No matter how much I bash this site, I actually have a lot to thank for its role in helping me get into competitive valorant. It puts all the necessary information that I need to look at tournament information in a concise way in an easy to understand menu, and the extensive stats and rankings system helped me to understand who the good players and teams are before I knew what the fuck I was watching in valorant. Thanks vlr staff y'all doing great

derke's gonna leave when he's an old washed player?

All the ranked demons are finally getting their time to shine

The only players I can even think of are players like yay, derke, F0rsakeN or Jingg, like that's literally the only people I would deem worthy of getting that money

Holy shit that is so sad, as a society we really need to do more about mental health and not make seeking help such a stigmatized thing.

100T has very unique ones, kinda like Gambits

I can't open the link, can someone screenshot?

they do have one, it started off pretty bad but right now it's apparently pretty good

if they destroy the T2 scene I just hope riot makes a good academy system

DZ the most dedicated T2 team OAT

I doubt they'll re-release the Champs 2021 bundle already, they'll maybe bring out a champs phantom or OP with a champs butterfly knife

you forgot to put Sentinels

you just need to get used to interacting with weirdly aggressive people on vlr

Why wouldn't Gambit apply for franchising? That just seems like a stupid decision

If valorant gets bigger then I bet the leagues will expand but I think for now 12 teams is pretty good in terms of bringing in viewership. The dedicated fans can see their teams play consistently every week, diehards will be decently satisfied with seeing high level valorant and casual fans will be easily able to jump into the game without having to wade through 50 rounds of open qualifiers and confusing formats to figure out who is going where and what's going on.

alr whatever South America is poor, sure, but in what games has CN been good at, it's mostly MOBAs, in CS they barely crack the top 30, in R6 they are basically nonexistent, and the only game they play is crossfire and that's among themselves as far as I know. There's no real precedent in FPS games nor in the valorant scene to even consider giving China their own league when regions like NA with far more FPS and valorant pedigree are getting put into combined regions

It makes the most sense, the CN scene isn't as well developed as other scenes and combining them with JP and KR with better teams could help it develop. If it gets too big then they could just split of into a China league

I meant South America retard why tf would I be talking about India

M3C is still connected with Gambit so it's not like they're completely orgless

SA is one of the biggest FPS scenes in the world and they're getting lumped into the Americas league so I don't get your point

that is way too many for the KR orgs

they should put APAC SA and Oceania in their own league and put KR JP and China together, that makes the most sense geographically, maybe not competitively tho

Turkey has a big valorant scene no?

Gold 2 is good

yeah they are really lagging with this shit, if they had actual plans announced for the T2 scene then I bet NYFU or Akrew would have stayed or atleast considered staying

Nearest Airport will dominate the NA T2 scene

NYFU gone too sadge

it's fucked but I'm guessing it's so they can keep their players for if they continue to play in the NA T2 scene, there's supposed to be some type of VRL system in NA again and they want to keep their players for that

DRX needs to hire a sports psychologist and a replacement for rb

send context pls

come back trembo

still what exactly have DZ done to differentiate themselves from any T1 or T2 team in NA for franchising. They don't have the brand name that Optic, NRG, 100 Thieves, GenG or T1 have, they don't have international success the way Optic and Sentinels have ( or had lol), they haven't even appeared in the main event for NA challengers, and teams like Knights and T1 have hosted events to support the T2 scene. I just don't see a world where riot sees DZ as a viable contender for the slot

they played 2, once in the Lower Final and once in the Grand Final. That doesn't take away from my point that playing even playing 1 BO5 is mentally exhausting for most people, let alone 2. And especially now that there's a crowd? Even tougher

I don't even play league and I still watch some of the playoff stage and if 100T is playing I'll watch their group stage games

Riot would be scraping the bottom of the barrel to bring in DarkZero, they have virtually no fanbase in valorant other than people who are really serious about the T2 NA scene, and that would mean kicking out a bigger org with more of a fanbase in valorant like SEN, 100T, NRG, XSET, FAZE, TGRD, or C9, and I'm willing to bet that other T2 teams like T1, Knights or GenG get in over DZ

can you imagine how exhausting as a player it would be to play 2 bo5s in a row?

the problem is I think it would take a lot of travel for teams to be able to participate in the Blast events

Wow I lurk on this site for many months. Recently I see before masters a lot of baiters make account and region bait wars start. There are a LOT of baiters.

People like babysasuke and shownu make a name for themselves by spamming baits in every thread they see and every chance they get. i got nothing against these 2 but I had to show examples

Constant hate and stuff, makes site uninteresting, yes fun at start but its repetitiveness make it boring. Still other users keep replying and supporting. no logic takes. no fun times. only baits.

While users like @Mortadelo making posts for 2 years. logic takes. is nice. doesn't want attention but that doesn't mean he shouldn't be appreciated. he hit 5000 posts recently. no one cares. There are many like him but not mentioned cuz they are not attention seeking leeches. shame on you vlr users

While baiters keep spamming and spamming and make everything boring. no original stuff. "this bad that bad". i don't like :(

No system by devs to down this stuff even a little bit. TBH admins really good. delete weird posts really quick. BUT posts which are baits not deleted cuz even though baits it is about Valorant. I mean it's their site so its their choice. but don't u think its a little overdone now :( @admins

I know it's not that deep. I know people only here to have fun. but plz don't you see its not fun and funny anymore :(

ok I go now bye

bro seeing those comps is a blast to the fucking past, Reyna was an actually relevant pick on Icebox lol

bren and sideshow are good too

Some Optic, FNATIC, and FPX players have LAN experience, a couple have even played on the main stage at Majors in CS, I only don't know about PRX but I doubt it will make too much of a difference

If Liquid Fnatic and G2 don't make EMEA franchising then Riot is making a huge mistake, they are going to be alienating 3 of the biggest esports orgs in the world

seems like they left CS:GO for the same reason

3,000 person venue could still make some noise, especially if it's a smaller venue. Might make the game feel a lot more intimate bc of how close everyone would be instead of being in a massive stadium

do you know exactly how full the crowd is going to be?

the Grand Finals sold out the Lanxess Arena which holds 20,000 people

so they can move to the arena they are playing the last 4 matches in

I can't wait to finally see a crowd for valorant, I hope it's as good as the IEM Cologne crowd was last week

vlr shut up about Sinatraa challenge (impossible)

what it's supposed to do is basically make the game look better and run better on newer PCs. However, it's possible that it could change the way that gameplay works in CS, like peek timings, counterstrafing, bunnyhopping, and lineups.