Masters 2 to be held in Reykjavík, Iceland

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Asia representatives will do their best, looking forward to see the competition against the West! ?

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Well said!

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only 1 slot rip

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lol there's actually 3 slots for Asia. 1 for korea, 1 for Japan and 1 for the SEA.

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Bit weird about only 10 teams, since LoL MSI at the same location will have 12 teams, so you could have had same slots but 2 for EU and 1 for CIS/TR each.

Still, really excited that we will be getting a Valorant LAN this soon.

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So fucking true, i dont understand their thought process

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Masters 3 will probably be 16 teams, but Masters 2 is 10 possibly due to location and covid restrictions which sucks

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nope, league same time 12 teams.. Also a good format valorant 10 bad format..

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we don't even know the format for val yet.... and in league, its one team from every region so idk what ur on

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I'm feeling two round-robin groups of five teams, with the top two from both going into a 4SE bracket, which is extremely gross, but I don't know of many other "good" 10 team formats

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FUCKING NICE

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Aight so, I'ma need these players to make it in:

NA: TenZ, Wardell (TenZ comeback pls!)
EU: ScreaM, mixwell
BR: mwzera, xand
JP: Laz
KR: rb

(I'ma need help with the other 2 region's best players)

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LATAM North: Xander, Daveeys, Nolan.

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BR : Jhonn, a melhor mira do Brasil.

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i really wanna see jady

i'm an fpx fan but the dude is insanely good, and only 17 years old which is wild

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TenZ and Wardell are highly skilled players, but if you see TSM rn they aren't playing too good and even for tenz I think he is still on break. Even when tenz was in comp scene he used to wreak havoc but never won... It's team game not individual...

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TenZ made C9 so much better... look at how much worse C9 has done since TenZ has been gone. Even though they have Leaf, who has played great, they have been so much worse and haven't won anything without TenZ. TenZ led every Ignition Series in ACS up until 1 of the final ones and C9 even placed top 3 in some of the Ignition Series tournaments with TenZ and also dominated the first First Strike open qualifier before falling off the face of the earth. Hell even look at how much worse relykS has been without TenZ. Don't try to push any narrative that TenZ didn't make his team better or that they were failing because TenZ wasn't a team player. If you surround a player with 4 mediocre players they aren't going to have much success against teams with 4 great players like Sen. I mean maybe I'm misinterpreting what you said and what you really meant to say was that TenZ wouldn't have made it if he was still competing because of his team so sorry I guess if that's what you meant.

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TenZ made C9 so much better... look at how much worse C9 has done since TenZ has been gone. Even though they have Leaf, who has played great, they have been so much worse and haven't won anything without TenZ. TenZ led every Ignition Series in ACS up until 1 of the final ones and C9 even placed top 3 in some of the Ignition Series tournaments with TenZ and also dominated the first First Strike open qualifier before falling off the face of the earth. Hell even look at how much worse relykS has been without TenZ. Don't try to push any narrative that TenZ didn't make his team better or that they were failing because TenZ wasn't a team player. If you surround a player with 4 mediocre players they aren't going to have much success against teams with 4 great players like Sen. I mean maybe I'm misinterpreting what you said and what you really meant to say was that TenZ wouldn't have made it if he was still competing because of his team so sorry I guess if that's what you meant

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i hope they add 2 more spots 1 cis 1 tr

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3 for the entire EMEA would have been enough imo

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nope imo, if they wan to keep cis, tr and eu as an unified region then, they should add 2 more spots 4 EMEA is enough.

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iirc that was the original plan, but they've reduced it down presumably because of covid

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normally its 3 na 3 eu 2 jp 2 tr and 1 cis, they reduce 6 teams probably due to covid

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actually its 4 EMEA AND 3 NA

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While I like the fact there is a LAN, why 10 teams, just feels weird.

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I hope NRG makes it through!

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No way NRG makes it

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2 for the entire EMEA??? maybe at least give one slot to Tr/CIS or 4 EMEA?

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This does seem a bit raw!

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No they should give more to NA <3

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wtf emea 2 teams?

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Brazil with the same spots than EU, CIS and TURKEY together hahahahaha

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I think 2 spots for Brazil is fair, RIOT just needs to add 2 more slots 1 for CIS and 1 for TR

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tr,eu,cıs = 2 slots .. really ?!

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That's unbelievably unfair for EU teams. Why even separate the regions in challengers and regional masters if you are going to bunch them together? This is tilting.

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super hyped for a lan event, but... why do south american teams get more total spots than emea? makes no sense

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also, iceland is such a sick setting for a LAN event, it's kinda cool especially since it would never happen under most circumstances

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Por que em jogos sempre foi separado desta forma:
BR
LATAM
NA
Brasil em dimensões é muito grande e tem muitos times qualificados, histórico vitorioso em FPS, entre outros aspectos.

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i don't have a problem with brazil having 2 seeds, but emea having only 2 is too little since it's 3 regions compressed into one

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Eu entendo,apenas te expliquei o motivo do SA ser assim.

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reply in english bro

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Meu inglês n tá tão bom assim não kkkkkk, por isso escrevi em português mais formal possível pra quando o cara traduzir ficar de boas de entender.

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tendi kk

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Thank you, Riot!
I'm glad you didn't listen to the majority of this stupid community and do the right thing!
You got it right again! Keep it up!

I hope this community matures and knows how to accept and criticize for the good of the game!

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what did the stupid community say?

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supernova

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They said that there could be no LAN tournaments because of Covid
I said that if Valorant Competitive wanted to stay relevant it would have to have international tournaments as soon as possible (We still need more international tournaments a year)
And they said it was okay to continue with these Regional Masters for longer

Luckily the people who work at Riot Games are not as dumb as most of the Valorant community on this site.

