Man it hurts seeing those absolute trash teams who practice few hours a day and then just party in nightclubs, like Furia, KRU, VK, NiP, getting 2 slots for Champions, but EMEA hard-working monsters get 1

Navi are yet to see the glimpse of an international event, although they're so good

If EMEA LCQ had 2 or 3 slots, of course

But 1 fucking slot, nope

Sad for teams like Navi playing in hard regions and never making it because of 3-slot limit, while those like KRU and ZETA farm internationals as if it's nothing

Guild wouldn't get him if he was playing badly in scrims
Which means he was good or at least tolerable in scrims

Neither must stay
Mfs acting like Russ and Yacine are the ONLY available players in EMEA to pick for LCQ

Oh well, but it's still amusing to me how majority of American / Asian fans react to Trexx, Leo, Suygetsu, Shao, Cloud, Jady insane plays for the first time, while we knew these guys for many months

When non-EMEA fan discovers that EMEA is actually a region full of insane players who have never been to LANs

Old Sentinels was a bad team, won international tournament in the weakest era of Valorant possible
They have been dogshit ever since

Their aiming skills weren't crazy either, it's more of NA and EMEA not being good back then

That's just wrong in pro play

Players with worse aiming skills will always prefer Phantom
Because they can't click heads, they can only spray

Liquid? Haha
Guild we'll see

I support both FPX and M3C, I have been a M3C fan for about 16 months now
Talk about bandwagoning

Ah yes, M3C didn't qualify to both Masters on purpose, because it would be embarrassing to represent such shame of a region called EMEA

They will not qualify to Champs on purpose as well, because who the hell wants their name to be associated with Shitmea???

It's not like M3C are the kings or EMEA lol

Your team is EMEA buddy

5/8 teams in EMEA LCQ are great

Can't say the same about NA - Cloud9 ass, Shopify ass, Sentinels ass, EG ass, NRG ass, possibly Guard too (easy bracket fluke)

Faze and 100 Thieves are the only normal teams, but imagine losing Champs slot to LSET, it means they suck as well

M3C, Acend, Guild, Navi, Liquid would take a good shit on any team from NA

Tell me you've never watched CSGO without telling me you've never watched CSGO

It's a common thing which occurs across many esports

The most annoying thing is that, Riot adore them. 2 slots for Masters 2021, 3 slots for Champions 2021, 1-3 slots the entire 2022...

Meanwhile EMEA guys grind the fuck out of the game, not letting themselves rest too much, and receive what? Miserable 3 slots, for the region with 3 million or so ranked playerbase?

You can't, Brazilian pros are the laziest in the world, same as with CBLOL - instead of scrimming, they either go to parties or stream all day

People mark NA as the content region, but it's Brazil who are even less hard-working and less willing to improve

He's not wrong, in APAC he's been top-3 in Stage 1, Stage 2, LCQ

In EMEA he'd be top-30

In Stage 2 Bleed only lost to teams who qualified to Masters tho?

No lol
Navi's new wartime policy stops them from signing Russian players, unless it's very much needed and there's no other possible solution

You forgot Gaza Strip

Please don't invite Sentinels

And what makes you rate SEN above Guard?

Both sucked ass in Stage 2, but at least Guard were good during Stage 1, SEN hired a low immortal streamer to their team

Almost every pro plays ranked daily in smart amounts, as long as it doesn't intersect with prac time

If he wants to stream while playing ranked, why not? What would be different if he played ranked but without streaming?

Age happened

t1 brazil teams*

Do you seriously believe that, at some point in the future, the best all-women teams will be able to not crumble against tier2 all-men teams?
Spoiler: it's never happening. Despite all the efforts.

Lowers? The arrogance and confidence in Brazilian overrated teams, lol

Seriously, do you really think NiP, Furia, VK are any better than KRU or Fusion? I don't

Furia at least made a powerful roster change, NiP kept bot Jonn and VK kept bot RHZ

Damn
What do they consider "large community"? Is DACH or CIS one? If yes, BIG and Navi/FPX are locks

Wait, Rogue might apply as a Polish team, they have AGO ROGUE in LoL and stuff like that
Rogue might also be a lock

That means EXCEL is gonna make it, they're the only one from Nordics there

EXCEL have no fans sadly

Wtf where's BDS and MAD? Gonna pull out of Valorant?

Nice English

He was terrible last split and bad 1st split
It's a decline and it's unlikely to become suddenly good

Again, why L1nk? So many guys to choose from, but they get clouted ones, despite worse gameplay

Rhyme has been doing well on Raze, his NA teammates were bots

Ec1s didn't even get a proper chance, but he was tier2 anyway

Why on earth teams keep recycling same players over and over

Pick up someone from VRLs, there's a dozen better than L1nk in his form

I doubt, their biggest facility is in the capital of war-torn country, where nobody will go for bootcamp right now, especially russians who are denied entry into Ukraine

They'd have to set up something spectacular outside of Ukraine in such small time gap before franchising hits

Also Riot is known for hating CIS, we might not even get a single slot, 8 EU + BBL + Falcons, or 9 EU + BBL

I'm not watching the game, but VLR photo just screams "SLAV"

He has the looks of a true stereotypical slavic man

I would consider them if there were 12 or 14 teams in the league

But 10... Like there's so much better options for these 10

They're not as developed as top-3, nor do they have rosters in any other S-Tier esport (LoL, Dota, CSGO, Rocket League, R6)

I think BBL will be included mostly for the sake of Turkish representative, I mean if they ignore Turkey while you make up 30% of EMEA playerbase...

As someone said, Acend get their money from casino website, which is a thing that Riot hate the most (their tournaments are literally never sponsored by anything related to gambling)

Guild financials are shit, they've been spending and spending, getting nothing in return, they're not popular either

I've named 16 more deserving teams in S, A, B, when there's 10 slots, literally impossible for someone as shady as Acend and Guild to make it, out of all my list 6 won't be doing it anyway

My list:

S - G2, Fnatic, Liquid
A - Vitality, Karmine, KOI, BBL
B - FPX, Navi, MAD, Heretics, Giants, BIG, OG, BDS, Falcons
C - Heroic, Rogue, Astralis, whatever big org which is not in Valorant yet, except it's from Russia
F - everyone else, won't be more than 10 teams anyway

There's no way this guy abbreviated Astralis like ASRL

Guaranteed - OpTic, 100T, C9
Likely - SEN, TSM, NRG, EG, T1
Unlikely - Faze, Guard, V1
Impossible - everyone else

I named 11 teams and there are <=7 slots anyway

You will be surprised when EG gets in

This, the only org in tier1 EMEA that is not afraid to take risks and pick unproven tier2 demons is Fnatic - you can see that it benefitted them a lot

I bet you said the same thing about Alfajer, Suygetsu, Trexx, Monsteerr, when those were in tier2