https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122248286924246976&set=a.122132200994246976

Both the Global version of SOOP (Green logo) and the original Korean version of SOOP (Blue logo, runs different web base) will be merged into one site, Migration begins Jan 12 - Mar 31

The korean version is basically the old AfreecaTV version of the site, while global one is an entirely fresh start. Global will be moving to use the same base as the Korean version. This will bring streams from both versions into one place and effectively the green logo is going to be replaced with blue

To compare this is how the current Korean site looked like: https://www.sooplive.co.kr/
and this is how Global looked like: https://www.sooplive.com/

National Competition Finals for Mobile version will feature 900,000 CNY or $120,000, this is 40K USD more than the PC China National Finals

https://weibo.com/7982741612/Qjsdi4Qbg?pagetype=profilefeed

Local time
12/26 BO3 13:00-14:20 EDG vs APC
12/26 BO3 14:20-15:40 EGG vs AG
12/27 BO5 15:00-18:00 Finals

EDG and AG have both qualified to this event

They just won the Free Fire World Series last week, aside from that: AoV, PUBG PC, eFootball (also won worlds from here)

The name is one of the 77 provinces in Thailand on the lower northeast (Isan) area

Wolves in VCT CN

https://www.facebook.com/BuriramUnitedEsports/posts/pfbid02S9jLzJXZh58eX1u1LXSiGHr4ZL7vPYsKUV9sAgFeYay6aQsHLZK6aAo6oYHHs2jvl

The text is simply titled "Important announcement tmr, something completely new"

with a water gun emoji

Its not clear if this is VALORANT it could be crossfire mobile at a bad timing, so 50/50

They still keep their Arena of Valor team atm, thats the only team left active atm

Buriram is a potential candidate

• Leak says never involved with VCT
• MiTH's former founder teased in october an org that would "70% odds of closed down" because of financial struggle, turns out its actually correct as TALON, the same founder mentions again that Buriram is a potential candidate
• The only org that is richer than FULL SENSE in TH, because they literally owned a football team
• and do you remember that MotoGP (motorcycle racing) has a race in Thailand?, yeah, they're the track owners

Its them or FS, if they want to keep the audience by not having foreign orgs making local teams

I didnt do work at VLR so maybe idk, on LP it will because I work there

They launched a competition series in China sharing the same China National Competition with PC since August, but I don't think its on VLR yet because game's not out anywhere outside China yet

https://live.bilibili.com/1890953462

Opposite of their PC team, their Mobile team actually made it to an Offline Cup Finals held in an Open Plaza with Crowd. This event is part of the National Competition series (same National Competition as the PC version where it was used for Ascension qualifiers)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3aB4-CWsAAQtOu?format=jpg&name=large

If you go Riot's website and go to the Games section, VALORANT now has a fourth platform icon (Mobile devices) added.
https://www.riotgames.com/en

This wasn't there back earlier (for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20251006090004/https://www.riotgames.com/en October 6th still has only PC and Console icons) so Riot just recently added this, might be that they are ready to announce it outside China.

https://x.com/ValorantEsports/status/1973848025173758053

"each International League will send four Challengers teams to its Stage 2 Playoffs"
Qualifying teams will also be rewarded with a cash stipend to assist with travel and attendance for the playoffs

It's unclear how each region is going to determine 4 (for example Pacific has 5 challenger leagues, but EMEA is probably the easiest because they had the combined EMEA Finals)

Like swiss, so instead of Upper and Lower you now have Upper Middle and Lower

Lose in Upper > Go to Middle > Lose middle again > Go to Lower > Lose lower > home

It's 3 loss and out like Swiss the most simple way to explain

Guest Spot and Ascension is gone in 2026 for the Path to Champions, Idk if this is just premonition that the current league structure is going to be gone

Masters Santiago
Masters London
Champions Shanghai

VCT CN will be a roadshow across 5 cities

All of VCT will now be using a "high stakes" Bracket play

TRIPLE ELIMINATION FORMAT in Kickoff

Masters is now 12 teams

CHALLENGERS CAN NOW QUALIFY FOR CHAMPIONS This replaces Ascension and Guest Spot by having Split 2 teams head into IL Stage 2 playoffs, Challenger is 2 splits btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwK22hwRP2Y

All these already had teams competing in the local cups for the past few weeks, not NOVA yet but EDG and WOL already had one

a showmatch saying "New Game Mode 3v3" was accidentally teased as part of Champions watch party in Thailand, Primmie is playing this match btw, this is the showmatch to played offline at the watch party, not at the venue

https://x.com/VALORANTLeaksEN/status/1972296956740575250

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

1. CODM never took off in SEA despite Garena has it (compared to eg what they pulled off with Free Fire)
2. They still had the shittiest Esports roadmap made by activision, so bad you will even praise Jake Sin in today's time when compared
3. Battlefield and R6 crashout on their mobile version
4. Moonton doesnt have a shooting game

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/M1KR08/status/1955344193020166623

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://x.com/M1KR08/status/1955344193020166623

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

https://x.com/lhfaria/status/1954974526032564401

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

• a dedicated SEA League
• and an Inaugural World Championship

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:

  1. Open Class = All teams can compete subregionally
  2. College Class = Limited to teams in collegiate/university level
  3. Platform Class = Similar to Open but also focused on Content Creator, you are repping the platform you're streaming in
  4. Co-op Track = OnePlus phones is VALM's Official Esports phone partner so they will host their own qualifier

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

https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1952627729435910323

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.

https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1950253959807193212

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)

https://x.com/iYatoOfficial/status/1947615033674104905

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

• They are committed to built an Esports plans in China by welcoming Mobile version to their National Competition and College Competition program
• Mobile will have in-game competition center where you can form a team and compete directly, like Premier
• They'll keep doing linkage and cross promotion through PC events
• The ongoing WattSHOW Cup will continue for 3 more months then VALORANT Mobile will get its first China National Circuit the same way as PC Version

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+