APAC North is already announced as per the start of the year announcement by Riot. APAC will be divided into two: APAC North (JP, KR, and CN potentially) and APAC South (SA, OCE, SEA.) Each LCQ will grant one slot.
old news, Chinese team joining is new. would be exciting if it was for master 2.
This is old news but I think valorant will get approved in 2-3 months here. Maybe it will get approved early but for now only very few people know about this game.
Japanese enjoyer's thoughts:
If only other Japanese orgs will finally realize that they need to create teams without foreign players to make good communication, structure and discipline like zeta, then they will have a good chance vs kr teams