Thursday matches postponed at NA Last Chance Qualifier

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Riot not having a gud time rn. Starting from the travel problems, to internet connection issues, to covid protocols, riot doesn't look like they have everything under control... They're not doing horrendous, yet not meeting expectations either.

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all of u are saying is the external problem, RIOT did their best but that things is just out of their hand

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juraf

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? they clearly didnt plan well for this event at all, not setting up travel for OCE then not having anyone arrive early for negative tests and then not even using LAN

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The bad planning is all correct, especially the OCE teams part. But the test stuff is LA's fault. Those are the regulations there. You have to test everyone involved every day of the event.

I don't really understand why they organized it in LA, aren't there way better places in the US with looser regulations and better servers???

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Yeah, the west coast in general has the most strict covid protocols. But it's not like other much larger events aren't happening there. They just got some bad luck with the positive tests.

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DAPAM

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California does

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wrote the last part to not lose all the karma :)

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Unfortunate how every event has some sort of issue

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they should be using this time to fix the internet and pc issues and not just waiting for quarantine

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you're talking as if they are unaware of this. stop acting like know-it-all dude

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Okayyyyyy

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How about you shut up smartass, how is this "acting like a know-it-all" do you just like trying to sound smart

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virgin

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No shit riots going to use the time to fix the internet and pc issues. They even say it in the update. this guy is proposing it as if it isnt completely obvious to do so.

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Where did they say it?

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They will continue to implement solutions to tackle the problem. It can be inferred that they are trying to find a way to fix the problem to maintain the competitive integrity of the lcq.

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For me that just meant “we’re gonna make sure both teams are either playing on the “lan” or both are playing from home, so it’s fair”, not “We’re gonna fix the lan”

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Isn't the problem that people are self isolating so they can't actually play on lan? The only thing to change is the computers used on Ian so they are of the standard as those in the hotels.

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dont come with bs in comments please, this is the first year of valo esport its obv gonna get better

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true, but I expected a company like riot (with plenty of experience from LOL) to do better. I guess the val LANs are organized by a separate section of the company, a section which it seems might need some personnel changes

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plas

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fr riot is just a small company they are definitely not fit for at least a decent tournament right...

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ye Riot is only a small inde company based in Mississipi who have never hosted any LAN events and definitely don't own the biggest esport in the world right

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hekzy

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Yep 1.5 years in and they still haven't fixed the UI. Maybe we will get proper production in 2077

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NA production kekw

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Now that Australian teams can't make it to the LCQ. There's no point for this to be a "LAN" event. Might as well save the trouble and send all the players back home to play in their pc

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I'd rather have the players play from home without internet issues and on good pcs then a laggy bad quality lan

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LOOOOL

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at this rate, I'm just glad Champion is not held in LA.

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fax, I like your optimistic mindset

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Facts

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agreed lol.

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NA LAN

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Jesus, imagine what would've happened if the OCE teams made it to LA.... sent home straight away?

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this tourney will remember as the meme in valorant history

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Rito pls fix

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Rito running around like a chicken with its head cut off

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I Guess the problem is with governance in that region. Also players should have been strictly quarantined in their hotel rooms but faze wanna party

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yaiima0

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LA has one of the most strict covid restrictions rn

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What is the problem If one match is played online? They could've continued as the matches are still being played on online servers. Also if there were quarantine rules and players have breached the bubble, they should be disqualified

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#1. The problem before the tourney was that OCE teams were disqualified cuz not enough time for travel, throwing 9 months of hard work for an entire region in the gutter.

#2. The problem on day 1 is that a LAN was played online. Like how was an online LAN an acceptable main condition for a tourney?? If they couldn't do a LAN, they shouldn't have tried to force it. LANs already have a host of technical issues that can pop up at any time. Unless it's already been proven to work before in a less important/minor tournament, then using a remote server, in-person, and with a bunch of non-personalized equipment is just increasing the risks of failures in a HUGE tournament which we saw on crucial rounds that day.

#3. I believe the problem on day 2 & 3 is false positives with the rapid antigen testing that they have to do daily per LA county health guidelines. Players are actually re-testing negative (even multiple times sometimes) with repeat testing but LA protocols are still affecting their ability to play because even a false positive = quarantine. EVEN though Riot said they wanted to play online because if someone was positive, they could still play, on day 2, people did test false-positive and this "online LAN" they tried to plan for STILL didn't work out as a contingency. So day 1's excuse for the lag looks VERY bad right now.

In conclusion, Riot planned so poorly for this LCQ that it'd be insane if someone didn't get fired for this.

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I mean from the twitter talkroom that George Geddes hosted during the brodcast delays multiple players fell a strong lack of clear direction or communication from Riot. Obviously Riot should be doing a better job and should be communicating a lot better with the players.

I've also seen people asking about whether or not the players could play from their hotel rooms, and according to Babybay the hotel room, despite never having a server lag out, has frequent ping spiking issues. Plus having these two teams play online while all the other teams play on "LAN" breaches the competitive integrity of the tournament and creates an unfair playing field amongst the competitiors.

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Nobody played on a LAN server. All games hosted were on the VPS everyone had issues with.

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Hence why i put LAN in quotation marks. I know they aren't playing on LAN lol but having one team play in their own setups vs another who must play at the event (which was an early rumour of what would happen to Faze vs Rise) breaches the fair play balance of the tournament

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rito and me boxing match

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yungbasel

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Hahaha 😹

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2jz

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na lol

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yungbasel

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The fyre festival of "LANs" lol

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all good

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Valve > Riot

As usual

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darkcvc

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Yea Riot should just make their major qualifiers best of 1s and spike rush for tie breakers.

Don't act like Valve tourneys are a shit show as well...

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RickyIndian

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Idk how riot can put the expectation bar so high but perform so low…

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Better be resumed next week.

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Kappa

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ritdro2211

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Today has been such a boring day sadge
No VCT,No LoL

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ValorantLowSkillGame

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Maybe get a job?

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so like when will na lcq be