Fans question Riot's mismanagement after the disqualification of Oceanic teams from the NA Last Chance Qualifier

Riot is under some serious questions after today's announcement regarding the disqualification of Oceanian teams from the upcoming Valorant Champions Tour NA Last Chance Qualifier due to VISA issues.Valorant fans feel that the months of hard work and dreams of Oceanian teams are shattered into pieces due to the ignorance of Riot. Though Riot has promised to bring more opportunities to the Oceanian teams, everyone is now questioning Riot's involvement in the matter.George Geddes@GeorgeCGedThe neglect of OCE continues. This is the result of poor planning from a new team. Imagine playing nine months worth of qualifies just to try and get one final shot at the biggest international event for the fucking organiser themselves to turn around and tell you to fuck off. twitter.com/valesports_na/…VALORANT Champions Tour NA@valesports_naAn update on Order and Chiefs Esports Club at #VALORANTLCQ:3:10 AM · Oct 4, 20213359An update on Order and Chiefs Esports Club at #VALORANTLCQ: https://t.co/8iHEMEygDz1:49 AM · Oct 11, 2018The neglect of OCE continues. This is the result of poor planning from a new team. Imagine playing nine months worth of qualifies just to try and get one final shot at the biggest international event for the fucking organiser themselves to turn around and tell you to fuck off. twitter.com/valesports_na/…According to some, Oceanic teams faced the consequence of Riot's lack of planningA few weeks ago, Riot announced that the North America Last Chance Qualifier will be played in LAN with ten participating teams. Between the ten qualified teams, eight teams will be coming as per the standings on the NA Circuit Points leaderboard, and the remaining two teams will be from the Valorant Oceania Tour.Order and Chiefs Esports Club are the two Oceanian teams qualified for the North America Last Chance Qualifier. However, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Riot has failed to arrange VISA for the Oceanian teams for travelling to Los Angeles to participate in the LAN event. In the current situation, Riot announced that the Oceanian teams would not be present in the tournament.Since the announcement, many fans have questioned Riot's responsibility to confirm the VISA in time. After playing a qualifier event (Valorant Oceania Tour) for almost nine months to get a chance to participate in the North America Last Chance Qualifier, which is the only qualifying event for Oceanian teams to the Valorant Champions 2021. It is pretty frustrating for the Oceanian fans. According to some information coming from Riot's public discord server, the organizers didn't look at booking flights until last week. They didn't apply for travel exemptions until a few days ago and are now aware of border policy.Andrew 'Ducky' Amos@dvcky_Some clarifications to this:- Riot didn't have return flights for some (most? all? I'll go for lowest) players, meaning they couldn't get ESTA forms to get into the US.- The process was a lot more disjointed for VAL compared to LoL, hence the discrepancies. twitter.com/dvcky_/status/…Andrew 'Ducky' Amos@dvcky_@tobo_oce It's in a public discord so guess I can.- Riot apparently didn't even look at booking flights until last week.- They didn't apply for travel exemptions until a few days ago.- They weren't aware of border policy.They just sent PEACE to Worlds though so?9:35 AM · Oct 4, 2021857@tobo_oce It's in a public discord so guess I can.- Riot apparently didn't even look at booking flights until last week.- They didn't apply for travel exemptions until a few days ago.- They weren't aware of border policy.They just sent PEACE to Worlds though so?1:49 AM · Oct 11, 2018Some clarifications to this:- Riot didn't have return flights for some (most? all? I'll go for lowest) players, meaning they couldn't get ESTA forms to get into the US.- The process was a lot more disjointed for VAL compared to LoL, hence the discrepancies. twitter.com/dvcky_/status/…Andrew 'Ducky' Amos@dvcky_No words but absolute utter disappointment at how our region has been handled in 2021. twitter.com/valesports_na/…VALORANT Champions Tour NA@valesports_naAn update on Order and Chiefs Esports Club at #VALORANTLCQ:8:32 AM · Oct 4, 202129011An update on Order and Chiefs Esports Club at #VALORANTLCQ: https://t.co/8iHEMEygDz1:49 AM · Oct 11, 2018No words but absolute utter disappointment at how our region has been handled in 2021. twitter.com/valesports_na/…Andrew 'Ducky' Amos@dvcky_We play nine months of qualifiers for a qualifier, and then we can't even play in the qualifier.Valorant in this region is dying fast without any entry to international events. Sure, this is life under COVID - but it didn't *need* to be this way.8:37 AM · Oct 4, 20211304We play nine months of qualifiers for a qualifier, and then we can't even play in the qualifier.Valorant in this region is dying fast without any entry to international events. Sure, this is life under COVID - but it didn't *need* to be this way.Fans were totally disappointed with the issue and raised their voices against the matter. This is not the first time any team has been disqualified for the VISA issues. Previously, SEA champions Bren Esports (now known as Team Secret) failed to travel to Berlin for the recently concluded Valorant Champions Tour Masters Berlin due to the same issue. However, they will compete in the Valorant Champions 2021 as the second seed from SEA.Andrew 'Ducky' Amos@dvcky_@GeorgeCGed Lack of experience from the VAL esports team.Time crunch because of the short turnaround.Australia's immigration rules being a bitch right now.Literal worst case scenario and poor planning means OCE won't compete globally until mid-2022 at earliest. Grim.3:13 AM · Oct 4, 202120@GeorgeCGed Lack of experience from the VAL esports team.Time crunch because of the short turnaround.Australia's immigration rules being a bitch right now.Literal worst case scenario and poor planning means OCE won't compete globally until mid-2022 at earliest. Grim.Andrew 'Ducky' Amos@dvcky_@JessGOAT @ManicMunday We've had PUBG just get a pass to go to Korea, League has had MSI / Worlds, and CS:GO are getting there.R6 missed out sadly, which was a shame, but they have multiple chances. This was VAL's one chance at intl play, and mismanagement + bad luck meant we have to wait 12 months.3:27 AM · Oct 4, 2021@JessGOAT @ManicMunday We've had PUBG just get a pass to go to Korea, League has had MSI / Worlds, and CS:GO are getting there.R6 missed out sadly, which was a shame, but they have multiple chances. This was VAL's one chance at intl play, and mismanagement + bad luck meant we have to wait 12 months.But for Oceanian teams, it was their only chance to qualify for the Valorant Champions 2021. They now have to wait another year to have an opportunity to compete on the big stage.

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