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If I win give it to charity
chinese euphemisms, there are some really funny ones
translation of the post:
"not sure how real this is, but the source (name is translated to "the assistant") is somewhat reliable - let me share what they're saying first:
s1mon was not offered 5,000,000 RMB (around $700k USD) - they can't say exactly how much, but it wasn't 5m.
edg does seem to want s1mon back, but so do all the VCT teams. they probably want him back but they aren't that desperate for it.
in terms of responsibilities to AQ, other than his keyboard and mouse, his duties is just scrims and pracs into streaming."
second post:
"i'd believe it if you said other vct teams want s1mon, but are you really saying edg want s1mon to come back? can you use your brain? no worries, after a few days the source ("the assistant") will report that the entire EDG team knelt and begged for s1mon to come back but he said no - even if he wasn't the goat and edg begged him to go back he wouldn't do so. that "reconcilliation video" was just the club trying to make it not seem like that big of a deal. leaving this post here to show I called it before it happened."
bring s1mon back
edg will do anything but admit they booted the best util initiator itw in a team with 4 shooters.
a bunch of people are talking about entering the top schools for chem and stuff - I went to a top 3 university itw, and I'd probably say that chemistry is probably the "hardest" course in terms of workload, at least where I went. there are just a LOT of lab hours - I did engineering, so I could get by with a lot of self-learning and could kind of do the work when I wanted (though there still was a lot of work). my chemist friends had to spend hours and hours in labs and compiling lab reports.
as for chemeng specifically, though I didn't do it, just anecdotally, it seemed to be among the easier of the engineering options (according to the people who did).
if you're interested I can try dig up a reading list for those chemeng modules, they'll probably be way beyond your current academic stage but might give you an idea of whether it's something you're interested in learning.
it's an entirely wrong word.
"dystopian" suggests something was extremely wrong, oppressive and unfair (tejo lol).
it's an adjective describing governance mostly, or just an environment that is almost hilariously unfair.
just "different" is probably fine
survivorship bias
you remember the rounds they lose because of time, you don't remember the rounds they win because they played the clock well.
thing's like this tend to happen due to a combination of factors - it's hard to pin down any singular cause.
sure, people don't shoot up schools just because they're bullied. but if they're being bullied at school, live in a toxic household, live in poverty, are genetically predisposed to mental health issues, overconsume violent content etc. then it becomes a lot more likely. none of these factors individually is likely to cause someone to do this, but they each raise the probability of it happening.
point is, and this isn't to deflect responsibility, but it's kind of burying your head in the sand if you look at an event like this and say the school environment is completely innocent. just bullying alone probably wouldn't cause someone to do this, but it most certainly wouldn't help. and if we want to prevent things like this from happening again, then one of the first questions we should be asking is: hey, could the school/government/social services have done anything to get this guy the help he clearly needed.
no. any semi-deterministic system potentially allows competitors to abuse it. as a general rule of thumb, it should never be in a team's best interest to play worse (i.e, losing on purpose).
say, on day 1, theoretically, a strong team (team 1) is upset by the weakest team in swiss (team 4) by a large margin - not unreasonable, since valorant is a very high variance game. team 2 and team 3 play and have a close match with team 2 winning and team 3 going to losers.
on day 2, when team 5 and team 6 play, say team 5 get a huge map and round lead. it is now in team 5's best interests to intentionally throw rounds to make map 2 as close as possible, to ensure they get matched against team 4 rather than team 2. this is clearly uncompetitive. similarly, it is now in team 6's best interests to lose as hard as possible in order to not get matched against team 1 in losers. this is clearly extra uncompetitive.
draw systems that don't reward losing on purpose are extremely hard to design in an environment where better teams can and often lose to worse teams. in that sense, a purely random draw is the fairest system possible - you can't complain about a dice roll.
th and prx are the two biggest chokers
whoever wins map1 is guaranteed to lose the series
put all your money on th i swear
he's the goat
no other player redefined how the game is played like he did. idrc about trophies or performance, he's probably the player with the single biggest impact on how the game is played as a whole.
