no way it's Anonymouse

the first guy on this site to be nice to me
how are u goat

damn i have no clue how people play with 30+
in the 'North' EU premier region you can queue in to either London or Stockholm, for the first time we got Stockholm last week and man, I swear it feels so disorienting

So that means you don't mind if you get downvoted, because it doesn't mean anything?

i knew who the poster was before i had to look up

check for this

https://i.imgur.com/a3zThMa.png

tho yeah, it's better to use strawpoll.com cuz that shows u live results

shit maybe I gotta start screenshotting my name every time it's mentioned

who knows when I'll need it

thanks goat

honestly
one of the best lists i've seen
(assuming they're not ordered within the same tier)

They need to find a better way to promote tier 2 tbh, and I feel like you can put that responsibility somewhat on Riot
Like we've seen ascension numbers and they're actually pretty decent, it'd just be nice if they put as much effort in to the rest of the tier 2 calendar

"Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out."

Feels like this applies to Riot and Valorant nowadays, it feels like their philosophy has become to push for profit only, whereas before it felt like their strategy was to make the player base as happy as possible, with the expectation that they'd then be willing to spend money.

This is regarding the game itself and not really VCT, but I think you could also expand it to what's been going on in LoL recently

if you have the flair of a bad-mid team for a long time before they become good

yeah right?
I thought maybe it was just me, but they're highkey generalising

?

this CLEARS the AI generated slop

like most things there are pros and cons

rly? But doesn't that defeat the purpose

uhhhh i have no idea how to do that

good luck in your endeavours

Nah I don’t think they should add negative rep

If they make it, it should be so you can only +rep one or two people per game

i'd still be down
toxicity feels like its at an all time high in ranked and any small thing would help tbh

like you could pick one or two people from your team (outside of your party) after a game to commend
you could have it so you have people with high rep queue together, or just have it be purely cosmetic (either way, I think it'd encourage good behaviour)

wait its in 120mins

fuckkk
no sleep for me

ooo
idk much about him, but looking at his recent stats he seems real good

yeah, I think they've looked real good with it, especially on Pearl, where you can really get value with the double wall. I think harbour's cove is also really good for cover on certain angles, so it'll be really interesting to see how NRG and s0m plays around it

yeah, I think they should swap NRG and PRX tbh I think s0m's been looking real good as a controller in tier 1

STATS

mwzera https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/VK%20mwzera%234324/overview?playlist=competitive&season=all
cNed https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/ACE%20cNed%23carry/overview?season=all
TenZ https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/SEN%20TenZ%230505/overview?playlist=competitive&season=all

DEATHMATCH STATS
mwzera - 86% win rate (thats the insaniest thing ive seen in a while)
cNed - stats not availiable
TenZ - 73% win rate

RANKED STATS
mwzera - 66.3% winrate (MVP of 95% of the matches) proof here https://imgur.com/StiJmpg
cNed - 53.5% winrate (MVP of 13% of the matches)
TenZ - 60.4% winrate (MVP of 15% of the matches)

can you take your time to appreciate how insane mwzera is? without a doubt the most talented player to ever touch the game

I'll try to explain briefly why I think he is the best player in the world
Despite his insane aim and movement
The best way to know if a player is a good duelist is RAZE. There is a BIG difference between a good duelist and a jett abuser
If he is a good duelist, he needs to be good with raze.

heat? not good with raze
aspas? not good with raze
xand? not good with raze
tenz? not good with raze
cned? not good with raze
scream? not good with raze
d3ffo? not good with raze
derke? not good with raze

Thats why I think he is undoubtely the best player in the world. If RIOT by any means decides to nerf jett and shift the meta we prolly not gonna even hear names like cned and tenz again :>
He is not killing 40+ per map because when he joined VK he was forced to play a different role because heat is already a main jett... and lets be honest, every single duelist nowadays gets 20+ kills per map because team and setups are basically built around you (even steel managed to get 20 kills with it https://www.vlr.gg/29398/sentinels-vs-100-thieves-champions-tour-north-america-stage-3-challengers-playoffs-gf/?game=46692&tab=overview)

Oh, I think I get what you mean

But we're having Toronto this year so in total we'll have had (by the end of 2025, in franchising):

1 BR
1 CN
2 KR/JP
1 SEA/OCE
2 EU
2 NA
0 LATAM (didn't have an event pre-franchising either)
0 MENA

and with the way they're rotating it one of the major regions (CN, EMEA, APAC, AMER) has to miss out each year
If you follow the last few events we know that the region missing out is going to be either EMEA or APAC

I don't follow

You're saying LATAM is bad for APAC viewers, then you're saying it's effectively the same as giving CN two events?
The majority of LATAM is in the same timezone as the Eastern US (The main exceptions being Chile and Argentina, which are only an hour or two ahead anyway)

I think they go to LATAM next for Americas no?

Uhh

looks like he was 5 stacking with diamonds

even my bum ass could get immortal if i 5 stacked with irons

getting people to play around 13s smokes is still a pain ngl
but yeah i guess the stats speak for themselves

yesterday people were comparing aspas and derke
now today we've got everyone comparing sacy and leo
what's next alfa and less??

damn what a name

bro had to bump

bulkylettuce ur baits fell off you never had to do this before

ok u r without a shadow of a doubt nihso

no aura 💔💔

but still tho
like look at who made top 4
all of those teams deserved to be there

yeah you're right, but this isn't ascension

I think the best way to think of it would be a tier 2 EMEA 'Masters' tournament. Then think of Ascension as a 'Champions'

idk tbh

similar with VCL SA, qualifiers are only starting now

they'll have 2 in stage 2

since MENA hasn't even started yet

https://i.imgur.com/9piw1le.png

damn... hard r?
rough

im actually so glad chess players are being signed now
historically even for top (but not like top 5) GM's it's been hard to make a living through chess alone

lmao

fruits in general

back in my day
when you held a sword you could hold right click
AND left click to block and break at the same time, truly revolutionary nowadays

bro appeared out of nowhere after dming me 4 years ago

https://i.imgur.com/pXpjK7a.png

U dont gotta be a hater to get upvoted

holy shit
based