EU needs more tournaments for their tier 2 teams like Heretics, NiP, Alliance, Vitality, BDS. These teams are already out of VCT for the year. No Berlin, No LCQ, No Champions. And for the next 5 Months they will be playing 0 Tournaments unless some appear out of no where. Like how NA has some tournaments like Nerd street summer championships and winter championship. Thoughts?
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https://twitter.com/BLASTVALORANT/status/1423216336008798209 now we need to hope they're not trolling
Yeah I was thinking about the Blast tournament. I saw it in Liquipedia and then Liquipedia tweeted that it wasn't real.
here: https://twitter.com/LiquipediaVAL/status/1363824420540850177?s=20
No, last chance you need champions points to qualify for LCQ, here’s the list rn https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VALORANT_Champions_Tour/2021/Circuit_Points/EMEA
Basically, every region has its own league, usually franchised, divided into two splits. The top teams from every region qualify for an international tournament. So, the teams that qualified in the first Split plays on MSI, while those who qualified in the second split play on Worlds. The biggest problem with this format is that because the international stage is much shorter than the regional one, with time, the gap between regions only grows since "worse" regions rarely train/compete with better ones. This situation leads to the almost hegemonical power of the Chinese and Korean, while no team outside those regions can compete with teams within them. To sum it up, this over regionalization leads to an uneven balance of power between regions.
Riot is signalling that they enjoy having multiple international tournaments in a year with the current VCT format. However, when Valorant becomes a franchise, that in my opinion is just a matter of time due to the franchise model being better money-wise than others in the market, maybe the teams will pressure Riot to have a more stable calendar in order to become more profitable. If this happens, one of the Riot actions could be reforming VCT to have more regional matches because those types of matches are cheaper and take less time, similarly to how soccer is managed nowadays.
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