watching Indian tier 2 this year, we have good enough talent for top teams to take them in, BUT there's so much nepotism right now in Indian orgs that all the friends of top players a year or 2 ago keep getting chances than actual players. There was also another tweet after GE got knocked out of LCQ saying how little we practice day in & day out. We have the facilities, we have setups for players for pracc but they just dont scrim. Im not surprised looking at this stuff since we just dont take stuff like this seriously, for some reason. Even though we're nowhere good to be acting like it. Paycheck stealers & nepotism is gonna cost us doing well in another FPS game like CSGO.

gaules, ohnepixel - carry csgo, even out of those, most of ohnepixel's & csgo twitch streams have been gambling cases/csgoroll. it aint looking great, also did you hear about CS2 having 13 rounds to win now after they copied the buy screen, lel.

https://twitter.com/aquaismissing/status/1691661912637907210
https://www.hltv.org/forums/threads/2806994/cs2-mr12

wait, FNS as an analyst/2nd coach is actually a good move. They can add in another IGL who can frag, plenty of them in tier 2 with johnqt, flyuh, mitch who did great.

dev1ce with astralis reminds me of germany/spain/france when they won their world cups. Each of those players individually couldnt compare to players like messi/ronaldo/neymar in terms of goals/assists BUT, in a team these players all did their job very well. He was good and surprisingly hits more clutch shots than s1mple when he won them their majors BUT he is not the win condition. While NAVI was a team where, if s1mple did not perform, they werent making far, he dragged that team singlehandedly to finals, same with zywoo before this year's success. Same with niko, these guys hard carry that their failure means the team's failure and they are consistent enough to not fail as much in that hard carry.

I do think dev1ce can be included in the best player convos like modric/kroos/xavi/iniesta are sometimes involved. But thats about it, any further you need hard carry potential which he didnt have or didnt need to have.

For players like dev1ce, they will be happy anyway since these players work for the team & dont care much about individual awards, if he was flashy like s1mple, his team wouldnt have done as well since he holds the passive angles well. longevity wise tho, he absolutely smokes everyone. I enjoyed his recent performance against NAVI, man turned back time, after a break.

based on RATING

Another argument that I can destroy with numbers. Just check the ratings in each region and see what teams they have.

https://i.imgur.com/hM6a395.png

look at the top 10 of EMEA/NA here, now we come back to franchised teams in that top 10. Only 4 franchised teams are in top 10 for both regions. Guess how many teams are selected to fight for masters after regional leagues, that's right - 4.

sauce - https://www.vlr.gg/rankings

So, riot "invited" the other 6 teams for "qualifiers", in this case the regional leagues to qualify for masters/champs. same with Ascension/challengers teams are still in the ranking. This year GUARD plays the open qualifiers for masters because they beat all tier 2 teams. The point is, these ratings will not change much for top teams which dominated through the year, because one good tourney averages out your 4 other bad tourneys that isnt reflected in this ratings system.

Franchising didnt give them free master's or champs spot while blast paris major actually invited teams directly to playoffs in a major while avoiding qualifiers, tagging them as legends stage. I can actually argue that riot here is more fair than csgo in terms of partnered teams in majors but I dont want to shatter your csgo utopia so I'll just stick with both games having similar systems but you're an hypocrite so you find fault in one but not in the other.

ofc it has its faults, which a relegation/promotion would solve BUT to argue csgo is better when they themselves ran this system for 5+ years and have still not scrapped it yet (they will next year). come on now

honestly, a reasonable fraud list. gg

banger, whoever wins first map wins the game imo

here's a better link to view

https://twitter.com/DSajoof/status/1691511893968465920

you havent seen s1mple streams during his peak & winning majors, its way worse than this. Same with NA CS pros streaming era around 2017-2019. They were all toxic as fuck and will make you think the game is absolute shit. This is a good sign in a weird way.

they're more interested in this than actually praccing :pikalaugh;

Majors never invited teams.

https://twitter.com/g2niko/status/1646904104923406336

I like how some people are saying that we are PRIVILIGED and LUCKY to be part of all Tier1 events, and that Tier2/3 teams have to grind so hard to get there.

during paris major btw

here's more invited teams who "deserve" to be there even though they didnt perform in years - https://www.fragster.com/all-teams-invited-to-blast-tv-paris-major-rmr-closed-qualifiers/

of course its more reasonable, I do agree Im just saying valorant does not have anywhere close to that stability yet. Can we agree some stability is needed, you cant have open circuit & stability simultaneously. They have to make a choice. I just think a relegation/promotion would improve the system even more since teams like DFM/KC/SEN/Talon/GE and a couple more, keep running troll comps and look like they dont put much thought into their rosters and they still wont be punished for it.

NA tier 2 players

playing reyna in ranked

Im not fully sure but any pro who runs down reyna in ranked always underperform in LANs. I remember jingg running reyna for a while and he choked in the upcoming tourney, now he's switched back to flex agents/raze. He did great in this LAN. I think playing reyna messes up something in the pro routine which is not fully explored. Even demon1 doesnt run reyna as much, he just goes jett if he needs duelist. Its never a good sign imo. You lose the intricacies of learning more about the agent, even in ranked.

