What are you 12? Are you storming off? Okay, see ya later!

bruh... are you jumping on alt accounts and + fragging yourself? LOL

I'm sorry I'm not following your opinion here. If Potter was the difference maker then why did it all of a sudden happen when Demon1 joined the team? Once again here are the facts, 12/24 vs tier 2 and 3 teams vs 16/24 after Demon1 joined the team. In the game where they literally swapped out BcJ for Demon1, the only reason why they lost was because C0m and Jawgemo went 3/14 and 5/15 respectively.

In the last series we just watched, Demon1 had 101 kills as opposed to the rest of his team around the high 60s. You're on the site with the stats: https://www.vlr.gg/248283/evil-geniuses-vs-loud-valorant-champions-2023-playoffs-lbf.

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This take is just factually incorrect. Prior to Demon1, they went 12/24. After demon1 they went 16/24. The wins in the prior section were literal tier2/3 mix of teams. The 16 wins after his arrival are against tier1 teams in their current Cinderella story.

To just attach your bias take to how you think things work in the world is just weird. Legit brainwashed.

I think picking up arguably the best duelist in the world is going to improve any team tremendously. No disrespect to Potter, they obviously improved strategically. But if I'm weighing the two, its like 75/25.

I think Stewie needs to find his own path and shouldn't rely on people approaching him.

I think this for a couple reasons, first, everyone knows Stewie and what you're going to get when you sign him to your team. Dude has a well documented past. Good and the bad. Next, Stewie isn't ahead of the pack. While I definitely believe he can frag with the best of them, there's no stand out thing that Stewie does that no one else does equally well. When Stewie exploded on the scene in CSGO, he was miles ahead of people when it came to aggression. That's just not the case in Valorant. Lastly, trying to do it on his own would change his image for the better and I think that orgs would find that more appealing than a walk on csgo superstar with a bit of a chemistry issue.

Can someone please explain to me NRG's map choice on Split? They are not good at Split. I don't understand why they think it plays to their strengths.

First, FNS is a horrendous anchor player. Two, Ardiis on OP playing heaven with FNS putting a wall up in his face, terrible. Third, their comp. They played that whole game starved for information. It was a well deserved loss.

Please. Stop. Picking. Split.

This is really good for the scene. They break until comp starts up again. You've got a ton of players hitting F/A. And yeah coaching staff is just added salary that had no benefit to the team.

Smol help here... All of esports (minus the minimal $$$ they make from merch) comes from advertising budgets. The narrative is that these are the best players but once again, that's just advertising. Brands want to be associated with winners. Beauty is an aspect of that. There are two options for sponsors, attractive/personality or you're #1 or outside the range but capable of achieving it.

NRG over FNATIC both times? Who is their answer for Derke? These are two grinder teams. I don't see them beating them twice. RIP these brackets lol.

T1's biggest issue is that they are behind in the meta. Their executions are "ranked level" at best. The problem with that is if you're relying on solutions that everyone practices, it will be easy to exploit. I saw a lot of that from EDG.

There is also very little thought behind their utility usage. In that round where they almost lost but sova squeezed out the defuse, the team knew where the player was, had utility and time to stop the rush out. They did nothing but peek the person 1 by 1. Why did they do this? This is what they practice in ranked. All aim duels and minimal utility usage.

They also tend to have set plays that they just do to do them. On defense, they run the same sova set play on long a, no matter where other players are positioned.

Yeah, this team needs serious rework. Autumn needs to get his shit together. They got dumpstered because it's very obvious they don't practice as a team. And if they are, they are not practicing team play.

uWu, barking, e-dates and general 12 year old behavior.

Isn't Immi supposed to be some sort of god-tier coach?

I think that sgares is experienced enough to question plays and work them back logically to come to a solution. We've seen that time and time again on the broadcast. Is he goated? meh. I think the current landscape of coaches in Valorant is built off of cronyism. Every coach in this league so far is someone who came from a team that was a startup. They were able to build their coach brand off the backs of their players. Sgares and 100T was the only team that didn't do it this way.

