Both these teams were underappreciated, nobody counted them as contenders, now both qualified

But 0 percent chance that a Turkish team goes to Masters, I mean they're stuck with 4 of 6 EU powerhouses from last year, only 3 go to playoffs

Sign two tier3 teams, pay them salaries to play for 300 viewers in CIS league, then even if you win VRL you will get destroyed by Nordics/Spain/France teams and never become promoted to EMEA...

That's simply not happening, that's not profitable considering the current system

You don't know how much EU teams improved since VCT Stage 3, meanwhile CIS / TR kind of remained the same, except Gambit of course.

I'd say if current Navi with Jady played in EU, they would be on the same level as some Wave or Case... Neither Wave nor Case made it to closed.

I mean technically BIG are seed 2 and G2 are seed 3, because BIG qualified earlier... Doesn't matter that it was from lowers.

But it was done from seeding pools randomly anyway.

All rematches

"EMEA League" just for Gambit/FPX to play against Navi once again, for SMB to play against BBL once again...

They must've made a rule where TR#1 should be in the same group as CIS#2 and vice versa

No because Spanish fans don't care about G2 anymore, sadly their idol left

Why didn't they make a rule "One team from CIS / TR qualifiers per group"

Now it's literally 3 CIS vs 2 TR, fucking joke

https://www.vlr.gg/29666/blackbird-ignis-vs-fennel-champions-tour-japan-stage-3-challengers-playoffs-ubqf
https://www.vlr.gg/29673/blackbird-ignis-vs-feeling-champions-tour-japan-stage-3-challengers-playoffs-lr1

They couldn't become top-6 in the worst region
Lakia stuck in elo hell

If 8 qual slots were by strength, it would be 6 EU 1 TR (SMB) 1 CIS (FPX)

The truth is that Tenstar, LDN, Vitality, XL, Alliance >>> Navi, FUT, BBL
EU is way too stacked

Excel about to pull a Vitality

That's what Vitality thought

UK flag kinda looks like Iceland flag because too much blue

Bro the only possible solution is -duno -dinkzj both, sign sentinel talent like vo0kashu (not saying it should be him) and sova talent like 1ndra, there are plenty of gems in CIS who could bring Navi to new level

I swear EVEN IF Navi proceed to EMEA League, they will be 6th in the group, sent to relegation, and knocked out by the likes of Tenstar / Vitality who will grind VRL circuits this entire time (to be honest both Tenstar and Vitality are already better than Navi, EU just doesn't have enough slots)

Navi will NOT achieve anything with Duno and dinkzj

Excel map pool - Fracture, Split

Look how everybody overhyped them pre-game lmfao

LDN 3-1 Excel tomorrow

Sage on Icebox = trade player, same goes for kay/o in this particular agent composition, you enter the site after jett and you must kill everyone whom jett couldn't handle, of course place a wall too

Which literally means that the guy playing sage on this map must have sick aiming skills

Duno and sick aiming skills = oxymoron
That's why they have Cloud playing it

https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VRL/2022/CIS/Stage_1

There are 4 invited spots in green "VCT" color

So I think 2nd-5th places of Challengers 2 (this event) will be invited to VRL CIS without having to go through qualifying process

That's why 5th place decider is present

Sage/reyna on Icebox is usually the guy who trades kills after duelist (jett) goes in first

You can't give trader role to Duno who has diamond aim, you need a solid fragger playing it, sova on the other hand is more passive

Not 322, Navi just sucks

They want to rot in CIS VRL for 500 avg viewers forever, rather than to be in EMEA and play against the best teams of the region on main streams

https://www.vlr.gg/player/2285/braveaf

This team forgot to sign-up for VCT btw, they are here just because F4U invented new rules mid-tournament to help them out
Don't let Excel qualify 🙏

Fnatic braveaf

Look at the people he follows and who follow him on Twitter

Do you know if Bisons are planning to enter? I haven't seen any news about them yet.

Also there is 9th unannounced invite so I hope it goes to some team from the 3 I wrote.

Unlucky really all teams who were directly invited to VRL Spain are already kicked out, while Rebels / 19 / Case are still alive and playing

It's really frustrating

This is a new Anonymo team, all players were signed on 10th January, they're much better than the previous 5
These guys are ex-Queso and ex-Movistar Riders

https://valorantesports.com/news/2022-vct-stage-1-challengers-na-primer/

Change language to English (North America)

"Only two North American teams will receive berths to VCT Stage 1 - Masters, so join us to find out which two make the early claim for North American supremacy".

NA = minor region from now on?

They forgot to sign-up, but unlike OG / EXCEL / 19..., UOL didn't reach Ro32 at previous event, that's why they weren't allowed to be here like those shitters

I.e. F4U Gaming casually invented rules mid-tournament to assist rich organizations and fuck over mixes, but UOL didn't have the needed requirements to be also invited

Akrew have bad ranking but are very good
Now imagine Akrew is seeded with Sentinels
Both are top-8 NA and must be in league
But only 1 can go
...
Is that called a good format?

Riot NA is so dumb they literally delay the whole qualifying process till the last few days

It's already confirmed there will be 4 days to choose 12 best teams xD

I guess no closed double elim, literally just fucking open qualifier with 12 different paths, oh you got seeded with Cloud9 or Sentinels? We don't care.

