I'm still curious about the ping how mush do you have on Istanbul and the ping on London ^^

They are too many people that have Istanbul as their best server, but they pick another one, cant put a server for all of them, sadfully

what ? fist seed would stay the split 2 winner ^^

Nah people just overestimate him and didn't understand it, nobody did a "anti Tejo plan". Tejo is good for team like G2 with amazing fundamentals, wish isn't the case for other team, too many T1 team are only able to saturate a site with 5 ppl,

tldr NMWR does matter if the pvalue is under 0.05. Tejo was at 47% NMWR anyway

I will make the devil advocate there. Does he propose that instead of point we send :

• Top 2 in split 2
• Best American team in Master 2
• Best American team in Master 1
  This doesnt sounds thats absurd (not sure if I would drop the point system for that)

"Champions is the World Championship of the entire year"
I agree with that, and sometimes I just hope that everymap that have been play during the year will be at champ, but i'm not sure proplayer are ready for that

Gracias ! I wasnt fully sure :D

WDYM

Link pwease !

1st --> 1st --> 5th = Qual to champ

is better than

12th --> 12th --> 4th = Qual to champ

Without point, Sen wouldnt have gone to world

Sen qualified last year because of point and ended up 4th

Why ?

It's because the other team where consistent at being even worse

Point is good, it's reward the whole year, not just split 2, it's good FNC is in champs,

The real problem is that in amer, we have only 2 decent team for 80% of the year, that's why MIBR were lucky and stole a spot

I think the system could have been better (Top 2 qual, best team in point qual + a LCQ that more you have point more you enter late. This tournament can be play during the playoffs so it doesn't require more day

Imagine a champions group with :

• A team that have to defend the last champions title
• A team that have to defend the last official international event title
• A team that have to defend the last international event title
• A team that won the 3 last regional title in a raw (And ended 2nd the 2 next regional title)

...

This group is possible

Tier : Agent need to be allowed to recover a spell tier if not they disappear from the meta :
Tejo --> Recover his drone, so he can be a proper recon
Skye --> Recover her dog or flash
Brim --> Give him refrenching stim
Astra --> Maybe she should start with 4 stars, but being allowed to have one star back every 40s (Cause its as if she dont have refill)

The kit doesnt work and need a up/change

• Harbor --> Complete Rework
• Gekko --> I donno how but if he could have a little but more info he would be a decent "reveal"
• Breach --> Always the worst agent in NMWR, I just think havingt reveal/vision is too important as an init
• Pheonix --> No idea how to up him

Indirect nerf tier

• Omen / Sova / Fade : We don't need to touch those agents, we just need to up the other one because we basically destroyed them, they just suffer from having no concurrences :/

Any flasher : Revert patch 5.07 :

• Making initflash not being able to pick on their flash make them to dependent on mate on ranked, and give them a longer flash than duelist, make them even stronger in proplay making soloQ agent even more soloQesque, and proplay agant event more proplayesque (More here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLTG0jumoJQ

Weak agent that still manage to make the game less fun to play

• Deadlock --> Just rework : No fun to play, no fun to play against, weak, no creativity, playing her in low ELO is fun, but she doesnt make the game better
• Reyna --> targeted nerf (Nerf her soloQ, up her ranked, for example allow her to heal her mate instead of her, nerf the selfheal)
• Iso --> Buying ope against him is inting, they are like 5 weapons in a fullbuy, and he deny one, it's not sane for the game

Funny enough on LoL they have this storyline of the "Last seed from NA, that always end the best NA team in inter", and the only once they went to international... They were actually the best NA team

If the problem is that you don't have a Viper when your identity is Skye then you have a big problem.

Lets pick 2 controller next year, keep the Skye idea (she will be up at some point her current situation is ridiculous) and GL

Thanks a lot XD

Best Riot can propose is Central Asia I fear. Why you cant play on Istanbul ? What is your ping on it ?

And usually ? None is better ?

Wish server is the best currently and how many you have on both ?

stop trying to jinx it

Thats why I'm really curious if you can have a map for India network cable, so I can find something for the more casual base !

If you have an internet cable map I gladely take it !
I just have this one https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ where all submarine cable point at Chennai, wish would become the best place to scrim SEA, but I admit it might not be perfect for Bengal bay

Nop but they might have 20 ping on Virginia server, I suppose New York is the main contenders of the USA

What are your ping on the diffrent EMEA serv ?

The new server in PH was a huge release and I admit I would have never bet on a new PH server soon (Since HK server was probably mostly a PH server since only north VN and HKTW was the only other country that play on it
Let's bet on : What will be the next server Riot will release on Valorant !

Before we start I want to say that, I'm really curious to know the best ping and server for people that live in a country that don't have one, so don't hesitate to tell me it's gonna be helpful to my research.

