who u got winning it? still a year to go but this will be an exciting storyline

maybe not out, just benched

but I doubt this will be the final roster

he was like top 10 player in Korea, in NA hes top 17 ish

nah but I do agree by next year APAC will completely eclipse NA

I play on both servers in mid tier elo and the talent in asia is overwhelming, you already saw envy lose to x10

its just how na is historically in esports, they start off strong then end up being bad, unless the pros in valo are 2x more motivated than other pros from different games

bruh hes playing in a team with 3 japanese people, u have to see him on a korean team to see his real potential

all pro players and coach speak very highly of him, theres a reason hes the only remaining player from the old cr roster

Eugene
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Esperanza
Hyeoni
exy

this is the rumored roster Im hearing based on scrims but it was like a week ago

Japan has 1 slot, with LCQ it's 2

Japan who have more viewership, more players than you

Japan will most likely get 1 slot to champions, they're in APAC

and its not like they only got to send 1 team in the tournament like Korea or LATAM, they sent 2 teams for masters 2, 2 teams for masters 2, and 3 teams to champions LOL

Damwon

thats masters

Im talking champions

APAC population 1.6 mil
BR/LATAM population 0.6 mil

APAC has 3x the playerbase of BR

APAC only has 1.5x the slots of BR, if you go by ratios, if BR gets 3 slots APAC deserves 9 in terms of server population

BUMPING TO SPREAD AWARENESS, WE CANT LET RIOT GET AWAY WITH THIS

yup, riot has a history of fucking up europe so I dont think they care

Bro, if you share those 2 LCQ slots with any other region you wouldn't even send 2 teams to champions

Turkey gets nothing while being as populated as brazil with bigger viewership

Same with Japan, they have over 20 salaried pro teams with huge viewership yet they get crumbs, still way better than turkey tho I feel bad for turkish people

and then u have BR, 3 slots to champions.

doubt, I think it's because they know they can't beat csgo in EMEA

Exactly, if BR ever made it out of groups or won a tournament there could be a justification.

But no, their viewership is lower than single countries like Japan, Turkey.

Their performance is the lowest amongst all regions, never made it out of groups. SEA, KR/JP, EMEA, NA, all already made it out of groups atleast once.

Their server population is decent, but not bigger than NA or EMEA or APAC.

Yet South America 4 slots EMEA 3?

I'm not buying champions bundle again, not donating money to BR orgs that fled their original scene like NIP.

I dont want more slots for korea, i just dont understand 3 FOR BRAZIL?!

For current act, estimates using tracker.gg

All figures are shown in thousands unless stated otherwise

NA: 840
APAC (including KR): 1,600
EMEA: 1,300
BR: 275
LATAM: 322

Now compare that to slots

NA: 3
APAC: 6
EMEA: 3
BR/LATAM: 4

Do the math. South America has 1/3 of EMEA's population yet they get 1 more slot.

And we all know in SA, BR is the only relevant region, so that's 3 slots to 1 country that never made it out of groups ever

LOL Riot actually smoked some crack

Yeah except that's why Korea only gets max 2 slots even tho we performed better than BR in every tournament till date

We never lost to a minor region EVER

china =/= tencent altho it's close

china is smart, they let the rest of the world become slobs and addicted to their product, while they limit the consumption of video games to their own population

BR 3 slots at champions needs change.

HQ don't mean shit if your owner is in beijing KEKW

Agreed, should've just been 1 LCQ for both LATAM/BR

BR would still get 2 teams but nooooo, 2 LCQ slots for LATAM/BR which we all know BR is gonna win because LATAM is in shambles

my hope is bunch of LATAM investments come and we get 2 LATAM teams at champions instead of 3 fucking BR teams

They just want BR market share from csgo, they gonna get 3 slots again for champions which the same as NA and EMEA

1 country btw - that never made it out of groups in 3 tournaments and by sending 2-2-3 teams

Ive never seen such a blatant disregard for the integrity of the game

3 slots to BR again is so fucking stupid

they have the smallest server population in the world after Korea, which is has 1 server which is seoul1

they never made it out of groups

their viewership is smaller than SEA, JP, TR, NA

munchkin destroys korean players in scrims, I agree BuZz has an argument over him tho but munchkin is a very smart igl and he flexes so hes more valuable in my eyes

nope

exy over all the 3 players u named

prob lakia over munchkin but he hasnt played in a minute so its iffy

mako is like just outside top 5

TS is nowhere near top 5

u wanna see how good exy is? go watch TNL play in the shotval tournament, dude was 1v5'ing teams like WGS

Yup, hes super young so I understand him

DRX

Good list, Id put sugarzero in their instead of dep or meiy

1. Rb
2. Stax
3. Exy
4. Seoldam
5. Munchkin

Rb is just a lan choker due to inexperience, but in korea everyone knows hes the best.

Half the peeps here are gold, its why I stopped arguing with vlr people

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MEH roster, bbi looks better

Lets just put it this way, t4 players get 3-4k

Its the reason I will never support T1, the fact theyre spending so much in a inflated fk region for no reason... they prob payed steel like 10k

Youre right, SEA salary is very low unfortunately outside of 3-4 teams which is nothing compared to the amount of teams competing

But the cost of living isnt high in *MOST sea countries so it doesnt really matter. Meanwhile in KR ur literally getting paid slave wages compared to the national average

Yep, I realized the slots were reduced when KR only got 1 slot like at Iceland

Not a single person ever said esports is a stable job, unless ur a consistent top player in league of legends

NA
EMEA
JP
*gap
BR
KR
SEA
LATAM

BR have similar salaries to KR except they have 2x more pro teams

Damwon will be Koreas first masters winners

*hopium

https://liquipedia.net/pubg/Veronica7

Lol I doubt BR servers are aim gods, APAC servers are very coordinated with no comms

I think recently APAC servers have better players than NA servers, Im not even saying this because I like APAC

V7

This is the best comment in this thread

Lmaooooooo get fked tard

Imagine having 40% of your portfolio wiped within days

Ever heard of hedging? No short positions?

Anything other than ETFs and long term investments is basically asking for institutions to take your money

If you buy crypto hold and dont try to scalp it, trust me theres a whole army of quants that can do it more efficently than you

Or just be a retard and leverage up to buy eth

top 3 4?

the only team that has an argument over them is sentinels lol