lowkey my name's clean, no?
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what happened to your stars andrew.....dont be shy, share with the class

Netero and aJAYY are this site's cutest users (/▽＼)

just went through a few of your other posts....nvm. seems you're like this all the time. Carry on good sir/ma'am/nb person.

this might be the worst reply i've ever read on this site......what is bro even saying

consistent top 50/100 i think, also if ur someone known who's known not to int and stuff it increases your chances of getting in. people like eggster,tenzin,sosa (💀) will never get in even tho they're consistently top 100

why tf did cs content fall off so hard tho?
did VLRT just poach all the NA cs cc's ?
League is a game just as old and still generates 4x as much online interaction, even in NA

ye that makes more sense tbh
i didnt consider challenger teams when i thought through this (i basically considered them t1), and was mostly focusing on teams/players that didn't make challengers
it would also make more sense for the non-challenger players to keep grinding Valorant in the hopes of getting picked up by a challenger team rather than switching and having to start over

isn't the t2 scene in cs way more lucrative tho? surely they'd have to kinda start over but i feel if they put as much effort into it as most teams were doing trying to make ascension they could easily fit into t2. maybe im wrong tho

t2 cs is way more lucrative than t2 val tho atm
there are a decent amount of t2 tourneys with good prize pools, and the path to recognition by a t1 team has never been freer
i feel most val players, if they put as much effort into grinding out cs and they did val, could easily make it in t2 NA and possibly even ascend to t1, and the influx of new talent along with the clout some of these players possess could spark some form of revival in the scene. idk

p sure t1 NA talent is already getting paid pretty decently lol wym. i'd recommend t2 na val players switching to cs if anything

is ur name inspired by the caster or nah

why tf is bro being so aggressive lmao chill

who tf is that

would make the threads look clustered and messy idk

was i wrong tho

skip to the end of my paragraph. summarises all my opinions.

that's why i said i disagreed with some of it, specifically just the aggression/competition being intrinsic. the characteristic itself isn't but its fueled by an innate factor. That's ramble tho.wanted to point that out just cause. Keep reading.

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agree with 1,2,4. Disagree with some of 3. Aggression isn't intrinsic, but a by-product of the fact that the average man is by default faster and stronger, and society has evolved based on the accentuation of those values (stronger/more aggressive men = higher status, weaker/less aggressive men = lower status), and the desire for this accentuation is in turn fueled by higher levels of testosterone, the status-seeking, drive providing hormone, and a more active dopamine system in men, which rewards them more for goal-oriented task completion.

The only relevant fact here however is that the average man has more drive/motivation to succeed than the average woman.Not even just in sports/esports, but literally just in general. How relevant this is to actual success tho is something that can't be measured, both in the competitive field and life/career paths, due to the fact that Drive/motivation << discipline and structure

.A worse team/player, no matter how "motivated" will always lose more times than not to a team that is simply just better prepared/more disciplined. You can motivate your way to winning a few rounds, but you can't motivate yourself to winning an entire series against a team that at that particular point in time, simply edges you out, even by miniscule margins. Couple that with a fuck ton of arbitrary factors in even just a singular round of any competitive video game, and the eventuality is a reality that is just as random, but ever so slightly tipped in favour of the average male competitor, which is really what we began with.

Overall it really just falls into the hands of the competitors. The reality is that the average female aspiring pro has to be 2x as disciplined as the avg male aspiring pro to make it, since by default, they simply aren't as motivated.
So,

• is it harder for women? Kinda, but not really.
• Will there ever be a semi- equal distribution (60/40, 70/30) of male and female competitors at the top? No. However,
• Will we ever see women in the top .01% of valorant/any competitive video games? idk. Probably, Probably not. its doable, but it depends on how hard they're willing to try.

jrock = jpop no? i thought jpop just meant popular/mainstream japanese music in general

im not a freak weaboo lmao i just think jpop covers so much more range and genuinely has stuff that everyone would enjoy. its not all cringe hype anime OPs

how tf is jpop cringe in comparison then

Jpop absolutely destroys that mid just checking to see if we all know this ok thx
EDIT: by JPOP, i mean popular japanese music in general, this covers a lot of genres.

olofboost my friend i am NOT watching a 40 min long thorin video LMFAO. would you be so kind as to summarise i would love to hear your findings.

