Masters and Champions slots revealed

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VirajKnight

https://twitter.com/LiquipediaVAL/status/1486737568020373512.

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Arisqq

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EMEA 2 at champs KKKKKKKKKKKKKK

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VirajKnight

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Masters have only 12 slots. Not 16. Wtf RITO doing. Game about to die before it even expand.

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Arisqq

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man said game about to die bc EMEA has 2 at champs 💀💀

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VirajKnight

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I said game about to die because of the lack of slots. Not even 16. Last Masters1 even had 10 slots

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Arisqq

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i don't understand what are u even saying bro u drunk?

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VirajKnight

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Bro This time Masters only has 12 teams. Not 16. Number of participants are less this time. You better be bad at maths

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Arisqq

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sry man KEKW

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trola

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only 3 slot for EMEA in champ? the most stacked region and only got 3? riot?

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+1 for masters 2 winner (Brazil)

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NG1nS

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nt go next

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KiwisAreAwesome

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do you guys know if china is ever gonna participate? i remember they were supposed to in the LCQ last year but it looks like they arent gonna be again this one

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Hermes

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i think that valorant it's not available in china yet, not sure about that tho

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sutan

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it does bro even vlr did their own ranking

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yeah, i'm late on the news

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dignityx3

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Good slots, emea doesnt deserve 3 just for 1 good tourney lol. They have 3 at masters, and 2+1 lcq at champs. its fair, but i still think they should have a masters winner auto qual

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Trykan

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Not to burst your bubble but EMEA placed top 2 at every Masters and Champions...

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jimjam789

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interesting...so they did end up splitting apac north and south for lcq

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kristof

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NA dont deserve two

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Arisqq

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W

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Sprouts

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4 slots for SA and 6 slots for APAC while EMEA has 3, what a joke

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PicKaRuu

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so stupid

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Bo0mShell

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Why count KR and JP with SEA, SA, OCE

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OzyMeister

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its fair APAC is a huge region

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Dittete

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Not as big as europe + cis + turkey + middle east + north africa

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OzyMeister

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IT is Apac is SEA+SA+OCE+JP+KR
South Asia alone is 2Billion people SEA is like 700Mil? all in all could be around 3Billion people and
YES it also has a bigger player base than EMEA not just population

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Ibis

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And EMEA is a 3 times better region

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OzyMeister

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it sure is but the game is Valorant and not CsGO

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Dittete

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Not everyone plays val, better to look at player base. In terms of that they are nearly equal but EMEA is way bigger in competition with more T1 teams, which is why the slots difference is unfair

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ZoldyK

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Let it sink in that there are 115 countries in EMEA and yet they only get 3 slots despite being the best region

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Bo0mShell

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I get that 3 is less but 115 countries is not correct argument.

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trola

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focus on the best region

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jimjam789

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4 slots for BR/LATAM is the dumbest choice ever. would rather give 1 or 2 of them to eu

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sumihiro

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6 for APAC is the dumbest tho

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jimjam789

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asia literally did better than SA. other than KRU, south america didnt make playoffs ONCE.

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sumihiro

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This is called tradition on FPS game. You should respect that. EMEA should get 6 spots instead.

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jimjam789

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yes. tradition that brazil sucks LOL

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sumihiro

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Oh, I forgot about the huge tradition the mighty AUSTRALIA has on any fps game lmao Renegades couldn't even pass through the 1st stage on last CS:GO major

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jimjam789

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im not talking about my country am i LOL. im talking about asia more deserving than BR. well its all good, at least im not living in slums

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shadowzin272

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asia is def not more deserving than br/latam
what r u on
talking about tradition

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jimjam789

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wtf has tradition got to do with deserving LMAO. better region deserves more slots. SA dogshit region. remove KRU and and the region only has won 2 games in 3 LANs because they versed japan

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Bo0mShell

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But now they counter argue by generalising APAC performance on JP's performance. There's no end to this dumb argument

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shadowzin272

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ur mad for no reason
but u literally said on #51
but well
have a nice day salty aussie

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sumihiro

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Asia also has no tradition. And I don't live in a slum but nice xenophobia right there, mate.

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Bo0mShell

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What's up with the slum comment?
And then you talk about xenophobia?

