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22 today! 🥳 Been on a different kind of grind for a bit. Every one of my teammates has pushed me to be a better person today. I’m thankful everyday to have experienced everything with y’all. I’ll be watching and rooting for you buds! 🥂

@vitathedeleta @YFP_gg @TheROSEorg @Nightblood_gg @WinthropEsports @sleepersval Kid’s back

won funhaver wild/west qualifier 3 with @YFP_gg 2-1 @TheROSEorg 2-1 @Nightblood_gg 2-1 @WinthropEsports 2-0 @sleepersval

@ChickenJoe6ft @masonesports Chicken Joe is the him. One cannot be in presence of chicken Joe and compete. Couldn’t handle you

After 2-0ing @masonesports in CVAL we were shocked to hear we would not be invited back to their LAN this year due to our "rank average being too high" (imm2) compared to their varsity team's (imm1) as well as our "performance across leagues" (4-1 in CVAL to their 3-2).

@boomyval Grats! Big boom

qualified for vcl, just getting started.

@TheRacoone @NRGgg Better bring me to champs with you

2-0 @NRGgg Academy to make playoffs. Nice to have a clean win for the main stream. Never doubted us, even when we were down. Feeling more and more confident with my reads and T side calling and I'm glad I was able to perform well individually behind it. #1 Odin/Judge Abuser😈

@TheRacoone @YFP_gg Another victory for the OGs

2-1 @YFP_gg Stepped up map 3 and start shooting for my team. My calling is feeling better on attack every time we play. All respect to the boys at YFP, super hard to close games out vs them. Best of luck to them the rest of the split. (Had to post this screenshot, sorry.)

@TheRacoone @TheROSEorg

2-1 @TheROSEorg Comeback of doom and despair every map. Proud of my team's mental resilience to stay in it. Some clutch demons on my team for sure. Bad individual showing out of me for the most part, but became the Bucky Boogeyman to win some major ecos. Onto the next 🫡

@flasHHval @MonarchXgg You’re one of the players that have always been super hard on themselves. I think if you take some time and find what you enjoy about the game and grind you’ll have great mental in game and some more insane performances to follow. GL Ant man

stepped down from @MonarchXgg , it was a great time competing under them and shoutout all of the teammates i had during the journey. learned a lot, became a better player, and feel like ive grown overall as a person. not sure what my plans are net but for now ill be streaming and enjoying the game a bit before i decide further. thanks everyone who stays watching out for me, hopefully ill have a good step going forward and get to grow more <3

Hell has frozen over and Racoone is in Challengers. I love my team @Scottievlr @dre_vlr @tradedily @bearrettfps and sub of doom @squirmor ❤️ Have a lot on my mind so I will try to make this short... I spent years grinding this game as a troll spamming Raze with the Judge for easy content, holding myself back from my true potential. When it came time to start actually competing, my ego was at an all time high, and my talent was at an all time low. I had a lot to learn. I've gained and lost many friends committing to this grind, online and IRL. I put aside a section of my life for this because it was always a dream to be able to do what I do, competing every day. I've had beyond my fair share of ego online because I always felt I had to protect myself from feeling like I was never good enough. It was a shell. Now that we've actually gone the distance I want to apologize to the community I've lost connection with over the years. I hope to stay humble in victory, and even more so in defeat. I received a lot of messages today from people before and after our match. To those who set me on my course of success, thank you. And to those who congratulated me, you will always be dear in my heart. Thank you to those who believed in me, and to those who still don't, I'll always enjoy letting you down 😉 Job's never finished. Time for the real work to begin 😎

@flasHHval @TheRacoone @Scottievlr @dre_vlr @tradedily @bearrettfps It’s your time to sack up ant 🐜

@TheRacoone @Scottievlr @dre_vlr @tradedily @bearrettfps @squirmor gonna have to say the syndicates made this journey real. just playing congrats rac you’re a beast

@ch0mpy_fps @TheRacoone @TeamEvictix @tradedily @bearrettfps @dre_vlr @Scottievlr Not much but it’s honest work

@squirmor @TheRacoone @TeamEvictix @tradedily @bearrettfps @dre_vlr @Scottievlr how many hours we talkin here

Filled in for @TeamEvictix and got them the dub. Congratz to the boys @tradedily @bearrettfps @dre_vlr @Scottievlr and @TheRacoone . I know how long these guys have been grinding and they deserve it. Might have to come back to the grind. Peep the game day fit.

