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Aayan

Masters Santiago
Masters London
Champions Shanghai

MASTERS 1 WILL BE 12 TEAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TIER 2 TEAMS AT CHAMPS (No more ascension and visitor slots in tier 1 though)

Kickoff is triple elimination

All 4 international league stage 2 playoffs will be roadshows, China is having roadshows year round

'more bracket play throughout the year'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwK22hwRP2Y

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Galactc

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Cool hope people don't try find new random things to complain after riot tried adding more things

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All of these sounds like changed towards the right direction, hopefully they also remove the stupid number 1 insta qualifying to playoffs for masters 2

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Aayan

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itll be interesting to see, especially since both masters have the same number of teams now, it would be weird to have it for masters 2 but not masters 1

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Orfeass

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That's what I am thinking of as well but riot could justify it by saying that it is due to stage 1 being longer than kickoff and winning stage 1 should be more rewarding. Hopefully that's not the case though

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They stole my idea

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Having 2x as many series will be much more healthier for the scene

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Aayan

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definitely, i think it going back down to 10 teams regionally helps with that but im still considering whether i like what they've done to ascension

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nightwinter14

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It'll be better for tier 2 as a whole, as it gives more chances for Tier 2 to qualify for T1 events (instead of just 1 a year).

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catNmouse

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TIER 2 TEAMS AT CHAMPS (No more ascension and visitor slots in tier 1 though)

how does this work?

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catNmouse

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so it’s 12 teams from franchising and 1 t2 team from each region that makes champs?

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Hyxagon

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t2 teams can qualify to stage 2 playoffs

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Aayan

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top challengers teams will be able to participate in stage 2 playoffs, im not sure on how they will qualify and manage the different sub regions

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catNmouse

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would it still be 16 teams in champions or 20 now because of this rule?

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Aayan

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i think itll be 16 from what i see in the video, but im not 100% sure

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extremely W. holy fuck i didnt expect riot to be able to such a big W. its actuaally massive. we'll have atleast 4 very high quality internationals a year ( if ewc isnt mickey)

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ewc is gonna happen every year?

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Hyxagon

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yea im pretty sure they confirmed its staying for like 3 or 4 years

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Cheddar

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it gives orgs way too much money for them to pass up.

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kiyuri

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W Leo Faria

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its almost like they found out the franchising annoying and had to fix it

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ASL887

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well in aayan nice summary dont have the attention span to watch the video

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Tomczi

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Nice to see that vct just gets better and better each year

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pray masters london does not overlap with my a level dates

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Layne

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being Chilean this is hype AS FUCK, you all will know what a REAL crowd is.

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KINGMANNY42

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only is kru make it

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sophiee

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waiting for masters amsterdam

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spilocuscusmaculatus

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how about ascension teams that get or are in t1 this year what happens for them?
do they get kicked at the end of the year ?even g2