eat a shit or drink piss ahh question

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/fe8fc174

feel like we get to upper final and lose it and lose the lower final ill be real

who

"I cannot fathom sitting down to write something for more than 2 seconds without my focus shifting"
also nah i dont use AI to form arguments

Notice how the most winning-est players in VALORANT are supportive players?
The three I'm exclusively talking about are:
Ethan (2x Champions winner)
Sacy (1x Champions winner, 1x Masters winner)
Chronicle (3x Masters winner)

For me, this shows that VALORANT isn't about who has the best mechanics or ability, but winning is about being the best team, as in, the best unit, not the best 5 players. This is also why it is incredibly difficult to build superteams.
Evil Geniuses 2023 Champions' victory was a great example of this, a core 4 players who were underrated after their 'failure' at LOCK//IN, who managed to turn their season around after, as Potter put it, 'getting 5 players on the same page'.
Another example that backs this statement up would be T1's win at Masters Bangkok.
Every single player on T1 went negative over that series, and whilst T1 did at the time possess some of the best mechanical players, it was their cohesion that allowed them to win maps, series, and hence, the tournament. And this is how teams succeed in VALORANT.
With an ever-changing meta, VALORANT is always going to be about who adapts the best and innovates, pushing the meta forward (2025/6 YORU meta, 2023 FNATIC Lotus theory, Odin usage etc, Brawk 2025 Odin usage, etc.) which is why supportive players have the best chance of surviving metas which largely change game theory, and hence are more likely to have a better longevity/a higher chance of playing at a higher level for longer.

guy said mada is inconsistent, guy just loves talking

called them inconsistent in 2023 then said you've never seen a PRX so consistent since 2023?

we love neon

I think in his head (internal timing wise), he thought CGRS was closer, hence why he didn't back off to spawn/mid and played for the cove instead. But playing the edge of the smoke was braindead, he should've probably played in it because CGRS had to rush him and was frantic. At the end of the day, the fight becomes more favoured for CGRS the longer it takes to work the smoke and take it. But the time pressure should've meant he won it. Wasn't a throw though.

he's good but not the most underrated player

Evil Geniuses only made playoffs in 2023 from MiBR beating Thieves mate.
With Demon1.
EG got 13-0'd with Demon1.
Time's not up to turn up and become a good team.

NRG 2025 had to battle through playoffs to get a champs spot.

With reps, like that team, they could definitely contest for a spot.
But their T2 placement is irrelevant here because they've come into this team and are re-juvenating it. Like Demon1 in 2023 was literally a 1 man change that helped them come 2nd at Tokyo and 1st at Champs?

I could argue that your points are a bit skewed and pessimistic but tbh, it's from a good place and I'm not trying to be a dick and argue over vlr, so let's agree to disagree.
I am hopeful though.

We can come back to this and one of us will say 'I told you so' haha. Nah it's true though, but people thought the same for 2023 Evil Geniuses (nobody even thought they would qualify before Stage 1/Tokyo)- and nobody expected EDG to win in 2024- so who knows. Valorant is too unpredictable for us to write anything off.

I liked what I saw the last game of the stage against 1st seed KRU.
Paincakes and Zerona look good, and their additions look great (they seem to have integrated well in a short time).
I had doubts in replacing Okeanos specifically- I rate him quite highly after his time on LEV (I'm a LEV fan, so I might be a bit biased) but I don't think I would've chosen Supamen over him- I would've trusted him in the Smokes role (or moved Bao to it.)
A win against SEN where DG and the two new additions (excluding coaching staff) are the only positive ones is promising.
I rate Faded quite highly after his time on Vitality despite them not having too much success- I believe his experience with top talent could really benefit a team like Evil Geniuses.

Bit early but I think they will make Champions as 2nd seed (just seen they can't make it off of points).
My only doubts about this team would be Supamen's inconsistency- I think if they get to Champs, they'll be Top 6-8 tops- but when he's shooting, he'll bring an incredibly difficult game to a LOT of global teams.
I'm excited to see that DG has a bit of support and that the team has managed to add more firepower where it felt quite difficult too.
If they want a chance to win big, it's going to take some innovation from Paincakes I'd guess- Like Brawk coming into NRG and innovating that team's playstyle with his Odin Usage.

was 2.5k vp off so just bought the vandal smh

such a good knife too ffs

How do I make my game sound as crispy and fresh as the VCT streams?
I've tried asking GPT but it's told me to change the sound frequencies with some external software but it didn't work.
Then I tried just turning my volume to max and it sort of worked.

Any suggestions welcomed.
I have Peace APO installed if anyone knows how to work it correctly, whenever I try fucking with it my sound goes to booty.

Thanks,
ferrari_testarossa

brotha my bills for just existing just went out, and im getting like 2 grand for my birthday (family/friends)

champs bundle expires tn with perfect timing so ye

sorry to beg though everyone, horrible debut </3

my first account man, i use vlr a lot incog though so i thought i would set one up out of spite

my google keeps on signing me out out it smh, but it is a new account

but yeah
leviatan winning champs ny btw

LEV win 2-1
One overtime
NRG win Map 1
FNS whiffs Map 3 in a 2v2 match point and eliminate NRG from Stage 1.
Demon1 second frags Map 1.
Demon1 and Mada go band for band Map 2 but Mada diffs Demon1 by 7 kills.
Demon1 and Mada go band for band Map 3 and Demon1 shuts it down on Pearl 13-10.
Tex aces on a full gun round.
Mada aces on an eco.
S0m gets a 3k on a pistol and a 4k on an anti-eco second half of Map 2.

2-1 SEN
PxS drops 32 for the L
TenZ has a heart attack
N0RR0TE drops 22 kills Map 3