I never said anything bad about VS?
I said Prtsty shouldn't mistreat other "outside of top-4" EMEA teams just because they are meant to compete in a hard region
It's not their fault and they shouldn't be punished for it, EMEA must be getting a lot of slots
Also all these South America teams wouldn't even be top-15 here lol
This is just the beginning of the international circuit IMO. Whatever changes you suggested can be implemented only next year. By giving 2 slots to all minor regions, Val has increased the incentive for investment in minor regions. It may kill EMEA investment, but EMEA teams are already contenders for the tourney right? The fact that EMEA is good at Val should encourage more investment right?? More slots = Less competition in the region.
The whole "region" system is already a big question.
They keep EMEA together while they make BR-LATAM different, KR-JP-SEA different, and possibly in next season SA-CN will also be different with their own circuits.
Technically they could split up Europe, Turkey and CIS and give us 3-2-2 slots respectively, which would make sense according to you.
Why not?
Technically they should've done that while categorising EMEA as one region. Now that it's already EMEA we can do nothing. The regions KR-JP-SEA could be merged into one in the future, keeping in mind that Lans were impossible at the inception of Valorant. In the future, Covid restrictions could be easing which means that APAC will function as one like it did in the LCQ. LAN environment could be coming back again which means better organisation after vct stage 1.
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