They are making an issue out of a non-issue, the matchups were put on the board in the wrong order.
Imagine the balls were: 1, 2, 3, 4, drawn in that order.
the matchups that came out were
1 vs 2
3 vs 4

but it was supposed to be
1 vs 3
2 vs 4

So they decided that the best solution is to redraw this.

Hello, I usually don't watch Valorant, but I heard that there's an EMEA superteam right now. Where are they? I see that only Vitality is left, but they are losing to G0:2, so it can't be them. Did they get eliminated already?

Navi fan talking

AvovA back in VCT raaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

I'm sure everyone in this ascension worked their asses off, it's barely an argument. They were an underdog and got close which is respectable, but implying other teams didn't work for it is rude.

Turks sitting once again, like every international.

I never had a doubt ;)

https://www.vlr.gg/events
South Asia, Korea, Japan and Oceania have events listed

SEA VCL is missing from the site completely by the way.
https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VCL/2024/Southeast_Asia/Split_3

It all depends on the definition of tier 1, in CS it often is described as top ~10 teams in the world (in fact it will more often be lower). If we consider all of VCT as tier 1 then it already dwarfs CS because from 2025 it will be 12 teams per region (48 teams in total). The Major hosts 24 teams (which get stickers), which is still only half the size of VCT.

It depends a lot on the esport in question, at the moment teams in VCT are fine, because riot pays an insane amount to each team. This isn't even including bundle sales that boost revenue significantly. Anything outside of VCT will be tough due to the lack of viewership and tournaments.

The revenue model differs between esports, for example in CS the circuit is much more open and the revenue from in game items is absolutely massive. There's smaller orgs that managed to keep their rosters running for an extra year or even two just from the money generated by getting to the Major.

Outside of making big events, there's also the revenue model of being a "feeder" org. You basically find the next talents and get them to the tier 1 level, then you can sell their contract off for significant sums, there's an org in CS that in the past has reported higher revenue than most tier 1 teams just by doing that.

Free for apeks :)

How is he so calm through all of this, I'd be shitting my pants.

It's very simple, everything is a fluke and no one deserves anything.

because they sent all of NA players to the airport

😂😂😂😄😂😄

Another year of shitquid

It also possible he hit his keyboard while flicking back left

Tenz doing anything 4 content these days...

Won't be replayed zekken already killed one.

1 wrong, unfortunately they don't have the script, this guy does: https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/c64462df

I'm hoping that other emea teams finally lock in and stop fanatic from stealing #1 seed.

Botster

He will be dookie :(

Boaster only tied to be the best in EMEA, once fnatic get to the international stage they shit the bed.

Best seeded NA team, factually true.

Not with botster, this is cosmetic

Actually unforgivable losing to Sen, once again fnatic can't show up internationally. Regional farmers fr.

Let's be honest Group B was basically the playoffs and now it's just formalities.

USA absolute beast in esports, best region in cs and lol as well.

0 Americas in playoffs, I'm so down

Americas exposed as frauds

I won't get political on vlr, you could use some history lessons though.

This is believable, but teams is wrong, he played on a Russian roster once for 3 months 2021-08-24 - 2021-12-01. Before that he was on a fully Lithuanian team and after moved to a European team.

Lmao that's your proof? Even I understand enough Russian to moderate a chat.

Pipe down imperialist, Boo and Miniboo don't have Russian origin and don't speak Russian.

FUT clearing Vitality
https://www.vlr.gg/318927/team-vitality-vs-fut-esports-champions-tour-2024-emea-stage-1-w3

Sentinels

You have high hopes for Sentinels

You can't compare nukkye to purpo, nukkye was playing flex in giantx and purpo only plays duelist.

Nukkye died for this 😭

Even right now NA is way more toxic than the rest of flags.

TH just schooled G2

Thank you (to everyone), do you know what happens if there is a tie?

https://www.vlr.gg/vct-2024/standings

If TH wins they will have the same points as Fnatic, so who would actually get the spot?

Fan of prx

G2 best Americas team 💀

https://www.vlr.gg/event/pickem/1999/champions-tour-2024-masters-shanghai

Would be funny that after all this my LB preds would still come out well.

Projecting like crazy, NA is the only toxic region.