The double "definitely" in this tweet tells me it was a decision made by higher-ups since "the team/coach definitely agreed with me being removed"

edit: tweet was deleted, was from @yay:

"officially a unrestricted F/A
"role issues were definitely the reason for me departing and the team/coach definitely agreed with me being removed
"will address it further in a video or stream"

TLDR is the title tbh. Version1 and Knights will not make LCQ if my read is correct and LCQ only has 8 teams.

* but it's impossible to tell since Riot/NerdStreet have horrible communication with zero public-facing points of contact. Scroll to the bold if you don't care to hear me vent about this.

Both VLR and Liquipedia use the points scaling for North America that are in the rulebook (on page 29) for NA VCT, which makes perfect, reasonable sense. (Except for the bit where 2nd place receives points, the rulebook pretends only 1st place went to Masters for some reason) You know who doesn't? Riot. Their official overall points standings use a completely different scaling which is grouped much tighter than in the rulebook. Additionally, 100 Thieves inexplicably has 36 points instead of 35 which must be a typo.

To find another reference for Riot's own numbers (which is hilarious to need to do), I skimmed through broadcast VODs and searched the ValorantEsports twitters and found zero specifics regarding circuit points. Luckily, I did find an article from Dot Esports which corroborated the numbers on the official website (except the 100 Thieves typo). Great job Riot and Nerd Street for ignoring your own rulebook and never communicating NA circuit points (unlike every other region afaik).

Now knowing that the rulebook isn't to be trusted, I ran the numbers based upon the Dot Esports article. In last year's VCT, and in this year's EMEA circuit points, the points for each placement scaled up as the splits progressed to reward recent performance. However, pretending that they don't, I gave every team that qualified for VCT Stage 2 35 points (reward for last place in Stage 1) and looked at the *bare minimum* rankings. Once again having to assume since Riot does not communicate these things at the onset of the season, if there are only eight LCQ spots, both Version1 and Knights have no way of reaching the top 10 needed for 3rd-10th. Meanwhile, Ghost and TSM have plenty of time to make their way through to top 10.

Facts but I feel like more people care about the percentile than the quantity of people who have x points. No harm in having both, either.

I feel like knowing how high I ranked is more useful than knowing how many people got exactly as many points as me.

Honestly? I respect Riot's decision to make games end sooner versus always producing the best team winning. I'm glad Counter-Strike exists and I hope it never changes, but I prefer Valorant's overtime system.

I will say, however, since Valorant games produce the best team less often, it is more important to have double-elimination than in CS.

By the way, all of the major talking points that will likely come up in this thread are mentioned in this video by 3kliksphilip.

Allegations are allegations but my guy literally fucked with the investigation multiple times.

I hope Riot gives all impacted teams a chance to voluntarily withdraw from competition while keeping their seats for Stage 2.

Both teams at the Super Bowl have to play underwater so it doesn't matter that much.

how is it even fun cheering for the winning team lmao