Can FPX participate in CIS quals?

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Olofboost

2 EMEA Pro League spots have never been so free to claim
No CIS team other than Gambit is at the same level as EU tier1 right now

OBG, Navi, GMT are losing to tier2-tier3 EU regularly, it wouldn't be hard to overcome at least 2 of them to secure a spot, other teams like Smaracis or KPI are really meh and I doubt they have a chance

FPX have 3 CIS players, I wonder whether they can take part in our qualification because EU is looking to be stacked (G2, Guild, Giants, BDS, Vitality, Alliance, LDN, Tenstar, BIG, list continues)

And I hope they do, FPX deserve some spotlight after all the shit that happened to them last year

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trash_star_999

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umm CIS Val barely gets any views...it would hurt their exposure as a brand.

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Olofboost

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I want to say that getting into Pro League is VERY IMPORTANT

It's the only way to qualify for Masters 1
It's the only way to earn some significant amount of VCT points, I assume VRLs will be giving less

Look at this:
https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VCT/2022/EMEA/Promotion_Tournament

Only 2 teams can be relegated, and they still have a BYE advantage and they don't need to go through group stage
Which means that if FPX qualify now, they are likely to stay for Stage 2 as well

And they will get even more exposure playing against teams like Liquid / Acend in PL repeatedly

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deadSQUAD

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i think it's all depends on where they play. if they want to play on CIS qualifiers, all of their player should move to CIS.

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Ic1

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well, not really, as long as they're ok with their ping they can play from wherever

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hiyo

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so they played in EU last year, therefore the team was tied to EU

keyword is was, I guess if FPX want to participate in CIS Quals they can