To get a bases of how bad I think this event will be, lets digest previous Master events. Throughout Valorants history, the lowest team count for a Masters event has been ten teams. Ever since Reykjavík in 2021, its always been twelve teams minimum, but why now is it we're seeing the lowest amount of teams in a single Masters event of eight? You mine as well just ask the eight best teams in the world to a charity tournament then have start up regional tournaments. Thirty Six teams, thirty six teams will have to wait at least a month to have a shot at going to another event. This "Two teams per region" is stupid. There's three main reasons
- If you want you're game to compete with CS2 esports, you need more of the highest level teams playing more games, this event wont offer that
- Out of eleven teams in a given region, only two will make it threw. One slip up, and no-no, you're out for another month
- Riot just brought in China VCT yet only two teams will get represented on the international scale, why?
Now on top of this, people would rather watch in region events because its more entertaining. You're going to have more games to watch, which means more entertainment and more variety instead of just watching the best teams. Another reason is what about the underdog teams? Third spot usually goes to an underdog team, but with this, they'll be no real underdog team of how I see it. Finally, the most important thing, this is easily riots biggest year with VCT having new teams in the pool, and for the first Masters event, you're going to make is nearly impossible, and with having great talent and teams this year, why don't you want more of these teams in a international event? This is why I think Masters Madrid is going to be a horrid event to watch, but its just my opinion, no opinion is right or wrong, its just an idea.
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