Masters 1: 2 teams from APAC, 2 teams from China = (4 teams total)
Masters 2: 3 teams from APAC, 3 teams from China = (6 teams total)
Champions: 4 teams from APAC, 4 teams from China = (8 teams total)
Wouldn't it be more fun, entertaining, more viewers, make more revenue for Riot, if both APAC and China can do another Playoffs brackets amongst themselves to bring the best of the best into each International Lan?
So for example, for Masters 1 we need 4 teams from both regions. So why don't APAC take their TOP4 teams from Kickoffs, and China take their TOP4 teams from Kickoffs, and do another separate PLAYOFFS of 8 teams ( 4 APAC + 4 China), then the Best Top4 goes to Masters 1.
(Same for Masters 2 and Champions - Top 6 from Stage 1 and Top 8 from Stage 2 from both Regions)
Purpose:
1 - We can have a more fair chance of either more APAC teams go through or even perhaps more China teams go through but it will be solely based on the stronger team performances and they each will be proven their worth and value that they deserve to go to Internationals.
2 - This way, we can prevent having just "extra lower level teams" just enter Masters/Champions and getting last place in the future years: Ex) FPX, DRG last year.. https://www.vlr.gg/event/1921/champions-tour-2024-masters-madrid/swiss-stage
https://www.vlr.gg/event/1999/champions-tour-2024-masters-shanghai/swiss-stage
Yes, Riot providing another Playoffs tournament just for APAC + China only does cost money and time but it would still be extremely more fun for the viewers and can still provide revenue growth so wouldn't this also be considered a good idea? Fair too I would say. (Just sharing a thought/idea guys, enough with the random hate VLR lol). Let's also remind ourselves that China just having their own Region as 1 country is not just fair in itself, whereas compared to other regions they'll have less teams from their own countries enter International tournaments.
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