Here are to me the main contenders, I want all of you to give a percent chance of this to be the next server :

• Toronto : Probably useless since too close from Chicago, but sometimes the internet cable have weird track, so we never know…
• USA : I have absolutely no idea where
• Lima : I don't see how Bogotá server help, it seems than Peru is a scene with potential since they have the population or Argentina, and they already have a developed scene on some niche games, it seems it would also help a lot Bolivia (Potentially reducing by 30ping), but I’m not sure if I can trust my data.
• Buenos Aires : I don't trust in that one, Buenos Aires already have a great ping on Santiago, but if Lima become a thing it could become a contender
• Fortaleza : I trust 0% even if it's an interesting hub for north Brazil (One third of a huge population) that I don't think have a good ping, and south Caribbean, (and it could be a solution for BR-NA visa problem)
• Lagos (Or any part in CEDEAO), pro : Probably the part of the world that need the most, con : very poor
• Nairobi/Zanzibar (Or any part of EAC), pro : Kinda isolated but less than West Africa, but more stable, con : Maybe even poorer than Nigeria
• Italia : Biggest developed country without a server
• Marseille (Or LNA) : Weirdly enough it sounds Marseille is a Maghreb internet cable hub, It would become the "LNA server" if happening (The same way Miami is the LAN server)
• Balkans (Including Greece) : I have no idea why, but it seems their best server is Frankfurt, No Warsaw, No Istanbul despite being lother, I'm really curious to have more info about "how is the ping and the best server in there"
• Moscow (Or West-Russia) : A no-brainer, but I think they are a problem with rules even if the war is over
• Almaty (Or Central Asia) : A huge market that Riot need to conquered
• Ulaanbaatar : Val and FPS is growing in there, and it could be a solution for central Russia that can't have a server
• Chennai (or East-India, I know Chennai is south India, but it might be still the best place for east-India for submarine netw) : India is big and a growing market, and it seems Bangladesh and probably east India doesn't have an amazing ping on Mumbai (East Indian please tell me), it can also be useful to scrim SEA people.
• Bangkok (Or Mainland SEA) : I really thought it was one of the best contenders seeing how TH is huge, and it might also help VN that is a market with potential
• You can expand this list by proposing some more server if it’s make sense (A 16th proposition could be nice so we can run a tournament)

So here are the odd and the tierlist, What percent of chance I would give to all of them, give yours !

No-brainer tier 24 % Tier (Odd 4) : All are great choice

• Lagos-CEDEAO
• Moscow-West-Russia
• Bangkok-MSEA

Specific market with potential tier 5 % Tier (Odd 20)

• Nairobi-EAC
• Almaty-Central-Asia
• Lima-Peru

Hope tier (2%, 50 odd), make sense if you are a hard geography fan and internet cable map enjoyer, not if you are a man in charge of marketing

• Ulaanbaatar-Siberia
• Fortaleza-North-Brasil
• Marseille-LNA-server

Luxury tier (1%, 100 odd), wouldn't make really sense to put it there next

• Chennai-East-India
• Argentina
• Toronto 
• Balkans
• Italia
• USA
• Other (But I can change my mind if you guys gives a good proposition)

Tejo and Breach where both horrible, Tejo was under 50% NMWR before his nerf

Historically it's supposed to be here for VN and PH, Officially on Riot boundariesTW-HK is part of SEA

Why so mush hate on 100T ?

What is your average ping on your country on the different SEA server (SG, Manila, HK), (If you are Vietnamese, please tell if north or south for more reliable data), still working on my T2/T3 valo reform

Bleed

You just need one !

LAN : LAN talent doesnt really have outlets since they have no T2 team
LAS : LEV betray
BR : BR is at the end of a cycle, they need to rebuild and this year is kinda the sacrificed year
NA : Every team cant be good, 2 is already nice. Maybe NRG will be better next year also

In France we have the concept of "one sided Rivalry", when one team consider them a rival but the other dont. Every medeiteranean team consider Marseille being their rival while Marseiel doesn't give sa fuck to any of them. Kinda fit to 100T SEN

And JL ?

Continentally (EMEA/AMER/CNTW/APAC) : Single elim is okay to decide who is the regional winner, since nobody care about it, but we should have a looser bracket that decide sho got the remaining places in international event

Maybe team with 2 underage players shouldn't be allowed to play ascension

Then who ?

The current mapool is the best one we ever have, we just need Ascent out and we good

"But the money, ppl wont watch the games" the casual viewer DOES NOT care about other regions, and riot literally already has a room in their building dedicated to teams facing each other

I can be agree with that but it's should be only the start of your though, you need to go further and think about a whole format.

How would look like the schedule ? 3 BO3 a day on a weekend day + 2 BO3 for 3 days ? Or making the split twice longuer ?
If the regular season is more long, then we need less importance for playoffs ? (What's the point of winning 11 BO3, if you are out after 2 BO3) ? Should we go to the ancestral King of the Hill used by LCK on LoL ?

In my case, I would support making a full RR at least for split 2 since Split 2 is sooo important, and to make some test, but maybe not for Split 1 yet

No please, PLEASE NO, Football club cover way less territory than an esport club. You take Fenerbahçe as a T1 team ? Great you loose Gala fans, FUT and BBL are great as they are

No, if you do that they wont improve

I bet it's gonna be for XLG, they gonna have the group of death and being relegated while DRG will have an easy group

They dont even touch

It's not possible its happening with the current rules, you can't have 2 chinese team.

The rule is good, but this should be an exception

Remember FPX group in 2024 lol : TH, GEN, SEN.
FPX where seed 2

It's not possible its happening witht the current rules

DRG and XLG should go in the same group in Champions, to be sure the team that is qualified for VCT 2026 is the best team.
I know all of you want to see 4 group with 4 different region, but that would be unfair for XLG/DRG

IGL