Japanese problems?

Their players don't have any ambition. Like, Japanese and Korean are one of the most easiest to learn if you know how to speak one another. There's a winning region right next to you. if you want to win, start learning Korean, or English, and go abroad. You see plenty of Koreans playing outside of Korea already in Valo. Saya was already playing in NA and was winning even before franchise. We've seen Americans playing in APAC of all places, and some in EMEA. Some EMEA players in Americas, too.

As for Japanese players, I haven't heard once that their players are looking to find a team abroad or have attended a tryout on a foreign team, so that could play in a winning roster. All they care is to cruise and coast on comfy Japanese orgs, collecting paychecks and building fanbase so that once they retire, they've got a nice place to fall back on. Sayin "NT" and pat themselves in the back once in a while whenever they shit the bed and bomb out of whatever tournaments.

Like, the amount of players who want to stick to T2 is already crazy enough. When your are in a team like RID, I get it. There seems to be a real chance in winning Ascensions and challenging for the spot in the International League. Other than that, if they feel they are good enough but keep playing on T2 'because there's no spot in either Zeta or DFM', welp, what should I say?

Even in LoL, a Japanese player, who's from the region that is by far one of the weakest, a region absolutely deserted up until recently, went to LEC to take his chance, nearing 30 years of age, married and with child, leaving his family behind back in Japan. That is what you call pro-gridnset, the urge to win. I don't see any Japanese Valo players doing that.

Aace actually trialed to GE tho, although he didn't go so far.

Imo no wonder players wanted to stay in T2, when all the big orgs had 1 2 3 even 4 imports, there's no need to go outside when your region is basically 40% imports so you're bound to play like you're not in VCJ. It's not as if you're living comfy either, usually big salaries goes to imports since imports stay at big orgs

But I agree tho, the players need more ambition

Japan eSports scene needs to learn something from the sports scene of Japan. Japan is only good in fighting games and mobile game eSports. Also how is PC gaming still niche in Japan? And true it feels like both org and players have no motivation. It's probably cause of the PC eSports culture there but still they need to do something if they want to be at least competitive.

I agree and disagree with parts of your statement. I definitely agree that Japanese players and teams need to push themselves out of their comfort zone and raise their ceiling to see some sort of progress. I mentioned it in another thread that Japanese teams need to risk-take on their strategies and compositions if they wanna adapt to the meta and keep an edge on teams who are not so strategically prepared. ZETA has shown that they do have the capacity to be creative and have plans to play Valorant well. But they absolutely need to improve their willingness to push themselves beyond their comfort zone.

On top of this, I think the mechanics definitely need to improve for Japanese Radiant players. Meiy is the gold standard for a Japanese player with cracked mechanics, but we need to see more of that. A lot of these players are hunkered down in Tier 2 and I believe it's because Japanese Tier 2 probably has one of the best org investments in comparison to other regions. You could say they're playing it safe, but given that it's their job, it would make sense that they want to live stably before they think about self-actualising their potential.

I don't think Japanese teams and players need to make drastic changes like going to new regions and such since the talent pool in Japan is there. In some instances like Saya at The Guard, it worked, but in other instances it didn't (e.g.: T1 last year). You would always want to make the most out of your current roster and the creativity they can offer alongside the coach before you make a sudden change. It saves money and time as well as allows for the full potential of the roster to be played out.

As a last point, I think Japanese Radiant players need to have more ambition as a whole. The top of the leaderboard is dominated by Thai, Korean and Indonesian players for a reason. They are very serious about going pro and then after that winning games on the big stage. Not to say Japanese players aren't as serious, but you can feel the hunger from players like Kush, Francis and Primmie when they're dominating with their filthy aim. Players like Aace and Caedye will probably enter Tier 1 soon. They're young and they have that fight in them. It's just a matter of when for them.

their t2 scene have a good salary its hard to think outside the box like that when you're in comfort zone. its more like their organization is the problem. their orgs need to be more ambitious to achieve win whatever it takes