Wave OCE is excited to be hosting this year's VALORANT Tournament for SMASH! 2026. Get ready for a weekend of 5v5 Valorant Swiftplay! We're celebrating the fast-paced, action-packed rounds we all love with a two-day community event. Catch the plays across multiple skill levels during Saturday's Open Tournament, or grab your friends for some good vibes and lots of laughs in Sunday's Amateur Event. Whether you're bringing precise gunplay or just looking to make new friends and have a good time, there's a team waiting for you! ⏰ When? - ‘Open’ Event: Saturday 11th July No rank restrictions - ‘Amateur’ Event: Sunday 12th July Peak rank Platinum or below 📍 Where? Smash! Con Sydney, at the ICC (International Convention Centre) Registrations are open and will close on the 28th of June at 11.59pm AEST. Important links in the replies!

How many times have you seen a group of players say, "Looking for org to represent us!" which in their mind means, we just want a salary and a team regardless of if the org makes ANY money whatsoever? Orgs are fucking businesses that puts itself out there as a business venture, not just some business that pays players until it runs out of money. I have seen soooooooo many players not understand this at all. #esports

Anthony Bourdain: "Listening to you people makes me want to go join the communist party. You're living off the labor of a repressed underclass."

For context his account was FULLY LOCKED. If he was able to open the game he would still be able to play. Maybe use your brain for a second and realize that if Riot fully locked your account you've clearly messed up and it's an obvious decision for a TO to not let you play.

never ever forget esports is an entertainment industry and the fans pay the bills

Please keep this level of pageantry in League Stuff like this is awesome

here's a fun piece of news that no one's announced yet: LCS will be played in the regular arena tomorrow with no audience. VCT is in the howling abyss arena, we're on the main stage — but no tickets sold, no fans. neither game is really selling tickets, i guess. tough news.

I interviewed Lando Norris and the world champion was open, honest and articulate. And then his management stepped in to police and muzzle him in an attempt to "control the narrative." From then on it did not go too well....this is what happened. theguardian.com/sport/2026/a…

The fact the conversation about this is as big as it is, and the video has 32k views, is a very meta point about costreaming on how many of those eyeballs came through react content, and how the publisher isn't benefitting fully off of the true reach of this video.

and that’s how you go tip 2 tip

Max Verstappen heeft in ieder geval één grote fan in Melbourne, zo blijkt. Patissier Kate Reid - van de zeer populaire croissanterie Lune - verzorgt Red Bull dit weekend op geheel eigen wijze. Ze werkte vroeger als engineer in de Formule 1.

AFTER 170 HOURS SOLO ALL FEATS SERE IS DONE WE DID IT by far the most GRUELING and PAINFUL thing I have ever attempted in this game. My Mental is OFF THE CHARTS FOR THIS

Making a live service shooter is such a fascinating thing, because it's basically rolling a pair of dice and if you roll double sixes, you make more money than than GDP of most countries, but every other roll means your entire company explodes and everyone loses their job.

@nswpolice just pepper sprayed this disabled girl right in front of us... and then they immediately started choking on their own fumes. Fucking idiots.

if you walk up to me and tell me you're a KC fan I will throw a live rat at you

🚨The Oceanic Resurrection IS COMING BACK! 🚨 TOR 2026 is focused on creating a competitive space for higher elo players to compete and improve within our region. We know there are many highly skilled and passionate individuals within OCE who strive to compete and prove themselves so we hope to provide a platform for everyone to do just that. If you're an OCE player who wants to play at the highest level against other top players and veterans, please sign up to our expression of interest. This is more than just a streamer tournament. This is TOR. Register your INTEREST in our upcoming tournament now: oceanicresurrection.com/ ---> This is not the official sign up. <---

Clean Cable management by @nczat

arc raiders has taught me there is no such thing as an ethical billionaire

>guy asks to take me out to a “nice restaurant” >ask him if it’s ambienceslop or trufflechow >he laughs and says “it’s good restaurant” >agrees on date >it’s edible gold leaf slop

I started wondering why music on YouTube suddenly sounded overcompressed (using a compressor/limiter, not lower kbps), where quiet parts would ramp up with noise, and low end kicks sounded anemic. This likely why. The AI enhancements. Nevermind that artists pay engineers thousands of dollars to master and mix their music. @YouTubeInsider @YouTubeCreators @YouTube knows better than them. It's like taking every painting in the Louvre and increasing the contrast and adding a teal tint to the shadows. Stop justifying your investment in AI by messing with art you have no understanding of and no business manipulating. You want to add some useful ai features? Add subtitles that actually work and translate them into every language. Add a 'radio' button for videos to allow users to predetermine their own recommendations. Use AI to add categories to the massive catalog of content, so people can find things they are interested in instead of just randomly stumbling upon them.