Aayan
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Registered: December 12, 2021
Last post: September 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I've seen some clips but it seems to run really badly on switch ngl, how was your experience with the performance?
I have no clue how to emulate otherwise I'd do that

I might just wait to see if ZA is good, then get it alongside Arceus and the Switch 2 (assuming it has better performance)

I really loved BOTW, easily in my top 2 games oat

posted 7 months ago

are the legends games any good?
i stopped playing pokemon games after the galar ones (forgot what they were called), I just found them so boring that I stopped playing new games

posted 7 months ago

delete this
this is classified information

posted 7 months ago

holy shit

posted 7 months ago

VIT
T1 when they play

posted 7 months ago

u will never be him πŸ’”

posted 7 months ago

all i want is 2 flairs for the people of this website

posted 7 months ago

Literally half way to dead internet theory

posted 7 months ago

trust in plug wouldn't stand a chance

posted 7 months ago

idk man, its everywhere on twitter
even platchat went over it for a good 5 minutes

trembos thing was always kinda lowkey

posted 7 months ago

im sorry trembo
but today I think you lose the crown for most iconic vlr thread

posted 7 months ago

you have to be joking

bluds tracker got doxxed 😭😭
aint no way this is actually him surely

posted 7 months ago

honestly I don't think anything is gonna come close for a while
The funniest thing is I don't even think it was a bait thread

posted 7 months ago

for now FNC + VIT (for Derke)

but generally FNC + T1 (Buzz🐐 + Stax🐐+ Meteor 🐐)

posted 7 months ago

VS very valid
they should give us 2 flairs so you can use both

posted 7 months ago

These are the kind of conversations that are gonna make us win Ascension 2025 πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

https://i.imgur.com/wt93k8t.png

posted 7 months ago

who would you use

posted 7 months ago

Haven too

did they know Haven 'is a unique map set in a serene monastery in Thimphu, Bhutan'

posted 7 months ago

people were saying that he's been saying this stuff since way before the other thread exploded
so I went through some of his posts and I found this 😭

posted 7 months ago

holy shit
there were signs

I woke up to become the head coach of 100T.

That is probably 2 weeks of work.

posted 7 months ago

If you don't get the results you want, do research and find a plan that fits for you.

preach

posted 7 months ago

i will maintain that its a crime that anguist didnt get picked up this season

posted 7 months ago

yeah man idk, it's crazy
how big does your head have to be to get to the point where you reply like this to MULTIPLE people who have combined decades of experience in the field

posted 7 months ago

oh damn, yeah I know a few people even in England who were affected by the storm, I'd imagine it's worse in Ireland. How are you faring?

as for the games... might be a good think you missed the TL one

posted 7 months ago

hey that's my job 😑

oh wait nvm I'm full coach

https://i.imgur.com/jk6yott.jpeg

posted 7 months ago

m4 will save them

posted 7 months ago

yeah lmao
I remember I kept checking in every few hours and it slowly went down from 30 to 0 😭

posted 7 months ago

tbh I don't even think he was baiting

posted 7 months ago

they dont got m4

posted 7 months ago

😭😭😭

posted 7 months ago

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.

posted 7 months ago

A couple months ago, Zikz and 100T put out an open call for coaching.

https://100thieves.com/pages/100-thieves-valorant-open-enrollment-coaching-staff?srsltid=AfmBOoozUultxiPf82KRBYeB0Ullzjt8SPw0CW67s-ijq_JndFNmygPt

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.

posted 7 months ago

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.

posted 7 months ago

im yoinking this, this is great

posted 7 months ago

fuck
i was typing with one hand

(I was eating before you ask)

posted 7 months ago

what in the Nigerian prince is this

posted 7 months ago

hi Esdeath

posted 7 months ago

is the insider source the goat duelist player on the 2025 ascension winning team: The Cloudberries?

posted 7 months ago

this guy I think
https://www.vlr.gg/player/15051/sacred

posted 7 months ago

Surely someone as gifted with numbers as you are understands that's not the actual win loss accumulation of those teams right?

posted 7 months ago

this can be implemented alongside another flair (i.e. you can have an org + player or org + org)

@enigma

what'll it take ill do anything

posted 7 months ago

Skimmed through this. While its a ton of info there's not an easily readable amount of information. While you included executes and what they used I don't see a default section at all. Only player movements. My advice in the future is to break it down in a simple direction. Most teams will use one of a number of defaults when working map control. Obviously these can be faked however your team would then at least know off of maybe a recon and stun what the enemy team is roughly doing and their positions. A lot what you included isn't actually helpful except for some of the postplant locations. Its an impressive amount of work but its focused in the wrong areas to help a team.

https://imgur.com/a/RB8zoQr

This for instance is much more helpful because you'll see this actually happen immediately a lot. By going over this my players would know roughly where the enemy team is and can weigh whether they want to take space or overrotate or be ready for something.

posted 7 months ago

ngl I lowkey felt bad for him until he started crashing out at people for critiquing him

posted 7 months ago

bluds thread was so generational that he got vlr devs to actually add something new 😭😭

https://i.imgur.com/0uIuO0g.png
https://i.imgur.com/ksgAAGC.png

(can we get another flair option pretty please)

posted 7 months ago

lowkey

m8 wins that

posted 7 months ago
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