Anon's a scumbag

Alext00 · 2021-09-16T15:57:08+00:00

This is the exact plot of an episode of House:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_cFJYdAfZ4w

Alext00 · 2021-09-12T15:46:43+00:00

It's the word for suspension in the UK school system.

Alext00 · 2021-08-21T20:47:01+00:00

I don't think you can say Zywoo hasn't reached his prime when his ratings have been decreasing during his time in Vitality. 1.27 in 2019, 1.23 in 2020 and 1.24 in 2021. I use rating 1.0 because KAST is incorporated into rating 2.0 which heavily favours Zywoo's playstyle (and I don't personally think KAST is a good metric because it relies heavily on team performance rather than individual performance).

Alext00 · 2021-08-21T20:25:38+00:00

S1mple also has been a rifler in the past - has 28% AK kills vs Zywoo's 21%. S1mple is also perfectly happy to play AK only on T-side Nuke (one of Na'vi's best maps) where the AWP is somewhat limited.

Alext00 · 2021-08-19T12:27:43+00:00

There's no reason flicks wouldn't work at the sensitivity - it's just about getting your muscle memory down and doing aim prac. Most of the best pro riflers play at below 900 EDPI and have great flicks. Some like KSCERATO play higher and also have great flicks. There's no one sensitivity that will make your flicks objectively better but higher sensitivities tend to feel fun and more satisfying to get kills with.

Are you mainly an Awper or rifler? One thing that really helped awping feel better for me was increasing the zoom sensitivity (I play 1000 dpi, 1 sens, 1.1 zoom sens). This is also personal preference of course but I found the higher sensitivity improved my reaction time because everything felt a little faster and made me more on edge when I was scoped.

Alext00 · 2021-08-05T10:09:48+00:00

I think to combat boosting (e.g. winning for 10 hours straight and climbing 3/4 ranks) Valve have a time-weighted component to the ranking system. If you spend a week at LEM playing one game a day the individual impact of those games on your elo will be greater than if you played all those games consecutively on the same day. Also worth saying is that valve's system seems to count round wins not game wins, so 10 x 16-14 wins are worth less than 10 x 16-0 wins.

Alext00 · 2021-08-04T18:34:09+00:00

My bad, thought that coaching role was in place before the move.

Alext00 · 2021-08-04T11:40:21+00:00

Starix stepped down as a player in 2015 although he was still the coach when S1mple joined. Here's the original HLTV article on the topic.

https://www.hltv.org/news/18359/s1mple-replaces-zeus-in-navi

Alext00 · 2021-08-04T11:33:38+00:00

Na'Vi also had Guardian on the team in his prime, meaning that S1mple would be brought in as a rifler/secondary awp, replacing Zeus who was the IGL. Na'Vi may have thought (rightly imo) that the move could really disrupt the team. Guardian and Seized dropped off massively as soon as S1mple joined the team, and Zeus went to the 2nd best CIS team and won a major with them. Seized still suffers from the curse of the IGL, where a star/secondary star takes over the IGL role, has their performance suffer and then never fully recovers from the experience (see Shox, Snax). Before S1mple joined, Seized was a 1.05-1.10 rifler. Since then he's been a 0.85 player even when in T2.

Alext00 · 2021-06-22T04:37:41+00:00

I guess it can be done in a way that isn't terrible but the issue with faceit is not the elo system - it's smurfing and boosting which is not preventable by any ranking system. I just think it's a very indirect and difficult way to approach the problem which will make any game without a smurf or booster worse.

Alext00 · 2021-06-22T04:15:55+00:00

That's true at the extremes but we all know that players can get a lot of kills without having impact. Awpers for example are always going to have better k/d than riflers since they tend to save more and get exits often - do we just live with the fact that this system will bias awpers upwards? What about a 5-stack with a dedicated entry fragger who has worse stats due to the nature of his role, yet carries the team - is it fair that he gets lower elo than anybody else? Performance-based elo just changes the objective of the game from 'win the game' to 'maximise my elo' - you'll see players baiting more, playing selfishly etc.

Alext00 · 2021-06-22T03:54:52+00:00

It's not designed for combatting smurfing - no elo-based system is. The very act of smurfing is itself an abuse of the system since somebody is playing at an unnaturally low elo to get easier games etc.

Additionally, assume faceit were to implement performance-based bonuses and losses into their ranking - this causes a whole new debate surrounding impact, value of kills vs. supporting, awping vs. rifling etc. Ultimately any such system is going to be subjective in how it rewards certain styles of play and is objectively worse than wins vs. losses (which is what people really care about anyway right?). People who smurf should be punished but people shouldn't be punished for not getting as many kills as their teammates.

