i could see that happening next year honestly if things internally go really well for them during the off-season

valorant mobile would probably pop off in India & the middle east, too. personally I have belief in RIOT being competent enough to keep the scene well alive for at least the next 10 years in the west

Team Secret eat Clown9 alive

what are some of your predictions/reads on how the game will look 2-5 years from now? can be relating to either the e-sports scene, specific teams, or the game itself

watch the vods. the fact you're up this late to begin with means that it ain't really a problem for you

yeah ppl like to downplay how much Frost has helped the team and it boggles my mind. He has good reads on the meta but doesn't cook too much towards the threshold of WTF. The individual skill on Talon is inconsistent but their general fundamentals are really solid & if they're not throwing they can punch up very well

Aproto 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

what market? The African gaming market is dominated by mobile games and it's not even close. If valorant mobile takes off I can see Africa being a powerhouse region but for the pc version i don't see it ever getting to a point in the short or medium term where it gets enough investment from either RIOT or orgs to be sustainable

Vitality are good but between the two Talon are more likely to pull something out of their ass strats-wise to win

I meant more that there aren't really any orgs that are on the same scale as the Chinese, Pacific, Americas, and EU powerhouses. even if they did have a tier 2 region it'd be largely comprised of smaller orgs & F/A teams that get picked up by foreign orgs to fill the vacuum

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allocate 30 minutes to an hour of just walking/jogging/running, brush your teeth after you eat breakfast & dinner to better avoid cravings, and if you have trouble controlling yourself with eating certain foods simply don't buy them

volume is by far the most important, since it means that a country/region has more longevity when it comes to talent. they don't need to rely on a single generation of superstars to foster results, since they can simply plunge back into the pool of upcoming players and foster some more

the bare minimum is cleanser into moisturizer & sunscreen. add a retinoid & serum if you aren't clearing up after a decent while (don't change routine until a few weeks pass MINIMUM)
if you want the best results long-term what archetype said in #20 is pretty much what you want

no servers, small talent pool, zero investment from RIOT as a region, no relevant orgs, and the few players who are there that are terrible stay terrible due to factors mentioned previously. the region is fucked from the start. at least MENA still has some legs as a league despite the lower player count to support & cultivate their playerbase, but the rest of the continent is shafted by various political and economic reasons that kill the potential of the region by preventing its establishment

the CIS diaspora

i'm praying for you and them

which they won't

Space Jam

it is lol. not gonna stop looking anytime soon tho
thx man. been going well so far!

majoring in geology. this is actually a hobby thing I'm doing on the side just so I can put some concepts in practice as i learn. summer semester is gonna end in a few days for me & gonna re-enroll for the fall semester full time since I'm still searching for a job atm

woke up, ate lunch with some friends, worked on finishing up some plate tectonic simulations, took a nap a few hours ago, woke up and now i'm here

that's what i was thinking. i legit do not understand why ppl are making him out to be some villain when he simply made a retarded decision. he SHOULD be made fun of but the legit wishes for bad fortune is weird to me

did he or did he not do it with malicious intent? I'm seeing people say he did but to me it looks like he was just parroting the news he saw. Definitely a stupid fucking thing to do as a vlr user, but to me it doesn't look like he had bad intentions?

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the concern's understandable but if a chinese conglomerate did ANY of the shit ppl fearmonger about the chinese government would do the financial equivalent of taking them out back and executing them. the CCP does not play with corporate shenanigans

that's pocket change for a guy like heybay 🥱

ion really care that it has kernel access. it'd be stupid for them to hijack any computer and every other company these days steals user data for ads anyways

FPX are confusing because they obviously didn't really care about winning after split 1--choosing to dry run experimental comps and seeing what stuck. At the same time though they kept making really stupid mistakes, throwing man advantages, and not really seeming to actually LEARN from their games deep down.

I wouldn't say they look 'worse' but instead kinda uninspired. This FPX has always been there but now the novelty is wearing off because they haven't had another 'eureka!' moment so far. Maybe this'll change in champs, but as of now they're "strong" but not "great"

it's possible for FPX, especially if TH and SEN aren't in their complete form.
blg gotta upset either FNATIC or DRX so their chances are grim
Trace has the best shot realistically, since on an individual basis they can tussle with everyone outside of LEV, the only thing that worries me is their game(s) against vitality, not to mention how Talon are actually fundamentally solid so that's not a free win either
EDG are entirely an unknown quality cuz their coach changes could very well either help them or not change shit with their international performance

SEN will win again ig

Americas champs: Furia (will come back with vengeance after being at the bottom)
emea champs: heretics (young this year so they have a lot of potential)
pacific champs: DRX (they just have that aura)
china champs: trace (will own EDG)

Masters 1 champs: drx or furia
Masters 2 champs: Heretics
Champions: Cloud9

titles and trophies are irrelevant when it comes to slots. FNATIC won EMEA two different trophies last year, gave them two extra champs slots, and what happened? only two made it to playoffs; the same as everyone else!

they have an active player count comparable with the entirety of Americas combined, and that will only increase as time passes. wtf do you mean "what China achieved"

Trace qualifying? i fw it

bold to have SEN qualifying

+team that took both top 2 shanghai teams to a game 3 & multiple OT's. the scripting script is scripting

FPX gets a bigger boost because Berlin & Life int and they win anyways 🗿

TRACE ARE GONNA EAT VITALITY ALIVE
JIAYOU TRACE!

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i could see this happening tbh

these takes are slightly warmer than my freezer 🔥

I always find an appeal with people & groups who make something out of nothing. I can never find an appeal in rooting for a team that is set up for success from the start, or is built with the intention for an immediately high skill ceiling. What truly builds a legacy isn't from how extravagant or high the throne you sit on is, nor is it from having the best players, but from building one with your blood, sweat, and grit as materials. Then and only then will you be able to look back on your accomplishments with satisfaction that you truly did everything you could to make the most out of your time competing. I ENJOY watching AG not because they're the best, but because I can see the visible effort they put into improving, and that's all that really matters to me.

2 of the chinese teams are guarantees to bottom out but it depends on the groups. FPX & EDG could get unlucky or Trace & BLG could get a miracle and get some weaker teams they could upset

one of the chinese teams will upset one of the 2nd-3rd place teams
G2 lose their first playoff game but go on a losers run to grands
SEN will choke their lower bracket group qualifying match
2 EMEA teams will go to playoffs but not Team Heretics

who would G2 lose to outside of GENG?

DRX is more reliable than LEV atm so APAC takes it

Whzy eats Jing alive

no if you do that you'd get shitstomped socially forever. it takes someone with very impaired social awareness to do that seriously, and if your friends do let you live it down then they're either also weird af or praying on your downfall

Unlike TenZ the average person who does watch hentai in public isn't well adjusted to society and are prolly weird af in terrible ways