Vtuber group

Hololive is creating a new gaming/esports-focused brand called Holizontal, they chose to partner with Riot to promote the brand through a VALORANT Showmatch

Probably the first actual time both brands come together in the form collab promo

Hololive is a Vtuber Agency

CrossFire has announced a new Seat System coming to the 2024 Chinese League

Coincidentally the Chinese League for VCT is gonna be next year as well, looks like the arrival of VCT CN does warrant CFPL to start moving

For starters CrossFire introduced franchising in 2019, a cost of $1.5M grants the owner entries to the PC and Mobile league together.
However since then they werent able to draw any new buyer and only two new buyer happens by replacing those who left

Considering VCT China has a Buy-in, but is surely much cheaper than CFPL + potential Temporary Seat, no wonder CrossFire has to made this change to try counter VALORANT

Specially CFPL has already loses out in Heat Number because VALORANT encourages Costreams

(Meanwhile CS still stuck with Perfect World's small scale league, which was the most of publisher effort coming out of PW)

TLDR: CS1.6 clone to improve their esports to try counter VALORANT Esports

inb4 Kamet0's KC vs Gotaga's M8 became most watched match in EMEA Next year?

both influ capable of hosting a French Expo for the team alone and can filled the stadium

You get the same exact organizer that runs the LPL. I would expect nothing less

LPL will clap LCS
yes I dont talk about VALORANT

Appears to be 3280VP, this is for a reason

in China VP conversion ratio set by the publisher is more expensive, CN Server sets that 1 CNY = 10 VP. While the rest of the world is 1 CNY = 12 VP.

Therefore because VP is set more pricier by the publisher, they have to dropped the VP Cost of everything to be much lower to off-set this

TLDR; This cost you $46 in CN SV, what's the price in other regions?

Pretty much similar setup (standard?) for all regions

a Small Snippet was shown ahead of today's opening match

The Venue is an art hall, so its not that really large. It did sold out all tickets however

Brazil won for two years and the only country to beat China at Worlds. At one point you have Brazil, Russia, NA, EU competing

nowaday five regions left: China, Vietnam, Philippines, Brazil, EMEA

a Short teaser was shown, presumably this might be the backstage of the venue

The remaning 4 teams will compete on July 13-16 with 1 BO5 every day to determine the Champion of CN Qualifier, plus the last spot is yet to be determined

Qualifier ends in the 1862 Art Hall, the same place they held the Server Launch announcement a month ago. Capacity sounds like its doubled of SCARZ Watch Party in a theatre which already sold out

The last 4 days is a single BO5 every day and moves into a Crowd Venue at the 1862 Art Hall, around a few hundreds of capacity

So many players logging in so much servers down and now has queue, shows that theres way more than enough interest.

Their Chaohua/Super Talk seems very lively as well on Looking for parties.

Please finally so mainland players can moved on from CF

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Champions China Qualifier Trophy

Did I have a weird link? let's try it again on weibo
https://weibo.com/5769645168/N9pwj2Yan

idk yet, its not the 100vp that were talked for sure that pic was a test server. I would assume standard knife price tho (then tuned down to matched China exchange rate that was lowered than the rest).

or 9AM China on July 12 yep

Standalone Launcher client for VALORANT Chinese Server
Generally Tencent game titles is being accessible/login/launched through either WeGame or Tencent Gaming Buddy (think both of these as Tencent's Steam/EGS)

Also unlike other games, QQ or WeChat dictates the server you played and users from both login type cant be queued or searched each other. Here in CN VAL both will be under the same server and can play together eitherw ay

Riot CN choses to create a standalone launcher for the VAL CN server which includes more built-in features only seen in this client, including

• dedicated Player Stat Record page
• Strategy Page contain curated Video content guide of the game (most Tencent games will also include Curated guides made by Content Creators)
• dedicated Chat Room that looks like Discord but jumps straight out of the launcher
• Esports section to watch ongoing tournaments, highlights and replay directly
• lastly the recording tool that most of you loses mind over it few weeks ago

I don't play VAL, but tell me are all these not in the global client that we have at all?

