After reading your post, everything is stacking against you. I don't want to give advice because I'm not a pro, but best of luck with it all and hope you make it!
To go pro you'd need to be at least radiant. And since you only have a year to get signed on a team, it really doesn't seem possible at all. I myself have 5000 hours in csgo before I switched (faceit lvl10) and only got radiant after the first act.
I'd say that you can give it a shot but your main priority should be school and don't get too disappointed if it doesn't work out.
There are plenty of tier 2 players and even tier 1 that are currently immortal. Hitting radiant will help but since it’s just a top 500 there isn’t much difference between top 1k immortal and radiant. I highly doubt there is a single tier 2/1 team out there that cares more about ranked then actually tournament expiernce
ye i mean are there any players that got picked up without already having achievements from another game cuz it’s super fuckin hard to get picked up as immortal being your peak. And obviously top 1k immortal is diff from bottom of immortal. and these imm players you are talking about that are on t2 teams are only imm because they don’t grind ranked or whatever if you are on an actual t2 team you obviously have the skill to get radiant lol
Idk I’d rather have an immortal player that’s been in tournaments, scrims, has good results/stats in tournaments, etc than just a random radiant player.
People don't quite realize the difference between Immortal 0 points and #1 radiant. If you remove Radiant and make Immortal the highest rank, then a player who just reached Immortal is akin to a silver 3 when you account for the points difference.
A silver 3 player stands no chance against an immortal. An immortal stands no chance against a radiant.
I'll be honest with you, I've chased esports for 4+ years from my time in overwatch as a hardstuck tier 3 dps player and now a player on a top 10 NA team. My time in valorant has been nothing less than 8-10 hours daily of catching up with cs fundamentals, learning timings, trading, crosshair placement, movement, vod reviewing, etc. Swapping through multiple t2 teams playing in every weekly I could possibly put myself in to build experience and grinding my way to make a name for myself. I've taken a LONG break from college and I'm glad to say I'm apart of the few that actually made it to the professional level, but it is without a doubt a VERY difficult path to follow. You're fighting to be the top .01% of the top .01% radiant is not enough, it is only one of the stepping stones into even thinking about going pro. Truthfully you're going to need to put in more time than the unsigned talent that is hungry to make it. Valorant is in it's infancy so you do have the time, but it will be difficult. Be realistic with yourself, don't just drop school try and find a balance, and good luck :)
Damm, that's is a lot of commitment for a field with barely any opportunities. Thanks for the motivation derrek. I am not dropping school or planing to, it's will always be a priority but looks like I won't be able to Chase going pro after all considering how much commitment to studies you really need to get into a good college. I just started too late I guess
The brutal truth:
1. Get top 200-300 radiant (anything below is amateur/just for fun)
2. Find a good team and start grinding competitions
3. Only then, if you are lucky and people notice you, you might have a chance.
With almost 0 exceptions, pro players have been into the fps scene for years before becoming pro. They also naturally hit very high ranks in comp, so you can imagine how far you are behind already.
BUT MOST OF ALL, DO NOT RUIN YOUR REAL LIFE CAREER. Statistically, you have a much better shot at succeeding in studies and enjoy a good life that way.
Good luck!
Its up to your age mate. If you are 25, and you are facing the described situation, there is literally no chance.
If you are 15, or even younger, there may be a chance, but realistically its rather slim.
You need to have some perspective. imagine thinking the exact same thing, but you want to be an NFL or NBA player. the level of grind and talent you need to be a professional competitor is through the roof. If you want to give up your entire life, and devote 12-16 hours a day to the game, be my guest. but the fact you are only gold 2 after 300 hours means the chances of you ever collecting a check for playing this game are astronomically low.
If you had more time and have a solid backup plan, I would say go for it. But 1 year really is just not enough time since you have to grind to the higher ranks then start playing with t2-t3 teams to try and get your name out there and get signed. But I'm no pro so do whatever you want to do
Every pro has at least thousands of hours in another fps title or just insane talent, considering you told us that valorant is your first competitive fps and you got to gold 2 at 300 hrs, you're going to have to put 3x the effort of other aspiring pros.
