I think the constant shuffling of a 5th player where the other 4 are in perfect roles will bite them in the ass. They just need to make a decision and stick with it. Other teams that have kept the same rosters throughout the season have improved for the most part.

Seriously though.

Still, it’s promising that they can get to those scorelines. I think they’ll become better at closing out games with time.

It sucks because they’ll probably end up making changes again after champs, and they’ll probably put a worse team together.

I remember watching this with one of my buddies after grinding cyberpunk.

Honestly brings the whole night city mindset to reality. The characters from the show feels like how it should’ve been to play.

It’s as much as Ethan as it is on s0m not being a good sentinel, and other players helping him w/ the coms.

I definitely like Loud more here though. They’ve got as much firepower, if not more.

Still killed 3, just had no one to fight w/ him.

Adverso is dogshit tho holyyyyyyy

Nitr0 tried IGLing on Jett when him and hiko were still on 100T

Tex, Verno, but in all likelihood they promote out of cubert

Shoulda done the 100T and picked up someone from T2 instead of….a caster

IMO he’s just not the same player this current duelist meta. The best duelists can fry on neon, yoru, Jett, and raze.

KOI C0M

Spike kinda seems like a one trick pony on the neon.

Hope I’m proved wrong. Sato is the truth though.

Idk why any teams insist on taking a chance on him atp.

Pre-nerf chamber > pre-nerf Jett

Shahzam was playing pro CS for 5-7 years before entering Val, and he accumulated a decent viewership on twitch.

However ppl feel about him, can’t blame him for retiring. He’s had a longer career in esports than most, not much of it at the top, to give this perspective some credit.

Does b00 bait or does he overpeek?

Make up your mind.

Brawk is a great player, but I wanna have what NRG management were smoking when they thought ‘FNS>Verno’

We’re talking about now, not a year ago.

Demon1 and Yay at their peaks ALSO had great solo duelist games. We’re talking about MIBR with aspas at his current level.

It’s almost like ur on a forum with a bunch of <20yo’s who haven’t left their family homes, countries, or interacted with people from other places outside of the internet.

Some ‘racist’ things people say have truth within them. Immanuel Kant would say it’s best to try to find the maxim of what it is you’re looking at. The maxim that can be drawn from your point, is that people are quite capable of ignorance, making rash assumptions about surface-level details.

End of the day, you can just turn the screen off, go out and talk to people, and you’ll realize it’s quite a mixed bag.

Pretty sure he wanted him to leave, not kicked.

Jingg on raze then? Sure the agent got nerfed but he’s still basically a one trick pony as far as duelists are concerned

Can’t have it both ways.

This is why MIBR’s best maps were w/ double duelist comps

100% correct

People probably said the same about EDG this time last year tho

And chamber on ascent from alfajer, waylay on ascent from SEN

Best fax I’ve read this week

I’m really happy to see Crashies playing his best Valorant in years. I wouldn’t be upset if they won.

That aside, them or wolves would be the dark horse, most impressive winners considering their lack of experience & the team not really being together all that long. I want G2 to win, but they’re always a contender.

-alecks

Still haven’t learned the basic ascent comp that people have played for 2+ years

I don’t think FNS is a good I’ll anymore.

Very little from his time on NRG from the past year and a bit has been underwhelming, and fairly 1d for such a celebrated igl

Like with boaster I at least get it. He makes the best use out of each player, but fns on the other hand, I don’t think the same could be said

watches The Interview once

He’s probs just glazing NRG’s abyss. Buddy would’ve post matches that actually mattered if this was serious.

Are there other Russian players that have had problems?

I’m guessing whoever applied for the visas did so all at once, not taking in factors like nats being from Russia, a country that commits espionage and is currently at war with a neighbouring country. Wouldn’t surprise me if other players not having issues just applied earlier.

He’s consistently been at the top of the scene in EMEA since before franchising. As a non-duelist, that shit’s hard to do off skill and achievements.

Fr penny is yet another former pre-franchising tier 1 player that has gotten slept on throughout the past couple years

Ik you were kind to reply, but that’s kinda like saying I want to go to a private restaurant in Texas. Where at? Big gaps between Dallas, Houston, San Ant, same for any province in Canada. Each is 1.5-3x larger than the average US state

E: it’s called Amir in some place in Valleyfield. Probably Lebanese food.

Depends, I think female viewers would like the relationship they have on screen. Esp because ender is pretty androgynous.

You’d be surprised. 2g wasn’t a heavy favorite heading into last ascension tournament.

But I do also agree, that’d be a low bar.

I’m not against the rapport the two have, can see why riot isn’t against it considering the generally younger gen Z probably find it personable/cute. They do, however, lack professionalism compared other duos like pansy/hypoc.

Ngl, they remind me of when I’m in a public place with my gf and we don’t care what people think. Fine at the grocery store, but not at work.

I haven’t checked birthdays for the other players, but as someone pointed out, most are 17. Ghoul33 has been frying in BR T2 for awhile, and he’ll be 18 in August.

Wouldn’t surprise me if they sell some of these players to interested T1 orgs. Especially if some players gain serious demand and bidding wars start.

Where at?

Cane and Ion win them games, and I honestly don’t see a yoru one trick having impact in Tier 1. It’d be worse than apeks’ ascension.

Hard to make an argument for Crashies being better than Leo. I will say he has experience and probably better comms than Leo, but I think the crashies resurgence was more so brought about because this was one of his last chances in T1 if he didn’t perform well.

Thereby diluting the level of professionalism each player is capable of exemplifying before making it to franchising.

By this logic, people shouldn’t invest into local hockey teams, basketball, among other things.

I just don’t understand why someone would try and make an argument for less jobs, as opposed to more. Do you go to Loblaws stores and tell the employees that there isn’t a need for them to work, because the larger store (I.e. Walmart) with lower prices is right down the road?

E: Like, do you think it’s by coincidence that TGRD/G2 had an org backing them and they ascended? You can’t waste your time/life on a bet. People need income in order to supplement their needs. I see a lot of dumb takes on this site, but this is one of the worst, exacerbated by the fact that this doesn’t seem like bait.

Dead ass, go to school and do something with your life before saying people just shouldn’t get paid to play because it isn’t franchised. By your logic, esports would have significantly less players competing. You’d have more people like RpK (counter strike) torn between working in their family business and playing.

I think that was auto-correct, I meant to say almost

He used to have a pretty good raze. Would be kind of wack with jawg on the team though

It was a bum team, but leaf was playing peak neon before the buff

Hot take, depending on who you ask, but DGZIN was a better duelist this year so far. Demon1 should just take the accelerated Tarik pathway to being a streamer.

Streaming culture is generally pretty lame, but ik what you mean. He’s built a good brand, so to speak. I still don’t know anything about him, other than the fact that he motivated lots of young gen z fans to vote trump. Was hilarious when he didn’t show up to his inauguration.

Cardinal rule of Brazilian valorant is that there can only be one decent team at a time

Thank you furia and loud for allowing MIBR to THRIVE

Guy has looked like that since he was an amateur CS player in FPLC lobbies

I wouldn’t ‘beat’ (physical abuse) my child because they have poor sleep habits.

Thinking like this is why CPS is a thing, and why people should have kids when they’re damn well ready (ie use protection until you want to have kids with a partner)

You’re justifying shitty, lazy, incompetent parenting.