Good point, people that put them at same level than any master are doing a huge mistake (And people that put it AHEAD first master of the year has loose their mind)

Do you think EWC could be considered at the same level as a regional win ?

In Toronto the challenge was not "prepare your opponent", the challenge was "How to adapt to the meta/mapool", some region got 5 weeks, while EMEA got 3 week, and god, so mush work to do...

Damn seems my cover is not credible

Wait, it seems it's also 3 week in case of EMEA, my bad, I thought it was less, but yeah Amer and China got 5 weeks, I suppose the game changer is is the fact the mapool didn't change, 3 week isnt enough to prep a change of mapool while 3 weeks is enough just to mental reset when the mapool doesn't change

Edit : Change of mapool + change of meta with Tejo nerf wish I did forget

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Does we have date for stage 1 ?

Nope because they did play those team like 10 days before wish is too short to prep and on a different mapool (Against 3 week in EWC case on the same mapool), and it's team they usually play and that is slightly less good than top Toronto team

Same mapool as Toronto 3 week to prepare for everyone is enough, it's not enough to rig it, plus playing against the best team in the world 3 weeks before a tournament is kinda perfect, your schedule is not too tight and you played against best in real condition

I would put it at same level than a regional trophy, but not at same level than a master

Since 2025 is redemption year, you need to lose 2 final to win an international event, all planned to win Champions

Bro for real, I was afraid that you had blown my cover as a "French trans woman," and that my identity as a girl cisgender Chinese secret agent would be exposed. T.T

Bro they had to alternate on 2 different mapool over 3 weeks.

Your Chinese counterpart is probably writing "Stop coping, it's a Mickey mouse tournament, EMEA still trash in real event"

How that could be coping ? I'm from EMEA and i'm saying that we would have done better in Toronto if no disadvantage ? T.T

That time to prepare an event, and schedule is important.

• EMEA went in Toronto with prep time disadvantage and did meh in Toronto, they didnt had disadvantage in EWC and did amazing in EWC
• China went in Toronto with prep time advantage and good in Toronto, they had a huge prep time disadvantage in EWC (Split 1 start before EWC on different mapool) and did horribly in EWC

No, but I'll say it's as important as a regional trophy

From 5-26 to winning the series is amazing
5-26 --> 44-57 / 3-2

He got the worst non mirror winrate every year in proplay, and the more you go in upper team of T1, more he is replaced by Viper

I agree, the solution would be to give him a better unenekip time

I don't think they are a way to fix an agent that have 0 info dive and smoke in a meta where this is so important. I see 2 philosophy that could solve him.

• 1st philosophy : Every initiator should reveal, otherwise they are unplayable in ranked (Kayo is also really bad) :
  I think I would give him info in a cone with his aftershock so he can be played as a solo init, not perfect, but that's a start.

• 2nd philosophy : Destroy the worst patch ever (5.07) i've made a video about that
  In the 5.07 Riot wanted to double down identity of the agents, and that's resulted into making soloQ agent event more soloQ, and team agent even more team (duelist flash were shorter, and init flasher couldn't peak anymore on their own flash), the solution could make Breach a little bit more duelistesque, and give him a better unequip time so he can peak on his own flash (and other stuff), that's mean he wouldn't have to depend on anyone on soloQ, while giving him a small up in team in clutch situation in proplay

Money doesnt buy importance

I'll say EWC is one tier higher that RBHG, at the same level than Ascention that have less money and less prestige, but that is compensated by HEAVY stakes, and a regional trophy tha tpeople doesnt really care a lot but thats still a T1 trophy

I think Mickey mouse tournament is a term that have been over used and we should stop use it.

Now that's say, people that put any event that is out of the official circuit at the same level as a master are delusional, wish is okay

But also you need less good day to win. A tthe end of the day if everything is random you've got 1 chance on 32 to win, vs 1 chance on 16 anywhere else

I don't think it's harder because of single elim, I believe it's harder because it's the inter event with the most teams

I love how absolutely dystopic things happen in the USA that would shock every Occidental country and some Third World country.

You find amnesic guys on a burger king bin, that is almost blind because of cataract (a problem solve by an easy operation), you put him in hospital, the hospital take him out without cure his eyes because his identity is a mystery. I bet even Chinese and Cubans would be shocked as hell by that and call this dystopian. You are one of the worst country on the world T.T

If Breaking Bad was European, the series would have last one episode :

• I have cancer and I have no money
• Ok we gonna try to cure you
  End

This country is a waste, it's the 1st economic power you could have done so many things... And we've got THAT

It's depends, they are so rivalries, some banter, but I think hate is a little bit "too mush" to describe the rivalries

Carte vitale

Bold of you to believe that we are not hating each other

I'm from EMEA, it can't be delusional if that advantage me if that's true. That pessimistic at least T.T

I'm not sure about the BO1 hate, I agree we should never have BO1 for a bracket, and thats why EWC is a semi-joke, but I wonder if I rather have a double round robin in BO1 with the 12 team in same groups (110 maps max), than 2 groups of 6 with potentially a group of death (90 maps max)
3 BO1 have the advantage to be more hype than 1 BO3 since every maps count, but I agree it's ass for playoffs or any bracket

You cant put EWC at the same level than masters... AND CERTAINLY NOT higher KIckoffs

• S+ : Champs
• S : Masters, MAsters-Kickoffs, Lockin
• A : Regional league, EWC at best, Ascention
• C : Other

We will see in champs, lets not overheat for an important but not official tournament

Calm down, we are back, but not that mush

Hard to beat the LOUD-FNC Lockin

"Couldn't it be that the decline in viewership is due to match value rather than quantity of matches?"

