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First Strike: Europe / Main Event - Semifinals / Live Discussion
First Strike: North America / Main Event - Semifinals / Live Discussion
Can't believe I actually hit Radiant OMG!!!
Error: "Failed to save settings to server"
G2 Esports vs Team Heretics / First Strike Europe - Semi Finals / Post-Match Discussion
Envy vs Team Solomid / First Strike: North America- Semifinals / Post-Match Discussion
Jett Fanart by me c:
75% of the players at both EU & First Strike have been using the Phantom over the Vandal whenever they could buy one.
(Advanced) Fast Sova Ult Cancel Trick
100 Thieves vs T1 / First Strike: North America- Quarterfinals / Post-Match Discussion
Wardell is an absolute freak with Jett...
I am hearing audio from random people in my comms.
Being able to unwillingly listen to your Teammates it's very embarrassing.
When is the replay system going to come out?
Weird thing happened in an unrated match
Vandal bursts - wtf am I doing wrong?
The throw [Pixelart OC]
messy viper doodle
Question about Omen and its genitals-
First strike Europe - commentators
Visual animations are so inaccurate
One Thousand Deathmatches: Part - 0
First Strike: Day 2 Highlights & Top Plays
How to Deranked From Immortal 2 to Diamond 1: A Guide

First Strike: Europe / Main Event - Semifinals / Live Discussion

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 07:46 AM PST

First Strike Europe / Quarterfinals / Day 1

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Today's Matches

Today's Matches	PST	EST	CET	KST
Heretics vs. G2	7:30 AM	10:30 AM	16:30	00:30
SUMN vs. FPX	10:00 AM	1:00 PM	19:00	03:00

Participants

Teams
G2 Esports
~~Team Liquid~~
FunPlus Phoenix
SUMN FC
~~nolpenki~~
~~Purple Cobras~~
Team Heretics
~~Orgless~~

Cross out means knocked out

Streams

On-Air Team

Host
Yinsu Collins
Commentators
Mitch "MitchMan" McBride
Lauren "Pansy" Scott
Jakub "Lothar" Szygulski
Michael "hypoc" Robins
Jonas "AverageJonas" Navarsete
Observer
Markus "Pinqu" Eliasen

Format Playoffs

Single Elimination bracket
- All Matches (excl. Grand Final) Bo3
- Grand Final is Bo5

VoDs

VoDs on Juked.gg

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First Strike: North America / Main Event - Semifinals / Live Discussion

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 11:40 AM PST

First Strike: North America - Riot Games

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Format

Quarterfinals/Semifinals

Single Elimination bracket
All matches Bo3

Grand Final

Semifinals #1

1PM PST | 4PM EST | 10PM CET | 6AM KST

Match	Score
~~Team Envy~~ vs. TSM	0-2

Semifinals #2

4PM PST | 7PM EST | 1AM CET | 9AM KST

Match	Score
100 Thieves vs. Sentinels	0-0

Streams

Twitch

Valorant_Esports_NA

YouTube

VALORANT Esports - NA

On-Air Team

Host
James "Dash" Dash
Commentators
Daniel "ddk" Kapadia
Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez
Rivington "Rivington" Bruce Bisland III
Sean "sgares" Gares
Alex "Vansilli" Nguyen
Loviel "Velly" Cardwell
Interviewer
Sue "Smix" Lee
Observers
Heather "SapphiRe" Garozzo
Victor "Vflight" Pothikan
Justin "PythianLegume" Glasner

VoDs

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Can't believe I actually hit Radiant OMG!!!

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 07:19 AM PST

Never have I ever achieved something this big in my whole gaming career. Sharing this achievement with you kind ppl because I don't have anyone IRL to share my joy.

https://imgur.com/D3uqU1G

Finally I can stop playing this game and try to achieve other things in life.

Stay healthy!

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Error: "Failed to save settings to server"

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 10:29 AM PST

Has anyone gotten this and if so how the hell can I get my settings back? This just started happening starting up the game.

Edit: Seems to be fixed now!

