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They do crushed it in CN yeah, but not to like unbeatable level (CF and CODM both had issue in their mobile comp in CN that is the severe lack of TIer 2 and proper open level events) so they were like okay in regions they do good but leave room for a proper contender
Very lucky that
so it's free real estate, Riot's to fail at this point
the concern is in Wild Rift Esports they tried to push their closed-loop structure and being restrictive on open/third party/community tournaments like PC, on a Mobile platform which backfires
https://weibo.com/7982741612/Q05prCFRZ?pagetype=profilefeed
To my knowledge there hasnt been games with this excessively high Pre Registers for a very long time in China
Game launches August 19th as official release
We also now get confirmation that the two leaked song earlier, one from bbno$ is the Mobile launch music
https://x.com/VALORANT/status/1956763036749873208
As for the specs the minimum specs in beta says you'll be able to run the game with iphone 6s at super bare minimum, and at highest recommended is just iphone 13 Pro
Riot China announces that bbno$ song is the VALORANT Mobile China server launch music
he made a tweet confirming that he's there for VALM as well
https://www.bilibili.com/opus/1101767346768314368?spm_id_from=444.41.0.0
https://x.com/bbnomula/status/1956385437368439234
Few days ago two VALORANT music were leaked, one is being said to be for Champions the other is for the launch of Mobile version in China (which recently passes 70million pre registers today)
The two songs that were claimed to be for those: https://x.com/M1KR08/status/1955344193020166623
in that leak, bbno$ was the mobile one and he didnt get to do Champs this year
Someone apparently was able to discovered two VALORANT related music
One of them has August 18 release date, one day before VALORANT Mobile launches in China
the other has September 9 release date, using the same font type as this year's VCT Champions??
https://weibo.com/7552587338/PFm4N7vwf?refer_flag=1001030103_&layerid=5198563131789459
The last 3 days of CN Stage 2 Finals each had their own showmatch
one of them is VALORANT Mobile Showmatch held 1.5hrs before VCT CN Stage 2 Finals on the same day
*None of the Showmatches are listed on the english version of the schedule posted in twitter
They seem to not have this energy for PC anymore or that they simply dont bother at all (very different vs their stance on mobile)
CrossFire had a Mobile version since 2015, Global servers gone offline in 2018 but Tencent decide to revive and relaunch it in this year
the same year VALORANT Mobile is coming out (it's clear there is an internal competition between Tencent & Riot)
Then today at their Mobile League Finals, CrossFire announces their roadmap for the 10 year mobile anniversary with plans to add Esports outside China for the first time.
Including
https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5198100541669415?from=old_pc_videoshow
(for those who dont want to click Weibo - https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1954513049697783988)
it's clear CrossFire were clearly bothered and triggered by VALORANT doing a Mobile version, that they're throwing everything to stop them from going big in China
(the same level of energy wasnt seen when VALORANT PC launches in China, for example CrossFire announced that PC league will have something like VCT Ascension in future only to then quietly folded the idea just few days after Riot announces that VCT CN will happen. Eventually VAL PC beats CrossFire in internet cafe rankings)
Not yet, but I believe its close given the upcoming launch in China is that they are already exiting Beta. There was a very small test last week that users were able to play the English language version in the Chinese test and it was mostly 70% translated already.
Saying it would be announce at Champions isnt too far fetch but I hope its not the case because the crowd would boo it (wrong target audience)
During the launch event last sunday, Bobby (CEO of Tencent Esports and Publishing Director of VAL Mobile) came out to drop some news on the Esports stuff in China
There will be a "National Competition" series like the one for PC version
Tencent will inject 10,000,000 CNY or roughly $1,300,000 annually as prize pool
The event will feature four tracks:
Basically like how Blender tournament looked like in EMEA, except in China this is common thing that almost all of Tencent's esports has it
No dates yet, but if you remember the Creator Cup that someone posted here before that one runs until September. So this is after September
Game launches in China and will exit beta on August 19
VALORANT MOBILE Chinese official launch (exit beta) on AUGUST 19
https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1951987937412825524
Some notes include the game confirms potentially 1.5 billion CNY ($200,000,000) investment into the game, as a long term, 3-year continous investment that will build up the Mobile version's structure. it will launch with 18 agents / 7 maps + 2 Mobile exclusive TDM Maps and 10 game modes
Could be, there's not a lot of nice Shanghai venue option out there you have Jing'an district venues, the ACL venue (Oriental) and then the Masters Shanghai venue (Mercedes Benz Arena) in addition to VCT CN arena
2026 - Shanghai
2027 - Unknown but confirmed to be Americas region
https://weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309405194851875946629
In China, Public release for the game is confirmed for this summer. It's not clear if this is Full Release or Open Beta
https://weibo.com/7982741612/PDLrUD4VP
but either way it will no longer required you to sign up for invite access anymore, just go download and play (provided you have ways to go through the Chinese verification system)
This week is China's own E3, the ChinaJoy event. Apparently Riot China is hosting a closed/private launch event with invited media to reveal the Future Vision of their Mobile version of VALORANT and has been rumored to have an announcement for the Release Date in China, which could indicate the game is ready to launch over there
These will happen on August 3rd.
