Riot Games

If Riot games keeps such a poor performance with tournament schedule, format and rules the esports will stagnate or even drop, how can a company with such good devs and super high quality production mess up on the easiest part of the game. advertisement, developement and production is much more complex than the simple tournament planing and letting tournament organizers get into VAL, yet they suck at that. its just sad honestly. orgs will leave val / not join val disregarding the fact that masters/champions numbers are insane. because having high number doesnt help when u cant get a place in big tournaments.

tldr: to few tournaments, not enough exposure, shit formats

true they should allow 3rd party to organizer like esl,blast to organize good tournament

i Think they are up to something

I agree that Riot should be way better at running tournaments than what they have produced so far. Part of it was Covid for sure. But still, they run the biggest esport, they can do better.

Guys just believe in RIOT. I'm pretty sure they gonna do something big for the Valorant scene just like they did for the league.

I just hope they change the VCT format for 2022.

I want R6 format

5 non-franchised leagues with relegation and shit - EMEA, NA, SA (Brazil, Latam), APAC North (Korea, Japan, maybe China), APAC South (SEA, South Asia, Oceania)
12-16 teams in each of them depending on region's size, play 11-15 Bo3 games over 1.5 month to determine Masters participants, 3rd month is Masters itself

Repeat for 3 seasons per year - Winter, Spring, Summer, aka Masters 1, Masters 2, Masters 3
Fall - LCQ and Champions stuff, as well as offseason

Also there are lower tier leagues for lower tier teams, who fight for a spot in the higher league, like in football championships
But relegations are after each 3-month season, meaning if a team is good they will quickly rank up, they won't have to wait a whole year to shine

Slots:
Masters - 24 teams, 8 start from main event, 16 start from play-in (say top-2 EMEA, top-2 NA, top-1 SA, top-2 APAC N, top-1 APAC S from main event, everyone else from play-in)
Top-7 EMEA, top-5 NA, top-4 SA, top-4 APAC North, top-4 APAC South qualify
This might change depending on how well certain leagues perform

Champions - 20 teams, similar stuff to R6 system - 16 through Global Circuit points, 4 through Last Chance qualifiers
I don't like this shit when freelo regions (Brazil, Japan, SEA) get too many slots, I want strongest teams to advance to Champions

This game isn't liek league
if u have large chinese / korean fanbase ofcorse views will be hihg, not same for valorant. valorant will have to grind more tourneys. start giving contracts to event organizers to succeed. people will get fed up and leave if scene isnt saturated with tournaments.