I remember u saying something about Havan Liberty scrimming both male and female teams which is definitely promising

Out of all the female teams, Gamelanders Purple really impressed me

Hopefully, wishing Skrossi the best
Definitely will be watching his matches in the APAC LCQ

I agree with BR + LAS but I just can't imagine NA + LAN

LAN is just too far behind NA that adding them to the region would just lead to the scene disappearing instead of growing

I could definitely imagine a female superteam
Not sure about Alter Ego celeste, but C9W and Gamelanders Purple definitely have some extremely talented players

Btw, I 100% support gamechangers and think it's necessary for the growth of the scene early on, but I have to ask the question: At what point will female teams become competitive with top male teams?

1-2 years?
3-5 years?
5-10 years?
Will the two scenes always be separated?

Even though all female tournaments are good for the scene right now, I think it could, ironically enough, actually make it take longer for the scene to develop because these teams will not be exposing themselves to actual T1 teams

If viewership mattered, TR would have 2 direct slots to Berlin
It's clear that Riot are not focusing on that this year

First, viewership isn't everything.
Second India is still far behind in building the proper infrastructure that KR and SEA already have, due to competing in other Riot events.
Third, skill wise, India is probably the furthest behind the two.
Fourth, China, similar to KR, is already a major region for Riot and does not take as long to develop and SA.
Fifth, chill man, Riot are doing their best and not everything will be perfect the first year (shown by Berlin seeding). I remember all the people being grateful that SA even got a LCQ slot. Where are all of those people now?

If it were up to me, I would have given SA a SEA or CN slot but sadly it isn't. At least be thankful that Riot gave SA a chance

t3xture
f0rsaken
allow
patiphan
reita
skrossi

Skrossi is unproven so it'd be unfair to rank him higher then someone

People are mad underrating t3xture, he is probably the best Jett currently competing in KR

In an alternate reality, UwU did not have to play with a substitute and; therefore, made it out of the SEA playoffs as the second seed behind Bren
This means that Group A could've been even more stacked and would have been:

UwU
VS
ACE
SMB

I can only imagine how legendary those games would have been

Should be a 2-0 for Vision Strikers
As a VS fan, we are lucky that UwU didn't make it or this would be an entirely different story

Aleksander really wanted that win

Fun fact: In the last map, only one round was won on attack between both teams

Split is such a joke

1-0 Finest
Alive too stronk

Damn, guess if Netero says Italian Pizzerias > the country of Italy, it must be true

Hopefully.

GL to BR, they have a very high chance to make it out of the group stage (100% chance if heat cosplays as Jett)

Giving F4Q an easier bracket then VS is just bad on Riot's part
Even JP's #1 seed (potentially the worst region) got better seeding then KR :/

I'll always be supporting them, even if they flop in Berlin

But SMB and ACE are both contenders for the grand final and it will be extremely tough for VS

Even Paper Rex could be a challenge since they do scrim VS a lot

No hate to BR, I know it was random seeding but...
How can I pay off Riot to give KR as good of seeding as BR?

In Iceland, both Brazilian teams got a free bye to the quarterfinals instead of #1 seeded teams from other regions while in Berlin the #1 BR team only has to beat a LATAM/JP team while the #1 KR team has to beat an EMEA team that isn't even G2

Sadge, guess VS will have to take their chances in the LCQ instead...

ikr, sadge
I think it's pretty sad that the best KR team has to beat at least 1 EMEA team (not even G2) just to qualify for playoffs while the best BR team just has to beat a JP/LATAM team

I get that the seeding was done randomly once again, but it does seem like BR was rather fortunate again in how Riot seeded the groups

Even though it does suck that Riot fucked up the seeding for Groups A and B, atleast we get to see 4 insane Jetts duke it out all in one group

f0rsakeN
cNed
Izzy
BuZz

All of them are contenders to be top 5 players of the whole tournament

I think they might have a rough time in Berlin/Champions but once they are able to form a superteam, they will be a real contender, just like CSGO

based
this thread was pretty much made to say that regions should be rated off of quality and quantity
a region is not only as good as their best team

Wish Soniqs had competed in the NSG summer champs, would have loved to see a bo5 between SQ and C9

Glad to see them back tho

Dicey for sure, but idk why people think ban was good
He consistently bottom fragged on Jett/Sage and wasn't very good at his entry role (it terms of fk/fd)

It sucks to see young talent benched but I think it was the right move

Imo KR/BR are like a tier 1.5 region and should be ranked equally behind EMEA/NA

KR has a few T1 teams, but very little competition
BR is the opposite, having a lot of competition, but very little (if any) good international teams

Thoughts?

