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"there is no way to prove Tier 2 players against tier 1 oppossition"

Ascention ! I think one way to another we will go to 16 team, and maybe 4 ascension spot so more T2 vs T1 and this will be interesting

"I just cant believe in this system anymore, especially seeing how open circuit esports like CS and Dota fostered successfull scenes in places you wouldnt expect (Dota 2 in Jordan/Lebanon and Peru, CS in Mongolia and Brasil) "

Sadfully they where not able to develop in every country, (Seems it's kinda also bounded to where your place your server), Colombian server might help Peru. I believe any country that have a population of +10M people should have their Subregion (And so a T3 league + Spot in T2), beside UNdevelopped region (Subsaharia, MENA, South Asia) cause it's a little bit too early (And probably a ceil of 100M hab to not make a T3 that is too big)

using my geographic stats the result is something like that
https://imgur.com/I0wcqbJ

I'm optimistc because I see solutions, and I see that Leo learn from his mistake. I'm optimistic because to me, the mixed system was always the best system because it allow us to have stability in the Tier 1, but keep cinderella story from the tier 2 (The main pb here is that asc have only 2 spot, thing would be better with 4)

Red = Not sure if it should exist
Cyan = Can be place in another way
Yellow = Subregion of a nation that is too big to have only one subregion

China is 1G pop, Americas on is whole is 1G pop too.

I don't think the south america have been harmed by the system, with the previous system BR could have only 1 competitive team, now 3 is possible because best BR player will have more training against more better team.

I admit T2 team not being able to scrim against T1 team might be a problem but not that mush, and they are other solution to solve that (like for exemple make geographical group instead of random group) and make the south group play in Sao Paolo, kinda like the conference System in US league.

In long term having 1 SA league will just make best SA team not able to play NA regularly, and will just slowly become less and less good because lack of good team to improve.

The T3 league isn't here for money, it's an amatory league, people are not supposed to earn money in it,
Keep in mind that T3 is optional, you can still qual to T2 threw premier and you don't have to play T3 if you want to qual to T2, thats not another bottleneck, and thats not turning premier in T4

• I agree we should expand, but 16 would be better than 14, group of 7 is bad for organisation, and it make the double elim kickoff easier, plus 1 or 2 more team in Ascension (We need more carrots for T2 so structure to be interest in T2)
• Giving one more slot to Brazil sound kinda hard, so far they where able to have only 1 competitive roster, FURIA and MIBR are still struggling a lot and where never competitive enough, Luxo and Sato will find a team in one of that 2 structure, no problem.
• I agree on LATAM team, we need a LAN team, the 2 teams are LAS and thats not good for detection in Colombia and Mexico.
• G2 replace EG is a no-brainer
  I suppose for the 12th team giving 1 team to NA can be okay potentially

If we go to 16 maybe the solution is to make a South America group that owuld held in Sao Paulo ?

Really interesting I didn't know it was possible !

Thanks for the light ^^

Italia and Portugal closing is a good thing, the population isn't enough big to be a T2 league, while we have a policy that ensure they are at lesat 1 IT and one PT team in the T2 (Has I say in one of my video), this is beneficial for Italian and Portugal, it's far better to have 1 or 2 team competing in a more competitive league, than having a not competitive T2 league compared to other T2 league and getting gaped in ascension.

To me Polaris show us the good way to do it, Rinascimento and PT T2 league, should now become a T3 league in the same way Polaris did with their national league.

So basically what I want for every league :

• Definition of Subretion inside a Tier 2 region (Between 3 and 8 subregion)
• Ensuring every subregion have at least 1 team in the T2
• Every subregion having their own T3 national league

Maybe some of KR are Zainichi ?

At least it's 3x8 = 24 new JP player !

After the expantion it gonna be easier, because you will have more T2 data for 16 best teams

a valorant team consists of

• Duelist
• Controller
• Vision (Recon Initiator)

then it kinda var depending of your gamestyle

• Sentinel (That Usually can play Vip)
• Scrambler (Flash Initiator + 2nd Controller)

All the collect of my data try to define the role and I have kinda intresting result

I agree flex player is a myth

Marie Antoinette / 20

Regionnal league are what carrying EMEA, that give a sense of identity, and make people support team from their region, but you can keep tht system and still have circuit point (That what they will do IIRC)

Japan just get expanded, so that makes things harder

That an intresting point, but it seems to me that a strucutre that invest on tier 2 in the long term will create a better environment that allow a team to climb, Look at every ascende team, TGRD, M8, Apeks, M80, Bleed, all of this structure are here building something longtermwize, and this structure will just destroy stroture like DZ that just try to go to fish a good team that played half of year with less mean.

I think this system is intresting, because it give a chance to every org that really want to be a part of Val, with making structure that is just here for the carrot to stay far away. I think this system make the best structure stay and the worst structure leave.

Also they are a huge differences between Amer and Europe, in America, beside few exception, they are no good structure, neitheir in BR and NA (And LA doesn't really have big structure in the first place), but lok at Europe, France, DACH, Turkey, Spain, and even the smaller one (Beside maybe polaris), all of our region are almost full of structure, all of our T2 region could expand to 16 team and still have a lot and lot of structure. Same for Pacific, Japan and KR just expand to 16 and with the aca team, they are no doubt the league will still be stack, and i'm not even talking about SEA, they have enough structure to fill something like 32 spot, and split in SEA HK/SG, even if you take South Asia that is T1 material, (Only OCE struggle because... Well isolation)

To me the problem is that BR, NA, LA, didn't have found their format for T2 yet, they will be the main region that will be helped by academics team (Potentially 3 spot filled for BR, and 5 for NA, we will need so mush less structure), and they are a lot of idea that can help them, create east coast west coast rivalry by splitting the group based on geography instead of random to reduce ping for exemple

He didn't said "it doesnt matter", he say he want it not stable, we can debate if we want a stable T2 or not, but his point is kinda intresting

It's kinda rare to have esport structure not loosing money, even in the T1, if thats the case thats sad but they have to pay less T2 player, (but I agree Riot should give more money to T2 team)

OCE NEED to have a slot in the near future, if Riot doesnt find a way in 2027 to give them one, long term will be horrible for the region.

