this team not deserve franchise league. trust me, both this team will be bottom rank same as GE.
Do you know that originally, the rumors suggested it was going to be 5 KOREAN TEAMS? Jesus christ, all were LCK orgs, and 2 out of 5 teams didn't have a Valorant team. Now? 5 from the APAC region (including South Asia), 3 from Korea, and 2 from JP. Yes, Korea has one of the best rapport for Riot events in the Pacific. But that doesn't exactly mean favouritism.
Bro apac fans really are something lol they ignored the fact that the finals for EA lcq was a Korean vs Chinese team. APAC teams are super inconsistent I'm saying this as a prx fan but literally xerxia the second best apac team has been grouped since forever. It's so disappointing to see them not improve but regress every international competition.
But APAC fans love to shit on Korea a region that's pretty much had no investment in the scene other than drx and damwon. Onslayers core started off as a team of streamers and they struggled to find a team despite them doing well.
Then Japan also inconsistent. Their top teams other than zeta literally all have 2 Korean imports lol
Players don’t matter, yeah close relationships with Riot mattered because Riot knows that it can depend on them not to mess up. Players don’t matter, all the teams next year are going to be superteams, these teams don’t even have to field rosters from their regions, so I don’t get why everyone is so heated about KR slots