Trick

EWC Qualifier Stream live @ 8 or 9 EST tonight ttv/trickaim

W watch party... might have to watch more EWC qualifier games

STILL LIVE

ENVY vs C9 *LIVE* EWC Qualifier ttv/trickaim

Travis “Tdawgg” Regan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 rumored to be filling for Cloud 9 in EWC due to Xeppa taking personal leave from Valorant

live now ttv/trickaim

t2 watchparty first in 2026 EVX (TDAWG) vs ROSE (For promo / relegation) ttv/trickaim

@Y00nited @1swaddink he played in t2 wym there was no vcl back then t2 is just the top teams in the open tournaments at that time

@1swaddink @TrickVAL he technically didn’t play in t2 but he did play in t3 which objectively is a step lower which is why i included him

Can someone make a list of every player in NA who got to join a T1 team coming out of T2

They actually fully destroyed shotguns, my favorite part of all of this is the shorty nerf. The shorty has completely ruined so many scenarios in the game for years, finally cannot just jump into smokes like an idiot

@ethanarnold @AkamaruVal Are you guys going to remove his champs trophy & make him play the next match naked @riotgames

During yesterday’s match vs Sentinels, there seems to be quite a bit of drama surrounding the tech pauses that occurred during Breeze and Lotus. Just wanted to give some clarification since the public probably can’t see/hear what’s being said during the match. Breeze (2nd Map) Tech Pause - Mada’s PC crashed 10sec after round start, which immediately lead to us asking our admin for a Tech Pause. We also typed in Party Chat to let Sentinels know DIRECTLY that we have an issue and we cannot play. A couple of seconds later we start dying one by one to Sentinels’ players running around the map. I’ve never seen that before, so I ask our admin for clarification on why they’re moving during a Tech Pause. Reason: Round timer still running, Tech Pause isn’t/wasn’t in effect yet. Lotus (3rd Map) Tech Pause - Sentinel’s PC crashed around 10sec after round start. Sentinels’ player types they crashed in party chat. I ask my admin during the round multiple times if this is a tech pause, I received no answer or any words from our admin for the remainder of the round (1m40s) so I continued to move. Hopefully that clears things up 👍

Anyone else jumps around and the community calls that "Good movement" but when ethan does it all the sudden its a problem? Jesus let bro practice his hops.

Based on the fact he took a drink *mid round* in a VCT game, I believe he goes out at night to commit multiple felonies.

diversion from what? I never even mentioned duelist at all until deep into my post. It was illogical and outright untrue. Not to mention missing the entire argument. Gotta ask yourself is it worth my time to type up an actual response to a bunch of random shitcans that cannot understand 3rd grade reading comprehension let alone Valorant pro play?

@TrickVAL @CitizenErased07 Hahahaha. Love the classic diversion

VCT community losing their minds over MIBR loss to Envy is the biggest self report of knowing nothing about Valorant. The state of Valorant is extremely variance based, more than ever before. There is no theoretical gameplan that is capable of consistently out performing players who are making good intuitive plays. You guys need to understand that since 2023 the game has slowly been shifting towards individual skill being more and more reliable than theory. Even the best "theory" teams on planet earth are struggling right now to maintain any level of consistency. NRG, G2, FNC etc. What exactly does this mean though? It means that players have improved as individuals far more than teams have improved the theory and it is not even close. When this happens the skill gap shrinks more and more. We have meta changes every couple of months that basically soft reset every team and map, we have a ranked system that gives no value to teamplay so upcoming players are all disproportionally better at fighting than game understanding. Combine all of this with the main "strategy" and "utility" being all on the duelist (Neon & Waylay) and of course, individualism will shine. To kill a stunned player, you used to have to find them with a sova dart, stun off audio & then jett dash on them. Now you can monkey into the bombsite and find them yourself, stun them yourself and kill them yourself. There is no teamplay designed into this meta at all so do not be surprised when these super teams struggle to consistently beat scrappy teams like Envy. Just think about how stupid the mechanics are from yoru, waylay & neon. Waylay and neon can get caught off in the most terrible position and just 1:1 counter stun any punishment, on what planet does that belong in an FPS game? What is the point in having the game designed in a way that initiators support the duelist when the duelists have better utility than every agent in the entire game including agents designed to have only supportive utility like breach. Genuinely think about that for a second, breach is awful in terms of self sufficiency so you would imagine the stun would be insane, the flash would be insane for the team etc. Since you cannot use it yourself. But nope, phoenix and yoru both have better flashes, neon and waylay both had INSTA cast better stuns, and yoru / waylay somehow has a better site disrupting ult than breach bro. The games design was always leading in this direction and if you cannot see that you are blind. Once the design team landed on "hey lets give duelists better site exec ults than initiators" you already know the game is completely fried. What in the world is the identity of this game anymore LOL the roles are so fake it is insane. Teams like MIBR will win in the long run once they really figure out maps, theory, how they wanna adapt to different play styles on each map etc. But as far as random losses like this you are an idiot to be surprised that they got ran down by Keznit, Demon 1 Egg+Poppin (Who literally went on the best t2 run in the history of the game in the best t2 region) and Rossy who is also a primed up shooter when running it down. TLDR: individual meta game design is for individualism meta changes = higher variance in matchups matches all have variance so consistently winning is impossible, you will always see upsets especially in an unsolved newer meta

can i get some movie recommendations. lowkey some end of world or zombies movies im tryna relax tonight

Verno - Scan N4ts - Sentinel Valyn - Smokes Forsaken - Duelist Ethan - Flex

If you could build a team of only IGLs what would your lineup be. All time & in prime form

@CitizenErased07 They should bring back lobotomy surgery just for people with X accounts like yours

@TrickVAL 90% of your essay is complaining about the dive/strong duelist meta while Envy's win was not remotely predicated on that. Are you really a Tier 1 coach? If you were MIBR's coach and went into VOD review overwhelmingly blaming it on the duelist meta, you'd be fired.

I wish I was able to see inside the systems of some of the best teams of all time to learn. It feels like since I created most of my teams and structured them I never learned a ton about how other teams functioned

@HXKUSAI Explain to me exactly how they should have adapted you have 10 minutes. You saw the entire game in hindsight enough to formulate an opinion about it, lets hear this adaptation right now please

@TrickVAL dang Trick u are so full of urself sometimes. Snowball is crazy and map 2 is even crazier w the aim diff. Its not a crazy standard to expect one of the best NA teams to adapt Gameplan was bad, no way around it if you cant execute and try to mid round against a ranked comp.