bump :D

bump for new timezone :D

thanks for the mention :D

My two would be (excluding barbaracult because they are my irl friend):
Aayan
Butterflyeffect23

[but like realistically frogger0_0, prancer, cloudberry and probably some other people id add that have been great people to talk to]

from not on the list to number 3

thats pretty neat

Found out that Fal actually cannot participate on the episode, will be looking out for other people

If youtube ever payed me, I would

so the answer is no

of course, we can consider you for next weeks episode, Just go to the discord, in there is a channel called #speaker-sign-up where you can apply and you can be on next episode :D

With a conclusion to Episode 2, its clear things need to change.

We will be hosting 2 EPISODES on the same day splitting the 4 regions into 2!
AMERICA/APAC episode will be on 11pm ET/11am SGT on Friday/Saturday (time right after the America Matches)
EMEA/CN episode will be on 3pm GWT/11pm CST on Saturday (time right after the EMEA Matches)

Guests for the Episodes
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America: GambleNats, Hades, Elysium, Mathmaterial
Pacific: GambleNats, Hades, Mathmaterial, Elysium
EMEA: GambleNats, Hades, Revoke, Anguibok (meghannyah)
China: GambleNats, Hades, Anguibok (meghannyah), My-dad-ate-my-toes (daehkcid99)

System Changes
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Better organisation and prep will be done beforehand
More VLR related things, including more talk about the thread and news
Point system for Guests pickems (If you everyone gets a guaranteed and it turns out to be right that will be 1 point, if 3v1 for the majority its 2 points, if its 50/50 split and you are right 3 points, and if its 1v3 and you are the one getting it right its 4 points)
Record system for Guest pickems
Record of Guarantees

Last Episode was a bit disappointing for me on how i wanted to run it but its always a way to improve

Discord Link for those who havent joined: https://discord.gg/WYxuwNm2Rt
Youtube Link for those wanting to watch it live: https://youtube.com/@vlrulistening?si=E_nXEFzEkJNewVLv

I disagree, I think both teams were hard trolling

EMEA:
Derke
Kicks
Keiko
Xeus
Sayf/nAts

CN:
Zmjjkk
Chichoo
Kai
GuanG
Nobody

Pacific:
Sylvan
Izu
free1ng
BuZz
Meteor

Americas:
Leaf
Trent
Aspas
n4rrate/shyy/mada

it its typing, 2 hours focused section should be enough (I would recommend splitting to the time up, [30 minutes sessions each with at least an hour break doing something else] to maximise your focus and efficiency

if its hand written it might take upwards of 5 hours, but the method should be the same

This is raw writing time
If its a research paper you might need upwards to 20-30 hours of research

context?

loud was an incredibly good team, wouldnt fit in this

100T came top 3 in shanghai, hard to call them mediocre on the other maps

fnatic werent bad bro

For teams that were not world class but still had maps they could count on winning most of the time:
2024 FPX's Icebox and lotus were top tier despite having poor macro and micro on the other maps
2024 TE had an insane ascent (best itw oat) with a pretty good bind
2023 BBL incredible ascent (only beaten by 2024 TE as best ascent)

from what I remember mostly on the chinese teams have very very good 1-2 maps with other maps being bad

oh you could count 100T bind but 100T were pretty good team in that little run

heretics were good at lotus too and overall they were a good team

thats super cool! good luck in your endeavours

TEC are running it

I doubt it, been nearly a week

but no like I mean the 1vX stats, the economy, logs etc etc which are used for rating are not available

but still no other info its really weird

vandal has a way higher pickrate than phantom

idk how they got them either, all the other stats are still unavailable

TEC

"id like to go to X country"
"okay why"
"i need to work"
"sir you are thirteen, visa denied"
"ohhh mannnnnnn"

child labour laws bro

cant even achieve first in my own catergory of shame :,(

i just cant wait for the lotm anime, I loved the ln

KC lost much more due to their lack of ability to know how to comm to each other, the rest was negligable

idk if you saw loud vs kru, 100T vs SEN, its just how this mid table teams play look

100T played no dive duelist with reyna in masters berlin, but only fnatic and optic played triple senti comps on icebox with chamber started playing no duelist at all, at least from what I remember

Americas is right there

nobody hasnt played in eu yet, but yh he would be good

I like sheydos :D cant say much about the rest... grubhino is a pretty good at the game

but nAts is the goat not the same standard :d,

all jokes aside I think saadhak is just not one of those IGLs, nAts is a known fragger who calls in a way that allows the system to be built around him, while saadhak calls around different players because of his fragging power in general is less than those. of course this is not always the case but its not a fair comparison of fragging igl vs macro intensive igl

decidueye is a pretty neat mon

this is how I felt when liquid lost against team secret

iso shield for utility is kinda already iso shield

Vyse has been pretty consistent on pearl but its pretty flexible depending on what the team wants to run

im not riot games

I think thats just because its a moba tho not really for shooters, cuz like league has an item thats somewhat similar (zhonya/stopwatch/whatever the new stasis items are) but they work in league because abilities have like a 10 second cooldown or like 40 for ults unlike valorants which requires multiple rounds or 45 seconds

I meant like in comparison I still like champs 2024 quite good

worlds is always amazing but in comparison if worlds is a 10 id give champs an 8 still

I liked 2024's opening quite a bit

I see quite a few potential upsets, I doubt at least 1 doesnt happen

kk is as relevant to chinese fans as tenz or aspas even more then them actually. normal non valorant players even know kangkang in china

how would you implement it? would there be 1 for each player? would there be an animation for its use? would you hear a sound effect? is it only for status utility? what about ults? can u dodge a kj or gekko ult with the click of a button? could u defuse spike in brim ult? breech uses his ult to get you off spike and you use your bkb boom, no problem

aight man I gotchu, for whenever breeze comes back

whats that nekosugargirls17

my general setup on breeze was like 2a site, 1 a mid, 1 halls and I play B. Vipers spend their toxins on the choke on A, so its pretty hard for them to use toxin on the wall mid, although it does happen occasionally. and I dont really buddy up with people because again I solo B