1. PC gaming in Japan needs to be mainstream for quite some time, look at China and Korea, they have been playing PC games since the concept even exists, while in Japan at that time PC games are mainly Hentai games and Love simulator. This needs time, meaning the PC gaming needs to have a hold in Japan and not just become a fad ( only exists for 5 years then everyone back to console).

2. Playerbase itself, currently Valorant is just a "spectator sports" in Japan, this is great meaning there's an incentive for the region to improve, since the demand is there, but the playerbase are lacking. Talent only comes from the playerbase, when your player base is small meaning there's less talent to pick up, academy team can help relieve this issue, but ultimately there needs to be a larger playerbase.

Essentialy PC gaming culture needs to take root. It will take time, it took Korea from Cs 1.6 to pubg or overwatch to be great (Idk how accurate when exactly their fps become good but it's not that they're) and China too. Expecting Japan to do good in 4 years timespan is crazy if imma be honest, which is why my whole point when I'm speaking about VCJ is about how to make the region better.

When the foundation actually starts to take root, expecting Japan to do better rn when the only resource they have is money and views are not possible.

FINALLYY THIS IS THE RIDDLE IM WAITING FOR😭😭😭

RIDDLE FINALLY WAKE UP 😭😭

Nah they put up a fight against fs I don't think they're washed

I'm legit shaking in fear rn bro pls win riddle 😭

Bro Riddle have to focus on beating naos first 😭

Change Keisuke Honda to Hajime Moriyasu

I see thx lol

Coach is goated fr

I'm silver, what are people talking about when they said "fundamentals"?

Wait did jp casters just said coach sae? Nvm I might be delusional

Same bro 🔥

Choked against nth, they started the upper final curse in vcj only to be broken by riddle, an extension of zeta

( this is a glorified version of vcj history 🔥)

Which is why rumours are saying they are overhauling their roster except meiy

If riddle manages to get top4 it's already a win in my eyes 😭

Apparently there's someone who had a higher buyout than aspas( ?) in apac, I have a feeling it might be DFM holding onto meiy with their life 💀

Bro chill, rumour says they're getting one

Is the match over? Why are you here instead of playing 💀

Fr, it really drained my confidence on the team if there was even any 😭

Replace dep with kubo

Stop giving me false hope, let me doompost in my brain 😭

I love anthem he can frag, but I think he's really overwhelmed by igling, I think they need someone who can igl like art or akame ( art taught him how to igl apparently)

We are winning champions with mitoma dribbling all the way to paris 🔥🔥
Shohei bout to home run in valorant

From rumours:
Xdll, jinboong , akame, Lob , art is also being considered.

Might be glazing but:

https://tracker.gg/valorant/premier/standings?region=AP_JAPAN
Invite:
Stellar Feli
Trident 乙骨憂太
CSG ( I wanted to see how far this team can go)
Axr mix( I wanted to see what this team can do after they change the whole roster except Kass and kurolia)
SIB Alois and marble( I bet marble will do great in SIB but he's been underwhelming this premier which is a shame)

Contenders:
Reject (obviously)
Amoris vega 宇宙HERO and possibly souldjp
ちーむけいご( apparently this team consists of very young players, winnable is 16 iirc)
Dreadnought DN Ackerman( his clip is insane lol, I think his op is crazy)

Obviously, not everyone I mentioned will do well in the future nor everyone here is bound to fail, future is uncertain but I think some of them look promising

Fr bro, wasted laz's career ending it in disaster.

Gave hiroronn a bad name.
Yuran needs to prove himself more tho.

I see, tbf I got that info right from the moment it was announced that sea will be merged so I never really thought about it.😅

Fr, rn I'm eyeing on some jp players in the premier scene. Hopefully I cooked with this one 🔥

Riddle

Too many cooks in the kitchen 😭,should just get carlao (🤮) and 5 vibe merchants to help the players lol.

I mean who isn't? Everytime japan losses people wanted to relegate jp to oblivion. The only reason why I never made this kind of post despite numerous advantages we have over others is because I'm self aware enough and baiting isn't really my thing lol

I think that, zeta can maintain full japanese roster( the rumours seems to be that way anyways). But they need an overseas coach, not carlao. And also a translator lol.

If in any case they're getting a non japanese player they should at least bring in someone that can midround for them, i heard this issue is always plaguing japanese teams. Is this true?

Arin's a he , also yeah next year slot allocation might be different. But I think he didn't post the thread with next year in mind 😂.

I think I remembered somewhere they said that jp and kr still maintain 1 spot while sea actually increase. Others stay the same.iiw tho.

Why are you not in the team bro

He's baiting lol, this is average arin post😂, but:

He's right about jp's economic advantage over others but he overestimates jp's power.

Other's are right about jp and (possibly) kr having too many slots, but are underestimating the benefits that come with great spending power by jp.

Also tier 2 jp are historically better than the rest except maybe kr:

Fav gaming's run in apex predator league ( funny name ik, and note that fav never qualified for aplit 2 main stage)
Nth lcq run 2022
Scarz ascension 2023 ( if we have a problem with bending the import rule because I do, then we can ignore this)
But ultimately when it's tier 2 there's not a lot of occasions where region's are pitted against each other and I think jp still has a lead in this regard.

Tou can argue that maybe tier 1 sea is better than jp's but ultimately it's tier 2 we're talking about

Wdym by (ew) 😂, either way he really needs to join a team, I think he looked consistent from the start

Wrong guy lol that's kirya

I hope so, but that won't stop detractors from the above.

Win: " They got carried by koreans"
Lose: " Relegate Japan"

Either way japan will never get that dub according to some of these mf. Sometimes I wonder why do I even bother to be here. Shit wasn't good for my health.

Pls win riddle 😭

Oof, that's tough

the team looked to be at edge with each other

I'm dyslexic, does this mean internal conflict?

I had stroke reading that , but no they don't do that.

Update: pirateflag, pls explain. Why is yowamu and ask LFT?wtf?

That's one round bro... impactful, sure. But this narative is getting more and more annoying to me.

Here before people will put riddle down by saying they got koreans on the team forgetting this is a team game and the japanese players actually fragged too.

That's what happens when you change a long term decision with less than a 2 months time span

He meant the source bro

Fr they legit disappear, not to mention this is when pc gaming in japan isn't popular enough yet.