As much as I would love to see some success for passionate JP fans I think even GE needs this win if we want the confidence to do well this year. Hopefully a good match with #GEWinning.

damn UCAM got run over on Lotus

Izz clutch which happened in 2g vs KRU was top 1

If he can get Visa yes

Bcz I have seen him play from my own eyes both in PH VCL last year nd GE showmatches and not even once he looked better than Udotan to me. I have seen UDotan play both during Ascension nd showmatches. Patrick is a lot like Dambi he is good due to his novelty nd not due to his aim or util.

It's the same thing as in India, imports are brought in bcz the domestic players aren't that level yet.
And why all those imports are insane?? Bcz when you go out of your way to pay more money nd get someone from out of your country to play you will do lengthy tryouts and only bring the absolute best.
Even if people like Something,Udotan,Kr1stal,Autumn etc played in their home country they will still be insane nd dominate the stats charts.
If Secret picks up Azys tmrw he will also put up numbers it's a given .

Patrick is a great player but he isn't all that that most of our fans tell you he is. Infact Udo is better than Patrick on conventional duelists while Patrick is better duelist on others.
Dereyeon is a good player himself though I must admit he is not fragging out well atm

Talon getting completely outplayed on every front till now

Best 3 sherrif shots of all time what even

nope that's Tejo
btw this is Techno - https://www.vlr.gg/player/27775/techno

I think it has happened in some qualifiers already somebody once posted a vlr link to match but I dont think I can find it

Envy2k(duelist). R1sen(Int/IGL), Kibojn(Flex),SmokeA, Yuvi, Lilboi

somebody salty bcz they lost money lol dont bet bro

bro hvoya is so good as coach nd no its not my bias bcz he played in India for RGE. I hv seen him call 3 timeouts in past 2 maps yesterday haven nd today lotus and he literally called 3 plays nd won XLG all important rounds.
at 12-7 on Haven yesterday he took a timeout nd called that bouncing dart garage push on C . Then in Opponent's timeout he called Rarga pushing C window with B exit smoked and Omen ulting defender spawn and crunching them in spawn with Rarga's stun.
and today he called the timeout at 11-10 called the push on C mound aggro and won them that and XLG went on to take map

The best VCT league is back again nd we finally get to see FUT who in my opinion has potential to be one of the best team in this meta

I mean Leo Faria has already said twice that if he could go back now nd do it all over again he would atleast create a semi-open system and not a closed franchise Tier 1. So he sees the problem but he can't now change it today itself bcz they hv signed the contract for a specific period of time. All we can do is wait nd see if he keeps his word nd does something when current franchising contracts run out.

Except the fact that it's actually Loud who has pulled the highest viewership with both their matches being top 2 while Sen vs 100T is the game which saw sharpest decline in viewership losing out to even Loud vs EG .

by same thing numbers Japan's Tier 2 has more viewers than many T1 matches and every T2 in world which unfortunately isnt true for others . The biggest viewerbase of even VCT pacific is Japan their streamers are biggest faces in all of Pacific and sponsors just want numbers

I mean waking up and creating an artificial barrier just by words in between teams who previously competed against each other is definitely an artificial creation of 2 tier of competition. It wasn't like some teams weren't good enough to compete nd got relegated to Tier 2 Riot afterall chose orgs nd not teams as partners and a FA team isnt allowed to Ascend even today

the point you make may work for NA which has 7 rep in Franchising brother but how would you make this system work In SEA where everyone except PRX is fielding an academy roster but its just 1 team in Indian VCL which won't carry viewership and on the opposite end it means half of the slots of SEA league are directly given to academy teams while so many countries miss out even on having a single representation which would completely kill valorant market in their country.

