CN speedrunning?

just why?

Chinese new year is coming up, maybe thats why

if you mean why are they already at lower bracket final while every other region is many games slower then it's just because they started earlier - they also did last year too. As I recall they played and knew who was going to internationals a few days before everyone else. Why did they start earlier? Maybe just for viewership which would make some sense. First valo games of the new season all CN so of course more people will watch when there's 0 other tier 1 valorant

EDG is indeed speedrunning lower brackets

The schedule is weird bc it is chinese lunar new year next week and no one wants to play right after a huge break that involves traveling and visiting family members

need to finish before 28th cause of lunar new year they need one week holiday

bcs china had bigger population to beg early match

They need as much prep time as possible for bangkok so they don't get embarrassed