LET’S GOO
Yeah BIG could have been added, but Turkey deserved 2 slots due to the player base and overall bigness of Valorant in Turkey. I would have taken a Dach team instead of one of the Spanish teams..
But then again, both the Spanish teams and a potential Dach team would have been an EU mix anyway, so in terms of players that are in the league not much would have been different. And Spain does have more fans.
Only reason why I'm not too excited of them adding 2 Turkish teams is that Turkish teams are the most likely to stay with full Turkish rosters like in the past and that might bring the competitiveness down and take spots from players who actually deserved them more. Don't get me wrong all in all BBL has been doing pretty well in EMEA and FUT has done well in VRLs, but I just don't know how long they can keep up with player rotations. Full single nationality teams have even became more and more irrelevant in CSGO out of any games. In long term it can cause issues.
Turkey has big fanbase and playerbase so its not end of the world and understandable from Riot, but its bit ehh especially when you also had orgs like BIG.
At least we didn't get fucked as hard as NA