Winning = joining a better team?

Faded obviously has “EMEA knowledge” lmfao, he’s been coaching since before the start of the year.

again, “a big hand in picking the roster”, does not translate to Derke running the team so that the coach’s ability to mediate and prevent drama happening is completely nullified. you completely overstated the situation and you know it.

your whole position is based on what streamers who don't even have any connection to VIT management... no, critical thinking is not speculatively thinking that one player controls a team. you have no definitive proof that that was the case with Sayf or Derke to the level that you're describing. it's not pattern recognition if there is no pattern in the first place.

wdym "it isn't his fault"... if he's not up to the task then them losing is by definition partly (and imho) mostly his fault

i'm not flaming him, he's probably doing his best, but he needs to go.

what you're saying abt Derke is speculative and a conspiracy lmao... because one player had input on the team/coaching, that somehow means that any player can have an impact mid-season to the point of, in your words, having "all the authority in the team"... r u ok?

Wtf is this conspiracy, Vitality have not given Derke any meaningful written authority... the fact is that if you're a coach and cannot assert your authority, then players with big egos will take it from you if they think you're incompetent, which Faded clearly is...

i don't care whose pickup he was, Sayf isn't some sort of omniscient being that can determine the quality of a coach;

you hit the nail on the head - he's tier2, and not even a head coach in tier2! so why keep him on, and why pick him up in the first place?!

as for your final question, as someone who generally wants to see EU succeed, his resignation would be pretty helpful

Well that's a failure in coaching then??

For real... probably the most money spent on a team in EMEA history (and pretty up there in the world), and he can't even convert it to qualifying for internationals, let alone making it to playoffs. Everyone likes to take sides with the Trexx vs team drama, but realistically the role of the coach is that of preventing these sorts of crash outs, or at least dealing with them when they come. A coach clearly with no proper team management experience responsible for some of the best players, and probably some of the biggest (and rightfully so) egos... what could go wrong?

It's definitely more difficult to defend, but their Vyse setups were not great tbh

Not really much to do with the coaching, more just decent midround calls and cerebral plays from everyone on the team... happens when the vibes are good.

So many people are saying we have the BEST strats, the BEST aim, and the BEST comms-by far. We’re taking the site, planting the spike, and making Valorant GREAT AGAIN! #1Team #BigPlays #NoLosers

i never claimed you said anything in your first sentence; the point is you're disagreeing with a post saying that US and UK are disproportionately attacked with regard to racism, so i'm just reinforcing the OPs point

no it absolutely does, as you're attempting to frame this is a problem specific to the UK and the US when the supposedly more liberal European countries have long had ingrained Islamophobia at a way higher level than anything in Britain, including the minaret ban that i mentioned which is just blatant Islamophobia passed by a popular vote in your country

poland shoots migrants at their border, france banned burkhinis on beaches, and the AfD is the biggest far-right party on the continent; but sure, it's the worst in the UK and the US 👍

and globally? i need not mention Uyghurs in China, BJP/RSS anti-Muslim violence in India, the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar.... which country has been the most steadfast supporter of an ethnocracy constantly spewing anti-Muslim propaganda (Israel)...? Germany. you're seriously trying to suggest that a couple thousand drunken British gammons are the worst of Islamophobia?

your country literally banned minarets

vindicated

chamber.

HI [inaudible], tooday I waunt to taulk about Mongowliaaah aynd rayse se question, "Does Mongowliaah shooud be ah pahrt ohf Sud-Est Ahhsia?". Valoooraaaaant and Riott just anonce-edd sat buht I sink sat [inaudible] raise sa question, because Sud-Est Asia just ave a huge fusion(???), se SICKS T2 ave just fuse-edd into one région.

It's an acronym.... ZM is short for Zero Majors. KK is short for 'Korean King', as he is the best Korean player, even better than Lakia. Now that he won a major he'll probably change it.

Why is JonahP called 'The Professor'

from 'Wikipedia'

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word professor is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well, and often to instructors or lecturers.

Professors often conduct original research and commonly teach undergraduate, postgraduate, or professional courses in their fields of expertise. In universities with graduate schools, professors may mentor and supervise graduate students conducting research for a thesis or dissertation. In many universities, full professors take on senior managerial roles such as leading departments, research teams and institutes, and filling roles such as president, principal or vice-chancellor. The role of professor may be more public-facing than that of more junior staff, and professors are expected to be national or international leaders in their field of expertise.

from 'liquipedia'

Jonah "JonahP" Pulice (born March 31, 2000) is a Canadian/Italian player who is currently playing for G2 Esports. He is a former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player.

pleased TH lost to give them a proper wake up call. same thing happened to GenG before Shanghai and look what happened to them.

i have chronic emea watcher syndrome 🤒

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it's not even a comp reason for which they're losing.... they got a respectable score on the defence, which was where it could be problematic, it's more that i just watched fns run in solo A main with no flashes whatsoever

money obviously doesn't equal performance or quality

VLR isn't a singular entity; when you take the views on this website combined, you'll not only have the ones you listed, but the entirety of the political spectrum, and beyond.

yes recognising when i don't understand something is insufferable, and asking others to do the same is insufferable.

??? Link

most based thing u said

you decided to debate a specific point, and lost because i know more about this specific thing than u. i'm not some cringe reddit nerd, i didn't want to spend 10mins of my life arguing about fkn nouns on vlr.gg LOL

single quotation marks ARE quotation marks what :sob: and they are used interchangeably. according to Gramarly, double quotation marks can be used to signify a nickname (so a proper noun), and single quotation marks apparently only have one purpose, which is to replace doubles when already quoted.

source: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/single-vs-double-quotes/ after literally one google

sounds like you're claiming random shit LMAO. why are we even arguing about this

yes used to hint to another meaning, precisely my point lmao. it's pretty inferable that that's what he was referring to.

