As in, Pacific + China as a single region? Never gonna happen under Riot, as far as I know.
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As in, Pacific + China as a single region? Never gonna happen under Riot, as far as I know.
They want to kickstart the esports scene officially as fast as possible. With three slots, it can fast forward the development of China's scene towards them becoming the fourth major region after Americas, EMEA, and Pacific.
With closed beta in full swing and a lot of domestic resources being poured into the launch soon, it's more than obvious. They're not an ass region for now.
Observers are part of VCT. They're a part of Valorant.
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Yes, it gives slots to the CN Qualifier for Champions.
Imo, wouldn't fit Valorant (or VCT's rather) overall aesthetic. Compare it to League of Legends, where even with the MSI and Worlds branding either leaning towards the grunge or regal, League has always been more of a "gentleman's affair" presentation, but that doesn't mean they shy away from a more casual look either; just look at their Tier 2/Academy League/Regional Leagues broadcast.
However, the VCT has always been more of a tech, grounded, and even more grunge aesthetic than what we've normally seen out of other esports. It's gritty, it's rough, and it wasn't meant to be a "high affair/class" style of presentation. Look at their broadcast assets, stage design, soundtrack choices; the VCT has a different feel and I'm glad Riot isn't forcing every one of their esports broadcasts to be completely uniform. It gives a level of freedom for each broadcast members.
Of course, this does differ from region to region (I think East Asian broadcasts still prefer the more formal look than others.)
Pacific prides itself in having regional pride. Riot Jake did explain that the decision was also part of the marketing team, which makes sense considering across the VCT's lifetime,APAC have been defined by multiple subregions vying for APAC supremacy where in the past, Americas and EMEA (maybe EMEA) doesn't have that level of competitive pride to each region.
Not to mention maybe besides EMEA, Challengers APAC was the only region that has two stages for Masters/Champions qualification, the subregion Challengers (ID, PH, TH, etc.) and Challengers APAC playoffs.
I understand. However. There are no discernable, clear information on what the updated bracket is and we are not taking any chances. For now, it'll stay as it is.
It depends.
Ninebody did change his Twitter name to TYLOO Ninebody.
Actually put it as a maybe since I actually have no idea if this is the actual result (RNG qualified) or is it basically the same format as before but with an added third place/decider match
Yep
I'm not disagreeing with you, ZETA does bring the viewership. Both orgs exudes history (since ZETA was Absolute Jupiter), but it's very presumptous to say that DFM does not have the same influence as ZETA does in the scope of the ecosystem.
Literally, it's DFM. One of the oldest Japanese esports organization.
Yeah, most likely two Acts for now. (We don't know if they're going to do more tournaments for OFF//SEASON.) There's also Epilogue that might always happen.
Yes, they are playing in Act 2. Act 2 won't be the qualification for Tokyo, but more likely for the Champions CN Qualifier in June.
CSGO isn't the main draw in China, Crossfire is. Search Crossfire Pro League. You'll see how big it is compared to CSGO in China. Perfect World fumbled the bag.
https://twitter.com/subzidite2/status/1651674648814424064?t=hRSIjdwTKOPMfPH1y9a4NQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/subzidite2/status/1649679457119264768?t=QJKsR8AFzI8pfQGyMwmPKQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/subzidite2/status/1647885872807972864?t=INTn_-Q_Npdc2YuTcXhVvQ&s=19
+1 slot to LAN host country
Are we Krafton/PUBG now?
Alphabet Bro.
Yep, but almost all Pacific Challengers league has a promotion/relegation system between Split 1 and 2.
"Detonation" is the organization name. "FocusMe" was originally the name of the separate League team that they had picked up, but ended integrating it to the brand.
FUT is originally known as Futbolist, but they ended up shortening it.
DRX = DragonX
BBL = Big Boss Layf
Awesome, thanks
How much did you lose?
Is there any confirmation on this? So I can update
fella how the fuck am i getting included i am gold
No, in fact he's the only member remaining from the old iteration of FENNEL in 2021/2022.
Eid mubarak brother, stay safe and bless you!
Article 4.1.8 of the Roster Construction Rules:
In the event of an emergency that causes the Team to be unable to field a Full Team Roster in accordance with Section 3 of these Roster Construction Rules, the Team Entity may be granted an exception, at the League Entity’s sole discretion, to add Team Members to its roster outside of the permitted Transfer Windows and Safe Harbors. A Team Entity may complete trades involving players on other VCT Participating Teams or sign new players or Free Agents to add players to its roster in order to field a compliant roster.