"The timezones is not an excuse"

EMEA/APAC is still fine with matches until 1-2AM but in EMEA, the 2nd and 3rd matches start at around 2AM & in APAC its around 5-6 AM. Its not feasible for fans who have a job or go to a uni. Its worse for both of those fields which are a majority. I just think US timings mess up the whole timeline. Tokyo was still fine for EU/APAC but EU times are best for all I've noticed.

you just said in my other post "THEY DONT INVITE TEAMS, ONLY THIRD PARTY TOURNAMENTS DO". if you want to get technical and argue semantics, be my guest but blast and intel IEM invite teams which have no business to be in the tournament. These events get the most viewership, they are called majors. This has been happening in CS for 5-6 years now. You want to argue semantics with "but but third party", then be my guest.

It was only ever 3rd party tournament organizers that had partnered leagues.

which are the biggest ones and called majors. how are majors where teams are invited better than franchised teams in valorant?

yeah, I can point out ZETA and KRU the same way, they made runs BUT that still doesnt matter when the majors in CS can invite teams instead of an open circuit. Its similar to saying CSGO has a large playerbase but when I get technical about it, I can dismantle that argument by saying its mostly played on FACEIT (a third party program) than CSGO's own MM.

You see how "third party" doesnt work, you hypocritical fuck.

signed up just now, cheers

:gigachad;

Valve is starting to PROHIBIT tournament organizers from only inviting partnered teams.

yeah next year, which is about 7 years now they had partnered system inviting teams to events for 7 years, and you're crying about riot's franchised with not even 1 year in? hypocrite. They can move away from it now BECAUSE they established stability.

fair enough. will have to wait and see.

By stamina, I mean strats. I see them struggling whenever their set strats dont work and that deep, they will be out of strats and micro gameplay takes over (which these top teams are good at).

although I agree with FNC, I dont think FUT has the stamina for that many BO3s imo. It will come down to FNC, PRX, LOUD, EG.

did you watch the bind/ascent attack from BLG? it was anything but shotgun.

what? partnered teams = franchising, both are the same.

People hating on franchising not realizing counter strike ran partnered teams system since 5-6 years and it will end next year bringing it to 7 years before they scrap it. It sucks for Tier 2 but an FPS game cannot survive without temporary stability. You idiots really dont understand how much "less" money there is in esports. The system works but the only thing they are missing is relegation/promotion of teams so there is more incentive than clout. Clout is a factor in CSGO too, see how many top underperforming teams get invited to BLAST events every year while getting grouped in each of them.

Have some patience.

everyone needs to hit their shots on LOUD, this will deffo come down to aim as it generally does when both teams have the strats.

have you seen FNC play?

PRX, FNC, LOUD, EDG

wonder what's taking so long for them to make the post about NRG? Generally they have a title and some text when a team loses. But these biased fucks still havent written an article on BLG vs NRG game.

obviously aim-wise they're better but more so than flexible players, they respect comfort picks more. By this, I mean they trust their player's roles on off comps. A simple example is, C0M sova on fracture, they didnt force him into a stronger initiator. They built around him. They dont go for a better "meta" comp, they go for a "comfort" comp. A bad example of this is, nAts being put on viper/KJ and being underwhelming while he popped off on ascent with cypher during EMEA league.

If you're that good at an agent, you need to have an IGL or a coach who trusts you to be better than the "meta" opponent they have. He got pressured into viper/KJ on maps he always played cypher on. The top 3 teams you mentioned all trust everyone in their roles (at the moment) while the other teams dont, imo.

SEN needs to kick pancada, sacy's doing fine.

o7

He really spoke for all NRG fans that they would beat BLG and now the same NRG fans are turning on him with the "GO BACK TO EU" comments in replies.

karma comes at you fast.

dude, I agree that all games are bangers but Im saying there was definitely some moving around backstage since they didnt show it live like they did for masters.

dude, it was so scripted. said they would do a live draw, but didnt show it and said, "we just concluded the draw backstage". get the fuck out of here.

I dont know if you've been watching their ranked matches. But whenever s0m and FNS duo, they really hate "ranked strats" where the other team get cheesy kills or dasnerth destroys them with a judge. They hate it with a passion. I just feel if you're an IGL, you cant have such strong opinions on new ideas, you have to embrace all parts of the game like FNC do, they run every cheesy trap play that exists and these guys are too above it?

They have a very close minded thinking regarding valorant, atleast in the current meta imo. Ever since he went on a rant against dasnerth about "how he will never improve as a player and thats why im franchised and you arent", he pulls this card a lot btw. same as shazam. Any IGL who shame the ranked demons are bound to lose, especially with bad blood. This is why people like yay a lot, especially ranked players. He doesnt act like he's above it.

the ardiis comments really gonna hurt NRG fans long after this champ event ends too. thats the worst part, he didnt leave you guys any chance

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I was here

he just cant AWP, please run rifle or replace the player. he never really recovered after the tuyz AWP shot at LOCKIN//

I think that AWP battle against whzy decided the map since that forced the cypher ult canceling the lurk from FNS/victor. which then led the rotate. then they had to eco next round.

I am still sad the IGL/coach didnt let my GOAT play cypher on cypher maps, and they got grouped without him ever playing cypher in champs, when they easily could've. He's so good on cypher that it doesnt matter if your team doesnt have a KJ.

space...goating...

ASE would've done way better than FPX man

they look so underwhelming, unless s0m or crashies multi kill

I think they need to work on their actual observing. its awful, its worse than masters tokyo for some reason. These observers havent played a game in their life looks like.

I liked dryad consoling him mid way realizing what was about to happen. women and their emotional IQ man.

he doesnt like his indian origin tho, he's ashamed of it.