whenever a team without an obvious weak link or with likable players performs badly, people immediately jump to hate on the coach

the two most notable examples of this are chet and termi. people will jump to hate on chet then in the next sentence glaze potter who also had HORRIBLE results for 2+ years, and don't mention player quality since that EG team wasn't even "mid" (in terms of performance), they were straight up ass. optic/NRG had good strats for 2021 to 2023, I don't see why one bad year is immediately blamed on the coach. it could be his fault, but it's practically impossible for us to say that in all confidence

termi is imo one of the best coaches in the game and yet gets hate for his choices on drx. I have quite literally never seen someone, at any point in time, put any of the old drx players in their top 10 aside from mako and yet that roster managed to do good in 2022 and 2023. people will still blame termi for trying to change things up, if anything he shouldn't have brought zest back in 2023 and stayed with foxy9 even if they performed badly as first (foxy9 proved himself to be a great player this year too).

at what point do you accept that drx had reached their peak and changes were necessary? that team's only consistently great player was mako (along with maybe buzz), stax was given many opportunities and his igling was always mid yet they could still make it far because of their strats. a lot of their strats are still used by top teams TO THIS DAY.

that aside, I think he (or the management) were wrong to drop rb and zest that late into the off season, they should've dropped them earlier so they had more time to find a team.

aww the facts hurt your feelings?

flair 🗿

the "one team region" had a higher average placement in shanghai than americas 😭

that's still true lmfao, can't believe I finally saw a T1 fan 😹it's wild how they keep fluking their way to events just to get absolutely shit on

nah, kick s0ygetsu and ange1. suygetsu has been mid forever and ange1 throws every other round along with having mediocre calls

BBL got shit on harder just a while ago + f0t will never accomplish half as much as navi has internationally, those bots never even made top 4 💀

yeah the point is that navi's issue isn't firepower and younger people aren't necessarily mechanically better than people in their late 20s

isn't gen.g filled with these "late 20s" people?

they had a very similar performance in split 1 and NRG has likely improved far more than SEN considering the roster changes

this is most definitely the ugliest franchised team logo

fnatic put up a good fight against gen.g

bait or retardation?

which one did you have?

*stupidity

https://www.vlr.gg/event/1999/champions-tour-2024-masters-shanghai/playoffs
can you please help me find sen? I can't find them, must be my poor eyesight 😔

no amount of therapy will relieve this traumatizingly awkward experience

I'm shaking from excitement, s0n fans will disappear once again after NRG farms them

the hltv dwellers won't like this one

top 6 teams got into playoffs, where was sen?

zephyrus g14 fits everything you said and is within budget, you can go for the 2023 or 2024 model but I personally don't think they're much different. the 4060 model can run valorant at 200+ but you could go higher if they're in your budget.

I know you already mentioned it but it's the perfect option 🗿lenovo slim 5 or 7 is also pretty good but I feel that it doesn't look as professional and costs more in my region. as for other laptops afaik these are pretty much the only laptops that are good for gaming and are light that are within that budget, MSI makes some but their build quality is horrible

and then they didn't even make top 6 regionally, what's your point?

what has sen done to be in top 2? might as well put fnatic there since they won tokyo last year kkkkkkkkk

real 🔥🔥🔥

he's no me but he's pretty good

if you can think of it, there's a 100% chance other (more professional) people have thought about it/researched it and it was implausible

their ow team is also the 2nd best itw

l0v are dogshit

bro is bringing up wins from the prehistoric era

fut could be in the grand finals and they'd still be boring as fuck

the glazing is crazy, tarik behaved like a normal human being and bro is acting like he's a saint 😭

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I also shoot bots in the practice range frequently, does that make me the all time goat?

idk if he'll be meta in pro but he's busted in ranked, you're looking at it wrong if you think it's only good against ops. a better way of thinking of it is that it doubles the time to kill a person with a vandal/phantom, and if you're on phantom then it'd take 3 shots (rather than 2) to kill a person long range. also the one bullet difference gives the iso a HUGE advantage in his ult

on a side note, he's also really good against shotguns which is the only good part about this buff 🗿

"Man I'm such a hater and I love it" 🤓
corny ass comment kkkkkkkkk

I think they're guaranteed in yeah

why is it a weird move? stax can't igl and can't shoot

drx was a few rounds away from beating gen.g and stax hasn't been performing well for more than a year now

so you pay attention to china's tier 2? 🗿

I'm not cheating 😔

keznit above cryo, icy should be 6th or 7th

nah, yay played even worse in challengers and he still got picked up 🗿he'll definitely get another chance, maybe even on next year NRG. if he still does badly then yeah

TH vs gen.g can be considered a stomp after those two last maps

this is wild

yeah he's still the best, I think he's a bit overrated cause of his insane stats but he's still unarguably the best imo

t3xture's rifle isn't that amazing ngl, I think he's a great player but in terms of pure aim then I wouldn't even put him top 10. meteor is a better aimer

did you even watch his streams this year? the "15 year old toxic fortnite player" was a persona last year

aspas and leo are the only ones with aura on that whole list
good =/ aura

found the kyedae viewer

you watch kyedae 💀