i'm a dog person bro
tough luck for that cat damn

leo is probably higher than alfajer in contention for a 2023 MVP, if there were such a thing. he had incredible impact in every one of fnatic's games. he was the lockin mvp and wasn't the masters tokyo MVP by just a hair -- it could have gone either way.

alfajer has been incredible ever since lockin, but he didn't show up at lockin. that's the only reason i'd give leo a slight advantage

so takas just doesn't exist huh

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got better shit to do than write articles about something a player said on his stream a few times. not that a forum dweller like you would know.

e: disregarding the fact you think we're going to chase after news because some vlr forums popped up on this subject, the person above said it well. it came from an official source this time, not a twitch sound bite.

no restriction on regions, just on teams from the same group

5

0-team region

EG are largely backed by PEAK6, a VC investment firm. In layman's terms: they have a shit load of money and 0 knowledge or notion of what to do with it

fixed this and above thank you both

the cycle of life and death continues

here

stars are a measure of activity, not how good or bad your takes are. if that was what stars measured, 95% of this website would be at 0 stars

that's the beauty of the internet. no reading comprehension, no knowledge of english, no brain. just mush and drool!

this is one of the funniest posts i've seen on this website lately

it's 2059. boaster has won his 63rd valorant trophy.

ange1 is 65 and has led NAVI to a record-breaking 5th-straight groups finish at Masters.

(what im getting at: dead tier 2, dead tier 1 because players are recycled. you need grassroots to build a healthy and developing tier 1 that isn't just people reinventing themselves)

tftv, overgg, vlrgg were all created by enigma

given this announcement, highly likely yes but not confirmed

here

API isn't for extracting match times. It's for extracting statistics. Best thing you will get from the API is an in-game match start time (which only comes after the fact and may or may not be accurate to the minute).

nyes

most likely assigned different seeding pools for groups. at least that's what happened for Tokyo.

i get paid in icecream sandwiches biweekly

nah bro the VLR.gg overlords only allow me to open the CMS once i see the number 13

first person in the history of the vlr.gg comments to use their brain before commenting on a match post since we started doing them

thank you kind person.

mistake i made in trying to get the article out fast. fixed now, apologies!

was meant to be a weibo tag. thanks!

uhhhhhhhhh

you use a ball and your feet.

it's football.

https://www.vlr.gg/user/portugal clears

you're absolutely right, the play-ins spot was pre-allocated and it could have gone to another team.

just came here to say you have an excellent flair sir

https://www.vlr.gg/event/pickem/1590/champions-tour-2023-emea-ascension

playoffs pickems enabled

that's cool, which holiday?

(to be clear -- tomorrow = june 27)

Tomorrow.

that's what the article means, yes. highly doubt red bull are hosting home ground between just japanese/pacific teams after what they did last year

lock//in was the replacement of split 1, not masters 1. the answer isn't starting earlier, it's ending later.

that was last year. clarified language, mb

you don't see me crying about it tho do you

Champions Tour 2023: Masters Tokyo
Playoffs – 7th–8th
$35,000

lol

sleep deprivation is a bitch. fixed, thank you

correct sir/madam/apache

personal thoughts, after all the feedback and notions I've acquired during the four months I was on top of the EMEA VCL issues

• Peak and/or average viewership are bad popularity metrics. You need to pay attention to concurrent viewers, average minute audience (not public on esports charts), and I'm half-sure there's one more statistic I'm forgetting.

• Regarding mergers

  • like you said, Iberia wouldn't function. Riot is very hands-off in these VCLs, so I highly doubt they'd force LVP to give PT/IT slots (just like they don't force the French operator to give slots to Benelux countries). It's worked in the East because Terp is great -- not the same for LVP.
  • CIS is unlikely to come back imo, you can let that idea go
  • Merging DACH with Polaris is a rough idea. DACH all play on the Frankfurt server, while Polaris play on UK+Nordics server, which will inevitably create ping disparities that will never sit right with players (win or lose!).
  • MENA can never be combined due to ping issues, scratch that completely.
  • Merging France with anyone, like some suggested, also isn't a great idea. Benelux's representation is already small, killing that league to create some form of handicapped super league will hurt France's scene in the longterm.

• iammika1999 mentioned having broadcasts in English. Bad idea for most of these leagues. There's a lot of regional/national pride tied to the VCLs, which gets stripped when you remove language-specific streams. It also kills a lot of people's jobs in favor of a hiring pool that's dried up or not large enough (english-language casters or casters capable of commentating in english for tier 2 in EMEA).

the underlying issue isn't how fragmented the EMEA VCLs. it's an aggravating factor, definitely, but the real issue is the lack of money. nobody has cash to burn, and riot have barely opened their wallets to tier 2 (they pay a small stipend to the TO to help with upkeep, which isn't even enough to cover prizes). the ERLs work in EMEA -- NLC may be in the shit but the other leagues aren't doing bad by most metrics despite slightly subpar numbers -- it's just a matter of getting a solid base built, but that requires money. and money's not really anywhere right now.

reminder that when I said the Americas had won Champions (LOUD), the entire Brazilian fanbase got outraged. They don't claim you <3

tou acordado desde as 5 da tarde do dia 10

i woke up at 5pm on june 10

as a journalist, I am ethically bound to be unbiased towards anyone. If you know anything about this website, and you should by how many hours you spend here, you know we're pretty thorough with our tier 2 coverage and have divided it according to the 2022 VCT regional divisions. articles about every region, including brazil, will come in their own time.

is it a bias or are you just a forum dweller, trembolona?

coming

more posts (activity) = more stars. that's all there is to it.

I'm incredibly sad for what happened to Twisten. My heart broke reading salah's tweets. But our work does not stop because of him. We have made a tweet in his memory, and have already discussed internally if anything else should be done.

poo

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