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@milanfps my goat, thanks for your work for the team

I’m grateful for every player, staff member, and fan who was part of this journey. We shared some incredible moments, learned through the difficult ones, and built memories I’ll carry with me for a long time. I still believe deeply in this roster and the people behind it. Thank you for all the support during my time here. Esports moves fast, and sometimes change is part of the process. No regrets, only gratitude for the experience and the people I met through it. See you soon 🧡

@FNATIC @milanfps @DesmoFPS @vct_emea NOOOOOOOOOOOO

After reviews following VCT EMEA Split 1, we have decided to restructure our coaching staff with @milanfps stepping aside as head coach and @DesmoFPS stepping in as interim head coach for our upcoming EWC qualifiers. Whilst we are still in discussion with Milan about his future at FNATIC we want to thank him for his incredible efforts in the position, and we are working on finalizing a new head coach to work alongside Desmo.

"enjoy ip ban"

@taralovescarti lmao nice try

@SpectralVLR you give them to me thanks x

how do i refund masters london tickets

i need to start tracking heartrate during these games because wtf

fuck me bro

@real_122109 @Flameysaurus

You can’t hide behind religion to be transphobic btw. You make ALL of us Muslims look bad with this rhetoric. don’t even get me started on the AI. Wallah get a grip

a very close family friend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer which has spread. financially, everyday is becoming more of a struggle for them. it would mean a lot even just for a simple share 🤍 gofund.me/25e0642dd

Whenever a white man does something like this people say "oh but he has such a bright future ahead of him!" but as soon as someone who isn't a white male does something unacceptable everyone agrees it's "oh they should never play again😡😡"

Don't worry Vitality, you just need one more FNATIC player until the superteam is formed, just one more.

@Jasper_CR23 @greatest_goat_ wdym bro u carried me when we played prem

@greatest_goat_ Play cr casually now, ive played valorant since its release not particularly great at it though

there are very very few cases where you should be buying the bulldog round 2

@marceldzia vouch goat

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@minijake_ Opinions on Harbor on Breeze?

✈️🇬🇧 AMA – 9 hour wait at the airport 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Its my birthday today, can I get a hbd from my goats? @OfficialBoaster @Crashies @Alfajervl @kaajakval @VeqajVLR @CoJoPM @milanfps @DesmoFPS @performmentally Gl in the game today 🙏

Valorant community act normal online challenge: impossible

@sarah_frags SarahFacts

are yall not getting a little bit tired of spending our time on this earth creating profit for a class of people that consistently seems to use it to actively destroy and gamble the future u feel u have to build for urself while they seek out means of saving themselves? donald trump is not going to save you, man. neither is the next one, regardless of party, unfortunately. there’s legitimately a good chance the cia actively worked to create or maintain the instability in the countries these immigrants feel they need to leave, in order to buy in to the same dream we all found ourselves stuck in too. the only thing that has changed with this administration is they’ve found the audacity to do a whole bunch of this shit without even trying to hide it or manufacture a narrative because aesthetics are disgustingly op this patch and we are all so cynical and scared that a lot of us have legitimately just gotten to the point of laughing at it now. i mean shit guys it might be cooked by now but we can’t rly know that. if you got a 7-eleven job and a drop shipping side hustle and your brain got one shot by something other than mine like fucking looksmaxxing or this new quirky fascism or some random conspiracy theory u may or may not be totally correct on, all of the above — you aren’t evil dawg. we aren’t that different. neither of us are getting on that spaceship or building a bunker. only reason 90% of people follow this account is cuz i clicked on people on my funny little torture box for 20 million hours. we all coping but u have to believe me there is a way to have hope and we all gotta be redeemable, we just maybe gotta start like giving a fuck and actually doing things one of these days. hopefully before things get too bad 🙂 we play qor today :)

the greatest valorant announcement video of all time

“game changers drama” It feels a little weird to be writing about this right now; I mean, trans people are seemingly always dealing with needlessly vicious persecution but given the fact that the unironic genocidal dictator currently running a certain country has literally just decided to officially allow his extrajudicial secret police to target anyone that “looks trans” – days after the supreme court ruled that adult trans healthcare bans are legal – it just feels a little frivolous to be talking about my funny little scene in my funny little video game. Nonetheless, if I’m being honest, I don’t know what the fuck to do about that and the more I think about it the more scared I get that we are all wasting our time here and that, maybe, just maybe, that is one of the most evil things we could be doing at the moment. Anyway I was also lowkey thinking a lot about the recent YFP incident and really just the discourse around gender identity in GC in general. I feel like we have basically been having the same discussions for years and more often than not they seem to only really make the scene look bad, be horribly misconstrued by people on the outside looking in, and actually accomplish very little in terms of advancing GC as a program in val/evolving the concept for the future. I truly think that a majority of you have the scene’s best interests in mind, but these are incredibly complicated discussions to be having, and we should be really careful about our intentions when we talk about this stuff. I really do think GC in val has actually been incredibly successful. If the goal was to develop talent of marginalized genders due to the discrimination they face in esports, maybe even to inspire certain young people that would’ve never had an interest in competing to give it a try, I think these have undeniably been accomplished and if you really want to see more women competing at the highest level of gaming these things probably do scale. One of the problems we seem to run into, in NA at least, is that you probably don’t want to invest into a scene that seems to be constantly involved in witch hunts debating the legitimacy of players’ identities. Every single time you do this, you make me scared that one day these types of programs might simply decide that the only solution is to determine eligibility by “birth sex” or gender markers on ID or some shit, I mean some regions already do to my understanding. Obviously this is a horrible solution, we’ve had this debate for years. There are countless gender identities that, even if you don’t necessarily present outwardly queer, if you were to ask your random tier 3 team to simply show you basic respect and acknowledge your identity, you would experience a good chance of just getting dropped or perma misgendered or ridiculed and dehumanized. Maybe all of the above. On top of all that, there are numerous reasons that trans people might be struggling to get official documents or healthcare (like the highkey genocide) and gating their access to this environment in the most critical years of their careers effectively defeats the purpose for them. Personally I fucking love trans people. I am a trans person. This scene changed my life and I am eternally grateful. I want to keep seeing more and more people of all different kinds under those bright lights standing up and yelling across the stage. I don’t think anyone has a perfect solution, maybe there isn’t one. AnyKey isn’t perfect but honestly man they do a pretty decent job, and I’m just at a point where I feel like we are beyond this. Who are you to say that someone isn’t trans enough to play in GC? Obviously if people are outwardly misogynistic, hateful, dangerous, etc. they have no place in the scene and every gaming community kind of has a responsibility to deal with bad actors, but vagueposting and debating people’s identity is legit gross. Surely if we are truly sure that someone in the scene is disingenuous in their identity, we have actual compelling evidence that can be shared through official channels so that these people can’t just rebrand? I’m sure that a few people have done these things you allege and it sucks, but the beauty of GC is that a few shitty noobs larping cannot defeat the purpose of the program. Is it really worth forcing more trans people to debate the validity of their entire existence – especially now – as, for many of us, our lifesaving healthcare is being taken away, and we legitimately have to worry about being kidnapped with no legal recourse in the “world’s greatest power,” all the while you are effectively shooting your own scene in the foot?

Baseline has been set and it's onto Premier starting next week. Proud of the progress we've made but it's still a long way to go.