I'd just rather him than Doug and Balla tbh. I think he generally carries himself well even if he sometimes fumbles amidst the chaos, but maybe i'm biased since I like him from cs and think he deserves more shine.

They sound fine to me. I think Vansilli is great and underrated.

Listen to what tarik said again and ask yourself if this situation merits the same response he gave then. I swear, did someone wrongly translate it to portugese or something? It was such a fucking lukewarm statement and everyone of yall are so mad.

Nice false equivalency. Yes, this meaningless franchise game is JUST like the LOCK-IN. Brazilians warping reality to jerk themselves off to the idea of everyone wrongfully hating them

venue hot bus home you dont understand our culture

Californians are barely people

Sliggy is about as entertaining as boiled carrots.

I get your side too though. The sheer infrequency of big intl events in Riot's dumbfuck circuit makes winning any event a huge deal and not being considered a major almost undermines the accomplishment.

I'm talking about the 1 event type that earns the distinguished title of "major", nothing to do with frequency.

Valve's majors in CS have more dogshit teams too compared to some third party multi-qual tournament circuits but that doesn't change the fact that there is only 1 true "major".

Hold 100%. Demand will outpace supply by crazy rich fucks from the middle east and china on release.

Of course. Competition is good and Riot's infrastructure is more well equipped to rapidly improve in response anyways.

They would get stomped. CS has a lot of open angles and requires a lot of mental mapping potential rotates in their big maps, whereas valorant was deliberately made maps so noobs wouldn't get blindsided so much which neuters pro play a little, and that aspect of the game would be hard to adjust to in pro play. That's one of the biggest differentiators for pro play in CS, like s1mple and zywoo roam around the map like they have wallhack.

Brazilians acting like a pre-established gamechangers event with a 150 capacity venue is a big gotcha against tarik LMAO

Lame. Japan would've turned out 100%.

Cool another ardiis thread, keep up the good work guys

Valorant community and their insistence on calling everything a major is gonna be the death of me

Bro, your poor kidneys.

It's not even just casters, the entirety of front desk/analysis segments are horrific compared to CS's crews. Hell, even Riot's wardrobe crew deserves the smoke, motherfuckers have Goldenboy dressed like a 12 year old.

Holy shit why is this entire forum deepthroating ardiis

Just a guy that Riot decided to be a Kingmaker for and give him an obnoxious media boost to gain fans in India. Esports has been trying hard for a while to tap into India's insane population for self-serving reasons and this is just one of those initiatives. If you're looking for insane talent or charisma to match it you won't find it, but he seems like a good dude.

It means he doesn't have this baseless braindead framing of being xenophobic towards Brazilians like they do for everyone else that criticizes them.

I love the Brazilian cope in trying to preserve their "us against the world" victim complex. You got guys like tarik who actually played for a fucking Brazilian team calling your conduct out and the reaction is somehow "Wow.... These gringo's fucking hate us..!"

At the end of the day esports has constructed a cultural norm that defies traditional sports' fervent tribalism. Dota, cs, valorant crowds always show respect and appreciation for winners and Brazilian crowds are the only ones deviating from that norm.

So fucking good

From CS, I've seen a ton of tournaments around the world and I don't think I've ever seen a crowd disrespect winners like this.

Biased crowds are great. Cheating biased crowds are trash.

Fortnite died and he couldn't translate his charisma of being on other peoples streams into his own and his youtube deal was the final cash out because his career trajectory was looking like luna coin. TSM also went to shit and tarik basically Genghis Khan'd the valorant section so successful watch parties would be hard.

If tarik was on jett I wouldn't feel so bad but they put lil bro on a new initiator. Riot planned to parade the poor guys corpse to the bloodthirsty crowd as a prelude to the finals

1. He likes long, exciting games and is rooting for that outcome
2. He has stronger relationships with the guys on DRX, like stax and buzz being old fans of his from CS

It's really not a big deal.

The way he talks and inflects alone makes him seem manic af. Just gotta give him a break and hope he has people in his life looking out for him because we surely aren't able to positively influence that from the outside. And you have to give him a break because he's clearly not of his own sound mind currently

It's a funeral, bro.

His positioning, aim, and smart aggression goes beyond a single meta, he's still elite and lan proven. Same can't be said for the others in the lineup. If they aren't pairing well then he ain't the one to remove.

If the rumors are legit C9 is a disaster. I don't see why you wouldn't look to the C9 core as the problem when they've been the only common denominator behind all the failed qualifications and early lan exits instead of yay whose arguably the most proven elite player in the world across several lans.

"unprofessional" bro it's a reddit mod, there is no burden of responsibility. Also Brazil crowds are trash for tac fps. Even in CS I've never seen another crowd more irresponsible in violating the competitive spirit by calling out info. If the games weren't so information sensitive I wouldn't care. I'm not even suggesting they did that for this event either.

People seem to know tarik well
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1620641704?t=6h44m3s

Probably tarik. Face of competitive valorant and for southeast asians/indians? Tenz. Those guys heckin' love Tenz.

I just said that as a reductive way of including cultural differences that'd make anyone less comfortable in conversation, and all the dumbass idioms, colloquialisms, and slang in normal speech we use.

What about it would be incredible? Tenz has the charisma of a piece of toast, and that's amongst people without a language barrier.