Just post and shit. I made like 20+ posts in a week and it shot me up from 1 star to 4.

That's gotta just be an American moment.

Incorrect:

They were a French dish, but they became popular because of a 1800s Belgian chef who brought the recipeback to Belgium. When the Americans came to Belgium, they called it French fries because Belgian's speak French and the American probably didn't realize they were in a different country.

Current status : Trusting

French fries were actually popularized by the Belgian's, and were discovered by America during one of the world wars while American troops were in Belgium.

Basically scream is French Fries.

I haven't heard shit about them, no leaks or nothing. Are they really keeping their roster? If they do, they're the worst NA team. Maybe they pick up some faze/gaurd players? That's really all that's left with Sen probobly picking up some of the xset core, and potentially Marved. Wtf are EG doing fr.

It'll always be nAts as an import. Joke answers, haha, but if Sen decided to import a top 3 player from a different region, and put together 4 great other NA players... that'd be huge. Nats, to be fair, has amazing English. He'd have no comm problems. I forget if he said he was open to large relocation, but regardless he will have to relocate for like 7 months of the year. But, getting a Russian individual an American visa right now? The criticism that comes with being in a region with SO much talent, and still importing? It'd be a hard choice for Sen, but I think it's a decently worthwhile one. Having two players who, at one point in their careers, were called the best players in the world? That's a Sentinals move.

Ig he just doesn't cover enough as a 6th.

ATM, there isn't a #1 controller in the world. There is a top tier, but not a #1. Marved is top tier for sure, but still, dropping a tier 2 controller is such a souk crushing thing for Bang.

Like, he's the second best controller NA in my opinion. He's clutch and he can frag out consistently. Nobody I'd really talking about him, but Ant org who doesn't get marved has gotta call this man frame 1.

Edit: I should say, I have him over Bang.
Bang playing good > Supamen playing good
Bang playing great < Supamen playing great.

Supa's peak is just over bang's peak imo.

Getting rid of bang is so rude. Bro is a top 3 controller NA and your going to send him off? Damn. At least will ain't a top 5 duelist na, but Bang is easily top 3 controller.

Tenz
Dapr
FNS
Marved
BCJ

Chet as HC
Zombs as head of international communication.

I never thought anything would bring FNS into Sen, but if there was anything, it'd be Chet. Plus he could have the closest thing available to Yay.

He's quite literally still a top 5, maybe even a debatable top 3, player in NA. I think he and Dapr at the very least will stay on Sen. Basically every game in the last year, it was either Tenz or Dapr playing the best on the team. It was really not close.

I think, from just looking, people are REALLY over looking how much require a sixth man does for North America specifically. With my time watching Valorant since ~~M3 Berlin, I can only remember 2 good 6 man teams, both are Asian squads : Vision strikers (DRX) and Team secret. I think that these two teams highlight how much a 6th man can do, and that is being a Massive one-trick. See, this was viable in Asia where there are many more acquirable players than teams, while NA has always been super condensed. Like, if you wanted to replace someone, you either had to grab unrefined talent (Bang for example) or an established T2 hopeful (kanpeki for example). At a certain point, getting a good or solid replacement wasn't viable, let along a good 6th man to change up a match.

Now, we have 30 roster slots minimum. Each team will require a 6th man. NA also has a MASSIVE surplus of players to pick for a 6th man. So what is my personal take on the impact of a 6th man? There are three main types, in my opinion: Holding, Covering, and Specializing.

Holding is getting a good player with the idea to train them into the main roster, at some point. Covering is for a lot of diverse players that are good at multiple roles, they're more to replace someone if they are sick or don't perform. Here's my favourite role though, specializing. A Specialized 6th man is what VS and TS had back in the day with Kingg and Jermey. Jermey was an insane aimer, and he came in to run double duelist (if I remember correctly). Later in TS's time, he'd role into Chamber or Jett (and I think a Reyna one time). Kingg was another type of specialist. He and Buzz would switch for double duelist to leaving RB on duelist and having a dedicated Sentinal. Specialized players are one tricks that can role into a map and change the teams whole style. I don't think we've had this in NA, not in the kasr year for sure, but this role can give a lot of individuals who may be a liability a shit to excel. This will be huge for sentinal one tricks, who would be great on Holding a site on Haven or Ascent, but not as effective on Breeze. Or maybe you pick up a cracked Jett, but they can't play raze. Just get a Raze AND a Jett main, problem solved.

