In the last official Valorant video Faria says he was want to hear some idea to help Tier 2, so here is a list of low cost idea to save Tier 2 :
https://youtu.be/lijZr9d2lcA (now with sound)
tldw ;
1- What Org in T2
- Merit team
- Academic team
- Protected team that represent smaller market and doesn't have a T1 (Viet Nam, Italia etc)
It’s important to have academic team that focus on younger player because thats : - Force partner to invest into the scene
- Partner structure will bring veiwer
- Push -18 players on academic team instead of playing in a team that could qual to ascention and distort the result of a team than win with an ineligible player
2- What Stakes in T2
Ascention is good but not enough, we need best T2 team to have a chance in inter :
- If you have a best team in the world, you deserve a chance (before the roster explode)
- If T2 team have a chance to go to inter, this will bring viewer
- It will bring investors
- Avoid Ascending team to get poached if they are good enough to reach interloqué
It easy to make format that gives a path to T2 team : - Kickoff : Make the top 4 T2 team in kickoff so we have 16 team and format is better
- Split 1 : Make the top 4 T2 teamparticipate to playoffs
- Split 2 : Ascention winner plays seed #4
3- What Grassroot for T2
- Gives more threshold to Premier (8 win → Semifinal, 10 win → Final, 12 win → Qualified without playoff), it’s okay if we have more team in promo-relo, best team will win anyway and doble elim BO3 is way more fair than simple elim BO1
- We should have a broadcasted amator Tier 3 league for South East Asia and way more subregion
- We should have a fully amator Tier 4 league based on the model of national league in north Europea
As always I think debate is important, please bring your own idea or don't hesitate to say what idea you like or not !