bro when i was dirt poor as a kid... if the wings feel on the floor in my kitchen or something and it wasn't something catastrophic, we would have wiped all those shits down with paper towels, thrown bbq sauce on them and boom

I think those traps that go off when they hear noise should be more like they go off when they detect movement. They have a radius, maybe there's a different audio queue for when you close to it, or a visual queue, like the alarm bot for kj. Makes it so its not completely useless if people decide to just walk through it

Tarik's team?

Ima say boostio and potter

Sgares and 100t org haha

tenz isnt overrated, the expectations placed on him from his community are just absolutely insane. Hes still a really REALLY good player, but because he's one of the faces of the sport, people want him to be aspas, or alfy, or Boosty or(name another elite player), and he's just not there right now. The scene fluctuates, people who were elite at launch arent now, and vice versa.

I followed the NA scene pretty diligently, where are guys like bdog? Dicey? Dicey won a championship, was absolutely killing it on faze, bdog was that dude on the awp on jett 2021. Both forgot of in T2(or maybe even T3 they arent even signed).

Then there are guys like Boostio, or Alfi, very talented, but kinda started on funky roles like chamber for boosty or raxe for alfi. Boosty only had like 1 decent run with EG and they didn't even make a major event. Then KJ becomes a staple for 2 international events and they are what? Top 5-10 players?

sgares personally, understands the game at such a high level, almost like he's the architect reading the floor plans to every single teams plan

I think i would throw CNED in here. 100t literally had to play run to the other site against him to come back down bad.

YAY on early chamber for sure batshit.

Nats during covid is baffling how much map space he took just having good game sense

Early tenz was just run it down

top 5 in rating, top 5 in KD, top 5 in KAST, top 5 in APR(which for an initiator means your util being used perfectly both by you and your teammates), top 5 in FKPR(everyone praised leo and made him MVP of masters for being so elite at this), top 3 in HS%....

OOOOO and btw, these are all playoff stats for when they almost won ascension, not in season or the stupid "play in" they did. All stats for when playing up to the competition your facing mattered.

Theyguy is efficient with his util and uses it effectively for teammates to play off of, can shoot, and has elite-level first death tendencies so his positioning and timings are amazing, and his K/D is nothing to slouch over either.

Is he a top 10 player? of course not, but EVERY championship team needs guys like this, IE : chronicle/leo on fnatic, Ethan on EG, Optic core with Crashies, etc

Speaking from the outside looking in, your scan initiation should be either your IGL or a sort of midrounding secondary caller. The info they get from util is by far the most relevant type of info needed for adjusting with the preround call doesn't work. Not saying having a controller IGL or Sentinel IGL is bad, but i think if you were thinking of how to construct the perfect team, you would want your leader on that role.

These games are basically televised skrims, teams are trying stuff its almost like its for fun. Look at 100t they dont even have a true 5th for today nature is a stand in

This was the same case last year though, with teams like M80 and Guard.

Absolutely get the 4060, CPU is more than enough for anything you throw at it as far as standard usage goes

boostio most likely gets added once his contract is up

i think its actually a fantastic game if its the type of game you like playing

If you like Apex, battlefield, back 4 blood, overwatch, and VERY early Warzone, where games feet chaotic with tons of things going on but you do feel like your gameplay has an effect on the match as a whole, then the finals will be amazing

If you like games like CS, tarkov, valo, squad, SOCOM, where there has to be a much more planned, coordinated, and calculated approach, then the game won't feel very enticing to continue playing.

I like both styles, so i really like the beta so far.

There are far too little spots to give all these guys chance. Theres probably 30+ guys you could name in NA alone who are tier 1 talent, whether they are in tier 2, LFT, or moved to content creation.

