Well sure its petty but you have too know that valorant has only been available in china for less than a year these people who are at the venue or watching VCT in china probably have never heard about these international teams outside of other games like LOL. Unlike Brazil where teams have been widely heard about and cheered for since basically the start of valorant still have trash crowds to other teams. (also for GenG ofc the people are gonna be offended by them I know the actions of the org isn't in the hands of a player but just imagine if an org said something that insulted your country as a whole ofc they gonna be pissed)
"its been available for only a year"
why tf would that matter???
we dont give a shit they dont cheer for an irelevant ass team like G2 or 100T
we give a shit about the entire country being toxic against a team that didnt do anything wrong?
"oh but the org referred to taiwan as a country" really? thats the beef?
a whole ass region wants to be free from your govt and that offends yall?? you gonna tell me that you WANT the mfs that are protesting and rioting for the legitimacy of their own country?
THATS THE BEEF YOU GUYS WANNA SABOTAGE A WHOLE TEAM FOR?
Like atleast the other val drama the players (like boostio) were offensive to the people not some ethereal line of geopolitical profit control
bro are you good???
The org (GenG) had no reason to bring taiwan into a tweet and make everything political its widely known that china does not take anything related to taiwan lightly yet they still tweeted that with no regard of any of the consequences. To answer you question about the game's release since you don't understand it, Brazil has been in valorant since the beginning meaning that the people of Brazil know about the other teams meaning they can create fans within Brazil that aren't Brazilian teams. But this doesn't seem to be the case is it? that can be seen with any match at Lock//IN while China has probably NEVER heard of these international teams while Brazil has known them for 3 years leading up to LOCKIN.
Let me ask you, do you know much effort was put into making BR fans by other ORGs??
Other than Sentinels at the time buying Pancada and Sacy to sway favor and NRG who were the regions Villains
NO ORGs did anything, no shirts, no merch, no influencers, nothing.
why would a region care about an ORG that does nothing to the region??
APAC teams had the weeb & kpop factor, so alot of BRs rooted for them, but EMEA? CHINA? NA? ZERO
aint no person obligated to like a player from a bum'ass org that never gave a shit about you
FUT recently hired Xand, they got br fans because of that
C9 recently hired TCK9, they got fans for that
EG & MIBR basically dated, Potter got fans cuz of that
but in LOCKIN? nothing was done
that just shows how much of a hypocrite you are LOL. Not only has valorant in china been released for less than a year but they have ZERO idea what these teams are so why would they cheer for them since that's what you're saying for Brazil? Also look at Madrid or Tokyo or even Copenhagen the crowds were still cheering even without reason from the orgs to cheer for them.
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