That would be all the 16 IGLs.

It's okay just go tell her you wanna get pegged and you will be a good boy for mommy.

We need a remindme in X days bot in VLR.

They are already bootcamping wdym?

He is not saying that PRX pays them below wage or anything, what he is trying to say is that GE can pay more than PRX does which might be true (PUBG Mobile money from India is huge) and when compared to purchasing power capacity, GE does pay their players much more than PRX does + a proper BootCamp and other facilities (PRX has 1 room in a PC store).

He is proving how APAC can be a region that competes at the level of EMEA and you want him to leave. If its his choice and better for his career all good. But Franchising is levelling the playing field here. There are little benefits to leave his region anymore.

Will make the change.

I remember against the ro128 or something in VCC the first match VLT played was against a team that had a bronze Jett.

I also have a friend from my uni who plays in local tournaments as an unsigned team and he has scrimmed against GE (very old though, now GE only scrims against SEA, China, KR etc).

I did not find any more detail on that. Maybe the top 4 or top 3 or something most probably but that is just an guess from my side.

You are not accounting for the fact that it is because SEA teams only play SEA teams. If you have KR/JP and SEA play all the time they will definitely come out as a region larger than the sum of its parts.

EMEA on the other hand is really large. Ideally Turkey/CIS should be a separate minor region like KR/JP butb they are mashed into EMEA. That is what makes them stronger.

So there are a lot of people who are unable to understand the current system, here is a breakdown of what I understood so far -

We are moving into a franchise system where a select number of teams play
These teams have permanent spots. They will compete on a weekly basis and play against their own region (Americas, EMEA and Asia) at first.

Then teams will compete in cross region tournaments like Masters and Champions.

This league will be the front face and poster boy of Valorant competitive esports. Riot will most probably focus all media content and maybe do some other fun stuff with these orgs (like we see VCT stories on their YT channel) and skins based on orgs.

We are retaining the VCT circuit as it is

Tier 2 teams should not be scared. They still can participate in Riot-organized tournaments. Each major region (Americas, Asia and EMEA) is divided into multiple leagues. There are some changes to some minor regions like South Asia, Oceania and MENA shifting from tournaments like VCC and VOT which were mostly 3rd party ventures till now to official Riot leagues no different from the rest.

These teams qualify for a tournament called challengers ascended which is just basically a new name for existing tournaments like VCT APAC and VCT NA. Except this time, it will most probably reflect the franchising regions (Asia will compete as a whole instead of just APAC+SA +Oce in one tournament and KR and JP in others).

Teams who win the Challengers ascended will get promoted to the franchised leagues. Their contract will however be a short term of only 2 years. In comparison franchised teams are expected to cycle every 4 years. Through this "promotional period," they are expected to get new fans and hopefully become strong contenders for the next franchising reshuffle.

These matches will also be live streamed and have some sort of benefits but it is mostly similar to the first 2 years of VAL and nothing new. These orgs and teams are definitely less privileged than franchised orgs but at least they get an opportunity to make it to the leagues.

Qualifiers for challengers
Will be ingame now. There might be something like a new game mode where you 5 stack with your friends and if your team is good enough, you qualify for the challengers in your region. Earlier it was up to the TO to organize this like Nodwin in South Asia and PPGL in SEA.

This had obvious drawbacks as literally, anyone could register and you had literally Bronze players registering as a team and wasting time in tournaments like the VCC. Now teams will have to grind their way through this in-game mode to qualify for the challengers in their region.

If you think anything needs to be modified or I misinterpreted anything let me know I will make an edit.

Edit - So the ingame qualification system will probably release in 2024 so the VCT circuit is quite similar to 2021 and 2022 for now.

Get your own Indonesian server if you wanna play in your echo chamber.

However, you may see it, it actually solves the problem of weak and strong regions.

NA+BR, EMEA and Asia combined actually are pretty similar in power. So instead of the either its EMEA or NA, now you will have 3 regions and anyone can win anything.

Moreover, the leagues within themselves will be much more entertaining to watch. Every game in Asia will be like APAC LCQ last year. Every game in American League will be a NA vs BR story. Can't say the same for EMEA. They have been the same so far and I doubt anything changes.

That's the point, most teams selected for franchising will poach the top players from other teams to form superteams. The best of the best. Bleed dropped their roster, they will most probably rebuild from scratch.

Now Riot wants to let other teams (new players like Trent and The Guard in NA) who just come out of nowhere and prove to be pretty good a chance.

If they win Challengers Ascended (New name for VCT APAC, NA, EMEA) they get to join the franchising league.

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Edit: VLR bug why has my post gotten down here :(

I find things like cycling, playing Badminton and swimming much more useful than going to the gym. Really don't like doing simulated exercises when I have the resources to do the real thing. Tried doing it, just got bored of dudes trying to buff up and act real cringe in the gym.

add storax as an IGL. Man really gave a tough time to GE and VLT and after he left, Team Exploit fell off.

