A former Riot employee stated that there is an intention within Riot to eliminate Brazil from the League of Legends and Valorant scenes: https://twitter.com/Marinasshi/status/1713184792697565672
She worked at Riot Games for 9 years before resigning in May of this year.
Translation: Every Worlds, I read these posts from Brazilian fans disappointed. Maybe we can go back a year and just recycle, no need to write new messages. Brazil started as a promising region, but because of Riot's systemic discrimination, they've created an impossible environment for the region to thrive. At the beginning, we had the international wildcard, which compelled the players to compete in an additional tournament and often arrive at Worlds sleep-deprived, while other regions had two weeks of bootcamp or rest. Regions like Brazil were subsidizing teams with a meager amount, while the LCS was subsidizing teams with a much larger sum than smaller regions (sometimes even millions more). Teams in Brazil had just enough to survive. In the LCS, players were paid to participate in broadcasts. Do you think that with this investment, not the same, just proportionate from the beginning, Brazil wouldn't be one of the strongest regions in the world? Our mistake is that we come from a region that doesn't stroke the massive egos of Rioters, so the effort was always to erase us.
What she said about Valulrante: I won't even start talking about what they did on Valorant... our teams know very well. Brazil won, even with adversities, and then they went and absorbed our most popular teams and bankrupted the rest...
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