2021 worlds broke viewership records left and right

Korea has less than 52 million in population, and most of them are on the older side since Korea has the worlds lowest fertility rate with long life expectancy's masking the low fertility rate problem. Western Europe has a population of almost 200 million. Not only do sources (like the one archetype linked below) show EUW has a much larger playerbase, common sense can be used to draw reasonable conclusions.

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Peanut? :/

wait what is this "app"?

People say "W pickup" blah blah, but the thing is, we haven't seen this guy compete at the highest level for a while. Pretty much since Nuturn got 3rd at Iceland, he hasn't competed at the top.

I don't want people to take this the wrong way, hope he does well, but lets wait and see how the roster does.

Xeta
Munchkin
Ban
and now apparently Sayaplayer (source)

But now people are saying that Saya's and Ban's roles conflict too much. But lo and behold, after scrolling past some handsome pictures of Faker on T1's official website, Ban is removed from their Valorant roster (source) while third party websites like Liquipedia still list him as a member. It might just be a mistake considering Steel and Thwifo aren't updated yet, but still, Ban's picture used to be there since his signing on August 10th, so his profile was manually removed. You guys can draw your own conclusions, just putting it out there...

Sadge, guy came a long way and was always consistent

a great example of a heartfelt welcome to vlr in a nutshell

lmfao what a joke

Feel you bro. Try waking up much earlier, go for a run, stay active throughout the day, don't sit around reading vlr forums, and you'll feel much more tired and sleep better at a more reasonable time. Basically, try to shift your entire sleep schedule. Instead of going to sleep at 4am and sleeping 7 hours and waking up at 11, force yourself to wake up sooner at like 6am or smth, that's the key here.

chad move

League more popular virtually everywhere

based, 2 years later and still by far the nation with most international success (no bias here just facts now move along 😌)

FNC DMF DRX RNG

based

this ^ (plus your English sounds perfectly fine)

nah not really, half Korean here not even living in Korea (but that's not stopping me from using a Korean flair :)

classic close-minded sen fan, thinking that ONE performance from literally the oldest international event justifies making a person top 3 in the world after year and a half later of taking L's

lol idc what acs he had a year and a half ago, rn he's clearly not top 3 itw

so? My point is that it was so long ago and that that data can't be used to justify him being good rn

lol why are you comparing tonz's one tournament like a year and a half ago when the game was brand new and trying to justify why he's a good player now?

nah

https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/xn3aap/fnc_chronicle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

perhaps?

Wrong line of logic here. Overwatch started killing itself through poor updates, boring metas, inefficiently having teams travel from city to city to compete, signing exclusive deals with Youtube and leaving Twitch completely, etc., not because of franchising.

basically only drx will remain as the relatively unchanged team, gen.g has some Korean players already and will be ready to pounce on some of the top korean player like meteor, texture, sayaplayer, etc. t1 will basically rebuild from scratch and possibly keep xeta, the rest of the Korean teams will just d i s s a p e a r...

We did good :) they came a long way 🍻 no sad drx fans this tourney

Change the flairs fake flagger, an embarrassment for the Koreans -_-

https://imgur.com/a/XmXYL2o

W

Yes I can confidently say it’s significantly easier than almost everything riot has already created. I never said it’s a piece of cake but that it’s definitely doable and have no clue how why it’s not been addressed for over 2 years.

https://imgur.com/a/NFx3hCs

there are way more difficult things that have already been programed than kj turret shooting in the direction of last seen enemy I can 100% assure you that

tech pause???

rito smol indie company

I can 100% assure you there are way more challenging things to create/program then a kj turret shooting the last known location of an enemy in line of sight

so why the f have they not fixed after so long?

recent xset fan talking

clap clap

expectations are unjustifiably higher for Drx coming from a small region with little interest in fps versus a top team from a major fps enthusiast region

the match can go either way but the guy has a point

ahem

peepoOverjoyed

based man

fix your stream

Drx just shut him out well

benkai said it himself that he was rooting for drx as a fellow asian representative

one step at a time

I don't have a Korean keyboard but I'm here :D