It appears that a build for the English language version for VALORANT Mobile was found hide within the current Chinese test client, very early given China still at what would be "Close Beta 3"
Chinese iOS Store listed the game's expected release date as November 25th (which can be moved forward or pushed back)
Split 3 of VCT SEA only for Indo stream has brought back Twitch and Youtube streams which wasnt seen since the SOOP deal
CO-stream for ID is also available for non-SOOP platforms in this split albeit you are limited to only black screens (can't mirror the official stream into your stream)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DMXMQ4oJ9P-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
For whatever reason, this is the only language to do so the rest is staying as EX
HoK is a weird case because their prize pool of an A-Tier is very close to LoL Worlds (HoK's A Tier Chinese league that AG compete had 2.11M USD, Worlds from LoL had 2.2 total), so their A, is S in many games and their S being S++ by prize pool
EsportsEarnings and ESCharts isnt that accurate because they missed loads of events specially Chinese games
https://liquipedia.net/crossfire/Portal:Statistics << This is more accurate for CrossFire's prize pool by the years
skip the global viewership here when you see the amount of money they won for a game heavily reliant on China
https://liquipedia.net/crossfire/All_Gamers/Results
https://liquipedia.net/honorofkings/AG_Super_Play/Results
as if the whole org's winning is relying on these two games
https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1945012926470853107
Tencent will add a new test for VAL Mobile on July 17th, which meant to test buying stuff using Premium Currencies and allows Top up
They will gave out free currencies for you to try, but if you chose to Top up during this test, you will get 1.5x return of the amounf when the game is officially launched in China. This is quite common trope in Chinese Games where they will make a special test dedicated to MTX then rebating at launch
The interesting part is they have confirmed this test will bring over a new skins exclusive to mobile version translated to the Overdrive set on Jul 19
apparently this is also not the Overdrive Collection from PC version either.
Previously Riot&Tencent both confirms Mobile will contain stuff that PC ver. doesnt, up to things like Mobile Only Skins and game modes (atm it already includes a mode not exist in PC, and two maps also not exist in PC albeit its a TDM map)
Club Championship is the model where orgs compete for extra set of prize, based on points given in all 25 games
Despite Heretics winning (and likely will net them a prize money finish from here) they are ineligible at the moment (and Heretics needs their COD team to finished Top 8 to make their org eligible)
https://liquipedia.net/esports/Esports_World_Cup/2025/Club_Championship_Standings
at China National Competition (PC Version), a brief look at VALORANT Mobile Esports plans in China was announced by TJ Sports
https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1944319659513348454
Summary
In a sense after September, VALM in China will have similar structure to PC except only the Professional League is not there yet
Tomorrow is final day of the China National Competition LAN event, which is a PC Tournament to determine Ascension teams
a Showmatch for the Mobile Version will be played before finals, Previously noted by the game's official Weibo has hinted that they're planned to have "Esports news update" for the Mobile version during the showmatch as well - https://www.vlr.gg/505331/valorant-mobile-esports-news
Presumably an official roadmap for at least the Chinese region
Tencent has recently opened up jobs for Esports operation for VALM few weeks prior as well.