Note that 100vp is an incorrect value, it was on the Tournament server everything is 100 there

It is expected in Tencent fashion to do this (or generally Chinese Server in general) especailly in this VALORANT Context.

surely Riot doesnt want to be beaten by 15 year old game called CrossFire (like CSGO and OW, where both unable to topped a 2007 game numbers) You had to go in there with more stuff to keep up with CF

Next Asian Games is 2026 in Japan
This year's edition has 8 games (7 because Hearthstone)

I guess a lot of EN people wants to watch party CN, TJ went on to open up email applications for Watch Parties. Which is a good thing

Official List of Games to enter this year's conference is announced

Tencent has their own Esports Business Summit every year, but also a platform for all Tencent-ran esports to make announcement or updates about their competitive scene. This is generally meant for the China National Scene but International event is being talked from time to time

This year is the first time since event's inception that Tencent marketed this event in English, had schedule in English, and even a Youtube stream. All of which never happen before

July 14, specially these games segments starts from 14:15 Local time (other segments takes up the morning timeslot)

The event promised TWO NEW ESPORTS SERIES, which coincides with two new games being added to the showcase. This and their Apex Mobile clone

• You get rebates from Recharging during beta (e.g. Recharge 1000 , 140% meant you get 140% of that in return on Launch)

• I dont think you can changed away from Mandarin Voices/Lang on the National Version?

oh lmao so many clones
top one

same name on twitter

Within the first 30 minutes of selling

As for this qualifier tickets only available for the last 4 days of the tourney

July 13/14 - 98/128 CNY ($13.5/$17)
July 15/16 - 128/168 CNY ($17/$23)

Not with any other country, well simply because others dont have this issue of skins getting super overpriced unintentionally

Pretty much, what they do is China has a different Currency to VP Rate
but because of that everything gets over-expensive, they fixed by dropping VP cost of skins to bring this in line

They dont really mentionoed but expect to be lowered in VP

For example Nebula Phantom instead of 1775 is now 1390VP on Chinese Server, but when compared on the recharge rate

Hong Kong's 1775VP = $142 HKD ($18)
China's 1390VP = 139 CNY = $150 HKD ($19)

$1 difference, if China kept same 1775 instead of paying $18 for a Nebula Phantom, you paid $24 instead

PRIME 2.0 now cost 5160 instead of 7100
and Xeno is now 5560

Context: The recharge rate to refill VP in China is very different, 1 CNY = 10 VP. While closest counterpart, Hong Kong is 1:13

This caused massive heat from the netizen because it meant skins and bundle in CN Server under this rate can be as far as $10-20 more expensive than the global server if it costs same VP as Global

the fix? They adjusted skin price to cost way less VP
but with the 1:10 VP exchange rate meant instead of $20+ pricier, now only $1-2 pricier

Global still cheaper than CN, but this was made so that CN isnt unreasonably $20+ expensive than Global.

This year's Tagline is called ONE MORE

Coincidentally Fnatic need ONE MORE trophy to Grand Slam this year by winning every All 3 Global LANs (Lockin Tokyo LA)

Watching CN = need to think from CrossFire perspective
instead of Traditional VALORANT

CN is less transparent, skill dots are on the center of player bars

Instead of Red X-Rays, they used Yellow instead which is common for CN Games or even Animes to replaced Red Colors

This is also evident by PUBG's Green Blood changes

W

that match is Indo (ONEUP) Production vs China (TJ) Production

just realize this+tomorrow is a bonus matchup organizing-wise
(Chinese Qualifier is kicking off in 2 hours and will clash with Ascension)

Get ready for TJ Sports Production
now we have LPL level production on VALORANT

Yes, they are doing crowds but only for the last 4 days

• Shanghai 1862 Art Center which is the same venue as the Chinese Server Press conference few days ago

July 13/14 - 98/128 CNY ($13.5/$17)
July 15/16 - 128/168 CNY ($17/$23)

