Their player are already kinda top player, even if you scout i'm not fully sure you can find better individually. But you are right on one point, they need an IGL

• Why put MENA or RU in asia? why not emea? MENA cant even play asia servers besides tokyo,
  ME is a part of Asia (Maghreb should go with France for ping and cultural reason), they can't play on Frankfurt and won't participate in the EMEA tournament, they don't have a T1 slot in EMEA and need one, EMEA has no German team nor Russian team, so the market is already saturated.

• russia is never getting a region
  When war will be over they will have their T2 region, and it would be weird to not grant them any T1 team, since they have no team in EMEA, they are geopolitics tention between Europe and Russia, and this "Asian" region lack of good player since they split, it wouldn't be dumb to put them in this region, so the SEA team don't suffer too mush of the loss of KR team, and KR finally can have their first team in the T1 without having to kick too many EMEA structure that are already established (You cant kick Navi, Fnc, KC, KOI, for fan reason, VIT, TL and TH because they are competent, and you need to keep 2 TR org so... They are no place left)

You speak as if PRX player where low value player with a lot of player that is twice better than them on the market.

I dont think the problem is SEA, i think the problem is that KR just step up (And DFM this year is good), KR have more premier team than NA, and is not far from the 5 T2 region of Europe cumulated and only 4 team, they may saturate in talents in near future and just stomp the region if they dont have more team to dillute the talent

If it's just strategy issue then I don't see why it would be solve by more work ?

Disagree with that, long term doesn't care of you level at X-point, level can change fast, having affinity with your player is gamechanger and is something that is less fluctuant. If you loose ? Understand why, and work on it, firing someone is just scapegoat culture, by doing that next time you loose, everyone will try to blame each other to not be the one that will be fire, instead of recognizing their mistakes

How thats too complicated ? It basically split APAC in 2 based on their scrim zone (And also timezone)

Amer shouldn't split, we don't need more team in NA nor in SA, 2 BR team is enough to cover the BR market, and 4 NA team is also enough to cover the NA market while giving enough time to play to talent (Will probably have more than 4 team anyway thaks to Ascention), we don't need more structure in the T1 that will cover market that are already covered, and we don't need more NA teams that will dillute the talent (The only new structure we need in T1 is a structure that will cover the weak LAN market)

But yeah, CIS REALLY need to be place in any region and have some structure that cover them, it can be EMEA or a new "West Asia" region, both are good to me

Thats too early, but i'm working on having more data on the number of player per region (I kinda use premier for that since I can access something else)
And I realised that Korea have more premier team than NA, and isnt that far to match the 5 European T2 region combinate. So yeah at some point we may need to split in 2 the "Asia" and the "Pacific" region, especially if we take in account that :

• Russia doesnt have a team
• MENA deosnt have a team
• India will grow and may need a 2nd at some point (And even a first), they already have more premier team than TR
• Oceania doesnt have a team
• Viet Nam doesnt have a team
• Germany doesnt (really) have a team
• Korea is the biggest T2 region before NA and have same number of premier team than BR that have (3 times less !)
• Faria want to reduce the number of franchied team for more ascended team, wish is not a problem in Americas and China since every T2 region have more than one team, so reducing the number of franchised team will not make a full region disappear from T1, while it's impossible to do so in APAC because we basically have 1 country = region, except for the 2 big mastodonte Japan and Korea (wish is impossible to reduce)

So maybe the future is Franchised Pacific :

• 4 KR team

• 2 JP team

• 1 Oceanian team

• 1 Mongolia or Taiwanese team

• 4 Ascention team (That will probably be 3 or 4 KR teams, lets be honest, but will help to dilute the Korean talent to be sure they dont dominate too mush)

• Franchised Asia (Still Too weak) :

• 5 SEA team (ID / MYSG / TH / PH / VN)

• 1 or 2 Indian team

• Potentially 1 MENA team

• Potentially TR or RU team that could help the region to grow bigger

• 4 Ascention team

You disagree with that ? That 0 sentinel composition are good ?

0 sentinel are good composition, Vyze is already more than enough in term of senitnels

Hehehehe Called it for FNC :3

I think Fnc are better than FUT (And I bet they will win this BO even if they lose abyss), but this comp should have stay a one way trip, or at least not being use anytime, because this is too predictable :/

I was Saying that Korea is the T2 region with the most player in the word if we use the premier data (They are even AHEAD Americas, and not that far from the 5 Europe region cumulated). if you have data about PC i'll take them, that can help a lot in my researsh.

One of my concern (And the subject of of of the script for a future video), is basically that KR might dominate that mush that they crush rest of APAC, and with the growing of PC market in Indian and SEA that may mean we need to devide Asia between "Pacific" (KR-JP-OCE) and Asia (SEA-SA and maybe MENA)

I'm not fully sure about that, They are more talent in T2 in KR wish is more easy, and with how good T1-KR player where, last year, I don't think a lot where demoted (I dont have the stats).

