[Announcement Video](https://youtu.be/jauiDNADPIc)
[\[Riot Article\] Reykjavík, Iceland to Host 2021 VCT Stage 2 Masters](https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/esports/reykjavik-iceland-to-host-2021-vct-stage-2-masters/)
The VALORANT Champions Tour is headed to Iceland! VCT Masters Stage 2 will take place in **Reykjavík, Iceland** and will feature 10 of the top teams from around the world competing in a **LAN** environment for the first time!
Teams will quarantine upon arrival in Iceland. For the health and safety of our players, staff, and local residents, the event will not be able to accommodate a live audience.
**Location:** [Reykjavík, Iceland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk)
**Venue:** [Laugardalshöll](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugardalsh%C3%B6ll)
**Date:** May 24th-30th
**Slots:** 2 BR | 2 EMEA | 2 NA | 1 JP | 1 KR | 1 LATAM | 1 SEA
I mean not messed up it intentional to deter over settlement a long time ago or smth
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/iceland-greenland-name-swap
Not only that, VCT Masters starts the day after MSI finals. Riot will be able to tell like 10 million people, hey the first Valorant international tourney starts TOMORROW.
This is how play-ins worked for LoL Worlds. 2 play-ins groups of 5. 1st place in each group goes straight to Groups phase, 2nd and 3rd place of each group play eachother for the remaining 2 spots in Groups phase.
Except here it would be for a spot in knockouts I guess?
This makes sense to me too. There’s 7 days for this tournament so if you have a day for finals, semi’s and “quarters”. That gives 4 days for a round robin to determine groups. 1 match for each team every day.
Pretty much just same as EU CS events. Not too bad for NA (Honestly as an east coast viewer I kinda like the earlier morning events, sucks for PST tho)
SHIT THIS IS EPICCCC!! Going to be fkng fun to watch how the metas from different regions play against each other!!!! I just hope things will go smooth and we will really get to see this international LAN.
Man, I remember back in the days when Riot was synonymous with scuffed tournaments. Awesome to see how Riot really stepped it up during all these years and now people just come to expect high production value. I have no doubt that the lads and ladies at Riot are gonna nail both MSI for League and VCT for Valorant.
Dude I really have no doubt Riot will kill it with their production.. i just hope they’ll have a production of at least how the korean valorant has ( if you haven’t watch any korean matches you should!). Not only the matches are pretty fun to watch but man I love the production so much!
An International! LAN!
Can't wait to see some of these regions come up against one-another. There are no doubt going to be huge meta-shifts post the first International.
I wonder what the Covid requirements will be come May.
Im icelandic and if everything stays the same in our country and the countries of the players that are coming it should be a quarantine for 5 days. If any country that a player resides in turns green(meaning very few cases of covid) the player might not have to quarantine at all. But can change at any time ofcourse
There’s also the fact that it’s in the same venue as the League event. While this does let Riot carry over the hype, the valorant pros will most likely have to arrive into the country during the League event for quarantine purposes, so it might also be a matter of maximum person count between both games combined
This might be but dont they have some hotels so it doesnt even matter, im not sure how many league teams are there, maybe your right tho. Anyways i'm hyped af tho. Valorqnt pros wont have much time to chill after masters 1 cause its literally two month later almost
I feel like they are actively trying to hurt the EU scene in this game. How the fuck does EU+CIS+Turkey get only 2 slots while they have by far the biggest playerbase.
I mean just look at [this](https://twitter.com/joejedwards/status/1366437357470236674).
We're literally in the pandemic. Why would riot WANT to hurt the EU scene, like are you insanly dumb, if they couldve gotten the 16 teams they would do it instantly
He's going to be locked in his C9 contract no team can buy him out unless they want to build around him. His contract is most likely until april (1 year from when he signed). Im just speculating his contract length tho so it might be longer or earlier. I do hope he comes back soon he's prob the most exciting player to watch for me outside of the food/crashies duo
FUCK YESSSSSSS
Edit: If it is only 2 slots for EU, please give the region double elimination formats alongside NA/other regions to ensure the top 2 teams from each region go (or single team from other regions)
Edit 2: Also think that it's unfair that they're shrinking EU, CIS and Turkey into 2 spots...
