ukraine is CIS, they quite literally played in the CIS qualifiers to make VCT in 2022
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ukraine is CIS, they quite literally played in the CIS qualifiers to make VCT in 2022
derke didnt play at Reykjavik 22, Klaus didnt play at lock-in, zest still played at all those LANs he just got subbed out for a map or two
idk about riot but vlr really should be using the flag of the country who's resident they count as. idgaf if tex has german ancestry, he counts as an american player and therefore should be using the american flag, otherwise the flags are useless
1) we observe that the tournament had a lower prize pool than usual. you propose that the only explanation for this is that it wasn't intended to be a major tournament. i propose that a better explanation is just that the money was allocated elsewhere given that it was the largest tournament by # of teams we've ever had by far. your explanation requires that we believe that all the players, casters, Riot official media, and community either have amnesia or are lying about lock//in being a major. my explanation requires acknowledgement that it costs more to have more teams at your event. budget constraints are something riot has directly called out as being the reason for some of their decisions about this event.
2) what the fuck are you talking about? i asked you to name one single 'best-of-the-best' team that wasn't there. not to name one dogshit team that was there. before lock//in, there had been no majors without qualifiers. before Reykjavik '22, there had been no majors with 12 teams. pointing out a unique aspect of a tournament doesn't make it not a major. and i'll ask again for the third time, imagine that the Playoffs were the major and the Groups were the qualifiers. does anything meaningful change?
4) you aren't making an argument, inbred fuck. just saying "it doesn't make any sense!" is not an argument.
5) if everyone "subjectively" decides that it's a major, it's a major. even in NA, the vast majority will call it a major. now please go and Minecraft yourself you waste of oxygen.
it had almost triple the teams of a Masters tournament, vs Champions which only adds 4. further, Champs is the most prestigious event and thus has a higher prize pool for that reason.
name one 'best of the best' team that wasn't there. and again, pretend the Playoffs were the major and the groups were the qualifiers. does anything meaningful change?
yeah no shit you bumbling retard. it's just completely irrelevant to the argument.
yeah, majors can't have any other purpose ever, true. "major to advertise the game? nah...", "major to keep the game relevant? nah...", "major to make money from the broadcast and sponsorships? nah..."
go poll the community and ask them how many majors there have been you will receive the same number 99+% of the time: 8. go look at how Liquipedia classes the different tournaments, look at how Riot talks about it, look at how the Talent and the players treat it, use any metric you want that doesn't require your peanut brain to generate any sort of dumb shit.
please take the advice of the black man with the lightning background
barely smaller, which makes sense given the higher costs. all teams at the event always get a share of the prize money, are you dense?
ascension teams join the partner league, dickhead.
one has, it was called LOCK//IN. before it there wasn't one, but before Reykjavik 22 not a single major had had byes or had 12 teams, does that make every Masters since then 'not a major'?
yeah you're right man, boaster was just crying at the overwhelming emotions of winning a showmatch. all the players, casters, and community also just all lied about fnatic being the first 2-time major winners.
where, dickhead?
barely lower, which makes complete sense given the size of the event and how much higher costs would have been. each team got less because there were more teams there, please use your brain.
it doesn't matter who else is there, the best of the best was there. if it makes the difference to you, pretend the Playoffs were the major and the alpha/omega brackets were the qualifier, is it a major now?
yeah, it was dogshit. an absolute insult to the community. still a major.
i don't believe the phrase "show tournament" was ever used, nor was it ever referred to as a showmatch. riot mentioned that it was intended to "showcase" the new teams, which it can absolutely do while still being a real tournament. it was always going to be a major, it was considered a major while it was happening, and it's always been called a major since. boaster didn't cry at the joy of winning a showmatch.
i think it's pretty clear which tournaments are majors and which aren't. first strike wasn't a major, masters 1 2021 wasn't a major, there have been exactly 8 majors so far with a 9th coming this year.
1) 500k isn't a big prizepool? reykjavik '21 had a 600k prizepool, was that not a major?
2) champions had 16 teams dipshit, all the best teams in the world were present. anything you say about "franchising boo hoo" applies to every international tournament for the rest of time, so unless you think the majors ended in 2022 you're not gonna have much luck there
3) format was dogshit, but last i checked a major wasn't defined by how good the format was. reykjavik '21 had a shit format (teams randomly getting a bye, awful seeding), berlin had abhorrent group seeding, masters last year had a shit format (online giving you a bye, at least now you have to win on LAN), were those all not majors too?
4) a tournament that has a focus of showing the new teams is still a tournament dumb cunt. rito also directly refer to fnatic as the first ever back-to-back winners.
5) show me a piece of evidence.
fnatic owns us lil bro
yeah man, lock//in wasn't a major, it was a just an... international event sponsored by riot with a large prize pool as a part of the official VCT circuit with all the best teams present, and one of only three in the year, granting the winner the title of world champions. completely different!
if FNS was in one of your diamond lobbies you would report him for aimbot my dude
this just tells me that you've never IGLd on any level in your life.
when you are the IGL, you are the team's brain. you have to pay extra attention to the minimap. you have to take in the information from all four of your teammates and use it to create a coherent mental map of what's happening, how the round is playing out, what your goal should be and how you should achieve it. you have to be ready to make quick adjustments based on new information and changes in the state of the game, you have to communicate your calls to your teammates well enough to get everyone to follow a plan on the fly or make sure that they can be in position for a set play. at a certain point, your aim becomes your secondary focus and you can't shoot the same as your star player can. it absolutely impacts your mechanics.
then where motherfucker
not one person has screenshots
what map and what comp was it?
nobody's complaining about that. they're saying that if riot were biased for NA, they wouldn't have made them play LOUD and FNATIC first round.
one person on your team is toxic so the rest of your team deserves to lose too i guess
why does fns still have a job then you fucking dolt
most of this isnt announced but its reported
drx too
no i get your message. having people who arent afraid to speak their mind is good. but when what's on their mind is misogyny, that is not good.
then getting 2nd at a masters with no fpx or fnc means even less. lol
its not even equalising it, its just treating the difference between 1st at masters and 1st at champs as smaller than the difference between dead last at masters and 3rd at champs.
there literally is an argument though. 1st/3rd/3rd+ > 2nd/last/1st
give her the 5th star back. that's all
smartest vlr user
if you want boaster dropped there's nothing that can be done to save you
ShadoW and Meddo
https://www.vlr.gg/team/610/zyppangokill
left FPX roster
but still in ZyppanGoKill roster
no, its the equivalent of trying clothes on in the fitting room before you buy them. lol
and Guard went up against Optic and PRX lmao
yes, EMEA is the best region. what does that have to do with APAC being farmed by PRX
-Will +TenZ is a good move, -stellar +dapr is idiotic.
was top 3 in 4/5 international tourneys so far not enough for you?
and Sentinels just beat their first team since open qualifiers LMAO
who is clicking on the valorantle thread if they dont want to be spoiled?? and poised is the igl for faze. that is not wrong info.
poised is the IGL for faze tho... took me so many guesses because i figured poised would count as an IGL
how would FPX attending get PRX to the grand final lmao