"stalin vs hitler"

did you watch champs paris grand finals on mute?

why does it take so long for the tech pause text to come up I thought jdg took a timeout after round 2

outer wilds if you like sci fi
what remains of edith finch is fun
pyre has one of my favourite stories in gaming but the gameplay is divisive

All of korea has just been shit this year apart from nongshim who were blessed by riot

less util since 11.08 = way more commitment to push an oper off a line now

even the typical china copers that acted like tyloo were gonna make top 4 were low on jdg and they got demolished by the ghost of g2

yes

I mean sure but it'll never happen, this game is random enough that a cn team will go on a flukey run every 3 events or so and that's enough to sustain the fans' cope enough that riot will never be forced to act

yoru/shotgun nerfs broke ns

you keep teasing us but you never follow through, ts is like trump with the epstein files in 2025

they had a b exec for the chamber setup that got figured out after 2 rounds

mibr are shit

he's baiting harder than aspas on neon and getting glazed lmao

he doesn't even clear jammpi

i was too generous

profek and jammpi are playing 2v8 this whole match ngl

got carried by jammpi and profek btw

'Consecutive masters' ignoring champs inbetween is a dumb thing to do is my point

4 consecutive masters is not a stat that means anything

has to be below 50

lev vs edg abyss champs 24, cn copers would have so much less ammo if lev don't choke that

I'm tired of pretending these mid ass cn players who had a zeta run off the back of geng choking their dicks of are actually interesting instead of a dead meme

I have no clue why exactly but what else could it be other than sheer arrogance at this point? They make the occasional deep run or have an upset in an international and delude themselves into thinking they're better than they are for the next year, rinse and repeat. Respected former coaches like mini and sliggy are literally telling them they're shit and explaning why they're shit openly in vods they can watch for free and they just refuse to change

well for one they refuse to learn how to actually play the maps on a macro level even though they have years of vods from other regions they can learn from. I heard sliggy say one time that for cn every map is like emea pearl, that's a pretty apt way to put it

depends on nongshim's veto

she's the exact person I picture when I see some train emoji spew out a braindead vct take on X the Everything App

santiago and london were also ass to watch, post-11.08 vct is just generally shit

what use is prep when no one in your region understands how the game works on a macro level? It's like asking me to take an exam written in polish against native speakers and giving me a month head start, won't do shit

nope neon slide was buffed to have 100% accuracy right before stage 2 2024, that was also the patch where spg won ascension

"Prime valorant" when it was double slide neon meta

people like you are why this game is dead

nongshim don't adapt to their opponents or prep lmao they run it down with neon yoru and if that doesn't work they lose

that might be the first time that nongshim have tried a fake on split in their lives and of course it was complete dogshit, I hate watching this braindead run it down 11.08 merchant team so much

anyone with eyes could see that they threw lotus because mada was hurt, they were literally running it down into t spawn randomly on their best map

because if you talk trash and lose in this game you have the entirety of the eastern hemisphere sending you death threats on twitter

that's not possible in the first match, nrg are 3rd seed

'there is still room for nrg' yeah eliding the fact that they've had to reinvent themselves on more than a few maps and swap to double duelist because their old style is literally no longer viable then sure. G2 have lost their identity entirely because 11.08 killed it. In kickoff they of all teams were reduced to cosplaying prx because, again, their style was not viable. GE playing double initiator on the new map and the only map in the pool where double duelist isn't an automatic best in slot comp doesn't move me, nor does loud supposedly playin 'slow and methodical'. Yeah they might be compared to the true unga bunga of nongshim but that's because their star is on chamber and not neon, they like to give luxko time to go for picks, not because they're playing like fnatic lmao. If you wanna talk about a hypothetical world where 11.08 were reverted a team like nrg would not be playing phoenix on haven or abyss I'll tell you that for free

kachoww clears

"The game isn't pick a site preround and slam it" it basically is compared to any other era of vct due to double duelist being way stronger compared to every other archetype that got nerfed hard after champs 2025. The problem is you think that's because the level of play increased and not because the game became more one-dimensional due to your bias for that apac style of play. There used to be room for your fncs and nrgs as well as your prx and drxes even late last year when yoru double duelist was already broken (drx didn't discover this btw, prx won toronto playing that same archetype) because more prevalent info gathering/exec-stopping initiator and senti util made the balance less skewed than it is now

ah yes the team that came 3rd was actually the best because they play a way you like (run pretty valoplant execs with 0 midrounding) and therefore are objectively superior lmao. Get the kr cock out of your mouth for 2 seconds and get yourself some fucking perspective

neon is a cancer on this game, archetype diversity is probably the worst it's ever been and macro is dead so no I don't think this year has been 'good'

if that's true it's because riot gradually killed slow playstyles over the past 3 years culminating in 11.08, not because it's some fundamental aspect of the game. Last champs grand finals was literally between two slow teams who like to work the map and trend double initiator, there was also at least one of those teams in every 2025 grand final so it wasn't some fluke occurence. Nowadays 4 -1 or 5 man valoplant execs are almost always superior yes but that's not some primordial truth it's just that riot fucked up the game

How layered your set execs are have basically nothing to do with igl quality

double initiator is not viable unless you're nrg and even then only on a few maps and double duelist is still dominating non mirror win rates, just because sage chamber can work on 2 maps (literal only decent non-double duelist comp outside of lotus) barely means anything.

"greatness" it's literally a seeding game

11.08 just made basically everything that was already bad about the game more prominent (snowballing, shit gunplay, overpowered guns like outlaw/shotguns/odin, flash initiators being unplayable garbage, neon existing) without doing anything particularly positive unless you really hated watching double initiator

lev got 1 less point for coming 2nd in that same regional, kickoff and stage 2 playoffs is what fucked them

yep

mada jumping into t spawn for no reason, brawk running through smokes, just obvious trolling because they wanted the map to end quick basically