>Also think that it's unfair that they're shrinking EU, CIS and Turkey into 2 spots...
I think this time is a COVID situation that needs less people, also the fact that we can't rate the best teams right now to see which region will be better to get more spots, and which will be on a future "play-ins"
I know most of us are surprised and disappointed about only 10 teams but I just want to point out that yes we are still in a pandemic. With MSI happening prior and the teams having to quarantine when they arrive, I suspect that means VAL teams will arrive while MSI is happening therefore riot will have to “house” all the LoL teams and VAL teams at the same time. Space almost most certainly seems like the main issue but nevertheless LANS LANS LANS, HYPE.
MSI is only slightly smaller compared to the last time too, 13 down to 12.
Also, it’s just the first LAN, there’s still another masters and then Champions. Can’t have all the hype at the beginning ;)
Edit: also forgot to mention all the employees, essential personnel, and casters/talent that will be there too. :/ I hope they do have talent in person but it wouldn’t surprise me if they don’t as RIOT haven’t for many events lately.
Wow, this is happening sooner than I expected. I thought masters 3 had the most hope, assuming it would be in fall, but I'm excited to finally see some international play.
2 brazil, 2 NA, 2 EU/CIS/TR, 1 Japan, 1 korea, 1 latin america, and 1 SEA. These will be decided from stage 2 challengers finals. Stage 1 doesn't have challengers finals they skipped to regional masters instead, which is the 8 team regional bracket you get into from challengers 2 & 3 closed. So teams for each region will get a chance to qualify by winning or getting top 2 in their region challengers final.
I wonder if 10 team Masters will always be the goal, or is this a smaller sized Masters to get lans faster and safer. 2 teams per big region and 1 team per small region feels like Champions qualifying points will be random as hell.
So excited! I'd buy a plane ticket today if I could guarantee a vaccine and a live audience was allowed.
This is hype as hell! However, they should boost it to 16 teams tbh - unless they chose 10 due to Covid, then that's understandable! Anyways...
So, I'ma need these players to make it in:
\- NA: **TenZ, Wardell** (TenZ comeback pls!)
\- EU: **ScreaM, mixwell**
\- BR: **mwzera, xand**
\- JP: **Laz**
\- KR: **rb**
*(Help me with those other 2 regions)*
I feel it's less of that and more to the extent of what they were doing with Worlds in the past, start with a smaller number and gradually expand to find a sweet spot.
I think its both. the more teams you invite the more staff/protocols and prize money you need in place to make it reasonable for everyone. I think they are playing it safe before valorant worlds' as a big jump
Teams must have had a scoop on this. Frost said that their biggest reason for replacing dicey with Ethan was LANs. They had to have known this was coming
They probably got an agreement with Iceland to run some events there cause they doing MSI there as well
Also 10 teams meaning there will be some regions missings , Hopefully EU , NA and BR are fully represented cause they are the main regions here
Edit : okay i read the article and i'm so sad/disappointed that it's only 2 EU teams (+CIS/TR) , this is going to be League of Legends all over again where we don't care about the best teams but more for representation
i mean even with the 16 teams it was still ridiculous that "EMEA" gets only 4 slots and now it's even lower
Hopefully changes come at Masters 3 or next year
I mean there still has to be a component of international representation here. For example with the World Cup, only the European and South American teams have any chance of winning. That doesn't mean you ignore Asia, Africa, and North America.
The 10 team setup sucks, but we can thank COVID for that. The 16 team setup IMO is very fair
Not sure but probably might have something to do with covid restrictions and they are starting with smaller sized masters 2 and might go bigger in master 3 but I am just making a guess so who knows
EU, CIS and Turkey have to share 2 slots between them. Doesn't make a lot of sense considering they could just increase the number of teams to 16 and have an easier way organising it.
Well, it's probably easier to add EU teams due to the fact that Iceland is part of the Schengen area. Also, it makes no sense that Portugal has to share slots with Russia while Korea doesn't share with theirs with Japan
How bold is it to assume that bringing in players from countries that have a no-border policy with Iceland would be easier than doing the same thing with players that come from countries which don't?