Do I think doing this with a 6th man will be popular? Fuck no, not as long as Chamber can fill the sentinal role. Until defensive op-ers are more comfortable back on Jett, a 6th man will be much less popular. BUT if sentinals gain strength as a role, having a player who can excel on that role and focus on holding a site on 1 or 2 maps will have major value. I think most 6th men will be the covering type. Guys like Sick who can play 3 seperate roles at a high efficiency will get a lot of extra value because of this.

Tl ; Dr : Specialized 6th men in NA? Maybe, hopefully, but probably not. Sadge.

Curveball: He goes wherever Chet does.

I mean just grab up eeiu or Trent, whichever is cheaper. Both are probably the best available info initiators, since Crashies is only going with Victor and Derrek is already signed with 100T. Or BCJ, forgot about him.

I say eeiu because I forgot nrg made franchising lol. Plus, nrg or Eg will pick up crashes and vic, the other would probably grab BCJ or Eeiu if nrg grab crashes and vic.

So with the leaks, NA has 4/5 teams confirmed, and 1 heavily suspected. Each currently has a roster. Those are, if course:

Hundreds of Thieves
Stormy nine
No Red Gators
T1 (no jokes, they're Korean)
And the team that gets actual domestic viewership

So, in short, 4/5 of the top rosters from North America in 2022 have no home. At this point, I do not see 100T flipping their roster. They are the only org that I think will stay the same from top to bottom. Now, the other four. Two are fallen hero's of NA. One is a historic organization of Korea and Riot competition. NRG is there two.

I do not know what NRG will do. If they drop the whole squad, I wouldn't be surprised. If they stay the exact same, I wouldn't be surprised. They are the odd ball of teams fr.

I'd like to first say a few things. Mainly, This year won't be the F/A rush everyone expects. Optic won't release their roster, faze might not, gaurd might not. There are two huge overlooks in this whole situation.
1) there will be a regional league in NA that will promote a squad to the main league. Some teams won't release the roster, and only accept buyouts, like Optic might.
2) I have a question if how long will the America's league last?. Just think, NA has the most consistent and highest Valorant viewship. We all know that an NA league would work. And, from what I've seen, Brazil has gotten behind Loud. Maybe, in 2-3 years, the America's will split into NA and SA. If Val can become the next BIG esport, it will allow more region breakdown. How soon will this come? Idk, LoL started with I think 4 league by 2014? Now they at like 10, with over at least 70 teams.

So, my expectation, is buyout prices will be dropped for players that tell their org that they won't play regional. Then next year, we will see more roster drops an exits from bugger teams that don't get the One franchise position from regional. There are 4 levels:
1 - Franchisers
2 - Regional powers (OpTic, XSET, Gaurd, Faze)
3 - Regional presents (V1, EG, ghost, TSM)
4 - Tier 2's

Tier 2's are the emergency options, Region presents are the big sellers (Corey, Zellsis, Zander, Nismo, etc.), the Regional powers will require a pretty penny to aquire a single player, and will probably be set on trying for the 11th spot.

That's my take. T1, C9, and Sen will all need pieces but C9 still has a good core, sentinals still have Dapr and Tenz, and T1 is a bug org idk what they'll do. Maybe Sen will reinvest in Zellsis and Zander since it seems V1 isn't a franchising team.

No matter which team wins champs, it'll be good for the game going forward.

Loud: Having a Brazilian team be the reigning champions GOING into brazil for a Lan would be cool, but it'll probably bring more fans into the ecosystem.

OpTic: It'd crown them as the GOATS of early Valorant esport's. 3rd place, second place, and two first place appearances over 5 lans. It would be nice to end this first chapter of Valorant with a clear goat of this period.

Korea: I want DRX to win so bad. No because they deserve it. Not because they'll be the first Asian team to win. Simply because maybe, JUST MAYBE, if Korea wins a title that they'll get actual viewership. They literally averaged 35k total viewers during stage 1 and 2. They need viewers.

This is short and sweet. KJ and Cypher need buffs. Not just to contend with the French man, but just to be viable charecters. Even sage is better than KJ and Cypher at holding down a site in this meta. So quick changes with a few things in mind : I'm making KJ and Cypher lurkers and site holders. I'm making Chamber more of a flex pick, like sage.

