They split game stuff on a map to map or side to side basis… at least that’s what Weber said when he was co streaming their Shanghai games with sliggy

Surely nobody falls for this

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1. I’ve apparently being to weddings as an infant but I’ve never being to one I remember

2. fluent in English, German and Igbo but I understand Yoruba and French

3. I like maths

I know 4 people who also use all 5 fingers for a pen

M80 and apeks… I really hope I don’t curse em

+1… the only way i watched cn games this year was via ryan central… I don’t usually watch the main streams but I wanna understand what casters are saying in certain situations

Probably not

In shanghai gen g spanked them on the final 2 maps
For stage 1; this is the only one I agree with cuz they got reverse swept
Kick off- KC was miles ahead of every body in terms of forcing chaos and basically reducing the amount of times they had to mid round during a game

Against edg they might have being favourites depending who u asked but they showed up to an extent…. Choking would require them to completely disappear in grand finals…

Ok

Your friend from the future?

Nice bait

Snowflake

Heretics scouting department went off when they brought him in mid season and the other guys after that

It’s the first year of them doing pickems, rewards could be better but it’s a start

Fell off is a stretch; He’s playing like a human now… he was topping the charts last year on cypher and kj only

He was basically entrying on sentinel last year… he still attempts em now but people don’t peek as much into those fights… he’s still putting up solid numbers not those X factor numbers… if fnatic keeps their ish together and he sits down long enough to not activate a curse then they should be aiit

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen in some random article about eu challengers that at least 3 of the 5 players in a team have to be living in/based in the region of the league.. so relocate won’t be the right word here but if u wanna play in the dach league u have to be in the dach region etc

If the match was anytime within the next 3 days probably g2… it’s no secret that they are a very good team fundamentally and huge part of their success comes down to anti stratting

Any timeframe afterwards and I’ll back heretics… they’ve shown they can cook up new stuff within a short while and they may have not exhausted their playbook… also based on the watch parties sliggy held with their assistant coach Weber for Shanghai I liked the conversations and answers he gave surrounding comps ideas etc surrounding TH and how they do stuff…

Either way it’s 50/50 and will come down to clutches and who shows up and goes that extra mile

Ignore at all costs

Imagine he spams cypher/kj on streams etc but has a burner where he praccs raze and neon… I’ll be down for that

NA killer

Nrg weren’t really favourites to win champs last year… this year a lot of people have serious lev stocks so it’s worse from lev’s perspective…

However trace played very well… literally made all the stuff that makes deadlock so good on ascent useless

And I only said why governor was on the sova…. Besides crws the rest of talon have never played sova in a pro game and crws has only 20 reps… it’s like prx; they have multiple players who can play smokes, duellist and sentinels but they all struggle with sova… every time Prx have pulled out sova on any map it looks horrible; they miss “easy darts” that any sova player should hit… if Prx could play sova they would have a semi ok ascent cuz their only pitfall would be having jingg on jett or raze and something on Kay/o or whatever even smokes

Governors 2nd highest agent played is sova and the rest are pretty flexible

In theory yes but the reality no… internet speeds aren’t great and the infrastructure for wired internet is not present across a sh*t tonne of the country… in my home town there’s only 2 cell service providers that actually work; also these laptops aren’t great, they do a job otherwise they meh

Fair

The rural parts of the country barely have access to the Internet… they do but they are more likely to spend time on TikTok, WhatsApp etc… Full on rural areas don’t even have accessible roads or water or other basic necessities… Kano at 2% will be insane cuz it’s just known for trading, leather stuff and basically where other northern cities come to trade their stuff cuz of BH

Pc- desktop setup; laptop- portable

This stat is bs cuz if u go up north most there don’t have pcs… in the west; Ibadan ogun, ondo etc they are heavily focused on eduction etc… the east is business oriented… Niger delta is in the middle etc

Also the survey asked only 1600 people… that’s not enough to say 30%… Nigeria has an estimated population of 230million people

A lot of households may have laptops but they definitely do not have pcs… if this survey was accurate it would be closer to like 2% almost all based in Lagos and Abuja; the exceptions to that is when your parent works in a government post and has stolen enough to the point where affording a pc is chicken change

