To be fair Swiss and group are kinda the same : You have to do 2 win on 3 games

Would be better to have 3 different format for the 3 event of the year, midmaster can be a good idea, because in early master team will not have enough time to perfectionnate a precise map I think

Technically it's BO1 with the possibility of loosing 6 games !

I forgot who was telling it could be fun to have Master with heavily different format like in tennis, making every event different, and also making Chmapion the real main event, more important than the other masters because it's the only one that have a real format.

So here is a weird idea, 16 teams (can be 8 if lack of time) :
7 bracket in BO1 (It can be 5 if it's right in between 2 mapool) : 1 bracket per map, in simple elim (could be swiss if we have more time)
Only 4 best team go in Playoff.
Pro : we can know who is the best team on every map
Cons : Not sure the team that win the event is the best team
Pro of the Cons : That make the champion winner, the real winner of the year and we stop that weird feeling where master = champions

Idea of improvement ?
Thought ?
Idea of weird format to maje other master different and make champion the real event ?

Looking at data she doing good on Haven and Sunset

Thats make no sense at all, call them at least midelo

The one that recognize Jett and Raze are better option, and lock them instead of Neon

3 MYSG team would be crazy

America season isnt over because they are still american team playing this sesaon

What if a VCT america team do good in champ ?

Thats because the Seed 3 and 4 are on the right, and seed 1 and 2 are on the left.

Also it's a good idea since bot that always bet on the weakest ended in positive

I can understand that opinion !

whataboutism at his peak.

We can talk about economy, religion and Baloch separatism but this is a val forum and thats not allowed to talk about this here

They won a master, SEN was more regular than 100T, so sounds fair to me.

My only issues with format is that I dont like that 3rd of stage 2 is qualified, 100T should have play KRU again in a BO5 for last place

Thanks for your answer !

Dafuk

English isnt my mother tongue and i'll continue messing with that language, lil sis.

NIce one
So SEN may come 2 ?

yeah, player are not government chief, and usually people tend to not want war, but sadfully we have to take in account the madness of our own government (Macron is president of my country so I kinda well know they are a huge gad between our representant and people that is represented XD)

So mooveing to Mena would solve the problem you are pointing ?

Do you know if people from Bangladesh have the same issues ?

Wait, Riot already moved Pakistan to MENA ?!

So basically :
Ping : Mena
Language : India
Visa : Mena

If we combine all the factor, what do you pref ?

They are, but if Pakistanis people cant play against Indian player (157.68ms) since every event are online they should play with MENA player (35.50ms) plus India and Pakistan isnt in a good term. I admit language is an important factor and is usually my fav one, but when 2 country are about to throw at each other throat and cant play for ping reason... Well it's complicated.

If Pakistan and India got only a strong rivalry and 50ms I would say it's ok, but thats not the case so better put them with MENA to me

(Sources https://wondernetwork.com/pings/Lahore)

GEN-SEN is the oppenning game featuring the 2 master winner : You have to give :

• 1 popular opinion
• 1 unpopular opinion
• 1 opinion nobody though about

Seems you have a better ping on Dubai then on Singapore and then on Mumbai, if that's true, shouldn't you be part of MENA instead of SA ?

PS : if you can confirm my premises are good i would be glad

Isnt 80% of people ?

Cause CIS doesnt have a T2 team, so people take Russian roster in sympathy

thanks

He was a member of a group fof kpop or somthing to be that mush popular XD ?

What is CGR ?

What are thai PRX/MiTH girl fan ? and why are their a danger ?

TH format is the most fair of APAC, not making TH system make split 1 absolutely useless (for a mid or top team of the T2 region)

Thats the other region that should adapt and make their system (Or give every region 2 slot)

You are right, I wont if the fact that only 1 team is qual in APAC helps

Would be sad if ascention have no hype, even less than JP

Not really...