I think they come out and announce the roster, and possibly put a tag on nature and/or eeiu saying they are 2 way players, allowing them the flexibility to either commit or move depending on EG's contract issues

only time i really worry about caping fps is when you get drops in frames. For example, on apex i cap my frames at like 170 because i go from 300+ frames 180-185, because of the insane amount of stuff that happens late game. Caping it makes the experience feel like volatile

the season doesnt really start and get going till martch april, teams can wait, get some filler guys, and then pivot later

anyone who doesn't have Juicy by Big in their top 10 is crazy man, that might be one of the best-written/engineered songs of all time.

Nature going back to his play is honestly not a bad pickup, he's a really good player with potential, but it would feel a lot better if he was on some tier 2 young team like an oxygen with a veteran at coach then him being trusted into tier 1 with elite talent everywhere in NA let alone americas/world

NA is going to be a clusterfuck because we still don't know a ton of these rosters. G2 is going to have synergy and chemistry to thrive on, c9 i think will be good if Oxy can really build on his natural talent but can they be elite? 100t can and will be good, but can they get into the sean gares form that lead them to the amazing run they had, since players like bang and sauna i feel need structure. Who knows what the NRG/Eg rosters look like. And Send should be amazing, but i really don't think people understand how much language barriers affect communication. I'm Mexican American, spoken both languages all my life, college education, and i catch myself going to google translate for works or expressions/saying.

i agree somewhat but familiarity and chemistry is huge for any type of competitive game, and though cned does feel like the better play he didn't no fit, and ardiss did on this squad

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Don't let this distract you from the fact that Hector is gonna be running 3 Honda Civic's with spoon engines. On top of that he just came into Harry's and ordered 3 t66 turbo's with NOS's and a Motec System Exhaust.

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rumors are leviathan offered him either part of the company(most likely stocks or advisory shares, something of this sort) or they offered him a attractive % of the team skin revenue that riot is going to push out soon

i fucking hope so man....

Thought this would be a fun way for everyone to blow a few minutes of their day. What is one of your favorite funny valo moments? Could be a stream or a tourney.

Link videos please to people can share in the joy!!

Here is mine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVMALL1_c18

cant scrim at all? i think they can scrim behind the scenes but they just cant play on actual tourneys right? Even the small ones.

Wasnt aware January contracts end, i guess we wait till then but thats kind of a blessing they end in JAN considering it could be worse

Any updates on this? Sean Gares brought it up on his podcast but boostio kinda seemed like more bummed than anything about the topic

you create an lcq for the teams that got cheated on, and give those teams a chance to recompete? How does pouring thousands of dollars into an org and then getting fucked by cheats equate a good decision???

The orgs are already saying screw this and bailing, and you just give them more reasons to say I'm good.

fingers crossed brotha

If your favorite team could add one player, who would it be and why? Curious from a strategic standpoint what people answer to this question. Let's try and be a little serious, take into consideration language barriers, roles, fit, etc.

As a 100t fan, I would love if the added Boosty and still hope its something they can do. Obviously, he fills the sentinel and IGL role like a glove, and he has familiarity with our new coach which is huge from a strategic standpoint. He provides role flexibility with cryo, allowing the double awp to be in play with Boosty having played chamber all that time pre-franchise. He also has an incredible swagger that i think this team desperately needs. People get mad when players are cocky, but these dudes are the best of the best, and the trio of cryo/bang/asuna need a dude with some fire in his belly.

Edited: would obviously need a 5th, but I think if they then added a very disciplined player like com/eeiu/leo/chronicle/jonahp, not saying them but that style of player, this team would feel really balanced.

would need a caller and with so many frag first players like cryo leaf and sauna you would almost need like an angel or boaster to really direct traffic instead of like a freelowing midroundy style

1) David Goggins - Who's gonna carry the boats and the logs

2) Erwin Smith from Attack on Titan - Lead an entire battalion to their death

3) Winston Churchill - Nazis bombed major cities in England for like half a year straight every night and his people never wavered

4) Harry and Esther Snyder - Invented in-and-out, get free animal-style fries and double-doubles sign me up

