A short time ago, Riot had an important announcement affecting the League of Legends of small areas and the Wildcard group. Accordingly, from 2025, only 4 Majors areas will be kept. The remaining, almost all areas of the Minor and Wildcard groups will be merged to create larger and homogeneous areas according to Riot's regulations. This is a policy that has been applied to Valorant and now Riot decided to bring back to League of Legends. This is both beneficial and of course also comes with adverse effects on small areas in general and VCS in particular.
VCS will merge with areas such as LJL, PCS … from 2025 to make APAC area
Recently, Riot continued to have a new notice related to the future of VCS. Specifically, according to the director of the APAC area, Mr. Ban “Chisinx” Chee said that by 2025, the first tournament of the APAC region will be held in Taipei China and Riot as well as the publisher's partner is actively speeding up the construction process of new stadiums here. In addition, in his notice, Chisinx also said that Riot will bring more events and programs to VCS in the period 2025 – 2026.
Mr. Chisinx: “One day full of events! We officially confirmed cooperation with Carry partners for the Apac League tournament and built a new stadium in Taipei China. Although we are considered this place as our home at the present time, we plan to bring offline events and roadshow to Vietnam in 2025/26 to ensure that our largest fans will be able to interact with the meaning of the meaning of the information. In the near future! “
However, in reality, this is not necessarily a positive information for VCS. Because, for some players who have battle in many countries around the world (Levi, Kiaya, Kati, Shogun …), VCS in the summer of 2024 and perhaps the following years, there are many young players who first play professional and even first international competition. These players, for many reasons, will have more problems with visas than their teammates and can completely affect the personnel of the teams if the next year APAC's tournament is held entirely in Taipei China.
Many young players of the teams will be difficult to apply for a visa next year
However, if the Riot side has personally announced, it may not change any more. Therefore, right from this time, perhaps the VCS teams had to implement the mandatory steps to prepare for the journey at Worlds 2024 as well as international tournaments from 2025 onwards.