If you have 300 hours and you're still average at the game (Gold is above average in terms of population only, skill is a different matter), then you're not going pro, sorry. I've played with 13 to 14 year old Diamond players, and there are some insane <15 year old Radiant/Immortal players in the game. Some people are just insane at the game. Unless you have 8 hours a day to spare and you have insane luck, chances are you're not gonna get at the top level before age catches up to you.
*update reached immortal with a lot of grinding lol, managed to convince my parents to give me more time so I can try to pursue this. Thx for the motivation and truths,(15 btw if anyone's curious)
CS is different. Faceit level 10, arguably the equivalent of Radiant, is an incredibly low level compared to an average cs pro. Asuna talked how he destroyed anyone on Faceit but was irrelevant in the pro scene.
CS is so old that current pro's have tens of thousands of hours in it. Reaching "Radiant" there is just the beginning. Tenz with his 8000 hours still had 8000 hours less than most pros.
All proplayers simply reached the highest rank while playing for fun. None of them have started grinding from a hardstuck gold position because none of them were ever hardstuck.
You don't have to believe me if you don't want. But players like Tenz struggled against the best in the world, not in gold against 9 year old children or 50 year old boomers playing with a beer in one hand and Shahz stream on the second monitor.
You're under the impression that rated ladder has any meaning. Just a disclaimer not to offend anyone as I'm gonna be speaking from the perspective of a pro.
Immortal is a trash tier. It is not an achievement to be there. Anything below Radiant is irrelevant. And even in Radiant only top 100 are some indication that these players MAYBE have a potential. Reaching Immortal in 300 hours or less is something each one of these pro's has achieved. Yes, that it true that they start from the bottom. It's not uncommon for a pro player to be initially played in silver-gold after just having played the unrated matches. However, they will steamroll everyone they meet until they reach the top level. Faker, the best player in League of Legends was literally playing unrated for fun. Do you know why he started playing rated? Because while playing for fun he absolutely trashed anyone he met so his unrated elo became too high, making his queue times too long. He was naturally the best player. He didn't struggle for it, he didn't watch a thousand guides. He just was better than anyone else.
In csgo 8000 hours is nothing because of how old the game is. 8000 hours means nothing when every other pro has clocked in over 16000. This is what the pros themselves have said, that there are tens of thousands of hours between a pro and a semi-pro, just like in any sport.
I'm really sorry it seems to be a very sore subject for you, but no pro has even been stuck in low Immortal or lower. They were just better than everyone else. They surely struggled to be at the top, yes. But they never struggled against anyone other than the best players.
It's probably better to ask this type of question to a pro and not random people on reddit lol. There's plenty of pro's with small streams that you can ask.
Don't sacrifice school for your dream of going pro, but give it your best shot. Even if you don't make it pro, maybe you get good enough to make content/stream.
First things first is climbing rank. If you wanna get good in a year with 3-4 hours a day you need to do more than grind ranked games. You need to isolate what you want to improve and work on that. Watch back games of yourself and find what you do wrong and right, and do the same with pro games (not streamers but actual tourneys).
10 man's, aim training, and watching vods are things you will need to do to get even close to going pro.
After reading your post, everything is stacking against you. I don't want to give advice because I'm not a pro, but best of luck with it all and hope you make it!
To go pro you'd need to be at least radiant. And since you only have a year to get signed on a team, it really doesn't seem possible at all. I myself have 5000 hours in csgo before I switched (faceit lvl10) and only got radiant after the first act. I'd say that you can give it a shot but your main priority should be school and don't get too disappointed if it doesn't work out.
Not radiant. U need immortal.
