I want The MongolZ to win the CS major

Happy birthday

yeah, the change makes it like CS now
(I know you play CS but I'm linking this for those that don't)
https://imgur.com/a/lmtklCf

Agree and slightly disagree
you're right about the map design
but the ping change, even if being a 'band-aid' solution is good

The good thing about maps is that they can fix them or rotate them out. I just hope that they'll realise a better way to design maps for this game

https://i.imgur.com/dvGDMg8.png

im just too lazy to type out the same thing over and over again

also 'impression farming' on vlr is crazy 😭😭

agree

I get that it can help (even I do it sometimes), but imo you're a more skilled player if you don't have to rely on something like that

1. It being blocked by smokes

Love this, post plant camping should only be viable if you have the correct util imo (If you play/watch CS you'll know)

2. Not showing up in the world

This is the hot part, but I kinda like this change. It'll teach people to be more aware of their minimap which is a skill you need in higher ranks anyways here's an example of this skill
(so for the people who were complaining about the smoke timer changes being too 'newbie friendly', I don't expect you to say this is a bad change)

This is already how it works in CS https://imgur.com/a/lmtklCf and they don't have nearly as many issues with spamming in post plant (to be fair the maps are better suited too)
I just feel like val players have just become too comfortable with it which is why people oppose the change

maybe recency bias from my ranked games
but thank god, I would take the boring jett/raze meta over whatever that version of neon was any day

I still think we will see more Yoru this year
and we should be seeing more Phoenix so it's not all bad

finally
FINALLY

no sliding accuracy

I lowkey like the ping changes, post plant is still painful on some maps, and I like the idea of post plant only being more viable if you have the correct util

what are the changes

nvm found it

this is what I think: https://www.vlr.gg/427485/hot-take-on-the-ping-change

EU ranked is NOT kind either tbh
maybe its better at the highest elos but if I'm being real idk if it is

(average isn't a great metric in this case, but it gives you an idea)
that's average 1M per team for bundle sales

https://x.com/ValorINTEL/status/1865056920198946916

idk anything about costs, but it seems like profitability is actually possible for most teams in this esport which is very good

A man can be destroyed but not defeated

is your IGN 'TheShadowMonarch' I think I've played against you

oh rip
I didn't know regions had restrictions on the number of academy teams, but it does make sense
I think NA will be really interesting then, considering there's 6 orgs

Is it possible for them to sign their current tier 2 team as an academy team?
considering they won split 3 KR I feel like it wouldn't be a bad idea

I like it
only thing I would kinda look at with a grain of salt is LEV, we'll just have to wait to see them play tbh

they just like me fr

that map was CINEMA

YEAAAHHHHHHHH

we chilling
map 3

holy shit almost jinxed
all good

bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh

please

nvm vlr was bugging its back to normal now

I checked like an hour ago and it was the right time
vlr mods moved it, it wasnt like this before
im guessing they actually moved it idk

give me a tdm with phantoms/vandals from the start😭

the other guns can be optional

i got the ringleader

at the time deffo was good imo

chronicle was an option??
man

he would probably like that...

user checks out

i got aspas on my alt

(t3xture and aspas maybe the games tryna tell me something 😳)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zpxgyG7eGk
scroll down from the personality thing

oh yeah i forgor tdm existed for a sec

they made it so anyone can do it
put your riot id in the link

it seems like it counts switfplay

W mako

*wrapped (im really tired)

flashback.playvalorant.com
(Official Riot thing, you'll see this if you're signed up to marketing emails)

share yours

https://i.imgur.com/icOFbLb.jpeg
I got t3xture as my pro player lol
https://i.imgur.com/bRZ136U.png

hmm
I feel like if they time it right they could make it work (like maybe speedrun LCQ, or host it somewhere else)
tbh I don't really like the solution they have now where its half a group twice. But I can live with it for now

tbh I want masters 1 = masters 2 just for consistency
but I would fw 16 16 24 heavy, it just sounds super expensive (i think champs format would have to change too cuz 24 isnt a clean power of 2)

for now I'll take 12 12 16 but hopefully in the future it gets larger
(8 12 16 is unacceptable imo)

how about

Kickoff (2025 ver.) > M1 > Full round Robin > M2 > LCQ > Champs

main thing is I want Masters 1 to be 12 teams
otherwise yeah good job

(maybe experiment with single elim bo5 champs playoffs too 🥺)

wdym
I'm talking about Kiles

I was looking at where the players from the old ACE roster are now a few weeks ago and tbh I think Kiles still has it too

I still stand by my point
(it's linked in #13 of your original post)

protest
take to the streets and ask for more flairs
I would like to have a T1 flair next to my FNC flair

in fact they should allow us to pick 1 flair for each tier 1 region

import rules don't apply to GC players

I thought crossfire was huge more so in CN and not really in the rest of Asia?
I could be absolutely wrong though I really have no idea

if they do this im buying the VIT bundle on like 3 accounts