Group A:
1. Fokus
2. RA'AD
3. GMT

GROUP B: 
1. S2G
2. GTZ
3. MOUZ

GROUP C: 
1. TQ
2. MDR
3. EP

Which the leads onto the Last chance group with the 2nd place teams:
1. GTZ
2. MDR
3. RA'AD

Don't know how the playoffs will be seeded. so i wont do them at this point.

The fnatic game is in 48 hours?
That shit is not tomorrow

#goBonkers

rdeew 🐐
https://imgur.com/a/GJySkvH

damn i hope you get through that shit 🙏

So why are you annoyed that they are supporting the only chinese gc team?
who else would they pick up?

you dont know anything about them.

literally the best chinese/taiwanese gc team in 2022.

Masters 1: Singapore (sg) - "Singapore Indoor Stadium"
Masters 2: NYC (usa) - "Theater at Madison Square Garden"
Champions: London (uk) - "Copper Box"

DD∆: (Damage Dealt - Damage Received), averaged over rounds played

https://www.vlr.gg/160667/vlr-gg-player-rating-explained

🤯🤯🤯

? what do you think "goat" means

and what is your source for that?

https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/8/8a/VCT_Masters_Tokyo_2023_Event_Specific_Ruleset.pdf

section 2.2

After the conclusion of the Group Stage, a random draw will seed the Playoff Stage.
The four teams from the Advanced Seeding Pools 1 and 2 will be randomly assigned a team that advanced from the Group Stage.

Playoff Pool 1: Loud, Liquid, PRX
Playoff Pool 2: Fnatic

Playoff Pool 3: NRG, EG
Playoff Pool 4: T1/EDG, DRX/FUT

kangkang gave boaster slippers aswell.
edg 🤝 fnatic
https://twitter.com/OfficialBoaster/status/1629236733513531392?s=20

I'm pretty sure it will use the League of Legends characters and lore.

The riot mmo is supposed to use LoL assets aswell.

I'm glad shibainu was banned.
I cant imagine how bad the post he would make for edg gc would be

Lev?

Blg look better than ase imo.

Could easily see Champs being edg blg +1

Did you actually look at that liquid loss vs navi.
or even look at the roster.

It's a double edged sword.
Being able to comfortably make playoffs and tokyo could have allowed fnatic to save strats/ideas for this event.

Time will tell if fnatic has suffered from playing in a "weaker" league.

Nah not yet, it wouldn't be right for them to be on the same level as loud considering the playoff matches nrg had (very close game vs c9, loss to eg, loss to loud).
Though they still have a very good chance of winning the event.

What am i supposed to do with this information?

Ok im sold. Ive moved EG to A.
I feel like alot of the final placements will depend on matchups and seedings.
EG could go 8th if things are unlucky or they go get top 4.

forgot to do this before the event started.

(assuming prx has something)

Rankings:
S: Loud, Fnatic
A: Liquid, NRG, PRX, EG 
B: NAVI, DRX
C: T1, FUT, EDG
D: ASE

Percentage chance of winning:
20%: Loud
20%: Fnatic
14% NRG
13% PRX
11% LIQUID
9% EG
7% NAVI
4% DRX
1% T1
0.5% FUT
0.4% EDG
0.1% ASE

percent chance per region:
EMEA: 38.5%
AMERICAS: 43%
PACIFIC: 18%
CHINA: 0.5%

what would you change?

(edit moved eg to A)

Valorant (and alot of sports/esports) are quite confidence based.
If you can play without pressure and with belief you will perform alot better.

A few decent results, like taking furia and loud to 3 maps really got the ball rolling.

I agree with all of this really.
Most of my ideas were speculative and presumptive at best.
I believe Leo Faria said they were looking into ideas for the T2 scene.

https://twitter.com/lhfaria/status/1666141796060250112?s=20

Though I'd expect this may just affect the season-structure and the grassroots of t3 and below.

Statistically speaking, I would've tried to use retention rate, unique viewers and something along the lines of "traffic sources" though sadly the data isn't readily available.

It may be wiser for the time being to allow for some more subtle changes; such as exploring the idea of allowing VCT to have academy teams or changes in scheduling to help reduce the constant overlapping (though this is still a hard task because there are an abundance of games to be played leagues).

It's "NA" when they win and "Americas" when they lose.

I believe they would play fnatic or prx?
I kinda want to see fnatic vs nrg... so eg vs prx?

Be serious.

Never mind.. I will never doubt fnatic again

.

Ffs fnatic pump faked the whole of emea into playing this comp

Wow

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I have watched a bit of The Union, not as much of 00. Mainly because 00 was not good in split 1.
Though I watched some of the grand finals of Brazil and the gap between the two teams is pretty large. (union >>> 00)

I still view m80 as the favourites coming into the event.

