We have reports of technical difficulties on site, and a possible 45 minute delay (per Fayde on Twitter.) All Day 1 match schedules will be pre-emptively adjusted independently for now.

Usually they will. It is the main event, after all. A high-profile with a European team too. Little chance they'll play on the APAC shard, but we'll keep an eye.

Do you want me to put the UN flag for RRQ?

*Red Bull Home Ground

HK/TW counts as APAC

Lakia was technically still "under loan" and was still part of IGZIST. DK just resigned all four current members besides Estrella. Lakia as of today is no part of IGZIST.

Nope. Not this year. But next year, the Ascension wimner will be part of the International Leagues and has a shot to qualify for Masters or Champs

Actually DRX vs TS did during Daejeon Invitational

Lord have mercy

Because it's eventually falls down to regional vs global authority. Lots of showcase/experimental events can be done (more so) for regional games such as the SEA Games, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, so on, like you mentioned on the key points. A bit more freedom since it's more or less tied also to the culture of the region.

But for the Olympics, to consider that much of its standards are to be expected as the absolute best representing all the world, often doesn't include any new stuff (besides the 2020/21 Olympics) that might be standing against the Olympic values.

Well the current game hasn't ended yet lol

Because it's not on the Chinese twitch, it's only on Bilibili

Yeah I misread, my bad lol. It's also 1 am and I just had a lot of shit to cover.

More of a lesser of two evils.

Don't care. Twitch chat is often lost causes. We can however, try fix shit around us

They had an ID flag. Check their post history.

Yes. We do. Fuck off.

No, they had an ID flag for a while. They changed it.

Abo and Smoggy pog

No, Abo is playing for now

It's at the mercy of the government and the approval committee. We don't know.

Automatic system.

He's playing.

No, only Bilibili stream.

Ah, TOE is back.

Whos to say they're not training in the background? Stop thinking like they're not aware of that shit lmao.

There's a reason why the Indian core are using their old team name. It's practically a last run for them. I'm sure they're mitigating the time between the two players there competing and training.

If it's not you, then the others can screw off as well, lol. I'll say as long as y'all keep that attitude up, we're not tolerating it.

You can also not be an asshole about the topic. You're not being clever bringing that topic in the manner I've been seeing in VLR every time.

Most likely the former

Technically, APAC does have two slots. While I don't know the exacts for GC in particular, did you know for Champions, the East Asia LCQ and slot were originally called APAC North? APAC in 2021 has one slot, but in 2022, it was announced that APAC will be divided into two - APAC North and South. APAC-N became East Asia, and APAC-S kept its APAC designation.

While again I don't know if it is the same for GC, I assume the reasoning might be similar.

He is. On the GXR announcement, he's listed in the starting five. We can assume it's the same forward. You can watch and comb through information correctly, right?

The roster on newly made match threads are automatic based off the roster list. Usually if a team has substitute listed (like how GE is atm), the active roster will be prioritized. And with teams having 6 members, the system usually take the first five members listed on the roster.

It is not baseless. It's just the system doing its job.

Translation issues as well, if I recall. Just generally messy handling of their paperwork.

ex-Maru Gaming + CoSa tho

It's technically announced. Secret will field DubsteP, JessieVash, BORKUM, Jremy, invy, Lenne.

Will do

Comparable to Valorant's scale for now, I mean

I think it had the potential either way the matches I saw for a bit. Can't wait for Sao Paolo.

I would remind you SA LCQ happened and it was a decent banger for Val standards?

I mean he is. It's probably him acclimating to BLEED's playstyle and environment.

I like it. Definitely gives it a distinction from the traditional VCT themes, and it gives a good refresher from the arthouse, the slightly darker theme of this year's VCT.

Need to remember the distinction between the more regal, upbeat LoL themes (although Ignite, Star Walkin', and Take Over did break the mold) and Valorant's grittier, club, electric music tones.

In Liquipedia, it is by both Shao and SUYGETSU's own request. NAVI has elected to not include their nationalities either. We felt right to follow suit. Don't make this uglier than it needs to be.

Consider that EDG's current core is a year old+ at this point, compared to RRQ or Talon's (even though 4/6 were in the same team, the dynamics changed.) I know a meme's a meme, but hey.

No, coach is probably speccing. Like how Ewok is in the game too.

Host is in India, but this is a Pacific offseason event. Need to consider that we are looking at a Pacific-wide engagement for each tourney that is involved. There might be subregional biases, but we're not in the old 2022 system anymore. We're looking at a preview for 2023.

Masters Copenhagen, BME Superdome, GXR India Invitational, Valorant League MENA Playoffs, GC Championship, South America LCQ, that one VRL France regular season match between KCORP and Vitality, the various RAGE tournaments in Japan, Daejeon Valorant Invitational, Valorant Challengers Korea, pretty sure most Valorant Regional League local finals were LANs with crowd, Valorant League DACH Unity Evolution Playoffs

LETS GOOOOO

Yep! I literally mention it in my post:

If anything, we still have the reputation of being a good region. It also factors in that between you and the general populous, tier 2 Indonesian teams don't get that much exposure (something that I WANT TO CHANGE HERE IN VLR)

and I am well aware of my shortcomings. It's just sometimes I'm either too busy or I have not enough solid information about a tournament. So if you have suggestion please, please send it to my DMs

I don't think it matters as much. Like yeah, noxxy's incident is probably the catalyst of probably every other inter-regional tournament thinking twice about sending/inviting Indo teams but like, BOOM got invited to GXR LAN. If anything, we still have the reputation of being a good region. It also factors in that between you and the general populous, tier 2 Indonesian teams don't get that much exposure (something that I WANT TO CHANGE HERE IN VLR), and for the casual watchers, most of our reps are either BTR (who are in a rebuilding phase), AE (yknow), ONIC (ded), and BOOM having the largest clout. I think with teams like, ARF, DEWA, Hike, and others slowly getting better, we'll get more invites.

Put some respect on these players goddamnit they're not no namers.

That's a Singaporean team.