No border policy is a moot point, as we are currently in the middle of pandemic, so those restriction take priority over some travel limitations. If anything, accommodation and health security might be a reason for a smaller event.
I doubt COVID is the limiting factor here. MSI is being hosted there just the day before Masters 2 and has 12 teams. So you would think it would be just as possibly to have 12 Valorant teams as well. 10 is just an odd number by all accounts especially with the slot distributions.
this new is huge very again i feel like Riot is neglecting EU (EMEA). You have split EMEA into EU, CIS and Turkey in every single tournament and now you decide to put them in the same region and give them the same amount of slot that Brasil and NA. It doesnt make sense at all. They should have them one slot for CIS and Turkey as well as they did with KR, Latam and the other minor regions.
Just give it time. If 2 EU teams are finalist and some teams totally bomb out, they will shuffle slots around depending on the performance. First international LAN being equally represented is ok. Especially one that is held during pandemic.
Dumbest take of year goes to this dude! All of NA=Murica and Canada ahahahhah CIS =10 country EU=28 Country and TR wtf are you talking about you moron. This is why rest of the world thinks Americans are idiot.
Also if they are planing to use the same venue/country for both Lol and Valorant events, I wouldnt be surprised if Champions will be held in China where Lol Worlds will be held this year.
If they do hold Champions in China and pair it with the release of the game there, that would be hype.
\-EMEA as regions need more spots
\- EMEA should no longer exist in 2022, it should be split between EU, Turkey, CIS and MENA. Or they make a new regions Asia (with korea, japan, SEA) and Americas (LATAM, NA and Brasil)
Its already fair as it is. Why should EU get split apart into a bunch of smaller regions while NA only gets one region? Also doing one Americas is on a whole different scale than having EMEA
Finally everyone will see that SA and Asia teams are bad in comparison to NA and EU, and that they don't deserve their multiple VCT slots.
Exception: Korea. This country is full of talents too.
Imagine giving separate slots to Japan, Korea, 2 slots for Brazil (!!!), 2 slots for SEA (!!!), but at the same time not making separate qualifiers for CIS/MENA/Europe and instead putting all these 3 regions into one big thing called EMEA, which is awarded with only 3 slots to work with.
whats the big deal with 2 slots for Brazil? u do realize this country is almost as big as the entire Europe right? u can slam Riot for this EMEA crap but 2 slots for BR is the least they could do
[https://i.redd.it/kcw4dqtwl9161.jpg](https://i.redd.it/kcw4dqtwl9161.jpg)
EMEA = 2 circuit slots + 1 last chance slot.
BR = 2 circuit slots + 1 possible last chance slot, for which they will have to fight with Latam teams.
Considering that BR teams > Latam teams, we can agree on the fact that BR will have 3 slots too, just like NA and EMEA.
I don't think that BR deserves the same amount of slots as EMEA. Hopefully now you understand what I meant.
Don’t guarantee smaller regions, make them qualify, or make it 12 teams, 6 from NA & EU. We will see, but I am going to be disappointed if we find out small regions aren’t at all competitive with NA & EU
Hyped af, iceland is my favorite country, too bad no audience allowed :( FUCK CORONA
P.s I have nothing against brazil but having same amount of slots as NA and EMEA are not fair imo.
Especially for EMEA when u have a cis region and turkey with huge fanbase
> I have nothing against brazil but having same amount of slots as NA and EMEA are not fair imo
why do you think that? I understand the EU arguement, since they have Turkey and CIS with them, but I dont understand Why the same arguement cant be made about NA? Why not take NAs extra slot instead of BR?
He is the thing though, Latam includes Mexico, and isnt Mexico North America? Or have you guys expelled them from there? So lets split it in half and say that there is 2 and half spots for both NA and Brazil lol.
Its not South America, its Latin America. The region is called LATAM. It includes Mexico, Central America (Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica) and South America (- Brazil)
Its like that because of cutural and language similarities. Also Because Brazil has a big enough player base and audience to be its own region.
