Let Americas hosted in Brazil in a time about 2-3 years and you will understand "what is the home advantage".

Have a free time, I just suggest for second era. Of course, Riot never do it.

Let 2 or 3-years instead of 5-years

• 5 years is too long. We saw lots of problems happened about partner teams but Riot couldn't do anything to fix it due to contracts.

Make 6 regional leagues instead of 4. There are:

• NA: play in LA
• LATAM+Brazil: play in Sao Paulo
• EMEA: play in Berlin.
• China: self-decided location. If available, team's can make home studio/stadium like LPL
• East Asia (KR+JP+TW/HK, included Mongolian players): play in Japan (best in Tokyo).
• SEA (included OCE + South Asia): play in Bangkok

Each regions will be 10 teams, 6 partner and 4 ascension. Total 60 teams all regions.

Reasons:

• Avoid visa issues. There have been cases where visa issues had a significant impact on teams. For example, FURIA in Kick off this year. PRX Patmen also had visa issue and missed 2 matches in stage 1.
• Increase diversity and opportunities for players from other countries.
• Minimize unworthy or underperforming partner teams.
• Why Japan instead of Korea for East Asia: although Seoul now is a venue has good facilities but
  • Except for matches of Korean teams, there were still plenty of empty seats.
  • Whenever the camera pointed at Korean fans, they just shyly hid behind their cheering boards. Personally, I prefer seeing fans wave, give a friendly smile, or do a fun hand sign like a finger heart. I believe Japanese fans can do it.
  • The Korean community in Japan is much larger than the Japanese community in Korea, so Korean teams wouldn’t have to worry about a lack of live audience, while Japanese teams would also have more fans go to watch them.
  • In Japan, there are many support services available in Korean, so language wouldn’t be an issue. In fact, I’ve even heard that Koreans is easier to learn Japanese compared to people from other countries due to the similarities in grammar. And a lot of Korean are playing in Japanese teams. Visa and life in Japan for Korean is not a big problem.
• Why Bangkok for SEA:
  • The fact that Thailand has been chosen to host several international VCT tournaments shows that it is quite a suitable location. Up to now, we’ve already had Ascension Pacific 2023, Game Changers Pacific 2024, Masters Bangkok, and we will have Ascension and Game Changers Pacific 2025. I believe Thailand also can host Champions.
  • Visa in Thailand is not difficult. For fans, not only SEA people but also Indian and Oceanian, Thailand doesn't required visa.

Suggestion of partner's slots division (6 slots):

• NA, EMEA, China: I have no idea.
• LATAM+Brazil: 3 BR + 3 LATAM
• East Asia: 3 KR + 2 JP + 1 TW/HK (hope that will be CFO, or PSG Talon)
• SEA: 1 Thailand, 1 Indonesia, 1 MYSG (PRX), 1 Philippines, 1 Vietnam, 1 Oceania
  • Why not have India: in the fact, Riot did a lot to attract Indian players and viewers (made Lotus, Harbor, took partner with Global Esports), but result was so bad. Currently, GE has to play without any Indian players. And there’s an unfortunate truth that Indian has to accept: they has never had a single player who played in a Masters/Champions.

Global events formats:

• Masters with 8 teams First Stand (or "Conquerors")
  (I think it shouldn't be called as "Masters". Due to be teams are decided by regional Kick Off - a quick split season with Double Emilination format. The scale of the first Masters is always smaller than the second one, so grouping them under the same name as "Masters" doesn’t sound good. Temporarily use name from LOL. If it were up to me, I would call this tournament as "Valorant Conquerors")
  • 6 teams (only regional winner), drawn in 2 groups, bo3 single round robin. If h2h score is 1-1 for 3 teams, team which have most difference of games and rounds auto-qualify as 1st-place, while remain 2 teams will be decide 2nd-place by a bo1 tie-break.
  • Top 4 teams in play-off with single elimination, all bo5 (don't worry, Lock/in Sao Paulo semifinals were played in bo5).
  • Playing days: Mon-Tue-Wed for groups (2 bo3 matches each, tie-break in late of Wed), Fri-Sat-Sun for playoffs (1 bo5 match each). Thu is break day.
• Masters
  • 12 teams (regional winner + runner-up)
  • Seed #1 from top 4 regions in First Stand will start in playoff stage. Remain 8 teams will start in play-in stage.
  • Format is same current Masters 2.
• Champions
  • 18 teams (regional winner + runner-up + champions points)
  • Seed #3 from bottom 4 regions in Masters will start in play-in stage with Double Elimination. 2 teams will qualify for group stage with remain 14 teams. 16 teams will play with format same current Champions

If RRQ can lose TS, we let review the h2h result of the 4 top teams:

• RRQ: 2W/1L
• TLN: 2W/1L
• T1: 1W/2L
• NS: 1W/2L
  and in h2h directly, RRQ> TLN, T1 > NS

If RRQ can win, we let review the h2h result of TLN, T1 and NS:

• TLN: 2W/0L
• T1: 1W/1L
• NS: 0W/2L

So, although RRQ has not played yet, the Omega group has also been determined. RRQ>TLN>T1>NS.

They still do not. Must win Zeta.

Let imaginate: if Bleed did not make misstake and could keep slot
=> Boom must be stuck in tier 2 this year
and SEA Challengers now is sucked with current format
=> Boom may be gone, disband, etc...
Thank god Boom have come to where they should belong, not GE DFM or TS

Get ace in pistol round and... 0 kill more

He owned this motto from CSGO but sucked Riot had stolen it and gave to KangKang.

Where is the worst subregion in Pacific although Riot has supported the local esports scene a lot? While doesn't do anything well for SEA and Oceania's scene.

