Wasn’t sure when I was going to announce this but I think it’s the right time.
This might be a long thread,
First off I want to say I have nothing to hold against CSP as a team or program and I have enjoyed my time as a player in the program the last year.
Ranked Valorant has hit an all-time low.
So many people have said ranked is the worst it’s been in previous acts, but this act is at an entire new level.
I have genuinely played a single digit number of games this act where I had a semi-normal team comp & players on there main accounts, not to mention if you have a streamer on your team you can no longer call any Strats. Genuinely 1/5th of the games you play in high elo you are deploying anti-stream sniping measures like waiting in spawn until the last second like it’s a game of battleship vs kittymeowmeow.
It’s been infested with people insta-locking agents like Reyna, iso, clove and now chamber. If you want to play an agent like Yoru on abyss, raze on bind, Reyna on icebox etc. you will end up with a 3-4 duelist team comp or have clove smokes on icebox.
Not to mention the absolute infestation of alt-accounts in high elo just being absolute ranked terrorists. Half of the duelists in ASC1-IMM3 are on lvl 20 accounts named spongebob69.
All in all, this act has been horrible & I don’t even enjoy coaching players who are playing ranked this act because the games I watch are 90% full troll team comps and players, calling it a “competitive” match is hilarious. I have some ideas on what would need to change to make improvements, but I don’t think my suggestions would land where it needs to.