I would also like to counter a very common point which is always thrown around both in reddit nd here that pre-franchising so many orgs invested only in the hope of getting into franchise and they left naturally when they didn't make it. This take implies that no org would hv entered Valorant if Riot had not promised them franchising. I have a very simple retort to this and I would love to debate but do you all seriously believe that 30+ org that invested in NA seriously believed in their head that they have chance of being 1 of the 6 NA team that would be chosen. Orgs like Xset nd Ghost gaming had zero chance of making it over bigger , older ,richer and more clouted orgs in NA yet they created successful teams and Xset went international . Do you guys seriously think that 15 orgs investing in a country like India believed that they would be that 1 chosen one who will go to franchise. Heck orgs like RGE, TR ,Engima didnt even had a structure that would let them reach anywhere close to franchising and similarly i can give countless examples from multiple countries but point is same not everyone was in it for Franchising as people like to claim. Franchising was a competition between some 100 odd orgs organisation for 40 spots while Valorant had over 300 active orgs thriving pre-franchise bcz the ultimate dream of making champions and getting that bundle money changed fates of many org. PRX and Sentinels are what they are today simple due to success in Valorant. And if nothing else Valorant gave everyone enough viewership that they can fetch sponsors nd support their teams which unfortunately isnt possible anymore for Tier 2 teams. I mean you think if I am owner of a company I dont hv any reason to sponsor a team playing in a league with 500 avg viewer. Either i invest in league with 150k avg viewer or I simply dont unless I am a betting company which has throwaway money which also will only be allowed to VCT teams btw

Basically I am Indian and I do watch bit of football, Bayer Leverkusen is my fav team and they play in biggest competitions so I support them during that but at the same time no Indian team plays in champions league or anything but since I have local league where let's say team from my state FC GOA plays so I also support them and watch their matches bcz there's no overlap between 2 teams its a natural connection.
But in Valorant Global Esports represents India in VCT which is biggest league and every other Tier 2 team in India also represents India and thus have no local connection to anyone rather a clear overlap with GE so naturally Indian fanbase nd streamers support GE. I somehow hv support for RNTX core bcz I am here pre-franchising and when it all mattered I chose Enigma gaming and others chose GE , VLT ,T69 , GDL and so on but that won't happen with any new viewer anymore they will naturally choose GE

Second point Riot is definitely responsible and majorly responsible for what's happening to T2. In pre-franchising era a local league had lot more value attached to the matches than what it has today. Since Riot didn't put all their money in sustaining an artificial Tier 1 they actually promoted local leagues which mean more eyeballs. Furthermore with plethora of orgs present fans were willing to divide nd choose amongst their own country teams cheering with a hope that their fav team will make it to regional qualifiers nd represent the country. The classical GE vs VLT which saw insane hype creation and breach of over 70k peak viewership for a local match was result of this . It's a big delusion that people only watch VCT bcz they want to be entertained by highest quality valorant and they won't watch Tier 2 a low quality game as a result. 99% of watchers are much worse than any pro player in game nd they have no understanding of what even is high quality valorant. They watch whatever is sold to them . If this wasn't the case we would not frequently have seen pros like Boaster watching VLT vs GE when India played one of the lowest level of valorant pre-franchising. But Riot giving them official relegation to regional valorant outside 12 hand-picked teams and zero promotion means they are not worth watching for majority playerbase.
Add it to the fact that pre-franchising every official match mattered just like it does even now for VCT teams. But in this system for Tier 2 Split 1 has no value, Split 3 has no value the only matches that matter are split 2 which also send you to Ascension a much lower quality event than Masters or Champions which means it's almost immpossible for a casual viewer to support only their own Tier 2 team or even watch their Split 1 nd 3 matches as they would rather watch a VCT match that matters.
At bare minimum Riot could have added Tier 2 matches to in-game esports tab which would give it good reach atleast but they are incapable of doing even that much for reasons best known to them.

The problem is deeper than what most people understand. Valorant is a truly global game which touched countries which have never before been in PC esports. Riot artificially tried to create 2 Tiers in a game where there's absolutely no scope for it unlike traditional sports. Traditional sports are far-reaching with most teams representing local cities where everybody has a special connect to their own city nd turn up to stadiums to watch their locals play while also having an absolute favorite like Barca nd Madrid in football.
Meanwhile in Valorant teams generally represent whole country and when your country has a team playing in VCT they take up the role of both local and international fav suffocating other teams. Any Tier 2 team having a fanbase is either due to a player/coach/creator who is well known or due to the fact that they represent a country not represented in VCT like Vietnam nd Mongolia.
TLDR there's no way to build any fanbase in Tier 2 valorant which I will touch upon in one more way .

