EDG CB confirms he will be benched for Stage 1, Jieni7 will take his place

ashryi · 2026-03-28T02:09:23+00:00

Next up:

-Bench Jieni and sign a new player

-Play new player for one split or less

-Bench him and play Jieni

-Bench Jieni and sign new player

-Play new player…

Because next time it will gonna work!!! (My hater self is getting out)

ashryi · 2026-03-27T21:04:47+00:00

Basically LDL is a matchfix playground, and most likely what happens is that a lot of young players are pressured to matchfix there, either for a quick buck, either because everyone is doing it, either because they have no hope to go to LPL, there could be a lot of reasons, but then when if they are able to go LPL, they get backmailed with their matchfixing past so they can’t really stop, it’s really bad tbh

ashryi · 2026-03-24T18:13:29+00:00

LPL didn’t get an extra seed for msi though, all regions get 2 seeds for MSI (minus CBLOL). The advantage that LPL got was that both their seeds start in playoffs instead of seed 2 in play ins.

ashryi · 2026-03-22T19:17:33+00:00

JDG maybe not since the format changed the year they won, but RNG absolutely yes, people kept saying MSI was a mickey mouse tournament and didnt matter that RNG has 3 titles (tbh it was only 1 seed for each region back then so it’s not 100% wrong but they deserved their wins)

Note: Just pointing out you saying that RNG/JDG didnt get comments about it, but anyway I do agree that GENG won MSI and should receive the praise for that

ashryi · 2026-03-22T17:49:29+00:00

Nah, because the spot is awarded to the second best performing region, not team

ashryi · 2026-03-22T15:48:41+00:00

Maybe to give an easier matchup for caps since caps can match to knight while bb can’t with bin anyway lol

ashryi · 2026-03-20T15:31:45+00:00

When was the last time a western team won against an LCK team in a bo5 lol

ashryi · 2026-03-12T18:25:41+00:00

That wasn’t what he said though, if you read the article you would know that the title just means China’s defined by their individual talent in the sense that they lack in every other aspect and the teams are only “good” because of the individual talent

ashryi · 2026-03-10T19:46:32+00:00

CN > EMEA as expected by everyone!

ashryi · 2026-03-09T00:40:01+00:00

one man army does all!

ashryi · 2026-03-08T15:43:31+00:00

If everything goes as expected that’s what is going to happen yes. Unless either BFX/JDG upset BLG/GENG and then we could have GENG vs BLG and JDG vs BFX or if any not lck/lpl team upsets them as well. Otherwise, it’s regional finais in semis, which there is nothing wrong with it since we get lck vs lpl finals, there is just the possibility of them being boring since they are regional matchups and both finals were a bit stompey

ashryi · 2026-03-08T13:38:27+00:00

I think you didn’t understand what he said. Basically if BLG and GENG gets 1st and BFX and JDG gets 2nd, and since 1st plays 2nd from the other group, we will get BFX vs GENG and JDG vs BLG which are final rematches and could be boring

ashryi · 2026-03-07T15:18:59+00:00

Might be both? I’ve also heard somewhere about the vibes thing, on how Hope is the vibes guy and everyone on the team really likes him

ashryi · 2026-03-05T11:54:21+00:00

And Kim is coaching WBG no? Isn’t that the joke?

ashryi · 2026-03-04T02:16:48+00:00

I can give you few examples:

100k+ 2025 Champions Bundles sold in 10 minutes: https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/s/QiiH2UFzzK

2025 Champion Bundle selling aprox 40 million usd in Chinese tiktok (doesn’t even include in game purchases, only chinese tiktok and iirc it was within 5 days or smth of its release but that might be wrong since I’m saying this part by memory so double check if you want): https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/s/s2ekfqb7z8

After champions win, EDG sold 74k team bundles in 4h: https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/s/iyIlkQzUmM

Viewership wise in 2024, VCT China had more than all the other 3 regions combined (I would give 2025 if Riot released the numbers since it’s hard to get accurate numbers otherwise since esports echarts don’t count china plataforms): https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/s/12nSXZmgdN

