Will Riot change the the region slots for Berlin??
Honestly not that unreasonable if there wasn't only 2 brazil slots. And brazil looks much better now. I think OCE def deserves a spot. But I'm guessing what's happening with OCE and MENA is that they were added late so they couldn't actually implement them into the vct well without messing shit up.
Also one thing. Japan deserves those 2 spots more than people realize. Because org support and twitch viewers are high af in japan. And also japan likes the game. The one thing Riot needs to do is to give turkey it's own spot because it really does deserve it. But I'm guessing Riot is doing the slots based on how well the game is received in that region and the size of it's playerbase rather than how strong it is.
China has not allowed valorant into their country or smth. So it's illegal. And I think what happened to India, MENA, and OCE is that they were introduced to the VCT late. Like with Arabia we see that they finally get first strike and I think since OCE was introduced just a slight bit late. They couldn't add them without fucking stuff over so they added the OCE tour thing. And with India. They took a while probably because of government stuff or something so they are only now doing tournaments in India. It's unlucky really but I think they'll them next year. So practically all regions that had First strikes last year were already set up for vct and the other countries were not so they couldn't be added in the middle.
This is the reason why OCE and India have a chance through LCQ rather than circuit points. They just had complications probably and they couldn't add them in the middle of the VCT cycle bc then shit wouldn't work.
OK SO THE REASON WHY JAPAN HAS 2 SLOTS IS BECAUSE THEY ARE INVESTED IN THE GAME. The big question is why Turkey doesn't have it's own slot. But that's fine because EMEA has 4 slots. And also EMEA is the biggest region of player base which is why they have 4 slots, whether you like it or not. Oh yea one thing that should happen is a slot should go to OCE because that seems dumb that they have no way to go to berlin. But ehh probably they added OCE late to the VCT so they couldn't incorporate just like with India but hopefully next year they get more support than they do in league.
Ok so back on to topic. Japan are actually really invested in this game. Japan does have pretty high twitch viewers and and the player base is very large for valorant. Of course this slot amount will probably lowered in the future. But Riot is appreciating countries that are appreciating them. I think that's a very good developer player relationship. I think this will probably only last for this and maybe next year but there are reasons why japan has 2 slots. It's not like they just like japan. It's because japan likes them.