Cypher:

• Cage has a slight slow effect
• Cages can be fully seen through by Cypher camera's (they're kinda transparent
• Cypher trips can catch multiple people, do 20 damage when they explode, and 5 if you activate the trip (only first person to)
• Cypher Ult rework. Ult activates and reveals locations, Spike holder, and trap locations of other team. Other teams traps remain visible / on the map the remainder of the round.
• Cypher ult also pops twice. Once when used, and then a second time 3 seconds after the first. By pressing the ult button again after the first scan, you can speed up the second scan.

Tl ; Dr - Cypher cages do shit other than being for one ways. Tripwires are more useful. Ult isn't absolute trash.

Killjoy :

• Alarm bot and Turret have a larger range.
• Alarm bot is faster.
• Killjoy has two alarmbots, but can only have 1 active at a time. (5 second cooldown on switching active)
• Killjoy can set off alarmbots on their own and control them like a mini-remote prowler.
• Any teammate within a Killjoy ultimate cannot be suppressed or vulnerable.

Killjoy us hard to buff man. Making remote prowlers is so she can be more self sustainable and help the team more in a postplant. Like, she can have an active bot flank and then an extra bot tree, then clear or vulnerable tree when they get stressed in a postplant. Idk, I don't play Killjoy.

Chamber:
I want you to hear me out.
2 trip
1 trip
No trip.

• Trademark (trap) is replaced with Trademark, a mock heal. It's a 50 shield heal that can be applied on anyone who bought shield THAT ROUND. It's 300$. That includes anyone who bought light shields.

Makes Chamber a flex pick rather than a full sentinal, he loses his safety. It makes a divide in "what is a sentinal?". Fundamentally, it's someone who can hold a site. That's the whole kit of Cypher and KJ and just a Wall and a TP for repositioning for Chamber. I think it's the best place Chamber can be, to also have a meta with KJ and Cypher.

That's a great idea

Wow, apparently liquid are God's because OpTic are are up 1 round rn on bind.

ITS NOT LIKE BIND IS ONE OF THE MOST DEFENSIVE SIDED FUCKING MAPS IN THE GAME. ITS NOT LIKE OPTIC WENT 10-2 VS BOOM ON DEFENSE, NO THIS IS SUPER CLOSE GUYS OPTIC GONNA LOSE GUESS THEIR WASHED SCREAMS A GOD
AÀAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

That was a good attack side for Optic.
That was good.
OpTic are absolutely terrible on Breeze, somewhat because they always start attack while being one of the best defensive teams in the world.

We either have :
5 N+S America
2 EMEA
1 Asian

Or

4 N + S America
3 EMEA
1 Asian

For the team spread. Just whether 100T show up vs Fnatic. Kru vs FPX is 100% a done deal I'll see FPX back in the finals once they get their shit together a little more.

Just think, EMEA had to ALL get lower bracket spots. All of them lost to North or South American teams, not even either of the two best North and South American teams. And all those north and south American teams are going to be fighting for a proboble 4 fucking slots after franchising. That's crazy. Asia barely fills their top 4, EMEA will at least have some competition with teams 1-5/6.

If Brazil just had some fucking viewers, then we'd have 4 large regions. Sadly not.

Short and sweet. In 2023 there will be 3 seperate Valorant leagues which will most likely sent 4 teams each (for 12 teams) to an international setting. Where is the problem?

(These next discussions most retain to rosters rather than the team I mention, pure convince.)

Asia - Asia got the duty of sending 6 whole squads to masters : Drx, Prx, Edward Gaming, Zeta Division, Boom, and Xerxia. At this point, a maximum of 3 Asian teams will make top 8 with Prx and Zeta fighting in the lower bracket while Drx has already gotten a spot. Edward, Boom, and Xerxia all went winless.

EMEA - EMEA got to send a measly 3 teams to Champs, Fpx, Fnatic, and Liquid. All 3 are in the lower bracket, so they can still ALL make it into playoffs.

That's the background info, here's my problem.

The America's - NA, Brazil, and LATAM got the duty (as a group) to send 7 whole teams. That's OpTic, XSET, 100T, Loud, Furia, Levi, and Kru.

Furia went 0-2.
There are 3 teams in the lowers (100T, Loud, and Kru)
There are 3 teams who claimed top seed (OpTic, XSET, Levi)

All three of these regions will be forming 10 team leagues after Champs. Having a clear top 3 is nice from Asia, EMEA is of course deeper rosterwise with former Gambit being free agents to plug into already good teams.

