Who won?

Damn, when did Saudi Arabia host a World Cup?

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Its not good content for you... for others it would be. I'd rather watch Furia "lose 100 times" than watch Heretics play Fut.

Yeah its denying the main reason people follow sports, to see those that they think represent them

É foda, e ia ser mt bom uma copa do mundo de verdade no valorant, mas tambem é dificil arrumar um nome que não seja esse

É meio que uma copa do mundo de orgs, tem premio pras orgs que mandarem melhor somando todas modalidades, MIBR provavelmente não ta porque eles tem time de poucas modalidades.

Yeah I get your situation. Me on the other hand have watched a lot of CS, football and others, am used to seeing my team play "everyweek", and I am Brazilian, so we do have some teams that haven't gone to the last 3 internationals, while for 2 years we had guaranteed spots in all international events, and I feel like the game popularity is quickly declining here because of this ( the fact that we dont get to see our teams that often).

Cs is basically only run by third parties, Valve only gets involved in 2 tournaments/year, but those tournaments have more teams (24) and teams play 3 to 13 matches in it , with up to 6 of them being best of 1s, the rest being bo3s. And I dont mind an off season, as long as it have like 2 months, not 4 or 5.

I think riot "allows" 3rd party organizers, but they impose so many rules that these companies end up not doing it.

Also, part of the val community is so used to this minimum amount of games that ppl actually seriously talk about burnout from playing valorant

?? average bo3 lasts at least about 2 hours with pauses in between and stuff. thats 24 hours not including the time it takes to swap out teams between each match lol. theyre prob bo1 matches.

Me when I think there are only 10 computers avaiable for Valorant in the EWC and there is no way more than one match can happen simultaneously

You guys just want to talk about EWC... that makes me sad

I will prob watch anyways, for sure watch if there are BR teams

And we get to watch more valorant, such a win

"The announcement does not include information about which games will be played as best-of-ones, best-of-threes, or best-of-fives."

This means we got bo1s the same way it means all matches will be bo5s.

It is simply saying that they dont have that information yet

Also, even if they had a valorant event last year and it was invite, it doesnt mean that it would be invite again

Bro came here with the inside info, knows that its invite and bo1 before everyone

Burnout when the team that played the most matches since franchising starts average 2 a month is crazy

When you stay in a hotel, buy tickets for the event, buy food, and then go the the cities atractions you are directly financially contributing to the Canadian Government.

bro masters tokyo was 2023, and champs seoul was last year, we arent talking about that anymore

They saw a bald brit talk bad about it

Now that was a good one

We dont know yet, there are 40 Valorant teams that are EWC partners, but only 16 will participate, we dont know if its going to be invites or based on performance

We dont need it to be bo1, teams can play 2 series in the same day.

FINALLY PLAYOFFS WITHOUT LOWER BRACKETS LETS GOOO

Not, there are 4 groups with 4 teams each, all 16 teams will play in the first day I guess, and then 8 teams (probably the ones that won) will play twice on the first day.

Like this:

Group 1

A x B
C x D

Group 2

E x F
G x H

Group 3

I x J
K x L

Group 4

M x N
O x P

and then still on the first day we get

(Assume all teams on the left wins)

Group 1

A x C ( winner qualify to playoff)

Group 2

E x G

Group 3

I x K

Group 4

M x O

I actually like it, I hate that all valorant tournaments have lower brackets in playoffs, and the 12 matches in a day will prob have 4 matches happening at the same time, so you pick 3 matches to watch, better viewing experience imo, since you get to watch what you actually want to

Its the same as Valorant Champions 2021

The only country where he decided that government actions should dictate if he attends or not the event speaks volume...

Do NOT go, we dont want to lose you

I was looking at Eternal Fire's CS2 schedule (they have like 7 tournaments in the next 3 months), and I decided to check how many times certain teams/orgs have played officials in Valorant since franchising started (2023/ Lock//In), here are the numbers:

Team : Matches (Win/Loss)

Furia: 30 (10/20)
MIBR: 32 (11/21)
Loud: 51 (31/20)
DRX: 58 (38/20)
PRX: 59 (40/19)
FNATIC: 60 (45/15)

The team that played the most, has played 2,2 series per month.

If you take a look at G2 or Furia in CS2, they've played 160~ games each in the same period (6+ series/month).