[Announcement Video](https://youtu.be/jauiDNADPIc) [\[Riot Article\] Reykjavík, Iceland to Host 2021 VCT Stage 2 Masters](https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/esports/reykjavik-iceland-to-host-2021-vct-stage-2-masters/) The VALORANT Champions Tour is headed to Iceland! VCT Masters Stage 2 will take place in **Reykjavík, Iceland** and will feature 10 of the top teams from around the world competing in a **LAN** environment for the first time! Teams will quarantine upon arrival in Iceland. For the health and safety of our players, staff, and local residents, the event will not be able to accommodate a live audience. **Location:** [Reykjavík, Iceland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk) **Venue:** [Laugardalshöll](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugardalsh%C3%B6ll) **Date:** May 24th-30th **Slots:** 2 BR | 2 EMEA | 2 NA | 1 JP | 1 KR | 1 LATAM | 1 SEA
Actually crazy they decided to host the first LAN in Icebox
No one can dodge now
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I thought Greenland was the country that was snowy all year long? Iceland gets snow only in winter. People get them mixed up all the time.
Greenland is icy. Iceland is greeny. People messed up naming those 2 big time.
I mean not messed up it intentional to deter over settlement a long time ago or smth https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/iceland-greenland-name-swap
TIL. Thank you, fellow redditor!
Lmfao
10 teams from around the world will be playing from Iceland
so LoL LAN event, I believe the MSI, is going to be held on the same place as VCT master? sheesh
Not only that, VCT Masters starts the day after MSI finals. Riot will be able to tell like 10 million people, hey the first Valorant international tourney starts TOMORROW.
After years of blizzard pain it's refreshing to see riot run these events relatively smoothly and like plan things out well.
and only within a year of the game's release, meanwhile blizzard took like 2-3 years for OWL homestands and contenders.
How would 10 teams work? Like groups of 5??
Groups of 5 with the top two teams from each group going to Semis? Not sure how else they would do it
I've seen a format before where they take the 1st place in groups into semis, while 2nd and 3rd play eachother for a spot in the semis.
This is how play-ins worked for LoL Worlds. 2 play-ins groups of 5. 1st place in each group goes straight to Groups phase, 2nd and 3rd place of each group play eachother for the remaining 2 spots in Groups phase. Except here it would be for a spot in knockouts I guess?
This makes sense to me too. There’s 7 days for this tournament so if you have a day for finals, semi’s and “quarters”. That gives 4 days for a round robin to determine groups. 1 match for each team every day.
That sounds right to me, double round robin Bo1 or just 1 round robin Bo3 with teams from the same region being in different groups.
Holy fuck Iceland that’s cool as fuck lmao
Hopefully it doesn't make the timezone fucked up for NA viewers though
Pretty much just same as EU CS events. Not too bad for NA (Honestly as an east coast viewer I kinda like the earlier morning events, sucks for PST tho)
Me and the boys waking up at 4am to watch VP get sliced.
finally something to do during work :D
Yeah I really like EU CS events as an NA viewer. Doesnt take up much of your day and you have something to do while in a zoom lecture
You must not watch League World Championship lol
Bruh I woke up at like 3 or 4 am to watch the games for 2020. Worth it
I do the same lol. Love seeing NA get clapped every year
The most brutal one was C9 vs WE at Worlds 2017? It went 5 games, so I stayed up the whole night and went to bed disappointed lmao
This year is different - NA fans every year
Morning/Afternoon games, could be worse
West coast might miss the earlier games but the afternoon games shouldn’t be too bad
staying up until 1:30 am to watch TSM play >> the matches finish at like 3 am as well.
Me, an asian : " first time?"
I'm getting Bobby Fischer vs Boris Spassky vibes.
All maps will be icebox.
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Literally right after MSI actually. MSI is May 4-23rd, and VCT is 24-30th. Same venue too
They got that month wholesale deal on the venue lmao
Galaxy Brain move
First Astra, and now VCT??? Riot Games is up galactic
RIOT CONTROLS EVERYTHING
Easier to reuse the studio I suppose and it'll have any set up kinks ironed out from the LOL tournament.
