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(I honestly haven't watched anime in a while now so I'm just gonna list them as I see other people say ones I agree with, this top 10 probably isn't accurate since I'm probably forgetting some great shows)
honestly that is, by far the craziest part to me
yeah my account is EU so I can't play in Cali servers
I see all these clips of people in high elo who don't have any sort of content following who have buddies, so it must be connections
I thought I was a CanadaMan OG 😔
as for my list: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8ZDzrBA2lXw
Icebox was released on October 13, 2020, as part of Valorant’s Episode 1 Act update. The map is set in Bennett Island, Sakha, Russia, featuring a snowy port environment with vertical play and zip lines, making it unique compared to other maps.
gotta be henbabyh
he's so good at baiting i dont think he realises he's doing it
im just a chill guy with my red glitchpop vandal
i got it
i wanted to say the line 'how much for kebap in your ...'
but then people who don't know the clip would think im being an ass for no reason
oh I had no clue you were EU
Do you remember roughly what time it was?
apparently, but from what I'm gathering it might just be an NA west coast thing since the vast majority of devs are from there
it seems the only reliable way to get one on EU is to know a dev so I'm cooked (I don't even know anyone who knows a dev)
bros gonna get me banned from getting a buddy 😭
yeah, I've been playing a lot more swift recently. I just can't commit to multiple 40 minute games anymore cuz of uni :(
teach me your wisdom
ive been playing since 2020 and havent even seen a dev 😭
I've never seen a dev in my lobby 😭😭
I think there's just way fewer in EU, most of the people who I've heard of getting the buddy (from in game) are from NA
~750 hours in comp
~200 in unrated (idk how, I feel like I've almost never played)
~30 in TDM
~90 in Swift
~80 in Spike Rush
(started playing in late 2020)
im 19 and hardstuck ascendant
big things coming soon guys...
ngl i have no say in this, i dont watch any val content creators outside of VCT
ive been watching ardiis stream recently but thats it
2 questions
do you have a rito buddy
how many hours do you have (in swift)
kekw
if you had m4 this would've never happened
https://i.imgur.com/h6XM7dt.png
damn... this reads real different after the m4 incident
dawg it just keeps on getting worse and worse
this is an 'expert level test' which is supposed to help 'deepen your game knowledge'
https://i.imgur.com/Kgh5VFb.png
highkey
its way worse if he's baiting...
a 39 year old man spending his free time off of his 9-5 baiting on vlr
I just refuse to believe he's baiting, the alternative is more absurd
damn
I've been playing iso in swift recently
at least I don't got no ekittens
I personally like Split B Heaven
I don't believe in watching film and producing reports
Fracture - Release Date: September 8, 2021 (Patch 3.05)
I already got fined for leaking dms any more and I'm getting banished to the shadow realm
I can vouch for GambleNats they are chill
But maybe im tricking you so who knows
curious george ahh
more than just that has been doxxed
im not gonna say no more, this guy is stupid asf but he doesn't deserve to be doxxed irl publicly on vlr
actually im gonna edit what i said here
probably not a good idea to give something which can lead to people finding potentially sensitive info on vlr, no matter how stupid this guy is he doesn't deserve that
it just keeps on getting worse and worse 😭
there's more but it wont fit in the word limit 😭😭
I put the whole thing in this thread: https://www.vlr.gg/375283/copypasta-archival-thread/#107
I lied. If some how I do make it... Everyone in this thread is getting this treatment:
https://youtu.be/XCN4HXZNU7M?t=266
So you think that because people have a hard time learning something, we should lower the bar? Make it easier? I don't follow. I don't know what school was like for you but the cliff notes of Hamlet is not the same as reading Hamlet. The eternal dumbing down of information to please people has left us with a messy situation. I promise you, lowering yourself to the level of "20 year old tiktok brained gamers" is not the way my friend. I also had a full-time job leading a 12 person team. We find time.
And Elevated, I'm responding to you because I know who you are. Your line about having no connections is not congruent with reality.
Sorry, I can read an insult when I see it. A lot of people jumped in without context. The purpose of this thread has some how turned to me. I'm okay with that. I'm willing to defend my work and die on a hill for it.
I don't believe in the lazy approach that these coaches take. I'm not going to take to heart comments from people who pursue the easy way. I believe their win records reflect these positions. I think that they waste the time of players by making it comfortable and easy for them. The players should be upset because they are all on a clock. Delivering picture books to players and losing is not what I would want to spend my money on if I was an org owner either.
A couple months ago, Zikz and 100T put out an open call for coaching.
I spent 2 weeks putting a tremendous amount of time and effort to create these two analysis reports:
100T Icebox
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zYRtRbyClNjJXx-vbA2X6s64IlaVGfhV/view?usp=drive_link
FNC Haven
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kE90FXjCtj_qaXCOp-j0pInVEdqL1KEz/view?usp=drive_link
Despite the effort, despite reaching out to Zikz two weeks after the deadline for any word, I was ghosted. Only to find out that your average VCT scouting/analysis report is 1/200th the size.
The reason I'm bringing this up is because I'm tired of seeing Nadeshot and 100 Thieves continue the narrative that they are trying everything they can. They simply are not. They are just continuing the one thing that has plagued esports, cronyism. The normal size of an analysis report in VCT is 1-2 pages. For a game that is supposed to be "TACTICAL" ... how do you fit a scouting report into one page?