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G2 Esports vs Team Heretics / First Strike Europe - Semi Finals / Post-Match Discussion

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 11:09 AM PST

G2 Esports 1-2 Team Heretics

Ascent: 10-13

Split: 13-5

Bind: 11-13

Haven: 0-0

Icebox: 0-0

VLR.gg stats

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Envy vs Team Solomid / First Strike: North America- Semifinals / Post-Match Discussion

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 02:50 PM PST

FIRST STRIKE: NORTH AMERICA

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Envy 0-2 Team Solomid

-Team Solomid advance to the Grand Final

-Envy have been eliminated from First Strike:North America

Map 1: Ascent

Winner: Team Solomid 13-7

Team Solomid	ACS	K	D	A
Drone Phoenix	281	18	11	4
Subroza Raze	226	16	10	3
reltuC Sova	225	17	10	5
hazed Omen	210	14	15	6
WARDELL Jett	161	11	9	5

Envy	ACS	K	D	A
FNS Cypher	204	15	14	3
kaboose Reyna	192	13	13	3
crashies Sova	166	9	15	12
mummAy Omen	142	9	18	0
food Phoenix	142	9	16	2

Map 2: Split

Winner: Team Solomid 13-5

Team Solomid	ACS	K	D	A
Subroza Raze	371	23	13	2
WARDELL Jett	249	17	9	3
Drone Phoenix	224	14	10	4
hazed Omen	165	12	8	2
reltuC Breach	111	7	9	4

Envy	ACS	K	D	A
kaboose Raze	195	11	18	6
FNS Cypher	183	12	11	1
mummAy Jett	165	11	14	2
food Omen	145	8	15	3
crashies Breach	139	7	15	9

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Jett Fanart by me c:

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 06:50 AM PST

https://preview.redd.it/ohhcle43td361.jpg?width=1030&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14cfc82f2d2142d06706b79aa9ed57ee0c4f8e71

I drew this for a laptop skin competition, but thought it looked cool on its own, hope you guys find it nice!

also first time posting here.. hi?

You can find me on insta if you liked it :) : cloudtint

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75% of the players at both EU & First Strike have been using the Phantom over the Vandal whenever they could buy one.

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 09:34 AM PST

In both the EU and NA versions of the First Strike finals players from both regions have been opting to use the Phantom over the Vandal, the matches are still on-going but from the first couple of games the Phantom is clearly the more preferred rifle.

Even the headshot Machine ScreaM who dropped a ridiclious 90 frags over 3 maps in his match vs Heretics opted with the Phantom every single time, despite it not being a 1 shot headshot kill (unless up close).

The Vandal despite being buffed a couple times now still falls short vs the Phantom when it comes to close engagements such as taking bombsites and retaking them, it simply isn't viable to use the slower shooting Vandal when the damage output is the exact same up close.

Does the Vandal need a final kick to make it on par with the Phantom? 30 bullets instead of 25 perhaps? Higher penetration damage?

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(Advanced) Fast Sova Ult Cancel Trick

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 09:12 AM PST

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100 Thieves vs T1 / First Strike: North America- Quarterfinals / Post-Match Discussion

Posted: 04 Dec 2020 04:58 PM PST

FIRST STRIKE: NORTH AMERICA

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100 Thieves 2-0 T1

-100 Thieves advance to semifinals

-T1 is eliminated from First Strike:North America

Map 1: Haven

Winner: 100 Thieves 13-10

100 Thieves	ACS	K	D	A
Asuna Phoenix	264	19	19	7
nitr0 Omen	255	23	12	4
steel Cypher	204	16	16	9
Hiko Sova	181	15	11	11
Dicey Jett	127	10	15	4

T1	ACS	K	D	A
AZK Breach	226	19	17	10
Skadoodle Jett	224	17	20	2
brax Killjoy	212	17	15	5
Spyder Omen	146	10	17	6
DaZeD Sova	127	10	14	5

Map 2: Bind

Winner: 100 Thieves 13-10

100 Thieves	ACS	K	D	A
Asuna Raze	265	21	17	3
nitr0 Omen	237	20	17	7
Hiko Sova	227	19	12	12
Dicey Jett	183	14	16	4
steel Cypher	137	10	19	7

T1	ACS	K	D	A
Spyder Phoenix	261	22	15	2
brax Cypher	219	19	16	7
Skadoodle Jett	213	16	17	8
DaZeD Sova	181	14	16	7
AZK Omen	135	10	20	8

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Wardell is an absolute freak with Jett...

