No Org Backing: With pretty much no money to make it becomes impossible for valorant to become a sustainable game for any orgs investing in OCE teams, which leads to big players trying to leave the region
No Scrims: Geographically there is no way to scrim any teams without being 100+ ping and so scrim quality is awful. It’s pretty much the same as people complaining about South America scrims but it’s 10x worse here
Good Players, Bad Teams: I feel like what we’ve seen from the 2024 season is that the talent in tier 2 is insane, and their are many players who could destroy tier 1 waiting, but there is a lack of really strong teams that have all stars. This is very much seen in OCE as there are no true super teams and lots of our top players are in China or elsewhere
Low Viewership: Don’t really have to explain but this comes from other factors
Poorly Managed: Let’s play live are disastrous hosts that don’t pay players for long time periods, take forever to release schedules, and can’t even keep the code of their games up. Absolute joke of tournament organisers but tbh I don’t think we’ll be able to do much better with this dry region