Director of Esports @cunybcesports #BrooklynCollege | CUNY esports organizer | Former US Army | Support Public NYC Collegiate https://nitter.cf/t.co/WBGe2awa2D
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2025 is going to be a big year for the Brooklyn College Esports folks. Lock in and join us.
Tentacle Coach (Xander Raff) retweeted
Who else in NYC is excited for LoL Worlds? 👀🔥
Join us November 8 at noon at @OS_NewYorkCity for the @NYCCECGG x @Medal_TV Worlds 26 Showcase, with @Medal_tv as our official content partner!
🎁 Exclusive League of Legends merch giveaways (Maybe some worlds merch too 👀)
🎟️ A chance to win two Worlds 26 tickets
🎮 Collegiate exhibition matches with $500 for the winning team
📺 Worlds Semifinals watch party
Bring your crew and celebrate Worlds with the NYC esports community!
Supported by @teamRallyCry @LeagueOfLegends, along with @MadeinNY and @NYCEDC.
🚨 FREE RSVP through the link in bio!
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#NYCCEC #Worlds26 #LeagueOfLegends #NYCEsports
Forgot to post here but last month I spent 2 weeks on LAN after taking time off from League. Going to let the account decay probably because this was time investiture that isn't sustainable as a Director but it was fun and LAN has a ton of great players.
The fact that it took this long to lock Mel as the counter to Ashe Seraphine is insane. So happy Lyon did it though.
Just want to show off my son's costume that was fully handmade by my lovely wife. @warhammer inspired Chaos Knight. Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne.
Tentacle Coach (Xander Raff) retweeted
Play with chat off. A lot of people debate with me on this.
I used to play with chat on and it made every game harder for me. One game I could've carried, but my mind wasn't in the right place. I had chat on, and I let the chat distract me.
Chat doesn't need to tilt you to hurt you. It just needs you to read it.
Even if your mental is perfect, and even if you know for sure it's not going to affect you, the fact that you're reading chat is changing your focus from what's going on in the game to what's going on in chat.
Turning it off helped me so much. When I have chat off, I can actually focus.
And if you want to tell your team something, that's what pings are for.
Give yourself a fair shot and turn chat off BEFORE your next game.
I've been spending more time with my son going through PC settings/menus and showing him generally how basic stuff works. It's clear the necessity we had to learn this young benefitted us and no one before or after has needed to the same degree.
As someone that works almost exclusively with clubs in NYC this is objectively false. The club scene is alive and thriving and just because its not blasted on Twitter by students who are predominantly on other platforms doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
The collegiate ecosystem has completely collapsed. Its basically worthless now. Its not even like small communities its nonexistent not even registered with the university anymore. I would say like 90% of clubs are gone now. Its just like a few teams that play competitively with no fans or community members. Hence why ive been basically esports blackpilled completely.
Anything below Dia means you lack a ton of game knowledge. That's an objective fact. I have coached hundreds of students that believed otherwise. Every single one that I coached from genuine low elo to high elo (bronze/silver to D+) did so after recognizing this to be truth.
League is not a skill based game. Even 50/50 believers are overstating the mechanics. It’s almost entirely knowledge
I climbed to mid diamond with no keyboard (have to click on abilities to use them). That would be master tier today.
Cannot call a game where you can reach top 1% with essentially 0 mechanics a skill based game. If you’re lower than apex tiers you’re lacking a lot of knowledge
I saw a lot of takes about CLOL going back to part time. First, I can tell from some tweets that many didnt know part time was allowed previously. Second, I understand the impact it will have in top 8 but I know several good players that couldn't afford to be full time last year.
I dont understand the obsession with mimicking traditional sports when we know we are different and cater to way more people who are still trying to subsidize being able to play at all beyond the casual level.
Good change
📢 Rally Cry is proud to announce our partnership with @RSAAOfficial and @RaidiantGG to bring you this season of CVAL and CLOL!
❗️ Stay tuned for announcements when our platform goes live!
Tentacle Coach (Xander Raff) retweeted
Isolating this to purely players and streamers:
A degree in Business administration or marketing then get a career and balance both while taking what you learn everyday and apply that to yourself
Your career teaches you and funds your hobby until you’ve either made it fully, part-time, or given up
Don’t tell me you can’t balance both
Tentacle Coach (Xander Raff) retweeted
Can't wait to be cheering on our teams this semester!! What titles are you excited to watch?
Tentacle Coach (Xander Raff) retweeted
With the new season approaching, we're gonna be taking a look back at some of last season's highlights over the next couple of weeks! 🔥
Tentacle Coach (Xander Raff) retweeted
First collegiate team in history to qualify for LCS Promotion tournament.
So proud of the boys. Way to believe in yourselves and make it happen.
Sorry for the headache Riot that is on you to figure out. :)
