Would I organize better? No. Can Riot do better? Yes they can. I don't know why you settle for this when LoL will get x10 better than this

It would not, CS left Katowice because Katowice is an industrial city, Krakow is way better

Chance of a team defusing. Welcome to the aws graphics, a.k.a inaccurate shit f1 had and has

Riot chase hype. They don't chase quality. At least for Valorant. Belgrade, Budapest, Bucharest, Krakow all are way cheaper than Paris, but you can agree that Champions Paris sounds way more hype than Champions Bucharest

Arena is ass

I meant everyone related to the event. Those who left ESL or Blast just went to PGL and Fissure, they didn't go to VCT.

How do you expect a production to be good when most S-tier experts in the european field are hired by all the CS/Dota TOs, they pay way more and organize way more events, VCT are just forced to deal with less talented ones

What do you expect when you host it in a region where val is way less popular than CS? CS TOs have the best european tournament organizing talent, they go from ESL to Blast or from PGL to Fissure, which is why all of them are top notch https://www.hltv.org/gallery/view/241178

I think a team would rather win their 3 BO3s then potentially go on a 7 BO3 Run

''It's a group stage match, having it on stage with at least a little crowd is a big W for a tournament like this.'' - but then you have events like PerfectWorld Shanghai Major or Rio 2022 major where almost a full crowd was there, and it was some random ass 0-2 game in the opening stage

''Rather than having group stage matches in a studio format like other esports have, where most or half teams do not experience international stage matches at all.'' Other esports have more events where the apparent best 4 teams of any region have a chance to enjoy actual good big crowds

''Stop comparing it to other VALORANT events where huge crowd gathers for the latest stages of competition.'' In my opinion comparing it to other Valorant events is the best bet, people ask Riot to keep their standards at a high level, as they rightfully should

I am yet to see any UI in any esport which had 0 people complain

aderall

I would honestly watch Dota if Spirit made it to playoffs

Best TOs are hired by BLAST, ESL, PGL, Fissure. All of them work for CS/Dota events

Sure, let's add double elim to potentially have a team run 21 Games in like 4 weeks?

Valve just allow TOs to organize everything themselves. PGL fucked things up because they had little experience, last major was BLAST's, they are GOATed at everything related in production

riot pays them, but it doesn't mean riot covers all of the expenses.

I mean surely they need to make it public which clauses weren't met, no?

if riot kicked KOI because they didn't stream games it might actually be restarted. Or they just needed an excuse to get some bigger org in their place, perhaps?

Give it to MOUZ or Spirit

1. Give tier 1 teams guaranteed slots, which secure them for 4 years
2. Now remove 2 orgs in 2 years (sure, one of them was bleed who weren't franchised, but their contract in VCT was for 2 years) and now KOI
   2 undermines 1, ig this system is dysfunctional. How can we be sure that orgs like FURIA, C9, EG are safe? What riot defy as "breach of the team's contractual agreement with the league.''?

Put him as head coach and let the ''Wait for 0:07 on timer before we go out''™ tactic fuck over EMEA and the entire scene. The cancerous navi style which plagued CS, it will make G2 look like a fun team

honestly if they win mouz they already did more than the col core since 2023

any other top 20 bar hltv is irrelevant, and in 2013 it was markeloff and edward. Zeus is basically what ange1 wanted to be, ange1 didn't do shit with adren mou and dosia in their prime, yet zeus took them to a major win when they were pushing 30

nope, never made it to hltv top 20

top 5 CIS IGL at best but fairs ig

it is objectively impressive, but in the beginning he failed the ''first ever CIS superteam'' and then he would gather friend stacks where they would drink beer before and after almost every game.

fantastic in val, not so fantastic in CS

fucking finally. Like how can you be in the same org as the goat Blade and not realize you are not cutting it at tier 1 anymore?

is bro in his shaq era at 22?

I mean most events still get great viewing hours and burnout is just an excuse. You can skip as many events as you want, no one forces you to play every single one

honestly if they do like 8/4 or 7/5 split it would be great

that's the aspect I hate the most. FYI I will compare a lot with CS, simply because I am a CS frog, but there you have an event almost every month where you can watch your favourites, the progress of teams is traceable thanks to VRS (e.g. mongolz going from top 10 to top 3 in a matter of months, or navi going from top 3 to top 11 in half a year)

care to elaborate?

that is literally just a 3 hour gap

because a scouting report needs to be short? Put yourself in a place of a sports director, like a youth team of Barcelona in Football. You have dozens of players to scout or tactics to think of. You don't need an essay describing how emotional the player is or what snack he likes before the game. Simply:
''good dribbling, nice first touch, great vision, poor attitude''.

well as I come from CS, seeing such a shit team get bounced to tier 2 and get clowned on there is way better. Like you tell me Liquid who kicked my goat jks is now losing to an academy team?

overall a goated org, and their office in Hamburg is really cool

So, 2/4 seasons of the first cycle completed, 3rd one coming to the conclusion. Thoughts on franchising so far? Good or bad?

ong, especially Mouz. They are literally the perfect fit. Stick around in the disciplines they are in, focus on young players, are a very consistent top team. Just 1 major out of all majors played in CS post-covid has not featured a player who has been in MOUZ at the start of their career

honestly the fact that Germany were snubbed of a franchising slot yet the league is hosted in Berlin is so strange on so many levels

ngl my perception of Greece has been ruined thanks to this fucking video https://youtu.be/HfFx5UvzSxc

I guess vitality are on a streak to collect as many flags in their team as humanly possible. Estonia, Finland, Poland, Brazil, Switzerland, Moldova, Sweden, France, Russia. Morocco is just the next step before vitality get Ukraine, Latvia, UK, Greece and Turkey next year

so now 3 french orgs, 1 turk and 0 eastern european?

if it was hosted in a studio it would get like 300k mb, no more no less, be realistic.

I don't understand how Riot made EMEA with an expectation that people will watch it.Ain't no way a region where people watch either real sports or CS with a huge cult of fans following players would love to watch a fucking studio event 3 times a year

like I am pretty sure it's quite concering for EMEA as well that now 6/12 teams own a CS2 team, with Karmine Corp saying across several years that having a cs2 team would be great. VCT EMEA was supposed to at least come close to CS A-tier events but it gets dicked down by a fucking online blast event

regionals overall are a shit unwatchable slugfest. Same matchups, dead studio, even tech issues sometime. You know it's bad when yet another run of the mill tier 1 cs event with several tier 2 teams which is held ONLINE smurfs your REGION Finale. https://escharts.com/tournaments/csgo/blast-open-fall-2025-closed-qualifier
https://escharts.com/ru/tournaments/valorant/vct-2025-emea-stage-2

because stages are really boring to viewers. Like you tell me you have the interest to watch like the 3rd rematch of the year between liquid and bbl inside a studio which has like 200 fans in it?

I would guess it's a reference to those ''do not redeem it'' scammer call centers