In the case of the Scandinavian countries you mentioned it's just culture because those were hotbeds for PC gaming (development as well as playing) in the early days. same reason American and Japanese players are generally dominant in controller games

G2 system is so disciplined and drilled that they are able to plug and play anyone and look good tbh.
That said Babybay could very likely hold his own in T2 if he wanted to (but there's no real reason to)

SEN is the reverse LOUD, they lose every game to Europe whereas LOUD was nearly undefeated vs Europe back in the days when they represented Americas internationally

Leo Sacy Crashies Stax (not necessarily in that order)
idk who is 5th rn

Had someone (you?) not linked it, I wouldn't have HAHSDJFKSDF

PS. Help there's actually people slinging downvotes this is very funny to me 😭

I'm deliberately an asshole on twitter but I am fr glad people engage with my trolling, positively or negatively, y'all make it fun to shoot shit 🔥🫶🏻

Nah nah I'm just an Americas hustler through and through, unfortunately within this league I have made quite the poor choice of teams... alas I dig my grave and lie in it.

GGWP to Heretics I am looking forward to Toronto should be a lot of fun games to make a lot of fun ragebait 🫡

NRG has been in Cancun since the Pleistocene era so I'm used to it 💀 Also glad ur having fun with the hate tweets I enjoy my craft

LMFAOOOOO goated

relative to their level in americas, yes. but explicitly they placed quite well, 4th is respectable

https://x.com/mayadotexe/status/1916343246298448119

it's really heartwarming to see them talk about how far they've come as players, especially since this MiBR team was almost not supposed to exist for so many reasons (Aspas was supposed to be in Bleed, Verno in NRG, Xenom was thinking about going to CS2 in the offseason, etc... crazy)

NEVER MIND GUYS I AM DUMB I READ IT IN REVERSE
I saw "Less tech pauses than Ludwig x Tarik" and I'm like yeah no shit...?

we really cannot compare an official vct broadcast to a for fun content creator tournament

edit: I read the post above this backward, I am dumb

I feel like sport psychologists are the most obvious investment in a sport where everyone is like an 18-20 year old child who is more likely than not emotionally immature. I don't know a single person in this age bracket (myself included) who has it all sorted out in life. And that's for those of us who are in normal stress environments like college. These guys are training 24/7 and playing games in front of millions of fans who might throw hate if they lose, with little job security if they don't play well

BUT ALAS

Ok I mean guys FNS is playing like ass, can't shoot nor call right now, but where do you get this narrative that he doesn't aim train lol
There's no way he as a pro decides "yeah I'm just not going to train the fundamental aspect of this game," he might try and still suck but there's no way he doesn't atl try

they are being pushed a LOT more in split1 than they were in kickoff, close games vs basically everyone except NRG.
even furia had a decent showing vs them. MiBR and LEV could easily have won their series vs them if a few certain rounds went differently

do we think they have lost their flawless form or have other teams just stepped up

I am blind I completely fudged the stats of him and pryze Fml

neither is guaranteed. if theoretically they finish 8th and 10th respectively, one of them goes home and the other one goes to ascension. obviously it will never happen there's no way G2 does that badly

he has been one of the better players on 2G for a while since 2024, Brazilian teams should know of this already

Hopefully NRG for Americas, I hope mada and the grandpa can level up in order to play in front of their hometown

your pathetic region currently holds the record for longest streak without any trophies, the only direction your slots ought to be going is downward

Going to be AT LEAST 728 days, and that's assuming they win Toronto 💀

5 straight events with no trophy, that's a record in partnership era LMAOOOO

vcs devem parar de tentar comparar a 2g com a g2, eh simplesmente inalcançável nesse momento.
o objetivo é pegar top8 pra disputar o ascension mais uma vez. e se nao ganharem no ascension depois 1 ano morar em LA, treinar e jogar com os melhores times do Americas, nao merecem.

he said before he is not fluent in Spanish—he is a heritage speaker

FNS, Zap, Saadhak, Boostio and D1. I mostly love IGLs, but especially players that are funny or personable (and in Boostio and D1's case, I love the villain persona)

what language is this? I know serviceable amount of hindi but this doesn't seem like it

En verdad fue una mierda pelee con mi mejor amiga y ahora no nos hablamos
ademas la cague en el examen de biología pero por lo menos mañana comienza el Bangkok

you knew what you were doing with this title

It's apparently at 5am and 8am, which is a lot better than Shanghai and Seoul where I had to wake up middle of the night and then go back to sleep. At least this time I can just go to bed early and treat it like i am waking up super early for school or something

This would have been true independent of the group they got, until Spike comes back they will need God to win some games, and I say that as someone whose second favorite team is 2G

Jaw massive snub

ESE USER LO RECONOZCO BIEN COMO QUE TU TAS AQUI

Shopify Rebellion is probably going to get a full time slot, crazy that more people aren't talking about this
Now that Ludwig is the owner the org can pull a LOT of weight

having to watch games with Mitch and tom is auto-mute

1. bren sideshow
2. pansy + any duo she gets

small gap

3. doug + balla
4. paperthin achilios
5. doug + babybay
6. uber Wyatt

MASSIVE UNCROSSABLE ABYSS

9203801283012390. tombizz and Mitch

Skrossi 2023

If they win today (which is unlikely in and of itself) I don't know if they will do very good in Bangkok since they have quite a few easily exploitable weaknesses.

But that said I still kinda hope it happens because it would be insane for the young players (Art, Xenom, Cortez) to get international experience. Plus we have G2 to carry the weight in terms of competitive performance for Americas region anyways

I think Pancada had a better performance in isolation, but Xenom has for sure been very good

EH ISSOOOOO

Always united during the international events, the cultural union of Americas is the best one

dont think NRG deserves A with the quality they showed during this tournament and I say that as an NRG fan. The potential is there for them to be A, even S, but at some point you have to show it

It changed 💀

Apparently Verno was sick today? Saw it on social and it would make sense because he didn't do walkout with the team. Explains his performance today
Even if it isn't true tho, he def has to step up a lot

I was born in Puerto Rico and lived there for the first seven years of my life, since then I live in America so I could use either but I like my PR flag more lol

Abyss B, Lotus A

my real answer tho is "Exit to Desktop"

I don't like this suggestion, I want 113 pages of evidence arguing your point in detail. chatgpt recommended

Hot honey rub is goated, new sweet chili blaze also great
Louisana rub pretty good

yeah with groundbreaking analysis like "Icebox has 2 sites, with zip lines"

KRU is winless against FNS in all of Valorant history and hopefully that won't change on Saturday