Edit: Meant to reply to Ozy

add storax as an IGL. Man really gave a tough time to GE and VLT and after he left, Team Exploit fell off.

That is for the current VCT league. The full rules of franchising is not out yet. They might change all of this (which is a huge likelihood)

That is if they decide to apply for franchising from Korea, At the moment they are both based in NA.

We don't really know the slots distribution in APAC (officially) yet but as far as a lot of orgs/journalists are mentioning, KR/JP seems to be getting most of the slots while SEA gets 3. There are also talks about SA and OCE getting 1 slots each for representation.

The thing to observe here though is the fact that GE does not only have a presence in India, but they used to have rosters from KR/SG and a BootCamp in Korea. If Korea gets 3 slots, which orgs possibly could make it to franchising?

To me only 2 names come to mind immediately - DRX and Damwon. All the other orgs are either smaller than GE or unable to compete with the popularity GE brings. What if GE is not aiming for the SEA/SA slot at all but rather trying to get one of the Korean slots?

All of this is assuming that some huge Korean org is not coming into franchising which does not have a valorant roster at the moment.

In that case, we will have only 1 Indian org (representing from KR), GE does not eat up SEA slots and it opens up opportunities for a possible second unknown org that gets the SA slot or Riot does not give SA a slot at all cause GE already made it. In that case, SEA orgs get 1 extra spot cause GE is out of the picture down south.

All this is speculation but could be a possibility especially because Rushindra (GE's owner) keeps mentioning Korea "Secret Weapon" in his streams.

I don't even remember GE playing in the past 60 days? APAC qualifiers maybe? GE faced much tougher opponents than EG.

Even though GE was losing, Rossi still owned everyone in the server. Rawfiul is a hit or miss in most matches. Rossi does not frag out once in a blue moon.

You just cannot compare the two.

One filler team can beat other filler teams.

Also, don't underestimate xerxia, they can beat Brazil teams, Edward Gaming is yet to prove themselves against some really good teams (best they fought against was Nth). Zeta is suffering from the loss of TENN.

They also have upset potential. you cannot forget optic and Xerxia still have a 2-2 score. Their match against Liquid and FPX was also very well played and in the end it was just Liquid's day in Iceland leading them to go out in groups.

I am not saying they will make it out. There is obviously a huge "if" but they did make it in previous champions and they have not looked very weak either. If they get a lucky group there is a 50/50 chance of them qualifying for playoffs as the second seed.

They have a good chance of making playoffs if they get a lucky group. Many filler teams in this champions

You act like PRX is just sitting there not making strats themselves. If they got anti-strated they will also try to come up with solutions and from what we have seen so far, they are easily one of the most creative teams internationally. You never know what they will come up with.

Other teams are just playing the catch-up game.

Just fill the list with baiters

You still only have 2 eyes

Did you reply to yourself?

Imagine believing that people on this website use real flags. This guy is an EU fake flagger.

skillz is more of a flex player.

• Hellranger is better as an IGL than Amaterasu but he just does not frag as much. VLT mid-round calling is not comparable to GE. VLT is at the same level just because of the fact that it is a star-studded team.

Also this list basically ignores the rest of South Asia except Shooter.

Its just a cheap copy of Genshin. Genshin atleast tried to innovate and only used a couple of gameplay mechanics from legend of zelda + the characters actually are decent.

IDK how people decide this even before watching the anime.

Damn my words really hurt some koreans.

PS - It was just a bait for the fake flagging Korean dick rider.

Ask a criminal "Did you murder this guy?"

The guy: Ofc not.

I did not choose to comment on the fact if Keznit is racist or not. But what you are doing is normalizing ignorance and its not cool.

Cultural bias does exist but it is not an excuse for doing something stupid especially when you are a paid professional.

Imagine getting a job in Japan and creating a ruckus in public.

Or travelling to India and just casually ordering beef in a restaurant in a north Indian state.

An Indian casually using the N-word in a western country for black men cause that is what our history books refer to them as.

All of these things stems from cultural bias but are they cool? no. You might think this is cultural bias and you might not know any better but it is extremely uncomfortable/offensive to the people involved.

Know who you are working with. Keznit competes/plays/scrims with Brazillian players. He has lived in Brazil He should know better. He should know what words can be offensive for others. If he does not, that is just ignorance and once again, it is not a trait you should defend him for. I agree with the fact that you should not take someone's career away for such accusations but a paid professional should try to fit better with other cultures if they are interacting with it.

Ult orbs are not free. There is an ultimate economy along with an "cash" to buy guns and abilities economy.

How many rounds have we seen where a team on a save wins a round just because they invested like 3 or 4 ultimates?

Chamber's OP could very well be a normal OP but its use would be limited to save rounds.

If you are snowballing the other team, Chambers OP would be useless which is a totally fine scenario.

Imagine losing to a chamber playing with an operator and then he also can use an even more stupid weapon to dominate you even harder.

OFC they will cause they are getting the slots maybe? Are you sure the same would happen if they don't get slots?

