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Llewellyn de Souza

Mar 23, 20216 min read

Why European Valorant has such few viewers compared to NA

Valorant is becoming more popular as an esport, with VCT (Valorant Champions Tour) NA (North America) Masters having a peak of over...

Llewellyn de Souza

Mar 15, 20215 min read

My introduction to PC gaming was Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games such as Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Command & Conquer. It was a...

Llewellyn de Souza

Mar 13, 20213 min read

On the 11th of March Riot confirmed the 4 Twitch partners they were allowing to co-stream VCT NA Masters. The list consisted of Shroud,...

Llewellyn de Souza

Mar 12, 20212 min read

2 days before the most important tournament Valorant has had yet, Sinatraa was benched from Sentinels after sexual misconduct allegations...

Llewellyn de Souza

Mar 10, 20211 min read

Just after midnight on Wednesday the 10th, a fire broke out at the OVH datacenter in Strasbourg, France. The building where the fire...

Llewellyn de Souza

Mar 10, 20211 min read

Tea-bagging is a term used in gaming to describe the action of crouching repeatedly on a dead opponent’s body, generally in the face, as...

Llewellyn de Souza

Mar 9, 20216 min read

Before its release in June 2020 Riot Games’ Valorant was known as “Project A”. Even under the ambiguous name, and before its completion,...

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