wtf riot masters tokyo

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Hexa2022

2 spots for china and 3 for americas/pacific/emea WTF

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SOURCE ?

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Hexa2022

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https://twitter.com/valesports_br/status/1628787002400464896

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No way 2 for China

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Rito Owned by China myfriend

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WTF

Should be 3 CN, 4 Americas, 4 Pacific, 1 EMEA + 1 Americas for winning LOCK IN

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agreed

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agree

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Rare babysasuke w

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Yeah it kinda makes sense.
without china its 10 teams so its either ignore china or give them 2

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what was it supposed to be

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W riot. If riot can get Chinese market game will be huge. Chinese scene already super comp without game release

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In all realness though it’s an L. They should play in the pacific league and earn their slot in masters… it’s just unfair

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Ullyr

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Nah edg clears pacific league lol they went 9 0 in the lcq last year. You can't deny cn teams are getting better.

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calm down . It was only JP and KR at the LCQ . It was not apac

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lcq ( not the top apac teams).

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3 big regions will fight for their slots meanwhile EDG / FPX will get free slots for MASTERS

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I'm not even sure edg and fpx will remain top 1 and 2. The Chinese scene is changing a lot. Some overwatch ex pro switch over too.

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even if pros re switching to Valorant it will take some time for them to be at TOP , So till then EDG / FPX are the only ones

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No way. There is a lot of big orgs there + It is a country with a lot of investment and history in E-sports + 1.4bi people. More money, more viewership. They have to be a separete region.

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we do not live in a fair world. also if the chinese playerbase becomes as big as apac, then it is very fair, especially considering how secluded the country is from the rest of the world in terms of their policies and shit. and it would be better if you give up on this "unfair" and "earn their slot" naritive, it wont happen anywhere, not in real sports not in esports, not in business literally no where. this is how the world works

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So true. we don’t live in a fair world…

Just look at how riot gave EMEA 10 slots despite them being the worst region itw and full of dogshit teams 😔

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ItsMeDio

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rare W
And no CIS or russian vrl too

Riot is so unfair 😡😡

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it's completely understandable. china is a massive market, and with overwatch recently being shut down there now is the perfect time to swoop in a fill the gap, and inviting chinese teams to international events and getting fans there excited is a great way to do it.

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I saw that on billibilli gaming there's 2 ex cn overwatch players that just switch over. Hopefully more do

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Knowing Tencent had willingness to give Wild Rift Chinese league "higher prize pool than the LPL" itself tells all about what they could gave for VAL

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Okay but at least make them go through a Chinese qualifier this time instead of just inviting two of them. I’d rather see whz who’s now on Bilibili play than whatever the fuck that FPX team was.

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pretty sure this counted as the qualifier.
https://www.vlr.gg/event/1319/fgc-valorant-invitational-2022-epilogue/playoffs

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W RIOT

GOTTA SUCK TENCENT DICK SOMEHOW

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W. EDG will show why they deserve two slots today.

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expected

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unfair but expected

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if china can give equal amount of viewership which rest of the world combined gives, then i think its a pretty decent bet. and also china will easily become good(unlike japan which is very new to esports), china has done it before in league so hopefully they'll get good quite fast. and yes with all this said, this is unfair, but understandable and good for the future of the game

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Totally unfair actually

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Fucking told ya

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thatpower

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chinese market is huge i don't think anyone should be surprised

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thiagomds

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W RIOT, but only 12???stop making this tournaments with 12 teams, it's very difficult to make fair and good formats

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marketing

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another Tencent's FPS title CrossFire in China went absolute high alert by creating the new esports pyramid promising a 2nd league, university/college/developmental league

which is something that this game never consider doing it since going franchising in 2020. All it took is VALORANT to go on high alert

and even both being under Tencent each subcompany or even substudios still has to compete each other.
https://twitter.com/subzidite2/status/1628791785844801537/photo/1

To me its not surprising, not to say its fair though but what do you expect coming from the parent company themself.

This should mean they had direct spot to Champions assuming the similar pattern of it will be 4 from those three leagues + masters winner gets extra spot then 2 fixed china spots again remember the pro league rumors

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Brazil had 2 slots since the beginning and we only made a good team last year. China has huge potential and fanbase, riot will profit a lot. I just don't agree with 12 slots only

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RIOT IS OWNED BY TENCENT (CHINESE GAMING COMPANY)

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3 EMEA wtf

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RIOT W, lets go EDG!!!!

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Common Rito L

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FDWC

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stay mad and go back to reddit

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soraol

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W RIOT
W Tencent

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NRG, FURIA, LOUD + MIBR/KRU/LEV
NAVI, FNATIC, KOI
TS, DRX, TALON
EDG, KONE/FPX
so free

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wait.. I actually need Americas to win this event so we can get 4 Americas teams at Tokyo

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I think that's good, china audience means good things

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cryyBAE

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The wrong thing in here is EMEA 3 spots ...