While I think the CS teams do play too much, it makes no fucking sense how little valorant teams play (also the spacing between matches is terrible).

I think this system is really detrimental, because how teams like Furia, Global Esports, and some others that have such a few amount of games can improve if they dont get to play the game? How can players develop and be actually evaluated? This leads to situations like Verno's or Mada's where they train with a team for much longer than they compete for it.

It is also bad for sponsors, why pay for something that gets exposition 12 times in a year?

The usual responses that RIOT (mostly via Leo Faria) give to this problem is seriously LACKING imo, they are:

1. "People don't want to see losers, they want to see the good teams only"

First this is false, for example, japanese fans want to see DFM and Zeta, even if they are losing, they would rather watch that then PRX face DRX, Indian fans want to see Global Esports, BRs would rather see Furia than Cloud9 x NRG.

2. "Each game tells a history, we dont want to increase the amount of games and make people choose"

Could be Valid, but then they have China/Pacific happening at the same time often and this year EMEA and Americas also have matches that overlap., and I think there is so few hardcore Valorant watchers compared to ppl who are passionate about some orgs.

3. " We want the fans to miss valorant when its not on, we dont want to overwhelm them with how much valorant that is on"

This is complete bullshit imo, having to rely on that is a sign that you don't trust yoir product, and this also leads to a fucked up cicle where the level of play is pretty bad on the beggining of the year because... they havent played for ages.

When you combine this with visa issues, and franchise teams not being allowed to participate in other tournaments (tier2 and 3 tournaments, like KOI being a franchise team and also playing on spanish league as an example), it makes Valorant really stale, because we cant measure teams and players properly.

What are your guys thoughts on this?

He went there for Money, not for the game

It is because it is from Saudi , yes

Because it reminds them too much of home

Fnatic would never make a deal this good come true

Saudis do be wasting money on this ordeal, they should have invested in technology like Japan, or even music/tv like South Korea did instead, or come way earlier into play like the U.S. or France to consolidate themselves

But the EWC cares about their image and policing the behavior of others

They have to be maried

Has it been released?

That's like suggesting Riot hosting a tournament in Bangkok makes them a subsidiary of the Thai government?>

???

No, this is just me saying that the problem isn't the country directly financing the tournament, its that you have a problem with the country. It would not be adressed by having the danish Blast hold it in Saudi Arabia through a series incentives.

Ppl like Sideshow, that you mentioned, just use this argument to excuse themselves of facing the hypocrisy of saying that while working in the U.S. And when he refused to go to the Shanghai masters it was straight sinophobic imo.

Closest example I can give is CS, we are getting this year a IEM Major in Dallas, Intel get a shit ton of money/benefits from the US government, gonna host it in US Soil, and yet it would not get criticized, even if it was a Valorant tournament, because they hold the narrative, so they can't be accused of sportswashing.

ps: this not directly at you, as you demonstrated that you dont fuck with the us either

No correlation

If you've ever bought something, you've paid taxes

Like I said

She wont be there.

Probably most tier2 casters will jump at the opportunity to cast for a bigger audience while also probably getting paid more than they usually do

Americas:

1. 100T, expect them to be 1st on their group and then they just gotta win one game against NRG/Krü

2. G2, they are just the best team of Americas

3. MIBR, they have aspas and got rid of NZR

EMEA:

1. Vitality, will probably just bruteforce their way into it
2. Fnatic if Alfajer goes back to playing sentinels
3. KC, this is a bet but I'll never trust Liquid to qualify and I dont trust heretics rn either.

Pacific:

1. T1, I trust they will mantain a decent level
2. DRX, same, feels consistent
3. Talon, I think they might click

Dont know enough about china, but we all know EDG will be there

With the help of fellow vlr posters that made me notice that the problem with them having a tournament there is because it is directly funded by their government.

So all they gotta do is create a shell company to do so! Then they will be just like any other country that hosted Valorant tournaments so far.

China for an AD

Its not like anything interesting happens in VLR anyway, just the usual circlejerking and baiting

Damn this topic got me reading, and I found out immigrants are humans too and also have rights, its not just LGBTQIA+. Thank god we dont have tournaments happening in places where migrants are heavily mistreated, like separating children from their families, and thus also violating human rights. I'm sure we only have tournaments in places where they sign International treaties focused on human rights.

Esports always been and always will be a rich boys club

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