Did they sell them to keep competing?

Would a system where they have 12 partner be better?
(Cups and open qual from what I understand is for 12 teams competing so....)
6 - FULL partners who sit in CUPS Full support
6 - Tier 2 partner with skin bundles no direct funding support Sits prepared in Open Quals.

This would allow top team of each region to be there for big tournaments.

At the same time this would allow tier 2 partners org who have big fan following have good representation for fans to support.
Tier 2 partners earn money incentives outside skins with winning quals and would allow bridge the massive gap between partner and non partner orgs.

So as far as tournaments go-
6 partners are in open qual - Then 6 dream teams comes to compete with them

The 6 best of these 2 can then go to the CUP to battle against FULL partners.

This part I have not figured out...
IK currently after kickoff partners will also start from open qual

So maybe the FULL partners that do worse than the open qual teams need to go to qual next maximum of 2?.

Partner teams were allowed to keep their roasters if no one left.

So I think the viral tweet about NA having only 4 orgs who will have insane budgets now to form top roaster compared to lot of other teams.

Maybe riot could have had 2 tier partner system 6 teams in the cups waiting
Then 6 teams who have spots locked in when it comes to open qualifiers. (maybe they don't get the funding support but atleast ingame skin funding)

Still have lot of teams specially regions like korea they do have talents to fill out 4-5 roasters so having 1 teir 1 partner and 2 teir 2 partner would have been good.
Japanese fans getting 1 team team in tier 1 being the heavy hitter. then 1-2 tier 2 partner team from qualifier.

It would keep more stable team fanbases and would have allowed more teams to be represented and allow riot to still give regions representation but if they are bad then ye climb to a cup and we will see.

You forget the fact that sea and japan need to qualify against prx and korean powerhouses.

China gets free slots to potentially have one team make a magical run. In a year that's 9 tries.

I mean you literally eliminated 6 teams from 10 do that for any other VCT league you will end up same.

Both org fkd their countries over.

Strong teams like NS can literally pay their player salary by clearing out the cups.(ik there is lot more costs than just player salaries)

Maybe...Well ge got a chance so why not VN but PH atleast deserved something.

Ye but has orgs that supported Valo Gam has not even done a proper roaster for t2. Has like 2 players both bottom of the league and bad reputations overall.
vs PH good players Good fanbase and lot of small but aspiring orgs that have invested in valo.

No indian ok still understandable but VN over PH is crazy work from riot.

I would be ok if it was PH but fking VN got a team is crazy to say the least.

Not SA but ph deserved a slot L riot for this

There is other teams will go through trash online tournaments that for lot of region would also mean ping difference and cheaters here and there considering Vangaurd cheats have increased.

After online tournments go to open qualifiers before reaching the CUPs where partner teams already are waiting. Lot of teams strats are out there for everyone to see. Lot of teams might be tired. Lot of team after just competing in one tournament in their own country then maybe a open qualifier in some other country then cup in other country is lot of travel and financial stress that eats into teams prep time.

best team? Optic. Best run Loud.

2025 whine was pretty much everywhere cause of over shift on abilities and tejo.
And vct constantly hosting subpar lvl of tournament literally showed up this champs that VCT is horrible and inconsistent in hosting them.

Its more like the the first neon nerf targeted a certain part of neon kit that other neons were good with. The neon kit where you are annoying ppl and being untradable still remain and tkzin and spikezin were better in that aspect

Let the man go man lol he has quit vct let him leave with his glory he earned

Did you and I read the same top post?

Will G2 post the same thing unless they are defeated you can't be champions
Will drx b4 this year post the same thing unless a team defeats them they can't be champions
Was Fanatic making post like this that unless they are defeated no one can be champions

You are talking about teams that always reach internationals so ofc they have to be defeated to win. That doesn't magically make them 2nd best or best in the world.

Its a team at the given duration of the tournament on the day of the match that shows up is the best. nothing more nothing less.

not a tenz fan but you bothering to fight against his ghosts shows something

Ye and you guys keep asking for more hate is the real clown behaviour in all of clown behaviours.

Difference between unlucky and shit. Tho i would argue the game could have been closer if the summit rollback not happening resulted in vit victory. Changing the map pool in finals.
But seeing the performance today i would say loud would still be 60/40 chances of win.

There will be SA ppl rn who will say Americas is one. Some who will say Its all SA.

Same will happen when NA wins some will say Americas is one. Some will say its all NA saving Americas.

I am just saying anyone making this arguement makes me laugh.

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not saying "everyone" does this but its still funny some ppl have thick enough skins to do it. And you can easily find SA ppl currently doing this as well all over twitter.

Ye lot of ppl using Aspas keeping SA alive till last year as well. So glazing one player isn't exactly pro SA.

I am double hate watching don't want loud to win but also don't want EMEA to break their trophy drought (I love all gambit players but.....) .

Its funny cause I have seen NA ppl who try to say SA didn't win anything last year now cope that NA SA is same same.
Same I have seen some SA ppl last year argue SA and NA are Americas now say Its all SA.

I am not saying you are one of them but its just funny seeing this whole argument happening.

Time to let forsaken go and
(the old goat) davai (would have have said keep him if he is taking the igl role but he doesn't and overall better for org to find a young talent to perform in future as well

Prx need to let go of atleast 2 ppl to get one player with firepower and one more igl cause it worked without dedicated igl till now but new iteration might not.

droping invy is also good tbh.

but then losing 3 players would essentially be a full rebuild jingg and something are not players who form a core they are front runners

I think low chances of region switch. If riot let GE stay partner large part of it would be to retain Indian interest in Valorant more than other things. The org doesn't have its own fanbase(INT) just gets Indian fan base and fanbase of the players they recruit. Other than those things GE is not nearly as notable as a org if you consider international compitition. If they actually had a deep run in champs then it might have been possible or if they only change like 1 player in current roaster they can save themselves while changing region cause the current roaster has decent fans as a whole.

https://x.com/erdeatovich/status/2106706812355727822

Well got my reason to watch champions to hate watch shit brazilian.

come back on finals and semi final 5 map bangers

NA is strong. brazil fell apart as soon as aspas getting tossed around for money.

This game is so fast and fun compared to snooze fest MEMEA gave

Kind of diabolical you would complain when its a double duelist meta. And chamber being a psuedo duelist being picked on so many maps

same vitality lucky frauds

Its just brazil crowd is too passionate little glimmer of hope and they will go wild. But I can see the hype the triple peeks that platoon and other valo esport creator marked as a big thing for old loud is there. The players are young so can go for 2-3 yr with a few good roaster moved.

2 different ppl from same country omg why are they not clones of each other

This is the curse season.. Shanghai CN curse done, Liquid 1-2 curse checked, next is G2 playoff 0-2 curse.

Lol they discontinued the national league this year. Lot of clubs closing down. That should tell you everything...we don't even have a stable grassroot level system yet.

Liquid need a firepower upgrade

purpo trash either way so whatever

IDK about their ceiling as they always flop at international but I think their floor looks higher than it actually is. When they crash in a match they crash hard.

I think that performance and struggle against JDG made everyone give up the hope

Didn't KC just win EMEA they should also be in form and hot team.

Whole KC was shit in stage one what are you talking about

1 player region

SO FUN seeing MEMEA getting loud in group stage be silent rest of tournament

MEMEA getting humbled after they get loud in group stage calling others shit

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lol what see the Indian org playing in Indian qualifiers lot of them have 1 or 2 young talents from lot of other countries if you are talking about certain countries then no they won't get chance due to bad relations.

its just what g2 does g2 things