great opper, rifler not so much

Surprisingly I think it’s already been confirmed that onur is leaving, I remember seeing it

Maybe it’s on news almost missed? I could be very mistaken however

Wait I only got a recap about people watching my content not one about stuff I watched

wait lmao i am so stupid i forgot consoles were a thing for a bit lolololol mb

probably smash bros as well. melee for sure but ultimate a bit skeptical. depends if you think mexico or usa is better in ultimate.

idt controllers, duelists etc. are a thing in OW. i think he plays dps agents or am i just wrong?

i feel like brazil and some sea countries also do mobile games so that's a bold claim. i will accept that india is the land of bgmi gods at least.

I knew this was pretty unlikely from the getgo lol but none of them even making top 8 is actually just unfortunate lol. I'm not complaining though, we're getting some epic games.

I am really sorry if my paragraph offended you in any way. Again, I have limited knowledge so I can absolutely be wrong sometimes.

I typed mine out pretty slowly and didn't refresh before posting so I didn't realize you had just made a post talking about a lot of the things I did lol, also I think I am on a literary roll today judging by the other long thread I made.

That is the impression I got, but thank you for confirming it. Also I see you around a lot, so what is the origin of "Son of Oil" while I have you here?

Based on my limited knowledge, I would say it is a financial issue. Since things like healthcare and houses cost ridiculous amounts of money, you need a steady paycheck and insurance. How do you get that playing video games? Get signed!

As an NA player, you need to get signed or get a "real job". This is why there is so much more concern about getting signed in NA, while in EU and some other regions as long as you are earning money from tournaments/your parents support you okay, you can get by. Sadly, the cost of living is prohibitive towards gaming in NA.

Once the NA players get signed, they need to focus on staying on the team and practices. But streaming just gives them a much more stable income for some reason (again since cost of living in NA sucks). So they are much more motivated to stream as opposed to practice for long hours, to earn a cash prize that they aren't even guaranteed to win because of the aforementioned other regions. Again, this is not because of a greed for money but a desire to survive off of Valorant money for the rest of your life.

i know i had more to say but i forgot it so let me just conclude with yeah the system in place sucks for gamers unless they stream a ton, fuck capitalism

i've been following challenger finals and lcqs throughout this year and i will probably continue to do so in the next. the problem is i do this for every region and i may have a problem.

Facts.

Based on what I have seen NA and EU are on polar opposite ends of the copium spectrum.

In terms of their fans, NA fans are very quick to hype up their teams and if they lose they were “saving strats” or “not even trying” or they were actually blindfolded and they were playing with a usb steering wheel and no wait actually their little brother was using the mouse the whole time. And it wasn’t plugged in.

When it comes to EU fans, they will quickly say that EU>>>>>> every other region and refuse to elaborate beyond other regions t2 in cs haha. If their teams lose, well then actually that team wasn’t even a good EU team and actually they are only good online and the real good teams got screwed over by bad format.

BR fans don’t entirely understand how jokes work I think. Unless they came up with the sacy pasta themselves in which case they are very funny. The death threats are just kind of sad now though, and I don’t think the naked pic joke translates well since no one really gets it.

KR fans don’t say anything since they actually don’t exist, but NA and EU fans who overdose on copium scream to the heavens that KR is actually a super underrated region guys they’re going to win the next masters/champions for sure.

I really don’t want to talk about SA fans thanks. And idk enough about LATAM or SEA or OCE fans.

(I am not sure if this thread is off topic or not please let me know)

come on man you're from hltv, how do you not recognize an obvious bait when you see one

Infinity esports are tier one in latam though?

Yeah I mean you can’t possibly hate gambit but the fact is that the cis region isn’t very interested and then in the finals would not get nearly as many views as an underdog story from a Spanish speaking region.

Actually most teams will take all the practice they can get lol. Infinity esports literally scrimmed my college’s valorant team a few months ago, quantity is almost as good as quality sometimes.