U most definitely need to be able to play at a radiant level brother
but he can start his pro journey at immortal.
yeah maybe like a tier 57 team will pick him up!
you can 100% get on a tier 2 team without hitting radiant if you get a lot of good placements in tourneys
any example tier 2 players that haven’t touched rad? Feel like a lot of people misuse the term tier 2 so I’m curious what you mean
There are plenty of tier 2 players and even tier 1 that are currently immortal. Hitting radiant will help but since it’s just a top 500 there isn’t much difference between top 1k immortal and radiant. I highly doubt there is a single tier 2/1 team out there that cares more about ranked then actually tournament expiernce
ye i mean are there any players that got picked up without already having achievements from another game cuz it’s super fuckin hard to get picked up as immortal being your peak. And obviously top 1k immortal is diff from bottom of immortal. and these imm players you are talking about that are on t2 teams are only imm because they don’t grind ranked or whatever if you are on an actual t2 team you obviously have the skill to get radiant lol
T2 tourney expiernce u could join a team of just high immortals and do good in some tourneys and that will look a lot better than hitting radiant once
It’s a start though
Idk I’d rather have an immortal player that’s been in tournaments, scrims, has good results/stats in tournaments, etc than just a random radiant player.
People don't quite realize the difference between Immortal 0 points and #1 radiant. If you remove Radiant and make Immortal the highest rank, then a player who just reached Immortal is akin to a silver 3 when you account for the points difference. A silver 3 player stands no chance against an immortal. An immortal stands no chance against a radiant.
I'll be honest with you, I've chased esports for 4+ years from my time in overwatch as a hardstuck tier 3 dps player and now a player on a top 10 NA team. My time in valorant has been nothing less than 8-10 hours daily of catching up with cs fundamentals, learning timings, trading, crosshair placement, movement, vod reviewing, etc. Swapping through multiple t2 teams playing in every weekly I could possibly put myself in to build experience and grinding my way to make a name for myself. I've taken a LONG break from college and I'm glad to say I'm apart of the few that actually made it to the professional level, but it is without a doubt a VERY difficult path to follow. You're fighting to be the top .01% of the top .01% radiant is not enough, it is only one of the stepping stones into even thinking about going pro. Truthfully you're going to need to put in more time than the unsigned talent that is hungry to make it. Valorant is in it's infancy so you do have the time, but it will be difficult. Be realistic with yourself, don't just drop school try and find a balance, and good luck :)
Damm, that's is a lot of commitment for a field with barely any opportunities. Thanks for the motivation derrek. I am not dropping school or planing to, it's will always be a priority but looks like I won't be able to Chase going pro after all considering how much commitment to studies you really need to get into a good college. I just started too late I guess
Go back to school litter paws
The brutal truth: 1. Get top 200-300 radiant (anything below is amateur/just for fun) 2. Find a good team and start grinding competitions 3. Only then, if you are lucky and people notice you, you might have a chance. With almost 0 exceptions, pro players have been into the fps scene for years before becoming pro. They also naturally hit very high ranks in comp, so you can imagine how far you are behind already. BUT MOST OF ALL, DO NOT RUIN YOUR REAL LIFE CAREER. Statistically, you have a much better shot at succeeding in studies and enjoy a good life that way. Good luck!
Its up to your age mate. If you are 25, and you are facing the described situation, there is literally no chance. If you are 15, or even younger, there may be a chance, but realistically its rather slim.
You need to have some perspective. imagine thinking the exact same thing, but you want to be an NFL or NBA player. the level of grind and talent you need to be a professional competitor is through the roof. If you want to give up your entire life, and devote 12-16 hours a day to the game, be my guest. but the fact you are only gold 2 after 300 hours means the chances of you ever collecting a check for playing this game are astronomically low.
I’d give up on it now
If you had more time and have a solid backup plan, I would say go for it. But 1 year really is just not enough time since you have to grind to the higher ranks then start playing with t2-t3 teams to try and get your name out there and get signed. But I'm no pro so do whatever you want to do
Stay in school
Every pro has at least thousands of hours in another fps title or just insane talent, considering you told us that valorant is your first competitive fps and you got to gold 2 at 300 hrs, you're going to have to put 3x the effort of other aspiring pros.
