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Tencent esports usually have special leagues outside Top and 2nd Div, these often comes in form of:
as for main league it is expected to be : National Competition >> Second League >> VCT China
Theres two type of coins
This also introduces VALORANT being included into Tencent Game Arena or TGA, to summarize it is Tencent's own-created MLG/GameBattles equivalent
(TGA is an open platform for players of all level to compete both On-Offline with many games being hosted, sounds like MLG isnt it)
Qualifiers will be split into (the term track will be commonly used when it comes to announcing qualifier for the events in china)
Format is then
Has $20,000 prize which is pretty near top for GC prize pool (only BR NA EU had more prize) and is actually the first time a VAL CN tournament had actual prize pool lol
Waiting for this thread but for other region at League Worlds
^ This too, even tho when they had a lot of regions (11 countries at one point during 2013) they werent really close in investment effort
They need to really like outperform everyone, If we talking the same level of dominance as CF its unlikely
CF's level of dominance saw only VN, PH the only two country to beat them on a Masters Equivalent and that's like thrice
and Brazil only Twice during these 15 years at Worlds.
If anything we should likely get, DOTA level of closeness? Regions managed to beat each other out regularly without getting stomped even the smallest ones
Quite a lot (even more beyond the screen cap)
and 2-3M+ Heat is now the norm for VALORANT both Watch Parties and Main Stream, which is a good start
Again heat IS NOT the raw viewership for China streams, it does however determines that "High = that streams is popular"
At least in China its expected for Tencent reasons, Globally well CODM have one for 4 years so Its possible (I mean they did with Wlid Rift even though it didnt last long)
The game is unlikely paired together with Console btw
This will make the market have the following competitor
Were going to excluded BRs because they are different genre than VAL, that is a round-based 5v5
CODM as the current market leader in this genre
VAL Mobile
R6 Mobile (Launching this month)
Standoff 2 (popular in Russia has no Asian scene)
Critical Ops (very old game, they dont start esports until like 4 years after game released)
Warzone Mobile (CODM but not developed by Tencent, has 6v6 modes)
CHINA ONLY CrossFire Mobile (has twice CODM CN playerbase, has Franchised League << You read it correct)
Will Asia win this game?: The closest we can compared is CODM's World Championship last year saw it being... Get ready.
NA vs NA final
THE PROBLEM is we see what happen to Wild Rift, and its possible to happen again: Dividing fanbase of why play this when PC existed or why PC dont get this/that
Someone uploaded footage of VAL Mobile's newest test (Project C) tutorial mode
Part 1
Part 2
Apparently we are seeing the Tencent version, which may be different from actual release that Riot took it to work by their own
Out of nowhere, CrossFire announced they are reviving NA region by granting them a solo spot at World Championship
Something they haven't done in 4 years after NA stops being a separate region and merged into EUNA League in 2020
CF literally doing everything they could to not lose relevancy to CN VALORANT, especially how they do international events
even as far as reviving NA
The promo banner simply saying "Shooting Game from Riot"
He's now having the nickname "Big B" by the Chinese Weibo Netizens
This is from a post talking about Boaster's Interview (the one that says he's coming for EG) yesterday
Big B = Fnatic's Video on the Weibo featuring Boaster has him nicknamed Big B.
The video is about asking Boaster's favorite CN VAL player
but Boaster went on to mentioned a LoL player DoinB as well
The very least timezone did hurt CN Heat Index, by not much looks like
(2-3M Heat on 3AM, which is usually what LCK Stream over there regularly gets)
they already had Heat value, Just only need performance
fair trade since we get the opposite at League Worlds
I POSTED IT AT THE WRONG FORUM, Delete this
This picture has surfaced across the internet and some of 3rd party store apps
The text simply say "Mobile Shooting Game from Riot" under the working title PROJECT C but we know its clearly VALORANT Mobile
Previously theres a rumor that Riot did not like the Tencent-build version of VALM, and decides to rebuild VALM from scratch by gaving the project to Riot LA aka the Console Team.
