VCT needs an orchestral theme

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RA621H

After watching Worlds finals 2 days ago, and especially after revisiting the teaser video which might have been the best ever, I really think VCT needs an orchestral theme like Worlds. Like, this thing fucking slaps. They make a new version of this same song that came out in 2016 every year and it never gets old. Also it's very versatile. You could make it ultra hype or absolutely emotional, or both, depending on the edit. There were other great League themes like Piercing Light (football montage editors' favourite) or Summoner's Call (OG theme), but there's a reason LoL Esports stuck with this one song for 9 years. I'm very sure they will continue to use this song next year at Worlds, the next year after that, and so on. It's literally Worlds' version of Champions League Anthem.

With a very capable music team, I don't think it's asking too much of them. Maybe something orchestral doesn't suit what Riot wants as Valorant's image, quite apparent by musical style of past Val/VCT themes, but I still think an orchestral theme is better than anything else.

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I feel like every big sport has a memorable orchestra piece like the olympics, different american football channels have intro pieces, baseball has an iconic melody. Valorant would defintely benefit from one. Honestly most intelligence thread ive ever seen on vlr +1

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Thanks my man. Exactly my point there. I would also add F1 as a recent addition.

Die For You and Ticking Away are good songs, but they ain't something they could use again and again forever. It would get stale at some point. I think part of it is due to having lyrics. Like, this year's grand finals teaser also used Die For You, but they would be better off to have something that could hit as emotional as Worlds Orchestral Theme.

An orchestral theme is not only versatile and has great longevity but most importantly very recognizable and memorable. Obviously not saying that they should use the orchestral theme in every single teaser and highlight/recap videos they make, but it's something you could always rely on if you need it. Especially if the main theme is too forgettable like this year's song.

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I love how they brought back die for you last year and (to a lesser extent) this year, I think they could maybe do something with that as a starting point

Something worlds does which is also cool sometimes is play a modified version of the current worlds theme for the GF victory music. It sort of feels like the team 'owns' the song.
Like take GODS for example, it feels like T1's song, whereas say Fire Again doesn't really feel like it has anything to do with LOUD. But either that or a modified version of die for you for a victory song would be hype for me ngl

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That's also true. Though I think that's also something that has to do with how long League has been around, as well as how they've been putting a lot of work into video production the past few years post-Covid. Compared to that, with how packed the Champions match schedules are, and since they create teaser for every match day instead of each round, they don't really have time to produce quality teaser videos that are as memorable during Champions. I don't even need to go further in explaining this, since the differences in view counts between Worlds and Champions teasers speak for themselves. Upsides and downsides I guess. And since those teasers are so memorable, and since they use main theme in teasers as well, the main theme becomes song for the winners of that particular Worlds as well.

So yeah, I think there are things they could improve in terms of how they utilize main themes they create for Champions, and potentially with an orchestral theme they could create that could be used for every Champions.

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yeah die for you slaps

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agreed W

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The aesthetics of futuristic-special agent-covert ops makes it a little tricky to make it more epic IMO. That's why it's dominated by Neon lights and EDM.

But what do I know Rito made League and freaking K-pop works so yeah. Let's hope for the better.

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Aayan

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I know league has history and stuff but I really want to see val get bigger artists (not to say the ones we get are small, but league gets HUGE ones Linkin Park, NewJeans, Lil nas X)
League also had: Imagine Dragons in their 4th year (1st time there was a song)