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| Registered: | December 7, 2021 |
| Last post: | May 16, 2024 at 5:26 AM |
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Time zones also play a big part in denying cross regional viewership. Nats is on early morning where I live, so I can’t watch him because I have work. On the other hand, Zekken streams at night after I’m home, so I can tune into his stream often.
Thus EU streamers speaking English and streaming at normal times for them can’t tap into the interested NA fanbase much.
It’s a language issue. NA (Canada + US) has almost 100% English understanding among the ppl on twitch and it has a lot of people who want to watch streamers. Thus NA streamers have a big fanbase of interested people who can understand them.
On the other hand EU streamers can only appeal to the fraction of their interested parties. If Nats speaks Russian on stream, he’ll be unable to tap into the viewership of all the non-Russian speaking viewers. If he speaks English, he can’t get all the Russian people who might want to watch but don’t know English. Same goes for people from any other country. This same logic is applies to why EU ranked can be so difficult as well. More languages divide the population, so communication is harder, which means misunderstandings that cause frustration, and thus more toxicity from said frustration.
Apac overcomes this language barrier a bit by having large interested populations in specific regions (like Japan or Korea). That’s why certain Japanese streamers speaking their native language can get such a large viewership for Valorant.
It’s really an interesting phenomenon but definitely not the consequence of EU streamers falsely being stated as less personable.
Yeah she has the grappling hook (the idea this dude brought up)
THIS!!
Ty for spitting facts trick, and congrats on making challengers!!
IGLs should be judged on win rate not stats.
It’s so hard to quantify their nondirect impact, so much so that in some cases even when they appear to be holding their team back, they’re actually the reason the other players are doing as well as they are. FNS is the prime example. When he did better statistically, that was usually indicative of when optic as a whole was playing worse. It’s hard to tell whether that was because by him focusing on individual performance, he wasn’t doing his igl duties as well as usual, or whether the other players playing worse gave him more opportunities.
That distinction is besides the point though.
Rooting for so many teams in ascension imma be conflicted. Love Disguised, OR, M80, Squirtle Squad, but Guard is always my #1
Glad to hear it. Anyone else who actually thinks before they add detail to this hellscape is cool with me, so I like you too
Honestly I think addison’s annoying but I have to respect that charity stream he did. Raising 11k for a good cause is a fantastic way to turn this hate narrative around and use his infamy for something good.
Tarik literally went “yeah uh I think you should’ve played”. If the ‘content king’ himself is thinking you’re doing too much content, that’s probably a sign….
Good analysis!! I’m not sure I entirely agree with the generalizations and I think cloud9 will do a little better than you expect because MCE is a fantastic coach, but still great work.
Also the line:
“ Sentinels- dephh is British, which is a bad thing,”
Made me laugh
This site has actually been delivering with the baits recently
I’ll always be rooting for guard first but he’s second!
https://twitter.com/poisedfps/status/1615836006502080517?s=46&t=Cyk5BWF_ltL5vNdn1cRkMg
I’m never detracting from this guys individual performance again. The fact that he can play at this level after such a devastating injury is absolutely incredible. Massive respect to you my bro!
I predicted Guard to win from the beginning, and wrote a good post about how I hoped they would win the final (which sadly they got demolished in), but eh it happens.
Here it is: https://www.vlr.gg/129401/the-guard-storytime
I guarantee you I was here. And if I wasn't, it's because I was travelling or got busy with finals.
I think with their chemistry, they definitely have a good chance. I don't think it's a shoe-in for them by any means; M80 in particular will likely be a strong competitor. That being said, I think Trent + Valyn are the best initiator and smoke igls left to play in ascension, so that's gonna be a big advantage. Losing Saya and mCe was obviously a big blow to them, but I bet Tex and JoshRT will fill their place pretty well in a month or so.
Damn you missed out on my LCQ storytime I'm sorry for you. That was a truly epic post.
LMFAOOO I was literally the guy mCe called the last guard flair on VLR during that masters 2 challengers split. Of all the people to accuse of being plastic fans, I ain't one. Ask any of the older members.
Go check MCE's vlr responses, I'm very much not a plastic fan and I don't pretend like I speak for all guard fans. I've always only spoken for myself.
Go spread the word about TGRD on HLTV then, have fun there
Exactly, that's what I've noticed
You don't think Tex/Valyn have the ability to be godlike players?
Some of the things he's said recently after guard does well:
"really expected result, unsurprising tbh."
(The Guard unveil 2023 roster, adding tex, JoshRT in News)
"shits gonna be free"
(NEW GUARD ROSTER ESTA AQUI in General Discussion)
"I’m gonna blow my brains out if the guard somehow doesn’t win ascension"
I'm not trying to gatekeep being a guard fan bc I love the team, but I'd prefer to be associated with people who don't make other fans hate TGRD's fanbase
Ayyy good to see you supporting Guard again Luck :)
What is it with you and "truths". 90% of the comments on this site are dumb opinions. Also if you want examples gimme a sec.
Boring + badly made analogy. Go back to calling them Gourd or something.
Dude I took a break from this site and as soon as I get back, I see that guy posting the stupidest shit with a guard flair. Like acting arrogant and all this stuff. Made me pissed ngl especially since he was nowhere to be found during all the downs of TGRD last year.
Exactly! Plus they didn't have anywhere near the coordination they showed in masters 1 and LCQ last year. I bet they'll be able to reach that form again if not better with sentinel actually being meta again bc that suits their original composition a lot more.
He doesn't look great tbh right now. A lot of crouch spraying and stuff. But he was an insane player in OW where aim is mechanically harder imo, so I bet with enough time he'll be able to adjust.
I don't claim gamr, the rest of us are alright. It's just nice to feel vindicated after I had so many people last year shit on me supporting them.
I agree but people were still hating on them after their LCQ performance (which was pretty damn amazing I'd say). It made 0 sense.
You can shut up once and for all about this, yeah?
What have I been saying literally since their loss at masters 1. People KEEP UNDERRATING THIS DAMN TEAM AND THESE SICK ASS PLAYERS.
Ps. don't give me the practice excuse, Trent on LAN got 39 kills against a team with fucking Sacy, Pancada, Zekken, Tenz, and Dephh on it (and a decent portion of those kills were unsupported). You can't still be undermining this guy's talent.
pps. that typo in the title will haunt me for 3 million years
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