Americas: MIBR - I still don't understand Riot's rationale there. I can at least somewhat wrap my head around EG because of their LCS team and bailing Riot out of the Echo Fox situation but I still wasn't a big fan of that one either. I know Hecz from Optic has now admitted publicly they didn't do a good job with their application and interview with Riot but they should be in the league

Pacific: RRQ - They were a mistake from the beginning, felt like Riot purely picked them to have an Indonesian org. Should've been Boom or a 3rd Japanese team

EMEA: no complaints. I guess maybe the Spanish org representation is a bit much and Giants or Heretics should've maybe missed the cut but I get it. Would've been nice to see a DACH org involved but both of those orgs are doing a good job in my mind even with some missteps this year from Heretics this year

Yup so delusional. Sean just happened to bring up 100t 10 times during his interview with Boostio, Boostio just happens to mainly be duoing with Eeiu and Zikz, Boostio's mom just happened to tweet out it'd be great if Riot would let EG loan Boostio to 100t for the Redbull homeground, and Boostio just happened to say on stream his contract with EG ends early in 2024 before the season starts... among many other reports out there. Delusional.. YUP

Boostio's contract ends with EG before the season starts, he'll be the new IGL of 100t along with eeiu as the scan initiator

Zellsis has a pretty big agent pool. Zekken and Asuna do as well

probably either an org signing or a platform signing

I still don't think this league will include Russia. Im guessing this will be all the other countries in CIS

we'll see if they stay in the scene as a T2 org but I wasn't a fan of their approach. They put way too much faith in Ruin to build a roster. The fact other orgs on the tier 2 level with far less resources did a better job at talent development as well as performance than Complexity is a shame. Akrew is a good example of that and they used Sasha who worked for Complexity previously to do it. Complexity always felt very arrogant in their approach to Valorant from day 1. Jason Lake started off shitting on other orgs who were signing big name talent in the beginning and those orgs ended up being right in building competitive teams at the beginning of the game and propelled them into signing better talent down the line as well as helped them make partnership

If you think net is going to settle for being a 6th man, you're crazy

I'll take Cryo, Asuna and Bang over that trio