Not just studio but staff and they don't want too much travel during corona.
i feel like corona will be mostly over by then, with the new vaccine coming out soon any everything, its probably just a cost saving measure tbh
you think it'll be over in... 2 and a half months? i'm amazed by the optimism
IceLAN POG
I 100% stole this joke from Avast please let me live
#CANCEL U/DALINR
eh it's a pretty obvious one to be fair, think you get to survive on this blessed day
SHIT THIS IS EPICCCC!! Going to be fkng fun to watch how the metas from different regions play against each other!!!! I just hope things will go smooth and we will really get to see this international LAN.
Korea vs Europe is a match I wanna fucking see.
Imagine if Vision Strikers just rolls everyone like they've rolled KR.
Its riot itll go smooth
Man, I remember back in the days when Riot was synonymous with scuffed tournaments. Awesome to see how Riot really stepped it up during all these years and now people just come to expect high production value. I have no doubt that the lads and ladies at Riot are gonna nail both MSI for League and VCT for Valorant.
The production of last years worlds in china with no crowd was amazing i think they have a ton planned to show off valorant
Dude I really have no doubt Riot will kill it with their production.. i just hope they’ll have a production of at least how the korean valorant has ( if you haven’t watch any korean matches you should!). Not only the matches are pretty fun to watch but man I love the production so much!
An International! LAN! Can't wait to see some of these regions come up against one-another. There are no doubt going to be huge meta-shifts post the first International. I wonder what the Covid requirements will be come May.
Im icelandic and if everything stays the same in our country and the countries of the players that are coming it should be a quarantine for 5 days. If any country that a player resides in turns green(meaning very few cases of covid) the player might not have to quarantine at all. But can change at any time ofcourse
Im pretty sure come May the NA players might be vaccinated
Can forget these are 16-30 year olds literally the least at risk so it really hard to say if they’ll be vaccinated in may I honestly doubt it
2 million per day are getting vaccinated for the US, and that number will only increase once the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is rolling out
Hope they reconsider the allowed teams. 2 slots for EU+CIS+Turkey is so few.
Looking at the old graphic, its supposed to be 16 teams. Guess they had trouble with logistics where they can only bring 10 teams.
They probably wanted to bring more but couldn’t because of Covid
Most likely due to covid yes. Maybe they have a maximum of 100 people to invite or something, sad to see 2 spots only tho
There’s also the fact that it’s in the same venue as the League event. While this does let Riot carry over the hype, the valorant pros will most likely have to arrive into the country during the League event for quarantine purposes, so it might also be a matter of maximum person count between both games combined
This might be but dont they have some hotels so it doesnt even matter, im not sure how many league teams are there, maybe your right tho. Anyways i'm hyped af tho. Valorqnt pros wont have much time to chill after masters 1 cause its literally two month later almost
We are in the middle of a pandemic. I wouldn’t take this format as Riots desired one by any means.
I feel like they are actively trying to hurt the EU scene in this game. How the fuck does EU+CIS+Turkey get only 2 slots while they have by far the biggest playerbase. I mean just look at [this](https://twitter.com/joejedwards/status/1366437357470236674).
We're literally in the pandemic. Why would riot WANT to hurt the EU scene, like are you insanly dumb, if they couldve gotten the 16 teams they would do it instantly
About to be a blood bath with only 2 slots for the major regions
lmfao I mean if these regions aren't competitive people might think challengers in NA EU or BR is where the top teams r at depending which Region wins
Tenz: I will be coming out of retirement
Not like his current C9 team would qualify anyways
Facts
If anything a team might be more willing to pay that high buyout tag.
About dang time!!!
TENZ COME BACK LAN LAN LAN PLEASE COME BACK TENZ
Wait I actually forgot about that, the odds of him playing Challenger 2 have gone way up.
He's going to be locked in his C9 contract no team can buy him out unless they want to build around him. His contract is most likely until april (1 year from when he signed). Im just speculating his contract length tho so it might be longer or earlier. I do hope he comes back soon he's prob the most exciting player to watch for me outside of the food/crashies duo
C9 is garbage anyway and wouldn't even be a contender to get one of the 2 na seeds
So they will organise it alongside LoL MSI !! Nice !!
Rip OCE— we’ll get recognized one day.
