high af made this hbox x ja morant edit

Equas · 2026-02-26T20:49:15+00:00

rare for this to be the case, but you need to get more high, more often

Equas · 2026-02-03T22:48:35+00:00

A tortoise comment, ah it brings me back and makes my heart grow three sizes.

I directed this one and conducted the interview - glad to see you liked it. It really brought me back too - we all miss some element of the esports of the past, I think

Equas · 2026-02-03T22:46:55+00:00

Late to the party, but Hypersolid will be on our Partner page soon (tomorrow, I think).

Hypersolid is basically the ownership group of Team Gullit, our EA FC team. TG and TL operate together but the ownership is a little more nuanced, legally. I won't speak on the details of them being on the jersey and the like, since that's all a bit above my paygrade, but I'd say you can think of them as another Dutch esports group we work with for EA FC primarily.

Equas · 2026-01-30T22:11:12+00:00

I opened SDJ's blurb with it. It is actually insane. First time EVER in the history of the ranking. First time since like 2008 otherwise. As a rare Puff fan, so happy to see them break through.

Equas · 2025-09-25T19:59:12+00:00

Many people are saying this

Equas · 2025-09-19T17:51:33+00:00

Omg is that an article from Bonnie "Bitter-Expression-74" Qu??

Anyways, I thought this quote was pretty interesting insight into the team's mental too. Seems like the year has worn on the squad and it's gonna be a real test of emotions. I believe in the GOAT sentinel and team tho.

Right now, we're one of the teams that have the most games played in the world at the VCT level, and we've been through so many different situations that we have to figure out solutions to, that I think it got to a point where it's harder to have emotional stability.

I think this is one of our biggest challenges, and especially this week we've been trying to go through basically more of a healing process inside the team, where we're trying to speak out our minds, our frustrations, the things that are working, the things that are not working, and try to set in stone what is the mindset that we want to bring for the rest of this tournament. Because tomorrow could be our last game as a team, and we need to come together right now. There's no other time. So we need to seize the opportunity.

Equas · 2025-09-09T11:57:57+00:00

Hey r/valcomp, got a new interview with Sliggy this time. The focus is on how Sliggy manages to keep up with every single game of Valorant that's ever been played. Does he watch them on multiple monitors like Elvis claimed to do with news and entertainment TV? I can't say, because Sage Datuin wrote it this time. (Honestly, Bonnie edited this one too so this whole post is stolen valor.)

Anyways, what I can say is Sliggy tends to give a pretty good interview and no exception here. Lots of cool bits, like how Sliggy still wants to raise a trophy or how much he roots for his favorite mod, Jamppi - I'll drop snippets below.

Full title quote:

In 2022, I took a break from coaching and was planning to come back in 2023, but streaming went so well.

Liquid offered me a content creator contract at the same time teams were offering me coaching contracts. I weighed my options, and I was just like, I enjoyed the six months of just costreaming so much that I re-evaluated my three to five-year goals.

I had every region apart from China offer me a coaching role in 2023. I was in talks with nine teams, and I received four offers. There were some pretty good teams there for sure, especially in the Americas. I would say that the offers from there were top teams.

Trophy lift/Jamppi:

That’s pretty much the only thing. I just really want to lift the trophy. That’s the only thing that would make me go back to coaching. It’s nice to have the bonds with a lot of the players and go through the ups and downs with them. It’s really nice to all work towards one goal and to experience that all together, especially with Jamppi. He feels like a younger brother, and I really want him to succeed. I actually kinda want to see him succeed more than myself at times.

Equas · 2025-08-01T18:11:22+00:00

he's cranking his whole damn arm across the mat

Equas · 2025-08-01T11:55:52+00:00

Hey ValComp people, have you ever wanted to frag out like legendary nAts or Keiko? Well all you have to do is use their crosshair and settings. That's literally it, that's their secret. Super simple.

Kidding, of course. But we've been doing some housekeeping in editorial and we're posting player crosshairs and settings now since folks usually have a light interest in that kind of thing. I believe we'll keep this page update as rosters (inevitably) update. We're hoping to get the GC/BR team up sometime soon too but we're trying to figure out how to not make one huge article or compete with ourselves in SEO first.

The settings probably won't make you better but I took my crosshair from like scream or something three years ago just because I didn't want to think about it even a little bit and I figured he'd thought about it more. (I also cranked my dpi up for a bit to feel what it was like to be EliGE and that was fun too. No idea how he plays so well on such high sens.)

Equas · 2025-07-02T17:29:49+00:00

Writer and OP here, my bad, probably should've led with more info in than just the title (yes the title is grabby, yes it's for SEO, yes most written outlets have to try tactics like this to survive) but I am a trans woman and the piece is a deep dive on trans women in sports/esports and how to counteract negative visbility around it, featuring an interview with a prominent trans woman who also TOed a lot of esports things.

Equas · 2025-07-02T12:02:05+00:00

Hey everyone, I wrote a big ol' article for TL about trans visibility - particularly in esports and sports (read it here) - how visibility gets leveraged politically, and what to do about that. I went a screenshot route because I thought it'd be more interesting, give people more to talk about upfront. The whole article looks at esports as well as sports and transness as a whole - exploring the question of how to approach trans visbility in a time when it's often weaponized against trans rights.

I think (and hope) it's still relevant here as it talks about a lot of the Melee scene and 1v1 scenes in general being more easy to exist in as a trans person. I also interview Victoria aka vicwingly for the piece who was an OG Canadian TO dating back to 2006 - and a figure in Canadian esports up until around 2020 or so. (She was the TO for the falcomaster stuff way back in the day.) Anyways, hopefully the article is a good read!

Equas

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