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Valorant's only been out for a day and it's getting wrecked on metacritic. Currently sat at 3.4 from user reviews. Doesn't seem to be coordinated review bombing either. Wasn't expecting this given all the praise it received in closed beta.
This review in particular really spoke to me.
Just as an update there have now been a positive wave of reviews that have pushed the Metacritic score of Valorant up to 5.4. This is below Apex Legends (5.9), Overwatch (6.5) and Global Offensive (7.4) but above Call of Duty: Warzone that only has 3.4.
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Going to continue detailing my decade in esports but had a few people say "don't do it on Twitter... It's not the format for it. Write an article." Fuck that. This is a way to get content to my followers HERE. I'm already up to my neck in articles anyway. OWL fans gonna love me.
So around 2014 I was working on building up my own brand anyway. I was becoming a regular on podcasts and shows so I started my own, an esports phone-in called Trash Talk. Here's a clip from a very early show.
The show was originally broadcast on the @Streamgasm Twitch channel. I'd met the guys at a DreamHack and hit it off with them. One of their crew, Gareth, was the original co-host for Trash Talk. We didn't get too far before he got poached to go and do some stuff for ESL UK.
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OK, went full boomer and tagged in so many people I'm going to start part 2 of my decade in esports in a separate thread. This will be the stuff really want to know: Starcraft years and onward. It was basically make or break for me and it very nearly was the latter.
So, for the sake of web traffic Cadred had pivoted to including Starcraft 2. As this tweet from 2010 should show, just for a bit of trivia, I was one of the first English speaking reviews of the game. I stayed awake for 36 hours to achieve that.

But I never really inserted myself into the community at all. A lot of esports guys did. Starcraft was where you had to be to be relevant but I figured if I just jumped in and started pretending I'd get called out. Instead I watched from the sidelines and went to the events.
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OK. My decade in esports. A wild ride, highs and lows, insanity on all sides and the brutal reality of trying to balance being the conscience of a growing industry with no oversight while trying to make just enough money to survive. Let's kick this shit off and lose followers.
2010 was my first ever editor-in-chief job. After being a features editor for a while at Cadred, an esports website owned by @heavenmedia , the two staff members who ran the site basically didn't want to do it anymore. It was dead man's shoes but fuck it, it was real money.
@heavenmedia One staff member who left went on to become a great poker player. @max_silver was my boss for a few years, a good friend and someone who went through the CGS nightmare with me. He was a lovable goof back then. Had no idea he could even play snap let alone fucking poker.
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