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| Last post: | June 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM |
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You're the one turning off your brain. Even with an ~80% increase in talent/player pool, you're not gonna go from a region where only a single team(now 2) managed to do anything ever internationally(with a best placement of 3rd in DRX, 2nd in GenG now) to a region that can systematically dominate EVERY SINGLE OTHER REGION.
You're the one clearly not using your brain if you think that's how it's truly gonna go. Keep watching Valorant. You'll wake from that delusion sooner or later.
Lol. My math is just fine. You're acting as if we've been far off these numbers for a long time. I might be recalling incorrectly but wasn't the PC bang rate at 5-6% like 18 months ago. So why hasn't Korea been dominating?
Also, you're being way too simplistic with that math. 1/4th as much popularity doesn't just automatically equal 1/4th as much promising pro talent (Not that they would actually be able to dominate with that number). When you have such a high play rate for LoL, the most promising talent is gonna flood LoL at a dis-proportionally higher rate. You can't just compare % play rate 1 to 1. Real life doesn't work like that.
You're more or less proving my point. 10% play rate. At its' height, Overwatch surpassed LoL with over 40% play rate. Valorant would have to hit that level of popularity for a sustained period of time for what you're saying to be possible.
Koreans may very well dominate Pacific but they won't do it globally. This game has never seen the type of peak in popularity in Korea that it has in Overwatch, LoL and brood war in the past. That's what allows/allowed Koreans to dominate everyone else in those titles. That doesn't mean they can't do well or even win an international title, like GenG has a good chance of doing tomorrow, but they're never gonna absolutely dominate everyone else. That's just not realistic unless Valorant becomes drastically more popular in Korea and can pull upcoming talent/youth from those other titles.
Yep but unfortunately they seem to have downgraded in the "brains" department.
They better show some innovation come stage 1 or as the year progresses or they definitely won't be coming near any trophies this year.
They definitely haven't peaked. They're average to terrible on like 3 maps. And ignoring split, they can also improve substantially on their other good maps. I'm not sure how you can logically call that peaking. As long as they keep grinding, they'll only get stronger as the year progresses.
Ok fair enough. Was just responding to your comment above/original unedited post.
Those are stupid comments but ultimately irrelevant. We're talking about a single person, JohnQT, who has expressed that playing while fasted has been a challenge. Nothing wrong with people wanting to commend him with that knowledge in mind.
Not everyone is the same. I personally have 0 issues with fasting and doing sports/other competitive activities. But that's not necessarily the case for other people/johnqt. Stop pretending as if your personal experience is perfectly representative of everyone else in the world. It never is.
The last time an EMEA team not named Fnatic beat a NA team. lol
Not saying this trend will continue but it's honestly very funny.
Randomness is the only way to make it fair. You, nor I have any idea how strong the teams are compared to each other. How would it be fair to penalize what potentially could be the strongest team for winning a close series against another team that could hypothetically be the second strongest team in the tournament? How would it be fair to reward what could potentially be a mediocre team smashing what could hypothetically be the weakest team in a tournament by far?
I'm not saying this describes what's happened thus far in this tournament, but in any tournament with this format (where you aren't in groups and given the chance to play all other teams in said group), you can't just arbitrarily decide all teams are equal and use hyper-specifc criteria of performance (maps/rounds won) when you don't have the same opponents. It doesn't make sense to do that.
You're talking about non-existent seeding. The only thing that matters in swiss is whether you win or lose your match. 1-0s vs 1-0s and 0-1s vs 0-1s all randomly drawn. That's it.
First stage you play opposite group
Said the brain damaged fan.
It's been more than 3 years. This sort of logic doesn't apply anymore. Valorant and CS are NOT the same game. If all of the CS talent switched over right this moment, do you know what would happen? The vast majority of them would get shit on because of all the differences and how much valorant has evolved in the last couple of years. Sure, some might be able to adapt pretty quickly but most wouldn't and might not even be able to in the long run.
The "best players" are playing Valorant right now in T1/T2.
N4rrate. Not even close. Without his flexibility in agent selection, not sure this is even possible.
Yes, just like there was no way Fnatic would lose to KC. ^_^
No lowers are shit but he's absolutely right. I can't fucking believe Fnatic didn't change any of their comps.
I can't believe they haven't changed comps. They've essentially eliminated any advantage that would have come of having all that groups footage of KC's lotus.
The logic you're using is nonsense. If all of Optic's achievements were so easy, then why didn't other teams accomplish the same during those time periods? Especially as a fan of Navi, who was grouped twice last year, you really have no legs to stand on.
You can call the Optic core shit if you want but then Navi is most definitely less than shit.
Optic Core besides Reykjavik:
Masters Berlin 2nd place
Masters Copenhagen 3rd place
Champions 2022 2nd place
Masters Tokyo 4th place
Keep trying, you aren't going to convince anyone that optic/envy weren't a great team.
It's pretty hard to believe they haven't rigged it at this point.
No way unfortunately. NRG have too much footage of Sen.
Lol, they're definitely playing differently. Whether it's intentional or not doesn't really change that.
your map math is OFF
Lol wtf are you talking about? His analysis has been very good this event. Are you just brain-offing just because he's from LoL?
The game has no value, sentinels is through to playoffs. They're just trolling because why not?
100T looked legit. Definitely wouldn't rate G2 over them.
No, Sen is qualified. Mimi/Ender were uninformed of tiebreaker rules it seems.
lol. That map had nothing to do with nerves.
EG has too much footage. If they played right now, Mibr would definitely lose. Maybe they'll be better during the regular season or maybe not.
The format is definitely an issue. There shouldn't be such a disparity in number of maps shown between teams that have to face off. And yea, them introducing an 8 team international tournament in year 4 is terrible.
I think they've shown too much. 5 bo3s vs Fnatic's 1. Definitely rooting for them but it's very unlikely.
shit format tbh
s0m has never been the best controller in the world. Marved will be in 2022 form this season now that he has a functional team and isnt igling.
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