With the split now beginning, I wanted to signal boost this again. It's inevitable that there will be numerous teams who come up short of their goals this season. While it's likely not enough runway to deliver a great Split 1, I'm still a free agent and have been diligently
meL giving one of the most graceful loser's interviews I've seen in esports. Still articulate, not dismissive of the other team, and not afraid to speak to the overwhelming emotions in a loss like that. One of the best role models in
#VCTGameChangers
, victory or defeat.
Love BR's support of their teams but not showing up unless there's a home team, and then booing a grand finalist is kind of an embarrassing move. Part of being a great event host is being there for the show, not just being there for a team.
Unfortunately,
@FNATIC
and I were unable to come to terms for my continued involvement in 2022. I'm proud of our achievements and know the team will do incredibly in the new year and new format.
With that said, I'm open to new opportunities globally for 2022
Valorant Roster Update: Today, we say our farewells to Strategic Coach
@AnderzzTV
. Thank you for all of your efforts these last few months, Martin.
Read more about his departure:
C9 picking up qpert is the most underrated part of their signing. Everyone knows the roster and mce are top-flight, but slotting in an assistant coach/analyst that can legitimately 6th man is a great way to help shoulder the presumably immense cost of the rest of the squad.
Underappreciated press conference answer of the day so far; FNS dodging the landmine question of "Will ardiis be better than yay?" - instead of throwing either player under the bus he puts the onus on himself and the team by essentially saying "it rides on how well we set him up"
It's outstandingly concerning that the rationale being used for the 1st scenario (Giving the slot to the players creating a supposed sales loophole) means that if players have any concern about the liquidity/sustainability of a potential org it's now in their best interests to
Hey everyone. This situation is very unfortunate and none of us wanted this outcome. We designed Ascension hoping to see new teams and players joining our International Leagues every year, and it’s disheartening to see this happening in year one. That said, I want to share some
Riot's at a very, *very*, real impasse here. If they don't find a better solution to this TGRD situation I don't think anyone on earth could continue defending their handling of tier 2...
How we landed on removing Fracture over Ascent is beyond me... Changes to Breeze are enough that it's nearly a new map so I can understand a desire to leave a source of relative 'normality' in the pool. But now we're just going to see Asc/Haven/Bind consistently over the new maps
Your stay in paradise has been upgraded. At the start of Episode 7 Act 2, Breeze will return to the map rotation with a few changes—Fracture and Pearl will rotate out. Preview the changes below:
- Mid Pillar and Mid Cubby
I have nearly 2 years of receipts saying
@ApothVal
is a Top 5 controller in NA. If you still disagree at this point, I'll wait until you come around, because you *will* come around. Young, inquisitive, great baseline intuition, immense firepower for his role
#VCT
#VCTNA
#VALORANT
TGRD desperately need to find some comfort here. Get saya back on jett, neT back on chamber. Find some actual FK momentum to keep yourselves in the game
#VCT
#VCTNA
#VALORANT
"They're saving for a house in LA" -
@BrenCasts
I think that might be the first time I've heard an audible audience laugh to a mid-cast joke. 🤣
#VCTAmericas
With V1 missing partnership, I've been given the opportunity to explore my options. Open to coaching and strategic roles, offering:
- World-class complex systems thinking & strategic ideation
- An advanced quant skillset
- 8 years management, coaching, and directorial experience
Johnqt looks like he's *comfortably* an international play-offs caliber player. I already had his stock high all of last year but he feels even more unleashed right now and it's terrifying 🤣
#VCTAmericas
"Content Creator Orgs" are one of the few sources of genuine fun, hype, and optimism in the industry right now, things like this do a great job of highlighting why that is 🍞😂
Alright, I'll be the one to say it and I'm only going to say it once: We've got to get over it with the offseason length and formats.
You hate it. I hate it. Riot has already publicly acknowledged they're working on it for next year. Unfortunately, this year was budgeted around
A new addition to the Black and Orange:
@AnderzzTV
joins as our Valorant Strategic Coach!
With our eyes set towards
#VCT
LCQ & Champions, Anderzz's experience, insight, and strategy will push the team to perform at their very highest level of play.
Over the years we've worked together, mini's proven he has an ironclad devotion to his craft and an unparalleled ability to make the right calls even when they're at their most difficult. I know that this situation is no different and that while from the outside looking in it's a
Following our VALORANT team’s outstanding achievements during the VCT 2024 campaign, Coach Jacob ‘
@minijake_
’ Harris has made the personal decision to step down from the Head Coach position.
