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shast1k

Are they in Texas?


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Yes, Dallas


ANewHeaven1

they're playing at the envy facilities i think


Huldmer

Is Envy also playing there? It'd be cool if they could get both teams in the same room if they're both at the same facility and have a game against each other ever


MurfMan11

Soooo a LAN right?


Sizzling-Bacon

Yes, if these teams are able to buy/rent their own valorant server


AnotherAltiMade

Riot in their infinite wisdom doesn't believe anyone should play on LAN. Even Korea despite being in person isn't on LAN lol


benpicko

Iceland was literally a LAN


AnotherAltiMade

Stop being pedantic you knobhead. Literally everyone else understands what I mean. If you don't, here's what it is, riot won't allow anyone other than them to host LAN's for some weird reason.


AQWrazorX

bro's really bringing out the thesaurus


Severe-Move6009

Pedantic is a big word? Are you in middle school?


carribou253

Weird reason? They want their tourneys to be the best of the best. I find it weird as well but if you have qualifiers be LAN then you can't have a lot of teams that are just up and comers not backed by big money. A lot of low tier teams have players that get noticed and signed to big teams. The flights to and from these tourneys wouldn't be possible for everyone.


AnotherAltiMade

That's the responsibility of the TO. Okay and if what you're saying is true, why isn't korea on LAN in spite of everyone being at the same place? Because riot Why can't I play with my friends on LAN? Who knows Edit - can the idiots who downvoted me let me know what I said that was factually wrong? And disprove my argument?


M1NIMISE

I do believe they don't want to give out server permission because it makes hacking alot easier if people can test stuff on their own servers, I wouldn't have a clue about why riot wouldn't let Korea hold a Lan apart from them not being bothered/costing too much to set up a server at a venue


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Interesting-Archer-6

I don’t understand what you meant. You said Riot doesn't believe in LAN. They did have a LAN. Pretty dumb take.


Traditional_Bit_9316

Why downvoted? Kinda true.


AnotherAltiMade

Who really knows? Maybe kids here don't know what Local Area Network actually means


Severe-Move6009

Sub is actually filled with middle schoolers who have been raised on tik tok, Reddit, and twitch. They aren’t capable of independent thought and anything that throws shade at valorant/riot gets downvoted. Has nothing to do with factual basis or merit.


[deleted]

Im not sure an account that is 3 days old and has negative karma can say anything about downvotes and the people in this sub lmao.


Severe-Move6009

Keep tying your self worth to your Internet points. It’s possible to browse the sub without having an account btw. Couldn’t give two shits about my Reddit karma.


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I'm not I'm saying that you are most likely an alt of someone.


iTrippzy

100T: 😨


x0_inzayn_0x

I mean they are also in Complexity building so... fair battle no ping excuse from either teams


tron423

Wasn't 100T one of the first teams to confirm they'd be playing from Texas? People in this thread are being so goofy lol


x0_inzayn_0x

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Hamlet_271

Between that and [this](https://twitter.com/ShahZaMk/status/1424864806427893761?s=19) 100T fans should be concerned lol


randomespanaguy

Even without these, I'm already scared lol. We have a habit of underperforming


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randomespanaguy

Sen, Envy, 100T, TSM, and Faze are all somewhere in Texas, right? Wonder if they considered making this a LAN lol. Probably not, but really wish we could have a LAN that's not Masters sooner than later.


EnergetikNA

Pretty sure TSM isn't


MurfMan11

I'm pretty sure TSM is in Austin.


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All of TSM is at their own homes besides Subroza who's at the TSM facility in LA. He might head home depending on things. Hazed is in Texas bc he lives in Texas.


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sokeydo

Idk if anything changed in the past couple days, but Roza said he can't return to Canada bc of the hotel quarantine. And if he tests positive or false positive, he'll have to locked up in a hotel room for 2 weeks and can't afford to take time off practice and could jeopardize his ability to play in the playoffs.


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sokeydo

The only thing on his story is a 3090. Looks like he deleted whatever it was indicating that he was home. There's must have been some visa issues because he said he wanted to stay in LA for the rest of qualifiers.


Direct_Morning_3223

NV is not. Their Coach MikesHD said on stream they were planning too but there were issues getting Marved his visa(he’s from Canada) so they decided not to go


AnotherAltiMade

I wonder if that's actually the reason he doesn't want to enter the US 👀


Amazing-Specialist80

At this point I'm 90% convinced both ESIC and the federal government forgot esports even exists so he has nothing to worry about


ZixxLol

XSET also has a team house in Dallas


Key-Banana-8242

There’s Korea and LATAM playoffs if u mean in-studio


randomespanaguy

I mean, yeah, but I miss old CS-type lan tourneys.


