8-team Masters

Why Riot thinks Kickoff + 8-team Masters is a good idea? They are just stupid. Valorant competitive season is a fucking joke

Its so sen can win at least 1 trophy per year

Dont overthink it

if there were top16 teams they wouldnt have enough time for all of the matches during the season /s

nah but fr if you are gonna have only 3 fucking events in a year at least do them right, cs's 2nd big event is starting out already and 3rd one is soon too

They should make a lockin event again at this point, every team invited and single elimination. Kickoff is so RNG anyways

kinda think it's nice

breaks up the pace a bit, makes each tourney unique

IMO 8 team masters atp is decent for the start of the season. The tough kickoff bracket makes sure only a few good teams per region make it through (i.e. teams that don't have glaring holes and inconsistencies in their play). Because of this every game is a much watch and after the first round the Swiss stage makes all of the other games pretty important as well as they are all advance or elim games. Ideally you would want more tournaments with more teams invited but with the current investment from riot into esports this is kind of the best we can hope. The scene hasn't developed enough either yet for more teams at the start of the year without making masters 1 look competitively worse than masters 2 because of the massive gap between the top and mid table teams in each region at the start of the year.

They don’t think this is a good idea, but this is cheap enough

only the best teams qualify, fun to watch