GG WP, Nova improve every game, it's a good thing because it's show how important it is to com in your main language

FPX is iting picking fucking Icebox everytime

I agreee, 2 contenders for Toronto... But got FPX Icebox is bad T.T

OK they first pick Icebox, GG it's over T.T

To be fair, it's more I glaze FPX that is a regular and consistant team. II think NOVA may already have fix their identity today (I hope at least lol)

Thanks a lot thats warming my heart !

I'll say FPX slightly fav, but it's never happened in VCT history that NOVA end before FPX, so yeah, we will see tomorrow !

Faria says he considers doing so, but he is not sure yet

To be fair, he is kinda nice to assume we have budget

You are allowed to clown on me :
Wish flavor of NOVA ?
NOVA didn't won, it was EDG tha lose :c

Does that make me the budget Mimi ?

Relying on aim ?

EMEA is the worst region in term of gameplan, but they compensate with firepower

What ? What is your source, what are you talking about.

Is that your source ? https://x.com/ValorINTEL/status/1897762455448658196

Source ?
They reallyt pick reducing franchise over allowing T2 to have a shot in masters ?

Thats the title, Herratics, not a typo, they alternate between doing good and horrible

You talk about result (if yes, how many games) or predictable model ?

India have so mush potential on the long run, if only GE would accept to bomb out the first years T.T

Eeeeerm ?

Sorry, I'm the worst analyst :c

Next time I see Faria in bed, I'll ask him to never remove it anymore from the mapool

Astra and Omen are played together in 4% of composition, in comparison, Viper-Omen is 9%

It's heartbreaking me, but EMEA look like a giant TDM. Our player are absolutely craked aimwise, we probably have the best region in term of firepower, but the worst in term of gameplan.

I just hope i'm biased because my expectation are high on EMEA T.T

To me Yoru ult is always problematic and can checkmate anyone, even more consistantly than Breach ult combo

If you break 3 ult it sound normal you win the round

You are right about investment, their GC team is potentially the only thing that can save them.

But competitive performance is a own goal, I will quote the script of one of my future video :

Do you see any criteria where they would not be bottom 2 ?

The favorite team to be kicked out if Riot reduce the number of VCT team, or the day CIS team are allowed

Too early to nerf him, maybe team will find a way to counter him.
Maybe put his drone is signature instead of his antidefuse spell, that would allow him to be play with flasher without loosing too mush info, while nerfing the part of the kit that is pretty toxic

It's okay sweetheart

I think I could be your mother. But if when I bring new argument this is your answer this mean a lot ! Thanks for the talking !

The fact it's happening or not depend of a lot of factor, if Korean val become big, Riot might see a way to earn more money, so hard to guess, even if I admit I wouldn't bet on APAC going to split in 2027, but in 2031 it's not off the table I think

Good midround would be to go on site with half less abilities (Supposing you used all of your non refill ability on the first try), but still some abilities, if you remove all the ability for the entirety of the round, then the team have to commit on a precise site and forget even the concept of midround, you have one push and if it's not work you are dead anymore.

Creativity come from ressources that can use in a creative way, if you are limited on ressources you cant take the risk to waste ressources by doing something new. But that wasnt my point, my point was I like when we can win with ability and not aim, and people dislike that

To me it's important to have "everyone" represented ni the tier one, VCT is mush more intresting if we have diversity, even if the overall level is a little bit lower

" Considering this issue, before APAC, imagine how many of the North American giants Riot would give up. 0. Why wouldn't the same thing happen in APAC?"
Well if Riot decide to reduce the number of franchising team and augment the number of ascention team, that will be the case for everyone, if we go to 6-6, we would have probably 3 or 4 NA team in franchise, so at least one less, the dropped team would become ascension team. If that happen it would probably be the same for Korea, EG would become a ascension team, and probably same for DRX (And either ZETA or DFM). But I can understand you prefer staying on the 10-2 model, that to me, is the model that guaranty the best stability.

What is making you afraid about splitting APAC in 2 ?

Sounds a good argument ! But can you elaborate ?
Why do you think having more ascension team and less franchised team would make them loose money ? ^^

"Why do you take regional distribution for granted when discussing this? Riot is not going to do that. Your 'no choice' will be a strong choice."
I don't understand your point, you think if we go 6-6 we will have 3KR team, 2JP team and 1 SEA team ? Or everyone will blend together ?

"If there is a world where they split the league, that universe will collapse and time will go backwards."
Looking at the data Korea could be enough big to have a league all alone to be fair, and as you says, we cant remove a lot of East-Asian teams

If APAC go from 10-2 to 6-6, without splitting in 2, no choice at least 1 east asian team will be cut out right ?

Split seems the only way to reduce number of partner team everywhere without loosing any market in APAC

"Right now, if you botch an execute, but no one dies, you can just try again in 40s."
And thats exactly what I call buy "Having a good midround", if you fail your execution you still can do other thing wish is good, remove that, you go on a no brain meta where you just bruteforce a site and there is no plan B

"Not to be rude, but that is a you problem"
Yup that what I am saying, people are on Valorant not to be creative, they just want to play aimlab ^^

What ? Did you watch the video ? Reducing number of partner team allow to have more ascention team. If they are a reduction we would still be at 12 teams in each region, same number of games.

Yeah but since you can't be exhaustive and create a lot of bias :/ because if we want to compare we need to know all of them, also being Radiant in Japan is easier than being Radiant in KR

Premier team is the least biased data sad fully T.T

Fair point, but I cant have the number of Radiant and Immortal per country no ? (If I could have it it woud be absolutely ammazing)

I admit I'm someone that always fear of using my utile and not having it when it's usefull, so I use really few my util, and that kind of change will probably make me use it even less, I dont think encouoraging FOMO feeling during game is really sane,

I'm afraid that having no refill utile mean a less intresting midround and nerf team with brain, and make proplay shift in an even more soloQesque type of game, wish is not my cup of tea.

But lets be honest, I fell in love with the game playing postplant meta during the fucking beta, and winning round without shooting (The round I'm the proudest in my life isn't the 3 lucky ace I did, no, it's a round where we ended in 0-5 and still won the round), so maybe I was attire by what people hate

I'm not sure to see how that work in practicle, supressing refillable spell wont change that mush the game, no ?

Premier give you an idea on the size of the playerpool and if the playerpool augment

I have the number ofr premier, the number pool in Japan is one of the only that not increasing :/
Korea made x4 in 1 year

What if hiring only JP people will not be enough to qual in the long term ?

Nyan city

No Franchise --> No JP org in T1 --> No JP player in T1 --> Less experience of T1 for JP player --> JP level get worse --> NoJP team in T1 etc

Dont you think if ZETA and DFM, they would be no domestic talent anymore in the T1 ?