5) Sean Gares - Goat valorant mind

There should have been 16 teams total per region, way to many LEGIT players without a T1 job, and this is on top of the fact that we got so many insane players just retiring and going into content creation as well, coaching roles, leaving the scene, quitting because of instability, etc

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Runi got benched, and i dont think it was because of pressure there were rumors dude was not good for team culture. C9 was going to play qpert but then didn't have enough time to prep for lcq so went back to ruin it was kinda fucked

would have to go to EU and transfer or go into tier 2... a lot of names out there but no one I'm super hyped about, i wish flyuhh was still available, maybe mitch? idk

has to be English, feels like just a bad idea. Portuguese and Spanish isn't super alike, but being Mexican, there's this weird connection between latinos thats is hard to describe, even if you can understand each other perfectly. The Spanish would have been a lot easier to make work IMO then now a whole core having to speak English because of 1 player

Really hope you read this, im just going to speak from browsing your page.

For starters, your headshot % is way toooooooo low to be using a vandal, switch to a phantom. I played cs for 15 years, and not I'm not radiant I'm your average decent diamond player, but if your hs % is 7% you should not be using an ak, use the phantom. I'm average 20%, and with precision weapons my hs% shoots up to around 28-30% and i use a phantom.

Secondly, your agent selection is all over the place for a bronze player in competitive. Find someone you are comfortable with, that you can use instinctively, and stick to them. Don't go from omen, to raze, to kj roles. Valorant isn't CS, you really do have to play your role, and all these characters have different mentalities when playing. I play controller and only controller. If i need to flex i play someone i can combo with my duo, so like a breach with my duo raze, or someone i can abuse on a map, like sage on split.

Lastly, why are you dying SO much? Value your life more man. You die way to damn much, and you cant make an impact for your team if you are dead. I rather have a sova that is 8-10 with perfect util than a top fragging sova thats 25-20 thats literally getting traded right after taking first contact.

Again my page isn't some insanely charted pahe with crazy stats, but with good coms, and some game sense to go with good util, you should improve.

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oxy awp, xeppa flex entry, fakee smokes, vanity fills and wippie sentinel

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What if you gave Omen the ability to right-click a tp(shrowded step), and it worked with some sort of timer, let's say 5 seconds, and at the end of the 5 seconds he TP's to the spot he chose? It would allow another agent class to use the AWP, take fights with it, and provide flexibility with lineups. They could add a glow to omen or some sort of identifier like they did to Jett or chamber's glow. Instead of nerfing Jett even more since she's the main AWP agent, or forcing a chamber for the AWP, or running double duelist, you provide flexibility with lineups.

The TP can be tweaked to work like Yoru's where for that .5 seconds when the TP initiates, if you are shot at you still get hit, or they add a vulnerability debuff so that it's like a high-risk high-reward type of thing?

Just throwing ideas out there. Tough to think how you get an OP in the initiator role hands but thought this was an interesting idea.

main viper, dont know lineups for mollies but i can stall like a beast

tarik for being an idiot, sgares for goat shit

hardware?

with sean he was probably the second best NA smoker. and he's like 18. keep him, let him develop. FNS was even shocked at the insane jump he took, mentioned it several times

you do the EG thing, move cryo to sentinel on not jet maps, they would move d1 to smokes. The more similar comparison could be boosty since he would go from senti to chamber awp. Sentinel is kind of unique on how you do anchor and hard hold angles like you would as a jet, you just dont get the dash obviously.

my main concern with this would be the skill gap. I'm not saying shes worse, but i think we can all agree that the talent in tier 1 champions is greater than the talent pool in game changers. Can she keep up? who knows

I do think the girl thing is kinda mehh, like potter lead EG without a hitch, and everyone else might have questioned her outside looking in but the players never seemed to lose faith in her. If Mel were to prove that shes that dude(metaphorically), then the players wont give a shit if shes a dude or a girl

okay, but your also forcing that player to take an over 50% paycut AFTER they literally took you from laughing stocks champions