But I'm not wrong right😭? VCJ's development has relied on VCK's player pool and it worked for VCJ too, but now even when VCJ's talent pool are starting to grow, orgs keep signing Koreans while VCK itself keep bleeding it's players. If the situation continues with no changes , VCJ's talent pool might rot away while only insiders actually knew their worth.
VCJ pays better and tbh WAY more fans and interactions. Whats there not to like over there, its like a juiced up tier 2 korean scene but better. But I do think they should get rid of imports within 1-2 years if they really want to improve at a steady rate. Imo japanese talent are starting to be sustainable in VCJ.
In Challengers, the Japanese team is larger than the Korean team. Good Korean players play in VCJ because Japanese teams pay a lot of salaries.
Basically, most Koreans are not good at Japanese. Most people only know basic word levels.
In Korean education, English is the most important second language.
Koreans just aren't interested in Tier 2. Why would they seek out Tier 2 when they can bask in the glory of Tier 1? They're even more cold-minded than Riot itself, who ruthlessly abandoned Tier 2 because they're only interested in highest level competition. The same goes for wages. Koreans understand the fleeting nature of E-sports hype better than anyone else in the world, and in fact, Tier 2 players are paid accordingly.
I'm not talking about the players of course, but that's not to say we're in a good situation. I'm just saying when you have imports coming put of japan winning shit , this will just end up as a long term problem for japan. We are developing Korean players when the name of the league is called valorant challengers Japan. This means less development on local players
The problem to me now lies on Korean Vct. Frankly speaking VCK has been too reliant on VCJ to develop kr talents.
I tried calling for change in import rules and I got called racist by some people here💀.
Imma be honest , igzist can import texture but they ain't gonna win shit unless they get proper japanese player to win, relying on imports to win you games is just pathetic tbh.
Let's be real every year only one team gets to be promoted to tier 1 in each region I'm not even, not to mention you're not even facing your own subregion, you'll be facing the whole apac subregions. I can't see how importing players can win you games tbh.
To me a proper win is when you win with whatever you have, meaning you win with your own players. I see KR teams can do that and I hope one day JP teams can too.
Maybe I'm being too harsh on imports, the point I'm making is ideally it's better for VCJ as a region to gradually rely less on imports. Imports did make VCJ stronger, but it just means we get to have better imports, not we got to have better local players.
Too many world class imports severly lowers the value of local players, even though ( in my opinion ) when you spread the imports equally to each apac subregions vcj is just as good as everyone contrary to what vlr has often believed. I just hate seeing cases like Yowamu and Xdll being invincible for most of their career because of role bias towards imports(as in yowamu's case) and communication issue ( I reckon that's what happened to Xdll during his stint in BLUE BEES)
and tbh SCARZ should have never won in the first place, SCARZ's project is just throwing shit to the wall and see what sticks (it never worked except last ascension). I find it appaling by looking at SCARZ's strategy of winning by ruining it's own scene
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