Very entertaining match, new NTH looks promising as well.

Well Derke and f0rsaken has approved his talent since last year, he just kept improving as one of the young talent in Japan

I would say both since CR is famous among casual fans while ZETA is famous among hardcore fans.

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yeah that would be cool consider that he has experienced the cultural difference between NA esports and JP esports

does ta1yo joining ZETA has also bring more effect?

yeah, it's this one

https://clips.twitch.tv/CrispyCreativeCheesePoooound-FCPEjmwV1p7XySO_

https://twitter.com/valesports_jp/status/1494907657635102723?s=20&t=B_F35AZVnFSiD0CDvP7Ogg

I wish one day I could watch an International LAN without considering the timezone difference 😔

Rise of PC gaming and still an unexplored market for esports and streaming culture in general but with a huge potential for business, which also became the reason why Nadeshot is taking an interest for the JP market.

If they perform poor and then instantly dropped as a whole team this year then I'm not suprised consider how the org manage the VALORANT division.

basically yes

Well JP is still an unexplored market but with huge potential for business since esports culture is basically still new in JP, there's a reason why 100T and Nadeshot is start to take an interest for that market.

Neth is still there

But could it beat ZETA's 1.3 million new roster announcement twitter video views tho?

Looks like the second VALORANT boom in Japan has finally get to Lakia.

Looks like Japan's second VALORANT boom get into Lakia

I see, well it does make sense consider that time is also start to running out for teams who still hasn't finalize their roster.

Interesting.

Is it one of the rumoured LCK org or different?

Hopefully he get a decent team so we can finally see Lakia play a full BO3 match again.

I don't know how to feel about this, but at least we can probably see Lakia play a full BO3 now.

Thank you NA ikyoto

really good pick up, but Munchkin returning to CR is not that ideal IMO, Astell would be a better choice since he is a solid IGL and one of the ex-NTH core member, plus he is also fluent in Japanese while Munchkin is not.

+Meiy?

He is staying but as a streamer

Well there is a possibility, and Meiy can also join in for the NTH core reunion.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=297700848973887&id=103372375073403&sfnsn=mo

hyeoni join Damwon, but who's going to IGL for the team then?

Astell would be a huge pick up for Damwon but sadly we can't see him play with Seoldam anymore even though their KR synergy was part of the reason that made Northeption became such a phenomenal underdog team in APAC.

ty for the info, looks like Damwon will still be the only LCK org with a Valorant team for KR scene next year since GenG and T1 are still in NA, hopefully other LCK orgs like maybe Kwandong Freecs would shows their interest for the KR scene

Is there any sign on Hanwha Life interest for investing in Valorant? Or are they still focusing on the LCK?

Tokyo server is probably horrible for radiant players to grind since the playerbase on high elo are still considered low even with having Russian players living in Siberia on it thus making the queue time pretty long.

not only KR but the whole Asia as well

I care :)

Just let him decide what he wants to do, he wants to play in the Overwatch League at the beginning but still couldn't at that time due to age restriction in the OWL.

probably

https://www.twitch.tv/pooh1tap

he is a Vtuber now

Pray that Gambit will underestimate X10 🙏

and Team Secret saw this coming

Actually really good for the first year of competitive VALORANT, congrats for the VALORANT team in Riot. Looking forward for the 2022 season 👍

it's no secret when it comes to the Chinese potential in video game industry, having a game that is able to be fully released in China is extremely difficult but can also be really rewarding if you are having a success in releasing it there.

honestly, KR needs more good teams other than VS, and JP needs more teams like NTH in APAC LCQ that actually shows improvement in terms of gameplay and teamwork.

no need for 2 Champions, Champions is already perfect as the Worlds/TI version of Valorant which act as the final global competition to determine the season world champion.

Imagine losing to Thai players that get paid with baht instead of dollar like NA players

Imagine losing to players that get paid with baht instead of dollar like NA players

Imagine losing to players that get paid with Baht instead of dollar like NA players

all of the remaining APAC team

They probably wouldn't do it, because if they do then the LJL would have already merge with the LCK years ago, and EU & NA will only get at least 2 spots at Worlds since the gap with China & Korea is far ahead for the West. This is Riot and they took League success as their reference in building their new esports.

And still no sign of more KR org big investment in Valorant, it's just going to be bad for the growth of the KR scene in general which is a complete opposite to JP scene where more orgs are starting to invest big for 2022.