Eastern Russia should be considered Pacific

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V0sotros

It just makes sense that a person from some city like vladivostok should be in the pacific region, they are infinitely closer to servers in APAC than they are to servers in EMEA, and probably play more with APAC players. Having Eastern Russians fill an import slot just because they were born in a location that's a bit weird geographically for valorant punishes teams for trying to pick up talented players from the area for no real reason

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Copium. Pissific suck at fps and they can't develop good players so they need help. Pissific only good 2 teams use gimmicks to stay relevant. If you put p0perrex and drx in EMEA teams would figure them out and they would look like dfm. Prx is only good because they use cringe aggressive style which only works because valorant gunplay isn't good and teams aren't used to it. Same with drx and their cringe set plays. No wonder even brazil and na won a trophy before them

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crazy coming from 1 team region +flair

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Valgod

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Its crazy how your region is so ass you need to use an optic flair

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Blud did not cook.

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bro thinks he had a point
hoes mad

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ShuGo

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TL has never won anything in esports while OPTIC has won a lot of shit, not to mention KR CN esports who owns TL

TL is simply a dog amongst Gods

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Vegaaa

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back to back champs..

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Mortadelo

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Oh god not this again. I’m just gonna say all this is even a debate simply cause the CIS league is on hold, as soon as it’s back it won’t make sense anymore

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Some eastern Most Russian players always played on Asian servers and were in JP teams from the beginning, even b4 CIS was on hold, Russia being a huge country focus more on its European part, while the Asian part plays on JP/KR servers as the native servers r far away, this ig truly qualifies the player to be part of ASIAN scene

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Mortadelo

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They can just have 2 conferences like MENA does. Spliting a country into 2 regions is logistically impossible because you would then basically be allowing them to pick region just by moving, which is just not fair

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most people in africa are closest to european servers,they are european now?

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kamisavitar

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Africa lies in Europe,? Geography not geographing

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that wasn't their argument

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Forgot to change accounts?

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reycac

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what? i'm responding to the original poster in my comment

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Leorge leddes rider talking

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I mean, Africa is a part of EMEA so they wouldn’t be considered imports if they played in EMEA

A team could sign 5 African players if they wanted to

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This isn’t deciding nationality, just the game region..
Africa players are the A in EMEA. They aren’t European, but they are part of the EMEA region. Just like how far-east Russians (should) be Pacific, because those are the servers they’re closest to

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Nachtel

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Africa is part of EMEA, yes.

Europe Middle East and Africa

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Cl4W

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that's not even the point and africa is in EMEA tho

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Miting

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As I told to my Russian friends:
West CIS region to EMEA (Host in Armenia)
East CIS+Mongolia to Pacific (Host in Mongolia)

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MneMaloMaloMaloTebya

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было бы здорово увидеть это

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Mortadelo

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How do you determine where a player is from? If I move tomorrow to Vladivostok from Moscow am I a pacific player?

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you could make amend the existing rules to let russians to be "region locked" after they play in an official vct game in one region, similar to what we're seeing with players like Russ who have a dual citizenship

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Mortadelo

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But then you're allowing them to choose regions? That's just not fair either

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Targu1n

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no youre doing based on where they live, thats already a significant restriction
sure you can add more restrictions with how long they need to live there or whatnot, but thats for riot to work out

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Mortadelo

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Alright but that needs to be a global rule not a Russia rule

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no it's simply unfair. there's only one way to look at it. I'm going to keep repeating this moronic phrase to the plenty of reasonable alternatives.

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I think an idea would be the ability for a player to gain residency after playing t2/t1 in a region for a significant amount of time.

or just make each Russian Player pick their regionality (EMEA/PACIFIC), or force the categorisation based on which region they are currently playing in.

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Agree, considering how much of a failure EMEA scouting is, we need to allow East Russia into Pacific so all the talented Eastern Russians playing in JP get their deserved slot in T1.