I need help understand valorant esports

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SeriSmok

I watch alot of CS esports yet I struggling to understand how Valo esports work as I cant seem to understand which tournaments are most important which are equal to majors in cs and which are s-tier lans and which arent if anyone would mind explaining with CS esports terms I would love it.

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kuruk

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just masters and champs matter everything else is either regional or mickey

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Wezzaa

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Champions is the major and masters are like iems then you have the IL that qualify teams to the tourneys

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SENfns

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masters are S tier Champs is 1 above that
Theres 2 masters and 1 champs every year

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SeriSmok

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Why so little top tier tournaments?
And in between while waiting for these is there no 3rd party top tier tourneys?

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xineFso

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Ewc is 3rd party organized that is more valuable than masters with bigger prize pool and more competitive with more team competing

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geospliced

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Because RIOT has a franchising system (no open qualifiers to top tier tournaments), 3rd party top tier tourneys (with strong teams) only occur during the off-season and are not affiliated with the VCT.

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xineFso

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Champs > Ewc > lockin > masters > regional

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macncheese

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bro snuck in ewc. regional>ewc

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xineFso

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That’s just not true lol , remember 100T won americas regional in 2024

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Cheasle2

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Americas regional > EWC

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4so4so4so

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2 masters, 1 champs, 1 EWC a year

CHAMPS > MASTERS > EWC

people hold masters to a similar level to champs in this game though.

Basically champs + masters = majors, but champs is more prestigious