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A Challengers league ✅
| Country: | International |
| Registered: | December 5, 2021 |
| Last post: | April 12, 2024 at 9:21 AM |
| Posts: | 50 |
Play with name as "Samsung Galaxy"
(This method reminds me of Gambit as M3C or Virtus.Pro as Outsiders in CSGO)
In the true, TW/HK (included MC) has own Challengers and be a part of Pacific Ascension.
Meaning BerLIN is import too.
Or he had played in a long time enough to be accepted as internal player for VCT China by Riot.
I have talked about the application of swiss format in Madrid before, and that has partly come true.
I think in Shanghai with 12 teams, Riot will give the 4 VCT Split 1 winners a direct spot in the Playoff, while still applying the Swiss format for the first stage with the remaining 8 teams. At least it ensures that China will still have a team in the Shanghai Playoff even though they are not worthy after their performance in Madrid.
I wish it could be done now, but this franchising plan has been established by Riot for a 5-year for partner teams, so we will have to wait until 2028 (so far) to know about the redistribution of regions (if Riot knows how to listen and change, or still only know how to love China).
Should be with 5:
Why?
Nah, EGD didn't change any roster since their first global event Champions 2022 excepted Smoggy was sub, and still CN#1 every year
Poor Brasil. If had own VCT, Brasil would have lots of good teams with Loud
Not only first international event since the CN league, but also the fifth time since Champions 2022 a China team plays in.
Poor Brasil...
Nah, they have played in global event in 3 years, not first time
Yeah, it's a Chinese... Taipei agent lmao
I hope Riot will change to this format instead of keep Double Elimination for only 4 teams in each group same as 3 years VCT in the past, that's becoming bored.
In the Swiss-system for 8 teams, numbers of match are also 10 matches total as same as the format DE 2 groups with 4 teams each currently, and 4 teams has score 2-0 and 2-1 will qualify too. The difference is teams will never know their next oponent in Winners Matches (teams 1-0) or Elimination Matches (teams 0-1), beside that teams who has score 1-1 and matched before in Opening Matches (0-0) will not meet again in Decider Matches
Playoff round with 4 teams can be hosted at a large venue with 3 matches of Single Elimination bo5, or Double Elimination in 6 matches
Even so, I still think Riot had made plans to host Madrid Masters in only 1 round with Double Elimination like Reykjavík 2021.
Well, I know communication is not trouble due to Spanish speaking but Kru and Lev both are from Latam South and seem to be they will prioritize players from Argentina/Chile instead of any where
Do you like ban/pick with HUD like events in years before or directly ban/pick with coaches like events in this year?
Not available for minor regions that no have team in franchising such as Oceania, Vietnam, Latam North, MENA
Any region else?
Should be replaced by percentage like in Team Deathmatch. 1 orb / 1 kill in time = 15%, plant/defuse spike = 10%, dead in time = 5%, kill or dead out time/ dead by spike = 0%.
Well, at least India has GE, HK/TW players can play in China, Oce player has English to communicate, Indonesia has RRQ
Remain Vietnam has nothing. Game is going to dead in Vietnam
Remember in 2021, due to Vlr was not released in Vietnam => Riot banned all tournaments in Vietnam, and Vietnamese players and teams was prevented by Riot to play First Strike, Challengers, Masters and Champions. As a result, Vietnamese players couldn't keep up with the level of Apac and rest of world => no franchised team.
Also Vlr was not released in China until 2023 summer, but Riot facilitated Chinese players to play every global event at first, from did not banned tournaments, gave 2 slots in 2021 LCQ Apac (not take part in due to Covid), 2022 LCQ East Asia, now 2 slots in Master and 3 slots in Champions, own league and host Masters Shanghai in next year
F*ck Riot.
Americas: 1
EMEA: 1
Pacific: 1
China: 9
Next to 2025, VCT Champions Beijing will be confirmed.
Trust me bro.
EVERYTHING IS NOT ALWAYS LIKE SOMETHING
I'm imaging VCT Pacific in future will be looked like LoL PCS that almost (>90%) teams/players are from TWHK
China will have 4 teams in Champions right?
INDIA is a country with more than 1.4 Billion people too
Well, it's Hong Kong organization, not Thai, so may be...