@TheRacoone @TeamEvictix @tradedily @bearrettfps @dre_vlr @Scottievlr Just wiped a zerg and got the bat signal

@squirmor @TeamEvictix @tradedily @bearrettfps @dre_vlr @Scottievlr Came in off Rust and dropped 26 to save our game. Greatest sub OAT.

@P0seiidonVAL @TeamEvictix @tradedily @bearrettfps @dre_vlr @Scottievlr @TheRacoone Suppose I can slide it

@squirmor @TeamEvictix @tradedily @bearrettfps @dre_vlr @Scottievlr @TheRacoone You mind if I steal that fit?

@sambaeFPS @bearrettfps @TheRacoone @tradedily @Scottievlr @dre_vlr the uncs aint out of it yet. Its your time

@bearrettfps @TheRacoone @tradedily @Scottievlr @dre_vlr @squirmor good job kid bout time

MADE CHALLENGERS AYE AYE AYEEEEEEEE @TheRacoone @tradedily @Scottievlr @dre_vlr and THANK YOU @squirmor FOR SUBBING

Made challengers again @tradedily @TheRacoone @Scottievlr @bearrettfps @squirmor

@vitathedeleta Let’s win challengers this time around bucko

@not_neightus Quick learner and some great qualities for a teammate. Compared to last year he’s miles ahead of where he was and I can say on this pace he will keep drastically improving.

LFT/Contender Eligible Peak 164 rr 2 yrs of collegiate (w/ UCF) and t3 experience can IGL, pref second igl/mid rounder pref senti/second smoke flex > smokes > initiator vocal, able to take criticism, and good mental flexible availability for scrims disc: Cookies_n_Tea

@mrfunhaver They’ve been edging us saying big things are gonna happen in 2027 for the entire system, but we don’t even know what is fully happening for 2026. Even people who commit to playing premier and winning even have no clue if they’ve been playing for nothing or something

Honestly man, I think this VALORANT game is going to die at this rate. The meta is so heavily shifted towards just walk around the map and kill people, it’s boring to watch, boring to play, and people don’t get “better”. The map pool stinks. Ranked is always bad but every day it just seems to get worse and I don’t even know how that’s possible. The strategy involved is really minimal from where it used to be. We had a good thing going and then we released Clove, we removed initiator util heavily, put the outlaw into the game, and failed to understand how that would really affect the game as a whole. I used to run tournaments where every weekend was packed, teams cared, players wanted to improve. Now it’s just random friend groups pugging playing whatever comp they want walking around the map looking for kills and whoever gets better timings win. Players don’t care to get better because there’s no incentive to get better. Trials are so limited for new players because, and from experience, new players just aren’t good enough to compete. We are forced to recycle talent and the good ones move up to T1, bad goes go to T2, and the cycle repeats. Hardly anyone anymore can say they made it from T3 without random miracle BO1s deciding their fate at 11PM on a Sunday. Idk all the answers, idk what even matters. But I want players to have a reason to improve, have that sense of pride when competing, and I want just want to understand why it seems like what the competitive community, the one Riot relies on so heavily, is saying is so seemingly ignored. Old man rant and im saying nothing new here but man. Cmon. Please communicate with us about what’s going on and what we can look forward to.

We introduced something that hasn’t ever been done before with this most recent tournament, sabotage picks in agent bans. This forces the enemy team to play an an agent in a given map and can’t pick another agent in that role that map. We also enabled all 12 maps to be played. It’s been a blast to see played and I’m happy with how things are turning out, even tho we had to stop letting people first sabotage Viper / Reyna / Gekko LOL. I’m tracking as much data as we can and it’s available at the link below if anyone wants to take a look. I wanted to shoutout @squirmor and @TheRacoone for helping come up with the idea and testing.