Yup, until the end of playoffs.

They announced the broadcast would start an hour later for playoffs on the last day of regular season. For some reason VLR has just had the wrong time listed since then. It's been right on liquipedia the entire time.

Yea but that still isnt enough of a reason to change the format when 2/3 don't imo. Honestly I wouldn't worry about it too much. The format will literally have to change year after year until we get to the 14 intended teams in each international league. Maybe they'll be doing 8 team playoffs by then.

A regular season where 8/10 teams qualify? Not that i've never seen it before but it feels strange outside of certain circumstances. Also 4/6 are only qualifying because of the extra slot that fnatic earned at lock-in.

Anyone notice that the Americas matches are missing from the matches page? Also, the times in the Americas event page itself are all off. They said on broadcast playoff days would start 1 hour later than their usual start time. I'm guessing this is to help people wanting to watch EMEA games too.

No, I think japan just needs a bigger pc gaming market.

According to wyatt, this team just has mikes with other people coming in occasionally to help with analysis. All the other teams have 2-3 people consistently for coaching/analysis. So yea, it seems like a coaching staff issue.

its tokyo where he wont, not playoffs

lol. It's tokyo where he won't be able to play, not playoffs. Why would someone be required to have a visa to play in their own country? Use your common sense please.

The issue is the rapid rise and decline of most esports. Someone that is currently 12 wont be able to go pro for 5-6 years. And they most likely aren't gonna be able to gain the goat title in anything less than 4 years. Do you have confidence valorant will be doing well a decade from now?

Uhh, a little too young id say. 14-15 is a better guess imo

Another korean team losing two series across two different game titles.

Sadge for Zeus, Oner, Faker, Gumayusi, Keria, Sayaplayer, Carpe, Xeta, Ban, and Munchkin

4 way tie breakers decided by first map diff, then round diff. Loud, C9, NRG, Furia, and Lev are already qualified. Last spot will be decided by tomorrow's game. If 100T win, they're in, if they lose EG is.

This is incorrect, LEV are locked in at 4th or 5th. Opponent will be 100T if they qual and furia if not.

No difference for LEV, they play 100T if they qualify and play furia if they dont.

two separate places

no, if they win they qualify, lose and eg takes final playoff spot

Map differential first in 3x+ team tie.

Only if NRG 2-0. Otherwise furia is out.

Well. That team that sucks beat both LEV/Furia in the back half of the split sooo /shrug. Lets agree to disagree.

Sorry. I think you're coping. Not that 100T is amazing but LEV and Furia just look like trash imo. Especially LEV with how predictable and unchanging they've become. Their great game plans fall apart because of that.

What do you mean by historically for Furia? What is historic? At lock-in maybe and the first few weeks? I don't think that qualifies,

Lol but it's not both, C9, Loud, NRG, LEV locked in. If 100T beath Mibr, they're locked. Only one remaining position for EG/Furia

edit: Ahh i see, you corrected below, k thanks!

They just said on broadcast leviatan is locked for playoffs, so that cant be it, has to be EG or Furia out

Eg loses to NRG 1-2 or 0-2
LEV loses to Loud
100T beat Mibr

Who qualifies? Furia or EG?

Not just you

No, 4 is the most.

He's the goat for a reason

GenG most likely going out 0-2 on series

Wayne Gretzky
Roger Federer
Michael Phelps
Usain Bolt
Michael Jordan

Only voted in matches where I knew/comprehended the achievements of both.

edit: And yes, Gretzky does clear all but he won't win since hockey isn't as popular as other sports globally

You need a specific athlete/work visa. That really has nothing to do with riot. Perhaps riot and EG were co-jointly doing the application, but since EG seemingly didn't apply for demon1 or get w/e they need for it in, it's too late.

Queens*

They haven't changed much since week 1 and are extremely protocol based. Makes them very predictable and easy to anti-strat. Taco has also not been performing which makes it very hard to do well in this duelist-dependent meta. Don't think it's much more complicated than that.

Not gonna lie, if they aren't cooking behind the scenes, and don't improve for playoffs, I'd guess they don't even make tokyo tbh.

Reasonable. I do think loud will be much stronger than their current performances indicate come playoffs.

Vlr rankings for teams with the same record are arbitrary and don't take into account tie-breaker rules.

edit: Also, Geng have played all their games and are at 4-5, the other two are still 4-4 and could possibly still advance to 5-4, that is why they are ahead in this case.

Someone on reddit said this, haven't read the rules myself so could be wrong:

2 way tie is H2H
3 way tie is H2H in the case one team has beaten the other two, otherwise map diff>round diff
4 way tie just map diff>round diff, assuming no team has lost to all others

Will it be 5-0?

called it, downvote me more

Yep, mel was amazing on desk

While I do like benita, i do agree. I think some performative enthusiasm would make her much better on the analyst desk.

Yes. As long as a few things don't happen:

1. They don't become complacent between the end of the regular season and lcq
2. There are no long term problems with marved as an igl, like lack of aptitude igling against better/the best teams
3. Tenz personal issues(kyedae's cancer) don't become even more of an issue, which is very possible, cancer is a bitch

edit: typo

Furia has the h2h on LEV. And in a 4 way tie between sen, eg,100T and Lev; Lev and sen are eliminated as they are 1:2 against the other teams while EG and 100 go through at 2:1.

I don't think that's true

Mibr has gotten worse/stagnated. And NRG was at a low point in their season.

Spoiler. LEV isnt making playoffs

Counting LEV as probable?? Doubtful.

Japan keeps their 2 slots unless you wanna kill viewership more, which is what is important at the end of the day.

Match fixing is always a possibility when it comes to any form of competition. Did it occur here? Probably not but always possible.

Yes, the literal current rankings. Clever.