the platchat podcast today was talking about how some teams from australia will be in the LCQ with the NA teams but they didn’t sound sure about it, anyone know anything about this
2 OCE Teams will play in LCQ NA, these two teams are decided based off of OCE's circuit points
Edit: The eight OCE teams that get a chance to qualify through the OCE Championship are decided by circuit points, with the top two teams qualifying for LCQ
This means that there will be 10 teams in the NA LCQ
https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VALORANT_Oceania_Tour/2021/Championship
Here is the OCE bracket to qualify for LCQ
The plan is/was to send the 2 OCE teams to NA for the duration of the LCQ. With the US opening up a bit it should be a bit easier, but depending on where the players are based (Most likely Melbourne and Sydney) the may not even be able to lave the country because COVID has just started feasting in Melbourne again + a more cases in Sydney as well
https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VALORANT_Champions_Tour/2021/North_America/Last_Chance_Qualifier
this is the last chance qualifier bracket
Since OCE and Korea have similar match times, I watch a lot of OCE valorant in between korean matches and can say that this is just wrong...
Exo Clan (Soniqs) have 3-0'd ORDER before and wildcard can't even consistently beat ORDER
Soniqs have been training in NA for months now and have stopped relying on just having better aim, like the rest of OCE
There is a reason Soniqs came to NA and not ORDER