you really got cake on your face now, fool

WAKE UP

LEO IS PART OF THE PROBLEM

OVERTHROW YOUR MASTERS

WE PAY RIOT, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND

WHEN?

PLAYERS OF THE WORLD UNITE, CAST OFF YOUR SHACKLES, RIOT AGAINST RIOT

BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS

NO LONGER SHALL WE DEEPTHROAT THE BOOT OF OUR MASTERS

WE WILL BOYCOTT ALL SKINS UNTIL FRAUDIA IS FIRED (AND PUBLICALLY SHAMED FOR BEING A FRAUD WHO KNOWS NOTHING OF COMPETITIVE ESPORTS)

amen

idk why you so salty

fns clearly frustrated with the state of ranked, as most pros are....

most sane vlr user

some games are good, many are bad. riot has the opportunity to fix the issue, they choose not to pursue solutions (offered by other ranked systems in other games). the fact that from the top to the bottom this problem persists goes against the argument that criticizing our lord rito is somehow a blasphemous act that betrays a terminal dose of copium

https://clips.twitch.tv/AssiduousGoldenReubenJonCarnage-Zs06Kcr8nP5EEBEA

FNS cannot stand NA ranked. Rito lets ranked rot. EU is rebelling with its own pro hub. Will Pro City return in the offseason? Will something newer, something even better, emerge from the collective frustration of the valulrante community with rankED?

probably not. i feel for the guy tho.

NRG BabyJ incoming.

until he couldnt... right?

copium

this viewership, who are they? what do they watch shazam for? to see one of the greats of the game when he is no longer so? to watch ranked madling in the vein of a BabyJ (my goat)?

will the next generation of childe gamers even know the name?

will he play Challengers next year? will another disappointing season drive him further into uncertainty? will he sacrifice what little viewership he has left to practice?

my drilla!

For now.. will he fade into irrelevance? Will he fade into esports history? A fabled story, one of great heights, matched only by the depths of despair into which he is sinking -- emphasis on sinking, not sunk, yet. A lesson learned by him, taught to others, passed down the archeologists of VLR

King of the Fall

ShaZaM's entitlement is now facing a harsh reality. His lack of work ethic carried over from SEN to G2. Failing in Challengers only inspired more apathy in him. He believed that streaming would always be a fallback: but will it?

With the aura of excellence long since faded from the first Masters (yes, its been that long since he's won), long after his trademark cackle and ranked arrogance lost their charm, he is now facing a dwindling viewership. He has been on a sharp and steady decline since January 2022.

Is he fated to turn into the next Zombs? A steep decline once he become irrelevant in the competitive arena, with a viewership hovering around 460...

TLDR: Do some of these streamers have personalities attractive enough to sustain even a quarter of the viewership they garnered as competitors? Is the Valorant accent finally dead? What will its afterlife look like?

my drilla!

no.

valorant UTILITY is > cs utility in its strength/impact

the structures guiding strategy play across both games: faking, taking information, taking and retaking space, trading, playing to the disadvantage, playing to the advantage, multitudes of protocols, etcc etc etc

you wouldnt say valorant strategy > chess strategy just because there are more pieces in valorant? chess > cs > val -- more is not always better, sometimes less allows for depth rather than breadth of tactic

CS2 will be a significant upgrade. The game WILL continue to be the best FPS in terms of raw mechanical and strategic competitive capacity. the skill ceiling in CS is astronomically higher than Valorant. Yet, in some sense, this is its weakness. The game will continue to live on through the generations in EU, but not even CS2 will be able to compete with Valorant in other regions. Nevertheless, this scarcity from other regions will make Cinderella stories all the more magical

Valorant now looks graphically far inferior to CS2. Other than that, the competition between the two is pretty much settled. CS will go the way of small, fine tuned updates and careful competitive changes; Valorant will be new meta, new map, 5-6x a year. Now Valorant is behind in graphics, and I hope they have the courage to step up. Such dynamic lighting could easily be incorporated into Valorant. Nevertheless, mechanically, the game will remain inferior: slower, smaller maps, more utility impact, equal strategic depth (not surface)

derkope

Americas 2 Champs 3 Masters

MEMEA 1 Champs 3 Masters

no he was undisputed, statistically best initiator

win back-to-back worlds or your region is dead

honestly FNC look like a tier3 indian pug team compared to EG...