TO PREVENT SCALPING/RESELLS

• Each account is limited to 2 tickets per session
• Each Tickets will be tied 1-to-1 to your National ID Card Number
• When enter the venue the ticket holder must bring their ID Card that is only the exact match to the ticket you hold (so scalping dies here because you cant sell to anyone since it locks to your ID ???)
• As for non-Mainland citizen you can use travel permit (for HK) and Passport (for TW)

The recording tool that is for CN Server

• Currently in Limited Beta
• Automatically records when a match start if you're enabled this feature, can be paused or stopped
• Has a ready to scan QR code that when scan it can be shared to QQ, WeChat or be watchable on mobile
• Beta has a Free provided 1GB Cloud Storage that can stored around 20 games, and stores for you for 30 days
• 1080p60 maximum

I'm already with TL, news report is just what I do on twitter generally, I just happened to paste that here

I've completed everything about the CN Conference AND ASCENSION IS STILL GOING ON WITH TECH ISSUES

National Competition is the name

Common to Tencent they usually held a Grassroots Level Major for their game, which piles open qualifier / provincial level / college and internet cafes together in what would be equivalent to a 3rd/Open Division. Teams can qualified either through Internet Cafes, College, or as a Streamer Team compete through event hosted by each Platform, or through PREMIER (Yes China will have PREMIER feature)

This is not the Chinese League but is comparable to either as a Challenger Step OR a 1 step below Challenger.
This is because Tencent loves to split between 2 options

• National Competition >> 2nd League >> 1st League (seen in Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile and also Wild Rift)
• National Competition >> 1st League (just like VCL>VCT)

Anyway Tencent conference in two more weeks hopefully we hear more about VCT China

Summary

• Launched officially July 12th , starts with 16 Agents and 4 Maps, but hopefully if all things possible all agents/maps will be there

• CN Server will have synced patch with the rest of the world

• CN has an exclusive Melee Weapon that is a limited giveaway to 500 random users in the show

• The Built in recording tool everyone talks about

• China National Competition tourney, which allow players to qualified from either In-Game PREMIER, Netcafes or Streaming Platforms. This is equal to a 1 step below Challenger for China

• Additionally the Netcafe privileges will be made in China too, a list of agent unlocks and 10% XP Boost

• They had their own Creator Content/KOL program called VIP (VALORANT Important Person)

• Nothing about VCT China yes, just a formal welcoming because Tencent has its own all-Esports Summit in 2 Weeks, of which VALORANT will be there.

Netizens reaction for the entire show is demanding changes to 1:10 because it made CN people looked differently than it should by Foreigners (Context: The recharge ratio for HK Server is 1 CNY to 13 VP, in China beta is 1:10)

If you're willing to download the CN Client, and just happened to have a CN friend that can lend you an ID and Phone No which is what mandatory required over there for CN Server verification

China Server launch Press Conference from 7PM CST

I'll also be doing a thread tweet to update this as well

Offline is simply mean "LAN" which that will be streamed like Tokyo

Yes, you see it right. SIX BO5

Basically every BO5 match is the one where winning that will make you qualified for Champions.

They could not run that long, Given China making visa to US is one of the hardest among all other 13 teams. That one takes nearly a full month, while CN teams had just exactly one month left to do + need time for VISA

The event will be China's First ever LAN in Shanghai, Netizens were already demanding Ticket infos in weibo comments hence there is crowd that wants to attend the event.

• The top 8 teams from Swiss Stage (Preliminary) will faced of each other in just 4 separate single matches each being a BO3

• Winner goes to Playoffs
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• Playoffs contains 4 teams from above + 4 direct invited teams (FPX BLG ASE EDG) in a 8DE Bracket

• Only the First Round of Upper and the Round 1-2 of Lower is BO3, The rest is all BO5

• Top 3 from here goes to L.A.

• Event will be in Shanghai in an unknown venue, and will be first officially ran under the wing of TJ Sports and Riot China/Tencent

And theres even more organization aside from these 12 like even tripled of that they just not qualified.

Thats the benefit of CN Region and on top of it being a tencent ran esports