Short and sweet. In 2023 there will be 3 seperate Valorant leagues which will most likely sent 4 teams each (for 12 teams) to an international setting. Where is the problem?
(These next discussions most retain to rosters rather than the team I mention, pure convince.)
Asia - Asia got the duty of sending 6 whole squads to masters : Drx, Prx, Edward Gaming, Zeta Division, Boom, and Xerxia. At this point, a maximum of 3 Asian teams will make top 8 with Prx and Zeta fighting in the lower bracket while Drx has already gotten a spot. Edward, Boom, and Xerxia all went winless.
EMEA - EMEA got to send a measly 3 teams to Champs, Fpx, Fnatic, and Liquid. All 3 are in the lower bracket, so they can still ALL make it into playoffs.
That's the background info, here's my problem.
The America's - NA, Brazil, and LATAM got the duty (as a group) to send 7 whole teams. That's OpTic, XSET, 100T, Loud, Furia, Levi, and Kru.
Furia went 0-2.
There are 3 teams in the lowers (100T, Loud, and Kru)
There are 3 teams who claimed top seed (OpTic, XSET, Levi)
All three of these regions will be forming 10 team leagues after Champs. Having a clear top 3 is nice from Asia, EMEA is of course deeper rosterwise with former Gambit being free agents to plug into already good teams.
The America's already have 6 teams competing for those (suspected) 4 slots. Of course all those teams won't make franchising, but their rosters sure as hell will. I don't care how these next games go in the lowers, or really who wins Champs for this argument. Converting half your teams as a top seed, and potentially having a whole 6 teams? if all 6 make it, we'd only see 1 emea team or 2 asian rosters vs the America's.
If Brazil just got a little more views then there would have been 4 leagues. Maybe one day.
Edit: Yeah, this is a short post from me.
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