In France we call that "The glorious uncertainty of sport"

You guys need to learn from that, no upset mean nothing is interesting.

From now I'll glorify every "fluke" and you guys should do the same

Gonna change next year, it's gonna be at the end of each split

"Talent pool is already really diluted between teams" I'm not sure, best structure with more money will buy the best player even if we have 8 or 16 teams, not sure that would change a lot

"We quite simply dont have 128 proper orgs" debatable, some region are already full of structure, especially in Germany of Turkey... And to be fair I like the idea of having some amatory team in T2

"Viewer numbers are already a problem. Adding so many stomps/boring games just isnt going to help this. (In t2 the large orgs bring a significant portion of the viewers)" That part is kinda true, maybe only France can see more stomps with the viewer we have, but in some region more team may mean more country représentation and more people watching val. I think for exemple in east Llenovo Honved could bring viewers.

About polaris i'm not that sure it reduce the competitivity on long terme, more people in T2, mean more experience for them, and increase of level

You shouldn't use that number with that flag, sister,

Sadfully org that represent a country sometime like to pick "best player" and just take import, France is full of French org with imports :/

Kinda, both can work, maybe the expansion to 16 teams for everyone could allow more orgless team that are usually representating a country

I admit doing 2 games at once is really disrespectfull

Totally agree, I hate internationnal roster in T2, just go back to regionnal team

This is so fucked up, I literally declared the video was in English ._.

Long term > Shor term

Does subtitile work ?

I took the decision to not fully script, just list looot of point and develop on each one for sponaneous

EMEA bad link, amer was yesturday vid

As usual, instead of doing a huge pavay, to summup all my argument here, I prefer make a video because you guys cant read long text :c

This is about EMEA Tier 2 and it 7 regions, not about Tier 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNoruH4Xmc

tldw ; I think TD EMEA could also go to 16 team without sufferring too mush from the expansion, some league are already with 10 teams with full of structure, only noth will have issues to expand.

Care, dont remember than last time Damwon didn't qual because India took them one map

It does and I think the recent exwpantion of T2 in APAC and BR is a proof Riot care (part 3 of today video kinda talk about that)

Is ok to say lil girl sweetheart ?

I thougt I had posted my vlr topic about : You guys would thinks LA, NA and BR tier 2 should also go to 16 teams ?
Brasil is already 16 but what about NA ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Yi7oKDdR8

Lets debate again :c

BR should go to 16 team
LA should go to 16 teams
NA should go to 16 teams
You all should go to 16 teams

https://youtu.be/B3Yi7oKDdR8

in for SEA ??? i'm temped to post my 2 videos talink about asia now

I'm so proud of that topic for snooker reason

All according to bodork plan to create a finnish super team to re-hype polaris and having finally someone able to fight Apeks (But they gonna qual so polaris wil be again a region one team that crushing everyone)

Lets not forget about the "URRRGH it's make 2 mounth we had 0 proplay..." effect

What is sp3 ? Split 3 ? View are probably gonna be really low, thats true, but maybe not that mush, relegation will stay a stake, I find it too bad the winner doesnt have a couple of point for 2025 so we will have a little bit hype.

It was really dumb to expand thought premier without letting time for T1 team to fill an aca team, it would have make so mush more sense to qualify only 1 or 2 teams in this act, and 6-7 on the other so T1 aca can have more chance.

Also, if you are afraid about Japan not being able to fill 16 team, it would have solve so many issues to go to something like 10/12 JP team, and 2/3 MN and 2/3 HKTW teams

Thanks "Number 1 Megannyah hater" you are allowed to rename into N1mh <3 Love you my tribe

Pavement is made of « pavay » (Pavay is a bad way to try to traduce the french word « pavé » that we use to describe an horrible long text)

SEA is now too saturated and something may have to be done, to me they are 2 solution, play on SG serv and take out HKTW and MN and put them in another place for ping reason (Japan ? China ?), if we count the number of team qualified + structure that hasnt been qualified we are at 23, remove MN-HK-TW we drop to 18, 16 might be doable in that case.
Other solution would be to split SEA in 2 based on server, and that would make sense to go in APAC full "1 serv" = "1 T3" = "1 T2". Se we would have SEA-HK (HK-TW-PH-VN-MN), SEA-SG (SG-MY-ID-TH) but 32 team might be a little bit too mush, not impossible but doable, counting qualified team, structured team and potential academics team SEA-SG is at 15, and SEA-HK is at 12, so this isnt totally unrealistic.
A mid solution would be to make 3 group of 24, East (HK-TW-PH-MN), Malay (SG-MY-ID-Brunei-Timur), MainlandSEA (TH-VN-Cambodia-Myanmar-Laos), but kinda break the 16 standardisation

If you want to make your own math :

