Timezone Grievances

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tipthetim

Masters Bangkok will mark the third international event in a row in Asia.
While Masters Shanghai and Champions Seoul were both impossible for me to watch without going nocturnal, I was at least able to understand how Important it was to get China and Pacific an international event. However with Masters Bangkok, I would have not been able to watch an international event live since Masters Madrid. I know some may say that I just don't want Asian tournaments which isn't true, I just wish they could have spaced out the events so that Americas could watch.

And vods aren't the same experience as watching a match live.

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Ayush__

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next event is toronto lol just wait

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GlitchGull

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Yeah it sucks a bit for people in Americas but at least the bigger events this year will be better for you

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xonya

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vice versa also applies

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saebr

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3 in a row is a little wicked though no?

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PizzaPie

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Imagine 2 years in a row for those APAC fans then lol

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FrenchToast

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am i tripping or did asia not have international for 2 years straight?

i think tokyo was the first one ever

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nobody___100

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how is that americas fault
we got 2 events in 2023 sure but that was it
2021, 2022 was all bumea. we've had a grand total of 2 events, same as asia.
imo there shouldn't be any emea events in 2026

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xonya

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yeah but next year is probably americas

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yea I miss the days where I could watch all 3 lans in a year, all good tho asia needs their events too cuz they got hard cucked in the first 2 years

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the west will have 2 events too
might even be 3

toronto
paris
and im guessing masters 1 2026 might be on Latam/BR (might also be masters 2 tho)

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Cryptic88

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respectfully, us asians have been suffering the same problem since the start of vct so please dont call it unfair

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tipthetim

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That's a fair point, but there is no point in having a schedule like this.

They could have done: Shanghai, Madrid, Seoul, Toronto, Bangkok, and then Paris. I wouldn't have any complaints and everyone would get the same number of events.

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xonya

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next year is america's year methinks

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Cryptic88

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1 straight year of events in asia compared to 2 straight years in emea that americans can watch is still worth it for you.

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tipthetim

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I wish I had watched back then, but I live in the reality that I only started watching after Madrid.

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Cryptic88

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damn unlucky for you.

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g_torrance

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remember pre franchise tournaments? They were all favored to the west

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tipthetim

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I wasn't watching pre-franchise so I can't really comment on that, I only started watching during Madrid after all.
I also don't think that Riot is doing this to make things fair, which if it was could be a smidge understandable...