Prize pools don’t matter. Every Toronto team had not enough time to change stuff before ewc and it’s on the old patch so they had to practice an old patch to play it. Bo1 first match is silly and so is single elimination playoffs. Valorant is way to inconsistent pf a game for teams to not have a lower bracket. Also it’s right after Toronto and like a day after China first games so the Chinese teams had to practice 2 different patches because stage 2 and ewc are so close together. Groups was also online which always counts toward ping differences which doesn’t matter much but is a dig at the tournament