what is politically incorrect about a walk with your mother through the meadow at sunset on a warm summer night?

sometimes soft, sometimes hard

no, yours...

in reality, the Americas now have two teams in the top 3. EMEA barely had two in top 8. fnatic crumbles when it matters most. regardless of who wins this weekend, emea will have a top team, but not the top team, and the rest of the teams fall far short of the next tier of Americas, CHN, SEA

im not on a hate train, i actually wish him the best. i hope he sees the errors in his ways, changes his attitude, apologizes, and transitions into a positive role model capable of showing others they can, in fact, let go of their hate.... also, remember when he got kicked from DSG for being toxic mid match... the problem runs deep. deep

please, community, we can't platform this guy

your mother and i went on a walk,

the air was warm, crisp

so fresh you could smell everything, everything

in me, she saw a father she never felt you had

but i told her, he's too hardstuck, he... she stopped me mid sentence, fell into my embrace

lay down your arms, fall into mine

based flair

Fnatic is playing with far more pressure. Only Chronicle has actually made it the whole way in the most important event of the year. Fnatic feels as though their year will be disappointing if they dont take it the whole way. They wanted to make a dynasty, now they are fighting for their lives.

Loud is happy to be where they are, they are playing with joyous abandon, wild spirit

JOY BUFF

i need to question god and seek truth instead?

DSG GC > DSG EXALT

to expand upon my argument:

some people take the relative competitiveness of gc vs challengers/vct as a sign that this group CANNOT ever compete, rather than taking the more nuanced and complicated view of understanding that gc is an effort to develop a marginalized community that has had additional hurdles to overcome in the competitive space and community writ large. the same applies to india. to say india will NEVER be as good as the other regions does not stem from reason or logic, but bigotry. b0tsi

it was an analogy from the community... we must stand up to such bigotry, such hate, which is far more complex and insidious than the nationalistic forms with which we are familiar

liberation!

freaks? bigoted. it is not funny to make fun of others... do you like when people say b0tsi? they make fun of your region as having a massive population but no talent? no... you dont, and you shouldnt!

now making fun of people with disabilities

what if i was on the spectrum?

ultimately, all such phobia comes from a place of fear, a fear of that which is unknown, that which disturbs the signifying systems in which they relied to maintain some semblance of structure in a world of overwhelming complexity and chaos. we cannot buy into the system of hate by being upset at them, see them with pity. they are, in many cases, mentally disturbed--the incells, that is

what context do you want? does someone need context for someone saying the hard R or someone calling australians redneck prisoners? context is he uses this accent all of the time as a 'joke' that approximately 0 people laugh at in tarik's games or the games/streams of other professionals viewed by tens of thousands

its an analogy, but i dont think logic is your strong suit

ngl it IS very funny to mock the danish accent, it has to be one of the hardest accents to take seriously, like when i hear it i just think to myself 'are they joking?' and it tickles me

out of context?

tarik is a central channel for the broadcast of professional valorant

lets pretend its all fun and games, and that we're not full of bigots who are subtly encouraged by the presence of personalities like
Exalt, sinatraa, and crosbycs

he does this impression all of the time.

i have a thicc albanian accent

exactly the problem.

Please do not apply a stereotype to me. Albania is a complex country with people of many differing viewpoints and walks of life. My family come from Gjirokastra, the sky is open and bright

+1

this is bigotry disguised as humor

exclusionary exercise of power by Exalt, likely repeating the same structures of oppression imposed on Latinx individuals like himself, an expression of colonial violence manifest in the Othering of another, the phantasmatic exercise of power that in fact reiterates the very power under which he has been repressed

most sane vlr user.

Please, tarik, get this guy off your stream

Exalt does this all the time, here he is doing it during VCT stream with tarik... Exalt got the whole squad laughing...

vlr users, ask yourself this: is it ok to mock the accent of another culture or ethnicity? the same answer applies here.

if you watch his streams, the vast majority of what he is doing isnt skin or crate opening related.... youre just a hater

i feel like non-eu may have difficulty understanding ohne

americans are used to sinatraa accent, and shanks

xqc... they are totally different.... youre my drillaaaa

WASSSSS?

Ohne clears... who is the ohne of val? s0m is hilarious sometimes, but its a different vibe -- Ohne is the master of dry delivery. We take those all day, all night

i play 99.999% more val than cs, this guy is just hilarious -- feelsad we have tarik... most val streamers have either two personalities -- boring, or sinatraa accent -- i think the reason zellsis is unique is he embraces the madness, same with xeppa, but those guys tooo professional to be full troll like ohne, they have other priorities. val needs an onhe... who is he... who is she??? wass wassssssssss

i see a lot of you calling him a gambling stream: he doesnt gamble, other than openning csgo crates, he is more than just a skin guy, he's now doing all the watch parties for major events, playing with pros, and generally making content in the csgo space (which has lacked such a figure)

also, if you compare him to xqc then you clearly have no idea who he is

tldr: ohne clears, who will be the ohne of valulrante?