Its possible we getting 2 VALM versions, The tencent build one belongs to the China Server
After they announced they are going to rework their Franchised Model suddenly after 5 years of no changes
They went on to announced complete rebrand of their esports department
Again, something they've never done since the brand started in 2013, they just suddenly think of it this year
While its because this is around the game's 15-year anniversary, pretty sure VALORANT launches in China has a lot of effect on their competitor
Both games are operated by Tencent in China, only the devs are different
Trophy looks really rad
Considering today APAC except KRJP is still quite a Mobile Game territory
In case someone missed out the teaser, which was 3 weeksago
The actual song comes out July 31
CS2 (Valve), VALORANT (Riot), CrossFire (SmileGate) trying to fight each other for China FPS Scene domination
each became reactive to each other, all it took was VALORANT to launch in China
July 12: VALORANT launches in China
July 14: During Tencent Summit, TJ Sports confirms bringing VCT International to China
July 23: Rumors of Valve targeting a China CS2 major in 2024 surfaced
EDIT: The next expected move would be Valve to announced launch date, and Perfect World has to announced theirs as well
They will, there was a blog post recently saying skins that released globally will come to CN at the same time. They have announced that CN will get the same drops as well on their platforms
You get CDL and OWL already fair ig
if this is true all because Valve projecting a major, As expected out of TX(tencent)
Experience champions directly on the game! were mentioned on the blogpost
Per the blogpost
Esports In-Client Hub
We’re making it easy to get all your VCT info without leaving the VALORANT client. Experience champions directly on the game!
In-Client here could mean just on the launcher or inside the game
(Not to be confused with the one on Chinese Server)
Probably the first actual time both brands come together in the form collab promo
CrossFire has announced a new Seat System coming to the 2024 Chinese League
Coincidentally the Chinese League for VCT is gonna be next year as well, looks like the arrival of VCT CN does warrant CFPL to start moving
For starters CrossFire introduced franchising in 2019, a cost of $1.5M grants the owner entries to the PC and Mobile league together.
However since then they werent able to draw any new buyer and only two new buyer happens by replacing those who left
Considering VCT China has a Buy-in, but is surely much cheaper than CFPL + potential Temporary Seat, no wonder CrossFire has to made this change to try counter VALORANT
Specially CFPL has already loses out in Heat Number because VALORANT encourages Costreams
(Meanwhile CS still stuck with Perfect World's small scale league, which was the most of publisher effort coming out of PW)
TLDR: CS1.6 clone to improve their esports to try counter VALORANT Esports
inb4 Kamet0's KC vs Gotaga's M8 became most watched match in EMEA Next year?
both influ capable of hosting a French Expo for the team alone and can filled the stadium
You get the same exact organizer that runs the LPL. I would expect nothing less
LPL will clap LCS
yes I dont talk about VALORANT
Appears to be 3280VP, this is for a reason
in China VP conversion ratio set by the publisher is more expensive, CN Server sets that 1 CNY = 10 VP. While the rest of the world is 1 CNY = 12 VP.
Therefore because VP is set more pricier by the publisher, they have to dropped the VP Cost of everything to be much lower to off-set this
TLDR; This cost you $46 in CN SV, what's the price in other regions?
Pretty much similar setup (standard?) for all regions
a Small Snippet was shown ahead of today's opening match
The Venue is an art hall, so its not that really large. It did sold out all tickets however
Brazil won for two years and the only country to beat China at Worlds. At one point you have Brazil, Russia, NA, EU competing
nowaday five regions left: China, Vietnam, Philippines, Brazil, EMEA
a Short teaser was shown, presumably this might be the backstage of the venue
The remaning 4 teams will compete on July 13-16 with 1 BO5 every day to determine the Champion of CN Qualifier, plus the last spot is yet to be determined
Qualifier ends in the 1862 Art Hall, the same place they held the Server Launch announcement a month ago. Capacity sounds like its doubled of SCARZ Watch Party in a theatre which already sold out
So many players logging in so much servers down and now has queue, shows that theres way more than enough interest.
Their Chaohua/Super Talk seems very lively as well on Looking for parties.
Please finally so mainland players can moved on from CF
Champions China Qualifier Trophy
Did I have a weird link? let's try it again on weibo
https://weibo.com/5769645168/N9pwj2Yan
idk yet, its not the 100vp that were talked for sure that pic was a test server. I would assume standard knife price tho (then tuned down to matched China exchange rate that was lowered than the rest).
or 9AM China on July 12 yep
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