80-20 sounds about right. If LEV is shooting and they manage to change up their stuff like today, and the map veto goes well, then I definitely can see the upset happening.

How in the fuck is Zeta and Secret above DFM?

165-180
144hz
plat3 (last episode, havent played much this year)

yeah its 100% speculation on my part as to why, but he definitely did seem to want to compete earlier in that year. And I definitely don't wish him to be like this but Id much rather see a new talent who is gonna to try and push themselves instead of collecting a paycheck. Like say flor, who I honestly wasn't really a fan of in gc, huge respect for her leaving the easy bag in gc to push herself playing for what was likely to be a bottom feeding team in a whole other region

I think cove and BLG happening within a month and a half legitimately broke him. Like he just has zero competitive drive since. He's extremely talented but if thats how it is, I have no interest in seeing him stay in the league. No room for guys who dont wanna be there and are just going to throw rounds like its ranked

I mean his most notable win was the other team matchfixing so yeah...

ngl i felt ill watching a video from trick and agreeing with it

putting up 180 acs in mostly immortal lobbies while getting boosted by s0m is not high immortal mechanics...

I think the balance team is separate from the agent design team. And the agent design team has not been cooking lately. Iso, clove, and tejo (3 of the last 5 added) have been horrid additions to the game

I don't want to pass judgement on brawk & mada, but FNS, s0m, and Ethan absolutely do not care. Its fucking embarrassing. How do you let players who have already announced their retirement and clearly just want to collect a bag with zero effort continue to play? I guess Mikes is probably trying at least and it could be that FNS is just running the team comp decisions from behind the scenes, but if its him he 100% deserves to be fired

hmm not sure about your bottom 3, I think I'd put pool-chan there

why would they pick the map that they lost against the worst team in franchising against arguably the best team in franchising. Make it make sense

I think the idea behind forcing retaining the roster is good, but there are a number of issues with it like having underage players. Or you could have a player absolutely crash out like zap did this year and you'd have to retain their toxic ass. And I'd like there to be a lower age restriction, but it just wont happen. Having to manage that in 4 different countries plus securing work visas for them for Masters events is so untenable, there's really no point in even asking for it

LMAO the cope over needing to import players becauses your own region is such shit. emea ascension teams are 6-16 playing in the weakest region (hasnt won an international in nearly 2 years). Meanwhile americas ascension teams:
https://www.vlr.gg/449009/team-vitality-vs-g2-esports-champions-tour-2025-masters-bangkok-ubsf
https://www.vlr.gg/449005/g2-esports-vs-team-liquid-champions-tour-2025-masters-bangkok-r3

nobody is talking about t2 emea bro, that shit is ass

good shit, glad to see you back. rocketbullets is a weirdo, don't let people like that get to you

Im sorry but the bottom 6 in EMEA play some truly awful valorant and would get rolled by everyone in APAC and Americas except secret/zeta/2g/furia

I just suffered through the rest of it. "was ..... I don't know where" bro why you even talking then?? "he has to die btw" in a 4v1. uh no fucking shit its pistol, if you really think your teammates don't understand val eco at such a low level you honestly should be begging the manager every day to drop their ass for being zellsis-worded. And so many double comms for no reason, makes the round more chaotic and kinda indicates people aren't listening to each other if you just repeated what someone else said. istg I thought I was on like 1.75x speed because so often I couldn't understand what was being commed

I was gonna say that you're overreacting a bit, that teams comms videos aren't totally representative etc., but holy shit I just watched their Pearl defense pistol and I can't watch any more. It's so fucking bad. Like why do we need to comm in a 1v1 clutch thats its Zellsis? Who tf cares just shut up

The drone needs to have at least one, if not two, of the invisibility/suppress/scan removed, its just way too good right now. You dont really lose out on that much recon when you choose tejo over other initiators because his one recon is so powerful. Imo it would be removing suppress and increasing the distance at which it can be seen

Fun stat, its been 51 maps since FNS has recorded 20+ kills. Last time was the overtime game against PRX at Tokyo lmao

The esports goat was always Flash though

I have faith in DFM this year at least, and also I don't think his English is good enough to be on a non-japanese team. not sure about that though

It's one thing for them to miss on his util being too powerful, but I just don't understand what they were doing with his drone. It doesn't fit thematically with his kit, and they just threw a bunch of abilities on it for no reason, giving him minimal drawbacks compared to other initiators

Ethan being the second caller is just one of the many questions I have about why tf he was on Yoru

Isn't even nAts moving to initiator now?

I kinda have to agree, I think the whisper yelling can work in the right situation, but not here. Doug sorta does it sometimes, but its like at a break in the action when there was just a nice shot and he's trying to build hype for the next engagement.

Isnt he just some high schooler? Like why tf were people still following him after he got exposed and crashed out once already

SnK (when it was still good) was done by Wit, A-1 never worked on it

I'd say that I would personally rather have the scyrox than a superlight, and if you're someone whos invested enough to look into getting a mouse from a smaller manufacturer, then most likely yes for you as well. The superlight's shape is just pretty safe, so its definitely possible you could like it more than the scryox's, but the potential upside on the scryox shape is higher. The v8 also has some objective advantages (like 20g lighter/8k polling/web software instead of ghub trash/actually good stock skates)

100g for a non-MMO mouse in 2025 is crazy work

I got mine back in October I think? Its been really good so far, I usually prefer larger mice but the shape is really nice for me. The most underappreciated part is the coating imo, really grippy but feels totally smooth. Though I just started getting some scroll wheel issues, gonna wait till my new skates come in to open it up and see if cleaning it will fix it.

scryox v8 mainly, occasionally switch to vxe mad r or viper v2 pro

Its a really small difference imo at least compared to a good linear switches in a mechanical keyboard. I would recommend genuinely upgrading mouse, mousepad, even iems before going with an HE keyboard.

or maybe the players should just change their polling rate from 8k because you can't even tell the difference between 2k and 4k, let alone 8k. And thats at a 540 Hz monitor, Bangkok monitors were only 240.

Only a little fucking disingenuous to pull "holiday dates" that start on the 23rd when the 21st and 22nd were the weekend. Like yeah, they aren't listed as days off because they have them off already

crazy that you can ace diff eq and you're just out here posting on vlr. That shit actually fucked me in undergrad. I'm doing my masters rn and still nothing has been as bad as that

If every single player is "massively underperforming" maybe the team is just not good...

yes s0m is very good, but he's not good enough to be worth playing every single round as a 4v5. So if he is going to insist on only playing with fns, I think you need to drop them

could be a chinese client thing though, like that same game we dont get kast or rating.

I think its pretty obvious that's the case, they were playing to win while other teams were just experimenting. Like they ran their real comps on haven and abyss

babysasuke actually cooking for once, lfg

I have to agree with this part at least. Its not that sen doesn't have decent fans, probably by sheer numbers they have more fans with brains than a lot of teams. But sen just attracts ALL of the brainded vct viewers. The constant sacy slander was insane and just showed those "fans" didn't understand valorant at all

Yeah I think they were also still paying SicK for a while so he could get help

Deal

Depends a lot on if SEN can just outaim them and string together enough hero rounds to get momentum. 35 or 40% chance maybe. Even a SEN supporter I can say it's definitely not even

I still believe. I really want them to get international experience, but pacific is probably the toughest region to qualify in this year.

C9 and NRG over 100T is actually insane. Bro even forgot EG exists too

Based. I've been glazing this guy too long for him to not get the recognition

SEN but I also support DFM and PRX. I'll switch if DFM makes an international or PRX wins one