KR: Vision Strikers, Damwon
JP:Crazy Racoon, Northeption
SEA: Full Sense, Paper Rex, BOOM, South Built, Secret

The last slot could be: X10, Louvre, Alter Ego

Might get some hate, but I think VLT and GE are probably around the 10-12 range (hard to judge VLT without their IGL)

Although I’m not sure how great his English is, would people be happy getting solo as a coach?

Heartbreaking loss for VLT, back to back 11-13’s

On the other hand, Louvre 100% deserve to get signed

What makes this funnier is that they were literally on the same team

I believe in Xeta Supremacy

Seven Potentially Leaving 100T

Although unlikely, I hope literally any region other than NA or EU win Champions, just to see EU and NA stop arguing for two seconds

When I hit 50 ping I feel like my game is super buggy

I cant even imagine what it’s like when you are on 100 ping playing against people on 10 ping

True, ping would be a problem

Maybe Riot could do the SEA playoffs in two phases:

Phase 1: Same format as the normal SEA playoffs (Round Robin with 16 SEA teams), top two teams from each group advance

Phase 2: Combine the 8 advancing SEA teams and the top 2 SA teams (from their own circuit) for a 10 team double elimination playoff bracket, which would be on LAN

Obviously this couldn’t currently happen with Covid, but I think it could work if things lighten up in 2022

Genuine question: how many good SEA teams are there than?

JP + KR
SEA + SA
LATAM + BR

Riot should merge JP and KR into one region for the VCT 2022 and label it the 'East Asia' region
JP nearly has more T1 Korean players than KR itself at this point, with nearly every Japanese team (aside from Zeta and Reject) choosing to run their max of two Korean players

Btw, here's a list of notable Korean players already on Japanese teams:

Medusa (Crazy Racoon)
Bazzi (Crazy Racoon)
Munchkin (Crazy Racoon)
Seoldam (Northeption)
Astell (Northeption)
allow (Jadenite)
Hate (Jadenite)
TENSAI (Fennel)
Jinx (Fennel)
eKo (Reignite)
Gangpin (Sengoku)
kobra (Sengoku)
LOB (FAV)
Suggest (Rumoured)

I think creating a new East Asia region would benefit both scenes and help them grow in different ways (KR gets more viewership, JP gets better players)

Lemme know your guys' thoughts on combining the scenes

Not what I was trying to say, I think SA deserves at least slots into SEA playoffs and (if Masters/Champions is a 24 team format) a direct slot, since I do think the region still needs time to develop

What I was trying to say is that calling LATAM/KR one team regions and then SA a two team region is a bit unfair because ex-Australs and DK are probably better than GE/VLT and should be included if that's the level it takes to be noted, even if they aren't the same level as the other top team from their region

Sinatraa pioneered the Frenzy meta

^^^
Thought this was pretty much already confirmed

First team to officially get 18-0’d

Floppy should’ve transitioned to back to CS the way daps did instead of blatantly seeking attention

Tbf, if India is a 2 team region, Korea and LATAM both are like 3-4 team regions, not to mention the fact that VS and KRU are also both miles ahead of the rest of their own region

Everyone’s attacking Kappa, but no one is giving credit to Enigma for how much they have improved over the past few months :<

VS bout to use Benkai's tactic and break PTC and JohnOlsen's wrists before the match

ez VS win

At least one Brazilian team will make it out of groups

Envy also popped off

When did I say that I expected him to be an impactful player? Literally all I did was state the fact that he never was one

I never thought nor still think someone who doesn't enjoy the game would be on the same level as someone who truly is passionate

Stating the fact that he wasn't impactful doesn't automatically mean I expected him to be impactful with how little interest he had in the game

I don’t think he should be commenting on Valorant pros and the game’s skill ceiling after how little he achieved competitively

He was just straight up not an impactful player, even after getting his ping fixed

Liquid take it 2-0, but it will be closer than some may expect

When a team plays another team for a second time, the loser tends to learn more because they can actually look at what they did wrong and improve on their mistakes, while the winning team just kind of does whatever was working before for them, making it easier to adapt to (take CR vs Gambit as an example)

I’m predicting it being close both maps, as Liquid might also consider saving strats for their potential matchup with SEN

maybe try poaching players from IVY and ex-NiP?

purp0 is also an option, although he has a limited agent pool

Cloud is stuck in elo hell

As someone who watches a lot of Asian Valorant, CR are definitely better than Team Secret, maybe not Vikings, but Secret for sure

You had me at TSM

That thing about popularity actually makes sense
I remember players like Lakia were also not too happy with the conditions in the past as well

I hope the animation is cool

Let's say that you are an organizer trying to create the highest level 16-team tournament in the world, which teams do you invite?

PS: "highest level" refers to the best teams, meaning that you do not have to include every region

👍

Say you're fakeflagging, without saying that you are fakeflagging:

But who sold more cheap custom keyboards…

Turkey and Brazil have some of the most mechanically gifted players in the world

They both just get held back by their lack of tactics

An Argentinian agent could be cool, especially if they had beef with Raze

Where do you think the next agent should be from?

Current Agent Nationalities:
USA: 2
Morocco: 1
South Korea: 1
Germany: 1
United Kingdom: 1
Mexico: 1
China: 1
Australia: 1
Russia: 1
Japan: 1
Ghana: 1
Sweden: 1
France: 1
Brazil: 1
+Kayo, Omen

imo the next one should be from Turkey or India

Yeah

Lmao, I was about to reply that I wouldn't take these games too seriously when their are comps like this

I do agree that X10 aren't a top 3 SEA team though

Nah, CR are indisputably better than Team Secret atm

Secret have been getting battered in local SEA events for a while now and tbh, in their current state, I'm not even sure if they would have made top 3 in the APAC LCQ

Lmao, just realized Sebom is 0-13 in 12 rounds
feelsbadman

If only Seoldam had made Champions ;(

Not many speak English and I’m guessing very few know about the site
If there was a Japanese version of vlr though, I’m sure it’d be very popular

You’re going to jinx it >:(

VS, C9, or Liquid

Let’s go VS
Honestly a good matchup for FS though because they have experience scrimming VS
Could see this match being like the VS | PRX game

Every time Riot gotta give VS the most competitive group while making them play against the region that has the most info on them

wait till the format and bracket get revealed and then I'll decide

NA: SEN | NV | C9 | 100T | Rise
EMEA: GMB | Liquid | ACE | G2 | Giants
APAC: VS | FS | Nth | CR | DK
SA: VK | FUR | KRU | VKS | ex-AUS

(Not in order)