Posted: 04 Dec 2020 06:12 PM PST

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I am hearing audio from random people in my comms.

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 03:39 AM PST

I am not even in game after leaving a game, and suddenly I'm hearing the audio of a random person while I load into my next game. I have no idea how to turn this audio off. I get into my next game, and I realize the audio isn't from someone in my own game, but in another game altogether, what is going on???

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Being able to unwillingly listen to your Teammates it's very embarrassing.

Posted: 04 Dec 2020 10:10 PM PST

So I didn't play Valorant for like 3 days and I came back to play today with my brother (We play in different Laptops) and I just noticed that someone of my team was talking to his mother about some Kitchen problem. At first I thought He was talking while Pressing the Key of Team Voice chat, But I realized that nothing appeared on my screen and even Voice chat had been disabled, so I didn't know who it was.

Me and my brother were talking and someone of my team just answered a question that I asked to my brother, we were like "Wtf how he can hear us?" and then He told us it was a Bug and that has been for some days. So me and my brother just kept playing without talking to each other, (which was just weird because we talk while playing).

As a fun fact, nobody was toxic.

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When is the replay system going to come out?

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 01:31 AM PST

Since Val Esport scene is already establish when is the replay system going to come out? Since usually a game with Esport in mind have some sort of replay system in their engine.

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Weird thing happened in an unrated match

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 04:45 AM PST

I decided to play an unrated before doing some comp, everything seemed normal loading in and selecting agents. Once we loaded in one of my team members started talking - immediately knew something was off as the agent icon and their name didn't show up. I tried talking as well and the whole team was saying the same thing was happening to them - didn't happen to the enemy team strangely.

Halfway through the first half we then realized that our mics were actually locked on although our settings were for push to talk making things even weirder.

The funniest part is we were still able to talk to each other after the match was over even though we weren't partied - closed my game after that.

tl;dr my team's voice chat agent icons + player names didn't show up and mics were locked on for entire match and in lobby after match while not partied

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Vandal bursts - wtf am I doing wrong?

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 09:01 AM PST

New player to Valorant here - though I've played a lot of CS 1.6 back in the day, I kind of skipped CS Source and CS: GO, but seeing as Valorant looked so interesting, I decided to give it a shot.

By far my favorite weapon in CS was always the AK47, so I was very intrigued by the Vandal, which seemed to be a 1:1 of the AK within Valorant. However, the feel of the weapon, though similar, is also somewhat different, and I'm having a real hard time adjusting to the burst pattern with the Vandal.

Things work pretty well if I tap. Spraying seems to be a nightmare and totally not worth it with the Vandal, even at medium range (though it works pretty decently with the Phantom). However, bursts seem to be useful, but extremely inconsistent.

In this clip, for instance: I have bursted the enemy 3 times, to a total of 10 shots (a final shot went out as I died but I'm not counting that one):

https://reddit.com/link/k7b2qm/video/9oms8lxaee361/player

The 2nd burst (shots 5 and 6) was a complete mess, and I get why that missed entirely, but the 1st (shots 1 to 4) and 3rd (shots 7 to 10) bursts seem to have been fairly controlled, at least in CS AK47 terms. Both bursts seem to have aimed the enemy properly, and started with the crosshair completely closed. Both bursts combined add up to a total of 8 shots. The last shot (number 4) in the first burst clearly missed, but I don't understand how, out of the other 7 shots, only 2 landed.

This isn't a "I've done everything right and the game is broken" kind of post, since the shots missing clearly means I haven't done everything right, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what to adapt in this kind of situation. At least in CS, this is the kind of situation the AK excels at: Too far away to be swarmed down by SMGs, and close enough to take advantage of the fire rate. And yet, unless I go straight for the head to finish the enemy off on the 1st burst, I just can't seem to get the bursting down correctly.

Can anyone with more experience and knowledge in Vandal shooting help me out?

