esports doesn't make profit, it exists to advertise the main game
No point advertising to those already being advertised to

if t2 didn't exist would t1 still exist? Yes
So why does riot care?

majority of people who watch tier 2 apac already watch tier 1, if esports is an advertisement for the game, what is the point of advertising to tier 2 viewers that already watch tier 1 anyway, your spending money on an already tapped market

So you answer your question, does Riot really CARE about Tier 2 Valorant? Probably not.

So we don't disagree then?

But to be honest, they probably don't care all that much about Valorant esports at all.

tier 1 must directly or indirectly make them profit otherwise they wouldn't put so much into it, tier 2 seems clear they don't think it will increase profits and are only keeping it to keep fans happy

Does it matter if the tier 1 isn't as good as they would have been in an alternative universe with tier 2?
Regardless of tier 2, tier 1 will still be the top players in the world playing highest level of valorant, most people that watch tier 1 don't even care about tier 2.
I'm not saying tier 2 support is bad, obviously I think it's a good thing but from riots perspective it adds nothing to the product, there will always be people watching tier 1 even if their is no tier 2

are you retarded? Please explain how that has literally anything to do with what the topic is?

If it's working as advertising who is watching NA tier 2 but not tier 1 already? There isn't a point in spending money on tier 2 when the market is already captured in tier 1

edit: Im retarded and don't know t1 from t2 lcs

also the viewership between tier 2 and 1 isn't even close, apart from when mxm play the peak was 55k views and thats the most popular of any challenger regions,
if they keep NA tier 2 they have to have challenger leagues for every region most of which have significantly less views

Does riot care about tier 2?
Not in like how dare they not do more for tier 2 but more like does it actual create profit for them to pursue it?

I just can't think of a single reason riot would care about tier 2 other then for pr to stop the val fanbase being annoyed about it
Which will never be worth the amount of money it costs

I think NA league tier 2 collapsing shows riots attitude on tier 2 now, riot has realised that tier 2 is a waste of time

:anime;

who cares why she said it, still fire either way

oh yeah boys, bonkers first international title is coming together

bros really trying to find a way that NRG wins

many world interpretation is just a interpretation of quantum mechanics though, we don't know if it's legit and have literally no way of ever testing it and with many other competing interpretation
it's more likely one of them is true then the world where the one that conveniently allows you to pretend your team won tokyo happened

but also in a hypothetical like that bonkers won tokyo say honestly maybe your onto something

https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/vct-2022-stage-2-masters-copenhagen

it's fine, middle tourney of the year is always lower, 2022 stage 1 was higher then 2022 stage 2 aswell

https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/vct-2022-stage-1-masters-reykjavik

:anime;

wrong thread .

it's crazy how they make a bunch of dogshit maps and then just randomly give lotus

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common ChromeDZN W :gigachad;

the ui for emotes is kinda aids to scroll through, maybe stretch it out

Great work, doing what the mods won't

so true man, this is so sad, hopefully PRX can keep form for champs

NA is the most plastic fans

all three regions even with pacific having to sub their best player
have a team in the top 3, valorant truly global out here

NA'S DOWNFALL WAS GREATLY UNDER EXAGGERATED

LOST TO A PACIFIC WITH A SUB

Boaster

:fnc;:fnc;:fnc;:fnc;

rito pls, this team will kill your game, just stop them

everyone talks about Louds internal problems to why they played bad?
What internal problems did they have?

isn't icebox coming back for champs? or is that only after

thats just more proof, it doesn't get more clear

Listen guys this is all potters plan, she knows fnatic will get lotus so they just did no anti strat on it and said fuck it we give them 1, and focused all her time on anti for the next maps

Not over yet team

chatgpt looking ass

The vod review of that round, I wonder if they just skip it

fnatic best lotus team by far, people will need to study this for champs

Is actually the best igl itw holy shit
bro is just reading EG so hard, manipulating rotates perfecting, making every right call

9-2
?

I wonder if that ever happened, like surely at some point? Just put something in your shoe
And it pretty much impossible to find out without full body checks before every game

13-9 ez

chronicle better player
less better viper

kinda true, fnatic probably seems at least so far most likely team to have the first valorant era but then again
We thought that about FPX and look how that turned out

fnatic map pick, EG is fine, they will reset

actually true

That's a pretty cold take tbh

new big shounen is trash, demon slayer, jujutsu kaisen, ect
they are all so shallow and derivative, literally all they have is nice animation

'it's gonna be close unless it isn't'

I must have something wrong with my VLR
Whenever I see domination I see lazy baits, not much dif to his meyournightmare alt

Sad to see PRX with sub but it is what it is gg

Bros he's so fucking insane bro, I would sell my nuts to see him against something, it's just unbelievable to watch

All while instalocking yoru
He is actually the problem with ranked

Fuck you all, it was my mistake posting during a match, I'll repost to get a actual answer later

John smith is mine, who the fuck is the guy I'm thinking about, it's driving me crazy
It's either lothar or someone that looks similar

I'm asking for the identity of the person that said on twitter they would pay for a gamechangers event?
Not a shitpost, genuinely can't remember

Who was that loser that was said like 'I'll pay for game changers' for clout when he obviously knew he wouldn't need to go through with it?
I thought it was lothar but couldn't remember

wait maybe AverageJonas
either lothar or AverageJonas I think

Fuck all of you it was AverageJonas https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/ybkgdn/averagejonas_offers_to_sponsor_larger_event_for/

This slaughter is just not fun man, get something playing or just let prx ff
I'm gonna cry bros