He's the goat for a reason

GenG most likely going out 0-2 on series

Wayne Gretzky
Roger Federer
Michael Phelps
Usain Bolt
Michael Jordan

Only voted in matches where I knew/comprehended the achievements of both.

edit: And yes, Gretzky does clear all but he won't win since hockey isn't as popular as other sports globally

You need a specific athlete/work visa. That really has nothing to do with riot. Perhaps riot and EG were co-jointly doing the application, but since EG seemingly didn't apply for demon1 or get w/e they need for it in, it's too late.

Queens*

They haven't changed much since week 1 and are extremely protocol based. Makes them very predictable and easy to anti-strat. Taco has also not been performing which makes it very hard to do well in this duelist-dependent meta. Don't think it's much more complicated than that.

Not gonna lie, if they aren't cooking behind the scenes, and don't improve for playoffs, I'd guess they don't even make tokyo tbh.

Reasonable. I do think loud will be much stronger than their current performances indicate come playoffs.

Vlr rankings for teams with the same record are arbitrary and don't take into account tie-breaker rules.

edit: Also, Geng have played all their games and are at 4-5, the other two are still 4-4 and could possibly still advance to 5-4, that is why they are ahead in this case.

Someone on reddit said this, haven't read the rules myself so could be wrong:

2 way tie is H2H
3 way tie is H2H in the case one team has beaten the other two, otherwise map diff>round diff
4 way tie just map diff>round diff, assuming no team has lost to all others

Will it be 5-0?

called it, downvote me more

Yep, mel was amazing on desk

While I do like benita, i do agree. I think some performative enthusiasm would make her much better on the analyst desk.

Yes. As long as a few things don't happen:

1. They don't become complacent between the end of the regular season and lcq
2. There are no long term problems with marved as an igl, like lack of aptitude igling against better/the best teams
3. Tenz personal issues(kyedae's cancer) don't become even more of an issue, which is very possible, cancer is a bitch

edit: typo

Furia has the h2h on LEV. And in a 4 way tie between sen, eg,100T and Lev; Lev and sen are eliminated as they are 1:2 against the other teams while EG and 100 go through at 2:1.

I don't think that's true

Mibr has gotten worse/stagnated. And NRG was at a low point in their season.

Spoiler. LEV isnt making playoffs

Counting LEV as probable?? Doubtful.

Japan keeps their 2 slots unless you wanna kill viewership more, which is what is important at the end of the day.

Match fixing is always a possibility when it comes to any form of competition. Did it occur here? Probably not but always possible.

Yes, the literal current rankings. Clever.

Woke up not too long ago and see only one game has been played. Was there a delay of some kind? Or is the schedule wrong on here??

Nah, it's just as big.

Why would it be? Literally the only challenger league doing that trash is NA.

This doesn't seem accurate as xerxia would have failed to qualify in this four way tie as they were even in map diff but the other three teams were positive. I think even in the four way tie H2H has to play some sort of role. This especially makes sense to me because in the graphic, of the 4 teams, they have FS/AAA ranked lowest of the four teams at 4/5 respectively and these teams were 1-2 in series win vs the other 3, while the other two in the tie were 2-1 each.

Glad JDT were able to redeem themselves after throwing against scarz in the regular season. This was a good showing.

G2 had a single game in game 4. Rest of the series, they got mostly dominated. Mad lion looked super good for the first 15mins in game 1, then they threw an almost un-throwable game and got fisted the rest of the series. Neither look convincing at all. You watched BLG in a single bo3. I watched all six bo5 they played in LPL playoffs and some regular season games because I'm a nerd like that.

I'm not saying that BLG losing to C9/GG/G2/MAD is impossible. Just saying, realistically, that cannot be the expectation whatsoever. If it happens, cool. It would be quite an accomplishment if any of those teams did it. But it most likely will not.

edit: Yep, 3-0. Like I said, that narrative was cope.