This decision has come after careful consideration from Mini to explore options for a
Excellence and, maybe even moreso, Resilience from SEN gets them their trophy.
@TenZOfficial
enduring a rough year, role swap, and performance criticism,
@itskaplan
receiving what felt like bottomless negativity over roster decisions,
@DrewSparkR6
quietly but tirelessly doing
With Episode 8 we seem to be getting a Map Pool Change. |
#VALORANT
Currently, Haven will be taken out and Icebox will be put back in. (Note: This can change)
This feels like it may be a bit of missing the forest for the trees... The reason many of us like watching the best teams play at the international level is because they've been forged, tempered, and allowed to build their stories domestically. A lot of those current best teams
@me1ody610
@LoganBartley25
We’re expanding the calendar next year to space things out and shorten the offseason. But we like the baseline number of matches each team currently play, and we’re not looking to increase that. Ultimately, fans want to see the best teams play more, and those teams make it to
@lhfaria
Thank you for reconsidering and searching for a better solution. This situation is no doubt rife with pitfalls but getting it right is likely the most important single decision of the next few years for VAL's talent pipeline.
I'm going to level, I think Iso is probably hotfix territory. Can't think of a balance miss of this magnitude in a very long time. It takes all the anti-tactical attributes of untradeability mechanics and cranks them up to 100.
A lot of folks will remember the concern around a
This format is 10/10. Few-to-no negatives from a competitive integrity standpoint and has the potential for some of the best rivalry narratives we'll have had. Imagine the Bilibili-NRG timeline but after NRG picked them as a first round playoff opponent; storylines will go crazy
Swiss will be back for Masters Shanghai, with a twist — the 1st seeds from each league who get a bye to the playoffs stage will get to pick their own opponents for the first round, live on stage. Full format explainer coming soon. Also, go say hi to
@RiotPanzzzzz
!
My biggest project joining back up w/ FNC was to replicate our 2021 Champs Fracture: make a world-beating 1st pass on a new map. The boys have put in an incredible effort to ensure it was exactly that. Couldn't be more proud, time to close. 🥲
#FNCWIN
#AlwaysFnatic
#VCTLOCKIN
Tell me you don't understand what makes for a good Toxic Screen without telling me you don't understand what makes for a good Toxic Screen.
Unlucky really.
#VCT
#VCTNA
#VALORANT
Since nearly the day she came out I was sold that Ascent was Deadlock's best map (mind you, that doesn't mean I think it's good enough to be competitively viable beyond a novelty pick, just her best map...)
Rationale being if we look at Jett's dive conversion, Ascent is already
This seems like something the game definitely needed and is not at all going to become a potential multi-month game defining change tantamount to release Chamber :)
OUTLAW - Super Early Access Footage
▫️ very high wall penetration
▫️ 140 to HS
▫️ 125 through the wall
▫️ 119 to leg
▫️ strong hip fire (noscope)
▫️ reloading 1 bullet is faster than reloading 2
▫️ you can break KJ ultimate with 3 bullets
100T is on the verge of giving us a "the world is healing" moment for VAL meta development this year. One of few teams to come into kick-off with an identifiable and distinct meta read, one of even fewer to have that read be good, and as far as I can tell the only one to stay the
Really happy to see FNC climbing back to where they belong. Felt like there was a visible turning point and gear shift on Split where the quality of midrounds spiked. Said in the costream "Boaster's calls are flowing now, this might just be over," and the team just never relented
This is my official rant post to
@ValorantEsports
: the fact that we still don't have a globally agreed upon exploit list that's uniformly enforced across all
#VCT
regions and
#Gamechangers
is bush league at best.
There's been ample time to resolve this. Fix it.
#VALORANT
Poor decision for the map pool imo; doesn't take into account the median map draft outcome or the homogenizing effect Ascent and Haven are having currently, let alone post-change. The amount of draft stagnation we're going to see as a result is going to be mind numbing.
#VALORANT
Icebox leaves the Competitive and Unrated queue map rotation when Bind returns at the start of Act III (Patch 6.08).
To help you prepare, the Bind updates will go live in all other modes with Patch 6.07.
Benjy: 4K
PRX: "Surely he doesn't play there again"
Benjy: 4K
PRX: "Surely he doesn't play there AGAIN"
Narrator: "He did, in fact, play there again"
Benjy: 2K
#VALORANTMasters
@benjyfishy
Full stop
@ValorantEsports
if you don't release a *very* explicit breakdown of how and why this is being considered a bug, *and* disable KJ for the remainder of the event. You've blown it.
#VALORANTChampions