The answer is simple. I don't know why everyone is so fucking confused.

VIEWERSHIP > COMPETITIVENESS as far as riot is concerned.

Also, they didn't take a slot away from EMEA. EMEA were given 3 last year. We just had 4 at champs because The masters 3 winner automatically qualified.

i don't know why this phrase gives me so much joy

Was it not Izzy and russz tweeting against each other a few weeks ago on twitter though, what was that about?

Bingooo

you haven't got a source otherwise you would of said. i dont want to go pro you stupid Greek poverty loser. go shag a goat

9-3 in action lol

Lol, my hero xD

Exciting to see. EMEA developing nicely so early into the year.

Agreed.

you seem overly invested and even a little bit offended that i'm telling someone that EMEA wages aren't as high as most think. You don't need to know my source, the answer doesn't matter to you either way. You will not be a pro. Quite the weirdo you are.

Sorry, can't say. What I will say is I find it extremely surprising that people think EMEA salaries are close to 5 figures a month in Valorant.

You must have some misconceptions about the world bro. 2.5k a month is higher than the national average for almost all European countries. It's very liveable, though it's not alot of money.

So pro players are still at the stage where they're just happy to get paid doing what they love. The champions skin bundle came in huge for players outside of NA, trust me lol

EMEA Tier 1 is around 2.5 - 5k per month EUR.. so convert to USD

Emea salaries aren't anywhere close to that.

Nice writeup dude. Should be an interesting season and year for vct

cool, pick one scene out of 10 years worth of franchise. niceeeeee brain

SEN won everything in NA + 1/3 international tournaments.

Your recency bias is way too fucking strong haha.

Despite not winning any international tournaments. Liquid won possibly the most domestic tournaments last year out of EU teams. Granted they were qualifying tournaments and Red bull. But does that = no success?

yeah but it doesn't change the fact that those movies are sick.

they're expertly made.

No need to get tribal over it.

Some anime is S tier. Some is total shit

Some marvel is S tier. Some is lame.

Most DC is crap. A few is S tier

Lookup The goose house discord. Large English speaking community

Comment made me smile hahah. He's not wrong

Yeah they need an igl, but you have to realise, keloqz overpeeking is not an IGL issue. This is fundamental gameplay flaw and keloqz needs to get reduce the amount of times he does that.

[A] cashing in those scrimbux from December.

Edit: then again....it's only G2

VRL soon come my friend

Might as well tattoo them on your body while you're at it

The fucking comeback. I love it

Not a single Greek player in that match :D

How do we know they get 2 slots?

Where are you seeing ro32+ is double elim?

Bruh xD

Lmao

You called it my friend!

Damn, giants are done already.

Let's go yonk!

sexy pentakill

clearly i don't know shit about heretics xD xD xD

not free for either team. I can't call it. But probs a 2-1

Clip?

And so it begins!

In your opinion after watching almost 2 full stages of open quals. Who have you seen better than the invited teams?

You know what, I'm open to being wrong. So after this stage of open quals, come back to this and lets see who from the invited teams that got knocked out of the 1st closed quals failed to make it to closed again.

BDS being the obvious exception as they're out now.

I know why you're saying that. But it's not really true.
Open qualifiers are mostly weak teams getting 13-<5d , if they can't make it to closed qualifiers across TWO challengers events. They shouldn't even be in the discussion.

If the invited team is underserving they'll eventually lose their spot anyway as tehre are 2 rounds of open quals.

I feel like whenever I see your name, I hard disagree with you. Could be you or a similar named user.

But this comment is W as fuck haha

Good luck my young gun

A win is a win. Y'all are laughing now, but T1 are getting valuable reps in before vct and should be well drilled and warmed up. Or this is utter hopium.

damn these guys are cleaning up

exactly, it's not a hard concept to grasp. it's invite to closed qualifiers, it's not like they're given an EMEA spot.

Answer to your question.

VLR users will forever say dumb shit. starved or full.

NICE NOOOOKY

Lol. When you're so wrong and still believe you're right xD

Thank you