gamblers man they have no interest in the game or skins they just wanna make money.

This is one of the least outrageous things that has happened in valorant. Whole ascension teams are bought out and dropped one by one till they aren't even an ascension team anymore. That should be illegal, how can you have an ascension team with almost none of the people who actually ascended. Orgs can just buy whatever team ascends drop whoever they want and build a money making team with popular players. Its kinda shit really

it's not even a T1 fan man holy

Man I love when data is properly interpreted and it's even better when presented so well. T1 bangkok was quite an anomaly huh.

EDG made top 3 at bangkok which is interestingly about the same NRG's year has been after winning champs. Muggle is basically bonkar when you think about it

Might just be enough to cancel out shanks's cursed energy

@sentinelmain

Yea I thought the game hadn't started but first map is well underway.

yea unless they get an unbelievably difficult group

Tbf the linux situation has come really far. I got a 3060 and I managed to get the drivers working after a little bit of fiddling. A lot of games play out of the box and some are even a lot smoother.

Do you have a particular reason you want a liquid cooler? I got a twin tower instead and it works perfectly fine and was quite cheap overall. I haven't tried overclocking yet but I should have the headroom for that as well.

They got hard anti-ed tbf. He was getting killed by set plays a lot on sunset.

You can leave paper rex but the paper rex never leaves you. Watch him randomly get a clip this game to semi-redeem his throwing.

Siufat might aura farm and go insanely far. I feel like he's a bright lights merchant but for some reason his team fell apart in china.

It's okay, you guys will forever have the most aura in a champs finals

People thought it was fnatic that fell the farthest but holy shit

That's cool, I hope sp does well next year. A lot more chances for underdog runs next year.

Who's the non Korean team in top 8 then?

Prx have always been a more unpredictable team than an aggressive team. I think they just hate playing valorant like everyone else. When people played slow they play fast, when people expect them to win they throw, when no one expects then to qualify they go on to win the tournament. It must be in their fucking blood at this point.

Damn what happened jesus christ

I'm not saying prx isn't struggling but they made two grand finals this year. Surely the situation isn't as bad as people claim to be. Most teams are struggling to qualify for events and people are crying about prx coming 2nd all the time?

Good luck g, you should put up your results here when you have them

I get why alecks wanted him tbh. He fits the paper rex mentality so well.

Isn't this a much better meta for them to start playing haven though? Davai chamber and the yoru and waylay comps might be very viable now. Granted it still sucks ass that we lost 0-2.

They banned haven which is one of their best maps, safe to say they are experimenting

Nah I get that, I'm a paper rex fan and I think we are one of if not the greatest teams of all time. All I'm saying is a champs trophy would make it literally impossible to question prx goat status. Made nearly every international with 5 grand finals and many deep runs with a masters and champs trophy. That would be undisputed, rn we are still behind fnatic's prime (granted they fell off hard). We would need two trophies at least to be able to be ahead of them, two masters would be great, a champs trophy would be a dream.

I still think we need to win champs for that title. No one is really there yet and getting that champs title will properly cement their legacy.

tbf the finals was at 9 in the morning for americans this year and was like 1 in the afternoon for europe last year

Yes I'm stupid, if anything the freezing point slightly goes down so it would remain liquid

Freezes under pressure would be more correct if I remember the phase diagram correctly

Nah he's styling on them T-T

Yea they're not even close but there aren't many examples of this happening. Another one was drx making top 3 last year.

Oh absolutely all I'm saying is they better win champs or something otherwise they are gonna be flamed forever for wasting a slot

I'm not a big fan of qualifying off of another teams' efforts but that's what happened to EG in 2023 and that went down as a legendary run

You can pick up a player and the next day riot could erase his entire reason to exist. It's just unlucky sometimes. It's why teams with naturally flexible players are doing well now.

Honestly I respect it. More teams need to just say fuck it we ball.

If they play a serious comp you guys got it easy. If we lock in a troll comp we might actually get the dub. These fuckers are ass at playing the game seriously

You have no idea gang. Somehow you guys have had our number this year. We had to come up with super secret comp to somehow take ascent last time.

Absolutely, but that's fixable by just putting people on the fixed roles. The problem with flexing a lot is mostly just confusion about roles and protocols. They need to pick comps and get a lot more reps on it. They need comfort in their team, adding another player may help or completely fuck it up. Imo its better to just stick with a core and incrementally improve on it. You will have shit periods because riot is evil and changes this game wayyy too much. Sticking with the same core allows them to build comfort. I don't think you need to nuke a roster just because they don't perform insanely well instantly, it hasn't even been a full season with sayonara yet.

Say that again

and performed mind control on stax to force him to run onto site into 4 people and a lockdown, truly their greatest strength as a team.

I'll root for them cause I wanna see siufat back in internationals. The dude was an absolute vibe the last time. Its such a shame his team blew up. They had mad potential but their playstyle was super unsustainable even back in toronto

oh I didn't know they were changing that. Might be worth it but I don't think their problem is firepower atp.

He's 16 no? He can't even play for another two years.

I have 400 hours in swift play lol. Legitimately more fun than ranked

deadass asia has been buying the russian players on the black market at this point

Patitek is a slow acting poison. You just get more and more tilted throughout the game. I mean how do you stay calm after hearing this guy come up with fire taunts every round.

In APAC play-ins 100% they'd farm most teams. Playoffs is a bit of a coin toss.

Depends on what you do tbh, if your job is to play games or something you enjoy its pretty fun. Being paid to do what you love is v fun

Agreed they should lock in more fun agents.