True, for ranked the language barrier would be difficult, but I was thinking of it from more of a comp standpoint
I was imagining it as a LATAM situation, with two minor region, LAN and LAS, coming together to play for slot/s in majors

KR and JP don't, and shouldn't, share the same ranked servers

Facts
I'm confident that Riot will make major events (atleast champions) 24 teams in next year's circuit

I know it's the only data we really have, but at this point, a lot of it is as useless as scrim results

Most regions were pretty poorly represented in Iceland (due to the limited slots + bad formats) and I think the regions that flopped in iceland deserve a second chance to prove themselves

Wrote the title with this in mind, lmao

Just wondering why so many ppl are trying to compare Iceland results to now, cause it's a dumb af argument

I mean, using the same logic: if so many people say SEN are a Fnatic level team, does that mean Liquid are below a V1 level team?

Every region got better and Berlin will truly show us how the regions stack up, stop using Iceland results to predict Berlin

It's not a language barrier, ping issue, or the history between the two countries
My guess would be Riot are trying to market Valorant in JP while not having Korea, a major region for Riot already (shown by lol), discourage the scene from developing

It's clear Riot are trying to grow the Asian Valorant scene this year by giving them 5 slots at Champs (too many imo) along with trying to add newer regions to the VCT such as SA and CN, so I think my assumption is fair

Decrease the Bulldog's price
Most of the time I'd rather just buy a spectre or a marshal over it

The 20th game between GE and VLT with the highest stakes yet
Thinking GE wins this unless VLT can come back to form

1) APAC: 5 regions, with two of them being new. It will be fun to watch how well India does and whether or not China has potential
2) NA: Fun to see OCE compete and see if Order truly are better then Soniqs
3) EMEA: Some more EMEA matches, atleast we get to see MENA fair off (we kinda know they suck already though). Pretty much watching for Fnatic/Liquid
4) SA: I don't care much. LAN sucks, LAS (other then KRU/AUS) suck. Pretty much another slot for a Brazil team

lmao
Most popular Japanese player, atleast on the English side of things, is Korean

Good read. I think KR/JP are some of the few countries that can pull off a six man roster, since the players, in general, don't tend to have large egos or care about their individual stats in fear of getting dropped (unlike more competitive regions like NA/EU/BR)

They 100% have a chance to beat a KR team
If I were to rank the teams from these two regions, it would go:

1) Vision Strikers
2) Havan Liberty
3) F4Q
4) Vivo Keyd

I hope that after Champions, Brazil creates a superteam
Maybe if Immortals pull out of NA, Mibr can create one :)

True, expectations are sadly the thief of joy

Yeah, I think their goal for Berlin should be having at least one team place top 8 or above
Breaking past the top 8 will be hard though because of all of the other regions sending 'superteams' to Berlin while Brazil still doesn't really have one

Xeppa looks good and the team is looking better with Vanity IGLing
They did look a bit shaky against EG but did well against IMT

Hard to tell how good they are against T1 teams cause NRG clearly aren't one

That was NRG's map pick ;-;

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/c58030e9
VLT revenge tour

Yeah, it 100% was their own fault
Sadge :/

True
But imagine playing a Bo3 and a Bo5 right after because of this shit schedule

i want to hear their comms
it's clear that the synergy of this team just isn't there

Liquid looked better than G2 imo
It's okay for you to have another opinion, but that's what I personally <--- (Key word) think

think about it this way
heat > xand for Jett
heat < xand for skye (cause heat doesn't even play it lmao)