There is a difference between a culture taking parts of foreign culture, adapting and integrating it into their own, and being forced to take parts of a foreign culture (while your own just has no need for it currently since it isn't causing issues).
Wishing for "western culture" (not that you can even define such a thing currently) to be template for all other cultures is just plain destructive.

That isn't exactly relevant for this situation though, assuming there would be someone mentally ill enough to consider causing harm to players then having to travel to the event really isn't gonna be what stops them.

The reason its "dumb" is because you NEVER put money on Guild in a big event; qualifiers theyre unstoppable but as soon as stuffs on the line guild becomes a coinflip...

(Guild still win this though, i need more barbarr cam)

"BuT baITiNg ANd "TraShTAlK" bOoST vIEwerShIP"
People sharing their enthusiasm and supporting their team is great, but sadly way too many people here result to putting down other regions instead of finding reasons why their own is great and deserves the hype.
In all honesty I'd (/imma) just avoid this forum till the event is over, you're just not gonna have fun

ye especially rough since fpx is a team that heavily anti-strats
just unlucky

FPX is a anti-strat team that changed their comp up week to week -> you cant antistrat them yourself
This worked amazingly in a weekly format like you had in EMEA since there was prep time, but is def pushed to its limit when you only have 1-2 days to prepare.
We'll see if them having a full roster is gonna help them out.

He's on Alliance so same level as baddyg currently (though idk if theyre gonna stick with their full Danish roster after that amazing stage)

Unlikely that they can shut them down the same way. They did the 100t vs yay and that's not gonna work when your opponents are the ones running at you.
Super duper slow vs aggro is gonna make for a fun game. (Also i wanna see more Barbarr cam ngl)

The brackets being terrible is just a result of them being a random draw; the more clauses they add the more they're gonna get accused of favoring certain regions (for example by switching drx and guild to limit eu eu matchups -> screwing prx over by putting them into a historically bad matchup)

Drx becoming champion would be a nice change of pace with the current region wars
7/8 accuracy

The problem with using KRÜ to gauge LEVs performance is that they're 2-1 down in series wins against them this stage (2-0 during play-ins, 2-1 during week 3 and then 0-3 during GF) despite having both of KRÜs former coaches (aka info galore).
That being said they have cracked players, a proven coach and time to actually scrim emea teams and adapt to an international meta, so I'm looking forward to seeing them do damage vs the "favorites".

ye sorta why i pointed it out^ xset looks super promising and should make for some fun af matches

The great thing about optic is that they're a team that can bounce back during a tournament; that's the reason so many analyst settled for them over teams like fnatic (who we've yet to see lose so we have no idea how they'll be able to react) or xset (though i feel like we have guard to thank for pretty much no one predicting them)

now now Brexit didn't physically split the continent yet (that's coming next year dw)

just dont be on his team in ranked and youre good

The schedule is pretty good tbh from an "organizing" standpoint
Since Riot wants less than 4 games a day (for example during Apac playoffs people were complaining about viewer fatigue on twitch) what we have now is pretty much the only option to get the whole thing into 4 days without having teams play 2 series a day.
(Adding a 5th day would solve the extra day drx/xerxia have over their respective opponent atm, but still would leave it "unfair" in terms of prep time between the 2 separate groups)

Yea, due to the lack of helpful answers, imma make a quick build for you too;
this is based on the German market (since I know the shops here and because pcpartpicker doesn't have a Croatia for whatever reason)

For 800€ you can get a full "low budget" current-gen pc
https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/fMsNv3 for example (like ofc you're gonna have to look what sellers locally have, but for a general idea)
The i3-12100f is the current budget King of cpus, finally replacing the 3300x (if those even existed)/10100f
And for the gpu I just went for the cheapest rx6600/ rtx 3060 i could find (i should note technically the 3050 or even the 6500 xt are options, but since both are slower than even the 2060, I'd avoid them if possible budget wise).
The power supply is also on the low end, but I don't believe in overspending on a higher-end one with the hopes of needing it in the future when you're on such a low budget.
And the rest is just standard stuff with the case being a cheap af 50€ thing cause it at least cools the pc. If they already have old pc parts use them here!

Now you'll notice that my recommendation is spending a lot more on gpu than cpu despite, as Azzlack correctly noted above, Valorant being a cpu intensive game. The reason for that is that based on my experience, the 12100f can handle 1080p 120fps Valorant without any problems (with the 1% lows being at ~130 on my friends system), so you might as well get a proper gpu for other games.