IIRC this is split 1 2024 datas

Peak Average Hours W Airtime

JP 232477 71678 8057730 112h 25m
TH 19560 6326 577702 91h 20m
ID 15211 5923 373629 63h 5m
SA 14197 4528 448214 99h 00m
KR 21684 4118 401786 97h 35m
VN 14881 3810 254618 66h 50m
MYSG 10446 2763 52723 19h 5m
TWHG 5005 1618 104973 64h 55m
PH 5882 1611 223933 139h 5m
OCE 3507 1204 66099 54h 55m

NA 83568 13552 1195931 88h 15m
BR 28759 9790 1436555 146h 45m
LAN 6126 2239 160215 71h 35m
LAS 4758 1960 134220 68h 30m

FR 68008 15422 1605146 104h 5m
TR 22964 6066 1051404 173h 20m
DACH 24967 3360 492429 146h 35m
ES 13826 2866 253375 88h 25m
EUE 5260 1508 202505 134h 20m
LNA 3922 1489 66970 45h
IT 3515 954 79232 83h 5m
EUN 5749 945 91183 96h 35m
PT 1927 811 71638 88h 25m
GCCI 1938 676 39787 58h 55m

Pretty easy : The final of EMEA have no stakes, Japan final have stakes. I'm french and I did watch Japan T2 final but not EMEA T1 final.

The hype in EMEA playoff died right after the elmination match, we know the top 4 hype is down (Thats also one of the reason why I hate the fact top 3 in stage 2 is qualified, it kill the hype too early, we need to qual only top 2 in stage 2, so every match beside the final have stakes, then because we were hyped during the playoff we also watch the last game)

Val on phone is a start since phone market is a big thing

Historically in S1/S2 SEA ID was never strong but they always come with 2 or 3 team in the top 8, so they may also be a good contender (most populated T2 region afterall)

D: Things happen !
Do you think in 15 years India might have their own T1 league ?

The creation of the 5th continental Valorant league that will have enough level and enough viewer to make it viable (but we could add more criteria, like enough good structure etc...)

Thanks !

Valo Pacific Ascention S4 Anime sounds wild, that make me want to cast it in Fraech, is that allowed to cast it ?

Not on Polaris ?

Korea fill their population gap, by PC culture, league being the "national sport" really helps and will probably keep korea alive for a long time.
When it relates to one precise sport a country can found themself in 3 situations (They have some in between ofc but thats for making understand) :

• 1/ National sport (Korea)
• 2/ Sport already conquer that market (NA-EU-SEA-JP-BR)
• 3/ Sport didn't developed yet (MENA-Subsaharia-India)

With enough marketing effort and when the country is enough developed, you can always make a country in 3/ into 2/, and what will differentiate a country in 2/ is their population. A country in 1/ will always be able to fight against any other country in 2/ even if 2/ have x100 their population.
In Val KR is in 1.5/ (Because of PC culture, but thats not at the level of a LoL that is truly a national sport) while Japan is around 2.

What is fun, is that every T1 region without the undeveloped part got roughly 1G population (1 000 000 000 population)

If I would be more precise, I would say they are in between, they are not fully developed everywhere, some places are developed, some places are not, I'm curious the know how mush Indian have access to a PC for example, or water that home directly to their house and other intresting dats, if you have it I gladelt take it.

Japan have no potential, they have not enough people to have a viable T1, having 2 or 3 team in T1 is enough for Japan.

India is still an undeveloped country with access to PC, population of India is higher than population of full APAC, in long term when the country will become the top 3 power in the world (That will probably happen during the 2030's/2040's years), the country may become a T1, in, the same fashion than LoL in China raised until they come a T1 region starting from nothing, that can't happen for Japan.

But today it's too early, and they can be glad they have a T2 region, Subsaharia doesn't have a T2 region (yet, I believe next year they will have their T2 region, so we can have 8 regions in EMEA and drop the playin with a horrible format)

I'm finally glad Riot made a CIS T2 league... Wait this is playin !

I seems lot of people got some sentiment listening ticking away, I can understand why, (I'm unranked level 300 so probably not the target), but purely on a music level I really disliked it x)

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