Val need to be a worldwide esport

I have mixed feeling about this, if every big org leavee, that mean, any big org can come in a region, buy best player and secure an easy ascension, in short term org might not understand it yet, but in long term, when org will realize T1 is almost free more org will invest into T2.
And to be honest I kinda like T2 having a sense of amateurism, if it's the case that make ascention almost accessible for every high immo player and his friend. And let's be honest, in Europe we have a lot of mid tier org that is perfect for the current not expansive T2 system

Because even in LoL havin one NA league with 12 team were not viable, and the first 2 year they were not enough talent for one unique league, BR had only LOUD that was competitive for exemple. Nobody can name any successful BR team beside LOUD (And VKS, but it was kinda LOUD hcore), same for Latam beside KRU and LEV
2021 :

• M1 : Sharks 0-2
• M3 : HL 0-2
• M3 : KS 1-2
• Champ : FUR 0-2
• Champ : KS 0-2
  2022 :
• M1 : NIP 1-2
• Champ : FUR 0-2

Lets be honest, go back in 2021-2022, it's impossible to make a full region for SA, and even for NA I'm not that sure it's possible (especially while they are a huge crisis in NA LoL)

When you say VCT you mean T1 ? CIS will never have a T1 region for demographic region, but when the war is over they will definitly have a T2. If we talk about T2 I wouldnt be surprised if we have a 8th league this year to make the format easier (It can easer be CIS because this is a mess, Subsaharia, or officially split LNA and GCCI) because it will be easier for the format to have 8 region.

But yeat ATM I kinda agree that it's not possible to create another T1 region, as I say in my video it's dead for Americas, even for Korea i'm not convinced, 3 team seems ok for the moment, especially if none of them reach T1 threw ascention. I think the only short term solution in like... 2027, would be to make an "Undevelopped PC region T1 league", with MENA, Subsaharia and India, 3 team each doesnt sound that impossible, but doing that would be bad because they would stop to play good T1 team on stage.

I think an expansion to 16 team sounds more realistic, and il be the subject of my next vid

I hope one of this 2 team get ascended but lets be honnest :

...

Choker fight

We will see if that happen to Full Sense too

In term of round or in tech pause ?

OH MY FUKING NO

OH NO

Dont worry you dont need Skye and Gekko to play doble smoker, EDG and LOTUS kinda prooved that

If TSM win 2-1 (worst case for 2GE)

In that scenario :

• Gal +0
• TSM either 0 or -1
• 2GE either -1 or -2
• RETA -2
• AK either -2 or -3

GAL in, TSM in and then 3 possibility,

• If 2GE is -1 2GE in RETA and AK out

• if AK is -3, RETA and 2GE are tie at -2 and 2GE win with HTH, RETA AK out

• if AK, RETA and 2GE are -2, then it's :

• 2GE-RETA 2-0

• AK - 2GE 1-2

• AK - RETA 0-2
  So ranking

• 2GE +1

• RETA 0

• AK -1
  2GE in, AK and RETA out

Galory and 2GE are qualified (They are some debate about the understanding on the rulebook about 2GE but i'm quite sure it's the case)

Sova 47% PR, 52% NMWR
Fade 11% PR, 32% NMWR

Galory did choke hard on this one

Oh no...

They can qual with one map, but it's gonna be a MESS

If TSM 2-0 TSM is qualified

Again guys, I know you can't read so I made a video to open the debate (Don't point at the fact I speak English as good you can read)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeyBlEZAY4s

So should Americas split in 2 region : Short answer no, not enough solid org, dillute the talent pool

I think TGRD got 0€ for the transaction

Riot dont allow to sell slot

https://www.vlr.gg/post/4114799/for-when-pcf-win
comeback - hes 17 born in 2007 and would be eligible to play after june next yr
lar0k - hes 17 born in 2007 and would be eligible to play in 2026 coz his bday is in november
loita - same as lar0k but in sept

If Pacific win it's may be catastrophic we may just have bleed but worse. I think it's one of the reason Riot allow Aca team in T2, that give incentive to T1 org to hire -18 player, so they dont end in other T2 teams that may win ascention

I really hope CIS got finally their scene

But he didnt ask for EMEA scene moving to Marioupol

To be honnest, will Pacfic happy to being ascended ? Meaning they will lose 2 or 3 of their talents. I suppose yes, but not sure it's best for long term

Europe isnt 500mil ?

WELCOME TO SCOTLAND EMEA ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority

PS : Amer welcome to Cuba, usaian good luck for visa <3 the table has turned

Woaw thanks a lot !

Only team that will not have to drop someone if they win, have won

How would you solve that ? Except by mooving in Albania, I don't see how to solve the "They are too young" issue

three way tie is map and round difference --> Head to head
4 way tie --> Map diff

https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/a/ab/VCT_Ascension_Ascension_Americas_2024_Ruleset.pdf

Is TSM win :
If Galory loose, Galory out and it's a 2 or 3 way tie vs AK and potentiall 2GE, in a 2 way tie they win, in a 3 way tie it's more complicated
If Galory win, then it's a 4 or 5 way tie (map diff), If they win 2-0 they are safe, if it's 2-1 it's more compliated

Best team that play with no stakes, so that's kinda a nuance the performance. Looking at the ranking what team could be the worst team of ascention ? Galory ? They push best team to OT in map 3, it's even better.

What ? é.è