Wtf are we talking about? Is this just a dogwhistle for "I hate female fans?" People are acting like this is the worst thing to ever happen to val and yet you literally never have to deal with it if you don't want to. The only place you could possibly encounter this shit is twitter, and why are you fuckers all on there anyway if you hate it so much anyway?

Not as shitty as you tho

Damn it's even worse than I thought. I don't understand how these people exist. I get how casual transphobia can form to an extent, but this amount of hate to a group of people who've never done a single thing to you is crazy.

Bro is such a loser that he made an alt account with the sole purpose of being transphobic. Be normal bro.

at this point, you may have just become the crybaby here. he's not being cancelled bro, shut up.

It was pretty obnoxious, sure, but he's also not even being cancelled. Can we stop calling 30 random people saying they don't like something a cancellation? Because it's not. If some people who weren't even his fans get a bad taste in their mouth because of this, that's valid, but it's still not a cancellation.

So is any team not number 1 in their region awful now? They made an international brother, show a little bit of respect.

Nah people liked EG. Their rise from bottom-feeders to champ winners was insanely hype as it happened over the course of the year. Some people didn't like Demon1, but most people either didn't care or thought it was mildly amusing.

I still wouldn't call them most beloved though. PRX during that time with Jingg supposedly having to leave for military service was probably even more beloved at the time.

yall forgot about babyj

bro its vlr. never expect anything but the worse

ye thats still what he's saying. they're not strategically to the level of a top 3-5 team in the world, but firepower carries them there and without it they'd be more mid-table

he's saying vitality is strategically bad but has good players. reading comprehension bruh.

I never really got the derke hype until I've started seeing him in vit. maybe im just a peabrain tho

its 1 for me too and im doing it, so you should too.

As long as I don't know they'll always finish fourth and can still have some suspense in my life, I pick number uno

I didn't think the apac fans had it in them to stoop to our level and flame other regions... but here we are.

for NA viewers it'll definitely feel like that because of the start times. prob hype af in apac regions rn tho

dude. its been two games, both of which have been china/apac best team vs the second seed of emea/americas. They've been caught up for a while and I've heard some iteration of this take about them rapidly improving and leaving us in the dust every year. we'll probably get to a more equal playing field, but i really don't see any evidence for emea/americas not being able to keep up.

cs sucks (I've never played it)

val fans care a little bit. There is definitely a bit of insecurity from all the shit they get from CS fans claiming they have the objectively better game. People shouldn't give a fuck, but they do unfortunately.

Cuz they decided to only use white people (joke)

Well 1-3 are interchangeable but true since they're the best from their regions. The rest of your power-rankings is probably about as correct as anyone else's. A lot of these rosters are new and have never seen the international stage in their current iteration since it's only just Kickoff. We'll probably get some wild results.

Sparkling water tastes bad but it tickles my nerves so I still drink it lmao.

Favorite between G2, VIT, and EDG is all personal choice tbh. Hard to differentiate when they're all dominating their respective regions.

who is "they?" the fans? cause who cares.

I'd agree that there are a lot of shit teams in America's rn, but I'm not convinced the teams they DO send to internationals will flub as hard as people think. Most years we have a bunch of more consistent good teams, but not the top 2-3 internationally, but it may be the other way around this year.

Either way, that's just rn. Everything will prob change after kickoff as it does every year. Teams will make changes or settle in and get better across the board in every region. I hope they do, I'm kinda sick of these constant lop-sided stomps in america's domestic matches lmao.

W character development

I am genuinely curious how the second place Americas team will place. G2 just makes them all look like shit, so it's hard to tell whether they're actually shit or they're just going to be average nternationally

Real question, as a fan where do you have them?

Just let him live his life bro. He's living rent free in your head rn.

No. They're bad for a lot of other reasons.

Honestly every region is looking a little bit ass and top heavy this year. Hard to judge yet.

idk what he said or did but he's a cringe manchild so he's wrong ig.

we can hope, but also this is a lot of pressure to put on a person. the amount of people looking to her to prove a point larger than herself this year is crazy. a lot of players face pressure, but not this kind of ideological/political pressure... i wouldn't be surprised if it got to her in some way tbh.

Teams have been able to sign him for a while. It's just a matter of if they think it's a good idea for their brand, if they think Sinatraa in his current state is worth it after having been so long without playing on a team, and if Sinatraa is down in the first place. Most T1 Teams probably don't want him due to both skill and brand reasons, and he probably won't accept any T2 offers so we're probably still in the retirement arc for him.

i have bad news for you.

And at the time those players were still mostly undiscovered and didn't hold the champion status they do now, so you'd also have to credit her for picking them up and getting them to that level to some degree.

no bro. just no.

Me.

Ye I like rooting for Americas just cuz that's what I watch the most and It'd take some of the enjoyment outta region-only tournaments if they were ass. Idc about race/origin or whatever.

but he's been playing in NA for literally his whole career? Who cares.

I don't get it.

They're just popular. That's fine. That's the sign of a team doing their job.

Bro's just a hater.

Unfortunately, G2 is gonna clear every team here and we'll get the worst ending.

Don't care they're both good people and players :)

DRX, LEV, AND DRX. All 3 are overrated i said it.

Safe 5-6th spot fs.

Brenshow my favorite. Achillios/paperthin and panpoc close second/third. Everyone else is alright/good. I don't really hate any casters or duos, and I don't get why people do.

The biggest reason to want the strongest region is because most people only watch one region plus international events. And if the one region you watch is ass, the games feel less important.