How does Nadeshot and the 100T organization pay for such mediocracy when people put real effort into their applications? Esports needs to stop being a revolving door.
I used ChatGPT to edit grammar. I'm more than happy to share my unedited version.
45 vlr readers believe picture books are better than research. I'm shocked. (edited for clarity)
Unfortunately in the world of competitive sports we are measured by wins and losses. No offense but I'm going to pass on your advice.
Did you just answer your own question? I would hope you don't think this would just be handed over with no explanation...
Also the AI generated comment, it's probably stuffed somewhere deep in this thread but that's chatgpt's form of grammar edits. More than happy to produce the original. My bad that I'm not a PhD candidate English level writer.
First, none of this truly matters. If you're reading this post please consider donating to the victims of the Los Angeles fires:
https://secure.lafoodbank.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1800&mfc_pref=T&1800.donation=form1
Second, someone cool helped me out with my submission and I want to give him a shoutout, Nabil Elouahabi, basically gave me a bunch of dialogue that I created a fun video for my submission. He has a Cameo page and you should check it out ( https://www.cameo.com/valorant1973 )
Third, I think a couple of important people jumped to conclusions about my work. I don’t think you can fit my system into the traditional way of doing things. While I appreciate their critiques, their time spent was a bit misguided.
I would also like to take the time to again point out the current state of the landscape. We see what the current work leads to. My comments about the size of the analysis that is handed over to players should alarm you as a viewer. You cannot truly believe that handing a one page response to a player is anything close to professional. If you disagree with me, I would point you to HBO specials like Hard Knock: https://www.hbo.com/hard-knocks . Just look at the binders they carry around. That sort of preparation is what leads to amazing sports moments. Talent needs knowledge to thrive. Many people do not have this knowledge required so they make it about other things.
Thank you to the people who took the time to read my work. Good or bad, if you actually took the time to read it, I appreciate you.
The context that is missing from the critiques is that my work leads to discussions. The number one rule in any sort of strategy effort is that your perfect plan is going to fail. The sizing of this is supposed to acknowledge that. There needs to be a foundation from which knowledge can grow.
A one page analysis of your analysts thoughts and conclusions is not going to get you there. You don’t know any of the inputs such as their skill and knowledge of the subject, how they are feeling, what experience they have in composing documents that require them to be non-bias or even if they had a bad breakfast.
I spent some time on individual players. But I think many of my critics think it is just the 100T and FNC players. Nope, it was 19 different teams.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SJK_Brlfyf0urXM0rbqdXmpk6qgad_9Z?usp=drive_link
I didn’t feel like I could adequately give an analysis report without doing the film. So in addition to my work and research into the players, I needed to see the games that the past teams played to see if there were any adjustments in the way they played. An analysis would be pointless if it was an entirely different roster/comp/coach.
So what I did was cut every single game into rounds. From each of those rounds I created a mini-map focused video. This way I could see at a high level what is usually missed in analysis work if you were purely using VCT footage.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U02rpKLO580ozSZ04tqUrgYrfYfHlsE2?usp=drive_link
Once again, the goal of my work is not the output. It’s the path I journey to get to a place of expertise that can then be utilized by the organization.
I'm not going to attack anyone individually but I would just like to point out that my work is a direct attack on theirs. To see what someone is capable of and then to have to look at your work product can produce jealousy. As people in positions of privilege they should look at my work and applaud it. I tried and produced something of value. It's just weird that you would take 10 minutes of skimming it to try and destroy it. That's some shameful stuff. Do better.
I think I'm just going to respond to this one. I think certain people are being unprofessional. I understand that this person has had a hard time dealing with organizations and people who have different opinions to them. I'm simply not going to engage.
In the data, you can see why these teams do not perform at the level they should. If you mix the tracker ranked data with the data of previous performances, it gives you a pretty clear idea of how they will perform.
I don't think there is enough discussion and agreement on the fundamentals. The conversations that come out of those are more towards unification of ideas. If a player feels that holding on site is the best way to do something and you have a player on the opposite side of that then that's a discussion you should have. And there are hundreds of those discussions to be had all across the map. Everyone has to be on the same page or the house of cards can collapse.
On top of this, you pretty much need to have a mutual understanding of how your teammates are going to respond to things. You're 100% right that they have 8k hours combined but all of that is from different perspectives.
And to your idea about money, one of the greatest coaches of all time meditated with his players. I challenge your notion that it would be a waste of time.
Last thing I'm going to say on this thread.
If the popular way to do things worked then it would work.
100T's Coaching staff pretended to go outside and preyed on people's dreams. That's not cool. The simple fact is that me and many others were not talked to and they ended up with a tier 2 coach and a radiant player.
I just wanted to draw attention to that fact. The fact that Nadeshot talks about how he tried to do everything and here is a good example where the effort level was near zero.
If you don't like my work, that's fine. Like I said, if the current meta for coaching was a working system, we would have successful coaches. But in reality, we don't. Most coaches have a negative win rate. I'm just trying to be an advocate for the community. I think you deserve better. I think you deserve people who do more work than less.
Sorry if you disagree.
the swiftplay strats are unmatched trust
wait he deleted his twitter?
I had no idea someone found that too
I didn't get a chance to see it 😭
I've checked his twitter like twice over the course of today to see if he'd say anything lol
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