Israel is the only country in the world that can slaughter children in tents every day for hundreds of days & have it be called a ceasefire.
madness.
Movement restrictions are one of the main ways the IDF uses to turn Palestinian life in the West Bank into living hell.
Metal gates block many roads and village entrances and are closed arbitrarily, sometimes for several days.
Nothing to see here.
Just the England captain saying it’s a “surreal experience” meeting the US President that has spent months bombing countless countries and supplying the weapons for a genocide.
nothing about this event should be celebrated, but seeing people happy that gc players are involved is especially enraging considering the state of women's rights under the saudi government. the tournament is directly organised by this government as a propaganda tool
LA CHARLA DE @kiNggfps ANTES DE LA GRAN FINAL 🥹
Un capitán dentro y fuera del servidor, así fue la conversación del rey previo a la final de #VALORANTMasters#goLEV
London: Post Review
Personal yap: (if you want game feedback skip to below). Its nice to be able to travel to another city for an event, especially after coming from a team last year that didnt have a chance to do so.
Was able to fly my Girlfriend out after some extended time, got to try a lot of nice restaurants in london in mix of working and staying focused. Weather a bit spotty, but im glad it warmed up on the final weekend and that we are out before it hits almost 100 degrees (35c).
All in all a great time, was nice to have the ability to explore during this event.
Game Yap: NGL im sad. im sad we didnt close out ascent, im sad we didnt approach split properly, and just our fuse burned out on lotus. No real excuse for this, we are well rested, we have a 2x ban, we have the experience.
At the same time, its hard to really argue against b2b grand finals appearances. Realistically, going from the santiago run, into map shifts/meta shifts is pretty damn difficult to stay at the top. We managed to stabilize our map pool and get ahead on the meta read to win pacific and lock champs, and thats a pretty big deal
You will probably will see it in a vlog at some point, but the big focus we have is just building “championship mentality”. I dont believe in this team being cursed, we just have to solve what that “blocker” is.
Can ask “well the teams been to 4+ grand finals how is there a mental block” and if the answer to that was easy, we wouldnt be questioning it in the first place. Winning is hard, and its hard to do that in any sport, and tons of teams struggle with that. Theres tons of great teams in val that have struggled with that. We just have to keep building the resolve to continue to stay at the top and move forward. It just simply wasnt our time yet to walk away with a trophy again and thats okay.
Going forward: we have EWC, we have stage 2. We have some breathing room to test new ideas to make sure we go into champs ready. These learnings are what we are focusing on to take that next step.
Thanks everyone for your support.