[Opinion] EMEA circuit system is completely flawed

Regional Masters 1 pts allocation – 100, 70, 45, 45, 20, 20, 10, 10
EMEA Finals Stage 2 pts allocation – Iceland slot, Iceland slot, 45, 45, 30, 30, 20, 20
EMEA Finals Stage 3 pts allocation – Berlin slot, Berlin slot, Berlin slot, Berlin slot, rest are unknown yet, but I suggest them to be similar to NA’s

Gambit and Oxygen achieved 3rd-4th at previous VCT, being only one win away from attending first ever Valorant LAN. As you can see, they got very little points (45 each), while statistically being top-4 in our region back then. Also, you might notice that distribution barely changed between Stage 1 and Stage 2, as 3rd-4th still get the same 45 points. No significant differences at all.

Now imagine if Riot give 50 or even 60 points to 5th-6th teams in EMEA Stage 3. I assume they could do that, since NA points have already been announced and we might get the same treatment. That would create a ridiculous fucking unfairness. Not only that Gambit/Oxygen had higher placement at the previous event (3rd-4th), but also that they gonna get less points than this Split’s 5th-6th. Inb4 somebody says “events in the past are less relevant than current events, hence why it’s okay to give away more points right now”. THEN WHY THE HELL STAGE 1 AND STAGE 2 DISTRIBUTIONS ARE ALMOST THE SAME? WHY DO THEY INTEND TO MAKE IT SO UNSTABLE?

Imagine this example: Fnatic become 5th-6th team in current VCT Split. They acquire 60 pts, it adds up to their 350, and boom = they are most probably going to qualify for Champs via circuit despite not even being current top-4 in EMEA (just an example), unless some miracle occurs and 2 of their biggest scoreboard rivals (Acend, Gambit, Liquid) overtake them by proceeding to Berlin, which is very unlikely to happen (Acend could do that, Gambit / Liquid not so sure).

Riot already made a huge mistake by even doing Iceland with less slots (10 instead of 16), meaning that it is much easier for our teams to advance from Stage 3 right now, than it was 3-4 months ago. It causes lots of problems for all contenders out there except Fnatic and Liquid ofc, who are in the lead by the insane gap. Again, Gambit, Oxygen and maybe even FPX got robbed hard because of reduced slots, who knows, they could be the ones to do wonders at Iceland if only there were 16 teams at LAN.

I can’t express my thoughts well because my English isn’t that good. But nobody except me understands how shitty Riot are making all these decisions. If I were in charge, I would go with 10 team format at Berlin too (although the pandemic is almost over and we can have all 16 teams). Not only this, but also keep EMEA Finals with 8 teams (not 12), like it started this year. Why? To ensure that the competition will be fair so Fnatic / Liquid can’t abuse this system by being the only 2 Iceland participants from EMEA, although it should have been 4 of our teams initially at Masters 2.

ALL MASTERS SHOULD HAVE SAME NUMBER OF TEAMS COMPETING. ALL CHALLENGERS FINALS SHOULD HAVE SAME NUMBER OF TEAMS COMPETING. ALL POINTS SHOULD VARY BY A SET COEFFICIENT FOR SET PLACEMENTS. Otherwise it’s a fucking injustice. I explained why.

Welp nobody gives a fuck, people only want to watch games and don't realize what's happening behind the scenes

Good read, I agree. The point distribution is quite clearly biased and unfair. The problem is - it's almost too late to fix it. They've pretty much irreversibly fucked it up. Also, good English, not bad at all.

stage 3 will be more competitive since more teams qualify so increasing the number of points sort of makes sense

And I get your second take as well, It really isn't fair to add a sudden increase in slots, since catching up with fnatic and liquid becomes more difficult just because they were on a streak that one time

Im pretty confident Gambit can make it to Berlin.

Being said that, I agree that from 45 to a minimun of 150 makes no fucking sense on Stage 2. GMB and OX should have got 60-80.

Can I get a TLDR I'm American and we have a shit education system

Dont care grow up

There was and still is a legit pandemic going on. It’s pretty well understood this is just a trial year because of the circumstances. Riot would have obviously wanted all masters including even the first masters to be 16 teams at LAN, sadly because of the pandemic it wasn’t possible.

If this is happening next year you have a point, but we were lucky to even get a LAN in Iceland to begin with. Yeah unfortunately we had some compromises. But that’s life in a pandemic, and I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the system we got than nothing at all because Riot couldn’t bring 16 teams to Iceland. And in regards to only doing 10 teams for all Masters, for one, everyone hated the 10 team format, second like I said it’s a trial run so Riot can learn for the future what is needed to run 16 teams of their new game. Riot is learning so they can put on the best product in the years to come.

One thing Riot is good at, is knowing how to run an esports league with their game. Like I don’t want to be an asshole. But Riot knows more about running a successful esports competition than some random guy on the internet, that includes me too. They would have had literal teams of people going over this.

I think riot is just trialing different shit on different regions cuz it's first year. They will observe and improvise I believe

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