kinda must watch:
psycho-pass
steins gate
edgy shows:
madoka magica (but probably should watch anyways)
oshi no ko
another
decent:
oregairu
blue box
hot takes:
gamers! (need to not take it seriously)
grimgar
truth nuke
the gap is so insanely massive, getting humbled in my immo shitlo lobbies by some 12yr old radiant smurf is a different experience
iron - diamond: you have no clue what you're doing, at all
ascendant: low elo but no longer hellen keller
0-300rr: mediocre at best
300rr-500rr: decent
500rr+: actually good at the game
fell off
valid
generic
?
ehh
bit cringe
true peak: grimgar
chichoo was not the best senti - meteor was. chichoo was probably second. smoggy was the best fragging smokes, but it's not like there are many smokes players that focus on fragging (util hungry). nobody wasn't the best igl, i think mako and boo had better ideas throughout the tournament. kk was probably the best duelist, but it's a lot easier to be the "best duelist" if you have a util demon behind you.
again, these players are all still around. nothings changed, apart from s1mon leaving. they went from champs, 3rd to failing to qualify from the weakest region. fnc replaced leo with hiro and still did well, edg went from top 3 in the world to looking completely lost.
kk is an extremely selfish duelist. there's nothing wrong with it, it's a fine playstyle, creates space for your team yada yada. it works and it's really fun to watch. that said, he needs immense util cover from his supports for his style to work. aspas you can just plonk on jett and he'll find you entries even if his team is afk. kk relies on his supports far, far more than any other duelist player. again, nothing wrong with it - it's a really effective style if you assume you have the support behind you. that's a big if.
there's an intrinsic, fundamental tradeoff between how much you shoot and how much util you use. if you're shooting someone, it means you aren't piling util on them and letting your teammates shoot them. smoggy, chichoo, kk all love shooting people. they're good at it, it works. again, nothing wrong with it. they tailor their game plan and agents (clove, no senti comps) to revolve around them. nobody's util was also fine, he is a good pos4 player, but nothing specifically impressed me more than other top tier pos4 players. s1mon was a monstrous pos5, singlehandedly making up for the util deficiency that the other 3 shooters on his team inevitably creates.
like just look at fnc for instance. kaajak is a pretty selfish duelist, but not as much as kk i'd say. alfa is around the same as chichoo in terms of util demand. boaster provides waaaaaaay more util than smoggy, and chronicle provides a bit more util than nobody. that makes crashies's life a hell of a lot easier than s1mon's.
i also think people overstate him being "emotional" or whatnot. like, the lotus 1v2 clutch was the most ice-cold, perfect decisionmaking + positioning, optimal play in what was probably the most impactful round of the series (maybe minus the guardian 4k abyss). idk what comms videos you're watching but he's vocal with his flashes and play coordination.
he's a rookie, and it was his first ever international tournament, and he gets insane hate for having bad-looking stats, and consequently gets scapegoated everytime edg loses, despite him probably being the best player on the team. i ain't gonna claim i empathise with the guy, cause i have no clue what competing on a world stage would feel like, but i can say for sure that being in a spot like that ain't easy. i think he let the hate get to him, which is such a shame.
everyone whiffs on fully-flashed people from time to time. s1mon can shoot really well, his clutch rate was among the highest in the tournament. he just doesn't get a chance to take the good fights, you can't kill people while piling your util on them. unironically, i think he knew he was getting benched in that last game vs nova, and just said fuck it i'm playing for myself this game and ended up top fragging.
he wasn't just a "good" breach - he was the best breach. again, no other player lands as much consistent value with his stuns than he does.