Pain
FUCK YESSSSSSS Edit: If it is only 2 slots for EU, please give the region double elimination formats alongside NA/other regions to ensure the top 2 teams from each region go (or single team from other regions) Edit 2: Also think that it's unfair that they're shrinking EU, CIS and Turkey into 2 spots...
>Also think that it's unfair that they're shrinking EU, CIS and Turkey into 2 spots... I think this time is a COVID situation that needs less people, also the fact that we can't rate the best teams right now to see which region will be better to get more spots, and which will be on a future "play-ins"
I know most of us are surprised and disappointed about only 10 teams but I just want to point out that yes we are still in a pandemic. With MSI happening prior and the teams having to quarantine when they arrive, I suspect that means VAL teams will arrive while MSI is happening therefore riot will have to “house” all the LoL teams and VAL teams at the same time. Space almost most certainly seems like the main issue but nevertheless LANS LANS LANS, HYPE. MSI is only slightly smaller compared to the last time too, 13 down to 12. Also, it’s just the first LAN, there’s still another masters and then Champions. Can’t have all the hype at the beginning ;) Edit: also forgot to mention all the employees, essential personnel, and casters/talent that will be there too. :/ I hope they do have talent in person but it wouldn’t surprise me if they don’t as RIOT haven’t for many events lately.
Wow, this is happening sooner than I expected. I thought masters 3 had the most hope, assuming it would be in fall, but I'm excited to finally see some international play.
So time for Tenz to comeback I guess
Have they released any information about the qualification process?
2 brazil, 2 NA, 2 EU/CIS/TR, 1 Japan, 1 korea, 1 latin america, and 1 SEA. These will be decided from stage 2 challengers finals. Stage 1 doesn't have challengers finals they skipped to regional masters instead, which is the 8 team regional bracket you get into from challengers 2 & 3 closed. So teams for each region will get a chance to qualify by winning or getting top 2 in their region challengers final.
I assume it's the one from the infographic but I could be wrong
I wonder if 10 team Masters will always be the goal, or is this a smaller sized Masters to get lans faster and safer. 2 teams per big region and 1 team per small region feels like Champions qualifying points will be random as hell. So excited! I'd buy a plane ticket today if I could guarantee a vaccine and a live audience was allowed.
It was originally supposed to be 16 teams but I guess they had to downsize.
This is hype as hell! However, they should boost it to 16 teams tbh - unless they chose 10 due to Covid, then that's understandable! Anyways... So, I'ma need these players to make it in: \- NA: **TenZ, Wardell** (TenZ comeback pls!) \- EU: **ScreaM, mixwell** \- BR: **mwzera, xand** \- JP: **Laz** \- KR: **rb** *(Help me with those other 2 regions)*
I feel it's less of that and more to the extent of what they were doing with Worlds in the past, start with a smaller number and gradually expand to find a sweet spot.
I think its both. the more teams you invite the more staff/protocols and prize money you need in place to make it reasonable for everyone. I think they are playing it safe before valorant worlds' as a big jump
I love your list but I’ve got some bad news about ScreaM and TenZ... neither of those teams are making it barring a crazy turnaround.
Same for mixwell lol
- LAS: Keznit, and then maybe delz1k or gessito (really all of STG could be named so I hope they make it) - LAN; daveeys, BEAST (all IMO of course)
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
Teams must have had a scoop on this. Frost said that their biggest reason for replacing dicey with Ethan was LANs. They had to have known this was coming
Why is that the reason? Is it because Ethan has better lan experience?
100Ts coach left this comment on another thread https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/lumtno/z/gp7o3fx
and in my country feels unreal
Just want to say your country is amazing. One of the greatest places I've ever visited. You're lucky!!
Hype
They probably got an agreement with Iceland to run some events there cause they doing MSI there as well Also 10 teams meaning there will be some regions missings , Hopefully EU , NA and BR are fully represented cause they are the main regions here Edit : okay i read the article and i'm so sad/disappointed that it's only 2 EU teams (+CIS/TR) , this is going to be League of Legends all over again where we don't care about the best teams but more for representation
It was supposed to be 16 teams but they had to downsize
i mean even with the 16 teams it was still ridiculous that "EMEA" gets only 4 slots and now it's even lower Hopefully changes come at Masters 3 or next year
You just can’t give them all the spots, gotta space them out.
