Should rotate between BR/LATAM and JP/KR each masters, give other regions some development
EMEA is still the best region purely by gameplay quality, competitiveness, approach, work ethics
Our teams are full of young guys who scrim, train a lot, knowing that Riot hates EMEA to the point where we get <4 slots at LANs despite all the achievements in 2021
Our teams never have free pathways to Masters, which can't be said about KRU, PRX, DRX, LOUD etc.
You decided to forget about everything prior to February 2022 and focused on a single mickey mouse event which I don't even consider a real Valorant tournament
Either way you'll see how better FNC and FPX are, unless Ange1 can't go because Ukrainian men aged 18-60 can't leave the country in most cases
I don’t think it’s ideal to remove any slot to be honest, but JP/KR deserve at least one extra to develop the scenes, since we’ve literally only seen 3 different KR teams and 2 JP teams over the past year and a half. I’d say the BR/LATAM slot is most expendable simply because BR was already given a large amount of slots to develop the scene with in 2021 (which payed off a lot) and I’d like to see my region given the same chance
I agree with you but that's the same case for LATAM, we never saw any other LATAM team internationally other than KRU. Although the region itself is weak, I think they also deserve the chance to get more than 1 team into an international.
We should pressure Riot into putting more slots in international events, 16 in all of them would be awesome. It should not be only Champions with this amount (IMO Champions should be 24 with a play-in phase).