I just think it's because KR is the biggest T2 region in terms of player that will be seen in a near future

I have a huge fear, that Korea start dominating HARD pacific, seeing how the bracket is, a top 4 pacific being the 4 Korean team is possible. And how mush populated the KR server is, I really dont want that SEA and JP team start to dispaear, but I see now way to solve this problem beside creating a 5th region, but make Non-KR pacific even weaker x)

I trust Tejo DRX, I think Tejo abusator might have find the way, not fully sure, but possible

Hard to say, VIT and TH look kinda solid, but I'm not really convinced by FNC, they play really weird composition that have some obvious week spot. No reaveal on Split is bad, and it cost them the winner bracket, and their win on Abyss against M8 is, what we call in LoL language : A cheese. The kind of strat that can work once, but get easily antistrat, so you rely only of surprise (Play 4 aggressive agent because you start in attack, and snowball mentally your opponent, have many way to be antistrated, and rely only if you take the first round to destroy you opponent mental), I still think they would have beat M8 anyway, and I think the cheese they did was smart : If you didnt have enough time to train your 6th map (they banned it against Navi), pick a composition that does amazing in one side, pick that side, and try to snowball mentally your opponent. (And I advise you to do it some when you are one day training for a BO3 competition, it can cheese a map you where not supposed to win, even against a really well prepared team)

TL was destroyed by FUT, if thats their true level, then no they wont qual, but everyone can have a day off, and if thats the case maybe they can beat Fut/Fnc that have both weird comp, and then on a unique BO3 against VIT or TH, suprise can always happen.

So for TL, I'll say... 10% chance they qual ?

KC wasnt really good, their last game against VIT was awful they always manage to go on a site with 4 PPL, I beleive in their improvement in a near future, but their perf was horrible

Definitly, it's viable only when you trust your premade ! (But premading Flash-Dive, is hard because you will at least have another player that will play duelist, and that mean you have to hope one of the 2 remaining accept to play smoke-reveal)

Flash init are horrible in ranked, because they need coordination to be efficient T.T

Vyze in ranked is just mid, her kit isnt that strong, Vyze in proplay is OP as fuck, because she fit the perfect niche in the meta, every team need a diver, a reveal and a controller, 2 controller are strong, and composition without a sentinel are good, and composition without a flash is good, so you can pick Vyze that will do the 2 things not prefectly, but decently enough to cover the 2 minors roles i've made a developpement in that vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrYtWrxIO1Y

Why not double ? (Or an RS but a team is out after 2 defeat so it becomes more efficient), since we all make them come here at least they should enjoy a 2nd BO no ?

I also thought they would be really good but I had a huge deception looking at this map, KC managed to be so obvious in their call, and EVERYTIME where flooding the site that was stacked, it made me so mad, and Vitality not being able to win the round despite knowing everytime exactly what they do was absolutely horrible to see (but really entertaining I can admit)

But season is still long, and if dont beleive the level will be high at kickoff I have hope in the ed of the year, team really ended up mastering the meta at the end

To be fair I just thin EMEA isnt that good, KC was absolutely horrible vs VIT in Abyss, with a decent team VIT would be in looser (KC loose against one of the worst team right after, I blame a little bit the format, but still), EDG and GEN seems to start to leave what did their strenght last yea : Replace a sentinel by a controller. It even weird in a meta where KJ get hard countered by Tejo, in AMER/APAC only 1 games was played by the best team, so too early to say.

For the moment I dont trust a lot

Any comp with 2 smoker a diver and a reaveal clear. So first one

You can listen if you dont want to read :c

I didn't do any site, last time i've make a little contest on vlr

https://www.vlr.gg/379066/bet-on-odd-final-s04

I may do it again (especially if people afk for)

You can bet on Valorant with my bot, it woulnt bring you money, but it wont cost you money too :c

Thanks <3

Unicorn have a strong story with Riot, in LoL, Prefranchised era they where one of the best team European team, and one of the most iconic one (Maybe the most iconic one after FNC and G2)

You have a best ping on Istanbul than on Paris, Madrid and Franckfurt ?
https://wondernetwork.com/pings/Tel%20Aviv this site give weird result about your best server, so i'm really curious abous that

Double elimination are great, I'm in favor of doble elim in kickoff. Doble elim is really good for 4/8/16/32 team and 10/20/40 teams, but the way they have done it doesn't work for 6/12/24 team, because it's gives a round of bye to the team that loose round 1, they are some way to make a double elimination bracket that doesnt give a round of by and stay fair, but we need to change a little bit the layout of the bracket.

Sure but that doesnt mean it reset for 4 more years the partnership program

If you want to qualify 2 team it's easier to do a tournament with 10 group, than with 12 (Double elimination format is better with 10 team than with 12, because every win matter in 10 wish isnt the case in 12, where winner of round 1 face looser of round 1 got a bye), if you want to qualify 3 teams, then it's kinda easy, just automatically qualify the team that won master, if you want to qualify 4 teams, then you can either to the same system that we use for the group of 5, or make Round robin with 5 team like rugby does

"The roadmap of the partnership was planned till 2028."
And got destroyed XD, I'm not sure what is your point on that

Unicorn has never deceive Riot :c

Seems they are a huge misunderstood here, when I say "doesnt have a team", I mean a franchised team

I edited before going to sleep and before your post I think.

