Sayf would've clashed with FNS. I doubt that it would've been a successful move.

Americas/EMEA/Pacific are literally called International Leagues (IL), since you know... they involve teams from multiple nations. Stop drinking that bleach and turn your brain on

read my question again, slowly this time, then try to answer it

also, based on your logic, current Americas/EMEA/Pacific Leagues are T2, since they're regional qualifiers for Masters, if you forgot.

who's Ceeweeb and what team does he play on in EMEA Challengers?

imagine the surprise once you realize that vast majority of val pros in NA have some type/amount of Asian descent.

did you intend to troll your pickems, or do you truly believe that's how it'll go?

This year's bundle is quite underwhelming. Even the Vandal screams of laziness, alongside pretty bad sound effects, the only good thing about it being the finisher

I don't disagree with you either, however, I think that has more to do with the game's movement being faster and overall more complex, rather than the gun itself. I was talking about strictly gunplay.

You need to learn what confirmation bias is. You're simply coming with evidence that is specifically tailored to support your narrative, while ignoring the fact that all of it is centered around the scenario which I previously called: "compulsive behavioral usage of porn content".

It is very easy to return with an argument that similarly only looks at one part of the subject in question and give you this scientific paper: https://academic.oup.com/book/39816/chapter-abstract/339938700?redirectedFrom=fulltext , but this would again be disingenuous and would not tackle the subject in-full.

Even in the two videos you provided, both professionals admit at the beginning of their interviews that they're not saying that porn in general is bad... give that a thought, ask yourself what that means. Actually this is addressed in one of the videos you shared, here you go have a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=641&v=y1CkUhfHSxQ&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=ChrisWilliamson

But reality, as previously mentioned, is that in itself normal consumption of porn is not inherently negative, with the only possible exception being exposure to a developing brain (since it alters the learning process of sex ed), nor does it have any provable negative effects on the brain. This is simply a FACT (that you have a hard time understanding or coming to terms with), outlined, ironically or not, even by the resources that you thought will prove you right.

You can be genuine to yourself and actually research this more in-depth rather than look for arguments that support your narrow view. I'm done wasting time trying to educate adolescent incels on here. Later

I'm not calling it that... that's what it is called.

I get your point, but it's a dumb point that is subjective and quite irrelevant. That same point can be made by many things in live that an individual can find to be harmful. The attributes that you listed can be applied to stuff like religion, acting, politics, etc, etc. Your normality can be someone else's decadence and vice-versa. This industry doesn't work in a vacuum like you're trying to portray it.

As someone that studied psychology, you're completely incorrect. Substance vs Porn is actually quite different. While porn interacts with similar parts of the brain as cocaine, it's not activation that causes someone to be addicted. For porn to be addictive, a compulsive or obsessive behavior is required. For substances, simple consumption is what's necessary, because substances actually change the chemical compound in the brain circuits.

For many, simple porn consumption can be normal, or even healthy part of their lives (and this is scientifically proven, assertion supported by medical professionals). The problem occurs when behavior changes from its normal/moderate parameters.

TL;DR: You're dumber than rocks bruh, don't try to sound smart when you're clearly not.

did you just compare sex work with a virus?

wow... and I was taking you seriously for a moment there. Nobody said to carry on watching content provided by such comapnies, sex trafficking is horrible, absolutely, but your take is completely braindead.

with prime + a decent trust factor score you will barely encounter hackers.

This is kind of old news. Anyway....

You have to realize and admit that not all porn and/or sex work = GirlsDoPorn (or other similar endeavors) and their horrible trafficking practices

The only guns that are/feel better in Val compared to their CS counterparts are probably Judge and Marshall, the rest are a hard no.

Gunplay in Valorant is still significantly worse than CS (any version besides Source), due to reasons like spray pattern randomness, heavily reduced percentage of 1 shot accuracy, etc. This is pretty simple to acknowledge, and I say this as someone that plays Val at least 5x times more than CS nowadays (after more than 25k hours in CS across all versions from 1.1)

if Riot would allow a 3rd party platform to run matchmaking games, Valorant would instantly lose 50% of the player base in the native MM, trust me. Unlike Valve, Riot actually doesn't allow parties to improve player experience, in order to keep all potential profit in-house. Ranked MM kind of sucks in Valorant too (from pretty bad servers, to weak MM algo, etc)

I'd personally use faceit in a heartbeat, and probably play more Valorant overall, if Riot allowed it.

That hltv profile shows you're not an OG

If you have Prime and a decent trust score this is not an issue in CS. People just voice opinions based on how things were many years ago, it's kinda hilarious.

FYI It's cheaper to repair a BMW in Europe than it is in US. Prices here on most German car repairs are ridiculous (I currently live in US). BMWs are very reliable cars

Then you're just clueless... this is not even some type of fringe news, it's been discussed in the media and specifically mentioned even on mainstream news channels around the 2022 World Cup event.

