Merging regions + regional LAN finals

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Kobel

With VCT 2022 up ahead, should Riot make changes to the regions and, if COVID situation allows it, make regional finals/main qualifiers for Master events LAN?

We already got the EMEA superregion with EU+CIS+Turkey+ME, but Brazil+LATAM and Japan+Korea+SEA are separate for no apparent reason other than ping differences.

Should we just have South America and Asia-Pacific superregions instead and have regional tourneys held out in studio enviroment, with only qualifiers to those being played in subregions (like EMEA does with EU, CIS and Turkey having separate qualifiers)? They did that in LCQs anyway.
Infrastructure shouldn't be a problem taking into the account Riot already has all of their main LOL leagues played out on LAN.

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I'm pretty sure is gonna be the opposite and they are gonna split EMEA

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sauce?

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Mortadelo

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Basically in the Spainsh scene there are rumors (very very strong ones) that Riot is trying to do leagues for each country (also a European one) and then there is a not as strong one that says teams are avoiding CIS/ Turkish players because they won't be allowed to play in the countries leagues as Turkey and CIS will be independent regions. But the second part is not as trustable, the leagues things is

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how exactly the league format work?

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Mortadelo

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No idea yet

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probably like League of Legends, a lot of regional leagues and the champions will be at international stage.

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Are you sure the leagues are connected to the VCT? From what I've read, they are meant to be secondary events to give teams something to play in between the main VCT

You probably know more than I do though

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the information I've heard says it is connected, at least the European one, also something like an open qualifier to the league, (the teams at champions would already be qualified)

But honestly all that is speculation, the only thing I would trust is that they have the intention of doing some kind of leagues

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I'd be fine with it only if they somehow increased the number of teams at big events and changed the format. Maybe like the play-in stage at Worlds for all the one-nation regions and lower seeds of the major ones.

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Mortadelo

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Probably they will do leagues

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Merging regions is the right way to go to increase competition

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JP+KR --> East Asia (2 slots)

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Kobel

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Slot distribution is a separate issue. Currently Asia has 5, more than EMEA, NA or SA, while also looking like the weakest of the 4 (with the exception of Vision Strikers maybe).

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How many slots would you propose East Asia gets than?

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Kobel

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If you ask me I'd make an APAC tournament - 4 spots for East Asia, 4 spots for South-East Asia - 8 teams.

Hold APAC LAN finals (maybe in LCK studio in Korea), best 4 teams qualify for Masters. This way only the best Asian teams will come play, just as it is with North American and European teams. If Thailand, Philippines or Korea best out Japan and none of the Japanese teams qualify, so be it.

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nah east asia is too much
beside that korea will eat up all slot

and sea is trash bro dnt need 4

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Kobel

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If what you say is true than all of the 4 slots for Asia would go to the Korean teams - all they'd need to do is all place Top4 in East Asia Qualifier, then all place Top4 in APAC Finals - boom, 4 teams to go through.

EMEA with 4 slots, NA with 4 slot, SA with 4 slots, APAC with 4 slots. Nobody has any reason to complain.

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I think Korean teams is not that super strong I mean other than vision striker, I think SEA can manage to win some Korean team too.

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Carthage_Er_Pola

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Korea take up all spots, have y'all followed the korean scene after iceland? Besides Vision strikers, no team is that good. SEA currently has the best teams in Asia if you exclude VS

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tonyhart7

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korea nothing that good ??

bro nuturn is literally number 3 in iceland
and VS defeated by gambit

Iam not triying to be bias but SEA never make it to semifinal

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JP + KR can. But SEA needs its own region, its literally southeast Asia and JP and KR is east Asia. Big ping difference there