chichoo, kk and smoggy are all very selfish players. that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that - they're all insane aimers. when I say selfish, i just mean they demand more util than they provide. chichoo is self explainatory as you said, similar to alfa or less type player - pick senti tap heads. kk is INCREDIBLY demanding when it comes to util - his entire playstyle is dive like a psycho and hope their entire team isn't in position to trade. that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that - he's very effective when he has the util backing, they wouldn't have won champs otherwise. that said, he demands much more util than he provides, unlike say aspas, who is extremely self-sufficient even without setup. same with smoggy - case in point, he was probably the only player at vct who played a lot of clove - reflective of his selfish playstyle. again, that's okay, he clicks heads, its just that he needs more util from his team than he provides.
like, just looking at their games - how many times has smoggy ever omen flashed for s1mon to run in and take space - never. again, that's fine - it's just important to realise that they demand more util from their team than they provide.
but when you have 3 very util hungry teammates, it puts immense burden on your supports to throw effective util - ESPECIALLY the flash initiator - every single time. no other team have players that are this util hungry. the whole team works BECAUSE s1mon was able to fill that role singlehandedly. and unfortunately, if you're in that role, you're never getting advantage gunfights - noone is going to throw util for you to secure an entry since you're the one that's expected to do it for everyone else. if that entry goes wrong - you're taking the gunfights raw. noone is flashing for you, noone is baiting for you etc. that's again, fine. but your stats will look much worse if you're in that spot.
jieni can shoot. he's a duelist player. but just coaching and setup isn't enough to fill the massive util hole s1mon filled single handedly. edg look insanely lost - their hits don't have meat behind them, despite having 3 world-class shooters on the team. i honestly don't blame jieni7 for his stat performance, since it's an incredibly demanding role which s1mon filled so well.
being energetic is important, yeah, but i don't know what the internals looked like behind the scenes, and neither do you. vaguely speaking from their comms vods, s1mon seems vocal enough to fill his role well - he asks and calls his flashes, cheers on his teammates etc. could be cherrypicked from management, idk, but that's besides the point - i'm evaluating server performance.
do what you want lol, game is harder without comms but nobody below asc knows what they're doing anyways so it doesn't matter that much
i mean, that's just a heuristic statement. i can say the same. if you cannot recognise how good s1mon's util was in their champs run, then it's pointless to argue about their champs run.
again, if nobody's igling was really the reason why they won champs, why have they failed to qualify for an international for the first time since vct cn started? he's still around, and the other cn teams don't look boaster-tier calling-wise. i mean the majority of xlg's playbook is just "rarga go kill".
the pattern is there - edg is a mediocre team at best, with a bunch of firepower but no support. s1mon joins, 1st place champs - 3rd place masters immediately. he leaves, they fail to qualify for the first time.
haodong was able to lead a team with very little international experience and outcall some of the most well established names in the international scene. his executes had good ideas, just not the util backing to bring everything together. plus he doesn't shoot as well as the rest of his team.
is it?
edg management clearly agreed enough with me to keep him as assistant coach, since his ideas were great. they correctly identified that they had a massive deficiency in util. if they thought nobody called better, why wasn't nobody igl when haodong was on the team? this is stuff they would have figured out during scrims - haodong calls better, that was the general consensus of the team, hence why he was the igl.
nobody's still around. s1mon isn't. they went from champs trophy - 3rd place masters to failing to qualify for internationals from arguably the easiest region. would boaster ever fail to qualify from china?
nobody's calling was decent, but EDG won because of well calculated aggression, world-class firepower underpinned by the best breach player in the world. honestly, i think haodong was better at calling than nobody, edg just didn't have the util to back up the ideas they were going for.
every team prepares antis, whether they work depends on the players ability to adapt mid-round. s1mon just hits his stuns, always. you can do whatever you want if you have that on your team. no other initiator player has made me think "damn, what a flash/stun" as consistently as he does.
he also shoots really well. the stats are just insanely biased against him - if the round goes well (i.e, when your team is expected to get a bunch of kills), it's cause he's at the back piling util. him needing to shoot is a sign that something went wrong, so he never gets advantage gunfights - so much of the util burden lies on him and him alone. and he's a world class pos5 player.
some guy did an analysis of every player's teamwide util/trading contribution throughout the year and i think s1mon ranked second in the world. first was TLN lenne but that's more cause of sample size.
