Still only 3 for Champions xD
Brazil + Latam get 4
Asia get 5

:(

Wow what a logic dude...

One can give EMEA 1 slot and Japan 5 slots, and say "There are the ones that qualified, and the ones that are watching from their home/team setups. That's how it is." Why not lol.

Maybe Riot should think about providing more opportunities for EMEA in the future VCT events, because what we are going to see at this event will tell a lot about which regions are dominant, and which are weak.

And I have no doubt that Liquid / Fnatic will finish on top, Gambit would too, if only there were 3 spots.

As one guy on this website said, merit > diversity

I understand that it's impossible to evaluate merit right now, but as we head into Masters 3, and if EMEA performs well, I desperately want Riot to increase slots for us

Otherwise they will be complete idiots

I mean, EMEA has like 3x playerbase of BR + LATAM all together, but gets less slots than those 2...
It makes no sense at all, even though it's a first ever LAN event.

Lord GabeN gave CIS 5 slots for the CSGO major <3
Trash Riot fucked Gambit and the whole EMEA, instead brought in 3 south american teams, when 2 would be enough

And people are talking about how excellent Riot is

Are you baiting or stupid

In EU, when you walk into an enemy area, you get an instant headshot from vandal, no other way around
In Brazil, when you walk into an enemy area, there is a huge time gap before you die, because Brazil players always phantom-body-spray instead of aiming at the head

ScreaM
Derke
nAts
sheydos
cNed
nukkye
mwzera
TenZ
SicK
leaf

No order

Pickems messed up
Loser of SHK - NUT should go to lower round 1
Loser of TL - V1 / CR should go to lower round 2

Pop punk

Bruh don't you dare disrespect russian cracked aim gods and the best cypher in the world nAts

Also Acend were playing 2v8 lately with all of them except cNed and Kiles underperforming

Зато у них есть свой личный отбор на все международные турниры, в то время как СНГ и Турция должны выбивать европейских грандов ради каких-то 2-3 слотов 👍

Будет смешно наблюдать за этой помойкой, пока талантливые ребята из Гамбит сидят дома

https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VALORANT_Champions_Tour/2021/Champions

Just need to make Champions 20 teams, with 3 more slots for EMEA and 1 more for NA, and leave Asia / South America untouched

No they don't value merit
EMEA gets 3 slots at Champs, Asia gets 5 and South America gets 4

Maybe if EMEA teams will outclass everyone else, they will give us more slots for next season, but this one is set in stone I guess

Welp looks like we will have to "enjoy" watching some Paper Rex and Furia Esports instead of Gambit, FPX, G2, Guild etc

I dislike the fact that Gambit only collected 45 pts in this Stage 2, but Fnatic / Liquid are attending Iceland and probably will manage to earn 300-400 pts each. The skill gap between these 3 is very small, and such a huge pts difference ruins it all.

It gives me a feeling that Gambit will have to compete in Last Chance qualifier... Unless these 2 above fail at Stage 3 and don't advance to Berlin, but Gambit does it.

The main prize is not money

It's those shiny VCT points

I guess they made a research and found out that there is more playerbase in Japan / Latam than in Turkey / CIS, that's why they decided not to bother about the last 2 and just integrate them with EMEA. And it turned into mistreating the whole region by supplying them with same slots as NA and BR.

I expect in the next year of Valorant Rito will establish a spot for Turkey, and CIS will still play under EMEA because the game isn't popular here by any means. OR Gambit somehow qualify to Masters 3 / Champs and prove that CIS is one of the best.

Crossed fingers for Gambit boys.

I do agree that Brazil should be a region on their own, but you also must agree that EMEA has like 3x more people on the servers, as well as 3x more competing teams and way better esports infrastructure.

Riot defined 3 major regions - NA, EMEA and BR, but in my opinion it's definitely not fair, EMEA should be considered a major-major region (duh) and has to receive even more slots for all further VCT events.

And by "even more slots" I mean at least 5 for Berlin (take 1 from Japan away), and 5 for Champions (increase number of Champions teams from 16 to 18 and make it like TI Dota format).

If those changes I wrote above happen IRL, trust me, EU people like me will stop malding about slot allocations.

https://www.vlr.gg/19103/masters-rekjyavik-bracket-should-not-be-like-sea

Could you answer which of the cases (1 or 2) in that post is going to come true?

