I mean I don't think its that big its like last year, the bracket design really made it tough for them. Last year it was 100T Loud Sen Lev where 2 went out and 2 went through. This year a team with a lot of expectations was going to be out in the round 1 of the bracket. Most people had G2, Sen, and NRG as 2 of the 3 teams to make Bangkok and 100T lost to 2 of them in close fashion. All 4 maps 100T lost were by scores of 13-9 with the maps they won being a 14-12 vs NRG and a 13-4 vs Sen. This team is fundamentally good just a tough bracket. If NRG had actually done what people expected and beat C9 then it would of been one of G2 or NRG going up against MIBR who some people rate this year and it would have been a totally different story.

fair fair, hard to watch EMEA games for me because of times so I just knew he was struggling before and didn't make an international event

I mean quite a few of the Chamber players from that meta have struggled. Chamber is different to a duelist in a lot of ways and over a year of that constantly then needing to go back to duelist when all these other players were taking up the role to allow the star player to be on Chamber was big. Like Tenz and Cryo had to role swap and adapt which Tenz did well thanks to Omen fitting him well whereas you saw the struggles with Cryo. Yay just lost it all together and was then in the middle of team drama with where he would play. It wasn't so smooth. He is still good just didn't adapt as quick as others but would still be a great option for a team.

SR have a team already its combined with Moist Moguls as both sides cited finances as one reason why this made sense for them, Optic would not come back to the game as once Riot was getting involved they knew they were out them and Riot will never be in the same league together because of there history. TSM was the same with how they managed there League of Legends team back in the day. M80 could but they departed the scene not wanting to back Riot's new plan for ascension.

I don't know if you can add another region in this world sadly as its already insane the SA teams have to move 10+ flying hours from home for there region, you would cause the same. I think its just needing to adapt to league needs which is maybe a 10 permanent in the Americas with 2 ascension and then maybe 14 permanent in Pacific and EMEA for more representation of countries in these regions with 2 ascension for them. Then China is the same as America so in total 48 permanent and 4 ascension. Then in terms of International events you would give 1 more spot to EMEA and Pacific as they have more teams to fight for the spot. Yes you might get people complaining they have more but China represents 1 country, Americas even though there are tons of countries only represents 4 but the other countries don't have a strong valorant scene. Then EMEA and Pacific its basically 1 country per team for the most part with some countries needing to try win representation through Ascension, EMEA had Apeks for Norway and Pacific had Bleed for Singapore.

I just dont think you could find a city where another region could work in timezone wise and travel wise. I love the idea on paper I think practically though maybe just a couple bigger leagues is all thats needed for EMEA and Pacific.

In America's yes G2 need a permanent spot, its widely reported that they offer higher salaries and showed how much they wanted it with taking over the roster from The Guard. Replacing C9 and EG I don't think they would do that however and the reasons I would say don't play into them being the more likely teams is that C9 even with budget rosters made playoffs both years, Year 1 finishing 4th in playoffs 1 spot from Champs then 3rd in LCQ. Year 2 a bit rougher but still beat out 5 teams for the playoffs. EG won Champs year 1 and I can't see them getting rid of 1 of only 2 teams that have won Champs since the launch of there partner league. Even with cutting they were still competitive for now. I would say yes in a couple years replace them but not until another Americas team has won Champs probably.

With Pacific I think you are far off on changes, DSG is not stable, yes they have a big fan base thanks to Toast who is amazing for supporting these players in there journey but lets be real for a second, a permanent spot is to far unless he has a financial mogul with him (example Nadeshot got the backing of Dan Gilbert owner of the NBA team Clevland Cavaliers). But in terms of the 3 you want out RRQ represents Indonesia which they do quite well and have put a competitive roster together for it, yes Boom could replace them but its not needed they haven't deserved being removed. I see quite a few already mention how DFM and CR are already quite close in relations just DFM is used for Val while in other esports its CR. Finally GES is crucial to stay in, they have every offseason hosted an event in India helping grow the game there and its such a huge population spot in the world they have to tap into that market and GES is a great and probably the best organization to do it. Yes there are no Indians on the roster this year but they said the region needs to catch up with the times of the game and thats what the Indian T2 scene will work towards. Not representing over a billion people would be insane by riot.

Overall no need to change Orgs yet, reviews at the end of this season yes as they need to see what orgs not in T1 would do for a spot and what teams in T1 will do to keep there spot. A lot of teams have reviews at the end of this year. You also had an organization consider leaving Valorant for a bit (MIBR) before they committed to it.

Also just a side note for NA to replace C9 and EG, these rosters at least kept there roster pieces that they weren't going to change signed in the offseason, consider TSM who dropped there roster at the end of both seasons and Optic who just up and left as they historically have always lied to Riot. These teams are never getting a permanent spot, YFP Gaming is more likely then TSM because they kept there people signed.

he is on there academy team which gets paid by Sen. One of the former Oxygen players even said on stream its crazy how 4 of them are now on T1 teams which since Dapr is not on any its clear it was Skuba.

it cant be, Verno is on NRG, Mitch on C9, Reduxx on Sen, Skuba is reported to be joining Sen as well it could only be Dapr. Plus Bonkar the HC is on NRG as well.

nah he is very flexible and was overall on a weak Gentle Mates team. Probably was the main reason that team won ascension in 2023.

announced today with DSG (Disguised) they replace Grumble who takes a break for personal reasons so he is still on the team and Juicy which they released.

since he is a 6th man he can be loaned to another team

yup wont be in vct this year unless a team signs him like Heritics did with Woot and just accept Reduxx is only available as of April 23rd

To need to bank your odds on another team losing though is not really what you want, yes Sentinels should make it but you never know.

This change was made at the start of the season the VP of 100T confirmed, they just needed to make the changes offical which they were probably dated to be done. This doesn't mean they are getting let go all this means is that it opens up options for them. Now the fan side of this might know that recently it came to light that there were some tensions within the 100T roster and this could be a sign that its a bigger problem. Even with these changes all 4 of these guys are easily T1 quality and if they were in ascension it would be crazy.

i dont think they can, correct me if im wrong but I feel like Soniq's would of done it last year with there squad. They had a team with Runi as there IGL who lost to OREsports and as a result left the esport even though they seemed committed

they might "buy" there spot when a team qualifies that isn't owned by anyone and is an LFT team. Happened last year with the likes of Breakthru to Moist Moguls and Dark Ratio to Mad Lions

an ORG that lost in the open quails last year for T2 but are going for it again this year

they said that the seeding will work based on rankings from last year

if you based it fully off last year where EG as seed 1 is in group 3, LOUD seed 2 in group 1 and NRG or C9 (doesnt matter for this example) are in Group 2 for Seed 3 and then continue like that with 4 being in 2 5 in 1 6 in 3 then you get a perfect 2 NA 2 SA in group 1, 2 NA 2 SA in group 2 and 2 NA 1 SA in group 3.

rocket on twitter is the new spreadsheet person and has one for tier 2, Turtle Troop, M80, Oxygen, MxS all have spots rn, TSM needs to announce if they want there spot back same with Faze and Mad Lions otherwise open qualifiers to decide who has the spots. (OResports also has a spot but seem unlikely to want it) Turtle Troop are the only squad yet to have a team but it will be IGL'ed by WeDid.

well Governor was playing back in NA again in December and it seems likely its him

his contract is done in January, it probably ends later this month