It's not doomsday but I don't think players will be willing to take the risk either, i think franchising makes things more complicated than not. Only one team gets to ascend per year and there's very limited interplay allowing a t2 team to make it to the big leagues, there's no FPL and demo system where individual talent can shine and show scouts that outside of the team you can own. On top of that your org might go broke anyway (enough so that even 1M in subsidies wont cover) and then they ofc won't retain you for the rest of the year if theres no events. 6 months is a lot of time, and if there's no tournaments and FPL grind to keep you sharp, orgs might look past you to build a different team esp by recycling t1 dropouts and former 6th man's. Also I think you need invite only closed qualifiers to prevent smurfing and sandbagging in top level premier; esp in esports scene development I'm much more in favor of the valve model as opposed to Riot's

They need demos, a FPL pug equivalent, and allow t2 to take gambling sponsors or something of that nature, and also maybe make the off season count for something

EMEA doesn't have a mechanical talent problem it's more so no IGLs and bad coaches and the regional play is not privy to the meta and common counter strats. On top of that, EMEA franchising is really bad and most CIS and Russian players are out of the mix playing in other leagues or sandbagging in Spanish or Turkey divisions ever since the invasion

ALIVE is extremely good and crazy underrated. If you don't like JUGi, Keiko is solid. Stats clearly don't tell the whole story or yay or a t2 player like iM and sunpayus would be totally discounted.

There's plenty of duelists in EMEA that are very talented, have good aim, are consistent and path very well in a variety of situations. At any day equal to Americas in depth in terms of talent, I haven't named any CIS talents as well that haven't really competed in EMEA league either. EMEA lacks other strategic disadvantages like good controllers, IGLs, and coaches which I argue is more important in the current era of val

QutionerX
QW1
Derke
Sayf
Cned
ALIVE
Tomaszy
JUGi
TakaS, Natank
ScreaM

There really is not.

Clutching in CS is 100% harder and it's more risky economy-wise, hence why many rounds are called in for a jame time save and people who are used to valorant might find it boring.

s1mple will mald too hard for val crowd tbh

do they disallow full russian rosters? csjoe removed the CIS RMR for major participation but still allows full russian/near full russian teams like VP/C9/1WIN/TS to participate

i said it before that mEMEA doesn't have a talent issue though, the bigger problems are trash coaching staff and siloed play so they never learn how to call/cook strats against opponents that directly counter your play, like the way LOUD plays is a direct anti-default

jesus get a grip

EDG will come back swinging fs

lmao
every team would be a fraud if every win when a team hasn't peaked doesn't count, let me just take away the olympic medals of people who didn't break the world record
optic won fair n square
fnc won fair n square
vlr doesn't think, just reacts and baits

lmao. it's not that deep, i wasn't arguing with you, arguing implies that you brought some justification for your premise. nice attempt though.

yes they aren't playing with the hot hand but they're also scared and not confident
they just give up mid and they need to call more explosive retakes, they're not even playing individually that poorly

im sure riot will pay you to cast then crashhacker1 if you think you can do a better job, cheers

hes a baiter relax

pansy is fine stop getting ur panties in a bunch, she's hyped up both teams, because she's one of the EMEA VCT talents, it makes sense that she's used to hyping up FNC and their dominance, always something to complain about it seems

the give up mid strat is ass on split, this been known

wb mir?

sh1ro
ax1le
donk
electronic
fame

1-13
let's just watch the game stead of yappin no?

jared "tripped and broke my rolex" gitlin?

bright side we'll build 3 chinese super teams

jemkin moment

AAAY with 39% HS and 150 ADR?????????
wtf? get him a team no?

PRX for jinggg
FNC for the 3 time
EG for the rookie villain and my country 🦅
LOUD for the comeback

Bro fr making random assumptions about ppl's mental based on Twitter posts in his spare time

His job is to play the game not play to someone else's expectations. He did well overall even if he didn't do well on a pivotal map, EDG and kk will improve and strike back! jiayou EDG 2024! After all it awakened smoggy demon mode..

Bring back arena shooters NA will dominate
All hail rapha

She's not really that biased in her casting and a lot of other casters have their favorites. She hypes both sides, I don't really get the hate. VLR always makes a problem out of nothing. Pansy/hypoc are the EMEA VCT talent so it makes sense she's brings the most knowledge about the teams from that region, I think it would've been prudent to balance that with an APAC caster though, panpoc chemistry is just very good which is why they schedule them together.

True, so you're saying MENA superteam is EMEA last hope, CIS is already nerfed and if EU goes back to csjoe...

BLG is in the same tier as those teams (top LCQ teams). I'd say they are top 10 contenders, whereas EDG proved they belong middle of the pack in the top 10 teams. However CN right now is definitely the weakest region but they exceeded my expectations considering these teams have only been scrimming international teams for a year and I believe the first time they fought a team outside of CN was early 2022 Vision Strikers.

as many teams as kills for boaster. just give the slot to EDG

boaster surely needs to be dropped, outcalled outfragged, completely overcooked slow default gives them 0 time to clear

nt o7
wp LOUD vamo

Flair

Flair

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theyve only played ascent twice internationally both in this event and they're 1 for 2, EG just pwned

Just stfu and play the game and stop feeding 14 year olds drama bait

Lmao
When did we start bringing in EMEA? Get a grip almost like hating on other regions is inherent to your brain, teams win not regions

It's ok you can't win forever in valorant, you will be humbled eventually and karma will kick in

o7
I sense CN valorant revolution soon with two high level teams

Pointless drama instigation
EG will just reap what they sow eventually anyway

Calling is reading the situation not cooking execs and holds, 100t and SEN lack even those, although I wouldn't exactly call marved a good caller, esp if he intends on playing his strongest role, the lurk. FNS also has other problems like he struggles on the lurk role and he is pretty old when a younger player with a higher ceiling can be taking up his mantle.

1 year you mean
LCQ East Asia was the first multiregional and Champs 2022 was the first international with EDG being the one participating in both. It's more so that the official talent pipeline in CN will become much more slick following the release. I also dont know why we don't talk about BLG either who've only been a complete team for a few months. The fact that they went from 0 in playoffs to 2 in playoffs is maybe a sign of rapid improvement? Idk

I'm pretty happy for both
Not a lot of expectations for either team, EDG makes playoffs again and BLG shock everyone making playoffs, EDG took a map off the 2nd best at Masters (shame they crumbled after though), and both got to play with the best teams itw, improve, and bring that experience back to CN. Seriously there will be so much talent in that region coming up soon. No CN team have anything to lose really

Yes
But the EDG playstyle also directly counters BLG. BLG haven sucks but other than that BLG has a impeccable map pool, so even if they close out this one I expect 2-1 in either direction

but you can make the same bullshit up for the champs 2022, they didn't have fnatic or navi playing in top form, they didn't have someone with such dominant execs like EG on many maps, they didn't have EDG and PRX playing to peak form; on average the level of competition always goes up, sometimes teams play off form and they lose, that's how it works, the aim gets better, the ideas get better, the talent pool gets wider and deeper, just because americas won one there doesn't mean you should weigh it over another event, but i can't expect much out of a optic baiter yistyy. fin

Competition has been the best it has in valorant, form goes up and down for everyone, LOUD in form, FNC a little off form, on paper both teams are insanely good, it's up to the players to play in form or off form. Same shit with every game, there isn't an unbeatable team, even astralis's longest streak was 15 games and it's a lot easier to upset in Valorant. People expect too much of teams, just watch the damn game, that's why everyone should chill out and be an EDGigachad.

Mini was malding ngl idk bout that cope
But I think they can bring it back, PRXWIN and EDGWIN!