The America's already have 6 teams competing for those (suspected) 4 slots. Of course all those teams won't make franchising, but their rosters sure as hell will. I don't care how these next games go in the lowers, or really who wins Champs for this argument. Converting half your teams as a top seed, and potentially having a whole 6 teams? if all 6 make it, we'd only see 1 emea team or 2 asian rosters vs the America's.

If Brazil just got a little more views then there would have been 4 leagues. Maybe one day.

Edit: Yeah, this is a short post from me.

Sentinels are already the biggest team in Valorant, so grabbing the biggest individual as well makes sense.

Group A is balenced with a clear favourite in PRX, a secondary option in Leviathan, and two teams with great upset potential with liquid (who always fizzle out in playoffs) and Edward Gaming (who are a top tier fracture team and may be able to pull more maps)

BTW by top tier fracture team, I mean against all of East Asia they dropped 10 rounds total (3, 3, 4) on Fracture.

Group B is WILD. Top seed NA, top seed Brazil, top seed Japan and boom is there I guess. OpTic and Loud SHOULD get out, but I can see a Zeta comeback if they play at their peak. Reminder that Zeta have a sub for Champs, since tenn took a break (I'm pretty sure on that). Boom is there I guess.

Group C is a thing? FPX, Kru, Xset, and Xerxia. I do not know how to feel about this one. FPX clearly dogs the whole group and makes it to playoffs without a map drop. But the other 3? It's a weird situation imo. I believe Kru, Xset, and Xerxia are decent teams all around the same level. Those games will probably be very entertaining, not because the teams are the best of the best, but that they are all close in skill.

I hate Group D so much. DRX and Fnatic are the high seeds against furia and 100T. This 100T roster is young and (other than asuna and coaches) has no lan experience. Furia is the worst team in Champs. Drx gets another east run into playoffs along with Fnatic. Fnatic probably take top seed, as long as none of them gets covid this time.

So, A is a very well built group, B is fucking stacked, C is odd but will be fun to watch, and D is a blowout group. All my opinion. I have big EDG hopes cause of how damn good their fracture is.

My best games of Groups :

Loud vs OpTic (bro it's Loud vs OpTic)
PRX vs EDG (EDG plays the most similar to PRX out of any team)
XSET vs Xerxia (I think this will be a 3 map absolutely BRUTAL fight, I'm ready)

Final note : It's funny that OpTic flew to Poland to boot camp, just to face no EMEA in groups but instead just face Loud again.

Fair

Team Vietnam, aka Rise, finally have a representative in an International Tournament.

From getting second in the last LCQ.
Beating Optic.
And Disbanding into FaZe, 100T, and whatever ANDBOX became.

Rise Nation has Derrek at Champions.

He's always been a hottie in that case.

I didn't even see LOUD holy shit that's based AF

3 of top 4 EMEA too? Damn, no opinion.

If OpTic get's over their fear of EU teams (AKA FNS gets a read on Ange1) then they are the only team that can beat FPX. Only team that can control the pace while having a great defense to back it. Plus FNS will be the first IGL to say "Stop fucking pushing them" unlike any other team.

Tl ; Dr - Yay on Yoru solo's your whole region while using his big toes to play

I better be able to stop phoenix abilities with the water.

Imagine those lasting longer and being at a better strategic position, not sectioning off a small area so you can go brrrrrrr

You gotta be in my walls, that's my entire life story.

Simply, I hope it's a Wall Oriented Controller, with more aggressive options

Basically a version of Viper meant for a more aggressive approach like Omen. I think it'd be great to introduce a real alternative to Viper on maps like Breeze and Icebox. I'm also hoping that it's more a settable wall like Astra, but not nearly as long, just a normal wall (~45-60m). Keep Viper there as a great lurker, but add in an aggressive alternative so we can continue to see variance in play and keeping different playstyles engaged.

Also, I'm so excited for the Chamber nerf in the competitive scene so we can all see the Yay Yoru.

I have no builds for a character. Might make one though.

I can rule that one out, I have shit aim.

I'm excited for any non-EALCQ watchers to rank them in a 13-16 spot when they have a truly top tier Fracture, and can make top 8 depending on the seeding.

I seriously wouldn't be surprised if they take at least a map off a high tier team. Through LCQ they proved they were absolutely lethal on Fracture, so against any non-fracture god, Edg could take that at least. Depending on their seeding, I'd put them in top 8. Of course, we can't truly know until Champs.

Idk man, I am two trying to figure that out.