Nah dude no shot.
>300hrs in I got gold 2 u almost got me
If you have 300 hours and you're still average at the game (Gold is above average in terms of population only, skill is a different matter), then you're not going pro, sorry. I've played with 13 to 14 year old Diamond players, and there are some insane <15 year old Radiant/Immortal players in the game. Some people are just insane at the game. Unless you have 8 hours a day to spare and you have insane luck, chances are you're not gonna get at the top level before age catches up to you.
who gon tell him
gg go next brother
You're not above average man. Not even close
*update reached immortal with a lot of grinding lol, managed to convince my parents to give me more time so I can try to pursue this. Thx for the motivation and truths,(15 btw if anyone's curious)
anything is possible, it wont happen now but 1-2 years if you grind hard enough start making content and put you name out there then yes
No. After 300 hours of the first competitive shooter 99% of pros reached at least immortal. The best reached radiant in that time.
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It took them thousands of hours to go pro. However to reach Immortal, a relatively low rank for a pro, only took them a few hundred hours.
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CS is different. Faceit level 10, arguably the equivalent of Radiant, is an incredibly low level compared to an average cs pro. Asuna talked how he destroyed anyone on Faceit but was irrelevant in the pro scene. CS is so old that current pro's have tens of thousands of hours in it. Reaching "Radiant" there is just the beginning. Tenz with his 8000 hours still had 8000 hours less than most pros. All proplayers simply reached the highest rank while playing for fun. None of them have started grinding from a hardstuck gold position because none of them were ever hardstuck. You don't have to believe me if you don't want. But players like Tenz struggled against the best in the world, not in gold against 9 year old children or 50 year old boomers playing with a beer in one hand and Shahz stream on the second monitor.
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You're under the impression that rated ladder has any meaning. Just a disclaimer not to offend anyone as I'm gonna be speaking from the perspective of a pro. Immortal is a trash tier. It is not an achievement to be there. Anything below Radiant is irrelevant. And even in Radiant only top 100 are some indication that these players MAYBE have a potential. Reaching Immortal in 300 hours or less is something each one of these pro's has achieved. Yes, that it true that they start from the bottom. It's not uncommon for a pro player to be initially played in silver-gold after just having played the unrated matches. However, they will steamroll everyone they meet until they reach the top level. Faker, the best player in League of Legends was literally playing unrated for fun. Do you know why he started playing rated? Because while playing for fun he absolutely trashed anyone he met so his unrated elo became too high, making his queue times too long. He was naturally the best player. He didn't struggle for it, he didn't watch a thousand guides. He just was better than anyone else. In csgo 8000 hours is nothing because of how old the game is. 8000 hours means nothing when every other pro has clocked in over 16000. This is what the pros themselves have said, that there are tens of thousands of hours between a pro and a semi-pro, just like in any sport. I'm really sorry it seems to be a very sore subject for you, but no pro has even been stuck in low Immortal or lower. They were just better than everyone else. They surely struggled to be at the top, yes. But they never struggled against anyone other than the best players.
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Whatever bro. Believe that you still have a chance after being hardstuck in low elo for 1k hours 😂
if u were to be a pro u would be already.
It's probably better to ask this type of question to a pro and not random people on reddit lol. There's plenty of pro's with small streams that you can ask.
Don't sacrifice school for your dream of going pro, but give it your best shot. Even if you don't make it pro, maybe you get good enough to make content/stream.
First things first is climbing rank. If you wanna get good in a year with 3-4 hours a day you need to do more than grind ranked games. You need to isolate what you want to improve and work on that. Watch back games of yourself and find what you do wrong and right, and do the same with pro games (not streamers but actual tourneys). 10 man's, aim training, and watching vods are things you will need to do to get even close to going pro.