I prefer EMEA and Americas' stages to look modern, rather than Pacific's stage that is copied from previous years' events
Due to FIFA code:
IDN=Indonesia
IND=India
Official name is "Valorant Masters Tokyo" but be held in Chiba.
"VALORANT MASTERS CHIBA" ?
Not loud, but not quiet.
At least Japanese fans are not in a hurry to go home after the game
Looking forward to the Masters Tokyo
Actually this year there is only a split of season, meaning top 3 of League will qualify for both Masters and Champions directly. Not need to win the Masters.
There are 16 slots in Champions.
10 slots are decided, for each region 3 slots directly via League, and 1 slot for Pacific LCQ winner.
6 slots remaining, I think Riot will divide for:
Yeah I said it: everything have a reason. And reason is Riot based on result of last year (2021) to decide slots in the next year (2022), And no one can predict the future what happend to Vietnam in next year. Will be good or bad? Can not know it. If I know what happend to future I would like to buy a lottery ticket than go to work every weekdays.
Now they are bad in this year, and not have money like GE, they not make franchising. That's normal. Nothing to hate Vietnam because that was not their fault.
P/S: at least Vietnam is better South Asia. Especially GE, who couldn't win Vietnamese team in this year, now made franchising.
I don't know why you hate Vietnam in this time but everything have a reason
In 2021 stage 3, Vietnam had 2 teams BAAM with CES qualified for playoff (I remembered in playoff with 8 teams, VN and ID were only regions had 2 teams each, while TH SGMY PH TWHK each reagion had 1). Especially BAAM had qualified at first place from a group with Boom and X10 (Xerxia now)
In knockout, BAAM won Full Sense (the team later qualified for Champions via LCQ). They also played very impressive against Bren (the winner of this stage), although lost this match in OT.
So I think result of BAAM in 2021 that helped Vietnam to have 3 spots in next year (2022). That was normal if base on previous result. And no one can predict the future that SEA will merge with OCE and South Asia, and what happend to Vietnam in next year.
Actually finance or money are never the strengths of any Vietnamese organizations.
Look at VCS from LoL, although at the top 6/12 leagues in MSI/Worlds but still be the only league has promotion/relegation after season, due to can not be held as a franchise league as same as almost leagues. The problem is easy to understand: no have enough money.
"because EDG (or if it wasn't EDG) qualified from the East Asia LCQ, they're gonna be classified as EA." => nah that's not true if a KR or JP team was qualified.
example: if Northeption was qualified, their region name would be JP, not EA.
and now Furia qualified from the South America LCQ but their region name is still BR not SA.
If Notheption or OnSla2er was qualified for Champions via East Asia LCQ, sure their region name is JP/KR instead of EA like EDG.
And the injustice is a NATION like Japan is not worthy for a direct slot as a REGION in masters and champion. Turkey deserve more but is considered as SUB-REGION of EMEA.
Japan should be a SUB-REGION of APAC with SEA/South Asia/Oceania. Don't worry about ping, Riot can host a LAN event in Singapore where all players can go to compete.
I think Riot had own format for Master Reykjavík. This is just my suggestion to a Master competition with 12 teams in 15 days (April 10-24).
3 stages: Play-in group, Main group, Knockout
Seeds are based on last Champions' result: EU>LATAM>SEA (now APAC)>NA>KR>BR>JP
Play-in seed
Play-in group stage (10 matches in 5 days)
Break in 1 day
Main group stage (10 matches in 5 days)
Break in 1 day
Knockout stage (3 matches in 3 days)
Based on result of last SEA Chanllengers (2021 stage 3), both CES and BAAM had qualified for playoff.
SEA a shared region with 6 countries-like minor regions: Indonesia, Malaysia+Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan+Hong Kong, Vietnam, and must play against each other but only have 1-2 slots of SEA for Master an Champions. I'm glad if Japan become the 7th minor region of SEA due to their weakness and not worthy for their own slot. This slot should be given to SEA for increased opportunities for non-participating countries in Master/Champions such as Indonesia, Taiwan+Hong Kong and Vietnam. I believe they are better than Japan and deserve fairer competition.
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