amen

the forums and simplicity is what keeps me on vlr. you dont get much structured discord here as most people are just baiters but its still fun. thespike is just dead, i think theres like 5 people who use the forums and most of them are just the really annoying baiters who got banned from here.

nah jonahs played sage jett and others from my memory. I imagine the roles will be very similar to when they had saya, as I can't see tex one tricking chamber anymore but idk about his jett.

well out of valyn (smokes igl), neT (sentinel secondary caller), trent (sova/fade/breach) or jonahP (flex/entry) i think it might be jonahP

Yes they might make money, but they aren't profitable in the slightest. In 2020 TSM was the only org that was profitable, and that was due to the FTX partnership, and we all know how good crypto is doing nowadays. What you need to realise is that for every 1 team member that is paid a salary there is probably 1-2 staff members also being paid a salary, the big orgs have their own facilities, and many more operational costs. The idea is that the revenue may be much lower than the costs right now, but the whole idea is that this is a market that is going to develop exponentially.
All player wages are super inflated as none of them bring in the same value as what they are being paid, thats just a fact. I'm not going to discuss the profitability of esports orgs as I don't run an org, or understand everything that goes into it, and neither does anyone, all I wanted to say was that it would be ironic if they weren't paid the same even though they are preaching for equality and supporting women.

Thats the thing, the male scene and the female scene both do not generate any money, they both run at a net negative with brand deals (youtube) and sponsors (twitch) being the most profitable areas. Since they both run at a negative competitively speaking and only make a profit through content, whats the point in having esports talent at all and not just hiring streamers? Neither of us really understand the metrics and what makes money so its pretty funny that we are discussing this. My point was that for an org who has a female team, to pay the female team less than the mens team, even though the whole point of having a female team is to try and make esports more equal for all genders, is ironic, which it is. Realistically, none of the players should be paid a salary if we are talking about profit, and the org should drop all the competitive players and pick up streamers like xqc, but the whole point of it is that it's an investment. So why not invest equally in both sides if the point is that theyre going to be equal in the future?

who sells more shirts, vanity or mel? once again another metric we cant measure, but if you are a woman looking to buy an esports shirt, are you going to go for fnatic, or are you going to go for c9 or g2. People don't watch womens football because they are worse, its as simple as that. They will never get as good as the men so thats completely different to esports.

And the streaming statistic, c9 mens stream more on average than c9w and the total hours streamed is much higher, but with the g2 team the female side stream way more than the male side ever since mixwell left. Look at c9 valorants youtube channel, most of the content and brand deals are done by the c9w players. Also a side note and not sure if this is relevant or not but if you've ever been in the chat of one of the female players while they were streaming, its surprising that they even go live at all. Constant sexual harassment and weird fucks calling them cute and begging for facecam and shit, its a different environment so hard to compare metrics.

Esports orgs are a business, and they aren't profitable in any way from the esports side of it alone. They're all super inflated because of investors and sponsors, but the players themselves aren't profitable just from competing. The money comes from merch sales and sponsorship deals, not from prize money or tournament results as players keep almost everything they earn from prizes.
So once again, these players are all on the same org, run the same sponsorships, do the same brand deals (in c9s case they do way more than their male counterparts), and prize money doesn't help the org stay profitable, then why shouldn't they be paid the same?

I mean we don't know either way but normally when teams split up the org sticks with the core roster of 2/3 players who aren't splitting up. So I am assuming that the org dropped the 5 and that they're splitting up because of that.

Its also a different situation to that as well. Its not the same as male vs female sports athletes as they are never going to be on the same level due to biological factors, but in esports why shouldnt they be paid the same? The whole point of gamechangers is to provide support to marginalised genders in the gaming community, there aren't any biological differences, so why do all the top teams only have male players? It's because the female players aren't as good as their male counter parts in most cases. This isn't due to biological factors, its due to societal norms and the gaming communities view on women playing games which will change over time. So paying the women less just supports the issue in the first place. Theres a reason why C9 dropped C9W after picking up a whole new roster, if they weren't being paid much at all its just a free good press machine, whats the need in dropping them?

I'd imagine/hope their salaries would be the same as their male counterparts. Otherwise would be insanely ironic/ a bad look for these orgs who want to support the female scene.

Im in the same position as you currently, year out of uni and working a full time job while living with my parents. I pay £250 a month to my parents in rent which is very cheap (and they are keeping it to give back to me when I go back to uni) and with the rest I've upgraded my pc and bought driving lessons. I'm currently saving the rest up, but if you feel the need to spend it I'd say try and get into some new hobbies while you have the time and money. Things like golf, art, keyboard building, cycling etc that require an initial investment to get into are possible at the moment.

its honestly unreal how well it was adapted, as a big fan of the manga im so happy with how it turned out. Defo read it or watch it!!

