My 2 cents for what its worth: my University Valorant experience was pretty similar if not worse lol. Although I'm from western Canada and played at a major Canadian University - our eSport scene was very small and essentially completely undeveloped (the official University eSports club opened in my 3rd year). My tryout experience was abysmal since I didn't know anyone that competitively played Valorant - as a result, I signed up as a solo and they paired me with 4 randoms with a wide range of skill. At the time I was an Immortal Duelist/Entry Fragger, and my team was comprised of another Immortal player, a Diamond, a Plat, and a Gold. Although I was frying and playing well, getting nearly 80 kills total across three tryout games, we eventually lost to more organized/higher skilled teams in the tryout (essentially teams that signed up as a 5 stack). When the tryouts were done and I didn't make the team, I was still kept around to practice with/scrim/sub for games. When I DID play, it was clear that the University Valorant experience is NOT what most people think it is - in fact, it kind of sucks. There are many factors that I can explain, but I'll talk about the main ones for me. Since I'm in western Canada, playing against American/Eastern Canadian teams were hard due to time zone differences, and the ping. Every match we played was a minimum 60+ ping, making it impossible to play competitively when I'm used to the Oregon/Norcal server with around 25 ping. Some of these matches would be LATE at night, when I seriously needed to sleep as I had classes early the next morning. Next is the ego that players develop, and the toxicity that comes with it. While most of the people I met were nice and fun to talk to, some players took the game more seriously than others, and truly believed that playing on a collegiate team was like turning pro - when in reality, they aren't and very far from it. Being a collegiate player doesn't mean you're good at the game, or even cut out for being pro, but they still act/talk like they are. The skill gap between the worst pro player and an average collegiate player is still MASSIVE. Finally on the topic of skill gap, even within the collegiate scene there is still a massive skill gap between teams/schools. Some schools just simply have better players, such as UofA or Waterloo having multiple if not a full team of Radiants on their team. Some teams have literal content creators, high ranking Radiant farmers, people who are already signed to an org/content creator for an org, etc.... For my school where we had maybe 1 or 2 ex-Radiants and the rest of the team are just Immortals, the game just becomes a team diff or skill diff of the highest order. If anyone wants to watch my tryout matches, I have the vod posted on my channel - I'm well aware that I'm an awful player but I played how I played at the time so what can I do lol

this feels so much like a technoblade commentary video, he even has the "welcome guys"

He says im just a broke college student as he takes out the kuronami knife

im cheering for you

love the vibes of these videos bro

you kind of mog lowkey model potential

im just tryna hit ascendant

cant wait for the 200,000 play button.

Love ur videos keep making these, nice break from the fastpaced flashy content

what a chad to use classical piece as their background music. i am in a very similar situation as you, a college student, a pianist and a casual gamer as well.

hail man

any tips to climb to immortal 2? im currently immortal 1, also very nice video!

bro whenever i get u on my team someone dodges D: My ign in GFU cwis

hey bro idk how u ended up in my feed but hey u gained another sub ... for ur honesty and kindness ....dw about the wiff who dosent wiff everyone does eveyone learns from it ....

clair de lune is so good bro

i think its good to set urself a high goal but u also should split it into smaller goals (imm2,3, radiant, top 100? etc.) or even other goals like watching your vods and always learning at least x amount of stuff out of it or getting other opinions on it

i believe bro you got this but the game is overwatch on the video description

small tip to fix the spray and pray thing you call wiffing go on a deathmatch and only use 10 bullets per fight you can go down to 5 if it gets too easy but it really helps a lot

w vid that reyna ace was nice that guy is cracked!

good luck my man you got this

as long as u aren’t apac it’s at least possible 😂

the background music is unusual for a gameplay but when you get used to it it makes the video 10 times more special

it’s the guy from the live commentary during valorant 😮😮

where do you get your thumbnails?

I believe in you man. Good luck with everything going on. <3 (I love your content btw)

good luck

From a personal level I can agree that balancing everything is very hard and I struggle with the same thing with you… editing, gf, school, and sport/gym and most importantly… family time. It isn’t unrealistic to hit rank 1 but, just change your mindset in games where you take control and don’t say that you can’t control anything. There is always something you can do in the game to make a difference. Be confident with your decisions making and focus on the fundamentals aspect of the game as I’m a radiant my self trying to grind to go pro as a 17 yr old high school student.

Please bring back the irl Segments!😊 Comment for Algo

I like that the classical is back

Volleyball is really cool, how long ago did you join the class?

The real life is a really cool part

Great video like all ways can't wait for more videos like this one as well as the commentere vids.

What happened to the Jojo bizzare adventure thumbnail XD

you will hit number 1 or just radiant I belive. (btw I like the IRL things when you go eat or something) :)

getting ranked 1 radiant is 100% possible aslong as you have the routine and mindset, you got this man

who drew thumbnail?

i really enjoyed the irl segments in the other videos, would recommend you keep doing them! :D

Ah yes mazepti my favorite osu player

love u vro

Im on the same boat, junior year doing biochem. My only problem is not playing enough. Currently immo 1 but probably play less than 10 games a week. I be snoozing on the grind

you got this man

w man keep growing!

I believe in you ❤😘

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How I got straight As in subjects like Discrete Maths, Algorithms and Data Structures, Differential Geometry and Statistics by playing Valorant to death. 🤡

Same i got straight A’s too, top 50 radiant NA this act, senior year now lol. My advice is to just have good time management and maybe use valorant as motivation. I would study and do hw happily cuz then after I could grind

bro i am waiting for the how

"How i get staright A's" more like a "How i got a b in english" bruh

Thanks for making this video.

6:50 lmao