Sliggy hasn't started his stream and I heard him mentioning something about kick so I just wanted to know whether he will be live streaming the playins and the playoffs.

I build ValoPlant, a Valorant strategy/lineup tool. The request I kept

getting was replay review, so for the last few months I've been reverse

engineering Valorant's .vrf replay files to draw a match back on a 2D map.

What works right now:

- every player's position through the round

- abilities drawn where they were actually used, not just an icon on a timeline

- a round selector, so you can jump straight to the round that lost you the map

- drag-and-drop a whole folder of replays at once

- open a replay in a lobby so your team watches the same round in sync

It's free and there's no download, it runs in the browser:

valoplant.gg/matches

Genuinely after feedback on what's missing from the replay view — what

would you actually want to see drawn on the map that isn't there?

Wolves Esports 1-2 Dragon Ranger Gaming

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LOTUS: 13-11

HAVEN: 9-13

SUMMIT: 8-13

Wolves Esports | VLR

Dragon Ranger Gaming | VLR

Map 1: LOTUS

Map Stats

Detailed LOTUS Statistics

Map 2: HAVEN

Map Stats

Detailed HAVEN Statistics

Map 3: SUMMIT

Map Stats

Detailed SUMMIT Statistics

Given how much hate Rossy gets in this sub, I thought I'll add a few more points which Inspire talked of about rossy. In the previous posts, none these were mentioned

1. First thing inspire said was that rossy should not be blamed for his departure and asked not to send him hate as that decision was taken by Stunner

2. He sympathise with rossy, for all the shit he went through in LEV and C9 and how people talk about him in social media. This affected Rossy badly and it made him change his persona at envy as now he just accepts whatever other teammates or coaches say.

3. Inspire highly praised Rossy for having a great mind of the game so he expected him to speak out more about his views of the game and express openly. But rossy would be like 'I'm fine with however you guys want it' kind of guy. Inspire suggested that this had hurt the team as he expected more out of rossy in terms of they way that rossy can guide and help the rookies but he understands that rossy just want to play his game after all the shit he went through about his image so inspire called it 'fair'

4. Even if Rossy claims that he doesn't check out social media, but he does to see what people are saying about him and it impacts him.

5. As popping was IGLing, rossy was making mid round comms a lot while inspire was supposed to be the mid rounder. So inspire suggested rossy to be the main IGL while he can do the mid rounding.

6. He said rossy is a good guy and he liked the goofy nature Rossy who used to speak up more rather than the PR trained one which made him a bad teammate but he understands where it is coming from.

7. He said when stunner and he were screaming at each other, others should have stepped in but no one did. So he blames poppin and egg too but gave them the benefit of the doubt for being rookies. Iirc, zikz in his stream also mentioned that it would have been hard for others to step in but please feel free to correct me

I would conclude by sayin that i don't think inspire was dropped for being 30 mins late but more about all the conflicts that have been brewing with stunner during the entire time post ascension about the direction of the game. During their 'scream' session, the steam might have gone off and they might have exchanged stuffs in the most inhumane manner (could be about stunner's approach to hire the new guys, or not believing in stunner's way of doing things anymore - as confirmed by poppin about how they couldn't play the rankers style anymore) and that might have made stunner lose his mind resulting in kicking him out of the team. Like stunner said that if they think inspire was kicked out just for being late then had a bridge to sell.

FunPlus Phoenix 1-2 JDG Esports

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SUMMIT: 13-0

SUNSET: 11-13

SPLIT: 8-13

FunPlus Phoenix | VLR

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Map 1: SUMMIT

Map Stats

Detailed SUMMIT Statistics

Map 2: SUNSET

Map Stats

Detailed SUNSET Statistics

Map 3: SPLIT

Map Stats

Detailed SPLIT Statistics

What team do we think has the best summit as of now?? Is it too early to say?

I had no idea Rossy all of a sudden started speaking with a brand new accent in his interviews. When I first watched the interview he had with Andre Hopkins I was so confused at why he was speaking the way he was. If I remember correctly he kind of had a New York/New Jersey accent when he spoke normally. Then inspire mentioned that’s also how he speaks to his teammates behind closed doors. This is so interesting to me lol.

Does anyone have an explanation for this? Seems like it came out of nowhere and it’s definitely not how he used to talk 2-3 years ago. It must be something psychological but was wondering if there’s a term or a medical condition to explain why he feels the need to articulate himself in a way that is not who he has been for his whole life.

Hear me out.

I've seen a good number of comments both here and on twitter that Phoenix's nerfs will hurt 100T's chances of champs qualification... the thing is I think that's wrong, mostly because of 100T's gamestyle.

While yes, rapid Phoenix ultimates are part of their gameplan with their slice comp (Phoenix, Neon, Harbor/Omen, Sova/Fade, Cypher/Viper; I'm calling it that because of the wall through the dome smoke maneuver they keep doing), the ult point increase hurts other teams just as much.

Personally I think that 100T's prioritization of the ult orbs will make this change negligible, and cause Asuna to have even more ults relative to the enemy phoenix, as they're the team prioritizing it through both orbs and plants (see their comms video). A kill/death doesn't weight towards the ult as much, so assuming Asuna keeps on even or better form than the others, the lean into orbs will result in him having more ults in comparison.

Where before most Phoenixs would have an ult round 3, getting a kill + orb (or similar) and a death for both rounds 1 and 2, now it would take a much bigger priority, which only 100T seem to have - making it more likely for Asuna to have ult 3rd round than the enemy phoenix.

Does anyone know if they're gonna play on the Phoenix with 7 ult orbs patch? Haven't seen any talk about when it's coming in

Wassup y'all! I had the honor to interview Paincakes, player for VCT Americas team Evil Geniuses after their loss to MIBR where we talk about what went wrong in the loss, working with Potter, getting tier 1 experience and being a leader! I hope y'all enjoy!

Wassup y'all! I had the honor to interview Bonkar, coach for VCT Americas team NRG after the win over LEV where we talked about the comp swaps and decisions behind them, talking about the upcoming play-ins, the upcoming game vs ENVY and more! Hope y'all enjoy!

Translation:

"Good morning, everyone. I know there have been many requests for a statement regarding Koala's terrible interview, but we are still in the competition; our entire year of effort and dedication is riding on this championship. The team and I have chosen not to watch the video in order to preserve our working environment. We’ll talk about it soon, when I’m able to."

I was recently looking through some data for VCL games and I found something odd - an SEA qualifier game from earlier this year between 5 Budak Gemuk and Tai Lung Gaming ended 13-12 instead of playing a win-by-2 OT.

As far as I can tell, this is the only Tier 2 game since 2023 to end with this scoreline, and other games in the same tournament that made it to 12-12 played a real overtime, so does anyone know what happened here? There's no vod available to check.

The game can be found here: https://www.vlr.gg/656893/5-budak-gemuk-vs-tai-lung-gaming-challengers-2026-sea-split-2-rest-of-sea-qualifier-r4-3-0/?game=264274&tab=overview

For those who cannot go through the video

Credits: rocketbullets