EMEA not gonna get top 3 with 4 teams in playoffs (BBL aint doing shit). can't believe this.
EWC is still not a mickey tournament though. Remember that.
2 AMER in top 4, 1 EMEA, 1 EMEA/PAC
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looool if NRG or MIBR win this tournament suddenly it won’t be mickey mouse
Perhaps NRG fans specifically won’t need to cope with a lesser trophy but there will definitely be some shameless fanbases claiming it
i mean i can definitely see rabid 100T or MIBR fans wanting to claim EWC as a valid trophy (i don’t blame them)
Dont think MIBR fans will cope there since they have higher aspirations given that they have players on the team that went on deep champ runs. Team was assembled with the sole purpose of winning masters/champs.
well i mean they missed two goddamn events despite being a god squad so they’ll take what they can get
Nah, it's still mickey mouse club house. EMEA will just get memed for not being able to win a mickey even with 5 teams.
I mean its still pretty free for EMEA. The odds of NRG beating both BBL and VIT b2b after barely surviving GM8 are extremely low. 100T and Mibr are not orgs for this level
im not responding to garbage level arguments that I can attack in so many ways (it's not worth my time).
You have 16 teams crammed into just 10 days. Compare that to Bangkok 8 teams over 12 days and it was already better organized for proper preparation. Here, teams barely have time to scrim, adapt, or even recover. It’s almost impossible to deliver real high-level competition under those conditions.
The qualifiers were squeezed right in the middle of the season between Stage 1 and Masters 2, barely broadcasted, and with serious ping issues. Then they force a different map pool (It’s the only tournament with its own map pool btw). And to top it off, the EWC playoffs overlap with China’s Stage 2, just a few days apart. The scheduling is a total disaster, especially for teams trying to go deep.
The production is straight-up terrible: casters that almost nobody knows, group stage matches running two at the same time… And I’m not going to talk about the paid fans...
On top of that, it gives 0 Champs points. LOL
Even the players are calling it out. Larok explained it bluntly: “The EWC organization swapped the coaches' positions; our coaches were watching EDG, and their coaches were watching us. That's why we had to switch after the pistol round. The guys saw our tactics and everything.” At that level of organization, we’re not talking about serious competition anymore.
And with a $75 million cashprize, they still can’t put together a decent production? That’s actually insane.
The funniest part is watching certain MEMEA fans defending the EWC with their lives. We all know it’s the only "tournament" their region has won since 2023. If it was EDG or any other Chinese team winning EWC 2025, they’d be the first ones calling it a Mickey Mouse event and downplaying everything.
That’s why PRX, the best team of 2026, chose to skip it and focus on the real goals instead (champions).
The only reason I would call this a Mickey Tournament is the single elimination in playoffs.
Valorant is fundamentally a game where sometimes the other team snowballs and runs through you
Having a lower bracket gives these teams a chance to reset and lock in (Lev in the latest Masters)
Otherwise the games have been fun and the crowd is passionate
Scheduling and the qualifiers are easily the biggest reason this can be called mickey tbh.
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