Yeah probably that + the rotating venue make it super cramped
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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
https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1935216973090275606
Wolves announced they are building their own new permanent home stadium in the city of Chongqing, China, with investment worth over 200 Million CNY ($27M) plus extra 10M CNY they earned from an Investment company
The stadium is expected to be 2000 capacity and opens at the end of this year,
While its unlikely they will use this for their VCT matches, this will at least housed Wolves KPL team in Honor of Kings, which earned over $12,000,000 in cash prize winning from the single team alone (https://liquipedia.net/honorofkings/Wolves).
In the KPL league in China, many teams have their home venue like how Homestand venues are in Overwatch league
If getting official competition years so late behind everyone and can still finished top
Just how far they could be on Mobile version, now that the entire world is years behind them?
yeah but I mean the sea of people outside the stadium really gives you football vibes (too many people they cannot fit in a venue)
FOUR MILLION CONCURRENT VIEWERSHIP - https://escharts.com/tournaments/mobile-legends/mpl-indonesia-season-15 in the ongoing league finals between what basically is GenG/T1 of Indonesia playing each other (
(ONIC = GenG, RRQ = T1 but majority ot their fans are football ultras instead of kpop stans)
The first season to break 4,000,000 people watching at the same time
Stadium so full they cant even fit all the people in and they had to have a monitor outside the stadium, something straight out of FIFA World Cup - https://x.com/mplidofficial/status/1934254179784310854?t=MYyVT_tqewxbZy2W2ka1Tg&s=19
fucking insane by numbers alone
They are effectively the first esports org to sign a VALORANT Mobile team, so fast this is actually ONE DAY before Beta starts lol.
https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1932762557192024263
There will be a $90,000 Mobile tournament series across 4 weeks from June 23 where Pros & Content Creators in China compete in weekly series
Edit: I'm pretty sure some of these are ex-CrossFire Mobile (CrossFire Legends) player but I have no info
This is the showmatch which was played during the same event that TenZ was invited to https://www.vlr.gg/496985/tenz-in-a-val-mobile-event (TenZ was invited to mostly doing gameplay tests but not in the full showmatch)
Showmatch highlights include various round gameplay and even how player controls their movement on phone's touchscreen
https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1932494397410807816
All matches currently in VALM, even in ranked is MR8 not 13. Devs double down on this on their interview, to avoid a match being too long for a Mobile game, which is what Wild Rift actually got criticized on: Match lasts too long
Matches are mostly CN Content Creators but some other game pros are participated as well e.g. DANK1NG formerly competes in CS and the PeRo player are active PUBG PC pro
Beta Test server in China for VALORANT Mobile is going live tomorrow
he's probably struggling with the mobile gameplay.
Theres a clip of TenZ reviewing (not playing) gameplay from one of the more proper players which is probably the more accurate representation of good players in this version: https://x.com/DramicGaming/status/1931742105912627440
This week for VALORANT MOBILE in China is a Shanghai Demo event where players could try the game before the playtest this week, including a series of Showmatches and 1v1s featuring various content creators and some VCT CN Pros. As far as KennyS and TenZ being in this event as well
The event were affected by rain during this but didnt stop the event from having a packed crowd
Some Pictures of the event:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gs_OPylbwAEO-Zp?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gs_OS1va0AAe5qr?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
Gameplay of TenZ playing it: https://x.com/Maqsad123/status/1931784516181320016
Gameplay of KennyS playing it: https://x.com/Maqsad123/status/1931560136268759452
"City Representation" model find its way from Mobile games and LPL to VCT
Another VCT CN org spotted with their VALM activity
this one is so far the only VCT CN org to already create a separate Weibo account for their Mobile version team - https://weibo.com/u/5311868935
So far among chinese orgs reported to be making one, here's how it looks for their VALM rosters
In a realistic way Heretics having VALM team isn't too actually far fetched either (Spain were among one of few EU countries that were quite into mobile competitive teams)
Hard to say because no one knows global beta when, but I think do expect pros from CODM and games like Critical Ops, Standoff to try it out given these three are the closest archetype of game to VALM. but all of them shared the same trait lack of proper esports scene
CODM's esports roadmap currently is so bad that current valorant T2 looks good all of sudden
The Mobile version which is about to have Beta in China next week, is having their first tournament series in two weeks time, the series will last for a full month + an offline showmatch
it appears that someone had discovered potentially players for VALORANT Mobile's division of All Gamers, one of the teams in VCT CN.
