Valorant T3/4/5

Can someone explain to me what these are?
I know tier 1 is the highest level franchise teams and tier 2 are teams that qualify for ascension

But what the heck is tier 3, 4 and 5?

Everything else, Tier 4 and 5 are more so like exaggerations, but all the other small LANs and tournaments are essentially t3 and below.

Tier 3 typically would be considered collegiate, or at this point high tier premier teams or FA teams/smaller orgs that play in non VCT tourneys, think during the open circuit days alot of the NA teams that weren't good enough to make say top 32 in open circuit so you seen them in NSG and other side tourneys

4/5 are probably just random premier teams or obscure ass tourney teams that probably are like diamond-immortal and lower that play random LAN events

i think t3 its the teams trying to get good results in regional leagues
https://www.vlr.gg/event/2089/gamers-club-challengers-league-2024-brazil-split-2/s-rie-de-acesso-fase-2
https://www.vlr.gg/event/2089/gamers-club-challengers-league-2024-brazil-split-2/s-rie-de-acesso-fase-1

t4 its the premier
t5 dont exist?

and i think some game changers team can be t2 teams too

T5 is ranked I guess and T69 is silver rank

I prefer a tier system simply based on how Riot intended them via rules

tier 1 - VCT
tier 2 - CL
tier 3 - GC, anything that qualifies you into t2 (premier, the beacons, project V, Liga Radiante, etc) and high level "for fun" tournaments (e.g. epic.lan#43)

cant really define a t4 since our t3 circuits tend to already be open tourneys and without a rank restriction (but generally stuff that isnt notable enough to even show up on liquipedia ig)

It depends, some countries have their own tier 3 leagues that qualify them into their tier 2 league. In Spain we even have a tier 4 that qualifies you into that tier 3 league. I don't think tier 5 is a thing

I think of tier 3 as teams that aren't in T1/T2 that are invited to scrim against the T1/T2 teams regularly. Essentially scrim teams that want to get into tier 2.

T3 - knights weekly/whatever random tourneys
T4 - GC/ranked