Source
Is it fair to non-KR teams due to be impossible for leaving Korea to make homeground locally?

Possible Japan and Korea again, due to infrastructure
Excluded Seoul (hosted almost Champs 2024) and Chiba (host all Masters 2023), JPKR have:

• Osaka
• Kyoto
• Kobe
• Tokyo "real"
• Nagoya
• Okinawa
• Sapporo
• Busan
• Gwangju
• Incheon (hosted Champs 2024 final week)
• etc...

Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Jakarta are ok too, but afraid viewer are not guaranteed

SEA is not a COUNTRY, meaning even if you group all SEA teams, SEA fans still won't care how many teams SEA has as much as how many teams their own country has. RRQ was previously criticized by Indonesian fans for trying to build a Philippines team instead of Indonesia in 2023 franchise.

In 2021, due to inaugural season, slots were given based on each region's FPS platform. Brazil had CSGO, Korea had Overwatch. Brazil was given 2, Korea was given 1 slot in Masters 2 Reykjavik, Champs 21, this was reasonable. Because after all, Valorant game play is look like CSGO more than OW.

People dont understand korea went through a lot to reach where they are lol.

• Given direct Masters/Champions slots in 2020-2022
• Located as host of Pacific => no problem about visa, living environment, language, fans, server, ...
• Given most partners slots in Pacific (3)
• Challengers teams can scrim with tier 1 locally

Yah, too hardly understanding...

VCT CHALLENGERS 2024 APAC UPDATES

Said: "Our goal was to foster sustainable, thriving VALORANT esports ecosystems in each of our markets"
Actually: "Our goal was make SEA weaker. If it is overstrong, we will lose markets from Korea and Japan due to cannot win Pacific or qualified for Masters and Champions. SEA can be strong, but must be not stronger than Korea and Japan"

Said: "Our hope is that by narrowing our focus and operating more efficiently, we can improve the overall quality of the tournament for teams and fans across the region"; "We hope VCT Challengers Southeast Asia will bring positive change for everyone in our community"
Actually: "We hope VCT Challengers Southeast Asia will decrease numbers of orgs, players and prevent the development of SEA talents, make them cannot have enough number of talent players, skill and exp to compete with Korea and Japan"

Said: "Fans can expect exciting international matchups and more compelling broadcast value"
Actually: "Even fans cannot watch in a good broadcast platform as same as YouTube or Twitch, if bring us money, it's OK" => L SOOP

Anythings else?

At least won a tier 2 Indo team - ARF

Favoring Chinois only shows that Riot loves money more than anything. A typical example is that Brazil used to be the strongest country in Valorant and they would have always been strong if not for the excessive favoritism for Chinois that deprived Brazil of the opportunity to develop. A Wild Rift-like future is not far away.

Yeah, it's already tier 3 from game released. Like Indo in LOL.

Nice try Fancy
Also don't expect much, when the Valorant e-sports scene in Vietnam had been already dead and never been supported by Rito since its launch. During 2020 First Strike and 2021 Split 1, Rito banned Vietnam from participating in VCL with funny reason the game had not been released domestically (while China not realeased yet until 2024 but gave slot Master Champs 2023 lul). And now banned Vietnamese orgs to be partner in Tier 1, prevent Vietnam low tier teams and players no have any chance for train, scrim and play with Tier 1 sence.

Still better than no Taiwan team qualified this split

Nice try Fancy. They have to play without coach and core players. May be not enough money to keep for a long time and disband soon.

It may be PUBG Mobile

I only know Hua Mark and Bangkok Arena due to watched Futsal Asian Cup
Anywhere else?

Why not "Blade"?
It's look like RGX blade and Overdrive blade than Onimaru Kunitsuna (true katana), at least about holding style.
And I think Korean fan, with this Champions event at their home, never love this melee with name from Japanese.

Most failure Agent ever

This is my format suggestion

Yeah but a lot of people are still thinking Chinese players are newbie and need times to develop. That's so funny.
Riot favor China and abandon others regions such as Brazil-Latam (merged to Americas), or MENA, Oceania, Vietnam (no teams in franchise system)

LUL who care when game release. Chinese players competed based on Hong Kong server early.

3 years with 5 global events since Champions 2022 and still new LUL

Americas > Pacific > EMEA > Pacific's Challengers > China

All Tier 1 teams ❌
All Challengers teams ✅

CHINA

EDG ~ top 3
FPX ~ top 6
Dragon Ranger and remains ~ Challengers

Group stage: 16 teams in Swiss system with 2 groups of 8 teams each, all bo3, top 4 teams each qualify -> total 20 matches, equal to the previous format (GSL Double elimination with 4 groups, 4 teams each)
Play-off: 8 teams in Single Elimination, all matches bo5

Champions London decided.
Remember: Korea host LOL MSI 2022 - LOL Worlds 2023 - Champions 2024
London host LOL MSI 2023 - LOL Worlds 2024, then Champions 2025

A tier 1 league ❌
A Challengers league ✅

Play with name as "Samsung Galaxy"
(This method reminds me of Gambit as M3C or Virtus.Pro as Outsiders in CSGO)

Controllist or Dueler?

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:

• NA
• SA (Brazil + Latam)
• EMEA
• East Asia (CN/JP/KR)
• APAC (SEA/South Asia/OCE)

Why?

• Reducing the impact due to Visa issues (like pANcada, SkRossi,...)
• Dividing global slots evenly for every areas and countries

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

A franchised league with tier of challengers level

Title

Yeah, it's a Chinese... Taipei agent lmao

To celebrate a new server here

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?