Most Gc teams also try to qual for t1/2 events. Most of the current GC teams were in the ascension open quals. they just didnt manage to make it.

Th whole point of Gc is to catch up on the development that girls didn't get for the past 20 years or so. Esports, and even the games industry tens to be a boys club, and has only started shifting heavily in the past 10-15 years. Right now the Gc teams might not seem like much, but in 5-10 years, it'll be a complete different beast. we're still in the early days of the girl scene being developed, and with the support and interest it's garnering amongst people, it'll grow insanely fast.

It's not more visibility to bring in casual players. Twitch streamers do that better than anyone.
It's to show that if you're good enough, there's a scene where you can compete.

It's the same as what guys had 20years ago when esports was starting to gain a lot of traction, and growth.
It's giving them a role model to use as inspiration to grind and then compete. Much like how the most swedish pro cs players mostly have get right and forest as their biggest inspiration growing up.

If they have someone they idolise, who's competing in events. It's the inspiration that the players can give off to impact the development of the competitive scene for girls.

Right now it wont be able to compete against the mainstream competitions, as guys have like 20-25years of development ahead of girls when it comes to fps competition, and generally any competition in video games. So it wont be an instantaneous catchup, but GC is created in hopes that it will speed up the development of a competitive scene for girls.

My egg breakfasts just tend to be 2:2 ratio with whole eggs and egg whites. Make scrambled eggs with that on a slice of wholegrain toast.
Meal ends up being around 22-25g protein.

Think my daily meal is like this. It does tend to change depending on if I want to go through chicken for the 10000th time

Breakfast - Scrambled eggs - 22-25g protein - like 250 calories or so
protein powder - 25g protein, not sure the calories tbh. think around 200 or something. (dont have a blender to add fruit and shit, so I just got the powder and milk :( )
Lunch - chicken, rice, some green veg. mostly broccoli - 50-100g protein depending on the amount of chicken I want. 500-700 calories
dinner - chicken/fish/beef, rice, sweet potato - 50-100g protein, 700-900g calories

Snacks I tend to go for recently has just been small tubs of greek yogurt. Used to get nuts to snack on, but that shit got pricey for me.

Think my daily intake ends up at like 150-250g protein, and around 1.80-2.4k calories. My calorie maint is around 2.5k, so depending on how much chicken/protein I cook, depends if I hit close to 2.4, or sit at 1.8.
I have a horrible habit of making 200g chicken each meal, which ends up putting me far ahead of my daily protein requirement.

As genz as this sounds, tiktok and instagram have a plethora of interesting ways to make chicken not boring. Shit like using crushed cornflakes to give off the effect that it's fried chicken (shit is great, try it), and a bunch of other ways to not make your food generic baked chicken and rice.

think I had baked chicken and rice for a solid year straight, with a few protein swaps with fish, beef, etc throughout. No chance I'm going back to that.

but yeah, the hardest bit of dieting wasn't the cravings for me. It was making food and cooking not boring. If shit is boring, you'll stray from it and give up.

Learn new ways to make chicken.
there's a plethora of ways to make healthy food not be boring af.

Other than eating healthy meals, my snacks tend to be some form of nuts, or fruit.
I do lose to a few cravings here and there. I just dont binge eat. A doughnut or two ever couple weeks wont hurt. 2-3 bags of doughnuts, will. Everything in moderation is how you stick to shit.

If you want to take it a step further, look into baking protein snacks. I baked little cakes that I eat when I'm hungry. Got some protein in it, good ingredients, and quite filling. I tend to eat them around 3pm, to cover some macros inbetween lunch and dinner.

If boredom is fucking your diet up, whenever you get bored, take a shower, or go for a walk. Going on walks was what helped me at the start of my diet. The biggest hurdle I had when I first started dieting, was actually making the food. I liked the convenience of junk food, opposed to actually putting in effort to making it. Once I got into the habbit of cooking 3 meals a day, it changed.

Yes, it's a 5v5 not 5 1v1. Saying that means nothing to what I said. If it was 5 1v1s, you'd just get 5 superstar duellists. You completely misread my point, which it is what it is.
However, what we got was a mediocre viper performance, and an average killjoy performance out of two players who are by far superior on other roles.

A tldr and summary of my initial point is this.

1) wasted potention of three players on that roster. Sacy, Pancada, Marved
2)viper is gamesense heavy, and lurk heavy. We saw a masterclass from s0m on how to play her on icebox.
3)from an outside view it looks like they shifted their roles because of dephh not doing great on kj. Probably not true, but it looks like that.

A lil bonus aswell. Out of the 5 players, only two of them on that roster played what they've been known for. Tenz and zekken were on their roles they've played their careers. sacy and pancada, not so much. Dephh played harbor first time in an official, so his performance I dont blame as much as if he was on say astra, or kj/cypher.

Overall, it's a 5v5 game, but they didn't play to their advantage. It just looked like what old TSM did. Change roles when one is uncomfortable, and see what works. This role change honestly just looked like "fuck around and find out" from them.

So you're saying keep the 5 while keeping someone who was once called the best controller in the world, arguable only second to pancada, who they took off smokes because their worst player can't play killjoy, or viper.

At least if they brought marved in for Sacy, they'd have one of the best controllers and viper players, playing the role. Instead of a sova and initiator player, play a controller that shines on lurks and gamesense.

If we're going with just longevity, being a journeyman for the past 6years shouldn't really be included in it . Going from playing 1.6 for years, into a solid career in t1/2 CS is amazing. It's something not many people have done, as most of either retired, or went into coaching.
I'd also argue that NEO would be argued as more of the best CS player of all time.

However I feel we'll just fall into the routine of arguing who was better their peak, etc.
Imo, s1mple is the greatest individual player to touch CS. as a single player, he's hit peaks no other player has. 7 Years in top10 players, 6years in top5, and 5 consecutive years in top2.
forest is by far one of the greatest players to touch the game. I just dont believe he is the greatest. I'd say Neo edges over him for contention for the best.

Saying it could be argued that s1mple isn't the goat of cs, but forest instead?

I agree that s1mple isn't close to being the goat of esports. That part with faker was in agreement with you. However it can't be argued with cs. No player has ever been as consistent and dominant as he has. Some have had the same peaks, but never the same consistency.

my man living in 2012. s1mple by far the goat of csgo. However he's no where near the level faker is with being the most recognisable esports player.