I feel like this concept of "joining regions" just like it is on EMEA very entertaining. So it should actually be encouraged. It would be a ton of fun if they had the "EMEA playoff" format, but for America to determine the best team of the continent or perhaps for China + Korea + Japan. To maintain the representativeness from all regions they should give the best team of the region a direct slot and make the others fight in a continental tournament.

They should have defined slots for masters + LCQs but for Champions they should create a new point system on Masters where they reward the regions which have been placing better giving them more slots with a minimum of 1 slot per region. So if NA teams, for example, manages to consistently place high at Masters, this should give points for the region, consequently, leading to proportionally to their performance more slots at Champions.

From north and northeast, do you get a better ping with LATAM ?

Riot rule is that you need to have at least 3 players of a team from the respective region. So NA region, for example, we could see 3 NA players + 2 foreigner

Personally, I don't know what to expect from 100T. They could go out last or win the whole tournament. My problem with them is I feel that they aren't as eager to win as other teams, but still are the most experienced team by far and have an excellent pool of talent.

The problem with Jett is that she gets far more value than any other agent and the counterplay currently available in the game is not worth doing. Her dash, for me, is what makes her OP. If they limit the dash to do only where she is aiming, I think she would be balance

I feel the same way with VKS because after Iceland they changed the agents of every team member and it didn't pay off even returning to play the same as pre-iceland, but it was too late. If VKS and Fnatic managed to have the same essence but improving in some smaller points, I feel like they would qualify

I feel like this was due for a while because the team seemed like they were playing ranked and they had so many roster changes in a year

mb you were actually right

WTF is that group A, so stacked

Man, it was literally the first international event of Valorant, give BR more time. Besides this, BR probably has the worst roster assembling from all regions due to having the top 10 players in like 7 different teams.

I used to think the same thing as you but after watching him playing more games I've realized that he actually has an amazing aim disciple. He knows when he needs to hit hs to kill or when is better to simply spray or burst. Is not a flashy style, but is surely more effective because you have less room for error

I wouldn't put HL behind VK. HL lost only the seeding match and they qualified to Berlin in a dominant way while VK had a hard battle with almost all teams in the lower bracket while getting their ass kicked on the first series.

Yeah, I felt that all major EU teams played in the same way and similar level previous to Iceland, which is evidenced by how TR and CIS performed comparing to masters 2. While NA improved heavily strat-wise and their teams with the biggest potential like 100T, Envy and even TSM made a good restructure after "choking" on previous qualifiers. I predict that NA will come better than Iceland and at least one of the EMEA teams will get an upset against a "minor" region

After watching the challengers final I felt that NA is much ahead of the other regions. They have the best fundamentals by far. Tbh I'm disappointed with EU, they evolved so little comparing other regions.

I find it very hard to beat VS, but F4Q I feel its feasible

Yeah, not having a superteam is Brazil's biggest problem. The top 10 BR players are split in like 4/5 teams

Indeed, but it's not enough yet. If HL or VK manages to qualify for the playoff its already a very good result for me

Maybe at Champions, if we have some roster moves or next year we can be a contender

The problem with Soulcas is that he only plays well Skye from all initiators. What will happen if she gets nerfed ?? That's why I would prefer to make Jamppi take this role. Also, Jamppi entry skills are far too inconsistent while his mid-round/late-round decisions are quite good. So if he plays a more passive role he would be better off. About Kryptix, he might be on a bad phase, so i would wait a little bit more

Just out of curiosity, which teams will you be supporting in Berlin?

I feel like this team can succeed, they just need some changes role-wise
1- Make Scream a dedicated entry, so he needs to play more duelists
2- make Soulcas more a trader/flex/second entry
3- Make Jamppi more a supportive role using initiators
4- Feel like link and Kryptix are doing their optimal role

I feel like they need to take a step back and restructure their team because they have like 5 players from the top 10/15 BR but they arent in theirs most optimal role/agent just like QCK

VKS was definitely the best team in Brazil when they went to Iceland

How is KRU playing right now ?? Are they playing much better than in Iceland or kind of the same ??

I prefer single elimination if there's any sort of seeding matches prior like a group stage or use swiss format

Honestly, I feel like NA will be the dominant region for a while, at least for 2/3 years because is the most skilled region and has a good understanding of the fundamentals of the game, which is arguably the hardest part of Valorant.

Yeah, people took the Iceland results as something almost definitive. However, if Riot continues making a good amount of international tournaments the tendency is to decrease the gap between regions because catching up is easier to do than staying on top

but if EMEA wins masters 3 wouldn't now have an extra spot directly for champions, so, consequentially, freeing a spot on LCQ ?? This would give an opportunity to an extra team, as far as I'm concern

I personally see this as a good thing because GL playstyle is heavily based on skill diffing the other team and this style of play is not reliable when playing international events. Them being disqualified shows that the Brazilian scene has evolved greatly after Iceland. Nowadays is not possible to win tournaments in Brazil only by being individually better. I feel like now we are on the right path and perhaps by the time of masters 2 of next year we can be a contender

but what if an EMEA team end up winning masters 3 ?? do you know what would be possibilities??

About TR/EU and JPN/KR, I can't say much, but for BR/LATAM there are some reasons for this split.

