Any guess?? Me: London, Madrid or São Paulo again
people outside of brazil literally say this shit and no matter how hard people who actually knows what happened explains it, they still throwing shit and spreading misinformation because like 10k people or more were out of the stadium watching it with gaules but just because they werent into it then that means it was a bad crowd LMAO
the venue was the volkswagen arena, which is on the european side of istanbul.
https://goo.gl/maps/8fHX1NivGU82gDNY6
Ardiis isnt russian and he still aint got a visa.
Can you imagine how bad it would be for the russian players?
No more absentees in the biggest tournaments please.
So until they stop their bullshit with visas, skip the US, the UK, other eu countries that are annoying about it.
Best for everyone would be an asian country thats not being a bitch about russian professional visas.
My initial guesses are that:
Ofc Sao Paulo is the opener and M1 is Japan
So I suspect one of three options: LA, Berlin, and Soeul. Why? Because I'm assuming M2 will be in Europe and whichever region performs the best (since riot is giving regional rewards for performance, like the winner of Sao Paulo gets another M1 slot) will get Champs in their own Region Hub. At least for the first year, it kinda makes sense. Easy to set up for players, fully prepared venues and casters.
For the people who mentioned Madrid, my guess is if they wanted it here it would be in Barcelona since there's where Riot has it's offices. And honestly if it was to be in Europe I think it's pretty likely since Riot was about to do the VCT in Barcelona instead of Berlin, but teams complained since they were already established there for LEC
If its in EU then its Spain likely. NA might have visa problems so I doubt they would have Masters there. "Masters 1" in South America(NA timezone as well), Masters 2 being in Japan, Asia and Champions in EU could make sense especially with potential visa problems.
But its also possible that Riot just says "fuck EMEA and Russians" and just have it in USA. Because they def want to make it big like how they invited bunch of people to Istanbul and this year is the start of Valorant esport in a way.
The list of biggest cities in the world
1 - Tokyo - Japan
2 - Delhi - India
3 - Shanghai - China
4 - São Paulo - Brazil
5 - Mexico City - Mexico
Russian players have a Visa problem for the USA, and Mexico is also NA. Masters in Japan already (Asia), Kickoff in Brazil (South America), and perhaps Mexico next as NA?
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I think that India is also on the radar thinking about the Harbor agent and the next map is going to be India right?