Yes but up till last year it was 11 teams with only a single team from each of the major regions vs 22+ teams at worlds. LoL isn't like valorant. There is no regional parity. China and Korea dominate everything. So realistically, you had an 11 team tournament where only 2 teams could win. And besides 2019 when Europe's G2 was really strong, The chinese/korean representative have won every single msi only really having each other to compete with. Only worlds is really competitive since you have a much wider array of potential teams that can win (8 chinese/korean teams vs the 2 you have at msi).

At least in valorant masters are 12 teams vs champions with only 4 additional teams(16). The field is more even and it's never been unreasonable to say you could see many different teams winning(besides in early/mid 2021 when certain regions were very behind).

No, not really. Until this year, MSI has never been comparable to worlds in terms of competitiveness and difficulty in winning(it still isn't tbh) because of the disparity in number of teams going. Masters/Champs is much much much closer.

It's really not that difficult to understand. Realistically speaking, game changers does not have the talent pool to build a roster that could make it through to the challengers league. Even if it does, assembling that talent pool onto a single roster probably isn't possible.
If katsumi feels like she as an individual can aim higher(or if she just wants to try and quit if it isn't possible) and the only thing she is concerned about is making it to through to the challengers league and potentially ascension one day, then the best decision is to ditch game changers entirely and play on a co-ed roster.

I'm smoking something good right now.

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He said americas 2/3 champ trophies.
Loud and EG. Pretty clear.

Skill floor- The minimum skill required to play a hero effectively. Lucio for example has a very low skill floor. Even with very little skill he can still be played effectively.

literally googled

edit: also, this is from the link you provided yourself
"This brings us to skill floors. A skill floor is the counterpart to a skill ceiling. A skill ceiling is the level of play that’s possible with training and mastery. A skill floor is a way of describing how difficult it is to begin the process of mastery. For example, playing Widowmaker in Overwatch isn’t easy if you don’t have a background in other FPS titles. In order to even be relevant with her, you need to have exceptional aim and positioning. The skill floor for Widowmaker, in other words, is very high — if you want to be somewhat competent, you need to have mastered a variety of game mechanics."

No. FFs. It's how good you can become in a game and to what extent you can distinguish yourself from your peers.

Just an example. If we take a random game with a high skill ceiling. We take the top 1000 players. The top 100 will be better than the 100 below them and 101-200 will be better than the 201-300 below them and so on. If we pretend it's a 1v1 game, matching someone from 1-100 against anyone below will result in them winning 80%+ of the time. This will be true for all players 1-1000 matching them against an opponent in any division below them.

Now lets make this a low skill ceiling, still top 1000 but the skill ceiling is hit right about at rank 1000. Now any player 1-1000 playing against each other will have a ~50% win rate because they cant outplay/differentiate themselves from their peers.

LOL. Your examples are just wrong. Specifically with skill floor. A high skill floor means that to achieve a basic level of success with an agent, you need a good amount of practice/skill on that agent. A low skill floor means that you can reach a basic level of success without putting too much time in and being generally unskilled with an agent.

Some of it is old yes. Some of it is a few weeks old. As for their motivations, I don't really give a shit. Perhaps the first person was a little petty yes. But in situations like this, the more stuff that comes out, people feel more validated in the fact that what they experienced wasn't normal/appropriate, so then they also post their shit. It always happens like this, that's human nature. Given how many people were willing to talk about their bad interactions with keenc, them being gone from the scene is ultimately good imo.

I'm sure you would find similar messages. They're all teens/young 20s. Difference is that it would be reciprocated in most cases. If it wasn't, most people would stop immediately. No one rational is running to social media to post video clips/screenshots after only one awkward interaction. In keenc's case, it's several people. That's a product of their consistent weird behavior over a long period of time to several women.

Slander: the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation

Not slander, since besides the non-binary stuff(non-conclusive), nothing is untrue
Keenc is a creep. Public figures are held to a higher standard. Can't be doing that weird shit continuously like keenc and not eventually get found out then sacked.

Nothing conclusive about the faking being non-binary. Just someone saying that they discussed the idea of faking being non-binary with keenc like 1.5-2 years ago to get signed and paid. Also people saying that they personally talked to keenc over discord and them being extremely transphobic in the past.

