RRQ?

i see so many people talking about this team but i have no idea why

someone wanna fill me in?

yeah i'll fill you in

https://www.vlr.gg/150957/context-about-rrq/#7

RRQ, the indonesian org that got into the pacifics league. sign all 5 players that are not from indo. a lot of indonesian fans are mad about this. mostly because there's better players to choose from than the old PH lineup that RRQ can choose. but they decided they just want to stick to the current roster that are certainly not the greatest, even in the PH scene. I'm not saying that they're bad players or anything, but there's players from the Indonesian scene itself that has perform better than the current RRQ PH roster.

RRQ is an Indonesian org that is said to have gotten the franchise slot to represent Indonesia. Prior to the franchising, RRQ was an Indonesian team in playing VCT 2021. Unsatisfied with the results (probably due to them unable to actually achieve something; always short on achieving results), in 2022 they decided to disband their Indonesian Valorant team and make a new PH roster, which actually did quite well, getting onto VCT APAC Stage 2.

After the announcement of the franchising slot, for a brief moment RRQ posted a congratulation post, tagging their PH players. This tweet was later deleted and replaced by a tweet captioned: WE. ARE. READY! 🇮🇩 (with an Indonesian flag) - hinting that they were going to field an Indonesian roster. At first, people (including me) hesitated on which roster they are going to take, considering that they already have a PH roster, but with that tweet deleted it might've just been a mishap.

On RRQ's CEO's Instagram/Live (i forgot) - it was stated that it was going to be a mixed roster, with 3 Indonesians on the team. This was followed by a trial list posted on 30 September, stating 12 players (6 Indo and 6 PH) that were going to join a trial. On the same day, RRQ announced Coach Ewok as a coach (former ONIC coach). This signing might've looked like there were maybe ONIC players joining, since Ewok joined as a coach.

Time passed by and some leaks were out on scrim results that they have been trialing. No clear info (at least to the public) was released, then today (9 October 2022), RRQ announced the roster one by one (one every 2 hours), and to our surprise; only 1 Indonesian player was there out of the 6 players. Indonesians were disappointed with the result (you can see on the twitter replies) https://twitter.com/teamrrqofficial/status/1579119048130187264

An org represents Indonesia, but choose 5 roster from Philippines. The problem was not only there, all the rosters from PH were tier 2 player that never proven in APAC scene. Some rumor also said they choose those rosters because they want only pay a low salary.

It's basically like if NA had just 1 spot and the org decided to sign 5 Brazilians xD