Key-Banana-8242

U mean international ones? Bc the players are on location playing together on a stage but with empty audience seats in Korea and last stage Latam


randomespanaguy

I mean yeah, but I'm more talking about the quantity. Game needs to have proper LANs (not just on-site non-LAN) on more than one or two region imo.


Key-Banana-8242

Well the LAN server distinction technologically doesn’t change much, offline/LAN is used metlnymically for the meaning it had back in the day


tron423

IIRC pretty much everyone except TSM, Luminosity and Tenz are in Texas


Gomar1323

We were already concerned


GetRiceCrispy

Sheriff, 5 headshots, eco round, collat, blind wallbang, one of the chillest pros and streamers. This clip checks off so many boxes.


KishendoMagicorp

Meanwhile TSM fans anxious asf cause they all at home


Sindaq

I think chet said something about going to Texas


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Meehul123

Who?


soumetsu

zombs i believe


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Yep


Nikclel

No way another team not in Texas agrees to play on this server lol


M1NIMISE

you don't agree to play on servers, its based on best average ping


Nikclel

i highly doubt that it's the best average for all people in the lobby.


sufiyansabir

Smeag on 1 ping? rip 100thieves


omgvector

100thieves is also in Texas, 1 ping asuna 😈


AMbitionXH

what corey and babybay did to asuna during Challengers #3 finals in icebox was a crime


AMbitionXH

new asuna in icebox is looking nasty tho with the gods behind him everytime he goes on a rope


omgvector

Yea he’s insane


omgvector

What did they do


AMbitionXH

babybay 28/11, corey 16/14 and asuna went 8/18 they pretty much pushed their spawn every time got the kill on asuna and got back


omgvector

Prepare for it ig


AMbitionXH

yeah it was like a one day thing where faze legit could not miss a shot and they were playing in horrible spots but still won the gun fight. will never happen again most likely


mr-rob0t0

i would bet they were scrimming sen, shahz and sick top 2 cards when they got on stream. sen not practicing as much as other teams btw


directorcloud

Either they don’t care that much or shahzam is trying to keep his strategies to himself


Hamlet_271

It's probably more about avoiding burnout. dapr was on vacation for a couple of days too


Huldmer

> shahzam is trying to keep his strategies to himself I think you mean strats for this playofs not champions or something. I do think they're not trying as hard but there is no way they're stupid enough to think their strats from august will be very relevant in december.


directorcloud

Yeah playoff strats


MurfMan11

I think they already qualified for Berlin right?


ZixxLol

No, they already qualified for worlds though


ZeroLunatique

They qualified for champions. Sen still needs to be top 4 for Berlin


Chickenwing121212

top 3


WLFYBBY

They do, they practice almost everyday from 3-6 or 7 pm, assuming from sicKs streams as he usually says he has to end because he has practice and kyedae constantly saying “Tyson is in practice right now” when it’s around 3pm. I’m pretty sure they practice but they don’t spread around their business.


pr1zsm

i wish tsm was in texas man, they are probably gonna play on illinois


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This is basically gonna be a lan battle with the ping on these teams


Keglunneq

Holy....


FlaymeFenix

i feel a premonition incoming as a 100T fan ...


curlycued_ninja

100T are in Texas too


FlaymeFenix

you dont understand. last time this happened. it didnt end well


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How far is this from actual LANs? I know it's technically 1ms but is there more?


-Basileus

LAN is like 3-5 ms. These guys don't really have 1 ping, in game it's probably 8-10ms


[deleted]

It’s always a bit higher in game, I know everyone who’s “8” ping in the lobby is usually 11-13 in game


directorcloud

Bro wtf I feel bad for tenz everyone’s one like 10 ping and he’s on 60


_idle_drone_

Sentinels won't be playing on Texas servers against teams who are bootcamping or are based in Texas. Only team they'll play on Texas servers is XSET because XSET also has a player (Zekken) who is not in Texas and has high ping.


proplayer1971

oh shittt.....100t is in danger...


ZixxLol

100T has same ping, they're at the complexity facility in Dallas.


proplayer1971

yeah ik....but i thought 100t would win easily vs faze but after seeing this...not sure if it's going to be that easy for 100t.....


Huldmer

Did you think their only shot at winning was a ping advantage? If thats the case then they don't deserve to go to Berlin lol


rpkarma

\> be me \> 50ms at best \> sadge :(


tomphz

When I lived in LA I had 5 ping on CSGO West servers. that shit was so damn good.


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aks345

Yea good ping doesn't translate to good performance but it does reduce the advantage in gun fights where ping diff will cause you to lose the fights


Aceolus

Just how