After the League of Legends European Championship (LEC) has already been firmly anchored in Berlin for years, it seems that a second major eSports title from Riot Games will find a home there with “Valorant”: The portal BLIX.GG, which is always reliably informed when it comes to Riot Games, reports, citing several sources, that the developer has chosen the German capital to host the league for the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa).
Valorant location: Berlin vs. Barcelona
According to this Berlin won out over Barcelona, Spain, as the main location after days of discussion. According to sources, the decisive factor was the opinion of the teams: many of the teams that have secured a franchise place in the discipline for 2023 probably have a place in the LEC and are accordingly already set up with infrastructure in Berlin. Barcelona as host would therefore probably cause significant additional costs for many teams.
It is currently unclear which teams have secured a place in the EMEA League. It is expected that Riot Games will announce more details about the move to the franchise model – including the teams they have chosen to partner with – after the World Cup, which starts on August 31, 2022. For the EMEA region, that will initially be ten in 2023.
This switch to the model known from “League of Legends” has caused a lot of resentment in the community – many organizations that have invested in the game since the release of “Valorant” are left out due to the lack of funding for an expensive franchise and feel cheated accordingly.
While Berlin is the favorite to host the game for the EMEA region, according to BLIX.GG, it seems that for North America on Los Angeles in the US state of California, and for the Asia-Pacific region to the South Korean capital of Seoul to run out. That’s where the LCS and LCK are located, respectively – the official League of Legends competitions for the US and Korea. So it’s possible that the same arguments have worked in these regions.
The official announcement is likely to be made in line with the announcement on the included teams.
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