This narrative about BLG is cope imo. Anything can happen of course but anyone who realistically thinks that any of the western teams even have a 30% chance of beating BLG didn't watch LPL playoffs.

That's inevitable I think. Her being the only female coach across all the valorant partnership leagues+her long stint with EG as both a player/coach with very little meaningful success will do that. With that said, she really be cooking. I really was doubting her because of them retaining these players instead of grabbing other promising t2 talent in the offseason, but the team really has improved more than any other team in all of americas. It's wild.

Overall no.

https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/vct-2023-emea-league
https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/valorant-challengers-2023-north-america-split-2-valorant

Less than half average viewership.

You're confusing the riot/valorant partnership leagues with blizzard/overwatch league.

Pansy is my #1

Of course, to each their own. However, I do think a large majority of valorant fans enjoy panpoc.

Well, I do and plenty of others do as well.

Yes, because people never improve.

Nigeria
Ghana
Benin
Togo
USA
Canada
France
Spain
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands

Nah, unfortunately you're just wrong. Different strokes for different folks. There are plenty of people that do care and definitely would feel stronger in rooting for a team composed of their country men. But this isn't everyone. A lot of people simply don't have an ounce of nationalism in them. That might be hard to understand for a Brazilian as that definitely doesn't seem to be the case for most people in Brazil, but there are plenty of people that feel that way. You can pretend that's a facade if you want. For some people, I'm sure it is. But it isn't for others. Acting as if you can magically get in everyone's head and know exactly how they feel/think is pretty arrogant and quite frankly makes you come off as pretty delusional.

It really is. You just think it's not cause you don't know better.

Let your pro football goalkeeper try playing forward. What's the harm?

Mass Effect 2. The end run in particular is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trcTZ2fmeCM

Basically same style as the sykko firing tweet, except with the entire roster lol

LEV got outplayed. That's about it.

The professional vibe adds nothing to the product and doesn't bring more viewership.

Yep, I can't take you seriously when you say brood-war, the game that birthed e-sports, was just barely hanging on. I can safely ignore any other replies from you. Nothing you say can be taken serious.

Not just lost, they got annihilated.

Yep. Even if league of legends were to die in Europe/NA, it would still thrive in korea/china for the foreseeable future.

No eSport has ever survived or been taken seriously without the west

Someone doesn't know their e-sports history. A game called starcraft: brood war survived just fine for more than a decade in south korea without the west. That game and the influence it's had on the history of e-sports is why for most of the 2000s south korea was called the mecca of e-sports. Also, you're being pretty foolish. We're talking about giving international event slots. You're attempting to loop in a bunch of other bullshit and acting as if it's all because of riot's efforts to support china.

Valorant has never been super popular in europe, primarily because the premier tac fps is still csgo over there. And the reason valorant is dead in CIS is similar to the reason it's struggled in europe except on top of that, Russia invaded Ukraine last year and that event completely fucked over any chance Valorant had in the cis region. Riot has had to completely withdraw any support of the region because of sanctions and that isn't changing any time soon.

As for the viewership, it's fine. Is it exploding like riot would have hoped? No. But it's okay and valorant is definitely one of the most successful e-sports in the west/world. The tier 2 scene definitely hasn't been handled the best but that has fuck all to do with what I was talking about. Also, ever heard of cross-fire, that game has had a vibrant and successful pro scene in china since the late 2000s. Europe isn't some god given region. Even if valorant full on dies in europe, which it won't, it can still do just fine if it persists in NA and asia.

edit: like i said, if you exaggerate shit, no one's gonna take you seriously

Yea. You're exaggerating. No one's gonna take you seriously when you say such alarmist bs. Valorant will be fine. Just like league of legends is fine. Also, not tapping into china would be a serious mistake. In league of legends, china alone brings in more profit for riot than all the other regions combined. I want you to really think about that last statement for a moment. Alone china does that. Call them greedy if you want, but assuming they have the same aspirations for valorant, they would be insane not to preempt and support chinese valorant as much as possible.