When you announced you were stepping down, you said one of the big factors was the travel, but here you're saying you're still willing to compete, maybe in VALORANT. What's the difference between competing here and in VALORANT for you then?

The biggest difference is that VALORANT is a franchise game, so you know that you live in LA, you go to work, come home. It's more traditional, whereas in CS you don't know exactly when you're going to be gone, you have to base your whole entire schedule around flights and stuff. If you want to do a bootcamp it's usually a two-week bootcamp into a tourmament, so you're usually gone for about a month, minimum. Depending on what tournaments you want to accept, what tournaments you want to deny, it's pretty hectic.

You don't know exactly when you're going to be gone, you have to base your whole entire schedule around flights and stuff... it's pretty hectic
Nick "nitr0" Cannella on the difference between Counter-Strike and VALORANT

Even then it's like CS2 is coming out, when is that game actually going to be released? What tournaments are going to have the game? It's just a lot of ambiguity within the scene right now with the new game being released. It's a lot of travel, obviously, for a North American player because you can't just be at home. We tried playing NA to EU with 120 ping and I'm waking up at 4AM to scrim, and it's just really hard.




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