Visa issues | VLR.gg

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V0sotros

Why does valorant have so many issues with getting visas for players, I feel like every tournament there’s somebody who is having trouble getting a visa to attend, or are even unable to attend entirely, yet other esports with significantly more events in other countries are able to get players visas even with open qualifiers and last minute additions title be team

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jackb2016

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Who has visa issues for champs?

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V0sotros

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I’m talking more in general, off the top of my head SUYGETSU at Copenhagen, D1 and something at Tokyo, and the entirety of FPX at Reykjavik had visa issues, while for example in CS, valve got 32 teams out to the Rio Major with few issues, and they had open qualifiers to deal with

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its not really a valorant or csgo issue, its entirely political cuz it all depends on the nationality of the players + the country theyre travelling to
recently forze (russian team) wasnt able to attend IEM cologne due to visa issues https://twitter.com/IEM/status/1678820040156540936

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It is very hard for Russians to get visas everywhere around the world, it’s even happening in csjoe with Ax1le

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V0sotros

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Is that just because of the Ukraine war or was that a thing even before

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CanadianLegend

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Yea like you mentioned for Suygestu, is also because of the Ukraine War

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svoikhnebrosaem

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its not because of the war... ax1le is waiting for his visa because of delays at the processing centre. he will have it before playoffs though

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CanadianLegend

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For the time relevant to 2022 it was, I don’t know about something but I likely feel it’s the same

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hell_on_earth

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i guarantee you its because of the war lol its just much harder for russian citizens to get visas to eu rn and for us you cant get it inside russia (not really relevant to t1 players ig)

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My USA passport took 4 months to arrive, so people not having passports could be a factor. Something is from Russia which is blacklisted almost everywhere so of course it is going to be hard for him to travel anywhere.

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V0sotros

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Not getting ur players passports sounds like an org problem, riot should have mandated something ab getting all rostered players the proper documents bc I know a lot of Americans don’t have their passport bc they don’t travel

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alice_

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the ruling exists
demon1 was signed very late so it took them more time to get one (same for something).

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SAMPV6

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Valorant, owned by Riot, Owned by Tencent, basically owned by China.

Their pull isn't that big, visas are more of a personal thing, so it's up to the players and their governments to issue them.

Riot can send out an invite, but that doesn't guarantee anything.

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adilKhan

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Wait, if Riot is under Tencent, does that mean that Riot is a Chinese company?

Oh shit Valorant gonna get banned in India 😭

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hanafuuji

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owned by china does not make Riot a chinese company bruh
they're still headquartered in LA, so they are an american company

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Kryomeister

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Brazil is free visa thats why they did a few tournament this year on brazil