Riot productions issues detailed overview

This masters is one of the worst produced esports event that i have ever witnessed , Riot is adamant to continue doing every single production related task in house like league but it's working horrribly bad for them , some of the major problems that i have noticed are

1) Buggy player cams , which are shown for some rounds, and not for others

2)Buggy player audio , sometimes you wont hear the audio of players cheering , first i thought it was intentional to prevent offensive stuff to be aired , but riot later added some of the same clips with audio in THEIR OWN HIGHLIGHTS.
PS : Im not sure about riots take on this so take this criticism with a grain of salt as riot might have chose to not add player audio live due to other restrictions and not due to the limitations of the server...i dont know specifically but i wish they had player audio , the banter makes the game so much more hype

3) HUD : Ohh boy do where do i even start? I'll just say this , Ninjas in Pyjamas vs Zeta division Icebox map

4) Horrible game timings : Matches of APAC/SEA/JP regions are scheduled sooo late !!? Why? Reykjavik 2021 got me into valorant esports because it was late but like not extremely late... Now i have to stay up till 3 am to watch a match?!

5)Watch Parties (English) : there's literally only two watch Parties Rn that most people love , Tenz and tarik , like i can understand sinatraa not getting one but... Sorry NRG som? Subroza? Shanks? Asuna? Hiko?shroud? , Like i understand shroud , he doesn't really play valorant much but still atleast give it to other pros that have consistently streamed during VCT north america

5) Analyst desks (hot take) : Riot needs specialist analysts like Lothar and seangares( :( well miss you sean)! You
cannot expect casters to do part time analysis and produce the same result , sideshow , bren , mitch they try their best but at the end of the day , what a specialist analyst brings to the table you cant get with a caster.

6) Stage : Well this one is a bit subjective but i dont like this extremely dark and gloomy stage , like i can understand that riot wanted to add screens and all in the background and it probably looks cooler in real life than on screen but as a viewer its soo badd man , i literally have to to turn up the brightness sometimes to see the faces of players , the walkouts are a red nightmare , everything looks red

7)Half-Time breaks : I can understand these if riot was running ads running or something , but they don't and the half time breaks are by choice , and Riot themselves don't have half time breaks in EMEA Vct , it just breaks the pace man , like give the teams an extra 30 seconds in spawn , but dont just switch to analysts and all , its hard even for the analysts to find like good points to talk about with such low time on hand and they just talk jargon most of the time and it ruins the experience

8) Locations : Pick better locations with less strict covid protocols than berlin and iceland , sweden might be a good pick , or asian countries , if we're gonna keep it without a crowd , you can probably experiment new countries

Conclusion ; I dont wanna trashtalk riot employees and production , but I know riot listens to feedback and they have made changes in the past , i want the game to succeed and have a massive global viewerbase , that is why i wanted to make some issues visible

roza has watch party rights

I aint reading this huge ass essay

That's a lotta words
Too bad I'm not readin em

I aint reading all that but
Im happy for you or
Sorry that happened

Subroza has watch party rights! Sorry for the mistake!

good points, i personally hate the half-time breaks

i also add that: this 2 days off before the upper final breaks the flow of the tournament, i would prefer it was after the group stage

U should apply for a writer somewherr

About the event schedule, Xand from Nip talk in a stream about the time they have between:

03/25 VCT BR BO5 Upper Final;
03/26 VCT BR BO5 Lower Final;
03/27 VCT BR BO5 Final;
04/01 Masters LCQ B05 in Mexico vs Leviatan;
04/11 Masters First game against Fnatic.

It's the worst possible way of entering masters at least for South America (considering how many games they played, how many hours they flied, and how many hours they practice in iceland), but still this possibility exists and there is NIP.

Is fucked up how Riot managed this hole event.

1. Real issue

2. minor issue

3.big issue

4. nothing you can do about this, its gonna suck for someone somewhere

5. what? theres dozens of watchparties. subroza and shahzam dont even do them half the time, shroud and hiko probbaly didnt want to

6. Subjective, I personally like the stage, its a new stage for the last 4 games as well

7. players like half time breaks

8. riot didnt want to have a crowd for this event. iceland doesnt have covid restrcitions, all guidlines came from riot. the location wouldn't matter

The real only issues that i really don't like are;

1. The hud, basically the webcams like reykhavik 2021's cams was so much better. Also the hud was gone in nip vs zeta icebox. It was gone the whole game like what?
2. Schedule, i'm from apac the game starts here at 1 am. Not wasting my night to this nope
3. Technical difficulties, basic problems that they had was stax's table. They almost took them an hour wtf.

the past few days has been much better.

true they do have nothing on other esports really... I don't really understand their reluctance to have a live crowd? pretty easy way to pay off venue prices no?

The past few days have been better.

Other thing that i want to point out is that the LCQ to Masters had SO LITTLE DAMM TIME. Holy, NIP couldn't even prepare to Masters, something that might have been important to help them team get in Playoffs.

Why Valorant doesn't have productions like League? League is actually so insane.

And masters 2021>2022

insane amount of tech pauses

W post

8. Man. Iceland is one of the places with less covid restrictions of the world. Iceland was chosen because non-vaccinated people can enter the country free.

Honestly I completely agree with everything you said. That being said, as someone who follows Olympic fencing it can be much much worse. At least the footage isn't bad, vods are released, and the casters are pretty good (Sidebren is my favorite duo I think).