Well, if there was a marathon that give awards to runners with the best average pace, it'd still be a cool event and many will participate. Noone would complain that the rules were different because they all knew what they signed up for.

Point is, every team knew how champs points worked since the start of the year. Rito made it in such a way so that every match -- even the ones at the start of the year, also the group stages -- they all matter. DRX simply played the long game and was rewarded for it.

That would be horrible for viewership 🥀

Unfortunately, champs points qualification is based on performance throughout the whole year, not just stage 2. So if they want to blame someone, it'd be riot for making the rules.
😹 but that's just unreasonable in my opinion

It's not RRQ's obligation to let TLN qualify and stop DRX ☠️💀 Why the hell would they do that and pass up their chance of going to the finals??

RRQ manager applying LeGM mafia tactics on poor xffero 😿 😹

I mean it's a fact. Imagine what a feeling that has to be. It's as if the team's success is only because of you (even though it's a team effort)
He's been living the life since joining RRQ

let's go Shr1mp supremacy

I think the team has no aura because their fans are either fake and actually hate the team, or are silent because no matter how good RRQ look they don't want to get their hopes up and overhype the team just to be disappointed again next week.
Personally, I enjoy watching them because they're an unpredictable team. Beating GENG after losing to GE, winning the whole stage 1 just to shit their pants 0-2 in Toronto, it's all so funny. You never know what you'll get.

kyousuke

Shr1mp might be the one amongst all of the gamers to do it

ragebaited by bots in youtube chat ❓

the 2 teams that make the stage 2 grand finals automatically qualify, then the next 2 teams with the highest points in the standings (excluding the finalists) will also go to champs
So technically you could be #3 or #4 in points but not qualify because teams below you made the stage 2 grand finals.. if that makes sense

TH just got more money than FNC did for Toronto + EWC combined 😭 I don't think the team cares if it's mickey mouse or not atp

true the kickoff masters with 8 teams have always felt a bit fraudulent to me

no duelist 😭 they thought this was 2021 masters Reykjavik

The player cam is a bit faster than the broadcast that's just him unfocusing and checking the map because he died

I'm fine with people disliking it for its sub-optimal format and qualifiers. It's a miracle they can fit a 16-team tournament in the 6 days riot gave them.
They made up for the opening matches being Bo1 by: Formatting group stage as double-elim, making sure every team plays at least 1 Bo3 match, and schedule it so it's impossible for a team to lose and fly home in the 1st day.

but I can never understand those who are screaming sportswashing. Even if you know the deepest darkest secrets of the saudis, It's not that hard to enjoy EWC whilst disliking their government at the same time. EWC isn't filled with any propaganda, you won't owe them anything by playing or watching, and their human rights violations aren't suddenly justified because Team Falcons won it all. Enjoy the games, take the money, come home.

sheesh it's as if enerii is fated to farm this league. #1 since and even before SEA/APAC GC was formed (ignoring the devastating loss of 2022 APAC Elite😭)

It's a tournament which doesn't have much meaning to win, usually because of unfair format/lack of competition/small stakes

Though it might be "unfunny af", the "j slur meme" taps into some very real sentiments, especially among younger generations, such as the frustrations they face with a broken job market as well as serious anxiety over future stability. It’s both a satire of traditional work culture and a cry for change that resonates with many people because for some it's more than just a joke. 😿 😭

mayo: yo 🥀

So far the only thing I dislike about X is whenever people/bots post their own shit in the reply section instead of talking about the original post

Inflated stats because the 1 map they won is 13-2 so S8UL farmed kills which didn't matter because other 3 maps were closer but lost

does he know? 😼

the guns are hitscan anyway and some tracers are either too thick or they take too long to fade from the screen. it's more clutter to add to all the abilities
the feeling of clicking and seeing the enemies' head immediately pop is so satisfying

For the most part it's because they're backed by chinese conglomerates
https://liquipedia.net/honorofkings/S-Tier_Tournaments
https://liquipedia.net/pubgmobile/Peacekeeper_Elite_League
but also check out those prize pools 🤑ho💸ho💰ho

only OG's remember when Laz dropped the incredible 31-10 K/D statline in one map against a helpless mindfreak and Toronto MVP f0rsakeN 😿😿
https://www.hltv.org/stats/matches/mapstatsid/94353/boom-vs-absolute

The tickets not being sold for the group stages is a bit odd, but I assume it's because the group stage starts before the opening ceremony.

In any case, they're playing in the same arena with the same equipment so there shouldn't be problems for streaming. The only question I have is how many streams will there be? Because I think they will either have 2 streams, meaning only one of each group's opening matches will be shown, or at best they pull out 4 channels to stream 2 groups' matches together at a time.

except he actually does variety streams and not just react, mc, mario kart, gamba♻️😹😭

I did find these two ewc_id twitch channels: https://www.twitch.tv/ewc_id and https://www.twitch.tv/ewc_id2
but it says they haven't streamed for 3 years so it's unlikely. It will probably be the usual valorant ID streamers watchpartying the EN streams

They have 4 channels for main EN broadcast on twitch and youtube, and as far as I know there is also ES, RU, CN streams but I think it's only 1 channel each for them. Details aren't shared yet but ID streams will mostly be on their own local platforms

what I've been thinking because since 2023 cs, dota, pubg, and R6 CIS orgs have came back and have close to no problems.

at least valorant actually has apac reps. lol's "apac" is just taiwan and vietnam, alongside some more imported koreans.

ZmjjKK
f0rsakeN
benjyfishy
Boaster
Zellsis
🗣️

sadly f0rsen didn't show up against geng so now it's only t3mperature vs Jorking

nt bang pls dont blame urself u did well we proud of u kub🫂🫂 rest well after this see u kub
nt jj~ 🥺🥺 get lots of rest for now and we'll wait for u guys in stage 1~!! you come back stronger. we believe!!! 💪🏻❤️
ggnt kub 🥺🫳🏻🐹

and I always find yeah I always find something wrong
you been puttin up with my shit just way too long

competitive tournament vs falcons' tournament**
b0twOo will not win a major unless it is a mickey mouse major, at his home country, gifted by valve as a parting gift (Paris major was more rigged than messi winning the world cup)

my bad I thought it's Magisk. Welp it may be time for him to rest a bit he's been on the team for years

I may be high on copium. But the current Falcons are losing series 1-2 and 2-3 with close maps against Vitality, and I think kyousuke can easily be an upgrade over kyxsan. So I'm looking forward to it 🙏

Sliding penguin game on the blackberry 8520 curve 😭

don't worry Vitality is only making the most of their time before kyousuke plays and Falcons dominate the scene🥱

no duelist comp ❓

Real talk tho, no need to overthink it. If you're grateful for the gesture you can show it but that'd be the end of that. Unless told, it's better to have no assumptions, just stick with what you do know, and be honest to yourself.

If anything EWC collabing with VCT should be reassuring news since it should solve the primary problem with the event this year which is its overlapping schedules causing qualifiers to not be officially streamed

The cs esports scene has always been one of the best amongst all games. But the game itself is mid 🫤 I still think csgo > cs2

3/8 🎣

there are 2 stages, stage 1 will have teams who finished #5 - #12 in EMEA duking it out until they find two winners.
Those two winners will then go to stage 2 where they meet the #3 and #4 (not determined yet). The two teams to win in the end will qualify for EWC
They will only stream the stage 2 of the qualifiers which start next week.

they're one of the top teams in honor of kings (Chinese LoL mobile) that also have won more than $10.000.000❗ from competitions in total

default vandal 😊