i used to be a big fan of valorant esports in the old days 2020-2021 mostly but i still watched a lot in 2022 but i have barely watched any of the new franchising games
there are a few reasons why this new format sucks
Elimination of regional rivalries
I feel like most of the regional rivalries besides NA/EU have died as a result. For example NA vs BR will die as a rivalry, maybe there is still a little bit of rivalry there today but they will play against each other regularly every season so it will no longer be special. Same with asian countries.
Basically it changed from nationalism to broader regions which sucks. LOUD vs DRX doesn't really represent Brazil vs Korea anymore, its just Americas vs Pacific which is kinda cringe
Removed most of the scene
NA was the most popular region in this esports and it is incredibly frustrating that all of that has been narrowed down to 5 teams. That is an incredible amount of history, orgs, and players that used to be a part of Valorant Esports that no longer are. TSM, FaZe, XSET, Luminosity, The Guard, etc. So many good players are being left out of a job and a spot in the scene and it just sucks. "bUt AsCenSiOn" is lame af, i swear if VCT kicked out TSM and FaZe but is going to let M80 in as a franchising team that will be so lame
Repetitive
Another problem with just 30 teams besides kicking out most of the scene is that its just repetitive. Masters have 10/30 teams and Champions has 14/30 teams. If almost half of teams are going to make it to Champions, we are not going to see many unique teams it will be the same teams over and over and over and over again.
Format just sucks in general
Can someone tell me why every team that qualifies to Masters also qualifies to Champions. That is the stupidest thing ever. I know there will be a few LCQ teams added, but Masters and Champions will be basically the SAME TOURNAMENT it will be so bad. Also since LCQ teams can't even make roster changes they will probably still suck in champs. The top teams will be the same as masters and i probably won't even watch. This is made worse by the fact that the circuit ends in AUGUST HELLO? just have 4 months of nothing happening great idea
Better format would have been:
Split 1
Masters
Split 2
Champions
OR
Split 1
Masters
Split 2
Masters
LCQ
Champions
not this bs
A better overall solution would be instead of having Americas, EMEA, and Pacific, make it less stale and repetitive by including more teams so have NA, EMEA, BR, KR, JP, APAC franchised leagues