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This is going to be lit!

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nice

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OMEGALUL only 2 teams in eu+tr+cıs tell me its a joke pls

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Reykjavík is amazing location to start with.

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Only Icebox must be played! =D LOL

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It's unfair with EU region, I think they have the best teams, add 2 more slots 1 for TR and 1 for CIS

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It sucks. TR has one of the highest viewerbases out of any region, and most likely will have no representation in masters. Quite a blow for an entire community. Realistically we'll probably see 2 EU teams, and 0 cis and tr. Absolutely tragic, no other region has to compete like this for representation.

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Thast so unfair with CIS and TR

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I think it should be minimum 1TUR -1CIS - 2 EU

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There is a ping difference between EU and TR it is unfair

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Just wanted OCE to have 1 slot :(

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I’m guessing y’all will have to play on SEA?
That sucks...

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I don't even think we are allowed to play on SEA servers because we aren't from SEA countries

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No shot, wtf

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they play on NA i belive

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Should be 4 Na 4 Eu 1Tr 1Cis =16 team

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EMEA should not be one region

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Riot really doesn't give a f about EU.

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Казактар кайда

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Honestly I think they should make it 16 teams with 4 NA teams, 3 EU, 2 BR, 1 JP, 1 KR, 1 SEA, 1 OCE, 1 LATAM, 1 TR, 1 CIS. Or Maybe you give 1 slot to OCE/SEA and give 2 to TR in this case but idk. The bigger the tournament is, the more likely an underdog wins, which are always the most memorable, but also the less inclusive or rewarding it is to make it there. 16 is a perfect number for a bracket and would allow for more regions to be better represented. Also maybe you could take away a NA slot and give another slot to TR in the scenario given but the NA scene is the biggest in terms of orgs and viewership and I have a bias towards more NA teams so idk. I'm assuming with 10 teams, they will have 2 groups of 5 play and then the top 2 teams from each group advance to a bracket which should be good as well.

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4 NA teams? That’s cap

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lmao Truue

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EU is the worst region stfu

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0/8

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dumb american, go eat fast food

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I like stereotyping too but this isn't the place for it. Also i think that stuff is kinda racist

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everything is racist nowadays to be true

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also maybe 3 teams from each group go through with 2nd's and 3rd's playing qfs and 1st's getting byes to semifinals

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Poggies

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5 “american” (north /south / latin whatever) is waaay too much!
2 NA and 2 Latin was more than enough so you can take out russia out of the europe pool so they have there own pool.

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Nah they should just add another Europe slot, I don't think Russia has the player base to support its own slot. JP and KR definitely need their own though.

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they can give 1 slot to turkey+cıs and another to eu or kr

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I agree about those extra slot for europe , the fact about russians dont have the player base not.. i have to say that there is always 1 or 2 russians in my team so unlucky me xD

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This. I may have never played a single competitive match without a non-comms Russian on my team.

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I'm sure they will change things for next masters, but I think this is the best they could do considering COVID risks and restrictions

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Just give a slot to CIS+TR and add 1 more to NA (biggest region by far)

12 teams 3 groups with 4 teams or 2 groups with 6 teams

I think Riot is going to do the right thing soon.

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Actually europe is the biggest region. They said so when they released the new requirements for Radiant rank.

300RR for NA and 400RR for Europe.

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Actually true big diffrences

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2 teams from the whole region of Europe/CIS/Turkey? Are they out of their fucking minds?

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Now this is EPIC

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no slot for north africa/mena i smell racism

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EMEA includes MENA region, which makes everything even weirder.

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nope, MENA will be only included in EMEA for Masters 3 and Champions, not this time around (same as for OCE in NA)

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Who cares they won't qualify anyway, neither will CIS nor Turkey nor Oceania. Riot fucked them up with their retarded slot distribution for Masters and Champions.

But at the same time SEA gets 2 entire slots for Champions without even having at least 1 decent team. I love Riot.

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who knows, some turkish or cis team might qualify for at least one of the masters or champions

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One of the possible solutions is to increase the amount of teams at Champions from 16 to 20, adding 1 separate slot for CIS, 1 separate slot for Turkey/MENA, 1 separate slot for Oceania and 1 more slot to NA (because strongest region at the moment).

But who am I to judge Riot right?

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I mean if CIS and TR can't even qual against EU teams then why should they even have a slot at Masters or Champions? If you say it's unfair because they won't beat EU teams, then how are they going to beat the best NA, BR, KR, JP teams?

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So in other words you consider EU weaker region that NA, BR, KR and JP? Lmao.
EU is the 2nd strongest and the most stacked region so far. They do deserve more slots.

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What I was trying to say is: If they can't even beat the best teams from 1 region, how would they beat the best teams in the world? Also there's no way to tell which region is the strongest right now so you can't really say EU is the strongest because none of the regions have played against each other yet

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Yeah, nice logic mate. Why bother giving Russian/Turkish team a chance to take at least 5th-6th place at the main tournament? For you only Winner matters right? Other placements don't matter?

Now we will see that some fucking SEA flukes will take those placements that could be potentially taken by Russian/Turkish teams. Are you happy with that?

continue thread →

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10 is such a bad number to make a tournament with. Perhaps we'll see 2 groups per 5 teams, and it will be a round-robin system. Then 2 best teams from each group will advance to semifinals or some shit like that.

Funny thing that South America receives more slots than entire EMEA lol. NA should have more slots too.

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Maybe they only had 10 slots