I hate VCT format

Cloud9 played their last game on July 17, 2024, exactly 6 months prior to kickoff. Now they played three games and have to wait another 2 months to play an official again in Stage 1. A grand total of 3 official games in 8 months.

"But uhm they got to win and qualify to events if they want to play more!" I don't care if they win, lose or if they go partying to Madagascar on the weekends. There's no good reason why it should be possible for a Franchised Tier 1 team to only play 3 official matches in the span of 8 months. Even if they lose everything that's just way too few games. Imagine being a C9 fan and having to wait over half a year for 3 official matches and then back to waiting 2 more months. With this type of stuff, it's no wonder some people find it hard to stay engaged in VCT.

Before anyone mentions that they are stretching VCT to reduce the offseason time, that's just a very lazy patch for a bigger problem. It's literally a very similar number of games in the span of a year. We will get a shorter off season in exchange for having to wait more time between matches.

Fair enough.

incorrect

cloud9 have played 3 games

i miss guard neT

Speak your shit king

I mean riot changed the format in league too. In regions like lpl, if you’re shit in groups, you gotta wait until next split cuz if you’re shit, what’s the point of letting you play more matches when everyone knows you’re not gonna win. Might as well just not let them play games and let them make their own adjustments.

Good, they can now improve while the others are still in the competition

teams who played 2 games reading this post:

I mean I think that should be what the offseason is for, seeing teams you root for play (which c9 did play a lot of and shouldn't be excluded)
officials in VCT should showcase the winners more than the losers through tournament brackets I think that makes the most sense

i think its crazy that CN Grand Finals are happening before Gen.G even play their first match

There's like 5 days of no matches coming up, Americas is randomly taking a break this weekend and pushing everything down a week

100% real, this esports scene is so poorly managed. It sucks even more cause these are the "franchised" teams, and this is the treatment they get and perks.

Tier 2 is a whole other pile of garbage.

pretty sure china is have a mid season tourney for the teams that don't go to bangkok which i think is a great solution

Americas should adopt evolution series like CN schedule then. Evolution series gonna be for VCT CN teams that doesn't qualify to internationals + possibly some Tier 2 CN teams. This is what current 2025 CN schedule looks like:

• VCT CN Kickoff (January 11-25)
• CN Evolution Act I (February)
• VALORANT Masters Bangkok (February 20 – March 2)
• VCT CN Stage 1 (March 13 – May 4)
• CN Evolution Act II (May)
• VALORANT Masters Toronto (June 8-22)
• VCT CN Stage 2 (July- August)
• CN Evolution Act III (August)
• VALORANT Champions Paris (September 12 – October 6)
• VCT Ascension CN (TBA)
• CN Evolution Epilogue (November)

Someone on different thread commented
"shit schedule for good teams and good schedule for shit teams."

There's arguments about whether teams will get enough rest, cause this is the result of 14 months of gruelling schedule for EDG.
https://x.com/VALO2ASIA/status/1733137072406643163

Do you think this schedule is good or no?

and this is why CS as an esports is better than valorant. hello riot have u seen the 2025 events calendar? non stop action right there

I agree , it should be a complete round robin for each stage wherein each team plays others and tbh i wanted riot to have 16 teams in each region wherein 12 are franchised and 4 are from ascension ( not singular year obviously) and then masters 1 has 12 teams and masters 2 has 16 while champs has 20. How abt it?

How I wish Valorant had CS events like IEM, Blast, and ESL Pro League

Imagine being a c9 fan 😔
Alr mb, you do bring up a fair point, in all regions there will be teams who suffer this fate of not making internationals, and as a result, not being able to play many games. Do you have any ideas for format changes or suggestions which will involve the entire franchise league? An international for teams with a worse score? An event like lock in? I'm not sure any way is an improvement over the current format