hot take: Noia gets moved to Duelist

incredible post

you got what you wanted LOL

Love the girls but they're about to be bodied in a not so close fashion

I AM SO GLAD I AM WRONG

Noia has been 950ish RR iirc? but ye

Pots and pans ideal duo for this series

What chance? Getting 3rd last year was a miracle, idk how Petra and mimi dragged roxi glance and sarah over the line, they were all 3 underperforming like crazy and it was obvious team chemistry was not good.

That would be mimi and petra, they're FPS veterans, both got like 8 years of playing together by now iirc

It's actually crazy how they managed to make the game against SR close while being down 19 FK over 2 maps

I do think there's a massive difference between undergoing HRT for 4+ years and playing in GC under the non-binary label

I planned on writing a lot more to fully talk about this but I think it's best I just simplify. Full female / GC teams are not tier 2 ready until they get into tier 2 via open qualifiers or Premier. End of story. They are not trying hard enough, they don't play as if their lives depend on it.

"more even stage" is just a massive cope, GC needs to have the bar constantly raised, not evened out. That is not how you create competition.

If you transition the way flor has been doing for the last 4 years, I see no issue with her playing in GC. She has been on HRT for as long as Valorant has been a thing, and actually longer than that. It's ridiculous people still claim she transitioned for the sake of GC, she would need to be some sort of crazy psychic to predict she'd have a career in Valorant.

Does she farm them regardless? Yes, that's not debatable.
Should she go tier 2? Also yes, I think she should try.
Has her team proven they're not tier 2 ready as a unit? Yes.
Should she leave them? Up to her. You can't do much about it.
Will she leave GC? Up to her, she claims her end goal is VCT, so she would need to leave GC and her team behind for that.

Do I think the non-binary label opens up a lot of gray area? 100% yes. But flor isn't non-binary.

I mean, realistically speaking they aren't making it past BBL and Permitta. Fortunately this time they are as strong as they can be so they won't go out 13-0, I am, however, expecting 13-3 13-3 vs BBL and 13-5 13-6 scorelines against PMU. If they don't beat Siko in the LB they are trolling.

I think that was by far their weakest version and there's a reason 3/5 players got booted (Glance and Roxi didn't make it to GCC, sarah went out early), yet people keep ignoring this for some reason.

Okay but that is admitting defeat before shooting a single bullet? Why would you allow yourself to enter the competitive scene with a losers mentality? GC was never since its start cis women only, and if you can't handle that, then why join the bracket? It's like going to a candy shop knowing you hate candy, there's no such thing as being fooled here. You either win or you lose, and if you're better, you win.

The thing is; Riot made changes enabling GC teams to both compete in GC and tbeir regional VCL, the only condition now is for them to win qualifiers. ex. G2 Gozen as Premier #1 seed earlier this year, they fell to NXT Xperion 1-2 in qualifiers

If I faced like 10% of the daily harassment flor gets, I would probably stop showing my face altogether, I don't think it's all that odd, I think it's more just respecting boundaries of someone who's not even 20

I'm kinda curious, what do you mean by "I would feel fooled"?

Hasn't she always been this way I feel like?

amazing, hope you guys move in together and live to see a great ladder climb

oh you're feeding into it, splendid

I think he wants you to be his boywife

That's not being rude, that's being objective

They can beat Siko in the LB but that's about it

Realistically speaking they take off 6 points at best off of BBL in a bo3, if more than that happens, it is probably going to be due to random hero clutches

Only good croatian prospect so far has been Doma but he faded out of relevancy sadly

Then go ahead and beat flor's peak of #3 NA? Shouldn't be an issue for someone as talented as yourself

idk if they play like every other team to set up 1 duelist they atleast make the games closer, if not outright win them

TBF these Iso comps were NOT it by FLCV, idk who on their coaching staff thought "ye we will have less useful utility in coordinated play" and said hell yeah

Closest I got was 100% on GC Pacific but that's not T1 even so doesn't count

Getting 100% on any pickem with above 12 games is incredibly difficult

I watch the games that schedule allows me to, don't like watching vods as much

Conir? Bob?

If you want to watch somewhat okayish level of gameplay u should wait until 4-5 teams are left. Bottom GC teams have not gotten any better tbh

You have to factor in the amount of male vs female CS players and how far they push themselves. All the CS kid prodigies spawn with atleast 10k hrs by age 16, meanwhile most female CS pros have yet to hit that amount at ages 23-24. They need to push themselves harder at an earlier age to get better results, and also look to play outside of fe only teams, but that seems easier said than done, as the only name that comes to mind is GFi, and shes close to 40 by now.

Games are meant to be fun to play and fun to watch without a needless amount of bitterness and hate around it but unfortunately seems like some ppl on here didn't get the memo

What an impressive showing by KRU tbh, conir stocks went up 10x

k0rupt is about to enter tier 2 maybe? I saw that their team placed 2nd in OQ

Doesn't matter even if she puts on a disasterclass I don't see a way they lose it to KRU

Happier than ever for sure none of them come even close

The GC teams looking to improve 100% scrim T2 teams

Left handed myself, nothing flipped just using it as it should be.This is all just a huge preference thing tbh.

💀💀💀 what a wild comment holy

Here's my guide

• Expected winners by most is G2 Gozen as they built a roster around arguably 4 of the 5 best EMEA GC players in their respective roles
• watch out for MIBR GC as they 3-1'd TL and they finished 2nd last year (albeit an awful showing by TL, I think they heavily underperformed)
• SR expected to make top 3 with no issues (flor sarah to shoot and the rest to set them up)
• can see potential upsets with GX GC
• Xipto to make top 5-6 (again), but not going past a 4th if Pacific GF performance was anything to go off of
• KRU as always, qualifies but doesn't amount to a good placement (feel bad for conir as she was in T2 before she "dropped" down to GC, but I guess she is salaried now)
• Zeta made a surprise entrance due to the Pacific format, but will probably make a quick exit
• rewatched some of the CN games, I am not convinced in ALG taking a map off of any team
• mid-ranking teams are fairly closer than previous years, team coordination has improved but they are still incredibly susceptible to forgetting fundementals and throwing rounds

Jammin by RUBII

I guess that logic can work. I guess we will find out soon enough, even though I'm highly skeptical.

It's not on Liquipedia, so it probably holds close to no ground. Why would she leave now, especially with GCC coming up?

U got 60 more years to live it's not old

If that's dudes telling you, they're shooting their shot from far away trust

Not even biased but does Scream not wipe them all?

Sad we didn't get a 2nd GC player to enter VCL NA but gz to Bob making it on the new role