The disadvantage of running their Groups before opening ceremony (crowds were not allowed to enter arena until at least after opening ceremony yesterday)
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The disadvantage of running their Groups before opening ceremony (crowds were not allowed to enter arena until at least after opening ceremony yesterday)
they need to finish in time to make way for other game, since this venue is shared by other 6 more games. LoL is on Week 2 meant VALORANT needs a way to finish playoffs in 4 days to leave room for LoL to inherit after
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
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
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
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)
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