personal thoughts, after all the feedback and notions I've acquired during the four months I was on top of the EMEA VCL issues

• Peak and/or average viewership are bad popularity metrics. You need to pay attention to concurrent viewers, average minute audience (not public on esports charts), and I'm half-sure there's one more statistic I'm forgetting.

• Regarding mergers

  • like you said, Iberia wouldn't function. Riot is very hands-off in these VCLs, so I highly doubt they'd force LVP to give PT/IT slots (just like they don't force the French operator to give slots to Benelux countries). It's worked in the East because Terp is great -- not the same for LVP.
  • CIS is unlikely to come back imo, you can let that idea go
  • Merging DACH with Polaris is a rough idea. DACH all play on the Frankfurt server, while Polaris play on UK+Nordics server, which will inevitably create ping disparities that will never sit right with players (win or lose!).
  • MENA can never be combined due to ping issues, scratch that completely.
  • Merging France with anyone, like some suggested, also isn't a great idea. Benelux's representation is already small, killing that league to create some form of handicapped super league will hurt France's scene in the longterm.

• iammika1999 mentioned having broadcasts in English. Bad idea for most of these leagues. There's a lot of regional/national pride tied to the VCLs, which gets stripped when you remove language-specific streams. It also kills a lot of people's jobs in favor of a hiring pool that's dried up or not large enough (english-language casters or casters capable of commentating in english for tier 2 in EMEA).

the underlying issue isn't how fragmented the EMEA VCLs. it's an aggravating factor, definitely, but the real issue is the lack of money. nobody has cash to burn, and riot have barely opened their wallets to tier 2 (they pay a small stipend to the TO to help with upkeep, which isn't even enough to cover prizes). the ERLs work in EMEA -- NLC may be in the shit but the other leagues aren't doing bad by most metrics despite slightly subpar numbers -- it's just a matter of getting a solid base built, but that requires money. and money's not really anywhere right now.

reminder that when I said the Americas had won Champions (LOUD), the entire Brazilian fanbase got outraged. They don't claim you <3

tou acordado desde as 5 da tarde do dia 10

i woke up at 5pm on june 10

as a journalist, I am ethically bound to be unbiased towards anyone. If you know anything about this website, and you should by how many hours you spend here, you know we're pretty thorough with our tier 2 coverage and have divided it according to the 2022 VCT regional divisions. articles about every region, including brazil, will come in their own time.

is it a bias or are you just a forum dweller, trembolona?

coming

more posts (activity) = more stars. that's all there is to it.

I'm incredibly sad for what happened to Twisten. My heart broke reading salah's tweets. But our work does not stop because of him. We have made a tweet in his memory, and have already discussed internally if anything else should be done.

poo

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random draw, only rule was that teams from the same region couldn't share a group

nah lil bro, riot made it up

bro overcookin

international team ranking is not that feasible at this point in time.

It's an in-door arena/venue they named Coliseum. Likely a space bought or rented out in Berlin, near the LEC Studio, but that's guesswork.

god i hate these rules and contigencies. good spot, added

fixed this. regarding 4-way ties: VIT coach Strong posted them on this Reddit thread.

partially correct. they can only survive in this scenario if kcorp lose. in a 4-way tie (meaning, if kcorp win), BBL do not go through, TH does. thanks for bringing this to my attention though, added!

For BBL to reach the playoffs, they must win against FUT. Any other scenario will have the team in seventh place or below.

old slow impratical for multitasking

this is why i don't write on my laptop. thanks, sry, fixed

have sentinels made it official? no. but i made it a lil more obvious for vlr.gg brains.

last month has been occupied by some backend stuff, but we're here. i know 60% of this thread is nonsense but suggestions are always welcome.

i have the best timing of esports journalism

each phone number verified has a 6-month cooldown. if someone's willing to grab and pay for two phone numbers just to shit on some kids in valorant... that's a sad life they lead

everything indicates towards that, yes

confident enough that they'll make ascension playoffs

if it's anything like last year, the best (four?) teams from each of the subregions (gcc and levant) will meet in some form of playoffs to determine who represents MENA

Timeouts aren't exclusive to coaches

Those three names took prestige with them.

to put that into numbers:

VRL Spain Stage 1 had 1 691 724 hours watched. KOI contributed to over 990 800 of those.

only reason there are no Stage 2 numbers in this particular section is because they're hidden behind escharts' paywall

ZeratoR's "carry" is not enough to keep the league at the levels KCorp had them at, sadly.

It was in the LEC Studio, which houses a max of 174 people. Meaning taking this event to the CBLOL Arena is a downgrade.

VLR staff give mini head coach

bro collectin rent and still wants to ask the lawyers what's wrong

yeah we're not insecure around here

good spot, thanks!

dude rly opened chatgpt for a vlr comment

one of the fattest Ls Valorant has handed me ffs

Fuck.

mixing punk/metal with rock is weird but i give this a solid 6.5/10. could use some more classics (metallica, limp bizkit, paramore, adtr, unironically wwe songs)

bro said america flag and can't read english LMFAO

it's labelled under south asia. is it a hindi-only broadcast?

not sure how i forgot about that. fixed it.

common random L

if you guys stop deep frying every piece of food and adding cheese to every plate you come across you'd probably lose some fat

either that or let the drug epidemic run wild i hear they've got great fat loss programmes

traditional definition of an ace is to kill every player on the opposing team. s0m didn't really do that

his was a 5K due to a sage res -- he killed Wolfen (Jett) twice

right now, just bragging rights.

in 2021, we partnered with VAXEE to award the top 10 with a mouse or mousepad (optionally custom-printed) of their choice. who knows what else we can do in the future.

damn wish an european writer had typed this article out

jokes aside i know, but we're writing for a global audience. can't rule anyone out. if you can read a 24h-clock (and you're not a dumb american), reading a 12h clock is easy

"acquired" is one way to put it yeah