In Valorant Champions 2021 and Masters Reykjavik 2022 , the number of teams playing in groups/play-ins that won the opening match, lost the winner's match , and qualified to play-offs is 0/6.I wonder if this trend will continue in Masters Copenhagen.

I'm not sure if this was well known beforehand but for those that are curious about the ping difference of teams from different teams in APAC, it has been revealed that before a series begins ,a ping test is conducted by players to choose a suitable server where the ping is fair, a VPN can also be used if players applied to riot to use one before the match. So not all series are conducted on SG servers and be assured that the teams are competing at a very fair playing field.

Source:(valorant_tw twitch chat)VALORANT_TW: 選手賽前都會做 ping 的測試，協調確認對戰組合使用的伺服器，如有需要也可以申請使用 VPN 唷 -

They were suspended for allegedly previously match-fixing in a third party tournament (presumably in a tournament that was held in mainland China)

Currently suspended players:
Attention (GFN)
HeiB(OOW)
YOU(OOW)
cxy(previously GA)

According to Xii on stream , GFN was originally going to field Attention as Sentinel, but due to the suspension,Fung3 was subbed in. YRselect remains a substitute player.

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Yes, they do. HK mainly uses Cantonese and TW/mainland usually use Mandarin .For OF they communicate in English because Noman (their star duelist) is more comfortable speaking English .For other teams, unless they are all 5 HK players ,they usually communicate in Mandarin.

OOW's roster has been in free fall since HeiB and You (their star players) were banned for alleged match-fixing , so they've just been trialing a lot of players to see what works.