I think these coaches get additional space because of the style of calling that goes on in Valorant. NA doesn't run a lot of set plays. If you're calling on the fly there are a ton of variables that you can blame that don't fall on the coach. Logically how can a coach be liable for the plays that go on in the server? It's a flat out buffer zone from getting fired. And since everyone runs the same comp, there again is no risk to the coach.

Coaches basically have the easiest job that they can coast until they hit a series of losses and the community calls into question their ability to coach. The secret is they're all bad and are getting lucky by unexpected wins from the schedule.

Viper and Brim. These are not agents where Marved thrives. Brimstone is the clunkiest of heroes. Viper, unless you have the right conditions, is hard playstyle for a lurker to conform to.

These are coach decisions. Where is the mob for Kaplan?

What a strawman argument. "HEY! Prove this thing that is impossible for either of us to prove because were on the outside! Oy! You can't, well you are obviously dumb." vlr really be the spot where the dumb kids in high school go to pretend to be smart.

How about you tell me why it doesn't rain gold on Uranus? How gassed up are you right that you hit me with the "really thought you had something there didn't you" LOL

I think it's crazy that we virtually mobbed the SEN coach just to find out Kaplan was running the strats all along.

"they probably have" ... "another gear up" ... you can easily swap in "aliens fucked my mom" or "im a billionaire" because you're just making shit up.

Welcome to modern technology. Where pay-as-you go is the most money efficient means of hosting servers. The days of paying for unused servers no longer exists.

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Dephh doesn't know how peeking works.

3 map picks are maps they've never played each other on.

Ranked is a better experience for people with sub 1 k/d ratios.

I'm sorry... Did someone check this guy's scripts before he read it? Did I just hear that nothing is going to change other than the TenZ thing? ... So why did Sykko leave?

I don't think this is arguable.

-dephh
-SyykoNT

Their head coach has to go. This is like losing with an all star team.

Matthew "fUmBlE ThE BaG" Elmore (Head Coach)

Please tell me about your bronze Sage OP gameplay.

Thank you. lol.

Why do these posts continue? yay was a superstar because of chamber. yay is not worth his pricetag as a rifler. In fact he's probably the top end of the middle of the pack. Even if you disagree, are you risking your org's financial stability on Yay's rifle?

I wish they would marry the game and the league. Build lore outside the game that directly affects the league. Make it a huge game of Risk. We already have regional maps. Make maps the battlegrounds for taking regional control... idk just seems like a way to tie it all together that's currently missing.

Yeah I watched NRG struggle. Did I miss something? I watched Viper sit in A for multiple rounds with KJ utility. I watched an ATK side that made no sense. I saw them stick Astra with an OP to solo hold B... S tier decision making.

Or maybe you were talking about the next maps. Pearl had incorrect usage of Harbor walls to get access to B. Once again their defensive setups were mid at best.

I wasn't on planning on making a critique video but shit... apparently i didn't watch the game so I better do that then huh?

NRG S tier... Split was their map pick. Hard CAP.

Not their map pick. New map and conceptually undeveloped by teams. 100 overreactions by vlr.

We are clicking mice and moving inches around on a mouse pad... yeah we definitely going to age out of this hobby.

She's not into you. If she was, you would know. Already friend zoned and doesn't even know it yet.

z0mbs and VCT is not going to be a thing lol.

It's about who is playing it. Scream just needs to focus on fragging. TL has a history of struggling to finding the formula for Scream. Neon probably isn't going to be the strongest agent for him as his style is more about flicking and less about tracking.

Shroud should play omen instead of Asstra. Asstra requires you to pop in and out of astral form which removes focus from a player. Shroud thrives in defensive positions. He should be 3-4th person in on attack. Probably before TenZ and after Zellis. I guess Astra fits that from a controller perspective but I still think Omen is more of a play maker and would thrive in the Shroud's hands.

I think the limited bootcamp really forced him into agents that didn't make too much sense. Overall not bad going up against a first seed with a brand new team. They'll definitely grab some W's in lowers.

