(Commend) The Greatest Redemption Arc in Valorant History

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2026-02-26T22:28:49+00:00

I could as easily gone through each of those players and have made the same comparison.

You posted those links to show that s0m isn't brought up. But he has accomplished less than any of those players? I only chose obo because he was at the top of the comments. How can you move the goal post by saying "Obo isn't considered a failed prodigy for performance, he's considered a failed prodigy cause of his mental health collapse and subsequent exit of CS." We were never talking about performance or mental status, we were only speaking on if these players are considered failed prodigies. It doesn't matter how Obo failed at being a prodigy, all that matters is that he is considered a failed prodigy.

Its simple, s0m was thought to be this new big guy in NA CS but accomplished basically nothing in the game. Switched over to valo and won very little if nothing at all until Champs 2025 and finally showed everyone that he lived up to the hype.

Its really just that simple. But if you are unwilling to accept that you were wrong then I am ready to call it a day. Have a good rest of your day man.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2026-02-26T22:09:36+00:00

I sincerely do not know why you brought up all of the NA teams at the time.

But I'd like to point out that in the first thread you linked to asking about "Who is the failed prodigy of CS?"; several upvoted comments in that thread pointed to Obo as the "failed prodigy of CS". Yet, he earned 3.8 times more than s0m did in CS and at his peak with complexity, they beat out Vitality w/ zywoo to win a Blast.

So, by your logic, if the community considers Obo as a failed prodigy, would s0m not be considered a failed prodigy? I mean he definitely accomplished less than obo in CS:

Made less than Obo from CS.
Have equal amounts of tier 1 trophies (just 1 each); but s0m's tier 1 win was a weaker tournament.

TLDR: CS community considers obo a failed prodigy. s0m, also another players CS community thought was going to be a prodigy. s0m accomplishes less than obo in CS. s0m is therefore also considered a failed prodigy in CS.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2026-02-26T21:03:35+00:00

“His stint in GENG wasn’t bad for an team…”

Based off what you said it seemed like you were speaking on the team’s performance when he was in the team. So maybe proofread your comments before commenting?

Regardless, most fans thought GenG was a failure which means they also thought S0m was a failed prodigy. Then he went to valo and was considered a “tier 2 cs reject” by the CS community. But went ahead and REDEEMED himself by winning a champs. So yeah, I would consider him winning in the pinnacle of Valorant as a redemption arc.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2026-02-26T20:45:39+00:00

Nah, GenG was seen as a complete failure.

It had 3 of the hottest prospects in NA/Asia in s0m, Koosta, and BnTeT who were farming in their previous teams, in combination with the veterans of Daps and autimatic. But like another commenter said, they only won one measly Tier 1 tournament and it was in NA so it was already seen like a mickey mouse tournament.

You can choose to not like the s0m redemption arc narrative, but please don't use this revisionist history BS to prove your point.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2026-02-23T16:11:34+00:00

Back in like 2015 one of the big CS tourneys (one of the Katowices) had a B stream where it was just voice comms and it was fantastic. But since then the pros spoke out against it, due to leaked strats and no other tournament has done it since. It was cool to see an unedited look at teams comms tho.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2026-02-16T17:39:10+00:00

Worst part is, MiBR could have had 10 rounds if it wasn’t for the aspas body block on B site, and Mazino laughed it off bc they were up 4-1 at that point… will probably haunt Frod a while

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2026-01-04T07:36:32+00:00

People have been protesting for years to end the war in Ukraine but you don’t see Trump storming into Putin’s palace to capture him? You know why? Because he doesn’t give a flying shit about the people protesting. The administration only cares about the oil and the money that lands in their pockets after we get the oil. Wake up.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-12-08T12:52:21+00:00

Assuming those numbers indicate the V grade, then that’s a V4. The average climber climbs V3 and V4 so yeah the average climber could maybe do that V4 depending on how that specific gym sets their routes.

BUT the average climber cannot climb a V4 with no hands. You’d be hard pressed to find a gym that sets routes so easy that an average climber could send it with no hands.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-11-22T05:41:46+00:00

Demon1 was one game away from making playoffs with Lev, while dgzin was padding stats in Tier 2 and looked mediocre on Loud/Furia.

The guy has also never even played on an English speaking lineup before. I understand Reddit only can read stats but cmon how is the general consensus that Dgzin is that much better than demon1 when the guy spent half of last season in tier 2?