he was beyond a great enabler. he was the best enabler. no player found consistent value nearly every single round with breach util better than he did in a breach-neon meta. like, just from edg's highlights throughout the tournament, nearly every single one was set up in some way by some improv breach stun from halfway across the map. just on a round to round basis, kk get's to just slide in like a psycho and isolate a fight cause the rest of enemy team is consistently stunned off sightlines. nobody's util is ok, but not anything to write home about. chichoo, smoggy, kk all play pretty selfish styles. s1mon pretty much made up for 3 people's util impact singlehandedly.
and that clutch on lotus is peak valorant. everything about it just says he has such an insane awareness for the game. it probably won them the grand finals.
So you're telling me there's a multiverse of me, you, and 900 alt accounts all flaming each other in match threads? Honestly, it checks out. As for that missing 2-3%, probably just admins pretending to be real people.
and he did even better once he shifted to initiator
he was the best player on the team at champs, and i don't say that lightly
cause stats matter
his util is irreplacable
peeled grapes, apparently ducks can choke on the skin
wait this guy kinda cooks
he also correctly identified s1mon as one of the best players of 2024, legend
historically + rn:
derke
aspas
kaajak
keznit
kangkang if he has good support
cryo
rn:
jemkin
rarga (but maybe china farmer idk)
historically:
cned
texture
buzz
sayf (skull emoji)
he was the best util breach itw in a breach neon meta with psycho entry on team, he brought the whole playstyle of the team together
his entire team got so many free kills off him
the 1v2 clutch on lotus is the greatest single play oat
like sure there's a lot of set stuff but his improvised utility is probably the best i've seen. jieni on breach is night and day.
unnecessary conversion from simple constants to confusing variables, bad practice
failure to mention constraints on a and b during the division step, which is ironic since a and b are constants that are unnecessarily encoded for the sole purpose of confusion
division by 0
criminal maths. i sentence you to life without parole.
he single handedly turned edg from a bomb out of every international team into winning champs + 3rd place back to back - no other team has ever made a single adjustment and had their performance change so much. as soon as he leaves, edg fail to qualify to an international for the first time since vct cn started. leo stopped playing and fnc still looked decent.
his 1v2 clutch on lotus is probably the greatest play oat (maybe minus the boi ace vs rise)
he is, for some reason all the players who join his team become world class players, at one point you gotta think what the common link is
he was being sarcastic
leo hasn't played in too long
yay fell off, boosted by chamber anyways, cryo been consistent throughout the years
forsaken was good yeah barely got snubbed
kk carried by s1mon (who would have thought neon is 10x better if u have the best breach itw on ur team)
alfa's been doing what meteor does for 3x longer
tenz not even in top 20
everyone was shit at reykjavik, you know quality of play was in the gutter if shazam could win a trophy. they were just the least shit.
he was decent in madrid but thats nowhere near enough to be in contention for all time goats
a lot of players fit into the "pick a sentinel and click heads" category, alfa+less have been around for longer than meteor/chichoo
recency bias, he's been good the past year but alfa/less have been doing the same thing for longer
least biased na list but s1mon's in there so i'll overlook it
it depends - is this belief formed by an objective evaluation of your current circumstance or an irrational reinforcement of previous grudges?
in regards to race, in most cases, it's probably the latter - the only case I can think of off the top of my head which justifiably falls into the former category is probably war - feel free to try to come up with more examples.
in regards to gender, the notion that "men are dangerous" isn't irrational. men are, in fact, dangerous. biologically, and maybe also due to some cultural factors, we tend to be stronger, more aggressive and violent. there's probably some evolutionary reason why, sexual-selection theory or something? but i'm not the person to ask about that - i'm pretty sure the studies are out there.
having a complex decision boundary for whether something is justified isn't cherry picking. quite the opposite, in fact - it provides a more nuanced objective metric in which to categorise your beliefs and understand why you hold these beliefs. simplicity does not equate to correctness - no ethical discussion worth having is simple.
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