can we not discount any teams achievement whenever they win a tournament?

yes, not every team may have the same type of situations when they enter an event, the format may not be the most optimal or the "form" of teams may not be there. but at the end of the day, we will never get to replay a event that is happening or has happened.

all we can and we should do is applaud the winner, and expect (if not already) to have your team win the next one.

no matter how good or bad you may think the team that won the recent event was, whether they played a micky mouse tournament or played a covid cup, whether it was a shit meta or burnt out teams, if it was really that easy to win an international event in valorant, PACIFIC would've atleast won a trophy or two by now....

Cold Take: Every trophy is deserved and there are no Mickey Mouse events.

you can't ask that from vlr it's simply not possible

This is the most sane post I've read in the past months here. Absolute W.

For me, I just want to watch some VCT tournaments at the end of the day mickey mouse or not. Mickey mouse tourney term is also degrading and disrespecting the efforts of both those putting in effort to participate and organizing it. In AfreecaTV, SEN traveled to Korea to play and so did other APAC teams, no one traveled that far to just play in a "mickey mouse tournament"

All I know is single elimination suck.

Yeah facts but one thing that remains true is that single-elimination to qualify for a major event ain't it and it should never ever happen again

Pacific catching strays

Pacific catching strays, but otherwise 100% agree