https://x.com/EsportsCharts/status/1942615796662063403
ESCharts expects VAL EWC to break over 1M, with 500K-1M range all being Mobile games (due to unlike VAL, they offer Champs spots)
(in 2024, it finished with Mobile Legends being the most watched one, only game with 2 million+)
probably not so much for format, the silver lining being they get the largest venue option out of all 5
Yeah probably that + the rotating venue make it super cramped
https://liquipedia.net/esports/Esports_World_Cup/2025#Venues
All games shared 5 venues + TV studios to rotate, so each game needs to finish in time (or make it 2-week) before handing it to the next game. One of the reason behind wacky formats
(excluding LCQ, Only DOTA and Mobile Games are 2-week events with the exception of Mobile Legends being the only 4-week event due to they had a Female tournament)
Yes the pre register is only for the Chinese server (tho its possible for foreigners to pre-register Chinese servers while living outside CN, but that meant its provided you have things like a Chinese WeChat/Weibo account and know how to do one so its a very minuscule %)
https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5184461961363542
The game has hit total of 40 million pre-registers ahead of the game's launch, and this is still around 4 months away before the game launches (VALM estimated launch date is November 25 according to iOS store in China)
For comparison when Wild Rift had their Pre Reg period it was around 20-30M only, and when COD Mobile has one they broke 50M+
Tencent's Job opening sites in China updating a large list of Job openings for VALORANT Mobile
but Specially one extra were added yesterday: "Esports Operation for VALORANT Mobile" job, with 2+ years experience requirements
seems to be clear that Tencent wants to commit an Esports plan for the mobile version.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gun-gFhXgAAPCtX?format=png&name=900x900
Back when the previous list update happened around few months ago, this one wasn't there so Tencent recently added this one on specific
Most if not all events now had their EWC schedule and starting times up - https://esportsworldcup.com/en/schedule
as well as VALORANT
TL;DR That site is in Riyadh timezone, mostly afternoon EU matches
They wont suceed, They do won the first World Championship for CODM but then the next two year their performance fall apart really quick, they won simply because the rest hasnt take it seriously yet
If we use CODM logic to apply as an assumption the order of top regions would be China >> SEA >> South America >> Russians >> Rest
that said in CODM EU (plague with DQs and players not reading rules) and JP (lack of teams) are two of the worst performed regions, not NA
Very simple, take a look at winnings from this two team
These two alone far surpassed any team's earnings in VALORANT
the second I realize this was on Pc sadge
KAY/O, Fade, Harbor, Gekko, Deadlock, Iso, Clove, Vyse, Tejo, and Waylay is not available in the Mobile version yet
Omen and Chamber and Icebox just got added yesterday
Not sure if this is already in PC Version
https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1938536702643232775
The Free Camera in Spectator Mode for VALORANT Mobile has a 1-click button that allows you to warp your camera to a specific point in the map, including bombsites, middle of the map and spawns
This is now the actual main event in Riyadh so yes Streamed LAN, I think first days could be multiple match at the same time so multiple streams (they did that with games where 2+ match running same time)
EWC splits their account into @EWC_Extra where match results, group draws are separated to that one so you won't see most of these live updates on the main account
A: G2 BLG PRX KC
B: XLG SEN BBL DRX
C: RRQ Heretics NRG Titan
D: FNC GenG EDG 100
It's expected given the limited freedom in controls (as you're on touch screen vs kbm)
The $92K China tournament that I mentioned previously is already underway, each streaming platform held their own qualifier to determine 1 team to play in Weekend Finals
Fortunately, Huya does stream their matches so if anyone wants to see how Mobile teams in early competitive (Riot calls this test as Close Beta 2) looked like
Fun note: NOVA failed to show up in time in the first match, so they lose a walkover 8-0 to Wolves
I think they need more maps in the pool as well because right now you have exactly 7 in the pool, so they need few more that teams could ban couple of it out
Bo7 probably only works in Mobile version where its MR8 in all modes even ranked, instead of 13 (up to 10 rounds less in each game)
But even with that the ongoing Chinese tournament still on BO5
on MR13 Bo7 would be incredibly exhausting for the players
That reminds me of that one time where a Mobile MOBA "Arena of Valor" had to either
yeah but like where was this part being mentioned at, was it in the video that they posted on the weibo?
where was the big news at NatComp being mentioned was it in their video introductioin?
Next week will kicked off the $92,000 4-Week tournament series for VALORANT Mobile in China where both Pros and Creators compete
https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1936003929764249603
a Shortlist of participants that represents each of the 5 Platforms has been revealed, and including multiple organizations already having a Mobile team, These are the following notable ones. The format of each week is basically each platform qualifies to get 1 team each, then winner of each platform plays the weekend finals, this is streamed live in China as well
Bilibili group
Douyin Group
Douyu Group
Huya Group
Kwai Group
Might need them to win, this will surely skyrocket them into Top Trending, to my recall when EDG won Champions they went as far as 4th or 6th in Weibo's hottest trending topic by the time they won. With the top topics at that moment is still political stuff
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