Introduction
Valorant is a free-to-play first-person shooter video game developed and published by Riot Games. It features a 5v5 team-based gameplay with a variety of agents, each with unique abilities, and objective-based game modes. Commonly refered to as a melting pot of Overwatch/TF2 and CSGO most people with knowledge in this subject and totally not biased idiots who wasted their life playing these two games instead of having their own qt pocket sage in 2023 thought the game would die faster than this site whenever train posts were banned. Contrary to this opinion, the game and its esport scene is still going strong and as someone who has never watched a single Valorant game I'm happy to see these people happy. The recent tournament in Brazil - VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN SΓ£o Paulo - had similar success and created a lot of interest for fans as the winner of the tournament would grant their region an extra slot at the upcoming major or something idk really I'm trying my hardest here to make this interesting. Local fans cheered with their team (LOUD) and the final against the European team Fnatic was only narrowly lost. However, as soon as the local team lost the stadium was anything but LOUD as most of the audience has already left as shown in this picture:
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This created a LOT of seethe as Brazilians leaving the stadium whenever their team loses is not a rare occurrence. It has gotten so bad that one of the most prominent figures in the scene had to basically tell the fans that events are not coming back to their country if that keeps happening:
Popular streamer telling Brazilians they should not be doing this
LSF: Tarik's advice to fans from Brazil
https://old.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/11ii9qh/tariks_advice_to_fans_from_brazil/jayfupx/
Was the same with the csgo major, best crowd in recent memory for the brazilians. Any other team and the crowd was silent.
It's every Brazilian crowd ever, the last MMA card in Brazil was beyond pathetic.
beyond pathetic is a great way to explain that, shit was so cringe
https://old.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/11ii9qh/tariks_advice_to_fans_from_brazil/jayixpa/
Brazilians are like this in every sport I've ever watched. Tournaments held in Brazil are always garbage because of it.
They are like this in every sport I think. The Brazilian crowd when the ufc goes is notorious for chanting βyouβre gonna dieβ to foreign fighters, throwing food and drinks at them, and even trying to grab and smack them as they walk out. You donβt see it anywhere else
Valorant: Tarik on Brazil fans leaving venue early after Loud loss.
Hope Riot never goes back to brazil again. terrible crowd, not only that some players are afraid to leave their hotels in fear of being robbed. Time and time again, brazil has proven to be a garbage place for anything competitive, whether that be the csgo tournaments, or even ufc lol. really really hope riot doesn't come back because this is just sad
Iβve literally never heard a single good thing about the Brazilian community from CS or from here. No surprise, and Riot should never go back. Thatβs pathetic and shameful for an entire community to blatantly disrespect the hard work that pros put out to get that far. Not to mention the money and resources that went into getting this venue only to have it be empty before itβs even over?
Reactions to the empty arena
The arena during the winner interview
We usually do not care about others teams, you guys are really disconected;
Why should we care ? Brazilians in fps are used to getting called names (slurs and other stuff) and be belittled by people overseas we learned to cheer ourselves and do not care about other people think.
This is why you will see brazilians really root for our teams.
I mean... Its 21 PM here in Brazil, and its a bit dangerous at the streets.
And also, what did you guys expected? Loud lost lol
Some further threads
Brazilian crowd in VCT Lock In [1000+ comments]
3 different eSports title events, Same crowd when home team is losing. [300+ comments]
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Much love for the Brazilian people
My own take, BRs are some of the most dedicated motherlovers when it comes to the fighting game scene.
These frickers create 500+ player tournaments out of their asses for games that'd be lucky to get 20-30 people in NA/EU, all for about 20 USD.
200ms ping? That's considered a good day.
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Sadly no locals where I live
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I'm talking netplay tournies neighbor.
Locals are still ravaged right now, I'm not expecting turnout at them to be decent till SF6 (copium)
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Fighting games are a third-world/poorcel genre in general, given that they have always been prominently an arcade genre, which attracts poorcels who were unable to buy consoles as kids, and arcade fighting games were the only video game that they could play as kids, just look at the sheer number of black FGC champions, and also Pakistanis, South Americans, etc.
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I should put more effort to log dumb FGC shit.
The TLDR is NA players mostly just have giant egos and then get killed when push comes to shove on the international level: they're all more interested in having mental breakdowns on twitter instead of actually winning and improving their play. EU players occasionally actually win shit
SF6 should produce some tasty drama with all the biggest heads across multiple games butting heads, which will all lead up to that million dollar prize getting sharked by some Japanese dude
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