Bro why Copenhagen,
Logically speaking, I will just look at all players in EMEA Challengers just to see that there are only 2 Danish players that's not even that prominent. Imo first sign that Valorant isn't as popular in Denmark.
Istanbul? Sure there's cNed who won champions, Alfajer who looks really promising, the whole BBL roster, and so on.
tf are you on? the locations are chosen not looking at talents the country has but the ease of travel for international players. russians cant travel freely to US or Japan or any other european country, and even many sea players like the thai and indo players dont get visa that easily. you are so so stupid to think the locations are decided based on who the good players are lmfao
To test the international showing in crowd lan events. Most fans will be international simply because valorant isn't as popular there in denmark. It is good to start small if it the first time you are doing something as well, and that's why Istanbul is a good place for champions because it's easier to get to internationally.
Mostly visa related, It's also helps because it's pretty easily accessible from pretty much all the European countries so getting fans to the event isn't super difficult.
Same with Turkey, very visa related. Getting Russians into Turkey isn't the hardest thing in the world and they can also pull from Turkey's huge valorant fan base
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