I think Gen.G will go to APAC and T1 will stay in NA

Organizations like T1 and FPX have basically a 100% chance to get franchised, it’s just whether they can make it into the league of their choosing

I care more about the LCQs than Champions

Replace Astra with Viper and you have a good comp imo

I think it’ll be tough on ct without a viper

I agree with this list

It doesn’t, he’s just biased to Leviatan because his favorite team nearly lost to them

Did they lose to DRX?

Don’t tell Shownu that the only teams that Fnatic beat were the same ones that DRX beat 🤫

Optic at #6 is wild and both NTH and DRX beat XIA and LEV in head to head matches while placing equally/higher than them

The only team at the event worse than them was XSET and XIA have had a lot more LAN experience, I don’t think they’re underrated

Aside from cheering for DK, I'd like to see one of Sentinels, BBL, or EDG make Champions for the hype, so those are the teams I'm cheering for I guess

Acend and Guild don't really have big fanbases and Guild aren't very financially stable. Organizations like KOI and KCorp have a higher chance to make it in in my opinion.

C9 and G2

Same, praying that DK don’t bench him lol

stop 100T from dropping steel

imagine a Sentinels vs 100 Thieves match, it'd do numbers

I’m more hyped for the LCQs than Champions lmao. I can’t wait to see Shroud play, Chinese teams, the South American drama, and the new Damwon

you’re past your peak now

We have genuinely no clue since JP playerbase stats get clumped with APACs. I’d assume it’s pretty high though, but still smaller than NA/EMEA’s

NA Viewership: ~94k Avg, 217k Peak
BR Viewership: ~41k Avg, 142k Peak
EMEA Viewership: ~70k Avg, 160k Peak
JP Viewership: ~112k Avg, 292k Peak

Japan does have the highest viewership out of any region though

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/14b0b9af
I didn’t even trust DRX lmao

Guild overperformed for me

Mindfreak is underrated, but I still don't think he's better than Marved or maybe even MaKo

Loud
Fnatic
DRX

Optic had to fight through groups, had a closer match against Paper Rex, and put up an equal fight against FPX. Fnatic beat literally only the same teams that DRX did, which is FPX with a sub and Leviatan. Optic are better than Fnatic.

regions don't matter in general lmfao, you can't scale hundreds of teams off of the performance of 12

1. PRX
2. FPX
3. Optic
4. Fnatic
5. DRX
6. Leviatan
7. Guild
8. KRU
9. Loud
10. Zeta

Loud are probably higher but they didn't do anything notable this event, so I don't know where to put them

I’d like to honestly see that

I can’t imagine this looks good for franchising…

It’s not really a dispute anymore. Even when DRX were the undisputed kings of Asia, most people thought SEA were the better region.
You should look at it as individual teams, like PRX being the best team in Asia instead of regions tho, since we don’t get enough international play yet to scale regions in my opinion

Yeah, you're right. On paper it should be just DRX and DK in the league, but I have a feeling that T1 and Gen.G are going to complicate things

JP/KR/CN (East Asia) deserve the same amount of slots as APAC imo, which would be 6 and 6. Both regions have two teams in the top four Asian teams (PRX > DRX > NTH > XIA) and Japan makes up majority of the viewership by far. If they get more than half you can be angry, but it's reasonable to split them half and half.

unknown, but presumably APAC since they've been dropping all of their NA players

Chill, those are the orgs that we know of, I'm sure quite a few APAC orgs also made the cut

https://dotesports.com/valorant/news/sources-sentinels-xset-and-gen-g-make-next-round-of-valorant-partnership-process-others-denied

Orgs in the 3rd phase:
Crazy Raccoon
DRX
Global Esports
Zeta Division
Gen.G*

Orgs declined franchising:
Nigma Galaxy
Velocity Gaming

Anyone have anything new that I can add to either lists?

Japan currently has the highest viewership actually:
JP: ~292k Peak, ~112k Average
NA: ~217k Peak, ~94k Average

APAC since it has the most room for growth in SEA as well as SA and CN if they're included. Plus JP got more viewers than NA or EMEA already.

Lmao, it’s deserved for a lot of them, I remember the fans saying Fnatic would beat OpTic before either had even qualified

My bad then, I just assumed they got the same pass as Loud did for performing subpar

DRX didn’t get unlucky, they lost fair and square. I just don’t think it’s fair for everyone to say they were overhyped when they did what was expected.

I wasn't on the site when Fnatic lost so I was wondering what do people think about them? Cause I just realized that they beat the same exact teams that DRX did (FPX with a sub and LEV), yet the narrative is that DRX sucked.

Another question, why does everyone call DRX overhyped when this time they literally reached where most people placed them, which is 5-6th?
https://www.vlr.gg/111538/masters-copenhagen-power-rankings
https://www.vlr.gg/112489/rank-the-copenhagen-teams
https://www.vlr.gg/111822/master-2-power-rankign

Fnatic were the ones hyped up to win the entire tournament with ease and be undefeatable while Loud was placed in almost everyone's top 4, but they aren't overhyped?

PS: Sorry this sounds like I'm malding, but I'm genuinely wondering why the community views DRX so negatively when they placed exactly where everyone literally predicted them to :<

Too easy for JimJam, the other team should just pack it up

Good luck friend, teach them how to play Kayo 👍

EMEA has VRLs and SEA teams pay their players nothing

*NA franchising, they’ll still make the APAC league

Gen.G were confirmed to have made the third phase, so they’ll probably be in the APAC league

Excel, Vitality, and Case in the same group? wtf