Just trying to understand the rules. Is it always a toss? The upper bracket team should get some benefit no?

Not even the point. No wonder you have Sen in your name. Remove FNS thought. Doing him a disservice

Exactly.

No flair no opinion unfortunately.

But if anyone who knows ball hears Eeiu, they see Fade no?

Did caster just say that fade is Eeui's worst agent? HUH? Did they start watching Valorant in 2025

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AND NO ASUNA ON NEON? WHAAAAAAA
Asuna was getting a lot of FK on Neon

All shanks watchers are racist but not all racist watch shanks.

And picked split(with the sage comp) against the goat anti coach? What are these boys cooking? I hope they got atleast 50k for throwing

Approved my Fenis.

I am not even his hater. Just annoying to announce retirement then play. He is disrespecting his own decisions

When he quit C9

Bro has retired from games countless times and then come back the next week or a month. At this point just stop announcing retirement and stop playing without any fuss. Also playing in tier 2 to gate keep others team (because Sen can't qualify anyway) is kinda shitty

Why the fuck is this map in this game and fracture was here for barely a split? Nobody, I mean nobody like Icebox more than Fracture.

Americas.

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Oh wow. Was it confirmed somewhere?

Who is sideshow referring to as the "best coach in valorant" coaching PRX and Sliggy had info. Was it sliggy himself or is he talking about mini or who?

https://www.youtube.com/live/zAZHgULQZXk?si=seBEAYIaccjLJ503&t=5600

Are they playing on 10.9 or 10.8?

Even after the nerf? Naah

Watch them use Tejo after everyone drops him lmao

Moneyet was already pretty insane and carrying GE in Tier 1.

It's not that they need 3-5days for VOD reviews. Even 2 days is enough. It's more about practicing against what the team is actually gonna do on stage and that can only be done by playing more games

https://youtu.be/nRABexiuoUc?si=202Hvz9G31amEl2v&t=886
Edit: Also go to 18:06 mark for further solid proof. (They actually discuss the topic directly, I just made the post before I watched the whole video)

See, players have never ever complained about playing more matches or more LANs. The issue is with Riot's stupid ass execution where they make losing team play back to back matches or start splits way too quickly after LANs. That is the only time players complain about burnout.

Having less matches actually stresses out players more. These are passionate gamers who love playing this game. It's not the practice or prep that hurts them it's that they have to stress much more about each game because if you just happen to have bad luck, you are fucked.

Riot and kids watch their first esports of life peddle the "burnout" bullshit. Riot does it because they don't wanna spend any money on Valorant. They could make bank if they actually allowed team skins on other guns rather than just classics but they can't even make decent skins to make money. Just lazy bums. Could even pay freelance artists of the community to make skins but no. They just don't care.

Now wait till fucking July to see your teams to play again (that too once per week).

I mean it is much harder for grown ass people to move countries than a 18 year old who barely has 2 pair of clothes to their name

I agree with his point about Flor getting babied a lot and in his case he wasn't. I would even go out and say that it is much better to move countries and travel when you are young like flor. You are curious about the world, really not found your proper comfort zones and strong beliefs etc.

Edit: Also remember when Tenz wasn't playing well when Kydae was going through Chemo or hell take an example of Demon1, his fiance is also going through some shit. I am all for equal rights and opportunities but let's try to treat everyone equally and nicely and not just baby a particular player because they are a girl.

Sad to see Deffo not in T1

Exactly. Also we never get Sen vs NRG? SERIOUSLYYY?
Leo is dogshit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VroIKHozZs

No. More games won't result in decrease in quality of games. That's bullshit.
Actually playing the game is the best practice and see which things work or don't work against the team you prepared for. Rematches in such cases are really good quality of games.
Also, just VOD reviewing is not going to improve your game, even it did, more games would equal more VODs. NBA is the extreme end of having number of games, 24 games a week in Valorant is nothing.
Riot is just stupid and thinks that it would mean overlapping EU and NA games or some other region but that group of people who watch multiple regions is less anyway. More games per week would actually increase the total views. Just because Sen is playing twice, doesn't mean who are not going to watch them 50% of the time. In fact, you will watch 1 match and maybe half of the other (overall increase).
Also Riot doesn't need to keep two matched at the same time. They have Monday to Thursday for it. They don't do it because of League bullshit.
Most of the prep for teams is not about just "antiying" the opponent it is to drill their own protocols and strats which they can do regardless of how many matches.

When you say a group is difficult it usually means that you can't say the top 4 certainly. Here, it is opposite, Group Alpha has the most obvious top 4 whereas the teams in Group Omega are more closely matched. The most obvious bottom 2 teams are in group alpha. How can you people be so ignorant

So they back tracked on the "best team year round should qualify" rhetoric? Loud could still make it if they had been top 3 in split 2 playoffs or win out all their split matches.

Why does Rito games fuck up things which didn't need any change? If you wanna change then fucking get rid of Kickoff and start split 1 and make teams play against each other atleast twice per split. IT"S THAT SIMPLE. NBA mfs play 80+ matches and Valorant pussies can't sit on their asses for more than 10 games a year?

That would be true but given the dogshit format, each team only plays against the other once in the group so it is really just who shoots better at a given day.

I wouldn't say micky mouse but is absolutely doesn't make sense to out teams in a playoff bracket the first matches of the year and perform at their actual level. Either teams will pop off or crash out. nothing in between because the data points will be so small. Then these mf decided to make it more important by giving champ points.

Kickoff should never happen. start the fucking split man.

Actually man. Nobody put's any effort now. Mf Myth actually wrote down speeches, wore a costume, created a persona. He is excellent improvisor.

BRING BACK COACH MYTH

I criticize everyone. I mean just because someone works at 100t doesn't mean I have to love them. Also, I never said I didn't like him, I just said this about his watch parties. Also, he was part of 100T for half a year, left because he was going to be a dad (respectful move) but then never came back.

Overreacts a lot. Pretends to be a Gen Z kid

That Eeiu kills me more because it wasn't even under his control

They barely won against 100T because Riot Games cannot fix a fucking bug unless it get's shown to the whole world on stage.

Franchising would have been good if not for the god awful 1 match per week format

So true. Goes to show how good G2 are that you are forced to cook up something new

They have the meta comp. Boostio just needs to not die on Vyse

In today's world of ADHD brains with access to internet, everyone is reactionary so not unexpected that they are overreacting

It's about inconvenience and given the excellent pubic transport of Europe, I don't think it was much of a hassle at all. Now, I don't really support the dogshit EMEA production quality but some people exaggerate a lot on social media to get freebies like this.

Over reaction in my opinion. Lmao. People cried about traveling 200km? that's like a couple of hours of drive and you give them finals ticket and shit? I get the first two gifts. But gun buddy and finals ticket is a lot. Even 300euros is a lot but whatever

MFs coming up here with Trophy stats. Tenz won 1 trophy as smokes player that too when Omen was the best controller. Bang is a better controller and clutch player. Tenz is obviously the best individually. Just looking at trophy numbers shows your stupidity