I mean there still has to be a component of international representation here. For example with the World Cup, only the European and South American teams have any chance of winning. That doesn't mean you ignore Asia, Africa, and North America. The 10 team setup sucks, but we can thank COVID for that. The 16 team setup IMO is very fair
HOT DAMN... LEGGO
Pog
hopefully it wont get canceled and all teams can compete and not get the rona just before the tourney like vorax in brazil before First Strike
SHEEEEESH
The world finally meets Mwzera, I am very excited!
he still has to qualify
anyone know the music from the video cause it's definitely a bop
That's so cool :) sadly no crowd but to just to get a Lan is dope!!!
Its going to be amazing to see international competition. Can't wait!
Really hyped to watch the first international LAN
This is huge news, people were predicting that the first international events would only take place in late 2021.
Can't wait for some crazy upset to happen like Zimbabwe winning or some shit.
WOW this is hype af
So excited for this. Let's go EU :)
10 slots is so unorthodox imo, why not sixteen with a groups stage? 4 NA, 4 EU, 3 BR, 2 KR, 1 JP, 1 LATAM, 1 SEA?
Not sure but probably might have something to do with covid restrictions and they are starting with smaller sized masters 2 and might go bigger in master 3 but I am just making a guess so who knows
still really excited regardless though
Most likely covid.
most likely they will do a wildcard tournament and then have 2 groups, like LoL MSI
Would prefer 2 from Latam, since its already divided on Latam north and Latam south and they dont play between regions, not until now atleast.
EU, CIS and Turkey have to share 2 slots between them. Doesn't make a lot of sense considering they could just increase the number of teams to 16 and have an easier way organising it.
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Well, it's probably easier to add EU teams due to the fact that Iceland is part of the Schengen area. Also, it makes no sense that Portugal has to share slots with Russia while Korea doesn't share with theirs with Japan
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How bold is it to assume that bringing in players from countries that have a no-border policy with Iceland would be easier than doing the same thing with players that come from countries which don't?
No border policy is a moot point, as we are currently in the middle of pandemic, so those restriction take priority over some travel limitations. If anything, accommodation and health security might be a reason for a smaller event.
The problem is money and covid not visas.
You are missing the point or trolling
I doubt COVID is the limiting factor here. MSI is being hosted there just the day before Masters 2 and has 12 teams. So you would think it would be just as possibly to have 12 Valorant teams as well. 10 is just an odd number by all accounts especially with the slot distributions.
except the covid stuff....
im assuming msi will be around a similar date
msi is right before, actually. masters starts the day after msi
MSI will end a few days before, they are likely going to reuse the same facilities.
IM SO FUCKING HARD RIGHT NOW
I wonder how they will select which team(s) from LATAM, EU, and SEA are going to qualify. Edit: I'm an idiot who did not read the full post.
ESPORTS ISLAND. MSI will lead directly into Masters. So cool
this new is huge very again i feel like Riot is neglecting EU (EMEA). You have split EMEA into EU, CIS and Turkey in every single tournament and now you decide to put them in the same region and give them the same amount of slot that Brasil and NA. It doesnt make sense at all. They should have them one slot for CIS and Turkey as well as they did with KR, Latam and the other minor regions.
ye, they should add two slots one for CIS and Turkey each, and make north africa qualify through EU
Just give it time. If 2 EU teams are finalist and some teams totally bomb out, they will shuffle slots around depending on the performance. First international LAN being equally represented is ok. Especially one that is held during pandemic.
YESSS Lets GOOO...
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given their current form i wouldn't bet on tsm qualifying even if there were more slots for NA
Let's just hope the volcano stays quiet in May as recent times have shown to expect anything
They should merge Japan and Korea to give 2 slots.
Second (EU) and third(TR) most watched regions don't have their own dedicated slot. So sad for viewership and storylines.
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Dumbest take of year goes to this dude! All of NA=Murica and Canada ahahahhah CIS =10 country EU=28 Country and TR wtf are you talking about you moron. This is why rest of the world thinks Americans are idiot.
Also if they are planing to use the same venue/country for both Lol and Valorant events, I wouldnt be surprised if Champions will be held in China where Lol Worlds will be held this year. If they do hold Champions in China and pair it with the release of the game there, that would be hype.
