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Challenger ADC/SUPP Player

[TrackDIFF @TrackDiff]

Jankos 🇵🇱 discovers FNC Vladi 🇬🇷 is 1,000 LP above Rank 2 in Solo Queue whilst listening to Vladi's post game LEC interview.

"Vladi has 2k games this season only and also spamming scrims, this guy is actually insane".

Source: jankos on Twitch

[Thorin @Thorin]

It's amazing how many people from esports who were top players or casters go and work on small indie games thinking it's 30 years ago and the game being good is what will make it blow up.

If you don't have millions for marketing and esports prize pools your game will come and go and nobody will notice.

[Labros @Labrov12]

LET US 2V3 XAXAXAXA

[LS @LSXYZ9]

The best in the west & one of the only players since DRX/HLE Chovy days that seems like can actually just actually be paid to actually deliver. Absolutely wild the level of play he has ascended to despite playing in NA for 5years. One of the most skilled pro-gamers of all time

[NAVI TheRock @TheRockEUW]

Right now at the World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo is starting for Portugal at 41. Messi just became the oldest player in World Cup history to score a hat trick. Modrić is still running a midfield at 40. Over in F1, Alonso is racing at 44 and Hamilton is still winning at 41.

Meanwhile in League, you turn 24-26 and people already act like you're done.

Here's the thing nobody wants to say: the "decline" argument doesn't even apply to us the way it does to real sports. Football and F1 are about sprint speed, reflexes, stamina, physical recovery, stuff that genuinely falls off with age, and these guys are STILL delivering past 40. League is decision-making, macro, reads, shotcalling. That's the part of the brain that gets better with experience, not worse.

Yeah, raw reaction time dips a little with age. Yes it can impact some situations, But at league this is not the end of the world. League at the top it's a knowledge and positioning game and much more than just reactions. A veteran who's seen 10,000 of these situations beats a mechanical god who's seen 100.

And it's not just mechanics we get wrong, it's mindset. The second a player hits a certain age, we(or player) decide he's given up, lost his hunger, doesn't love the game anymore. We treat motivation like it has an expiration date. The hunger doesn't die with age.

So if it's not age, what actually pushes guys out at 24-26?

One thing: the environment. The brutal intensity, the burnout, the unsustainable schedule, the lack of support. THAT'S what drains a player's effort and love for the game. When someone "stops caring," it's almost never their age, it's either themself or the system that burned them out and called it aging.

And that's the part that should make us want to try more about it, because it's fixable. You can't slow down aging. You CAN fix a broken environment/system/schedule.
We just choose not to, and then we blame the player and call them old.

I think we should start asking why we built a scene that burns through its most experienced players and then throws them away.

Sorry for the long post just some food for thought

[Sheep Esports @Sheep_Esports]

[SOURCES] Greece 🇬🇷 has locked its League Of Legends roster for the ENC

🇬🇷 Empyros (Fnatic)
🇬🇷 Pallet (WLG), 🇬🇷 Drofan (Team Insidious)
🇬🇷 Vladi (Fnatic), 🇬🇷 Peppe (TP)
🇬🇷 Comp (Joblife)
🇬🇷 Labrov (G2 Esports)

Head Coach: TheRock 🇬🇷

More details⬇️

https://t.co/2W6jcY2rAJ

[Myron Gaines @MyronGainesX]

Bro sat down and told the whore jew:

"YOU'RE MUCH FATTER IN PERSON..."

She said "what?"

"YOU'RE MUCH FATTER IN PERSON!"

Bro spent $100k and is about to do a chargeback!

Hahahahahahaha rare simp W.

😳😆😂😭😵💀☠️🪦🌹🕊️

[RFT.GG @RFTGGlol]

MKOI Melzhet 🇪🇸:
"‘You need to play good, I am here, what do you need? You have coaches, psychologists, a performance coach, managers, everything. What do you need? I'm here, let's do it.’ But if they’re not reaching it...

They are adults. They are not kids, they are getting paid a lot of money for this. They are professionals, and I need to demand from them as professionals."

[Thorin @Thorin]

I'm amazed how many talent, pros and fans said they miss me on the desk and asked if I'm working events soon. Humbling experience.

Let's see if this is the start of a new avenue for me in the game I've followed since day one.

Cheers, @PolymarketCS2!

[Thorin @Thorin]

I'm so bored of people endlessly repeating "there is no biological component to competing in video games so there are no genetic advantages."

It's the woke religious dogma of esports. Not only is it not even vaguely true, as experience and observation show, but it's based simply on people's feelings and what they wish was the case.

[Myron Gaines @MyronGainesX]

@ItsKingSlime RIP

[Troubleinc. @g_troubleinc]

A huge thank you and shoutout to @sjokz for inviting me to open the show with the LEC and talk about women in esports!

It has been 3 years since I last sat on that sofa to do my job...Bittersweet.

Hope you guys enjoyed the segment 🫶

[silencee @SilenceeXD_]

emerald lobby

[Thorin @Thorin]

@LaureBuliiV @Odoamne Quelle merveilleuse nouvelle !

[Thorin @Thorin]

Funny how they react when they don't know his name, eh?

https://t.co/buBD7EHqCz

[Sheep Esports @Sheep_Esports]

THE GREATEST WESTERN PLAYER OF ALL TIME

[47 @4T7VN]

@sheidenlol

[Ilha das Lendas 🏝️ @ilhadaslendas]

CAPS 🐐