"Merge Central Asia, Middle East and South Asia as "West Asia" to build a competitive region in which all 3 can use to develop talent."
Wait, so, this was for T2 ??? Not fot T1 ??? Well, now I strongly disagree with that, and I dont see any argument in that direction, India have more team than Turkey.

"its not 2031, from the original partnership plan that valorant already "altered", 2028 will be the final year of partnership 1.0 meaning RIOT will/already considering team selection 2.0 in 2027. If its gonna be another 6/7 year plan, its gonna 2033/34."
I never read that anywhere ? Where did you saw that T.T ? (2033 is still okay for that, 2 more year to plan that is doable)

Definitly not, you have more chance to be fire with no Indian team than if you finish last, Riot is not that dumb to refuse long term plan

T2 have no visibility, if you want to make believe in a real carreer, it need to be T1

Did Zellsis stole your acc ?

You have to do both, if they are no Indian pro, then you have no path to pro

And that typically the reason why you need GE to be full India even if they end 0-13, because that will make people dream to have a salary and live with that and just make the level raise

Not enough, we need 100 pages to be entertained

I kinda had this idea in a previous post, and when I saw the proportion of premier player in APAC, I think in the future it might be doable to have a 5th region Korea + Japan + Oceania have more premier team than EMEA (korea is actually top 1 by a huge margin before NA), a region with SEA, SA, MENA and maybe even either Russia or Turkey couldbe a thing, afterall we have to keep in mind that :

• Russia doesnt have a team
• MENA deosnt have a team
• India will grow and may need a 2nd at some point (And even a first), they already have more premier team than TR
• Oceania doesnt have a team
• Viet Nam doesnt have a team
• Germany doesnt (really) have a team
• Korea is the biggest T2 region before NA and have same number of premier team than BR that have (3 times less !)
• Faria want to reduce the number of franchied team for more ascended team, wish is not a problem in Americas and China since every T2 region have more than one team, so reducing the number of franchised team will not make a full region disappear from T1, while it's impossible to do so in APAC because we basically have 1 country = region, except for the 2 big mastodonte Japan and Korea (wish is impossible to reduce)

So yeah, they are so place for a 5th "Eurasian" region ! It's too early today, but my guess is that it may happen for 2031, when Riot will renew the franchise for the 2nd times

[Script that already written ^^]

Edit : In france we would love to have Magrehb in our T2 league, lot of our player have their root there, and we share a language wish is the most important for an efficient T2 league, (I would be curious to know how many Magrehbi are fan of KC)

I can understand that, I noodle is always a good choice, but if you want something fast to so but really good and you are not fully broke then I can advice the "Fondue Savoyarde" put 3 cheese (Compté, emmental, Beaufort) and white wine in same pan, make it melt, and voilaaa it's ready, you just have to put bread on a fork and put it in the melted cheese, thats delicious and thats require no effort (BE sure to keep the pan hot why you eat so it not solidify again)

Why french tho T.T

Math doest work here, if you do swiss with 12 team you might be blocade at : 3 team in 2-0, 2 team in 0-2 and 6 team in 1-1, and then it's become really chaotic. But you have a option to give to top 4 a round of bye in round one to make math add up a little bit better (2 team in 3-0 / 5 team in 2-1 / 4 team in 1-2 / 1 team in 0-4)

I like the concept of kickoff, 3 event a year seems the good balance and it kinda keep the "smile theory" that Faria's have (Most hype at the start and the end of the season so it's good to make a master to match the hype of the start of the season.

As far as I would love full round robin, I think Faria is right when he don't want too mush game a year (But I still think we don't have enough), I personally would prefer what we had in 2024 because it makes sure that everyone play each other in a single round robin (But please this time make intragroup first), but I think we can have both kickoff AND LCQ.

About the T1 + T2 tournament, I wasnt a huge fan at first, but when I realize if T2 can participate we have now a good excuse to expand champions to 20 or 24 because now we will not be able to say "It's impossible to make champs with 24 teams, because it would qualify half of team", if T2 is involved, it's not half anymore. The amazing thing of making T2 team play the qualifier is that it solve 3 problem at once :

• Lack of incentive to try something in T2
• Solve the issues where 2 ascention team go to worlds (if the 2 ascention team go to world but no T2 team manage to go to world, then Ascention team should keep their spot)
• Not enough team in champs to make it really different than the 2 masters.

I love the idea of gsl for master and swiss of champs, and I already a full script preparated for swiss in champ, I also think the idea that instead of making a draw, it should be the best team (Winner of the 2 masters then winner of split 2) that should pick their opponent in each round robin, making a huge advantage for team that win master, making us able to see master as a way to have a more easy path at champs setting in your mind that winning master isn't the end of the day, it's the start of their climb for champs

The script is already written (This was a copy past fo the first paragraph :c)

I'm really curious of what people gonna say about the tri-fractionned BO3, this is such a weird format, but I think i've manage to keep the competitive integrity and all the advantage of the round robin BO3, without the disadvantage

Again, this is not BO1, this is 3 BO3, with a full draft, it's the exact same than BO3, you play 2 games against each opponent where map are decided by a draft in BO3 draft, and you play decider only if you need it.