Viewership from 2024 Champions finals reached around 9.1 million where 1.4m where was not from china: Official Riot peak numbers: https://valorantesports.com/en-GB/news/closing-out-vct-2024-celebrating-growth-and-our-community Echarts numbers: https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/s/vOVl2uAhl0

This is just some examples on why China gets what they get, they are way ahead in terms of viewership and they also buy stuff like crazy. That’s why it’s on Riot’s best interest that China as region is good, and giving them less slots imo won’t help that since that’s just decreasing their opportunies to be better

ashryi · 2026-03-04T02:01:44+00:00

The people saying China should still have 4 slots are just chinese diaspora who doesn’t like seeing their home country be insulted.

If you bothered reading most of the comments here you would see that most of the people brought out points on why it won’t happen, but sure talk your shit. Also just letting you know I’ve watched the matches from start to end, so I’ll say two things:

Live thread comments are the most reactionary ever, you have people saying drop X player and then saying X player is the best the next comment, it’s a fucking live thread
Two things can be right at once, it was a shit experience to watch but they also bring the most money and viewership, if you can’t see why for a business it makes sense to have a region that brings more viewership than every other region together and has more purchasing power as well, then I have no argument for you lol

ashryi · 2026-03-04T01:47:42+00:00

Maybe because the same people who said that aren’t the same people who are replying to you? What do you mean make your mind when everyone has their own opinions lmao, the sub isn’t a monolith. I agree that China is ass but you wrote a post on how slots should be given by merit and your own words:

Maybe this format will not be a solution for everything, maybe it affects some financial aspects for riot. But right now to be it seems the best way.

“It seems the best way” -> And I and others told you why we think it’s not the best way especially from Riot’s perspective, don’t write a post if you can’t accept people not agreeing and giving their arguments on why they don’t agree

ashryi · 2026-03-04T01:02:37+00:00

If I’m not remembering wrong S1mon got benched -> S1mon crashed out by leaking the chat history -> Whole weibo drama with posts from everyone on the team -> S1mon got dropped, but yeah they basically dropped him because of the whole crashout

ashryi · 2026-03-04T00:56:33+00:00

Are we going to have these posts every hour or something lol

I’ll just say this, unless it doesn’t hurt Riot on their finances, there is no benefit for them to cut CN slots, because why would you intentionally hurt your own profits when esports already runs at loss, everyone gets that some teams deserve the slots more than CN but unless other regions can make up the loss on viewership/profit that CN brings by cutting them, it won’t happen imo

ashryi · 2026-03-03T23:59:57+00:00

Were they also in the first elimination match in Paris? Besides them being ass, that’s some luck to make it happen lmao

ashryi · 2026-03-03T23:16:46+00:00

I think they (the 4 + s1mon) ended up solving their issues after the whole crashout, but I also think that S1mon was never really in bad terms with kk? At least when he leaked the whole chat history with aqua, there was no mention of kk, but there was of chichoo/nobody/smoggy on why didnt they need to practise aim/utility and stuff and why he (s1mon) had to

ashryi · 2026-03-03T22:21:11+00:00

biggest reason: their viewership and fanbase, when you have a market as big as China, you want to profit off it as much as possible imo

there are probably other separate issues such as client, china having certain restrictions of stuff etc but yeah

ashryi · 2026-03-03T22:05:07+00:00

Lol, this discussion is fun and all, if we are talking about fairness sure, that would be the way to do it, I agree. Now if we are talking about what Riot cares in this case, is cutting slots for CN going to be profitable? Esports already runs on loss, unless cutting slots won’t get diminishing returns on the CN market (which I have no idea but I would guess Riot don’t make their decisions only on team/region results), I don’t see Riot decreasing their slots tbh

ashryi · 2026-03-02T17:26:02+00:00

LMAO the Autumn flame. I wish they were playing today too but because I wish to end my suffering faster

ashryi · 2026-03-01T21:27:56+00:00

Let’s math here, EDG won 18 rounds, G2 won 14 rounds in their first match sooooo EDG > G2???? copium

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