Oh yeah , thanks, I've used it before, hellish to use with phones tho.

Yeah, just as when I think Satwoshi finally adjusted to his role

Probably tech pauses lol

OMG, it better be 18 20 or some shit because that's way too long for a map lol

nvm it's 13 9 lol

He is kinda one lol, even back in tryouts he's one of the youngest amongst the participants.

R14h and Lroll finally looking like what their twitter clips suggests

https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VCL/2025/Japan/Split_1/Advance_Stage

I used liquidpedia as a reference, they are faster at uploading but they don't provide the stats like VLR does

Nah the match is not over yet

If Northeption wins this I'm changing my flair to Northeption till the end of split 1

Should I be happy that Northeption Academy has better players than I expected --> future secured or should I be mad at the fact that the whole RRX was playing around with their roles the entire time

Also Academy teams should take note to tryout their players like Northeption did

I've just noticed but holy shit Kellsea going in -14 fkfd and still manages to win lol

Zan will be back at his former self no worries lol

Nah scarz sent tenzou as double agent 😂😂

Watch as tenzou obliterates fav after guaranteeing scarz qualify

They can't be struggling against an academy team man...

They should have streamed advanced stage, keisu vs absol looks insane man

Omg take is actually cooking today lol, being scolded by sayaplayer ( or I assumed that's what happened ) did wonders.

Rare zan life game lol, but if he can do this next match they are looking good

My goat is not goating rn 😭😭

Fennel wins this

Making him solely playing on duelist does wonders man

Nth is cooking bro

Nice showing from fav

Fennel sleeping today 💀

Nah bro this is sad to watch 😭

24 more keisu 🔥🔥

I guess an academy team can only go so far, still a great showing tho imo

Nah it's not true, sad that hiroronn's not competing anywhere tho

Makes you wonder if fav vs seibi are Held at a different date, fav could have won convincingly

Mods pls update this score , thx

I'll admit, I'm one of them lol, somehow zepher never made an impression to me 😅

I apologize zepher, I'm not familiar with your game.

Mf absol sleeping 😭😭

Pls update the score mods, what happened to murash here 😭

Omg take finally not botfragging 😂

Let me sleep now 😭

It won't kill the scene, because the scene will die by old age lol. Assuming what you said is true ( future talents harder to come by), the scene will be stale, while other games offers something new everyday. Thus, slowly or quickly Valorant will lose their playerbase to competitors

You need tier 2 to have viewerships because good viewerships attracts big orgs, big orgs pay good wages and that attracts talents.

Or at the very least you need to increase your playerbase much higher than you would if your tier 2 has viewers to attract the same amount of talents

Laz retiring definitely took a toll on the numbers is the primary reason imo, performance wise historically they're never favored to win so while I think it played a role I don't think that's the main reason.

For how bad the ROI is, I still need Riot to sustain the SEA league, riot can't risk having the spillover to VCJ, one region's problems spilling over to VCJ is a headache to me enough, 2 will kill me lmao

Rion just played tho, performed horrible, either after long time hiatus or washed

Nvm that's the wrong Rion 💀

Damn, that's sad to hear

While that is true, I think some of these partners and sponsors have been around even before they dived into valorant. (Imma need to check their twitter to confirm my takes tho 😅)

I'm half retracting this statement.

What happened to sterben tho, back then I heard he's good.

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

The relationship between tier 1 , tier 2 and sponsorhsip isn't that clear tho imo.

orgs in VCJ have proven this. Sengoku has 32 ( iirc ) sponsors if the info their website provided is true. While Reject just secured a new source of capital. And both of them are not even in franchising. Idk how both of them managed to convince their sponsors, but I think the point is Tier 2 orgs also needs to have some accountability too, if an org relies solely on riot's partnership then they aren't meant for franchising imo.

I think adding VCT academy teams to tier 1 is just riot's band-aid towards tier 2s bigger problem, which is there is barely any support in tier 2. I think this is the case because it doesn't make sense for this rule to be applied to VCJ, where the scene isn't anywhere near dying. In fact there are 9 big orgs (moneywise and cloutwise) currently in advanced stage competing for 6 spots. Adding both DFM and Zeta AC actually adds unnecessary competition

That's a great point. Adding tier 1 haphazardly by ignoring tier 2 lowers their value.

Vamos Shopify🔥🔥

Ok now that you've explained it that way I can see it now thx man

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.

Can you please rephrase this sentence in a simpler term? I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. 😅

Not wrong, but I think doing that just gets to nowhere, I think what VLR can do is :

1. Watch Tier 2
2. Pushing riot to market their tier 2 better.

When talking about tier 2 scene VLR in general often miss the forest for the trees. People are missing the bigger picture

People always complain about how dead the tier 2 scene is, but I've rarely seen people talk about how cloutless the tier 2 scene is. You might have the best tier 2 scene in the world, but that just means you're losing more money to accomodate orgs' needs. That's how you lose the scene faster. Lofty ideals with no returns.

What riot should focus more isn't how to improve tier 2, save that for when you've gathered enough capital or enough viewers to sustain that. Riot should find ways to gather viewers, especially on how to get Tier 1 watchers to watch tier 2. There's little riot can do when even majority of VLR, a site about valorant esports barely watches them.

Also clouted region attracts existing local big orgs, big orgs pay good wages and good wages attracts better talents.

I don't wanna call them a failed project yet, but if they do fail I dream of them letting me be the management, I wanna fulfill my fantasy about the roster 😂😂

I guess that outlines how important it is to have a clouted tier 2, it guarantees talent regeneration