Teams qualified for GC champions will automatically get invitation to region’s Challengers qualifier .
That’s such a terrible move no . Now people will hate gc teams even more when they go out winless
Not really, just see as the following :
To qualify to promotion you have 2 way :
Also, to me it should go in the 2 direction : If a GC team is in T2 before GCC, they should be directly qualified to GCC without having to play in their GC domestic league (2 domestic leagues would be to mush)
I don't think this is an extremely unfair / bad thing for GC teams, it is just qualifiers after all, not like they have a guaranteed slot in their respective Challengers region.
They still have to get through qualifiers and I feel like some of those teams that would get the "last slot" now given to GC would lose to most GC teams that entered the bracket this way regardless. SR, TL BR both took away series in their respective qualifiers already, and G2G qualified for VCL through Premier and they will most likely do it the same way again.
While you are correct in saying that hate for GC teams will probably increase, there is already a fair amount of hate for GC teams I feel. I think the only way to change people's minds is to allow players of marginalized genders more chances to get into tier 2 or tier 1. So this is a good change from riot in my opinion.