it means youre shooting heads more than you are bodys, if sinatraa had his movement + smoke/wall spraying habits but had better crosshair placement his hs would increase, which would be a good thing.

Higher HS% does indicate better aim / gunplay / crosshair placement.

ohhhhh ok

screwface igls in ranked so if youre wanting to learn how to igl i guess its a good example

ngl you got this list very wrong lmao

ptc and forsaken are nerfed when you spray, gaia and reaver are spray vandals

1. Champs
2. prelude
3. rgx
4. chronovoid
5. forsaken
6. prime
7. oni
8. cyrostasis
9. SOL
10. neptune

They could also scrim other teams, while playing in competitions that are also competitive? This is just a downgrade where its all about inclusivity rather than meritocracy. A team like apeks or les pettit bouffons are gonna get left out of ascension while an immo 2 italian team is gonna make it in. Now you take the best team out of these smaller regions and they have even less competition to play against. Replace the good team that left with a team thats worse than all the other teams and these leagues aren't developing

Building up scenes for certain regions is a good idea on paper, but this is all theoretical. Teams in these minor regions arent going to improve at a rate higher than those with good competition, they will not be able to catch up in this format. Language barrier excuse doesnt apply, as you dont need to be able to talk to your opponents? You can play with italians, just against actual competition. Do you think teams are going to pick up players who are stomping against unproven talent? Scouting rarely happens and everything is normally achievement based.

I come from rocket league, and a minor region of saudi arabia and the middle east has been developed into an actual contender vs eu and na. They were awful for so many years, just playing against other middle east teams, then they started getting invited to play in european event with all the other EU teams, actual real competition against teams better than them. Now the top ME team is a very strong side, and the region as a whole is pushing out talent after talent. None of these players would have had any recognition or opportunity if they hadnt played against teams outside of their region. They would have stayed at the same level, never getting to play against actual pro level teams asides from scrims.

Splitting everything up doesnt inspire growth as there is no challenge, and nothing to prove. Players like tomaszy who are stomping their regional league, may never get a chance to join a well established team, as he cant join any team outside of portugal unless theyre in ascension or franchised. And at that point would you take the gamble and sign someone like that who has no experience? It makes no sense for orgs to gamble like that, it could be that the Portugal region is so weak that him stomping means literally nothing.

when i said you cant pretend there are 400 tier 2 players i meant skill wise, obviously they would technically be considered tier 2 but this system puts little to no value on the term tier 2 as realistically skillwise none of them are close to this level. It feels more like game changers where its giving opportunities to, in this case, regions who arent as fully developed instead of creating a competitive ecosystem.

In americas, theres NA, LATAM North/south and Brazil. If it was the same as the mess of eu there would be a league for Bolivia as the Bolivian talent pool isnt that large and needs some support to develop.

Its way too inflated at the moment, at the end of the day, inclusivity seems really nice on paper, and im sure the italian players really appreciate the opportunity to play against other italian players, but long term, maybe 1 italian player max is going to get scouted from these teams as the level of play is so low, and playing against the same low level players isn't how scenes develop. Say one of these italian players got onto a team in one of potentially 3/4 mixed leagues, maybe eu Mediterranean league they would have a much much larger chance to get picked up by an established team.

rare tolerable domination post

do you not say lil bro and stuff in half of your posts ":skull:"

i guess turkish teams pick 2 maps to master and just pray the enemy team doesnt ban it lmaooo

yea ik lmao, was just joking about how big the averagejonas one got before. I don't think this one will get as big as most people don't like lothar anyways so not much controversy

you also cant pretend that there are 400 players who are tier 2, ie close to tier 1s level. that would literally just be everyone whos radiant, and the skill gap between the average radiant to pros is huge. Being so open and inclusive is nice short term as it gives all these people "an opportunity" to be tier 2, but competition is what drives up ability and interest. No one coming out of half of these smaller regions leagues are ever going to be tier 2 level as they are only playing people who are from that certain tiny region.

and comparing NA challengers to these tiny one country regional leagues is insane lmao, the only reason its NA only and not brazil or latam as well is because of ping differences and distance, eu doesnt have that problem

oh lord where have I seen a thread like this before

no way

its so cringe seeing people from NA speak like what 12 year olds in the UK think roadmen sound like lmao

I still don't understand the point in breaking it down into so many regional leagues. It just breaks down the potential viewer base and splits them out across all the different leagues. Only spanish people are going to watch the spanish league, only germans for the dach league etc. Splitting out talent, viewership and money so thin isn't "developing talent" or "giving a chance to new players" its making it much worse for them.

It should defo be closer to the system that NA has with challengers as its actually interesting to watch. Imagine they split it up into west US, south US, North east and south east leagues. Split up the schedule so that these leagues are all playing at the same time, the prize money is much less. Add in the circuit point system which is a failure in itself as its leads to many pointless games, results between teams who have weeks to play and no chance of qualifying for anything. Would kill the NA scene. So why are we doing it in Europe?

