Valorant OFF/ / SEASON will have 40 (!!!) events and 0 of them in Europe. Actually disgraceful. You'd think EU would be the region with a small trophy cabinet. China gets what they want but they don't literally even look EU's way. Slowly starting to hope Valorant would die in EU and Valorant with it
Edit: There are 9 total events in EU but for some weird reason RIOT just ignored that and didn't post info about them. Every other region gets love except the one with by far the most trophies 🙏
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RIOT ignoring EU as usual, disgraceful
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I don’t think as many valorant players as people think will switch over to csgo when it’s just a smokes and ui update. Maybe if it launched around when valorant came out. Also I don’t follow the csgo scene but why is every team from eu? Does NA and Pacific just suck? If that’s the case then even less players r going to cs 2, since I’m guessing there’s little support from them in other regions
its not riots job to host off season events. if there are no interested TO's then there'll be no events. we lack viewership. there is a reason red bull went from emea to japan this year. and like why would a TO hit them in their legs by hosting a GC event. the viewership will be even lower for that. just invite kc gc and g2 gozen with other vct/t2 teams in an event, that makes more sense
i saw both superdome in egypt which fnatic and acend attended and the lan heretics and prx attended in india.
the viewership was much better for india event, as well as the production (both were shit though lol, but india was a bit better)
- with what you said about it being cheap, it makes sense why they have more events in india
and what are riot held events???? they are riot approved events, they might help out personally in some of them, like providing actual lan servers in ludwig tarik. but at the end of the day, riot doesnt really decide how many events will happen in emea or anywhere else
Spike Nations - EMEA (Spain) - Dec 16/17
Crossfire x Mediamarkt e Intel (Barcelona) - November
THE POKAL (DACH location tba) - November/December
Challengers Portugal: Drift (Lisbon) - Nov 25/26
ESA Open Fire All Stars (Turkey) - November-December
https://valorantesports.com/news/announcing-the-2023-valorant-off-season/en-us
Quite obvious, no? Most of the event held during the off-season is from a private company. They only received help from Riot to use their client, while the TO handles the rest just like the challenger. Leo himself once told Platchat that Riot didn't handle anything besides the client and format for challengers na, and knights handled most of them, which they agreed with because they could get their own sponsors and make money. For example, player1, which held GEG Brazil, is a private TO that held multiple events. They make money from ticket sales, merch and broadcasting. They have their own sponsors that are not affiliated with Riot vct; this means that Riot itself does not handle them since Riot can't have their competitor sponsors, just like League of Legends, where Razer used to be their sponsor until Logitech took the spot.
People saying EU doesn’t have the viewership, doesn’t know EU has a lot of fanbase.
The problem isn’t Riot. It’s the TO’s willingness to organize these off season events, if TOs can’t get sponsorships, etc. they can’t organize shit. The TOs will not pay the prize money out of their own fking pocket, lol
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