Examples:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/football/soccer-popularity-us-world-cup-spt-intl/index.html
https://www.yahoo.com/video/soccer-overtakes-hockey-popularity-among-175621356.html
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/has-the-us-become-a-soccer-nation
https://worldsoccertalk.com/2022/09/23/soccer-the-fastest-growing-major-sport-in-usa/
https://worldsoccertalk.com/news/soccer-surpasses-nhl-as-4th-most-popular-sport-in-united-states-20211209-CMS-358264.html

American co-workers that 5-6 years ago barely only heard of Ronaldo or Messi are now regularly watching Premier League and Champions League. Nice try tho idiot, enjoy being wrong.. maybe get out of your mom's basement more cuz you're behind what's going on in your own country

You must be in Oklahoma or something.... I just happen to also live in US (LA) and in the last 5 years there's been an obvious drastic increase in popularity. You're kind of clueless I guess

Data shows otherwise. Soccer (football) is the fastest growing sports in US, currently sitting at #4 in popularity (behind american football, basketball and baseball), compared to #7 less than a decade ago.

Riot: "LOCK//IN is not a Masters and does not replace a Masters event, it's just an unseeded, non-qualifying tournament to showcase all teams that have been selected as partners in International Leagues and their line-ups, prior to starting the regional leagues regular season."

People on vlr: "LOCK//IN IS THE SAME AS MASTERS, CUZ I SAID SO"

Ok bruh, you know better than Riot

Stop making threads about this and make a petition to Riot. They decided to call it a showcase tournament for the initiation of VCT International Leagues.

If they wanted it to be Major/Masters, they would've called it that.

Stop being delusional.

If LOUD wins a second Champ, they'll be the best team in history. This is a pretty simple assessment to make, based on how Riot weighs their tournament importance

gotcha, I missed the joke then mb

some people want so bad to make LOCK//IN a major tournament to fit their narrative... they should just make a petition to Riot so they can update the name to "Masters LOCK//IN" , not sure why there's even a debate occurring on this. Currently the facts are more than clear, Riot didn't want to make it a Masters/Major, therefore.. it is not one. Pretty simple, even for the most braindead ppl

LOCK//IN was not Masters tournament. Sounds like some people need to take this issue with Riot, they decided that it is not a Masters (or in your head Major) tournament.

Not sure why this is still a debate, take it up with Riot, rather than fighting facts on vlr.

and golf copied tennis, but who tf cars

however, reality is that Riot intentionally labeled specific tournaments Masters (to achieve a similar goal), which LOCK//IN was not. Calling LOCK//IN a Masters or Major is kind of delusional

it's just normal time globally.. it's only called "military time" in US. This is a global event, not NA Challengers.

I wouldn't say that PRX winning 3-2 in finals is a very hot take... if anything is slightly above lukewarm

No sane adult is giving money to these people, scamming children into giving them money that isn't theirs

This is truly ironic considering it's coming from a FaZe fan lmao

Because the matches were scheduled to be Pool 1 team vs Pool 4 team , Pool 2 team vs Pool 3 team, prior to the draw.

The draw was done on stream... if you actually were interested, you'd watched and answered your own "wtf you do that" question. The only braindead here is u bruh

imagine being so oblivious to think CR7 is a better footballer than Messi, and then vocalizing that stupidity

This must be a joke.

There's actually less caffeine in a red bull can than in a cup of coffee. the main difference is the additive sugars in the energy drinks (which is why the crash is so much more intense).

1 can of red bull on a 25 year old body, for example, will have close to no negative influence. If used in moderation, it really is not a problem. This has already been proven, not sure what you're waffling about.

If moderation is removed from the conversation, then yes, it is a problem, but this is applicable to coffee as well, or even black tea. (or pretty much anything to be honest, including water)

If you inspect the page Source you'll find the endpoint with the method /getSchedule, however you'll need auth and probably some sort of whitelist

Later Edit: looks like the auth header key/value are in the page code as well, but still you'd need some sort of whitelist, otherwise you'll get hit with a Forbidden error message

rarely a good take by gamr... but he's actually correct here. The same explanation can be provided to any overpowered agent meta, it'll force teams/players to be more careful in certain situations in order to counter whatever that overpowered ability is and think of new ways to tactically approach the game. (astra viper post plant meta is indeed a good example)

I understand what Bren is trying to say there, but it's kind of a stupid take by him.

Emil is the coach for Liquid not NaVi lol

I don't think that, because you house the champion, you deserve to send more representation that lowers the bar of competition.

This! Not sure who came up with the idea to do this, but it's quite a dumb and lazy approach to filling an extra slot needed for the tournaments. Regions should have coefficients, based on which the slots amount for tournaments should be decided on.

KRU making it to the Grand Final? Yes, very probable
SEN making it to the Grand Final? Very unlikely

-NagZ
+kingg

this would be great on paper, but idk if it would actually work in the team dynamics

you're weird... promoting a watch party to hate against better players

its 7PM local time.. not late at night at all

nah, rating cares about: kills in gun rounds, kills/assists in rounds you won (so kind of KAST), clutches, ADR

ACS glorifies exit kills (kills that you make when you save the gun), kills vs eco rounds (stuff that the rating is really kinda ignoring) and doesn't care about deaths

That's like saying that SEN only got close on Pearl because zekken had an insane game

I'm talking about the GC team level strats SEN has, according to your thread. Did you forget what you wrote? Did you lose your brain in the meantime?

I'm confused... SEN has 2 rounds won on attack (one anti-bonus and one very lucky eco round carried by zekken), does that mean SEN has strats of tier3?

so now they'd lose 13-10, gotcha

furia won't even beat kru tomorrow