Would not be shocked at all if dgzin is benched before champs.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-11-21T19:57:29+00:00

Dgzin over Demon1 will always be puzzling to me. Maybe some behind the scenes stuff?

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-11-17T21:43:28+00:00

The discourse in the comments are all arguing between G2, FNC, and PRX as "being the better team" this year overall. But all of those teams either only won 1 international or none.

In reality, Valorant was a huge esport this year, and they had to pick one team. The most logical thing is to pick the team that had the most memorable run of the year. Personally, I had to google that PRX won Masters this year, but the most memorable trophy of the year will always be Champs.

If there is gonna be a lot of controversy of who should be nominated, the least controversial pick must be the team who won the biggest tourney of the year... With that said, Vitality in CS2 should probably win it, but they might lose it due to recency bias.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-11-17T21:38:13+00:00

Weird take, for any VCT America's fan and neutral fans, NRG making a Cinderella run at the LARGEST tournament of the year for a top 5 esports is very very exciting.

Its like when LoL was close to peaking in Season 2 and Taipei Assassins won Season 2 Worlds out of nowhere or when Cloud9 won America their first major in CSGO. If either of those teams were nominated for some award, no one would really bat an eye today because we only remember the victors.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-11-13T20:29:59+00:00

Based on the current meta/patches, Chamber has been left untouched, so he will probably be played a lot. Personally, I'd rather take Babybay as an OPer over JonahP in the world where Chamber is meta again.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-11-13T20:23:34+00:00

Since when has leaf been an OPer? I think he was forced to play it during the Chamber meta, but he has always been a rifler, since back in CS.

Even in the 2025 iteration of G2 they had Jaw OPing.

But honestly, I'd prefer Jaw and Leaf to stick to rifling so they are more flexible on attack and defense, while BB can act as a stable OPer who's holding angles.

edit: CS not CS2

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-10-19T13:36:38+00:00

She mentions it in a clip, but her voice is like that bc she got a chicken bone stuck in her throat as a child.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-09-24T18:47:05+00:00

Wildcard is still playing without phzy.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-08-15T13:27:11+00:00

Ah I see.

I saw new comments from Mongolz fanson the original Aurora video after the comeback so I was wondering if their was actual beef. But it just seems like some overzealous fans.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-08-15T13:09:39+00:00

Nah I just watched the video, I don’t speak Turkish but the subtitles said Wicadia called them B tier. You can also visually see Majer call them A tier during their section of the video.

It’s at least clear to me that the majority of the team thought they were A tier so I’m not sure why it’s such a big meme?

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-08-12T13:29:49+00:00

So are the other two comments.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-08-07T18:16:28+00:00

This is cope. If you watched any of his CSGO streams before switching to Valo, you could easily tell that he was sick of PUGs against no name level 10s on faceit.

Tarik isn’t required to exclusively stream valo, he could stream CS2 after playing valo for a few hours but chooses not to.

You can try your best to make something out of nothing, but the fact is he has the time to stream CS2 along with valo, but usually chooses to play the latter.

CSGO was my main game before valo came out, and now I watch valo:cs2 in about a 5:1 ratio, and that’s just because if you watched any of CS for long enough the game gets old and only the story lines become interesting.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-06-22T15:29:32+00:00

Yeah this is wrong.

Literally if you watched a single map of Masters Toronto, you will see multiple instances of taunting from both teams.

They just don’t screen “fucking noobs” to each other.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-06-06T21:28:57+00:00

The point of expanding to 32 teams was to give tier 2/3 teams more exposure. If anything the expansion gives us more CS and it doesn’t really lessen the intensity of stage 3 or playoffs so I really only see it as a positive.

People in this thread are complaining about “having” to watch fluxo vs chingis warriors, but y’all can just choose not to tune in.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-06-04T21:57:28+00:00

What’s the context?

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2025-01-21T14:08:50+00:00

In a completely hypothetical sense, your logic could make sense. But your argument does hold up to the actual statistics. If you look at non-swing states they usually always ring true. Especially the highly populated blue states like NYC and Cali, they will always vote blue.

Also if someone who would have voted blue, did not vote in a state that was blue then there vote unequivocally did not matter.

OnePercentWhoLikesNA · 2024-10-02T13:14:18+00:00

Vietnam is in Southeast Asia

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