If we only get 10 teams in total, I think the best slot distribution would be:
-3 SEA
-2 KR
-2 JP
-1 CN
-1 SA
-1 OCE

lmfao, only on vlr will someone call cap on your literal ethnicity, I guess you know better, mb

I'm literally 25% French, since my father is half Korean and half French and my mother is full Korean
Doesn't change what I said :|

Jett is way more interesting to watch than Chamber and she’s also not French
Flashy Jett Knives Plays > Cringe Chamber Awp + Chamber Meta killed KJ and Cypher

They don’t even scrim their own region sadly, which hurts the rest of the scene when it comes to growth

Wow, a game from last year :0
Are Sentinels still the best team in the world too?

But getting dogged on by G2 and Guild is more impressive? My point still stands that DRX are better and have the results to prove that they are better than M3C in 2022

Are you trying to say OpTic aren’t the best team in the world? I don’t get what you are trying to prove by bringing XIA into this
Either way, using the same brain dead ass logic, DRX beat PRX who 2-0’d G2. Since M3C got beat by G2, wouldn’t that make them weaker than both PRX and DRX? (again, using your terrible logic)

Yep, and Gambit’s literally two best achievements this year are almost beating FPX and almost beating Fnatic, top 3 team 4sure

Delusional
DRX were a few rounds away from beating the world champs meanwhile Gambit can’t even take a map off of Guild

Yeah, I’m not going to act like FPX wouldn’t have been good in Reykjavik, definitely would’ve been a top three team imo
I’m just saying though that only in EMEA can you win a few domestic matches and already be declared a top five team in the world, yet teams like PRX or DRX, who performed internationally, are rarely given the credit they deserve and often called overrated

Some EMEA fans just don’t want to admit how badly teams like G2 underperformed last event, so now they have been attacking Asian teams like DRX and PRX recently and calling them ‘flukes’
I still remember that Ukrainian dude who said something along the lines of “BBL are unlucky to be playing in EMEA, they could probably qualify from any other region” or the ones who said “the EMEA Challengers will be higher level than Reykjavik”

1) Believe it or not, many teams use DRX set plays and try to add them into their own strategy book (little things like combining a Kayo flash and dart on Icebox B to the entire fast rush that teams like NiP later attempted)
2) “They have the best strategies in the world” is half true since they have by far the best set plays, they just become a little stagnant when they have to innovate mid-round
3) Name 8 teams better than DRX (and don’t hit me with this ‘M3C would destroy DRX’ bullshit)

SA and OCE do not deserve the same amount of slots as KR and JP, they deserve like 1 slot each for Order and Velocity

A major reason why regions like KR, JP, and LATAM all only have one team is that they only get one slot, so new teams aren't given a chance to get experience outside of their region and new orgs (other than in JP b/c of viewership) aren't willing to invest
Look at what BR was able to achieve because of getting more than one slot, they still have mostly mediocre teams but the region is alive due to a boom in org investment, possible due to not having to only play against a superteam like LOUD for a chance at a singular slot
I'd argue that if teams like ONS and Leviatan, who are at worst the same tier as NiP, were able to attend a LAN, both regions would improve massively in both skill and investment

If all 5 players could be consistently activated at one time, they would’ve easily won masters by now. Hell, if Rb could perform outside KR, they surely would have won Reykjavik

DRX’s Split is solid wdym, saying it’s ass is pretty reactionary as it’s always been one of their better maps

I’d put Boostio over Seven/Corey

OpTic and 100T

sunk-cost fallacy

Aproto is solid

C9 made no money in the deal

Where would you rank PRX globally right now? Do you think they are better than Zeta and DRX?

Lmfao, after every loss I see atleast one new SEN fan having the same exact epiphany

Cry

RNG 3-0 EG
T1 3-2 G2

I got my first prediction right, time to see how the second one goes

They should definitely keep him on Jett after watching that map

Pokémon Unite

NA is not the only region getting fucked

APAC will arguably get screwed over harder cause they are trying to include KR, JP, CN (?), VN, PH, HK/TW, TH, ID, MY/SG, OCE, and all of SA into one tiny league

At least in the Americas league, Riot can give good amounts of representation to all regions, but it’s just not physically possible for a region as massive as APAC

At the same time, EMEA has a much larger T2 seen than NA has ever had that will get completely thrown aside by franchising. If anything, NA is the region that franchising actually might have a chance to be effective in

Agreed, RNG are looking scary this event

Lmao, the G2 predict is possible if they regain form but I doubt EG even take a game

RNG 3-0 EG
T1 3-2 G2

Who knows though, Riot could just be reusing the 2019 script

100T and T1 both have higher chances at receiving a slot than NRG
100T participates in the LCS, has a massive fan base, has been invested for a while, been consistently good, and Nadeshot is super invested in Valorant
T1 would’ve moved to KR by now if they didn’t have a slot, participate in the LCK, and have deep ties to NSG

That could be cool

10 teams is actually brain dead, it should have been a minimum of 16 and upwards of 24 teams per region
Riot need to stop approaching an FPS like Valorant from the same perspective as LoL, we need more international events and teams

SK Gaming?

Things that I disagree with:
OpTic beats FPX, you aren’t giving them enough credit
Acend rolls current V1
Fokus beats Ghost

People also tend to make fun of wealthy corporate like orgs that spend so much money for bad results (like NYFU or T1) + people will naturally use the imports as a scapegoat

Seoul > Tokyo > HK >>>> SG
SG is by far the worst ranked experience in my opinion, servers are consistently full of racist dumbasses who do the most questionable shit you will ever see. Only good part about SG servers is that the players actually comm, but most games you have to mute at least one person

HK is about on par with the US West servers and Texas, so pretty mediocre in general, and Japanese servers are super wholesome but are kind of quiet and have a lot of baiters

I'm curious too though, how is it on Sydney and Mumbai servers?

Munchkin (Duelist)
Steel (Sentinel)
Xeta (Initiator)
Thwifo (Flex)
-pwny
+Zander (Smokes)

2 KR and 3 NA

At this point though, Xeta might be able to apply so he’s no longer considered an import, meaning that they could bring in another KR player

MaKo - I’ve improved a lot by watching his gameplay and he always comes in clutch for DRX

I would guess that it is most likely Invictus Gaming, given that they already have ties to MY/SG in other games

They’ve been falling apart after ever since their initial loss to PSG

Maybe Riot will have an Asian tournament planned at the end of 2022 since we don’t know much about what is going to happen during that period of time
Imagine seeing teams like DRX, PRX, XIA, ORDER, ZETA, VLT, ONIC G, TS, and EDG all in the same tournament, it’d be so hype (especially if it was on LAN)

We really just need more cross play between the regions

PRX, XIA, Secret, ORDER, ONIC G

A team with stax, t3xture, BuZz, MaKo, and Lakia might not work, but holy shit they would have a lot of firepower

Edit: Why would you pick neth over TENNN, neth is no where close to as good as him

When did I say that was the only reason? Obviously none of us have any clue what is actually happening behind the scene, but BuZz’s Chamber and Killjoy were both incredibly good pre-Reykjavik and they threw that completely out the window

It’s not that Astra was being played, it’s who was playing Astra for me. BuZz just didn’t look comfortable on the agent, especially on Split

Should be a DRX 2-0 unless Bazzi goes crazy