Besides that stuff, the main reason they got released is because of several weird sexually charged conversations (straight up sexual harassment in some cases) with girls they've had over dms but also video clips of them saying weird stuff over discord/voice chat.

https://twitter.com/kitsbii/status/1712186197165167039?t=CbmcEwgf2EgRjBpuiDkjuw&s=19
https://twitter.com/kitsbii/status/1712189982402891809?t=CKf13MVi-OpbhNExmMOAcw&s=19
https://twitter.com/sharkooter/status/1712223391602639015
https://twitter.com/ilovemyhomies32/status/1712284858570211708?s=46&t=3twTqHEfV4fhAuT5tLrx6A

huh? when? today?
edit: nvm, saw the eg announcement

marved wins easy

Esports are ultimately an entertainment product. Showing player portraits/cams help people connect better to the players which allows them to get more invested in esports. I'm sure they've made the cam/portrait as small as possible while still allowing people to clearly recognize players.

So there's no way to watch any of these matches??

I think yes it does matter. But not everyone is created equal. There have been pros in games that first touch fps titles in their mid teens(15/16) and are able to go pro not too much later (And players who go pro even older). And then there are plenty of people who play from a young age and never come close. It's just a matter of natural talent imo (how far you can go depends on hard work and some luck but if you have no talent at all, you're going nowhere).

Lol. I think the love-hate goes both ways. Sure, the br fans specifically can be a little more intense at times but at the end of the day, it's just a minority on both sides. There's surely more love than hate I think.

<3 for all of americas

short form for non-binary

I don't see why they shouldn't just mimick the main circuit. 8 for APAC+China.

they* and yup

Vania being an igl makes her overall better than flor imo

They talk about her being igl all the time on the broadcast

That is true

I think both of these teams just suck at defense on lotus tbh. It shouldn't be this one sided lol.

Mel and alexis have won every north american GC championship from 2021 till now. They aren't gonna throw one just to deny shopify (a team they undoubtedly believe they're stronger than) from GC champs in brazil.

Tokyo ghoul manga is a masterpiece. Anime is shit. Changed/removed a lot of stuff. Made it super edgy and cringe.

How do they not have an english-korean translator?? So many people speak english in korea.

who cares? why do you care how others are living their lives??

Crazy mechanical skill and a LOT of esoteric knowledge that isn't transferable to other games (even other mobas).

complexity, most recent result breaks tiebreakers

Put a gun to my head, probably picking T1. Cheering for C9 tho.

lol

lol nonsense

Go do or play something else then. Not everyone can play the same game for years and enjoy themselves. Just reality. And not really an indication of the quality of the game.

In gc, nah, it's the first. Outside of gc, they've lost plenty.

yes, they do

Anykey is terrible. Which i already know. Seems others feel the same.
https://twitter.com/benitanov/status/1710106601624133988

which implies it wasn't only malibu cheating. Or others knew of her cheating since that would need to be comm'd.

Why is this clip sped up?

what is happening?

In what world does sideshow look stupid?? Did you even watch the video? Because he makes it very clear all the issues he pointed out are very fixable for tenz but it'll require some work in the off-season. That's it. There's nothing to look stupid about.

interesting how this result is here before the game has finished on stream...

LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

huh?? why would it be a joke/meme?

Read through it earlier. His own fault really.

Dont like the out-of-context clip either. Post full convo if you wanna come across as genuine.

V1 at 180, Shopify at 120, Complexity at 110, Wingman patrol(3 ex X-set players) far back at 80. Basically, assuming V1 win, wingman patrol would need to massively outperform Shopify/complexity to qualify. Otherwise it'll be whoever does better between complexity and shopify. If anyone else wants to qualify, they basically have to win this tournament (small chance that EG could also qualify with second place finish if Shopify/complexity basically bomb out of playoffs).

https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VCT/2023/Game_Changers/Circuit_Points/North_America

bump

Yup. Don't get too invested in any discussion here. Nothing good will come of it.

Manga. Issue with the anime is that because they want it running year long, it runs at snail speed to not pass the manga. I stopped watching at close to 900 episodes but there was literally 4-5mins of recap every episode iirc. Gonna eventually return and read the manga when it's closer to completion since the story is genuinely pretty good/entertaining. (i dont regret watching the anime btw. But yea, definitely too much of a time investment if you only just now intend to get into one piece)