Imagine the community outrage if Sentinels / 100 Thieves don't qualify for the league because they lost 1 Bo3 in open bracket

Cya in VRL France oh wait you might not even qualify there

Aspas e Less e amigos
Seriously tho I don't remember seeing more cracked aimers than these two, at least not in the recent memory

Общаюсь как с нормальным человеком, спокойно, без нервов, указывая на все факты, а в ответ крики и сопли

Никаких "квал" не будет, 10/12 напрямую и так и было задумано, на этом окончено.

А может это ты не разобрался?

Весь смысл ВРЛ в том что ты можешь перейти в верхний дивизион только став победителем своего ВРЛ региона

А не так что ты нихера не делаешь весь сплит а потом бац заходиш в Челенджеры и берешь себе 1/10 слот

Я это понял так что 10 команд которые остались в ЕМЕА получат прямой инвайт в ЕМЕА следующий сплит

Ну а иначе тут смысла мало, типа ВРЛ сражаются за 2 слота сначала а потом уже идут отдельные Челенджеры за 10 слотов, в которых даже ВРЛ тимы (которые не прошли) могут принимать участие???

Did you just call open qualifier matches a waste of time

It's the only way for them to go to BR VCT league, to start from open qualifiers...

Чел не будет отборочных ко второму сплиту, 10/12 уже попадут туда напрямую

Вот все что будет
https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VCT/2022/EMEA/Stage_1/Promotion_Tournament

Любая команда будет гарантирована остаться если только она не займет 6е место своей группе
https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VCT/2022/EMEA/Stage_1/Challengers

СНГ отборочных до 2го сплита просто не будет

ЕМЕА премьер лига - 12 команд
10 останутся в ней по итогу 2-месячного круга, 2 худшие пойдут в турнир который называется Promotion Tournament

В этом состязании помимо 2 лузеров с ЕМЕА будут принимать участие 8 чемпионов ВРЛ, 2 лучшие получают путевки в 2й сплит ЕМЕА премьер лигу

СНГ Челенджеры просто не будут проводится может уже никогда, и всегда будет это повышение/понижение

Слишком поздно уговаривать Риотов, весь процесс отбора уже идёт и его не будет в будущем

Предсезонные валы закончатся через неделю, наши лучшие команды (Гамбит, ФПХ, скорее всего Нави тоже) пройдут напрямую в ЕМЕА лигу, где будут регулярно играть против лучших из Европы и их игры будут транслировать на мейн каналах Валоранта

Все остальные пойдут в тир2 СНГ Ориентир, а этим региональным лигам предназначены только свои твич каналы в своих языках и ничто более, никто не станет делать трансляции для условных ОБГ и КПИ просто потому что уровень игры не тот, да и в целом таких ВРЛ 8 штук зачем бы им давать СНГ приоритет

То что ты сказал про Корею - это Челленджер ивенты, были в прошлом году, но у нас теперь будут лиги

They will be qualified not because they are good
But because others from CIS are even worse

I'm sure there will be at least 3-4 EU teams who are better than Navi but won't proceed to VCT EMEA league

BDS copium here is so weird, y'all haven't seen how terrible they were in both games this week

Orgless22
KOI
G2
LDN UTD

Am I wrong tho

Should have done -dinkzj +chiwawa in transfer window
Now chiwawa plays in retirement home (Excel) and Navi are much worse than they could be

Qualifying to EMEA means everything, so all matches which select these 8 teams must be Bo5

Just imagine:

If you don't qualify, you then must grind the boring VRL circuit without many viewers, become regional champion (which is not easy), and then become top-2 in Promotion Tournament (which is also a very hard task), while starting from 8-team group stage with other VRL winners and then advancing to top-2 in playoffs

Meanwhile teams who qualify right now just need to NOT FINISH LAST in their EMEA groups to not be relegated to Promotion Tournament

How can you watch European teams play, knowing they're many tiers below Korean or Chinese LoL contenders

It's like turning off the stream with Navi - G2 major grand final and instead spectating some ESEA Advanced Season 30 playoffs lower bracket game

I don't watch LoL but this is just weird how LEC / LCS maintain such big viewership while having so little skill

Vitality is a tier1 team what the fuck are you smoking

The fact that G2 with (allegedly) cheating coach and massive hoody upgrade are not able to win neither Alliance nor Vitality shows how much these teams improved since last VCT (BIG, Rebels as well)

Just because they didn't qualify to Masters doesn't mean they're tier2

In fact I believe all top-4 teams in this qualifier are better than Fnatic online, because Fnatic get a magical de-buff when not playing on stage

Relocate to Singapore and play for Bleed Esports

BIG won Tenstar 13-6 13-4

Wanna remind that BIG are about the same level as Alliance/Vitality, and G2 are about the same level as Alliance/Vitality

I can feel it

I don't like the 4-2-2 slots lock, feel like 5th-8th EU teams (who will miss VCT) gonna be better than KPI, Navi, FPX, FF, SMB or whoever else qualifies from TR/CIS...

And also the fact that only 2 relegation slots... Some of these KPI/Navi/FPX/FF/SMB will stay in the league for the whole fucking season...