People are confused because nobody knows whether BR/KR/SEA teams are already locked in top-8 or is it Liquid + Sentinels.

Ok now look at HS% of TL/FNC players and then look at HS% of KRU players lol, and it's not just one example, it's been going forever like this

KRU is worse both mechanically and tactically, if you believe that they have a chance in this match you are either biased or stupid

FNC - TL
3-1

About as good as CE Calling

Fnatic ban Split, KRU ban Bind.

Icebox, Ascent, Haven will be played. Everybody knows that Fnatic are cracked on Haven / Icebox and very good on Ascent (better than Gambit on all these maps for sure).

So if KRU somehow take 1 map, my statement makes sense.

So you are saying that KRU is better than Gambit right? Because Gambit lost to Fnatic 0-2 and KRU will lose 1-2?

Lmaooooo...

Fnatic 13-3 13-5

Pls stop acting like you are the centre of the universe

Nobody cares how old are you and which team you support

Riot mfs combined 3 strong regions into one and gave it less slots than fucking South America, and you defend them for this

Before you bring an excuse "EMEA has 4 at Masters 3" - it doesn't matter, cuz EMEA still has only 3 at Champions, while Brazil + Latam get 4 there.

Well fuck Brazil then lmao, why does a single country get the same representation for Iceland / Champions as the entire EMEA region?

I'm not racist I just don't like Riot

Valve would never treat us like that, lord GabeN would give EU 5 slots

If slot distribution for Iceland was fair, EMEA would have 4-5 and BR + LATAM would have 2 all together

But Riot doing Riot things and giving free spots to undeserving regions

Agreed. Iceland will be boring until Fnatic / Liquid / Sentinels / Vikings clash each other.

All other matches are either going to be an absolute stomp or a clown fiesta.

Nice, ty

He's just transmitting information you donkey

hiyohello, Liquipedia man, said there will be 10 DE bracket instead of expected round robin (check out SEA Finals), which means there won't be as many matches as you might think, probably only 2-3 per day or something like that

who vehicles

Dude I fucking hope that all those underdogs from regions other than EU will crush Fnatic and Liquid

So that I get proved wrong and those teams are actually better than I expected

But something tells me it's not going to happen

+1

Gambit is better than all these non-EU teams except maybe Sentinels

Here you go

Also
https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VALORANT_Champions_Tour/2021

As if Liquid didn't fluke it lmao

They should have been eliminated in the match against BDS, but BDS decided to choke a win on Bind and it saved Liquid asses

If Acend / Heretics drop majority of their players aka "cores", will they also lose their current VCT points?

Logan supremacy all the way

Blast has a lot of annoying technical pauses, also their main observer Prius is much worse than ESL observer Rushly

That wasn't the point of my post, read again

Although EU is indeed goated, cuz I watched all regions and that's my opinion

You have to agree that if Liquid / Fnatic make it into Masters 3, they will qualify to Champions, even if other EMEA teams will perform better at Masters 3. The advantage from Iceland gonna help them a lot.

Liquid / Fnatic are like 80% locked in Champions too, although most people don't realize it just yet.

They will destroy everyone on Iceland, earn lots of points, and it will put them above all other EMEA teams. Next up is Masters 3 and it provides 4 EMEA slots, which means it will be way easier to qualify for EU teams than it is right now.

Actually Gambit - Fnatic game wasn't just deciding who qualifies to Iceland, it was also deciding who most likely qualifies to Champions (I explained why).

Sharks won't do shit at Iceland with their outdated Omen comps

Also what the hell is this HS% lmao, EU players are hitting instant headshots whereas Brazil players always have to spray because they can't aim properly

https://www.vlr.gg/17754/sharks-esports-vs-furia-champions-tour-brazil-stage-2-challengers-finals-lbf

You're braindead

I bet you didn't watch a single Fnatic / Liquid / Gambit game

2 circuit EMEA slots + 1 last chance EMEA slot = 3 for Champions

But that's not the case right now, so what the hell are you talking about

Funny how this problem wouldn't even exist if only they made Champions have 20 or even 24 teams, so that every region gets represented well

EMEA gets only 3 Champions spots (2 EMEA circuit + 1 last chance) whereas Asia gets 5 (2 SEA circuit + 1 KR circuit + 1 JP circuit + 1 last chance).
EMEA ranked server population is like 2.5 million, SEA + KR + JP ranked server population is like 1.5 million.

Yup makes sense. Rito big brain.