how do you even compare pros of other games to valorant. there is no s1mple, faker, device, zywoo in valorant YET, valorant's goat changes every international event, you need to get a clear goat first

was it really that hype?

nepotism, simple as that, he knows someone who he should know, and his links will secure him the paycheck before anyone else

Bro those are Friday tickets, Fridays are rarely sold out

There are countries like Romania, where getting a visa is relatively easy.

CS has so many events because it has multiple TOs with a semi-open circuit ( next year to be open). If cs had only one TO, then CS would have +- the same number of events. Thing is, CS goes into a complete opposite way to Riot, instead of locking the circuit, it opens it completely and now new cs calendar for 2025 looks like this
January 13-26 - BLAST tournament
January 29-February 9 - ESL tournament
February 10-23 - PGL tournament
February 25-March 16 - ESL tournament
March 17-30 - BLAST tournament
March 31-April 13 - PGL tournament
April 15-20 - YaLLa Compass tournament
April 21-27 - ESL tournament
April 28-May 4 - BLAST tournament
May 5-18 - PGL tournament
May 19-25 - ESL tournament
May 26-June 1 - StarLadder tournament
June 9-22 - First Major
July 23-August 3 - ESL tournament
August 4-17 - BLAST tournament
August 20-24 - ESL tournament
August 25-September 7 - BLAST tournament
September 12-21 - StarLadder tournament
September 23-October 12 - ESL tournament
September 29-October 12 - PGL tournament
[Unknown date] - YaLLa Compass tournament
October 18-November 2 - PGL tournament
November 3-9 - ESL tournament
November 10-16 - BLAST tournament
December 1-14 - Second Major

tried it, I don't like the fact I overstrafe sometimes, I am just used to the feeling of knowing that I am standing still and not just thinking I am accurate

legit came into this thread thinking what team you preferred to play as on Team Fortress 2 ( team RED btw), I guess it's enough internet for today

top 12 faces off top 3 and not top 1, seems weird

sadly every pro scene is covered with nepotism

maybe soon the crowd can have emotions

Ever heard of sarcasm?

Rome doesn't mean better, there are cities like Stockholm

Let's host the biggest event of the year in a dead region, seems great

lock//in Pyongyang

and Taiwan seems very fucking realistic knowing riot's ties to china?

I am predicting a HOT 2026 calendar
Masters Tel Aviv
Masters Taiwan
Champions Moscow

I mean valve are improving the game, don't get me wrong, but valorants esports scene is a bit shaky imo, but valve are just chillink

I dare say 5d

broky has no copy, broky is love, broky is life

reverse psychology 101

he would be kicked by now

kick off with double elim - 2 teams per region, I think somewhere in february
split 1 - 3 teams to Toronto
split 2 - separate from split 1, 4 teams to champs

how can you say this while sacy is brazilian as well

lock in compton

now that I think about it riot were too dumb or ignorant to take over the FPS market when cs2 was a complete meme, so I guess you can summorize the valve vs riot debate with this video https://youtu.be/BuPofpPyVkU

'' Valve new improvements to CS2''
dead battle royale
case
mb anti cheat
Bro expects volvo to actually care and take the opportunity of taking valorant's fanbase, xd

chet is probably going back to cs

8 team event is all you get buddy

left hanging like this, damnnnnn

gamer who isn't gay, wtf

gentle mates seem mid with a limited player pool, Kcorp ditched the french speaking roster, it is not looking good frenchbros

I think that you probably don't know how cs will operate next year, but basically valve has a ranking of all the teams and in order for the event to count as tier 1 it should have invited all top 8 teams ( they can reject the invite) and then also open/closed qualifiers of all regions. Basically any team from any region can get consistent placements at big events ( and cs scene operates every week from january to june and from july to december). plenty of events, plenty of exposure, plenty of opportunities for smaller teams, huge prize pools for most events, different formats (some up to 32 teams), and tier 2 scene also exists as well.
oh, and every half a year teams grind as many points as possible to get invites to the major, giving slots to teams who were the most consistent throughout the year, ensuring the best possible competition at the biggest event, and providing equal opportunity for everyone

again, dumb closed circuit, CS played around with this concept and abandoned this shit going into 2025, now teams get invites based on how good they are and not based on how much their orgs pay, I literally don't know why riot are sticking around with this concept when this shit will just mass extinct the tier 2 scene

it probably wouldn't. You might use these events as a sign of who is more likely to get ascension, but it's just charity at this point. Closed circuits fucking suck and it might be the reason tier 2 migrates to CS with an open circuit instead of sticking around punching a hole

I am really concerned if valorant has time to build this legacy with franchising bro

should have gone to australia but that's just me I guess

each team there plays a huge amount of games and gets a share of TV rights, bundles are nowhere near that profitable, nothing is

so then orgs get even less incentive to stay at the league or what?

because it is not profitable, you can only expect a sold out at the weekends, not on a monday or a tuesday

I am pretty sure that orgs outside of valorant are going ''awuga'' when they see team bundles and shit, they would easily hop in if any org dropped

unfortunately no one gives a shit about them, they have 1 bad year, they get axed, a bigger team buys them, expects immediate results, doesn't get them, they get axed, they legit have a better chance in cs than in valorant

expecting CS level of crowd at valorant with dead mics and little to none crowd cams, XD KEK LUL KKKKKKKKKKKKK

they should make regional leagues 16 team with 10 franchised + 6 open qual, but leo faria apparently wants CS to shit on valorant when open circuit comes, good for GayBen I guess

what will be more hype for French, cs major or champs?

that's retarded, you would expose more talent and give more teams money by hosting open qualifiers and you wouldn't need to spend gazillions for orgs like mibr to go 1-9

I don't understand why would riot spend additional money on granting these teams money to run instead of hosting open qualfiiers for regional splits

I really wonder what's the point for teams like BBL, Mibr, Furia, Zeta to stay around like this, or is the real success of franchising are the friends we make along the way?

basically these events wouldn't grant anything for tier 2 teams, except for money and exposure. CS events like Cologne work because if a team has a good enough performance it will rise up the rankings and get more invites to other tier 1 events, despite not being a partner.
Example Given, team spirit went in Katowice as one of the Play-in teams, however after winning the event they rose up the rankings and their ranking slot was good enough for them to get consistent tier 1 invites at events like Dallas, therefore improving their seeding, granting them better exposure and allowing them to get more ranking points to get better seeding for the Major. Teams in CS grind event to event to get more points and get into the Major qualifying slots, it doesn't work the same way in valorant

EWC is in the summer, all the time afaik