Jpop>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Even the middest jpop song clears any of kpop's best. Absolutely criminal that jpop is not more popular in the west.

except they literally are

they're obv not as vile as this either wtf

Happy birfday :)

i have way less money than i'd planned to have at this point , so that''s depressing. Everything else's pretty meh.

a good rule of thumb i use for life in general:
Every single person you will ever interact with is an absolute fucking weird disgusting human being until repeatedly proven otherwise. All relationships should be held at arms' length. Spouses are the only exception.

let it all out bro we're here for you

bro this tweet was literally what i factored in. I literally said (results + pro opinions) and by that metric, SR edge them out because of their recent achievements. They're literally rated right beside each other too.

First you call me out for factoring in pro scrim opinions (which is literally WHAT THIS IS BTW, his power rankings are based on what they've shown in scrims), and you go on to submit the very same opinion i considered(didnt even wholly accept btw cause basing my entire opinion off of his would be dumb). I recommend you do give it a rest LMFAO

cause even tho some gc players are t2, as of now t2 teams > gc teams.

prolly something to do with mental, team compatibility, all that jazz.
I've never been a fan of segregation on the basis of anything other than merit , and what i hope for, esp with these 10mans(hopefully they last), is the eventual breakdown of most of these gc teams and these players dispersing into actual mixed teams, which is the ultimate goal of the entire gc project.

V1's kinda cookin tho, and their players have been by far the most impressive in the server,so lettem cook.

mashallah

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sarah not live

idk if you heard but chamber kinda isn't relevant anymore, and as such players with chamber stats have to kinda reprove they can perform consistently at the same level -chamber. SR> faze because SR has undeniably leveled up from what they were (beating the TSM that would go on to beat SEN) and faze has yet to match that. The entire reason i brought pro scrim opinions into this is because faze literally have 0 results since the biggest meta shift in the game. Even then i still call the entire thing a tossup. what more do you want.

either you didn't read what i wrote or you have trouble comprehending it.

• Multiple Tier2-3 pros have been allowed entry.
• The requirements are not high at all and a lot of gc pros and even content creators do meet it, and as such have been allowed entry.
• Some t2-3 pros have been denied entry, as the 10mans are admittedly very poorly run.
• Overtime, tiers will most likely be introduced, and teams such as V1 and sr will moved down a tier, and lumped with all the other "no-namers" you speak of.
• They have been doing decently well in the server already, so your opinion is literally incorrect. The issue isnt that they can't do well in these 10mans, but that multiple people who have been denied entry can.
• This discussion most likely won't be fruitful, as i really doubt you can craft a decent counterargument, and won't just keep spamming "women bad women no skill" over and over, but im bored, so im down.

after an astonishingly mid run imo. Only impressive feat performed that tourney was beating eventual winners 100T, but even that might've been a fluke as they got absolutely dominated rematching in lowers over three maps.

Regardless, i will rescind my statement, as it seems each and every player has leveled up multiple tiers after franchising happened. No previous ratings matter anymore (a prime example of this is M80, who regardless of results, has been highly rated by every single pro) and all predictions (mine included) are honestly just blind takes rooted in fanboyism.
However, if i would be allowed to continue to offer a fanboy's take, it wouldn't be a matter of faze being mid, but that everyone else (SR specfically, dunno about G2) has evolved past them.

TL;DR:
previous take was way too harsh(honestly incorrect), SR>Faze>G2 (compiling results + opinions by pros), overall still a tossup as all prev ratings do not matter.

seen this dogshit take twice now. Even though they have their easier group, Faze is just as mid as any of the challenger teams that qualed. they are not getting past SR, much less G2.

nobody cut tier 3 pros dawg.if they fit the req, they will get in, just like anyone else. At the moment, the 10mans are very badly run, and some people who fit the requirements have been denied entry, most haven't. We literally have people like ethos and babyJ in the servers, as they actually do fit the requirements.
Moving forward tiers will also most likely be added, and the very top gc teams will get moved into tier2, as will top 15-30 t2 teams. The gc pros themselves agree with this format. calm the fuck down.

vro just wrote a whole bunch of nothing. no singular point has been made in this paragraph.

how does the elo distribution work?

omg same! twins?

if source 2 comes out COPIUMMM

flor is a vlr degen now you'll be seeing her around

sarah the CoD grinder reading this:

this is scripture.

swerl drops 30 in regulation on both maps