Guys chill out EMEA having more viewership doesn't mean they have taken over Americas. Let me put this way KC vs VIT and Apeks vs M8 both hv already broken past the viewership number of last year EMEA kickoff finals. The highest viewed EMEA kickoff match of all time is last year FNC vs KC in semi-finals peaking at 412K viewers a record which I am very sure would be broken in semis or finals this year especially if French team continues their dominance. So yess EMEA is growing significantly most matches this year have more views than any matches of last year Kickoff.
Meanwhile Americas at this stage is avg 100k less than what they were last year which is definitely bit worrrying

without mincing my words yess it is low this year for some reason. SEN vs 100T is generally no.1 match nd peaks above 500k everytime yet this time not even 300k was hit. Loud is the only team which has retained its fans as of now nd they are topping the viewership chart. Tarik is struggling to cross 60k when he had 100k+ last year. but on the other hand EMEA has had significant increase in viewership

you will have your answer soon in feb in VCL SA bcz Damara is arriving for VLT

We start off with a win which is great for confidence of team, a lot of work still to be done but I believe we will get there and challenge for masters qualification in due time

It's all good Team Secret atleast you doubled your rounds on pearl from when you played RNTX last week definite improvement.
https://www.vlr.gg/430813/team-secret-vs-rival-predator-league-asia-pacific-2025-a

I mean if you want a new duelist I am sure it has to be either JA or Azys no ?? Patmen or Zeus dont do anything better than these 2

yess same guy literally sitting world no.2 on stats for past 60 days if you click on stats tab but he isn't Indian at all. Though he has been playing in India for 3 years now for the same core will play this year under the banner of RNTX with same core

We have great casual playerbase but a playerbase of less than 30 aspiring pros so there's no depth unfortunately.
Also GE did a tryout where everyone was allowed nd only 11 Indians registered with 7 appearing for tryouts so ......yeah plus they had to trial on ping disadvantage and only 1 of them made it till final rounds of tryouts.
Some of the best Indian pros didn't even tryout probably due to lack of trust or lack of faith in themselves or alternatively in GE.

If Kr1stal hits his peak nobody can stop him nd GE, he has looked good recently hopefully he has a great debut today

I mean I can't guarantee Verno needs to shoot at his best to cover for goat FNS.
I was sleeping peacefully nd didn't watch 100T so I have no idea how good they looked but looks like Asuna nd Cryo are in form so should be close match

Bcz GE asked for the Indian flag nd let's not kid ourselves GE is in franchising bcz they are Indian representatives no matter what roster they are playing with

Flair up nd ready for PH derby . Hopefully this year is better for my favourite fillipino team.

Yess it does NRG somehow lost to Rapid lofi so you can expect them to suddenly lose to Cloud 9 too especially since they can't counter-strat . NRG even lost to MITH and only beat them the 2nd time due to anti .

They wasted one year of my goat in T2 man.
OP lovers gonna feast this year man 2 of the best opers Dgzin nd Koala are now in VCT

go nd watch Sin Prisa Gaming's ascension run and see it for yourself bro it was fun to watch even if it was very irritating with a busted neon

Atleast Zeta here has a chance

well yess but seriously he has improved a lot when he played for Orangutan he was nowhere close to this level had a forgetful time

he got that former VCL SA player buff ;) just like Dos9

the best neon in the world but unfortunately not very good with other duelists

great coaching here they are making it look like they hv seen all T1 scrims literally countering nd reading everything T1 is doing

wow guys we Indians don't have faith in GE anymore wonder what others hv picked especially with TS not really cooking in predator league

Keep up with that mentality and very soon there will be no Tier 2 nd once there's no tier 2, Tier 1 will automatically die after that bcz nothing can exist without a feeding pipeline

I mean it's obvious to even Riot they hv accepted it we need to wait for 2026-27 when current contract of franchising teams run out you will definitely see a semi-open system in future

This should be played on tejo meta I am glad Vitality cooked this though I would personally swap sova for fade maybe though both work.
On some maps you can run exact same comp and replace Jett with raze nd sova with deadlock nd i believe even that will be pretty good.

This is new meta and this is going to be played all over the world. KC literally comp diffed vitality superteam on this map and has destroyed decent looking Navi.

Aim-wise they clearly are keep watching bro avez suy marteen nd elite all hv produced moments till now