Totally_not_a_altt [#25]
It's just good casting, production and marketing . Valorant feels more intense when things are on line . Like bigger price , knockout match of team you like etc etc . They just have to up the rewards , and wait for some stories to develop and it will be popular in no time .
TL:DR (conclusion ish) You make good points about adding rewards and all that and storylines+a bunch of other stuff I go on about. However. GC does have its very unique charm that T2 cannot compare with just because of the format, in the end its all about entertainment. Suzu clears.
I'd say its because of totally new faces, a bunch of T2 are indeed up incoming, but its not as unpredictable, its not as easy to shift places in T2.
In GC it is literally just new faces, xipto, zeta 2 fan favorite teams tell me how many of these players did you know in 2023? Not that many, because you didn't know any of them at all probably. These are also more engaging orgs than like turtle troop. Its also not just a regional tournament we actually have a championship, T2 is stuck being a regional format forever.
Adding onto that, it just feels like GC T1, whoever wins is the best GC team, I feel like I'm watching the best that these players have to offer, in T2 its just T1 but watered down, GC is a whole different world. I am slandering T2 a bit, so just in case you think I actually hate T2, no, I still fw it.
T2 is a means to an end like cool I don't wanna watch a T2 vs T2 can I just go back to watch T1 please Its litteraly T2 but better, but if i'm being real what's GC but better? Like at some point you gotta stop making these comparisons as if they're in the same line, GC is not part of the T4-T3-T2-T1 ladder its outside of it, at its own pace, and that's kinda the point.
It's also filling the gap after VCT like unless you just hate GC for some reason watching it isn't digging into VCT hours.
All of this is irrelevant compared to the fact that suzu just clears.
SUZU OWNS THE WORLD