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sumihiro

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Asia has no tradition on FPS esport, that's a fact. I'm not saying everyone suck, but the history isn't there, just that.
And xenophobia is because my whole country is not a giant slum how our friend is trying to paint, I don't know what you got from that?

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jimjam789

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daily reminder brazil has only won 2 games in 3 international LANS. all of them against japan

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Keep giving japan extra slot riot 👍

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Trykan

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Why there are 2 SA LCQ but only 1 for EMEA?

What is RITO on?

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Zzizmo

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Make it 16 slots for masters why?

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Ibis

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Riot is desperate to damage EMEA for their favourite region NA:)

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Ibis

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Nvm 3 are okay

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Bo0mShell

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Agreed

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Zzizmo

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Na and Emea got demoted for apac and Brazil to get more slots

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VirajKnight

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So Masters winners not gonna get invited to champions this time?

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semy

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stupid riot

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ValdemieGC

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At Champions:

6 spots for Asia/Oceania
3 spots for Europe/Turkey/CIS/Middle East/North Africa
4 spots for Brazil/LATAM
3 spots for NA

What the hell is this joke?
I get it, Asia is big as fuck, but 6 spots fot them and only 3 spots for a competitive scene like EMEA? Really? Also, Brazil/LATAM has 1 spot more and NA the same spots

This is... disappointing

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Bo0mShell

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I think SA LCQ should get 1 and EMEA LCQ should get 2.
That's the only messed up part.
Also I think we shouldn't count KR and JP with APAC S, especially now they made different LCQ for them

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FlickMaster

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Issue here is not to remove 1 spot from BR/LATAM but why only 12 teams? :(

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redlight

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I don't mind that EMEA has less slots than BRATAM and APAC.

People might call it a joke, but Riot is trying to market the game to other regions than EMEA and NA. Marketability and advertising are two main factors for a game's success.

If the minor regions don't get hooked into the game, then it will be bad for the game's viewership potential in the long term. But hey if y'all want the game to be like CS:GO, with the same 8 teams, and the same 2 regions, then that's all cool. I wouldn't want it tho.

Just my two cents on it.

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trola

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i dont mind other region got more slot but making slot less for EMEA, the best performance region is just not the move

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jp 1 slot thanks riot thanks riot thanks riot ; ;

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OzyMeister

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its only fair brodda

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Slatko

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What a fucking disgrace NA and EMEA deserve more slots.

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why tf SA gets 2 lcq slot

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ciro

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Rito L, just expand to 24 bruh

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BirdB0i

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Riot wanna increase the viewership by giving more slots to asia i think

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Hermes

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people saying that apac doesn't deserve the amount of slots they are receiving are completely dumb

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MefoO

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Why riot trying to organize big tournaments with 12 teams?

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ValdemieGC

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covid I guess

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anyone know whether the winner for each master will get a direct slot to champions or it already included in the slot distribution given?

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Stack

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It doesn't matter, at champ playoffs we will see like 3 EMEA and 3 NA teams with a Korean and a Brazilian team. So, rito will only bring Paper Rex to be eliminated in 2 matches and how will this increase the viewership rate?

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masters 16
champions 24

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Glycoroldas

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Why didn't Riot just simply increase the number of participating teams from 16 to 24 or something like that is beyond me. It's not like money is the problem for them...

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ValdemieGC

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I think they are scared of covid, too much shit to sort to be honest

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Glycoroldas

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Something tells me that even if covid was a non factor, those people would religiously stick to 16 participants tbh :D

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sumihiro

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I don't know, man. CS had the Stockholm major and it feature 24 teams. The format was different, ok, and it had more stages, but I don't know why they don't do something similar

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carl123

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CSGO got money for fund from steam but RITO got money from only valorant as a main fund to make tournaments ?

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sumihiro

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RIOT is a multibillionaire company, you can't be serious

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carl123

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dud multibillionaire is not money but its current value of the company (stocks x price)

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The only benefit of doubt I can think of is maybe Riot wants to save some spots for China prbly.
In future Champs would be 24 teams hopefully with China and increased slots for NA and EMEA

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uganda_forever

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It's not even released yet.

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LouBag

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12 teams. Kekw

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justboy

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EMEA deserves better