• MN The MongolZ

• MN Trinity

• HK Oblivion Force

• TW Ex-ONE Team

• TW Five Ace e-Sports

• PH NAOS Esports

• PH ZOL Esports

• PH Oasis Gaming

• PH TS Aca

• VN Rapid Lofi

• VN Fancy United

• VN Team Flash

• TH Made in Thailand

• TH FULL SENSE

• TH XERXIA

• TH Sharper Esport

• TH Team NKT

• TH Talon Aca

• SG Disguised

• MY Reve Drift Arena

• SG Elevate

• SG PRX Aca

• ID BOOM Esports

• ID Alter Ego

• ID Bigetron Arctic

• ID ARF Team

• ID RRQ Aca

It's so sad they couldn't participate into promotion XD, ZetacaA and ZetacaB got scammed making them think they couldn't participate to playoff

"This is unfair for T2 orgs."
I disagree with that. that's true that a T1 org will have less money to win the T2 league, but the objective of a T2 team is to win ascention, and Academics team are not allowed to participate into ascension, so that mean academics team will not reduce the amount of chance for T2 team to win their primarly objective (They might even help them because they upgrade the scrim quality level). And if that argument is undermined, then the 2nd argument is undermine too (It might even be the contrary)

Having one good academics team leaving will not shake the entire T2 scene, this is kinda a too huge statement (And it's probable the team that will replace them will also have an aca team)

Scout is the best way to win long term, would be a bad plan to not invest in aca.

Take Korea for exemple, DRX prospect didnt participate to this premier iteration probably because they werent allowed to qual to T2, so they missed half of opportunity to qual, if Riot would have announced it earlier, this would have been more fair for T1 aca teams :/

I dislike the seeding, MYSG seed 1 is already in T1 (Bleed), Disguised is MYSG seed 2, they should start from the bottom, a region that already have a ascended team should start from the bottom.

I really hope next year we will have 2 group of 5 so everyone is on an equal foot

Hard to say APAC is so close to each other, I can see every team win (beside maybe OCE and India)

Without S1mon I'm not that sure China might be that high.

TW might have a good shoot

Is "Brazilian IGL" is another way to say Argentina ? (nzr is also in same case)

Technically the winner of VN-OCE and PH-ID will have same number fo game than the 2team thathave a bye

What I'm the most curious about is, that if T1 team will invest in academics, if thats the cas I'm not sure it was a good thing to give so many spots in premiers before T1 team have time to participate. (I wonder if I wouldn't even want Riot to give directly a spot to T1 that accept to have an aca)

I think it totally work as intended, it's the "chocked" face

Day 4 of posting a pavay in vlr (but as a video so you don't have to read)

Today we gonna ask the question : Is that a good thing APAC Tier T2 go to 16 team instead of 8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qF2n8I8vmQ

tldr ; I have doubt, but I think I want to see that happen

Stroking ? You have some timecode or can describe the issues ? Maybe it's about the facial emotions recognition ?

You didnt watch the video bud.
Best ping for Mongolia : HK > JP > SG
I said MN being a part of SEA is not optimal, even if thats Riot choice

France have already a T2 D:

Considering renaming into "Valorant Voice"

I have interest in Valorant in every country because I'm a geographee addict (My degree is basically about stat and geography), so expect me to cover more structural things, like T2 boundaries ! (And lets be honnest, the Mongolian question is an interesting subject, and make me thing about a lot of other intresting subject to guess what would be the best decision)

One of my dream is to cover Val in African French speaking country in Subsaharia when they will have a T2

:3

You can play in LA and still have a east coast identity, BR team play in LA and are still BR team

I also support T2 being splitted into East and West

Definitly, I dont understand why NA team doesnt try to empersonate precise region identity, like east coast, west coast, southern. Would make NA game mush more hype if they are a little bit mush more regionnal hype

Vyze
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It's fun every 6 region got 2 team... And Mongolia already got 2 teams making them kinda the 7th region.
I'm proud I could talk a little about MN Valorant in my last vid ^-^

Today video is about « In what T2 region we should we shall put Mongolia ? »
Sorry the today video lack of energy, I had so many things to do, but I wanted to continue the little defi of making one video per day instead of one vlr pavay per day. (Vegas spend the whole night crashing...)
I swear you guys i'll make you read or hear my pavay è.é

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YDqCxDLEVk

Short answer ; SEA is decent but overstacked, Japan may fit for ping reason, Central Asia should be better in long term but... War is a thing

If I have interesting comment I'll make an answer part, next video will probably be about "Shall every T2 go to 16 teams ?"

I think Seninel are really weak right now, but maybe Vyze can be a gamechanger

Not my kind of thing but people tend to like it, but not at the same level than Raclette or even moule-frites