A manager in football tends to be able to oversee multiple coaches to help train the squad (goalkeeping coaches, throwin coaches, set piece coaches etc), they may not actually lead the sessions but help advise/overlook. They normally have a set style / philosophy to implement and can adjust the staff accordingly.

They are also able to have affect with the transfer decisions and policies.

I think an advantage that "france" has is that it covers mainly francophone countries.
Merging it would help the "North" league but it wouldn't benefit france at all.

A merge with "iberia" could be interesting because spain and france has a natural rivalry that france could actually benefit from.
Though this merger would be a complete mess deciding which orgs stay.

France should probably stay as it is for now.

I feel like most of my ideas would have major "plot-holes" or issues.
It's just something interesting to do now that i've got a bit more spare time.

The tier 2 structure is chaotic and is hard to keep up with.
Alot of regions struggle with low viewership and interest.

Split 2 EMEA viewership: Source Escharts
Dach: Peak: 6646  -- Average: 1983
EAST: Peak: 3435 -- Average: 1074
Portugal: Peak: 1264 -- Average: 641
Italy: Peak: 2464 -- Average: 973
Turkey: Peak: 25,876 -- Average: 4787
Spain: Peak: 13,183 -- Average: 3002
France: Peak: 171,158 -- Average: 20,640  (Gentle mates has helped the league so much)
Polaris: Peak: 6,377 -- Average: 1,313
MENA LNA: Peak: 2058 -- Average: 691
MENA GCCI: Peak: 1486 -- Average: 494
MENA FINALS: Peak: 8942  -- Average: 3569 (slightly unfair to add but it's interesting)

Map of all the EMEA regions: https://imgur.com/pQlDr0n
Source of the region coverage: https://twitter.com/valleague_emea/status/1601245523889246208?s=20

What to change in 2024?

• First of all.. mongolia needs to become a Pacific region either as a single entity or as part of another region.
• Combining the two MENA regular season would be a good step to reduce the overloaded schedule.

Mergers (the names suggested aren't final but allow for easier referencing)

• "North" -- DACH + POLARIS: Two of the most northern regions in the EMEA VCL, with middling viewerships. Polaris suffers from a lack of organisations.
• "Iberia" -- SPAIN+PORTUGAL+ITALY: A remerging of what the region was in 2022. Portugal and Italy struggle alot with viewership.
• "EAST" -- CIS+EAST: If CIS is re-added to the VCL circuit I would recommend a merge with east, there's too many leagues already.

Issues with mergers

• Monopolies: VRL Spain 2022 lacked any Italian or Portuguese representation to combat this It would be best to give each region a base amount of slots.
  For example lets say Iberia 2024 has 12 slots: 2 slots is given to italy/spain/portugal each. The remaining 6 slots would be distributed in an open qualifier between the nations.

Map of proposed changes: https://imgur.com/tyUpWck
Map of proposed changes (if cis is added): https://imgur.com/a/i62hDju

Final thoughts: I doubt any of this to be easily achieved due to the complaints from orgs which may be cut from the leagues and contractual requirements. The main issue with emea is the scheduling.. the off season is too long and hurts the players, the regular season overlaps with other regions too much.

What would you like tier 2 emea to look like in 2024?

yeah you are probably right.
They didn't look too proactive or solid from what i've watched.
Map pool wise is a bit concerning. 3 games or less played on: split, lotus, fracture and bind.
Comp wise they run quite a bit of chamber and gekko which is unique but exploitable.

I was watching some of the Philippines grand finals and there was so many silly rounds, so many rounds someone sticks the bomb and they failed to kill them (either shooting through smokes or not even peeking) .
Indonesia was so bizarre, ray4c was creating so much chaos the game became so sloppy.

Like I know in-theory and historical these teams/regions should be strong but the things I had watched was so underwhelming. (maybe i need to watch more)

Why do you have scarz so low?

Riot has tried their best to keep the game as globally competitive as possible.
They've given regions constant international experience even though the region may be weak.
They've also imposed some strict import rules to help promote regional talent.

What also helps is the fact it's a global game, there's a large playerbase in almost every corner of the world (which I think is only achievable with newer games).

I have thought about it before but "APAC NORTH" would be way bigger in terms of viewership and team quality.

It's really hard to split Asia into 2 leagues, geographically and viewership wise equally.

Valid point.

2-0 eg

13-6
13-10

good night.

fut are 1-4 on split in emea.. it's over... owari da.

They have some crazy aimers + some cool ideas.
It's very possible they could win.

I shouldve watched them a little bit more in fairness.
I was skipping through the vod of the grand final and this https://www.youtube.com/live/53K0q1mJhrA?feature=share&t=17074 is one of the most silliest mistakes ive ever seen. (running up garden with bomb solo through a smoke when you team is on site)
The core of azys-tesseract-rawfiul is decent but the team as a whole i think could struggle internationally.