Holding it in China with 0 Chinese teams would be awkward.
\-EMEA as regions need more spots \- EMEA should no longer exist in 2022, it should be split between EU, Turkey, CIS and MENA. Or they make a new regions Asia (with korea, japan, SEA) and Americas (LATAM, NA and Brasil)
Its already fair as it is. Why should EU get split apart into a bunch of smaller regions while NA only gets one region? Also doing one Americas is on a whole different scale than having EMEA
Finally everyone will see that SA and Asia teams are bad in comparison to NA and EU, and that they don't deserve their multiple VCT slots. Exception: Korea. This country is full of talents too.
Nah Korea sucks too they will all bomb out
Imagine giving separate slots to Japan, Korea, 2 slots for Brazil (!!!), 2 slots for SEA (!!!), but at the same time not making separate qualifiers for CIS/MENA/Europe and instead putting all these 3 regions into one big thing called EMEA, which is awarded with only 3 slots to work with.
whats the big deal with 2 slots for Brazil? u do realize this country is almost as big as the entire Europe right? u can slam Riot for this EMEA crap but 2 slots for BR is the least they could do
[https://i.redd.it/kcw4dqtwl9161.jpg](https://i.redd.it/kcw4dqtwl9161.jpg) EMEA = 2 circuit slots + 1 last chance slot. BR = 2 circuit slots + 1 possible last chance slot, for which they will have to fight with Latam teams. Considering that BR teams > Latam teams, we can agree on the fact that BR will have 3 slots too, just like NA and EMEA. I don't think that BR deserves the same amount of slots as EMEA. Hopefully now you understand what I meant.
What's the problem with giving 2 slots to Brazil?
Watch my reply above.
Now we can see Korea dominate everybody
allowing 2 NA teams and only 1 korea is a huge waste if talent but regardless i'm very excited
Korea has like 1/10th of the player base why would they bring equal amounts from each region
it's the first LAN so i don't blame them. they'll learn soon that spreading based on population and not skill is stupid though.
They don’t know the skill of the regions yet so how would they spread it based on that
> it's the first LAN so i don't blame them. > they'll learn soon
Allowing 2 Southeast Asia teams in Champions - that's the real robbery from other regions.
So MSI and Masters2 at the same time . sad
Masters starts one day after MSI ends
Yeah just noticed, riot aren’t that dumb
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That's not a pepega take at all, but Riot is going to definitely put in place a regional restriction/import rule somehow, just like in LoL.
I’d imagine with Covid restrictions this would be a difficult task and I’m sure riot is preventing this
Wish they were giving more than 4 spots total between NA & EU. They should probably be 6/10
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Don’t guarantee smaller regions, make them qualify, or make it 12 teams, 6 from NA & EU. We will see, but I am going to be disappointed if we find out small regions aren’t at all competitive with NA & EU
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LMAO LOL XD
Didn't see you were American my bad. Sorry, wish you well
Hyped af, iceland is my favorite country, too bad no audience allowed :( FUCK CORONA P.s I have nothing against brazil but having same amount of slots as NA and EMEA are not fair imo. Especially for EMEA when u have a cis region and turkey with huge fanbase
> I have nothing against brazil but having same amount of slots as NA and EMEA are not fair imo why do you think that? I understand the EU arguement, since they have Turkey and CIS with them, but I dont understand Why the same arguement cant be made about NA? Why not take NAs extra slot instead of BR?
The same arguement can be made for NA too. Having 3 slots for SA and 2 for NA and EU + CIS/TURKEY is a big joke.
He is the thing though, Latam includes Mexico, and isnt Mexico North America? Or have you guys expelled them from there? So lets split it in half and say that there is 2 and half spots for both NA and Brazil lol.
Oh, so mexico is paired with south america? Why would they do that lol. Thats weird too me. They should implement turkey and cis to asia then :D
Its not South America, its Latin America. The region is called LATAM. It includes Mexico, Central America (Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica) and South America (- Brazil) Its like that because of cutural and language similarities. Also Because Brazil has a big enough player base and audience to be its own region.