OCE val needs more attention, Like fr shit is entertaining as and they got good as players like DRAGON and Minimise. Like okay they may not have any VCT pacific teams but trust one day i see that they will get big.
interesting
https://x.com/LachlanYT/status/1537360283278393345
Lachy seemed keen, i hope he still is.
ID needs at least one more team otherwise, our players will spread out across the Pacific (hopefully BOOM wins Ascension).
If you think it's all about the market, then what will happen if Forsaken and Mindfreak leave PRX? no id team???
ID is one of the biggest community in SEA, and still growing up.
At first, I thought you were just joking, lol.
(sorry for oce, but their super team can't even beat boom with severine) and now their ascension team is dogshit (like they're care much more about vacation in japan than playing for ascension and better format)
Kinda true you have a huge talent pool, probably biggest of the world after CN and USA, I'm trying to see wish of the 10 franchise can be removed for one for OCE but let's be honest this is pretty stack. Things would have been so mush easier if it was GEN or T1 that bough Vision Striker instead of DRX, hard to remove off JP team too since they got so mush hype, again if only DFM got the history of ZETA Riot would probably have only give them one spot... I can't obviously retire any other SEA team since they represent a captive market... And... Only RRQ remained. I don't really wanna RRQ out, it's right MY-SG-ID need a 2nd team, it will probably even a bigger market than JP and ID in 10 years, but that would probably be the least good choice actually (Because I don't really believe that Indonesian people prefer RRQ toward PRX, but you can tell me if i'm wrong and that your case).
So here what are the option for OCE :
What, to you would be the best solution for a T1 OCE team ? Remove DFM ?
PS : OCE cant beat BME because their talent did left T.T
Remove dfm and the views will suffer , remember that CR screwed up the paperworks so DFM had to fill in in the end.
And CR is the Far popular org by all metrics. Not to mention you have orgs like murash and riddle still lurking in Tier2(although they lacked the business and history like dfm and zeta).
You have at least 40k loyal fans who will watch zeta and dfm and that's not even talking about watch parties or if any of zeta and dfm even qualify for masters. These numbers are nothing to sneeze at, even in T2 Valorant you will get similar if not more than t1 itself
After all that investments into the Jp t1 and t2 I doubt the japanese fans would like it if their spot got reduced to 1 and riot probably knows that.