Japan future powerhouse

I think that's just an intended loophole left by riot to appease both US, Taiwan and China.

Ok, hear me out , kishida on his last straw finally decides to initiate blue lock, or any candidates for prime Minister in order to attract younger voters

Meiy /Absol
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Import engh( he did wonders changing team of duelists to a good roster)

And they get 6th or even 5th

Is this a hypothetical world cup event or this is based on their performance? Depending on your answer I'm about to say some hot ass takes 😂

Leo is swedish

But I understand his gripes about zeta tho, zeta this year looked sooooo bad😅.

Meanwhile I'm kinda glad dfm improves this year, but at the cost of zeta losing 😭

It sucks as jp fan too, but money and longevity is definitely what jp needs rn and like deyahalajarma said , jp t2 are starting to look very promising, so it really depends on what zeta and dfm roster moves are.

Because they bring in views, like the disparity between jp and non jp views might not be that visible in T1 compared to T2 but it's still visible nonetheless.

It's also at that time most of zeta's academy players are not old enough for franchising, and assigning hiroronn to initiator was always a mistake.

The t2 players at the time are kinda reluctant to play in T1.

Also I suspect that buyout clause plays a huge factor

Idk what to say about dfm 😂😂

It's not really a waste for dfm and especially zeta tho, those fanbase are really loyal ( although I am quite concerned this number are largely attributed to Laz)

I probably said this like 10k times now, but zeta and dfm literally need a good roster management 😭

Zeta or dfm , depends on their roster moves

Mods, pls:
Change ady's nationality to korean
Change marin's Twitter to this
https://x.com/Marin_VLRT?t=IFr1dUD-1iITMRVu1IYk9A&s=09
Can you add babo's member's twitter according to this tweet?
https://x.com/LFTtearZ/status/1826552962484740119?t=RY6CVNENiauzVjm8cNLveg&s=19

Thx as always mods

here I was thinking that we finally get another new jp talent but it is what it is😭 , at least we still get to see what kai ubi , dan and tearz would do.

Who could replace him? I'm betting on Yotaa for sure

(speculation) Holy shit Gentle mates has just released Takas, is Yotaa actually going to Gentle Mates?

Wtf lol, guess GE is gonna have a field day forming an academy team😂

Tf does he mean Zeta is looking for affiliated teams 😂. Zeta just announced that they are going to field their academy players in VCJ and are now looking for new academy players.

https://x.com/zetadivision/status/1827277167958295005?t=PIoS-zATte27VW1JvU6atA&s=19

(Unless I'm misunderstanding things again 🤦‍♂️)

Actually GE has to look at T2 orgs as well. Because every VCL SA teams already paid a standard wage ( I have to assume), it's not ideal for GE to pay lower, so they had to pay at least as much as T2 teams do. So GE might not be paying peanuts (probably)

Rushindra worded them poorly, what he meant is that GE will now form GE Academy ( which will play in VCL South Asia) and GE franchising. Usually academy teams are paid less than the main team for obvious reasons

Rushindra worded them poorly, what he meant is that GE will now form GE Academy ( which will play in VCL South Asia) and GE franchising. So expect 2 different coaches for both rosters

Not really, I think small teams had little bargaining power over big teams. Unless small teams are willing to pay higher wages than maybe they can compete, but at that point would you call them small teams anymore?😂. So nothing changes.

One of my concerns with T1 academy teams now playing in T2 is that it actually made the scene way more unfair for T2 orgs, especially Japan, orgs like CGZ and Igzist couldn't even qualify to sp2 and small orgs will be facing the same problem but bigger. So adding ZETA academy and DFM academy(yes they announced building one prior to the announcement, perhaps they knew beforehand 😂) into the scene actually impedes competition.

Guess we're having GE academy now

I did(got forced ), can speak basic level, never liked it.

ain't no way, he brought them to champions grand finals 💔

I care about jp tier 2 as much as you do brother🤝, but sadly not many even here share our sentiments

This kind of relationship should be reciprocal, riot take care of the scene, and the community in exchange follow the scene thoroughly, when no one simply watches the scene, riot's hand will be tied ofc, even riot has its limits. It's been this way for a long time no? I don't think this situation is exclusive to valorant as well.

Tbh yeah NZ particpation in japanese qualifier is so random 😂.

People only care about tier 2 when their scene is about to be merged/destroyed etc. But when nothing happens everyone usually doesn't give a fuck.

That kind of mentality sucks.

Unironically true

Nice name, sorrymybad is also goated name too 😂

https://www.vlr.gg/player/3124/sorrymybad

Flair , but valid tho my heart really broke when heretics lost 💔

Wow, 32? That's like 90 in esports age 😂. Do you think this is just a flash in the pan showing or the scene starting to flourish?

They were , zeta had 6 coaching staff this year and 3 of them already lft(sieg) moved to academy team(junior) and become streamer(crow)

Zeta - crow - sieg - junior

Any notable players from the Czech scene?

Brother it's covid, unless you have evidence ofc

What happened to polish cs tho, don't they used to have the VP roster?

I'm leaving my hometown for studies and the wifi is shit there, no point in raging about bad connections

Bad example , Reykjavik had 0 crowd bro.

Lol got downvoted for the truth

Not really, he brought in drama and had nothing to show for in the end

I think steel once insulted shahzam when his family member just died(?). That's a weirdo energy for sure.

I dont think yotaa is going there , because removing yotaa means adrnking and ejay are useless now( there's no point in bringing them in when scarz don't have to comm in English now) , and doing that means scarz is losing their core and automatically withdraw(?),unless Yoshiii's japanese still sucks.

But, prx had advantage and you can see TH actually fought tooth and nail from lower bracket to grand finals in both shanghai and seoul, that makes it much more impressive than prx tbh

Is mada not good?

I think next year emea will dominate tbh, they take the risk of getting T2 players which is very good. And even if they don't, they will secure themselves for 2026 onwards.

No rank because I'm deleting valorant soon 😂

Yeah I think some orgs definitely are definitely favoured, which is why first mover advantage is a thing, for orgs like sen its no longer viable for them to just start concentrate back on local fanbase.

Might be tunnel vision but I think japanese orgs encourages a lot of participation which is what inspires this thread.

Actually does it even cost anything to hold an online event 😂, aside from getting streamers to participate as long as it's a fan event I think it's just a time issue (?). Might be wrong tho.

The more I think about my proposition actually works for T2 orgs tho, they really can increase people's participation in T2 and not just watch T1

Fair enough 😂

Common ground as in?

maybe they should hold event in where they're based on at the moment, e.g if G2 valorant team is based on Studio in LA while your org is based in EU maybe they should market themselves more in LA and encourages more participation from the fanbases in LA.

I think if MIBR , Loud etc want to make their stint in LA worthwhile maybe they should start reaching to the NA fanbases to instead of just holding onto BR fanbase.