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lmao read my message above; tldr: it's in speech marks, signifying a proper noun.

yes, just as i don't understand the nuances of American conversation, as i never will be able to unless i live there, the same for every other English speaking country lol. it's not a question of me being on a high horse, more about a lack humbleness from you.

well the word boaster was put in speech marks, so it implies that it is a proper noun, not a verbal one, aka boaster's username. in any case, i'm still waiting for your example of any of them being on their 'high horse'.

sub-OP said that they had a "pompous hubris" and therefore are "literally 'boasters'". perhaps you can't follow simple syllogisms? anyway, i asked for an example and you haven't given it. i'm not on a high horse, i respect and enjoy watching American streams but can also appreciate their differences in style. rather, in being close minded to your own region, it is you who is on the high horse.

what shit talk? you provided 0 timestamp, link, clip or any kind of concrete example in your post.

any example or...?

??? any example? and what about Boaster's personality is pompous LMAO

i think it's more that you don't understand the nuances of European and specifically British conversation

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this false equivalence is so braindead. she never said yay should be kicked, or called him a "FRAUD", and certainly not in the context of him losing a game especially not him having a full breakdown.

finally, on the COM issue, obviously she's gonna defend her boyfriend? and afaik COM hasn't been crying, tho true it has been rough for him. regardless, to make a point about one thing, you don't need to say something in every example. you're just looking for something concrete to supplement your lacklustre points.

Nope (:

Battle of Bataan
Saratoga campaign
Vietnam War
Red Cloud's War
Powder River Indian War

^^ a few times u guys surrendered (: by your own logic perhaps you should distrust your own views?

this is the first time they've done..?

yes, you're right, that's YOUR strawman lmao. that wasn't mine nor the OP's goal.

they played it totally wrong tho, the point of reyna is the movement for A site... pushing forward around midsite, taking aggressive fights, etc, but they played way too passive with her

yes, prevent them from creating "pipelines" specifically. how does that stretch to stopping racism altogether? you can't stop radicalisation through an individual action obviously, hence why i referred to specific means through which one can be radicalised that this prevents. that doesn't mean it prevents them in every case, it doesn't mean it prevents radicalisation altogether.

but you're strawmanning the OP and me because neither of us claimed that this was "stopping" racism/radicalisation together lmao, who's doing the misinterpreting? in fact, i gave you the benefit of the doubt, and assumed that you didn't really mean preventing racism altogether, but clearly you did. not sure how that's lying lmao

okay then, rephrase your words, how should he be attempting to dismantle the systems? what else did you mean than an individual? it's not a misinterpretation if you don't actually correct yourself.

"incredibly detailed" LMAO your entire paragraph was yapping. you provided barely any logical or empirical points, and instead just said cynically that everything that i claimed was untrue without giving sufficient explanation as to why. this current point which you made actually did address some of what i said. also, you say this after replying to half my points? lol.

tldr for your paragraph: people gonna be racist regardless of this post because they are already racist

i ask you, "what makes them racist?", you don't even give a response. if this post didn't exist, yes quite evidently racist people watching him would be racist still lol. thx for the tautology, but not my point. i'm drawing a distinction with those who are susceptible to racism - people like me aged 14, actually. i knew racism was bad, but if i didn't know people were racist, then i would buy into what they had to say. i used to say the n-word in class and things like that. my personal story aside - spreading awareness about such a figure of the community undoubtedly punishes the subject and makes at least the littlest amount of positive change by influencing whoever reads this article. the fact that you're denying this is bizarre to me.

he's not wining on vlr, as i said, he's spreading awareness. i wouldn't know about this on keznit if i hadn't read the thread, so i can say that he has at least helped me.

yes, prevent people from creating pipelines through which to worsen racism. that doesn't mean stopping racism altogether. if people know someone has done racist things in the past, but their fanbase don''t know about them, then i would argue that's a pipeline through which the fanbase can be radicalised. pretty basic stuff man.

as for the liberal point, you seemed to be suggesting that he wasn't radical enough, making him a liberal, or that there wasn't enough 'praxis' in what he was doing, despite the clear epistemic value of making this post which you are conveniently ignoring.

as for your strange critique of my point about being socially liberal. you will find that there are socially liberal feminists who don't believe in liberation of trans people and (less often) vice-versa.

you literally told him that he should "attempt to dismantle the systems"....? suggesting that it's an action that an invidual (he) can carry out. 1 line in and you already contradict what you said ?XD

i don't think he ever said that activism is "limited" to making vlr posts, perhaps that is all he does but so what? as long as he is making some consequential positive change, where is the issue?

i never said he was "stopping", but increasing the amount of people who can be wary of racist influencers clearly has a positive impact on them. what makes someone "susceptible" to racism? it's exposure to it. decreasing their exposure thereby means they will be less likely to be racist. pretty basic stuff man.

liberal also doesn't mean left wing lmao, political liberalism is an ideology founded by John Locke who supported slavery and prescribed property as a "natural right". being socially liberal can be selective towards certain groups, it doesn't make you automatically left wing.

how do you attempt to "dismantle the systems" lmao? name me one political philosopher who considers that an action of an invididual. how do you know he's a liberal? the best way to fight online racism in content creators is to spread awareness, and to out those who are, to prevent those people from creating pipelines through which to influence their younger fans.

tbqh you could probably say analytically hate breeds violence, but if you want studies check this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7500692/

where is the slippery slope? there's plenty of empirical studies which show that hateful language leads to violence.

well that's a bit of a strawman - not sure "constant buffs" are required. for viper, it's only really sage which needs to be changed to offer a reasonable alternative, i.e on split, a sage buff would also reduce cypher's monopoly on stall a bit as well.