Note that according to the rules, a "Full Team Roster" is comprised of 6 active players and up to 4 reserve players.
In KC's case, they had registered ZE1SH as their 6th man, so it's not like they're in an emergency unlike the hypothetical situation.
He was signed as a replacement for SicK.
And I'm still advocating it now. I believe my words wasn't exactly that it won't kill competitive integrity, but I pointed out that it won't make what we had becoming worse. I know there are shortcomings (and honestly, I'm just taking the trainwreck of KC in jest. Performance in my wording isn't simply because of competitive performance; it's also about fan, sponsorship, investors that drives the teams and the league forwards.
I never take one singular factor as an end-all catch because that would miss the entire point. It's Year 1 of the Partnership program. There'll be shitty organizational decisions, shitty management decisions, and shitty rosters that will drive people insane. But waiting isn't the horrible end that you pointed it out to be.
I just want to take a example of Team BDS in the LEC. Different game, but similar (and much more established) "franchising" system from Riot. They acquired Schalke's spot in Spring 2022 after the former had financial woes. They're the hot new squad that signed rising talents and established veterans. They were 9th place; out of 10th. Same with Summer; they were even worse, last place. They were riddled with issues. Player dramas, management woes, both BDS fans and outside observers were calling for their heads, saying Riot's making a mistake of allowing BDS to get the spot and for BDS to ruin it. But for 2023, they made changes. Thoroughly. Completely new roster and management team. They were improving for Winter 2023; 7th place. They made the playoffs that split. People were excited about the changes. And now? They just locked themselves a spot in the Spring 2023 Grand Finals.
It's a bit of a different situation between Team BDS (being a new team coming into an established league) and the likes of KC, KOI, TH, BBL (new teams in a newly established league). It's Year 1. Will we see changes from them during the off-season? If they value their fans and position within the ecosystem, I think they're going to. But it's very early to tell that Partnership killed competitive integrity.
There are always shitty teams with clueless management.
Who says that? There have been rapports of Riot kicking teams out of their leagues (albeit during their early days) because of either performance results or force majeures that could hurt both their own brand and the team themselves. Coupled with the fact about the rumors on Riot auditing the teams' performance and economic stability (remember, it's not FRANCHISING it's PARTNERSHIP), there are incentives for organization to improve their image both publicly and to Riot.
I've speculated before Talon went for a Thai lineup that they might as well pick up a TW/HK roster
If anything like LoL, yeah, most likely since China has its own client and servers, any new 'official' players from Tencent should be region-locked to China only. But they could probably go the 'normal' route and VPN-bypass their way to HK servers
Not yet. The closed beta haven't even started yet. They're still using Hong Kong servers.
You're not wrong, iirc. We don't know if Act 1 is a qualification for Tokyo. People are either jumping the gun too early or know something I don't.
Unknown. We don't know if Act 1 as a qualification for Tokyo or Act 2 is
Lmao what hold on I didn't notice
Nope, these people are ranked demons.
So how does Ascension work technically? How many teams can get Partnered/Franchised?
Do the best Challenger teams in each Region move up to Ascension then have a playoffs amongst the Ascension teams representing their Region?
And then the Winner of that becomes Partnered/Franchised??
Only the Ascension Champions get to the International Leagues. So three teams for each NA, EMEA, and PAC. There are only 10 partnered teams. The Ascension teams are considered their own. After 2 seasons, Ascension Winners return to Challengers.
Each Challengers League Split 2 Champions in their respective regions move up to Ascension. For example, Pacific has 10 Challengers Leagues; 10 teams that will battle to become the Ascension Champion and move up to the Pacific League for 2 seasons.
And what if an Org is dying or can't handle Partnership (for ex. Guard FaZe etc) wins Ascension, do they also become Partnered or a different Org/Franchise will take over?
From what I remember, there will/are measures to ensure that the roster that wins Ascension to either not poached or supported as they move up to the International Leagues. So the organizations doesn't matter if the org decided to leave; the roster/core players is the key.
What?
That was what I was told in the English translation from Alan (Chinese caster), but pretty sure someone posted a Mandarin pronunciation here
edit: Found it (字母哥)
Didn't even notice. Fixed.
Schedule changes, apparently.
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