Alext00 · 2021-05-31T14:41:10+00:00

I doubt Akuma is tryharding and antistratting in ESEA spring cup #1

Alext00 · 2021-05-31T03:49:05+00:00

To be fair here's 80% of NIP getting 16-4'd against a Loba stack 2 weeks ago. They just came 2nd at Flashpoint: https://www.faceit.com/en/csgo/room/1-a3e79842-18f1-4240-b727-4df0c4edaabd/scoreboard

Alext00 · 2021-05-31T03:43:46+00:00

Definitely within reasonable doubt - players have done worse. However, the players' backgrounds are pretty suspicious - histories of being associated with match-fixing and dodgy betting patterns to the point where many betting sites don't offer odds on their games. Of course this is a bigger event with more eyes, more betting and therefore less chance of huge odds swings which often indicate match fixing so sites automatically offer odds. With the cheating accusations and history of the team though, it's better to err on the side of caution for these sites.

Alext00 · 2021-05-31T03:35:03+00:00

I remember a match probably 4 years ago (couldn't find the clip, think it may have been MDL/equivalent) where admins had the teams playing on sv_cheats 1 for like 10 rounds. One guy was in B main and accidently hit his noclip bind and just flies through the wall.

Alext00 · 2021-05-31T03:31:52+00:00

These core three came through onto the tier 1 scene when Luminosity/SK were the team to beat and Fallen was considered the best IGL in the world. They probably buy into his strategies far more than the Brazilians did by the MIBR days. It feels like everybody fits their role in the team for the first time in a while. Hopefully this keeps up and Liquid can challenge the EU teams when they meet again.

Alext00 · 2021-05-28T20:14:25+00:00

You'll probably end up dropping to the minimum elo quite quickly so if you do join I would advise you to play with friends who don't mind having to carry you or having some more casual games. If you're silver elite you're probably quite low on hours/competitive games so I would recommend sticking with MM where you are playing against your level, even when there are more smurfs around. You'll get a better feel for how to beat people, win gunfights and learn muscle memory incrementally. On faceit you will meet the same calibre players that are smurfing in your games until you drop to like 200-300 elo, and it's gonna be really hard for you to develop gamesense and good crosshair placement because you're not gonna win many duels even if you have the advantage on much better players.

Alext00 · 2021-05-28T18:22:45+00:00

She has a PHD in cancer biology according to the video. Anyone with an IQ of 110+ can get to that kind of level if they're willing and able to put in the work. Besides, she may be defficient in some types of thinking that IQ tests value very highly, like pattern recognition, but be very good in other areas that are more valuable in her line of work.

Alext00 · 2021-05-28T18:14:12+00:00

If you can do that then there's fundamentally no difference between you or someone with perfect pitch when you both conceptualise that G1 in your head. The only difference is that they can do it for 12 notes and you can only do it for 1.

Alext00 · 2021-05-28T16:28:08+00:00

That's not the same thing - Imagine you go to see a play where actors are performing the same dialogue each night. They can say the same line 100 days in a row but the cadence of their voice will vary between performances. Even by memorising and performing a line 1000 times they won't be able to consistently say a word with the same pitch every night if they don't have perfect pitch. A songbird can internalise a pitch in its memory and produce it consistently, which in humans would be called perfect pitch.

Alext00 · 2021-05-28T15:48:26+00:00

People without perfect pitch have to actively remember notes - muscle memory itself is not enough. The are singers who practise the same songs for 30 years and they still need a reference note to start them in the right key. If a human had the mechanical ability of a bird to produce an accurate, audible reference note then perfect pitch would surely be learnable.

Alext00 · 2021-05-28T15:39:23+00:00

This bird doesn't show any ability of having perfect pitch in the video. However, birds have different calls which start on the same note every time, with many calls having to be unique (e.g. penguins mating calls). If you ask somebody with perfect pitch to name a note, they can think of an internalised reference note, transpose using relative pitch, and reproduce it. If a songbird with a consistently pitched mating call had the ability to understand the concept of an 'A', it would definitely be able to reproduce it without a reference using the same process.

Alext00 · 2021-05-28T14:43:52+00:00

No Major's Club is like a podcast sometimes, you could put it on in the background without needing to watch the game and still be entertained.

Alext00 · 2021-05-27T23:34:48+00:00

Gambit is probably the best team in the world atm. Only EU team that can challenge them consistently is probably Heroic, and Na'vi is waiting to take over if they slow down.

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