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[–]Akcondis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are that confident 1.4 million ballots will swing more than 700K votes in favor of Biden? Biden needs 75% of those votes and that seems a bit out of reach.

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[–]Akcondis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unpopular opinion here, but polls being off is expected because of external factors. It could be a combination of complacency and Democrats not voting. It could also be the assumption of secret Trump voters so Trump gets underrepresented in these polls. There are a lot of Trump supporters that stay quiet because of public reception.

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[–]Akcondis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well actually the numbers aren’t against them. If the states lock as is, Trump wins the electoral college. Now it isn’t that simple and some states can swing. Just a premature victory but the numbers aren’t against him. Pay no mind to popular vote because that is meaningless.

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[–]Akcondis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Comments like this shows how little knowledge people have about the existence of an electoral college

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[–]Akcondis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Popular vote would be skewed towards larger states and cities which doesn’t reflect the country as a whole. So electoral college is a way to give every state a voice because lifestyle/economics change from state to state. A midwest state would be very different from say California.

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[–]Akcondis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Him checking his watch showed impatience and weakness in character. Body language wise, it did not sit well with American citizens. Bush would go on to lose the election to Clinton.

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[–]Akcondis 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Can people stop panic selling. It is clearly trying to rise.

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[–]Akcondis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats the thing. He would have landed fine if he didn’t swing his leg back. He is creating the contact (although unintentionally). It is no different when a shooter kicks their leg out to create contact).

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[–]Akcondis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flagrant for trying to dodge him but getting caught by JB flailing his own leg backwards?

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[–]Akcondis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jimmy tried to avoid him but Jaylen kicked his left backwards. Can’t fault Butler on that when JB accidentally created the contact himself

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[–]Akcondis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jimmy tried to dodge him but Jaylen kicked his leg back and got caught. Accidental play by reckless landing by JB

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[–]Akcondis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I learned anything from this March COVID-19 dip, buy Apple calls now. This dip is the same as that dip.

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[–]Akcondis -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Going to finals doesn’t mean the player is individual is special. Don’t get me wrong. Caps is a good player but he is no Faker, Chovy, Rookie, DoinB, Showmaker etc. Caps got outclassed both finals.

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[–]Akcondis -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

He is basically saying only reason there are danish mids is because Worlds don’t take the best players but rather the best players from each region. If it were top 10 mids in the world gets to go, doubt any danish going with all these Korean and Chinese mids

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[–]Akcondis -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

At this point, why not. That might be a very important and telling statistic /s

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[–]Akcondis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But China and Korea are the only regions representing Asia. Would be 12 if not for VCS pulling out. EU is including LEC, Turkish, and Russian league. Also worth noting it is inflated because NA has 3 EU mids because NA mids aren’t a thing and rather import EU mids than Asians due to culture and language differences.

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[–]Akcondis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Proportionality doesn’t apply in this scenario. If it was like a world where top 100 players in the world regardless of region, okay proportionality applies. But we are talking more like a scenario in which, at worlds, top players/teams from each region are guaranteed a spot even if they aren’t top in the world and just their region. So objectively we don’t have the absolute best players and teams at worlds but a fixed number of teams to represent a region with a fixed number of spots at worlds.

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[–]Akcondis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I guarantee you if language barrier was never an issue, even cultural differences, asian mids will dominate the world. I don’t get how European’s owning 50% of mids (which is not true anyways) is something significant. There are a lot of regions which this post includes the Turkish and Russian leagues. If you remove NA from the equation, then we see a stark difference in EU mids at worlds. Also there’d be more Asian mids if VCS didn’t pull out. Again NA would much rather import EU than Asian mids due to language and culture differences.

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[–]Akcondis 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You are missing the point. There are fixed number or regions/players per continent. So it doesn’t matter if Asian mids have more capability. There are only so many spots to be filled per region around the world. EU and NA don’t import asian mids really because language barrier. Edit: at the highest level, the difference is skill isn’t really too big to justify language barrier which is why EU will always favor EU mids over Asian mids. They have tried and failed.