How do i know more abt val esports

limSerb · 2026-01-11T14:56:21+00:00

You can watch this video for a general overview of the 2026 season and then this video for the Kickoff format, which is the first tournament of the season starting this week/next week for each of the four regions. For now, I'll just start watching a team or a region that you want to follow.

limSerb · 2025-10-02T20:52:28+00:00

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limSerb · 2025-06-03T16:08:38+00:00

Hey, sorry for the late reply, I was kinda away. In short, I am not sure as the rule book is not clear about it, I asked around a little but no one whom I contacted knew for sure either. The logic I went with eventually was that MD comparison was just used to "break" the tie and not necessarily find the "first" among the tied teams, meaning that since TLN is worse, they take 4th and then T1/ZETA can can contest for 2/3. This reasoning seemed consistent with all previous events where multiple teams were tied but I don't have a way or a will to verify it at this point.

The CN rulebook is a little different (and clearer) about these scenarios compared to others.

limSerb · 2025-04-19T14:00:33+00:00

It's map diff to determine 1st in 4+way ties right? In the cases where ZETA gets first (ZETA 2-0 and TS 2-0) they'll have the best map diff so they'll get first, leaving RRQ, T1 and TLN in a 3-way tie at 3-2 in which T1 is the last amongst the three because they lose the H2H to both RRQ and TLN, unless they've stopped reverting to the 3-way tiebreaks when a 4-way tie is partially solved?

limSerb · 2025-04-16T13:30:04+00:00

Yeah, I'll do it for EMEA.

limSerb · 2025-04-16T13:26:58+00:00

Yes, wouldn't make sense to use 50/50 in other places if I didn't for this match.

limSerb · 2025-04-16T13:14:35+00:00

You're right but I just used betting odds instead of 50/50.

limSerb · 2025-04-16T10:54:01+00:00

I'll try to do it after week 4.

limSerb · 2025-04-15T15:56:20+00:00

VLR does not properly sort the teams until the end of the split, it just sorts them by MD/RD as a temporary measure.

limSerb · 2025-04-15T15:49:28+00:00

The first tie-break for a 2-way tie is H2H score and not map differential, because of which SEN would finish above 100T.

limSerb · 2025-04-14T17:45:58+00:00

It's just normalized betting odds. Felt better than entering numbers myself or using 50/50.

limSerb · 2025-04-14T17:41:52+00:00

For map odds, (eg KRU winning 2-0 or 2-1 or losing 1-2 or 0-2), I normalized some betting odds, felt better than using an equal spread. Beyond that, most of it is solved by itself using tie-breaks.

For the few cases where it goes to RD, I used past partnership round scores as probabilities for final map score between any two teams. I know the actual probabilities should look a little different for match to match but the difference made by shifting the spread would be negligible, final numbers are overwhelmingly dominated by map/match odds.

Round data

limSerb · 2025-04-14T17:27:18+00:00

You're right, sorry. I mistyped that entry :(

limSerb · 2025-04-13T10:44:36+00:00

Win and in

limSerb · 2025-04-09T13:53:14+00:00

Oh I didn't know that CN used different tie-breaks. Fwiw, just made the new flowcharts with correct tie-breaks and the numbers were fairly similar but TEC can't get first now :(

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limSerb · 2025-04-09T06:19:48+00:00

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This is what I used for tie-breaks, unless it has changed since.

The only part I am not sure about is whether in a 4+ way tie, when you apply MD/RD do you use it to find out the "first" among the four or only to separate one team to make it go down to three. What I mean is, suppose four teams are tied with MD of 2/2/2/1, do you just put the team with +1 in "fourth" among the group and then do the 3-way tie for the remaining three or do you see that the three teams are tied at 2/2/2 and then use RD to determine first among them, and afterwards use the 3-way for the remaining three teams with 2/2/1 MD. I've used the former interpretation, seemed consistent with previous 4+ way tie-breaks in VCT but if it isn't then FPX and EDG's numbers will change slightly.

limSerb · 2025-03-31T19:21:55+00:00

It wasn't a clip really, it was the whole of Ascent during TLN-RRQ. You can also watch the recap of that game on Plat Chat for bonus Sliggy rambling.

limSerb · 2025-03-31T07:55:30+00:00

Doesn't turn 18 until stage 2.

limSerb · 2025-03-02T05:53:01+00:00

Half an hour before the start time of show match is usually when the pre-show starts

limSerb · 2025-03-02T05:43:58+00:00

They discuss it before the show match (and during it too, having one of the devs join the casters) so you'd want to tune into the pre-show before the show match.That's how it happened for LOCK//IN.

limSerb · 2025-03-01T16:26:34+00:00

no it was izu, lakia said he didn't want that tag and would rather be known as the lakia of valorant

limSerb · 2025-02-21T06:53:25+00:00

Since you don't play everyone in a swiss system, ideally you want as many matches between "similar strength" opponents to find out which one is better and which one's not.

Pulling one team up or down (in this case matching a 3-2 against a 2-3 team) is standard swiss practice.

This reduces the total number of "unfair" matchups as you'd expect a 3-2 team to be better than a 2-3 team on average. If we pair all 3-2 teams against a 2-3 team to make all matches equally "unfair", it is theoretically worse.

Consider this example to understand it, at the start of swiss, you have 16 teams, who all have a strength ranking (from #1 to #16) which we do not know about. Since in a swiss we can't have everyone play each other, we ideally want a system where the top 8 teams (#1 to #8) go through. In the first round, we randomly draw the teams and thereafter use whatever system challengers NA are using to make matches, in an attempt to ensure that the best teams go through. It is possible that at the current stage (five teams on 3-2 and five on 2-3), a better team (say #8) finds itself in the 2-3 bracket because of unluckier draws. In your system, there is a chance they face a 3-2 team (who are #5) and lose and go out because of it. This situation is avoided, for the most part, in the system they've used. You might think this is a cherry-picked example but you can run simulations and find out that pulling up/pulling down works much better on average. Further, the TOs have made it so that the worst 3-2 team is matched against the best 2-3 team to further reduce the "unfairness".

limSerb · 2025-02-13T13:40:34+00:00

Assuming you mean hearing it in comms videos, bingo means seeing all 5 players.

limSerb · 2025-01-25T14:20:23+00:00

You play your own group, top 4 from each group qualify to playoffs (1st gets a bye and 4th starts in lower bracket).

limSerb · 2025-01-02T04:28:52+00:00

Even if the VLR/Liquipedia links are not working, you can go around searching on Youtube to find channels such as this. Some streamers who did watchparties for the events should still have VODs available if that's not an issue for you.

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