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The throw [Pixelart OC]

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 11:49 AM PST

Pew pew pew pew pew

lemme know what you'd like to see next

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messy viper doodle

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 03:05 AM PST

please choke me ma'am i am not worthy to breathe the same air as you

i haven't been focusing on drawing as much as i used to thanks to valorant completely taking over my life, but i figured drawing my favorite agent would be a good way to get myself back into it!

this took around ~2 hours to complete, and it was done on sketch paper using felt tip pens. i was initially going to stipple the whole thing since that's my typical way of drawing, but i got lazy and just decided to do a rough sketch instead (without doing an actual sketch beforehand, do not be like me)

also please be nice in the comments because the only toxicity i need in my life is miss sabine :')

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Question about Omen and its genitals-

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 05:40 AM PST

I'm not sure if someone here has already asked this question (apologies if this question has already been asked) but I've always been curious ever since beta, since he's a "shadow" and a "phantom of a memory" makes me question his body build? He sounds like a dude so I'm assuming omen is male, and that he would have male genitals right?

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First strike Europe - commentators

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 01:04 PM PST

Just a quick post to show my love for the commentators on the first strike tournament (Europe). AverageJonas and MitchMan are a match made in heaven. Honestly? I'm going to be sad when the tournament is over.

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Visual animations are so inaccurate

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 10:28 AM PST

I've noticed that the 'pullout' animations of weapons in the game is visually inaccurate. I found this in DM whenever I catch someone with their knife out and they switch to their gun, they shoot me sooner than I expect because of the visual animation of the gun being pulled out. It just looks like the character model suddenly snaps the gun up to shoot. It lacks smoothness, therefore lacks accuracy. This is just my opinion but I'd like to know if anyone has seen / experienced the same thing. Other animations would include someone getting off the defuse or while planting the spike to switch to their gun.

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One Thousand Deathmatches: Part - 0

Posted: 05 Dec 2020 05:47 AM PST

Hi everybody. I have decided to do an experiment. How much better would your aim become from doing 1000 deathmatches in valorant?

My gaming history: Bought my first PC in may of 2018. Have about 400-500 hours of playtime in CSGO. Highest rank achieved then was MG2. I have been playing valorant since beta. Started out as bronze 2, and achieved d2 in act 1, and got plat 3 in act 2 as I took a 4-6 week break.

Valorant Rank: Immortal 2.

Overall goal: Play a total of one thousand deathmatches using either the vandal, sheriff, or phantom. Uses of the vandal or phantom will only be 2-round bursts to improve accuracy. I will play 250 deathmatches total, and then play 3 competitive games. This schedule will be repeated until all 1000 DM games are done. So total there will be: 12 competitive matches played, and 1000 DM matches played. Of the first 250 matches, the first 200 will be played with the sheriff only and of the last 50 matches I will use the vandal.

This post serves as the basis point for documentation and a benchmark for my overall performance.

As of my last 3 games, these are my statistics:

Agent: Reyna

Game 1: 10 Kills 16 Deaths 4 Assists. 212 ACS. 0.6 KPR. 131 ADR. 22% HS ratio. 2 First Bloods.

Game 2: 18 Kills 19 Deaths 11 Assists. 181 ACS. 0.6 KPR. 139 ADR. 19.7% HS Ratio. 0 First Bloods.

Game 3: 13 Kills 13 Deaths 8 Assists. 207 ACS. 0.7 KPR. 113 ADR. 15.6% HS Ratio. 2 First Bloods.

Schedule: 30 minutes of kovaaks for warming up. Then 20-25 Deathmatches per day. 3 Competitive matches every 250 deathmatches. Once the first 250 deathmatches and 3 comp games are complete, I will post a "Part - 1" post just like this one with updated statistics and anecdotal experiences and opinions on my improvement.

One last note: Not everybody improves at the same rate. All practice is not the same. Efficient and focused practice for one hour can be 5-10x better for improving than unattentively and lazily practicing for an hour. I will not be using my headset during DM and will likely be playing music in the background as I do not want to rely on "sound-whoring" as many players do during DM and will be relying solely on mechanical skill as I believe that is the best way to increase it.

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First Strike: Day 2 Highlights & Top Plays

Posted: 04 Dec 2020 07:34 PM PST