• I dont think they are a decline of viewer, it's sounds it's kinda the countrary, it's just if they are more game you might have some.

"The shared offices means they can split the maintenance costs, rent of the building, etc"

• I don't think with 4 org team it would change a lot, best solution would be for Riot to buy 12 gaming house and rent them to the differents teams

"I get that your formula might be correct for Valorant, but I'm confused as to why that is? Football, Basketball and American FootkickHandHoldball have a much higher amount of games than Valorant"

• I think on esport, most fan want to see everygame of a region, in sport, people only watch their team (Lot of team plays at the same time anyway).
• Another reason is that in football team switch player, you will not have this in Val.
• Also, the problem is the format, in football almost every team will play 34 games even if bad in their regionnal league, plus maybe 10 games for their local region (a game is 1h30~2h00 so a little bit less than a BO3), Val problem is that you have a team that will do 12 BO3 and get bored, while another team may do 30 games in their region, plus 25 international games, so you have team with 12 BO3 and other with 50 BO3, so best team can't have more games while worst team want more games.

So maybe the question is more "How can we offer more game to worst team and less to the best team", and this is hard, I have solution but I dont think people are ready for what I could propose there @.@

Not sure, 2 ctrl, 1 flash, 1 reveal, 1 dive, was absolutely amazing in late 2024 (It was really good on Split, Lotus, Bind, Abyss, Breeze), and it seems we are back in late 2024 meta

True, but if we would fire any coach that pick Breach, then not a lot of people would remain, also he is low because doble controller are better, but if you pick him instead of the Sentinel, then it's become okay, thats why Split and Lotus are his best NMWR.
Plus Breach synergise well with Neon, and Miniboo is so mush better on Neon than on other agent, that it do make sense to do that with the player you have

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Thanks a lot !
America together make it so mush more fun to watch more rivalries between SA and NA we just need a way to help SA team (Relocate league ? Give acces to winner of T2 meanning 3 more SA team, count NA as imports etc), many solution could be find but going to 24 team would be a mistake

What is the problem with the composition ?

Not viable, it's the smallest T1 league in term of player, far behind APAC, and sightly after EMEA (that would raise when Russia would be recognized), we dont have data for China

"The problem with franchising is Mostly it's location"
It's a problem even for NA team, everyone should move out of LA, they are so many less expansive city in the continent.

"More orgs means more shared offices which drive down living expenses which balance out the smaller incentives"
I dont get that point, can you elaborate

plus the pistols make up a great incentive for the new orgs"
Thats still less money for org, because if you add 33% of team, that doesnt mean you will have a raise of 33% of pistol buy (It's probably gonna stay the same)

"In the case of the VCT2 qualifying for Internationals, I feel like as cool as it would be, it would cost even more due to venues and running the adjacent tournaments"
Nope, it doesnt, it cost almost nothing since it's only 17 games more over the year, T2 team can afford to participate a double elim tournament that will be over in 2 weeks max, they already buy bootcamp, it's not that mush

"Less hype" maybe for NA viewers but I'm pretty sure most of SA would still watch, plus it means MORE GAMES, less of these weird 1 month hiatus, any other self respecting sport doesn't have these spaces "
I'm talking even for SA, more you have game less you have average view it's mechanics

"More teams, more spots"
Smaller slice, less money for org.
"more matches"
less average viewer, less hype

"Cuz there are already 6 NA teams and the south Americans have a tendency to ALSO hire Na talent"
More I think about it, and more I wonder if NA in SA team shouldn't be consider as an import, but to be fair main problem is Leviatan, drop them and replace them by E-Xolos, and we are good.

If you want more SA team, then we should go back to the idea Faria proposes : gives a chance to T2 team to qual to international event. By doing so you give a chance to the 4 #1 team of the 4 Americas region, so you have 16 teams in kickoff instead of 2 (It's only 8 games more), 4 T2 team in playoffs and not in groups (only 8 games more), and ascention winner having a shot against the seed 4 for the last place (1 game more)
By doing that, no x2 games, no talent dilution, and we get assured to have 3 SA team more (LAN, LAS, BR)

The best duelist for the Russian superteam change every 2 weeks since they are so mush concurrences

I know i'm the one that use the term wwashed but in fact I don't like this term, I should have say "younger upgrade" :c

I still think the Faker of Valorant isnt find yet

Stop recycling the same washed talent and look at young T2 player. Problem, LOUD doesnt have a aca team, thats why you are gonna stagnate for a WHILE

Player like Lukxo exist, NA premier team are going down, Brazilian premier team are going up, in the developped region Area, they see the biggest augmentation from last split at the same date. It's okay

Intresting take, maybe we should have draw rule instead of a rig

Arent EMEA stage 2 finish 1 day before the start of champs since we dont have travel time to count ?

I like Frogger team, well done, Tiger also good

Hard to compare a reveal and an agent that isnt in the same categorie.
Tejo > Kayo, but Tejo <<<<<< Sova/Fade and Kayo < Viper, so Kayo will see way more pick than Tejo

Fun fact, NA is the only region that loose population of premier if you take this Act 4 round 1 compared to Act 4 Round 7 of last year (Japan is also in that case but is more stable)