Additionally, It's also being reported that TEC LGD RNG and NOVA are also currently building one ahead of it as well.
While details of this is still scarce, screenshots of the event seemingly surfaced ahead of its announcement
Basically this is a Content Creator-based tournament for VALORANT Mobile in China, that gave out total of $91,000 in cash across 4 weeks (to put the money in perspective - the highest prize pool in a Challenger League is only $70,000)
https://x.com/subzidite2/status/1928821701032198495
I really need to get a new keyboard with another typo, recommend me one
Sounds like their response to people saying the game has too many abilities flooding in a round?
Apparently "Replays", "Moving to Unreal Engine 5", "Ability Overload", "Smurfing" and "Esports" are topics in that dev diary later tonight
https://x.com/ValorantUpdated/status/1928254544061837653
Nice typing skills that I have by the way "Potentian"
I dont think they intend to toppled those two viewership, given how three of them are different genre so different audience
And they had a shot at popping off:
From my experience handling all mobile games on Liquipedia, if to put every region in order of how well invest, interested, committed to Mobile esports the range goes from here (Most to Least)
China, SEA, South Asia, India >> South and Latin America >> East Asia >> CIS >> Turkey/MENA/Africa >> EU >> NA >> (OCE non existent)
Easier to happen but Tencent were quite strict and harsh when it comes to punishing it as well (at very least their top Chinese Mobile league [PUBGM, HoK, CrossFire, CODM] hasnt seen matchfixing reports in the league)
Given this is actually Tencent announcing it (not Riot China directly. Only Tencent staffs appear at OnePlus's event), plus its a Mobile game, in China. They probably planning long term on the competition.
Console was already hard to grasp any market to begin with because its technically limits to just NA in general, while Mobile can simply get all the regions VCT have (with NA being the smallest of bunch)
OnePlus announce partnership with Riot to have OnePlus Ace 5 supreme as the "Official Phone Device" for VALORANT Mobile
normally in Mobile games they tend to have an "Official sponsored phone" for their esports events
During VALORANT Mobile partnership announcement,
Tencent announces that in July they will ran the inaugural "National Open Tournament" for VALORANT Mobile in China.
Effectively the game's first official esports event only a month after their first public beta test
For some games (e.g. Mobile, Asian does play it frogger doesnt understand this) were actual S as in they are their own Majors moved here
for valorant im down with any (but for other games audience could be much much more into, e.g. the one frogger hates because he's italian)
They havent announce about this publicly yet, could be a trial and tried first on mobile then PC
well to each their own, at least something Asians are into it
We didnt commit crime doing that anyway
First Look at the "Spectator Mode" for Mobile version
https://x.com/AnakinJuegos/status/1925820776378212533
they have a built in UI that is similar to tournament UIs right in the game that it details player's economy, ultimate points and their status.
Unlike PC it would be just blank screen with no player bars on the side (and the tournament UI had to be requested or pay to Riot to use it)
Additionally, Custom lobbies in Mobile is now a server browser like Dota2 where you can browse rooms to join
THIS,
EPIC literally kililed SEA server, they added it around the time they start being free to play (it is before the Kevin Cube is a thing) then quietly dropped it saying low population
then they failed to get approval in China as well, game stuck in "Test" state with MTX disallowed for years until they gave up too. Leaving PUBG as the ONLY Sort of approved PC BRs in the country, neither APEX or COD ever gets one
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