1. LATAM and BR are servers of their own
2. Ping wise is almost impossible to play with the whole LATAM when in Brazil. Depending on where you live you can have a decent ping, but that's very situational
3. We speak a different language
4. Conservatively speaking, BR is at least as big as the rest of Latin American countries gaming-wise. We are the third biggest gaming market
5. BR is vastly different from LATAM cultural wise

Joining the regions would be as absurd as not having NA and instead having "America" or joining CIS and EU

This would be the best take for me. I find it strange that the "minor" international tournament( Masters) would have the same amount of teams that the Champions

I agree with basically all the changes besides uniting LATAM with BR because Brazil is a server of their own and we have many differences. This way you ended up committing the same mistake as Riot where they put TR+CIS+EU in the same bag. Also, I didn't understand why NA should have 3 slots instead of 2 like EU. So I would take a slot from NA and give it to BR/LATAM so each region gets represented properly. Another idea is to join the LCQ from NA with the LCQ of South America , though I haven't put much thought on that

I feel that's the problem with the current VCT format. The qualification, which is the goal of every team, is given to teams before the end of the bracket. So the semifinals and finals, which normally are the most exciting part, are worse than the previous stages.

Next year, Riot should instead make at least three independent challengers stages for where the top teams earn points to qualify for Masters. Just like qualifying to Champions, but now to masters. This would make the finals matches of the tournament with more at stake.

Honestly, I feel like all smaller regions that have a VTC are being well supported by Riot. Actually, maybe even too strongly if you compare that South America will have the same amount of spots as EMEA and some Asian regions, which didn't perform well in Iceland, have two spots

Riot is signalling that they enjoy having multiple international tournaments in a year with the current VCT format. However, when Valorant becomes a franchise, that in my opinion is just a matter of time due to the franchise model being better money-wise than others in the market, maybe the teams will pressure Riot to have a more stable calendar in order to become more profitable. If this happens, one of the Riot actions could be reforming VCT to have more regional matches because those types of matches are cheaper and take less time, similarly to how soccer is managed nowadays.

Basically, every region has its own league, usually franchised, divided into two splits. The top teams from every region qualify for an international tournament. So, the teams that qualified in the first Split plays on MSI, while those who qualified in the second split play on Worlds. The biggest problem with this format is that because the international stage is much shorter than the regional one, with time, the gap between regions only grows since "worse" regions rarely train/compete with better ones. This situation leads to the almost hegemonical power of the Chinese and Korean, while no team outside those regions can compete with teams within them. To sum it up, this over regionalization leads to an uneven balance of power between regions.

I hope so. My only worry is them doing the same format of LOL to Valorant, because I feel that LOL has fewer international tournaments than it should have, which lead to a bigger gap between regions.

so, for now, Fnatic, TL, Acend and Gambit are 100% in for Last Chance?

Valorant community overhype or underhype almost everything. I guess it's because of how recent the game is, so we don't have a big track record as CSGO for example.

That's the problem when you have a competitive scene where it's not franchised like OWL or LOL. The top teams are on an excellent stop while the bottom ones are suffering heavily. However, won't these teams be able to compete at Last chance ??

My logical side says that they won't qualify because Acend, G2, FPX, Gambit are better than them and Giants their equal. However, I got a feeling that they will pop off on the right moments

I think I'm not making myself very clear. Due to the fact that Masters 1 was essentially challengers finals and masters 2 and 3 will be a truly international event, the points of the circuit was distributed in an uneven scenario. The teams which played nicely at masters 1, had, proportionally speaking, a smaller gap than the teams which placed as good as them, but on masters 2. This made that the teams from top regions that didn't make the cut to masters received a lower amount of circuits points than they should have in comparison with the standards put on masters 1, making the competition for champions slots not fair.

For EMEA, this scenario lead to teams from "lesser regions", receiving more points proportionally. So they should give champions slots for every region of EMEA

About Champions Slots, I don't understand why the hell Brazil + Latin America have more slots than EMEA and Brazil having more slots than Korea, it should be at least equal.

I actually think the opposite, that being Riot should only give points on challengers finals at least this year, due to masters 1 being regional. To explain it better, let's assume that when Iceland occurred the top 3 teams were from NA. The amount of circuits points earned would be 400 to top 1, 350 to top 2 and 50 to top 3 instead of 300 because the third team couldn't compete in Iceland, so they got fewer points than they should. This leads to the top teams that played masters 2, especially from EU and NA, to have a disproportional amount of points. For EMEA, they should give a spot for every region that had a masters 1.

It's just like how Scream has said "Sentinels is a predictable team". However, their execution and game plan are amazing. They have an answer for everything that the opposing team throws at them.

nice rank, but what definition of tier you use? because if you think that a tier is a group of teams that can beat each other I disagree with this list, though I liked all teams placements

For me, the "overhyped teams" are the consequence of the fast growth experienced by the NA scene. Due to this fast growth, the big names of NA like Hiko were given a big credit when the scene was too young. However, the "true" big names aren't people who necessarily were good in the beginning. Devilwalk, for example, won the first major, but, after that, he never achieved very much. This lead to people creates too big of expectations from players that don't have the skills to match this. If you think about the ten teams that qualified to Masters 2, only TL and SEN had their core roster together since last year.

That didn't age pretty well

I can think of two reasons why you are in this situation. First, you got tilted because the constantly losing, so I would recommend taking a time of Valorant. Second, your game sense isn't good enough to carry yourself until Gold, but enough for you to maintain the Rank. So, when you had a losing streak, you didn't have the skills to come back to Gold. In this case, I feel like you should focus on other aspects of the game besides aim because you already work more on your mechanics than most low Elo players, so your game sense should be the think holding you back.