I'm a common VLR shitter who only posts 2-5 paragraph messes of information, hard facts, and personal opinions on a large variance of topics. I'm just bored as shit at 3 am.

I figured China would be good, but I didn't do enough research to check if they were good. I'm all for China being crazy at Val. That's a large demographic of viewers that Val can get if it becomes big. Like, it's the third biggest viewed LoL league. I'm all for viewership.

Best match of East Asia LCQ finna happen

If big Ed wins, like, WINS against NTH I'd be surprised, same if NTH did it.

I'd expect within a 2-5 round different max.

But seriously id Ed slaps NTH then they should be put in the top 8 at champs.

I have no stakes in either team except I like Meteor he's chill, but I'm for the game. I hope everyone has a pleasurable viewing experience.

I'm all for clowning G2 fans, but Korea is quite literally the worst region at this point bro.

honestly fair

That's why I put a tldr for anyone who didn't want to read my word vomit

Tl ; Dr - I think Riot is scared due to Europe and Korea (biggest LoL viewers) having significantly lower views in Valorant. Due to this they have significantly less leagues (3 rather than 12) with significantly less total teams (30 rather than 117). Meanwhile NA and Japan have become big hits for Valorant, and because of this the America's league and Asian League have a large amount of both teams to bring in the views and spread fans. NA, Japan, and Turkey are the cornerstone of views in their regions while Europe, Korea, and Brazil will be the main focus of bringing in more fans of into Valorant from their big LoL viewer base.

I'll tell you know, this is a long thread. Lot's of stats and shit. So, in short, I'm using current metrics to figure out the goal of franchising for Riot. Covering a ton of questions that I've seen on VLR in the past few days, and I'll try to answer them.

NOTE : This is using outside facts and what makes sense to me as an individual. I'm not covering snuffed teams and shit for franchising, but I'm trying to figure out why this is an approach Riot is taking.

Question 1 - Why is Riot making 3, 10 team Regional Leagues?

As we all know, Riot has said there will be 3 separate regional leagues : The America's (LATAM, Brazil, North America), EMEA (Europe, CIS), and Asian Pacific (Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, etc.). The big problem here, in my opinion, is the 10 team limit in each league. That is a limit of 30 international teams. So, at this point, I'm getting into my stats. I took a look at Riot's other large game with International leagues, League of Legends. Lol was release in 2009 and received a birth to competitive leagues three years later in 2012. Valorant has gotten a slightly similar start, being released in 2020 and now getting Riot leagues in 2023. From my findings, and swiftly passing by LoL as a whole, I could find that 2 leagues kinda started in 2012, Korea and Brazil. Later on, in 2013, NA, Europe, and China all got league stuffs as well.

At this point, almost 10 years later, there are 12 main leagues and 117 teams participating. So, Valorant has 30 teams in 3 leagues while LoL has 117 in 12 leagues. Well, that's fair since League gets way more viewers, right? LoL does get more views, but not way more views, especially for some 10 year old leagues. There are just two mainview leaders : Korea and Europe. Before I talk about those two, I'm gonna talk about some of the closer Regions of Valorant vs LoL viewership.

This is taking an Approximated average of Lol in the last 3 years while taking the Stage 2 stats for Valorant.

LATAM - LoL and Valorant are at a similar point, Valorant is just a bit more popular having an average viewership of around 10k more (36K vs ~24k) while having almost the same peak, hovering around 90k in Val and 80k in LoL

Brazil - LoL in Brazil is around 3x of what it's viewership in Valorant is. Consistent for the peaks (140k in Val vs around 300k in lol) and the average viewership (40k in Val vs 120k in LoL)

Asian Pacific and Vietnam - In Lol they have separate leagues but in Valorant they were both represented in the APAC region. In Asia Pacific (LoL), average viewership is from 15k to 20k, peaking from 55k to 95k. Vietnam does like 35k - 45k average, and peaks all the way from 120K to 230K. APAC in Valorant averages 33k, and can peak around 70k to 100K.

Now, let's talk about the LoL giants of South Korea and EMEA and how fucking sad their Valorant view ship is in comparison. Each region lowballs peak view ship of 700K and can reach peaks of 1.0 million (230k - 300k average) in Europe, and South Korea is the BIGGEST getting peaks of 1.3 million views. EMEA is less sad in Valorant, where that can do peaks of 150K more recently when BBL plays while in Stage 1 they could hit over 200k peaks. Over the two stages, stage 1 averaged around 95k while Stage 2 dropped to 69k.

