-best team was not allowed to play because of the war
-Fnatic had to play with 2 subs
-no crowd
-prize pool only $650,000 lol
-horrible format
-4 teams skipped groups
-viewership at all time low
-game is RNG af, even NA can succeed
-maps are too short, if you make 1 mistake your entire half is fucked
-unbalanced guns. just buy a shotgun and you good for 1 no matter what
-laggy PCs
-most of the event was held in a dark basement
-Acend and Gambit got nerfed by the war too
-production is worse than ever
-annoying HUD problems
-delayed player cams
-matches are not fun to watch. its impossible for the observers to follow what happens during retakes and executes
-long tech pauses can easily kill momentum
-schedule is fucked. Asia have to stay up all night to watch the matches while they bring most the viewers
Reykjavik 2022 is a tier 2 Mickey Mouse event
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FPX isn't the "best team" but yes quite unfortunate
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There are crowds just not in the main stadium due to Covid-19 and well, who wants to fly to Iceland in the middle of the year
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Teams skipping groups are the 1st seeded teams in NA, EMEA, APAC and something else
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Laggy PCs? Bruh you're tripping
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Acend and Gambit did NOT get nerfed, stay angry sicne your favourite team didnt make it LOL
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Asia DOES NOT bring the most viewers, and it's hosted in ICELAND, you want the pros to stay until 2am so Asia can watch? NA and EMEA easily bring the most viewship.
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Game is not RNG, although some is based on luck lots of deicisions are made by the pros cause thats what they thing are good
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stfu, you try organising a giant esports tournament
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COPE, SEETHE, LEAVE, MALD
maybe im biased but FPX was the best team in EMEA, had a good run through groups and absolutely stomped their way through playoffs - them not attending was incredibly unfortunate. theres a lot of arguments to say Gambit and Acend (alongside a few other teams) got """nerfed""" (some reasons are bs) but its stupid to say there werent any reasons they underperformed, obviously competition is high but its easy to correlate current world events and shitty riot formatting to why either of these teams couldve "underperformed" (e.g: gambit having to play 6 bo3s in 9 days). also Asia is a massive part of valorant (and riot games in general) viewership lol, these match times are outrageous for basically anybody whos not in NA, games start in the early hours of the mornings for some countries and end at ungodly hours for others.
They're stupid for EMEA too. Starting at 6 for a bo3 with riot tech pauses means the match is probably still going to be going at 10-11 if it goes to a 3rd map.
Primetime for EMEA would probably be to have the matches be at 4 GMT considering most of Europe is GMT+1, would be fine for the pros too because Iceland is normally GMT-1.
Actually the viewership isnt in all time low
https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/vct-2022-stage-1-masters-reykjavik
https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/vct-2021-stage-3-masters-berlin
Average viewers is better than Masters 3 2021, and probabbly during the finals the peak viewers will be higher too
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