If its held 13-17 (Wednesday - Sunday), Other region gonna cry CN have 2 weeks lead ahead of everyone else for finishing stage 2 early.
Finishing Stage 2 on 24th mean only 1 week ahead.

cause Asia can.

China: Shanghai -> Chongqing
Pacific: Seoul -> Tokyo

Top 8 plays in Shanghai
Top 6 plays in Chongqing

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SA is literally so held back

Don't hold americas in US, find a more VISA friendly country (Maybe mexico?)

Jp valorant will actually have a chance to grow both in terms of skill and viewership

look at pre partnership JP and KR teams, KR VS/DRX was heavily stagnant, JP and KR benefit from different playstyle of SEA fast paced aggressive aim.

Na viewers already barely watch sa vs sa games

dividing NA and SA would make that worse, seeing SA teams beat NA teams would cause more interest to watch.

Asia timezone + Cn got a massive buff

current pacific + CN schedule is perfect 2 region per day exactly. EDG beat SEN sunset at champs due to having close ties with PRX. Asia ties are good, and having APAC teams in Korea reaps its benefit.

Emea will become the same

less EMEA teams in the league (12 to 8) will cause top teams in EMEA to be more dominant, Partnership era causes EMEA to decline due to many competition, the mid table are causing the different representation for each internationals. Top EMEA teams would prefer less teams to be more consistent and keep it winning form instead of fluctuations.

Overall the SA visa issues mainly with americas hosted in non visa friendly country to those less developed, even bren said in platchat to consider change location for VCT Americas. Leo Faria said ascension can't be hold in US cause BR teams would need 7 months on VISA application. This year in specific many casters/analyst does say Pacific recent dominance is due to having many different playstyle, and it all stems from APAC aggressiveness, KR utility macro, diff comps and the benefit of scrim CN teams in the region. Splitting Asia would reverse the effects of those benefits in which sent Asia back to pre partnership era.

#3

EMEA is weird cause only turkey got integrated to EMEA, no CIS (unfortunate) and MENA region org. Tier 2 is a mess but the top EMEA org benefit heavily and benefit by being more consistent due to less teams. Having stacked EMEA teams (12) will create different representative at internationals, which is why EMEA was better pre partnership instead of partnership era.

#16

that issue with US being a non visa friendly to countries who aren't "first world countries" . A more concentrated South America specific league would just turn into Japan, won't be great internationally unless a LOUD superteam was formed. Venue relocation is better solution. South American teams scrimming NA teams is better for development like pacific and CN.

JP teams benefit competing with SEA teams.
Top SEA teams benefit by competing against KR teams.
Dividing SEA and East Asia will hinder those growth.
CN located in Shanghai, it'll only benefit CN & East Asia, not APAC.
Centralizing every pacific teams in Korea benefits everyone in asia.

• 6 regions, 6 production team, 6 studios/venue, 6 countries bank accounts, 6 import player VISA issues.
• Dividing APAC and East Asia... well looks like Pacific competitiveness goes back to pre partnership era. RIP Pacific dominance.
• PRX will monopolise APAC international slot like VS/DRX era and JP teams will get farmed by KR teams. SEA and KR teams will be stagnant.
• South American teams will never gonna improve unless playing in NA and scrim NA teams.
• Viewership will drop massively for non NA & EMEA region. NA viewer won't bother watching SA and APAC fans won't bother watching East Asia.
• Region matches gonna overlap another in Asia timezone (3 region playing).
• This entire idea will massively nerf asia and South America ( CN/EA/APAC) and heavily benefit EMEA & NA only.

XETA

Udotan.

top teams for multiple years

• Being a korean in non VS/DRX pre partnership era makes it impossible (example C9 Korea). With KR 1 international slot, Munchkin literally have to move JP (Crazy raccoon) and NA (T1 America) just to make internationals.
• With partnership era T1 (2023), it was assembling roster without much synergy, able to make all internationals (2023) but he literally had issue/disagreements with b*n and assistant coach stunner.
• 2024 is when you could say Munchkin got his first stint at "top teams" considering his past career, even meteor had to move to JP (Northeption) and endure elmapuddy GenG (2023).
• EMEA and NA had multiple international slot for international experience, but for most koreans partnership era is their beginning and "multiple years" only start now (24 & 25).

Munchkin, he IGL C9 Korea, Crazy Raccoon, lock in T1 (brief stint) and GenG. IGLing with different groups of people and his name should be out there with likes of Boaster/FNS/Saadhak. Also munchkin is a fragging IGL too.

PRX with -something +eneriii

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Log Horizon (Season 1 only).

so both GE and KOI are the most likely to get dropped from partnership 1.0 then. Who's gonna be in americas? surely 1 NA and 1 South Americas to keep it balanced.