Best action/adventure: Chainsaw Man

Best slice of life: Bocchi the Rock

Best sci-fi: Tatami Time Machine Blues

Best romance: Love is War s3

Best fantasy: Made in Abyss S2

Best comedy: Love is War s3

Best soundtrack: Chainsaw Man (kensuke ushio the goat)

Best anime original (no manga/light novel/video game): The Tatami Time Machine Blues

Best couple ship: Kaguya x Shirogane

Best girl: Bocchi

Best boy: Mob

Best female side character: Chika Fujiwara

Best male side character: Reigen (mp100)

AOTY: Love is War s3

runner up: Bocchi The Rock

https://twitter.com/florscnt/status/1609497310022574080 @florescent hes a fan lmfao

didnt brax switch to valorant during the beta? pretty sure the lack of experience excuse wont work for him

Imo
Must watch

• Vinland Saga S2
• Angel Next Door
• Kubo-san
• Nier

Up to you

• Tomo chan
• Spy Classroom
• My Life as Inukai-san's Dog (looks like hot garbage and im down)
• Buddy Diaries
• Mononogatari
• The Misfit of Demon King Academy II ( the best out of all the power fantasy shows, not too bad)

I dislike tokyo revengers and nagatoro so will not be watching s2 but if you liked either then go for it

He has all the interesting personality traits of a crypto bro mixed with gameplay that consists of him holding an angle with the op and clicking after holding for 1 min straight. Huge ego + not funny + not that high level gameplay, there are better streamers for any of the areas that you might watch his stream for and now that he doesn't have the TSM name to draw in people theres nothing.

You guys are fucking degenerates lmfaooooo. Why are people so obsessed with asian women they arent gonna fuck you bro

I personally enjoy playing with turks, but there are a lot of them who no comm / only flame in vc so that's probably why some people have a prejudice against them. Also another thing might be when playing against turks who are on 70-80 ping people also might complain about ping abuse but idk

Black Clover:

Source: Manga
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Comedy

Chainsaw man:

Source: Manga
Genre: Action, Fantasy,

Literally means nothing

I've watched both K-on and Bocchi the Rock and it makes my head hurt when people compare them and say its a clone

Oddtaxi masterpiece

depends on your price range, would not suggest getting any of the logitech mice that arent the gpro superlight in 2022 as its just not worth the price anymore.

Some that I'd personally recommend.

Endgame gear XM1R
Razer viper mini
Razer Orochi v2
Xtrfy M42 RBG
G-Wolves HTS Wireless
Vaxee Zygen NP01

Please do enlighten me on what shounen antagonists you are referring to. And in response to your other comment where you said that shounen is your favourite genre, literally 90% of shows releasing nowadays are shounen, and theyre all trash according to you so not sure how that works. You're probs just a DBZ / Naruto fan so we have very different opinions on what makes a show good (more episodes =! good writing)

Trying to not hate a popular show challenge (impossible)

It was the first phantom skin I bought and still switch to it sometimes even now (mostly use recon or champions). It's one of those skins that will always feel good to use, similar to prime vandal, so if you like it initially it shouldn't fall off for you.

Bro says he doesn't think its hard to have a bit of originality but makes the most stale and repeated comparison of all time. We get it, berserk and monster good Shonen bad. Please go on to say musashi is better than denji, and maybe top it off by saying something incredible like cgi bad.

probably the highest rating at champs

Tenz 2.26 on breeze is the new highest ive seen. He was truly unreal back then.

I think after that map no one could argue against him being the best in the world at that LAN, I can't remember an individual performance like it.

What do you think is the highest R rating at a LAN by any player on a map, and over a series?

From memory nAts on fracture against acend where he went 26-3: https://www.vlr.gg/51296/acend-vs-gambit-esports-valorant-champions-2021-gf/?game=57983&tab=overview

And in a series maybe one of yays performances? https://www.vlr.gg/34978/100-thieves-vs-envy-valorant-champions-tour-stage-3-masters-berlin-sf

Me and the boys going in full suits and tie to watch qq movie december 6th

I was thinking if cypher becomes meta, neons gonna have a lot more issues just running onto site. Might be more counter picks involved.

What sort of comps do you think will be run on fracture now that chamber has been nerfed? He obviously still might be picked as it was his best map, but say he is completely out of the pro meta, what 5 agents do you think would be viable?

Triple initiator (DRX?)
Neon
Fade
Kayo
Breach
Brim

Cypher swap

Neon
Cypher
Kayo/Fade
Breach
Brim

Lmk your thoughts

1. Kingdom
2. Love is war
3. Blue Period
4. Frieren
5. Vagabond

Bocchi the rock is the goat of this season

I don't understand the people who defend split. It was such a dogshit map, attacking through thin corridors 10-2 halves, imagine how bad it would be with fade in the meta. They're only saying it was good because its been removed, even saying all the good pro games finished in deep OT on split, like yea watching the team win defence over and over in overtime is very interesting.

S: Fracture, Haven
A: Ascent, Breeze
B: Icebox, Pearl
C: Split
D: Bind

Don't be specific if you're telling someone how someone smelt, just say they smelt good, or bad. If you go into detail people are gonna think you're weird, and when you call anything boysmell they're gonna think you're weird

based as fuck

This liquid team is hard not to love, I will have to debate changing as I've been a long term DRX/VS fan

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/749f6ca7

Probs will just be a c9w sweep but could be fun to have a lower bracket run

I’m so glad they delayed it, those last few episodes were such a masterpiece

I’m pretty sure I remember it being announced already. Btw do you have an anilist or mal?

86 pt1 8/10
86 pt2 9.5/10

Not sure if you’ve watched s2 yet but it has the best visuals I have ever seen on like ep 10-12

id say probably someone like zekken or jinggg as they are monsters in val and also have some high scores in popular kovaaks tasks

babysasuke is pretty funny, rickyindian is running out of content but has an occasional banger and all the EU baiters are just horrible

Im in need of a really heavy sounding phantom skin, something like ruination or glitchpop would be very nice. Even if they don't bother giving it extra animations or anything just give it a kill banner at least, something like the recon phantom.

EMEA is very top heavy whereas NA has more high level teams with T1 players. And then APAC has teams that wouldn't be T2 in EU or NA so theyre obviously the weakest.