Honestly, I won't comment on the situation but you are giving Keznit too much benefit of doubt.

How do you know about keznit's life experiences? Where you there watching over his entire life? It is reasonable to believe that any person above 14 years of age knows what racism is and knows at least the basic slurs. Especially if you are competing in eSports.

Also, come out of your NA bubble. People in other continents know the basics of multiple languages. Especially if you lived in one of those countries. Personally, I am from India, but I know what slurs Indos use against Filipinos and similar stuff. Most people are multilingual or at least partially understand other languages.

I don't know if all the servers you get contain people with positive vibes and supportive in general. In video games, it is quite common to find an extremely racist/sexist/homophobe/islamophobe guy in 1/10 games.

You guys putting the narrative that a person playing video games never came across such racist slurs being used is just too far-fetched especially when a lot of Brazilians here (and in general a known fact) that certain white Argentinians are racist against Brazilians.

Lets see who will cry after Korea does not bring in viewership for Valorant in these next 4 years and we see teams like Damwon, Maru and Onslayers loosing to debuting teams in LCQ while DRX chokes internationals.

The difference is one of the teams came in and had a good win while the other talked a lot of trash and lied about scrim results and got owned by BOOM when they were having a relatively rough period.

India and australia actually share one and it is that rubber has the same meaning in both the places.

Its a indonesia vs Phillipines game. Technically it is an international game but its from the same region.

When translating Ji Ji translates into Chickens on Google Translate. In reality its a slang for penis.

You are too obsessed. Just registering for a tournament does not count as competing lol. In fact, so many pros are so wrong in the way they scrim. As I mentioned before, WRONSKI who had the EU/NA attitude of scrims had his ass handed to him in APAC despite (winning scrims?).

Send your VLR or liquidpedia player profile if wanna talk about competing experiences. We can all analyze if an average immortal joe competing with friends really can match professional teams.

I can also bet that some APAC female teams are actually really good, unlike their NA/EU counterparts. Just watch Eneri from AECL play for example. She would slot in perfectly well in T2 APAC scene and possibly even in the T1 scene if she plays with T1 players regularly (which she does at least in ranked). AECL also scrims against male teams and possibly that is why they are so good.

its also always you Indians talking so confidently

Just as I thought, you just generalize bunch of people. My takes are limited to myself and does not represent a single person except myself. Love how you just threw in the fact that I am Indian just to show that you might actually be a problematic guy.

dunning kruger effect

What do you know about the dunning kruger effect? Do you believe the popular narrative that social media propagates? It's not really what you think it is Do some research before you use such terms.

Just shut up. You don't even know how Asian teams usually scrim. In fact your concepts of scrims are just like WRONSKI who got his ass kicked in APAC.

Just for an example, DRX is very dominant in scrims against PRX, while many would argue PRX is the better team overall.

You don't scrim to win. You do scrims to get used to how you play as a team, try and test strats and improve you calls as an IGL/coach..

Are you braindead? Scrimming is not ranked.

You don't grind your way up in scrims. You scrim teams because you want to test set plays and maybe try strategies.

Sometimes teams want to scrim against bad teams so that they can test if their executes work or not. If they always scrimmed against good teams comparable to themselves they would never have a strat book. They would hide strats in scrims as well. They would never try and experiment with anything.

Do you not know why DRX never scrims against other Korean teams? I think PRX does not as well.

At the same time the weaker team has a chance to play against better individuals and get better against their strats.

First I thought you where just a generalizing idiot but now it seems you don't even know how these teams work and just braindead in general.

All of that text just looks like you are trying to sound politically correct.

What if OG is quite good? If they were scrimming Maru then they might have scrimmed dozens of other SEA/KR/JP teams before as well? They never complained? Also, the girl clearly mentions that they scrimmed Maru before.

If OG was really bad in the first scrim then Maru could have denied wanting to scrim the the second time upfront. Instead they said yes and the breaking deal was realizing they are a female team.

It's just cringe how you automatically assume that a team should not even be in the scrim pool just because they are female.

Also, Asia does not have hundreds of teams where you can have different leagues like pracc. Korea for example only has 3-4 good teams and the rest are just amateur teams. Even among those, Maru lies on the lower end of the spectrum. Why do you think that you can compare the situation in Korea and EU?

IDK what to tell you but there are PLENTY of teams in the scrim discord group. Moreover gatekeeping just because of separate leagues is really stupid. They play the same game at the end of the day.

The whole point why Game Changers is far behind is because they don't play against men and only play against weaker female teams like them. Now you want to deny them the possibility to even scrim male teams?

Yes I don't find anything really sexist about the chat and I think Maru has the rights to decide which teams to scrim before LCQ but in the general scenario female teams SHOULD be allowed infact encouraged to scrim male teams.

OG is a top 8 APAC female team and their male roster has shown to be one of the best in SA. It does not surprise me that they are in there.

I live on the same planet as Uzbekistan and M3C is a team I don't hate