Ideal representation:

• PRX
• GenG
• DFM
• DRX/T1/Talon (Anyone strong enough to take on other region/Not wasted slot like RRQ)

This is what giving regional fans (GE) opportunity to exist in tier 1:

3 Years Partnership
5 Split VCT Pacific League
21 Roster Moves
0 Playoffs

GE becomes the only one VCT Partner Team that has never been to the VCT Pacific Playoffs. They got their opportunity, should pacific keep giving partnership slot to GE instead of giving other org opportunity?

so... 1 masters event + 1 champs event in 1 year then with that kind of schedule. Community won't stand bo1 to accommodate that many schedule bo3 matches weekly

12 teams: 9 partnership + 3 Ascension.

3 ascension because it makes Lower Rounds 3 in playoffs more meaningful. Grand Final and Lower grand final already makes the 3 teams meaningless (since they pre much confirm), so lower round 3 will determine the final team making it to partnership.

As for partnership, 2 lowest performing GUARANTEE elimination back to Challengers, but the best performing ascended teams can re-enter ascension should they meet the playoff criteria AND based on champs pts.

• Partnership system benefit asian teams IMMENSELY. It creates a competitive environment by uniting KR/JP/SEA all in one place (removes ping issue) that allows asian team to catch up with western teams pre partnership era.
• KR location also helps with scrim CN teams in which Pacific and CN both benefit from experiencing different playstyle/experimental comps etc.
• Pacific international slot brings the best teams for international event, instead of the previous 1 KR / 1 JP / 1 SEA team representative pre partnership.

He's part of KR scrim chaebol

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Leo's return. S1mon gonna join a CN ascension team.
https://www.vlr.gg/527873/s1mon-is-close-to-joining-aq-to-play-cn-ascension/

FFs got the reaction.

GenG winning champs.

Smoggy was competing with a high fever on the game vs BLG yesterday. Hope for a speedy recovery.
https://x.com/wanshunzhi/status/1952153799071862931

https://x.com/SuzyVLR/status/1951949148560990520

3 Years Partnership
5 Split VCT Pacific League
21 Roster Moves
0 Playoffs

With DFM's success yesterday in securing the VCT Pacific Playoffs for the first time, GE becomes the only one VCT Partner Team that has never been to the VCT Pacific Playoffs.

Wasted Potential.

GE is playing in PACIFIC, region where the competition is fierce. All the players prefer to be playing in a team that users their native language for a start. Secondly there's better team out there that uses english as main comms such as PRX & RRQ, players would much rather go to those teams.
Lastly: https://x.com/SuzyVLR/status/1951949148560990520

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bring back Reita... and Takej... and crow... and barce...and laz...

its week by week.

the players are fighting to stay in next years roster.

W Asia timezone.

Asia timezone W

• VCT China hasn’t been established yet
• 1st year of pacific only started, bringing together all asia sub region (needed a year for pacific to develop and make strong roster).
• Timely Guild and m3c (Gambit) disbanded, meaning their players can be picked up for 1 strong team.
• Prime Derke (hasn’t fall off)

EMEA had the timing + Asia hasn’t developed yet.

sova/viper. These 2 agents have line-ups which means you'll never get bored when new maps are out.

Nuturn Suggest made top 3 in masters Reykjavík, babybay never made those kinds of achievements in valorant.

He got his 1 win in VCT Pacific. RIP BINBON twin.

True but that also means Ethan find a work around "technicalities" to go back on his words and not retire. EWC Valorant was announced in 2025 well after the podcast was announced.

Can’t have kr1stal and dos9 cause both imports. Kazakhstan (Central Asia) is considered EMEA.

it shouldn't cause not VCT LAN, Ethan can nit-pick off season SOOP League too in that case.

Last year Ethan said in NRG podcast if he doesn't make internationals LAN (Masters/Champs) he'd retire.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gk2uyK9A9Jw

Last years VCT CN Stage 2 playoff finals at Changsha was amazing, it was champs quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0HDXavYZ0

https://x.com/VALO2ASIA/status/1950163847438106644

The 2025 season finals of VCT Pacific and VCT CN will be held in different cities as part of their roadshow format:

CN:
• Regular season (Jul-Aug): Shanghai 🇨🇳
• Playoffs (Aug 20-24): Chongqing 🇨🇳

Pacific:
• Regular season (Jul-Aug): Seoul 🇰🇷
• Finals (Aug 30-31): Tokyo 🇯🇵

Literally c'mon do something meme moment.

Just integrate EWC to VCT and give champ pts. That would eliminate the mickey mouse excuses.

Champs confirmed to be in china.
As for masters, hopefully should be SIngapore and London, those 2 location should be getting an international event before Partnership 1.0 ended.

DFM doing well rn in pacific.