everything wrong with VCT 2024

TL:DR; me getting mad at riot, feel free to click off

Leo Faria and the whole VCT team has dropped the ball. They changed things that nobody complained about, and made things that people were complaining about... worse. Nothing good comes from this format.

Kickoff
Sliggy mentioned a Bo1 single round robin format, with top 4 qualifying to a double elimination playoffs. In essence this would be so much better than the format they went with. It rewards teams being consistently good throughout their 10 matches instead of being able to win two matches and go through. cough evil geniuses cough

Single elimination in the playoffs is a disaster, it's 1-2 more days to add a lower bracket and actually allows you to "have the best teams play at international events", a statement which Leo backed up himself. Say you get Group As winner face Group Bs winner, being FNC and NAVI or LEV and SEN, only one of these teams (which many regard as the top 2 teams in their region) will go to Madrid, and although your second team won't be bad in any sense, it goes against your whole philosophy of having the best teams qualify.

International Splits
Firstly, my rant. This has to be the worst decision ever made. Many people have said it and I'm going to say it again. 5 matches a split is NOT enough. You could be a mediocre team like FURIA, luck out in one split with KRU, MIBR and EG being 3/5 of your matches. You go 3-2 and qualify to playoffs. Then a lucky draw, and a win can be enough to see you through to masters shanghai or FUCKING CHAMPIONS IN ITSELF. If you're a team which knows you won't have enough to be good throughout the year, you PRAY you get a good draw in the stage 2 split, prepare all year for that and get top 3. It makes no sense.

To make sense of all of this, teams at minimum are playing twelve matches a year. That's a match a month. To be fair, it'll be over 6 months - totalling to two matches a month but that is not enough for a partnered team. Premier league teams are playing 38 matches over a 8-10 month season. NBA teams are playing 82 games in roughly half a year. Both of these examples are much more intense on the teams, factoring in training, travel time and recovery.

VCT teams have it MUCH BETTER or you could say MUCH WORSE. How is this even bringing in any profit?

Championship Points
.... are in essence STUPID. NOBODY, I repeat... NOBODY has any problems with the previous points system from pre franchising. They couldn't have it last year (or there was just no point) due to there being 1 split only, and that is fair. But this year we have 3 regional events, there was no need to change the system in any way.

1 point for every league win..... that's good. That's not a bad idea.
3 Points for the league winner..... sure BUT nobody else get's ANY additional points?
A team qualifying 2-3 and a team qualifying 5-0 could end up getting the same amount of points because one team placed first and the other places second. You would argue, the 5-0 team is much better but just because the 2-3 team places one spot higher, they tie on points with the 5-0 team getting nothing.

Only the WINNERS of masters get any points? There is in all essence NO point of going to any masters events besides exposure and prize pool money. You could, as I said before, grind it out for stage 2 and qualify directly by finishing third.

Proposal
Give us 2 international splits. We do not care for these special and whacky events. Just have each team play a minimum of 20 matches a year (2025 22 matches) Obviously you want to have every match at a different time, and having weeklong matchweeks can't have that happen, just take the premier league they often have more than one match happening. But it's half the matches in roughly the same time. You can sort it out. Quite frankly who cares if we have SEN vs NRG and MIBR vs KRU happening at the same time, we all know nobody is watching battle of the mids either way, we're all tuning in to MIBR vs KRU.

2 international splits, 2 masters, LCQ, champions.
A sensical circuit points system
With a functioning off-season

is that really that hard

i was having fun at the waterslide when suddenly i noticed a big shadow covering the entire pool i looked up and there i saw him, Ardiis. He was coming straight for me, he jumped into the pool and the velocity of the wave that followed knocked me unconcious.

When i woke up i was chained in a cold and dirty room and there he was, streaming the popular shooter game VALORANT on Twitch while talking to his chat, somehow he managed to say the word "bro" 254 times in just 3 sentences how is that even possible?? I quickly realised that the chains were actually made of chocolate, confused (and mainly hungry) i started licking and sucking them as fast as i could and managed to crawl out of the room -that i presumed was probably his mothers basement- while remaining unseen.

I searched around the house for an exit and i quickly found the front door. As soon as i exited the building i saw a horde of angry Brazilians holding blowtorches and pitchforks chanting at ardiis and calling him a racist and a loser. I didn't really care so i tried to get out of the scene as soon as possible but just as i was about to step out of the house, ardiis put his enormous hand on my shoulder and whispered with a soft and melodic tone in my ear "You're not going anywhere pumpkin pie" and "Daddy's gonna take care of this swifly". He stepped out of the house and suddenly yelled "WATCH THIS" as he flamboyantly dashed into the air and suddenly made 5 knives materialise around him. He used the knives to effortlessly tap every single brazilian in the area.

I was so afraid, blood was spilled everywhere. When it all was over ardiis looked in my direction and i knew that it was over, if they didnt stand a chance, then i wouldnt either, so i just gave up. Ardiis started walkingin my direction each step making the ground shake. When he got to me he just sat down on me saying that i got cold and he needed to warm me up. After a while he took me inside the smelly basement again and took his clothes off. He started smelling me and licking my ear, and then he suddenly got very embarrased and told me i can just leave.

Turns out that this was a huge misunderstanding, this whole time he thought that i was a chocolate egg and he wanted to eat me. The disappointment on his face when he realized the mistake he had done was palpable, a tangible testament to the depth of his sorrow.

you should get hired by riot

Mibr vs Kru 🗿

we should've lose the kickoff shit and let madrid be a 12 team tourney and 2 IL splits

i feel ya man

"Quite frankly who cares if we have SEN vs NRG and MIBR vs KRU happening at the same time, we all know nobody is watching battle of the mids either way, we're all tuning in to MIBR vs KRU."

I was enjoying your post until I read this, you had to say something stupid at the very end, did you. Nobody gives a fuck about MIBR vs KRU.