Which VLR users are Riot employees? What's Leo's acct?

snoozing here bruda. you guys have to be riot employees

i said he influenced the plan and deserves as much blame as the corporation

then i listed 4 other points about riot's failure -- Zerphyr's response "he said 'greatly'" -- my initial response wasnt about greatly vs not at all, it was about the fact that he did influence the decision, that he's repeatedly failed the community, and riot in general has dropped the ball.. instead you chatbots stuck in feedback loop and your circuits are frieddd

xd yes they are trialing and certainly not just filling to help the VCT teams find practice in a region where NO EVENTS ARE HAPPENING SO THERE IS NO PRACTICE FOR THE REMAINING 4 VCT TEAMS

I didn't say greatly influence? do you eat led? why no brein werk for you?

leo clearly influenced the decision. we shouldnt just 'blame the corporation' as the og poster said

you no brein lil zerphyr

very thoughtful response. adds to the discussion A LOT. responds to my points critically, adding depth and insight. also, you kiss ass soooo well... putting your heart into it, respect bruda

you should do an OF, the way you put that whole boot in your mouth

T2 SHOULD be a way to get into T1, but now its ONLY as an individual -- any good team will have their best players poached, and thus the team that 'ascends' will likely just be random winner of last tournament of the year and not a consistently good team from a year of competition

youre saying the head of global esports for valorant didnt influence this plan? so he's just a puppet? if that was the case, they can get a way better puppet who doesnt tweet like a chatbot the most absurd replies.

in any case, he was clearly involved, and the issue is that riot COULD have helped plan international or non-region locked events for the off-season, as people warned about A YEAR AGO being a problem, but they just didnt... they failed. and now hundreds of players are out of contracts for the first time since beta.

friendly reminder: if riot allowed 3rd party alternative to ranked like FPL, non-franchised players would be able to sustain themselves outside contracts. also, if riot used a tiny fraction of skin money to invest into orgs and the scene, this would be a non-issue. this is corporate greed from our new Chinese overlords at tencent. CAPITALISM HAS BEEN OVERRUN BY STATE CONTROL, THE COMMUNIST PARTY HAS WON AND NOW MAINTAINS TOTAL DOMINATION OF THE MARKET, BOW TO THY MASTER, LICK THY BOOT, SCHIZOPOST ON VLR (this was an automated response, I asked ChatGPT for)

exactly.

as for the idea that tier1 should have such access to players, and that players do want this, i think this is a valid argument. nevertheless, this just seems like an excuse not to care about anything outside franchising, and thus undercutting the necessary structural dimensions for cultivating talent worthy of poaching...

How does this make news? Arguable the worst of APEKS players looking for a team... that's like reporting news about ec1s.... come on, way more exciting roster moves than this are NOT being reported on vlr... please, staff, dont just make posts because youre friends with a player, make them for all players or none at all

Challengers has just been reduced to a farming system for talent

Any team doing well will have their top talent poached mid-season

No team will be able to build consistency

Another L from Leo Fraudia

actually, youre right

other than mCe, which scrims featured coaches? I guess C9 is the easiest to speculate for a rebuild

on the other thread you said 'the best gc players are trans' which is just false. the only team to win GC was a full non-trans team (not that it matters) ... incel alert

comments like this are why your comment about GC at Champs are actually negative

bruv, being an ally doesnt make u an sjw, it just makes you not an incel

your name is Valgod, you are peak 300rr MAX and you have liquid flair... botcas redgarted....

with all teams except EG being done for the season, the VCT teams need other teams to practice against

these 'scrims' are just pug mixes scrimming to help the VCT teams during this time of need

these rosters are NOT trials... most players are taking time off and relaxing after a busy year, these are just the players available to help

the point isn't whether GC can compete with non-GC right now.. the point is that GC will help develop a minority of players who face discrimination from incels like you. they benefit from having a competitive league that helps them to develop without the harassment from smol pp monke like u

yungcalc gives context to the fight in the twitter comments

emotions... some people have emotions, but yelling full blast at strangers over a video game isn't one of them

most rational vlr users...

'messing around'... he yells at the top of his lungs... yungcalc didnt know it was yay, and yay was genuinely upset...

you all probably remember when steel threatened to leak the scrim vods proving yay was toxic, but now we finally get a taste of it beyond his untasteful tweets:

witness the greatest battle of egos, yay vs yungcalc VOLUME WARNING, YAY HAS ANGER ISSUES