Now Korea. averaging from 200k to 250k per match while being able to deliver the biggest peaks in LoL when T1 plays. They must be HUGE in Valorant as well, right? Peaking at 36k viewers in both stages and having around 14k average viewers for their matches. That is a huge shell of their production in LoL.

So why do I talk about these two huge regions in such a critical light? Because they carry LoL, I feel like Riot expects more from these regions in order to feel success in a competitive scene. I didn't talk about China, but they are around the 3rd biggest viewership in the world, but have no feats in Valorant. Like, the Chinese Valorant stream had 56 viewers last night while K1 was playing. Regardless, the fact that the two largest regions for Lol are the 3rd and least viewed regions for Valorant is a major concern for Riot's confidence. Maybe Korea will wake up one day and Valorant in the region will spike. Who knows. But, until that day, I doubt Riot will have enough confidence to have the regional leagues in Valorant to the degree of LoL.

Some wide eyed readers maybe notice how there are some LoL leagues I didn't mention. CIS I didn't mention since it overlaps with EMEA's Valorant league and, well, I couldn't find it on the viewership site that I'm using. Same think with the Oceania league, which roles into APAC. Finally is Turkey, which seems decently popular with around a 60k peak. But, roles into EMEA. Just REALLY makes the EMEA Valorant viewership look even more sad.

But here are the big two, North America Valorant and the LCS, along with Japanese Valorant and the LJL. LCS, the fourth largest league in LoL and the LJL, which is around Latin America in terms of viewership. I saved these two since NA and Japan have now shown to be the two largest regions for Valorant. The two biggest in Stage 2 as well as NA in LCQ who is averaging around 200k viewership in NON Sentinel games, while Sentinels can pull 450k and 625k viewers for domestic games against small orgs. Japan has also been the most rapidly improving region, but that's another talk. These two teams are the hope of Valorant, and if they can grow further it'll progress how wide Riot can spread leagues.

So what was the point of the whole section : I think Riot is still a little scared the Valorant won't become a big (top 5) esport. I think the reason Riot is keeping this to 3 leagues stems from a few factors in which the lack of European and Korean involvement is the largest. It's like when you go through progression in your life, whether it's a new job or moving to a different city, and your support pillars don't assist you. It's scary to not have what you had thought was guaranteed assistance is not there.

So, Riot got two new regions to support them in NA and Japan, and from that they decided to pursue smaller leagues than what is good for the professional ecosystem and favoring one to grow the sport's reach. Now, what do I mean with this? I think the reason Riot is only having 30 teams under them, as well as choosing good overall orgs rather than consistent Valorant orgs is to grow the esport's play and viewership through external means. For example, T1 is likely going to get a Korean spot instead of continuing in North America. As they are one of the biggest Korean LoL teams, this may bring in LoL fans that cheer for Korea. My point with it being 10 team leagues is to continue to draw in viewers of other esport's like LoL, Overwatch or CS:GO through the display of these larger orgs. The other side of a 10 team region also builds fandom of teams outside of just someone's home region. What I mean by that is the large group of Japanese fans and North American fans will see a lot more games from teams in other regions. Then if franchising ever brakes into smaller regional areas, like back to East Asia and Asian Pacific, Japanese viewers that liked maybe Bleed for example, will watch more APAC games. Also, committing to just 30 teams allows Riot to give each team way more broadcasting, exposure, and pure funds to make the game bigger.

In all reality, I don't really get why Riot is limiting the teams. This is the best way I could rationalize it. I feel like the EMEA region will depend even more on stealing away more CS:GO fans due to any ill-will from the other regions just getting less showing then EMEA always has. Like, Turkey is EMEA's biggest sub-region, and from what I've heard they're only getting 1 spot. Anyways, I've ran out of words for this post. If you've read this far, thanks. Have a great day.

From what I'm hearing from other area's franchising, it's very surprising to me that Sen will make it. From what I understand, Riot don't give a shit about the orgs commitment to Valorant. I saw that in APAC, Paper Rex (aka the most global Asian team) didn't make it. Same guy said a franchise with NO Valorant connections / commitment made it. So for a team built off Valorant, Sen making it is surprising, despite how they carry viewership. I expect at least a few global orgs to hop out of the America's to regain a Korean spot.

In all reality, the single most locked team internationally is 100T due to their deep connection with Riot as an Org, mostly in Valorant, but also due to them being a very trendy and up-and-coming brand.

Fair.