3rd Party LANs?

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xaboff

Which, when (and if) 3rd party TOs do you see making regional, macroregional or global LANs, if Riot would ever allow that? Maybe ESL or NSG? Or maybe some of the Ignition Series TOs like Blast, Flashpoint, WePlay, Allied or LVL?
I personally would love to see some sort of Valorant IEM or ESL One with most of the spots based on invites, where half of the teams wouldn't be from SEA, Japan and LATAM

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I don't see Riot allowing them, but I would think that most of them would be willing to try running some Valorant LAN events if the viewership continues to grow to the point that they think they can make money from the events.

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ESL no money but they should try because at this point they dominate CS Callander and that’s it. IF CS does then esl is fucked (nt valarante fan boys, CS never dies 😎)

#4

xaboff

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they do (bigger or smaller) events in almost any esport u can imagine

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Yes but mostly CS

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no they shouldn't. Even if there is such 3rd party LAN, it will still be treated as more of a 'tier 2' event.
I dont want Valorant to be like CSGO where there's like 3 different tournament all the time.

Also ignition series is a big jerk fest since teams are invited, so big orgs get the invite and small upcoming ones wont even have a chance. That's exactly the thing that I dont like.

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xaboff

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while I agree that cs's schedule is crammed af, but having only 4 proper touraments a year still seems like a much worse idea to me

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even this year so far is already crammed. If they continue it already have enough matches to watch.
Also it is better to only have a few tournament than like 10 different mickey mouse cup that no one can keep track of (aka current CSGO). It makes winning tournament actually means something.
Also, it dont have to be a tournament, like a league format (like current LoL/Overwatch) is also a better format than CSGO style where there's 10 different tournament which diluted the prestidge on actually winning one

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agreed also rip shock

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Sorry

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xaboff

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what?

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Brazil probably won't have any Lan until 2022

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But we already got some third party tournaments (Aorus league for example) who can be in LAN. I Guess riot can adapt the circuit with third party tournaments giving less points or being last chances for tier 2 or 3 teams, or in big regions like Europe.