I haven’t even bothered to check… prolly fuc*ed, the federations are usually greedy so the athletes are usually screwed with… at Tokyo they forgot some doping admin work that basically screwed a tonne of athletes over and they couldn’t participate (one of those athletes is now on the us team… that’s how laissez faire they are with stuff that doesn’t involve them stealing money in some way shape or form)

We might get a medal in a track (sprint or hurdles) or some other field event or maybe the women’s football team depending on if they make it out of groups and their luck of the draw afterwards, otherwise we are just there to make up the number of participants

No infrastructure- electricity for starters ain’t a constant in some countries… even when u get it, it’s limited and the power itself might not even be enough to properly power a light bulb… u can also have months of no power

Cost- the average price of a cheap pc to play val costs a lot compared to what u can get for ur money considering bills… inflation in Africa is fu*ked; 1€/1$ = approx 2000NGN or more depending on where u are converting or on the black market(pun intended)… so an average of 300€ for a pc is 600,000NGN, depending on where u are that’s ur house rent for a year or even less… can’t justify it to purchase a pc

Try telling an African parent with little or no exposure to e sports that you wanna play games… no1 priority is education for most parents and the public infrastructure ain’t there for that as well so u go private and u have more bills there etc

The market for pc gamers is also small… There are parts of cities that are exceptions to the above like (parts of Ajah,lekki, vi, ikoyi) in Lagos have people who play games or are interested and can prolly afford it but servers is an issue so they lean towards console games and mostly sports games like fifa etc….

Basically we fuc*ed for a long time

A lot of teams swap between cypher and kj depending on what they are looking to do in the game or when they wanna abuse something

Boaster was an op abusing jett main… pretty sure he pulled it out during playoffs

Weren’t there reports from earlier in the year that eg wanted to leave esports all together after this year

If they don’t that will be so bad and a confirmation that the org is just happy to be in the league

C9 don’t like spending money tho…

Like his almost always itching for a fight

He can play other agents for however his aggressive style isn’t suitable to play non duelist agents besides battle sage… u can try to mix match however his impact won’t be the same

Jingg raze
Something jett/reyna
Forsaken breach/yoru
Davai sova/cypher
Mimdfreak omen

3x duellist won’t surprise me

When ur done shower

Keznit give me 50 and bye bye 100t in ur calculations

Heretics at the time I get cuz of unknowns but fut… idk

Heretics d….

Fut c….

I wish it was… u can check my post history… Icba to reply to posts in general or stir up any drama… takes up way too much time and energy

I didn’t mean to reply to u… my phone screen just broke so my ish is bugged so it clicks wherever… meant to reply to the overall thread

Surely this is bait

That’s why hltv removed the age restriction on the rookie of the year award… Nertz(24) who won last year had only 11 matches against top 20 opposition b4 joining endpoint in 2023 even though he has hltv games from 2017… he also had military service(Isreal) before he focused on cs full time

I didn’t see anything there that’s deep…seems like sm1 just having fun… I mean they have prolly achieved the goal they set at the start of the year…. Maybe it was a masters event qualification and now they are playing with house money

If they wanted more viewers, clashing with the euros doesn’t make sense… fine imma stream the footie on my tv with no sound and have the val on my iPad on a headset but most of my homies are gonna watch the game and sack val… L move from riot

summary: valorant needs third party events and ideally those events should mean something prizepool wise or riot eco system wise so that the teams will actually care about it else till the franchised league has a substantial amount of teams involved it will be the same thing over and over

Cs doesn’t have a format per se… teams do their best to be at the creme de la crème of events aka majors(x2 a year), cologne, Katowice…

After that Pro league is a chill out type sitch over a couple of weeks, esl partners get invited then the rest of the spots are split to other smaller tourneys and they runners up as well as esl ranking.

Blast also run their stuff on the side but in a more convoluted way that lead to spring, fall and world finals

Iem/ esl dallas, Chengdu etc are invites and qualifier based that teams can decline to take a break etc

Esl also run tier 2 leagues across all the regions…

There’s the weplay, res regionals…. Basically a tonne of tier 2-3 tourneys to let those guys showcase their stuff as well as the t1 teams can use to get back into a groove after a break etc

Why tho… clashes with euros