Hypothetically, if there are only 6 PERMANENT franchised orgs:
T1
GEN
PRX
DFM
RID
Orangutan
to be fair, it would be almost impossible to reduce to 6 franchise team, it would purely and simply mean the death of Valorant in some market.
We need at least :
If Riot choose to go to 6 partner team per region... That mean at least in 2031 (but preferably in 2027) we will need to split Pacific and Asia, because in long term that could mean the destruction of Val in some part of SEA, doing that would open a slot for Oceania, (3KR team, 2JP team, 1OCE team), and another spot either for Vietnam, or for MENA if we decide to put MENA in Asia to make the region bigger in term of population (Because it would be the smaller region in term of pop.
Anyway we will see if the playerpool in Korea continue to increase exponentially, because if that happen that could really choke to death the rest of APAC
For South Asia
Its Riot may continue with GE
And if not then its gonna be either RNTX, S8UL or VLT
Those who are writing Orangutan need to know that they left Valorant, the roster is just playing under their name
If RNTX somehow qualifes for Ascension this year by defeating VLT, they gonna have the highest chance imo
Maybe riot even considers giving them slot in place on GE also if this happens