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Just added. And please—we're trying as much as possible. But when sometimes teams are shadow announcing their coaches (or changes), we most often NEED an official reference post.
We could always add them without it, but it doesn't help with the upkeep and historical database.
Leo literally said on PlatChat that 2027 is practically a clean slate to do whatever they want to improve the ecosystem.
We don't know what this entails. We can't assume the worst because we don't know what would the model be for 2027.
Focus on 2026 being the stopgap year. Be positive, but temper expectations on what the 2027 model could be.
You're looking at an implication where nobody don't even know what the basis is off yet.
It's not perfect, but I'd like to think next year's model is there for a reason. I won't say they fooled anyone.
We have exactly one more season of the current Partnership cycle until we refresh at the end of the 2026 season. This is meant to be the stopgap year.
Giving Tier 2 teams to qualify for the end of the year campaign while giving them stipend/compensation to last an entire competitive year (if they make it to Playoffs) means that Tier 2 isn't only fighting for a chance at an 8-month VCT campaign, but now they fight for a chance at the end of the year competition and reap another set of benefits.
Is it perfect? No, but it's clear that it's a fraction of what Riot can do in terms of preparing themselves for further Tier 2 integration for the future cycles. We'll have to wait and see for the 2027 model.
In addition, we might be seeing a return of a few of unified Challengers playoffs, because how would you send 4 teams to Stage 2 Playoffs when you have 5 subregions like Pacific's ecosystem?
Oh yeah, no, that's the actual results. TU disbanded so they never played their matches. Every game was a forfeit.
It's the same thing with Seoul last year — like, they announced it.
Only top 4 in the Accor Arena.
I did an oopsie, fixed (It's 3 am)
Had a bug - fixed! Resubmit your pickems.
Carbonara one is a good standard if you're not that confident.
I've tried double carbonara and it was cheesy.
Normal buldak is a bit meh.
It's GSL.
Liquipedia doesn't show GSL as an actual bracket, and shows it on a table format.
It's basically two GSL brackets then the actual qualification finals
No worries! It's always an interesting topic to talk about since being part of a media is either you're trying to farm content and be a bit more editorial/narrative-focused or trying to be objective with the direct questions.
I'm gonna give my perspective because I'm in the middle of tuning into the presscon too, lol.
It's not that we want to ask these 'dumb' and 'boring' questions, but those questions can have varied answers depending on the context and the person being asked. Every person is different and sometimes players have their own ways and attitude on answering them. Some are neutral, some are excited, and some are a bit more shy than others.
I'm very happy Ravish and a lot others are trying to ask some more questions with levity and lightness, but consider that for those who are part of news outlets (traditional and/or gaming centric), they might or might not get much out of those type of questions depending on their primary focus.
Running on sleep whoops mb
7 current qualified teams from the National Competition (China T2) circuit points + 1 either DRG/XLG pending Champions
Blame Nodwin for changing the system. There were Nepalese players in the past, but Nodwin inexplicably changed the qualifying system.
It's important bc the winner of this goes immediately to the swiss stage, while the loser goes down to fight between the last swiss stage slot or go through the play-ins
CR since the start of 2024-ish have taken over the Valorant operations for DFM under CR's parent org, Samurai Inc. That's why the 2024 CR core (including Meiy and current co-HC NorthernLights) were brought in. CR handles public relations, video production, organizing watch parties and events, as well as in the production and sales of merchandise under the guise of a business partnership.
DFM previously were just recycling veteran talent and bringing in personnel from their PUBG team.
Ignoring that DFM was practically saved when CR took over their Valorant operation and slowly tries to clean up the mess DFM's old operation did (besides Melo)
The general audit cycle goes in 2027, but there's always a chance for something extraordinary like this happen that even Riot needed to step in immediately
Ascension. In the case that they placed in the same position (eg, 9-12th), Championship Points is the tiebreaker.
He meant he wants to watch them in EMEA in the future...
Not since today. KRU ended their affiliation with Oxen, and the Oxen players are given a tryout for the 2026 main roster. Oxen's HC is recruited as KRU academy's new one, and tryouts are well on their way.
Take it with a huge amount of salt. Reminder that BLEED needed a thorough amount of investigation for the decision to out them (despite them being an Ascension team) ends up happening in the first place.
The new Partnership cycle won't be in full effect until 2027, so 2026 is more of a 'last spurt' moment for any organizations to make their case either staying in the IL or potentially replacing the previous partner teams.
Not saying there's no chance it might even happen, but there's a lot of working gears behind the scenes for this to be even considered.
I could definitely be wrong but there's still some conflicting sources on my end so we'll have to wait.
It'll be based on the Championship Points placement, then the stage placement I believe, but someone could correct me on that.
No, it's still objectively. Essentially you know the background checks every Ascension winner go through? China did them early to the qualified teams so they can be sure that the orgs won't pull a BLEED or worse. After that, the winner goes through the same checks again.
Currently we're close to the National Competition Finals (essentially the end of year main Tier 2 campaign), then there will be a small break for Riot/TJ Esports to conduct qualification assessment and worthiness for teams who made it to Ascension in order for the team to be able to play in Ascension and beyond.
He has a fever, you can literally see his compress on his forehead
More stable infrastructure for a prolonged league play, the center of their esports operation, especially with their experience handling LCK.
Might be a bug, let me check
Edit: fixed
This is probably the one minor issue I agree. Talon had no hope even being a high mid-table team because both T1 and PRX have already farmed so many points from Masters and practically leaving everyone in the dust.
On top of that, TLN only were able to farm 1 point off Kickoff and an additional 3 from Stage 1 because they fell out of Playoffs early.
As brutal as it is (probably could need some reworking), Talon couldn't maintain form. That's that.
REMONTADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
usually there's a sound/music cue (the drums) but it never stopped LMAO
It was run by ZETA/Riot/Clutch-Fi and it was filled with JP's biggest Valorant streamers, it's that hype
Laz lost in the JP Showmatch Qualifiers.
Working on it
This is DRG's academy players. Under Evo Series rules, all teams that qualify for an international event must play an alternate lineup.
Most CN academies are proper academies that serves to build up players. Most of the times if they play in the NatComp (China's T2), they'll play under a different banner, but still complied/connected to said academies.
Also NatComps are usually sometimes hard to track if we don't get enough information, so most of the time you'd better off go to https://haojiao.cc for them.
When they kept misspelling crws as cwrs it's so stupidly fake, surely.
Pretty good considering his aptitude for being a pure Duelist and nothing else. Sharp aim, good instinct when needed, there were a few times where he was flexing to Tejo during that meta but he still frags the same.
Explosive player, I don't know how I feel if he was forced to flex.
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