This is a good business move. It will spike his viewership today and whether they win or lose, he will continue to carry viewers post-lcq. I'm sure the line will be "He doesn't need money or the viewership" but one thing for sure rich people love... is more money.

We're only complaining because OPs are oppressive as they are meant to be. There is no fix that will balance Chamber. Dry peeking against Operators is bad. The idea that all angles are now unsafe cannot be solved. Map geometry dictates what space can be taken. DEF has an advantage where longer angles allow a OP to see you first. Pushing those angles turns out to be a worthy gamble. We are seeing an exploitation of this idea in VCT.

Vandal is better for ATK and Phantom is better for DEF. On ATK, you're dealing with longer angles and often taking 1v1s in which you need to maintain your health so the one shot mechanic is vital. On DEF, you're often faced with multiple OPPs at close angles under 15m and this makes it the more useful tool in that situation.

Prime and Oni.

I love how linear this community is.

Did team win tournament, best in the world.

The community doesn't take in, team style, map pool, hero pool, individual performance, team performance, mental condition before and after wins/losses, inter-team dynamics, position of the stars, where their fast food was in their digestive track at the time of performance, water intake... the list goes on.

Love the -2 frags. Was right. XD

They were already going to qualify. Can't wait for people to attribute their qualification to Rawkus only in turn to flame him when they lose in groups.

In SEN's defense, there are not a lot of options out there.

Can't wait for the fake narrative of "oh they were just hiding their real strats for iceland" :)

It's really difficult to say what's wrong from the outside looking in. It's completely understandable why Shahz wouldn't want a coach on the team. A coach is a level of authority within a group which requires deference to work correctly. It's also someone at the end of the day you have to trust to make the right calls.

I just don't see these people in the Valorant community. There is always going to be some deficit a coach is going to have. If you go the player-coach route, depending on the age, they might not have the maturity needed or the life experience to help out players. If they are the same age as the players on the team, there might be a level of respect that is not achievable because what experience would they have to coach? If they are older, the community looks down on those people, so the respect level might not be there again.

For some reason this community looks to the "famous/influencer" groups of people and expect some magical results. Look at 100T, they hired immortal minds. Seangares was IGL during the c9 run and his team fell apart. Does that give him the proper credentials to be a head coach? Or did he get the job because he was a personality in the community which people looked up to? DDK, what are even the requirements to be a GM? Once again, personality in the community seems to be key. MikeHD, didn't work out with Envy, friend of Sean and DDK, there's your job. Will it work out? Maybe? There's nothing to point to but failures of the past.

It just seems to be a roll of the dice with the selections. If they win, it was definitely the coaches. If they lose, let's play the +/- game. It's a weird perception that the community has.

To tie this back into SEN, there's not going to be a silver bullet. The reality of the situation is that SEN probably had practice around a certain playstyle that worked well at the top level. Other teams got used to the playstyle and were able to develop their own and move passed SEN. TenZ peaked at the "entry-jet" era of Valorant. SEN fell into a hybrid between 100T and Envy. Whoever the coach ends up being, I don't envy them at all. Either way it's going to be an exhausting journey which they will likely find themselves out of a job in 4-6 months.

Definitely some solid hype around picking up the squad. Good synergy and minds around the roles.

Some reality things to cover:

• Can seangares pull out some magic he couldn't find during the c9 2015 era?
• Who can DDK pull to cover the gaps in the roster? Have we reached that time in Valorant where it will take a lot to overcome the t2 to t1 gap?
• Are there large enough gaps in other teams coaching that will allow 100T to be able to overcome other teams who are already established through coaching alone?

I thought this would be a brand risk for seangares but would 100T% love to be proved wrong. GL!

priorities change when you get that gf buff

I would just love for once for an ex-coach to actually explain what they do. Just seems like a lot of "team did x, we should do y" or "you did bad player, this player did this." Or is it just "hey guys, welcome to this episode of VOD Review with Coach X"

From the outside it looks like this is what goes on because of the high turn around and people just being like... wtf is this person doing with our paychecks?