Wait but since latam is actually south NA and also Britain used to rule the USA, NA is actually just EU. Which means that EU = trash. 5head

(Don’t take this seriously I am not a big na or Eu fan lol)

no patiphan still needs to go so absolutely insane that sen want to drop tenZ to sign him but they can't. pati will then join an NA team in valorant in 2022 for a ridiculous amount of money, making the gladiators very angry but they can't even touch his godliness. and he will buy two more rolexes than zombs to flex on him as he updrafts into the masters 1 trophy.

mibr looks hype af, like disgustingly good. like that should not even be legal terms of good. but idk how aspas fits with havan's util heavy playstyle. that was something i really enjoyed because it was unique and i would hate to see them let go of it and not develop it further. i hope aspas goes to nip, he could maybe work well with jonn and i trust an org like them to find 3 other very good players. alternatively loud could build around aspas but this seems less likely.

do we know where krain might go? cause he could go to nip or godsent if he leaves and i think he would do well. vivo keyd looks like they may fall out of contention since heat did so much for them (not that the others are bad of course) i just think vk are going to be borderline t2 now, same with vikings.

also do you know anything about belky? i really liked that guy hope he gets a good team.

Liquid vs x10 is the most hype scenario I can see out of who is left tbh, kru would not be bad but no one would watch it assuming liquid would stomp

x10 3-2 c9 HOPIUM

playoffs

if we aren't considering shitty fanbases then:

vivo keyd
x10
t1
gambit

can't think of a 5th so let's say the team skrossi is on cause i may have forgot their name but they were fun to watch at apac

it's about drive it's about power

with vikings, sacy is wholesome but gtn is weirdchamp so it balances out, i personally think team secret, fnatic, gambit

FPSes are kinda booming rn in Japan. If there are any other weebs reading this please correct me but I remember the love is war manga having apex and valorant references in it, which makes me assume that culturally it’s pretty big.

(couldn’t figure out how to spoiler tag but I don’t think this is particularly big)

I usually hate pastas but this made me smile, thank you

People comparing him with tenz were valid
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Tenz raze, that is.

“Supernova is dead, and we have killed him.” - Drake, probably.

I don’t really agree with 5 because like you say this is a known bug, probably the single most known bug on the map right now. After seeing the speed at which they rotated and the minimap, I find it hard to believe they somehow missed this. Not saying vk is entirely in the clear, but riot definitely screwed up big time by not warning earlier.

Belky is going to NiP I’m calling it

Actually, there are other teams , it’s just that two letters with the second one being S gives you the buff that lets you qualify for champions, just ask paper Rex

Wdym fs gonna do the sick loser bracket run

Shanks would dolphin laugh so loud at LAN that Fnatic’s audio would get destroyed. After another never ending tech pause, risenation would 2-0 because Fnatic’s ears would be too destroyed to hear Boaster’s 10head comms. Supamen gets a 1v5 clutch to finish the 13-0 on map 2. Fnatic never stood a chance.

What is probably happening is it’s probably a hell of a lot of moves, all being announced tomorrow since it is day b4 champs starts

WeirdChamp

who cars bout c9a, we car bout c9k

Not super active but vs, KEYD and sen all make semis

Def gonna be hype, are they going to dunk on the others or crash and burn? We have to wait and see..

Maybe they could pick up steel as sentinel/igl? This is assuming he is actually leaving 100t

ok 👍

Final is Vision strikers vs KEYD stars

thenutoriouspro just made a thread saying they would buy champions bundle if VS made the finals, so that got me thinking, how far would the team you support have to go to feel like they deserve you buying the champions bundle to support them? This is very hypothetical so don’t take it too seriously, even if you already plan to buy it you can still estimate how much it would take

This seems a bit like copium ngl, I will respect your opinion but mine would prob be

1. Heat
2. Mwzera
3. Jhow
4. Murizz
5. V1xen

MWZERA is obviously cracked but heat just has so much more to show for it, dude actually top fragged the whole LAN that mwzera didn’t make it to even with belky

1570, wrote about the first time I drove a go kart

I am shaking and crying right now tenz would never say such a thing

do i think they win? no. but i really enjoy watching them and i want to see them do well, so let's inhale this copium together my friend.