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0-2 Final.

After rebuilding our squad post-Split 2 and working hard for 3 months to qualify for Split 3, we’ve been told by Riot and Split 3 admins that we can only participate in either Split 3 Stage 1 or the Predator League SG qualifiers this weekend. This feels incredibly unfair. Riot says two sponsored events can’t coincide, we’re the only team impacted—no other SG teams are in Stage 1, and DSG is already in Stage 3. What’s worse is that based on the schedules, we could actually compete in both events with no clash. I only asked for a possibility to reschedule a bo3 on saturday to friday night instead as we are unsure if there would be delays or if we would need time to travel back home/LAN to participate in split 3 and it might be tight if our game is in the last time slot. But instead of saying yes or no, they told us that we have to choose to participate in only 1 of the events and we cannot accept this answer. With two overseas players and a coach already booked for flights to Singapore, we only found out about this decision today. If we hadn’t asked for a reschedule, we’d still be eligible for both events. We're also in talks with orgs about picking our squad up and the participation and results of these events would greatly improve our chances of helping us earn a living. We’re just trying to compete fairly and make the most of our offseason, but we’re now faced with an impossible choice—either forfeit our Split 3 spot or give up our chance to compete in the biggest APAC off-season event. All we’re asking for is a fair shot like everyone else. Please share rt and like and I hope that we will get an answer that we can accept from riot and the admins.

Ranked Valorant has hit an all-time low. So many people have said ranked is the worst it’s been in previous acts, but this act is at an entire new level. I have genuinely played a single digit number of games this act where I had a semi-normal team comp & players on there main accounts, not to mention if you have a streamer on your team you can no longer call any Strats. Genuinely 1/5th of the games you play in high elo you are deploying anti-stream sniping measures like waiting in spawn until the last second like it’s a game of battleship vs kittymeowmeow. It’s been infested with people insta-locking agents like Reyna, iso, clove and now chamber. If you want to play an agent like Yoru on abyss, raze on bind, Reyna on icebox etc. you will end up with a 3-4 duelist team comp or have clove smokes on icebox. Not to mention the absolute infestation of alt-accounts in high elo just being absolute ranked terrorists. Half of the duelists in ASC1-IMM3 are on lvl 20 accounts named spongebob69. All in all, this act has been horrible & I don’t even enjoy coaching players who are playing ranked this act because the games I watch are 90% full troll team comps and players, calling it a “competitive” match is hilarious. I have some ideas on what would need to change to make improvements, but I don’t think my suggestions would land where it needs to.