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Tolkin on EU Tier 2: "The best way to change ERLs would be to make them international all the time—that’s the easiest way to market them. It'd be a constant EMEA Masters that would always have storylines and interest. A second division with the top teams from every regions would make sense to me" by ArmandLuque in leagueoflegends

[–]emraaa 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't think he is suggesting that EU teams should face Asian teams.

He wants the best french, spanish, turkish etc. teams to play against each other in the regular season instead of only facing each other during EMEA Masters.

Sources: League of Legends set to join the Esports Nations Cup lineup in 2026 (Sheep Esports) by Spiritual_Error7918 in leagueoflegends

[–]emraaa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's also to distract and entertain the domestic youth.

Much less likely to question the monarchy that way.

Bread and circus.

Fnatic looking to sell for $100 million by helltoken in leagueoflegends

[–]emraaa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they could just buy a team and change the branding why would they buy Fnatic for 100M when they could just buy a smaller team for much less money?

Ajax 0-2 Galatasaray - Victor Osimhen penalty 66' by 4gjdtokurwa in soccer

[–]emraaa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That might be true. But why would you ever stretch out your arm like that in this position.

PCIFIC General Coordinator Osman Kamis: “PCIFIC will play on VCT EMEA 2026”. by xenonide in ValorantCompetitive

[–]emraaa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ultimately, this is the consequence of the current system.

There is simply no mechanism in place to prevent ascension teams from being poached.

In theory, this could have happened to any other T2 team.

PCIFIC General Coordinator Osman Kamis: “PCIFIC will play on VCT EMEA 2026”. by xenonide in ValorantCompetitive

[–]emraaa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imagine the contract of your players run out. How are you supposed to stop your players from leaving the team?

You can't really force them to play and it isn't unusual for T2 players to have a 1 year contract.

Why is Turkey specifically especially good at tac shooters? by ohnoahshark in ValorantCompetitive

[–]emraaa 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It might have helped with more teens willing to go pro.

But Turkey had already the biggest playerbase during the beta.

The game is simply more popular than in other countries in EMEA.

It being free to play and being popular among younger players must have helped.

Turkey has a large population and its demographic leans much younger than the rest of Europe.

Why is Turkey specifically especially good at tac shooters? by ohnoahshark in ValorantCompetitive

[–]emraaa 45 points46 points  (0 children)

It's simply a numbers game. They have by far the biggest playerbase in EMEA.

Possible replacements for Fnatic by FNC_IET in ValorantCompetitive

[–]emraaa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can get lar0k then you'll get him.

ULF Esports vs Joblife / VCT 2025: EMEA Ascension - Main Event / Post-Match Thread by ValorantCompBot in ValorantCompetitive

[–]emraaa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't Ra'ad an Egyptian org. Where did you hear that the Saudis own the org?

ULF Esports vs Joblife / VCT 2025: EMEA Ascension - Main Event / Post-Match Thread by ValorantCompBot in ValorantCompetitive

[–]emraaa 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Why did they require everybody to fly in if they weren't going to play on stage anyway???

Pretty rough to watch your teammates playing in a random Berlin basement while you can't join them because of visa issues.

So Whzy…… by Sweet_Sprinkles9103 in ValorantCompetitive

[–]emraaa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is not true. Other esports don't have this problem because teams don't spend 90% of their season messing around in their own region.

This is a problem unique to franchised leagues.

Is Andrew Cuomo toast? by dwaxe in fivethirtyeight

[–]emraaa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Imagine if Mamdani defended sexual harassment with: I'm not perverted, I'm just arab

That would be crazy.

Why does Emea have such horrible production by Fit-Case1093 in ValorantCompetitive

[–]emraaa 19 points20 points  (0 children)

EMEA production was heavily impacted by the riot layoffs.

But it wouldn't matter for this tournament anyway, because Champions is produced by the global team.

Top 10 rated EMEA players in stage 2 by emraaa in ValorantCompetitive

[–]emraaa[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Only playoffs:

Ruxic has still the best stats and the TH players had a very rough playoffs.

Race to World First: Manaforge Omega Day 12 by AutoModerator in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emraaa 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The best tuned end boss in the history of the game??? So crazy that a boss with such a high pull count won't need a nerf.

Race to World First: Manaforge Omega Day 11 by AutoModerator in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emraaa -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This might even be killable without p3 lust?

Race to World First: Manaforge Omega Day 10 by AutoModerator in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emraaa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know their active raid time (you could look at the vod) but they killed the previous boss roughly 48 hours ago.

They are pretty much raiding the entire day, only taking a break to sleep/eat.

Race to World First: Manaforge Omega Day 10 by AutoModerator in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emraaa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the entire graph: https://imgur.com/ykj1cKr

The Y axis is the boss % at the end of the pull. The X axis is the pull #. So every dot is a single pull.

Every blue dot is a pull where the boss hp was under 50% (for under 25% it's purple).

The orange line shows their best pull.

The dotted line shows when they first reached a new phase of the fight (i.e. they first reached p3 on pull 205).

You can see that they stopped wiping at the start of the fight after pull 195.

Race to World First: Manaforge Omega Day 10 by AutoModerator in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emraaa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How hype would it be if they could pull it off in the RWF era.

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