On top of the NDA being lifted starting the same day so those with access can start sharing content and streaming it. Tencent went from not even mentioning VALORANT during the Beta, kept the game in secrecy for years and then turned into full-on public test within 2 weeks
There were some EDG LoL players saying on stream (maybe he's joking) that Riot might not run Esports but that could be because they're totally bad at Mobile esports (exhibit A: Wild Rift)
and they could let Tencent do things on their own (Tencent had even esports for their own Fall Guys Clone with a 60y old Grandma competing in China, competitive VALM will be absolutely normal day for Tencent)
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