Valorant has a curse, and it’s real: whoever you are, however you play, pro or casual, it’ll strike you all the same.
Even when you think you’ve already won, you will lose.
They call it the 9-3 curse: teams up 9-3 at the half somehow always manage to lose the game, despite their incredible lead.
So, why does it happen? Is 9-3 just not a big enough lead to seal the deal? And why do teams choke?
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am i the only getting annoyed by this guy's hair 🤣
Economy plays a huge factor. In 9-3 cursr the 3 group has buyvround after buy round. Whereas the leading groupbdosent.
Not a curse, it's just a good lineup for attacking or defending
notice how it's all in maps that are one sided. split, icebox…
We asians just "Eat Puke" and Lit our inner beast!!
I feel like 9-3 happens when your team is better at one side
Real one knows it's the egg curse not the 9-3 curse.
Am I the only person in this comment section who won 9 – 3 matches multiple times lol.
Like why do people choke if you only need to win 4 rounds.
ive won 9-3
The thing about the 9-3 curse is its more psychological, i think because they got so much lead they grow more complacent,
A 6 round gap just makes your brain to let loose a bit, and that take you out of the zone, thats why people whose always on zone doesn't really affected by the "9-3 Curse"
While the losing team is still in the zone because they need to close the gap.
if you lose 3-9 on attack then yeah you have a good chance of coming back because most maps are defense sided
lmfao im weak, he said the bestthang u can do fo yoself is log tf off
this is true I am quite possibly the worst valorant player, but when my opponent has a 9-3 lead my team some how wins
The 9-3 Curse is a result of attacker or defender favored maps. You lose 3 on offense switch to defense and win on defender side. You lose 3 on defense switch to offense win on offense side.
what bout the 3-13 curse and 1-11 curse
yo what about the 3-13 curse
all placebo effect
My takeaway in this video is that Dr klarkowski is very pretty.
I think Madison is completely right. You go up 9-3 and your mindset changes to "Play smart, don't throw" and you try to protect your lead instead of "Click heads and win" and aggressively play to win like you did first half. You see it in all sports.
You just cursed us all
Because the lead on 9-3 is strong yet frail it makes the leading team tend to become overconfident of themselves. This overconfidence leads them to become too suited into their current side (offense and defense). When the switch happens the combination of overconfidence and a new side leads most players to play worse than prior to switching.
i always lose when the score was 3-9 it never happened to me 🙁
According to the specialist, if you didn’t know about the curse before, theScore has just cursed you.
Yo guys your forgetting someone who can nullify 9 3 curse no one has ever seen him yet he's not one of the pros
Lost most of my 9-3 and won most of my 3-9 it’s fucking real man😭🤣
sentinels vs Fnatic finals. it was 9-3 i think and they still won
It happened with me atleast 10 times!
nah 12-0 curse
im dying of laughter
If it does affect psychology, I think it's better to not knowing this curse exist
XD
personally, for me, when i get the 9-3 curse, i just pretend it does not exsist so i can focus
This video itself is a cognitohazard
Yept it's true, we are the losing team.
the only reason i don't choke in a solo rank game is because either my teammates get toxic which drives me to win so i can cuss out the most hateful comments in the few seconds of victory
I had this bfore,9-3 activated and we bottled pistol round to 4th round of the half.We luckily clutched it😥