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

Are you sure they are talking in English ?

SEA player have a decent English level, Korean and Japan people are horrible when it's come to speak english.

Also, it would kill team identity. So no, worst thing that would happen, we better go back to national team

Well play you managed to ragebait me

This... Didnt age well.

But I can agree I think in 2031 it can be a good thing to have a Pacific league (4 KR, 2 JP, 1 OCE, 1TW or MN or East RU), and an Asian league (1 ID, 1 MYSG, 1PH, 1TH, 1VN 1 IN, and for the last 2 it depend if you ant to add Russia for geopolitical reason, or MENA to have a slightly better league)

Thats too bad we no longer have reward in custom game, this kind of concept are really good

Because Global where hire representing and develop Indian market, and they are not doing it. India doesn't have the same scrimpool or the same language than other APAC team. If Global wasn't Indian, they wouldn't get hired. IF KC would be french, they would get hire, because the reason why they get hire, is that they are a looooot of fans (But I admit they have their fan because of French)

"Talon are from HK but only have Thai players"
Talon is considered as a Thai roster from the start, they were picked by Riot to represent Thai community

"G2 are German but only have NA players"
They are spanish, not German, they dont are' a partner team, they are free

"VIT and KC are French but don’t have any French players, TH are Spanish but don’t have any Spanish players"
This is the European paradox, we share the same scrimpool, and since most of young people speak english, we also share the same language, so Europe kinda share the same market, and it seems that's every European team doesn't represent their specific country. It trusts KC to find young french talent in the future and make them grow thanks to acad team.

I think the main point is the scrimpool, if you are an Indian player you won't have access to a good soloQ, so the only way to have access to a good soloQ is to become a T1 player and move to Korea, but since they are not good enough, they are not picked by GE, but they are not good enough because bad soloQ, and this create a vicious circle. In comparison, a good French player will have access to European soloQ like any other player. So French player have outlet if they are good enough, while a goated Indian talent will never have his chance. (Thats the same problem for an Ocian player, thats why we need an OCE team)
Also keep in mind that they are way more player in India than in France (Basically x2), that it's a country the size of the European continent that develop FAST, with way more young player than in EU.

That's the main reason why I will have issues complaining about KC, while I will complain a lot about GE : Scrimpool,

Vit is constant, they keep the same level during all the year, no progress, no improvement while other team did just progress.

I'll name KC, weak with the weak, strong witht the strong

Thanks for the precision !

Play posplant, and become a postplant succubus, it's way more fun than aim demon

The fact Even if C9 would have 5-0 a group with both SEN and G2 and would still be a darkhorse is hillarious

Exactly, during 2026 we will have a process and the name of partner team will be different, it will have some changes, either they will allow T2 team to participate in international event, or they will reduce to 8 or 6 team the number of partner team to have more ascended team and avoid a situation where a team that end 2nd in champ could be relegated

Yup, it's a team game, and I don't have a team, so no reason to play comp.

(But instead I tryhard normal and swiftplay as if it was VCT)

Americas will probably not split, it's rumors debunked by Faria (Trust me, APAC split is way more a priority now).

Anyway, it will have an org application process in every league even without a split

My bro it's Los Angeles, not Brasil, of course player need a weapon in order to not die when they come on stage, sometimes us westerners do forget what a Third World country like the USA really is, and how dangerous it is

Unranked level 325
(Never ranked ever)

2 team can be relegated, but if only one team reach Champions this team wont be relegated

I confirm

heya

Now 2G is out they cant be relegated