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i don't think nitro is actually gonna leave val, dude was a consistently top tier player on a LAN level team, it's possible he leaves 100t because he doesn't want to igl or play jett but i see no reason for him to leave his success in val behind just for another shot at cs, val is still a really young esport so he might be jumping ship too early.

I wouldn't necessarily say emea is the most fucked region overall (just look at oce lol) but youre 100% right that riot has no fucking clue how to structure a tournament circuit, albeit it's probably because it's the first year so they felt that they needed to give some regions more opportunities then they deserve (cough cough brazil cough cough)

old man f0rest would beg to differ

He's joining faze, calling it now

لقد لعبت ضده في الترتيب ، لكن ليس هذا هو الشيء نفسه. أعتقد أنه إذا لم يكن هناك مصنع آخر ، ولا قاضٍ ، ولا يوجد عامل بيانات لإساءة الاستخدام واللعبة متوازنة بشكل صحيح ، فلن يكون أي نوع خاص في قائد اللعبة على الإطلاق ، ومنفتح على أن يكون مخطئًا في هذه اللعبة

i wouldnt say favorites yet, but they definitely make top 8, maybe top 4. hard to say considering the only real challenge they've had are a tanking g2 and guild

i wouldnt read that much into it, hes played in a lot of showmatches and invitationals before so unless he outright says something i wouldnt hope for it

the team said LATAM in their own announcment, maybe they're getting a brazilian roster to play in LATAM? There might be some weird rule with SA that allows that

damn, 100t barely lose one series to a really good team and immediately the roster needs to be gutted apparently

either they give it to LDN UTD who came in second place in the qualifier or just some random team that's been at least slightly relevant recently (vitality, one breath, oxygen, etc.)

I wish I could comment on this matter but they just signed a head coach who played on my friend's csgo advanced team so I abstain

yeah, these exact thoughts were running through my head

my comment at #8 originally had this exact idea for swapping the slot over, but I edited it to include a masters 3 slot, which honestly you might not need at this point but I still like the idea of the team that wins it effectively giving their region another slot

I really like your idea of having APAC North and South. I know PUBG has a very similar system with the Global Championship (small fun fact, I was in the same high school as Snakers, who's PUBG team just entered PGC as the #1 NA seed)

I didn't consider MENA because ideally, I would have them competing alongside turkey in their challengers for EMEA instead of just LCQ, maybe give them their own slots in Challengers Playoffs even

South Asia I didn't mention because logistically I thought that putting them with SEA might have some issues regarding ping, so I couldn't decide where to place them (i'm not from that region but if i had to guess it'd be like 100-150 ping to connect to SEA servers)

The main changes I would personally make would be to take give Masters 3 winner a slot (it's a tossup who i'd take the slot away from) or to put OCE with SEA so that they don't need to travel so far each time

but definitely some good ideas!

Participants
Start off with 20 teams instead of the 16 we have now, this way we can reward the regions who performed well during the 2021 VCT

• The 2 Finalists of Masters 3 (NV and Gambit if we did this right now for example)
• Top 3 NA teams
• Top 3 EMEA teams
• Top 2 BR teams
• Top 1 LATAM team
• Top 2 KR team
• Top 1 JP team
• Top 2 SEA team
• 1 LCQ slot per continent like we have now

This should elevate the level of competition up a bit, now that more NA & EMEA teams can participate, as well as give Korea a deserved slot with how well they've done at the past 2 Masters events.

Group Stage

• 4 groups, 5 teams each, all 5 play against one another in Round Robin
• Attempt to diversify each group (idk specifically how this would be done, ideally each group would have at least 1 NA and 1 EMEA, some would likely have multiple of those though because NA and EU are most likely to win Masters events)
• the top 3 of each group moves on to the playoffs

Playoffs

• The #1 seed per group get a bye past the first round of games
• the #2 and #3 teams play each other (teams from the same group can't play against each other at this stage)
• Typical 8 team bracket from there with a 3rd place match being played out before the final game
• the bracket would look something like this (enjoy my beautiful ms paint drawing)

Issues

• Riot's LANs for LCQs are only about a week long. The amount of games needed to be played would be too much in that time, so there'd need to be multiple games being broadcasted at once or Riot would need to begin hosting longer events
• Trying to allocate regions into groups will be even more of a pain then it was this year, with a group of death being probably even more likely now
• The future with COVID & travel restrictions would be unknown, so some teams might not be able to attend the event
• With China just recently getting Valorant, it might work out better to give them a slot instead of the Masters 2 runner-up, so they aren't in the situations that minor regions like south asia or arabia are in

Just wanted to know your guys' thoughts on a tournament format like this. The current VCT system in general kinda bugs me with how it's structured, not only on this level but also with point allocation and how minor regions are incorporated only into LCQ, so it'd be cool to hear what you guys think.

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