derke looks like botsi compared to Demon1

Clears derke

clearly not everyone knows this, not even bcj knows this

best initiator at champs no doubt

doin tricks on it

bcj was clearly the problem with EG

he was egoistic, talked down to the other players, and then they benched him, sit down lil bro, sit down

how is this bait? the guy calls himself the best initiator from 2022 champs and clearly was not...

bcj tweet " Personally, I was coming into this year as the #1 Ranked Initiator from champs 2022."

or maybe.. maybe i am... maybe i am HIM

not top 10, not even close

by everyone EXCEPT bcj...

MOST SANE VLR USER

PREACH BABY PREACHHHH

https://www.vlr.gg/267173/bcj-was-not-best-initiator-at-vct-2022

stats

kingg, laz, shao, sacy, keznit, zypan, mistic, mazino, crashies, saadhak ALL higher than bcj

please stop spreading misinformation that BcJ was best initiator when he WASNT EVEN IN THE TOP 10

IMAGINE BCJ STILL MARKETS HIMSELF AS BEST INITATOR FROM VCT CHAMPS WHEN HE WASNT EVEN TOP 10

how does screwface have anything to do with EG playing well... its just common sense. he's only there in the same capacity ethos is there... neither have any impact on the teams. nor did bcj influence eg other than for them to realize he was stat padded by having zekken+cryo on his team and went into EG with too big of an ego

lmao bro, nt nt
im honored youre stalking this hard, but you will have to look deeper

hint: look for albanian flag

two years ago... tracker... come on bruv

BcJ tweet still crying about being benched, like crying over being dumped months after... delusional to think he 'taught' them anything

Also, can we please NOT have 6th men appear on stage for winning photos. SCREWFACE & ETHOS DO NOTHING TO SUPPORT THEIR TEAMS, PLEASE DONT LET THEM TAKE CREDIT AND POLLUTE THE SPOTLIGHT WITH THEIR UNWANTED PRESENCE... you can see the players cringe when screwface tries to insert himself in the center of the EG post-match stage victory photos...

emea has more players than na + br combined... way more than sea (player base doesnt not mean population of a region)... way more than china (in its current state)

Arguable some NA non-challengers players would be better than most of current EMEA. outside fnatic, it's a bunch of failures... M80 & The Guard > Liquid, Botvi

making drama is what the oppressors say to the oppressed. they said MLK was just stirring up unrest... I HAVE A DREAM, A DREAM WHERE VLR USERS WILL BE ASHAMED TO POST INCELL COMMENTS ABOUT GC, OR PRO PLAYERS BE BIGGOTED IN FRONT OF 100K+ AUDIENCE

so what about when he did the racist accent? where's the cope? zaazaaaaaaaa

EU is actually the worst region right now

Americas #1: two teams top 3, potential back to back world champ, a lot of potential for next year

SEA #2: PRX grand finals, DRX top 6 but clears all EMEA except FNC

China #3: new region, but two of three teams finish top 8 without international experience, smaller player base with bigger results

EMEA #4: FNC barely beat loud in brazil, fnc played about as well as optic at masters, fnc finish outside top 3 at champs, FUT had to beat two #3 seeds to get to playoffs, rest of emea would get stomped by most of Americas and doesn't seem to have any hope for next season outside FNC running it back

EU has the largest player base, yet the least talent

As a Europeenan, I feel ashamed... I think maybe EMEA needs to recruit some foreign talent, there's a lot of good players in NA looking for teams

amen

probably best post on vlr to date

throwing

i recommend you watch at .25x speed

THAT'S OUR BOI

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Registered: April 23, 2023
Last post: August 24, 2023 at 8:17 PM
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i would likely be top 200 still, but life had other plans... that bag, that damn bag, it just keeps getting deeper

https://clips.twitch.tv/CourageousFastGullArsonNoSexy-C6ONyGTObdp-ttBS'

too much caffeine, or just enough adrenaline??? time will tell

cancelation can be an opportunity for personal growth. perhaps he will look inside, deep inside