Us Europeans are already used to multiple league systems due to football, I would be more than happy to have a system like that where there are 3 or so leagues, with all the regions competing, with a promotion demotion system and several transfer windows. It's easier to follow, prize pools would be more condensed, and actually reward the teams who are better rather than the region being more developed, easier to support teams when its not just spain vs spain every week etc

duelist having taco and dgzin in there as well is insane

he is active on g2shahzam now instead

this list is horrible lmao

so? hellranger has worse calling and worse aim, less experience etc

6/8 requires some ball knowledge to understand

they are an indian org

Some of their aggressive set ups are really strong, but the amount of times I watch someone just solo walk down a lane like its ranked just to be punished by a guy holding is insane. Like I'll see d4v4i just walk past his whole killjoy setup to dry peek something his turret would be holding. We need to see something like what happened at 100T with sean gares where he turned a bunch of pug stompers into a very disciplined unit who peek off eachother and don't overheat. Just frustrates me to watch.

when losing a series vs a strong enemy in overtime on the final map means there is a problem and the team should disband / rework everything

rrq could do this and no one would notice because we do not care

i think theyve realised that putting him on smokes isnt exactly the best idea

i was being sarcastic in my reply haha, his posts are all so bad, must be some sort of mental illness. Its really sad to see... get some help s1mple_is_the_GOAT... therapy is really healthy and nothing to be ashamed about! :D

bahahahah great one! another amazing 8/8 bait, surely everyone will fall for this

Good post, glad to see some credit being given to both teams. Normally it would be "Loud tried a shit comp and lost" "Fnatic got lucky and didnt deserve the win" or some narrative along those lines, especially from your fellow countrymen.

I agree on the agent ban take as well, would mean teams will move away from the same jett kayo sova kj omen on ascent and try something new

Wait he responded! No way... maybe make another post about it just to make sure people see this! :O

As a manga reader you will not be disappointed! (it is LINDENFILMS animating it though so be careful!)

Also Oshi no ko next season as well, most people will sleep on it due to it looking like an idol show but its very good and defo not an idol show lmao

seasonal garbage being hyped up is nothing new

vlr when they realise people are allowed to be sad for non trivial reasons. It doesnt have to be anything serious, probs had a few bad games of ranked (he takes ranked very serious) and was feeling a bit down.

Top 8 is such a stretch, if they win an official they should be happy ngl

lmfaooo

im still traumatised by that post (i rate his rizz a 6.5/10 nice try lil bro)

pick up meiy on duelist and theyre the best team in the world

I loved when it had the vertical health bar for each player, this looks pretty shit ngl

me when i only see women as sexual objects and not as humans we can have conversations with

Just take a moment, step back, read what you've just typed and really just think about it

all I'm saying is my mates mum will be living lavishly in the afterlife after the meal I received that night

They need to redo all of mid as thats the reason b site is so shit. Imagine an icebox where you can actually run a b split meaning you dont have to plant in that one shitty corner with a sage wall hoping they dont kj+viper+sova+kayo molly you, and you can take more space meaning theres more opportunity for retakes/ holds rather than 3 people sit behind yellow and 2 sit long and just try and take 1v1s. Kitchen is just a shithole, with killjoy perma setting up in there its not even worth attempting to go under/ through tube as the turret keeps you in a perma crossfire/ walking through the smallest choke in the game.

A site is also shit as its way too easy for the attackers to get on site, now with harbor meta, cascades blocking off all vision while scaling up + dome plant means the boring meta of sitting back and doing lineups/ spamming the bomb is even easier to do. They obviously want to keep the site as having lots of elevation points as its unique quirk, however its just way too easy for attackers to pinch the defenders as there isnt a single choke to watch without being exposed to multiple heights / peeking locations.

So in conclusion, b site, mid and A all need a complete rework, and the one gimmick for the map is actually making it worse. The only solution is deleting it :)

Its a good deathmatch map though

i guess its just preference then, rarely does a cs clip feel impressive to me, whereas it seems like every event there are some insane aim clips on val that amaze me

I enjoy the gunplay much more than cs, clips are more impressive when its aiming combined with movement, like suygetsus closing 4k on breeze, compared to crouch spraying 3 people.
Also playing the game is more fun when the incentive is to actually aim rather than to spray and correct it mid spray.

best dinner I ever had was with my friend and his family when they were breaking the fast. His mum cooked up some amazing dishes, I have no idea what I ate (i am very white lmao) but it was so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgBr9rC47uM

This is just a very good channel for all the top aimers in val

yea im just speaking from my own anecdotal experience as a non-muslim with lots of muslim friends. Quite a few of my friends don't like when people eat/drink near them, but a couple didn't mind so I just don't do it out of respect for those who don't.

Thats why I said to talk to his friend as its gonna be specific to the individual, but from my experience its just easier to not do it in front of them.

so many people are doing it now its just sad

try not to drink/eat infront of them, or leave water bottles out in plain view etc. Just don't be weird about it with them, like don't act like they are dealing with a hardship during this time. Most see it as an opportunity to exercise their faith, so the challenge is welcome.

Honestly just ask your friend about it, ask what he individually wants. Would be a good opportunity to show that you care about him and his wellbeing.