As is known, since 2025, small areas such as VCS, PCS … will be combined into the APAC group when delineating areas attending MSI or Worlds. This was announced a little bit ago that the Vietnamese League of Legends community exploded and worried. According to many people at that time, this is understandable, but it may limit the MSI and Worlds for VCS and turn this tournament back like the previous LMS period, when VCS had to fight the region with teams to Japan, Taipei China … Because the level of small areas was uneven, it was inadvertently restrained the development of VCS until Riot was separated from Riot in 2020.
The audience used to worry that VCS will be difficult to compete or be restrained if coming back like the old LMS period
However, recently, in an additional sharing after the announcement there will be events for VCS next year, representatives of Riot, Mr. Chisinx also said: “PCS has taught us a lot in the past few years and the most important lesson is the effort to narrow the competitive gap between LMS and LST players at that time not really successful for many reasons, including the time of MOBA MOBA in the area of MOBA. It is also a navigation of the game release.
Riot representative confirmed that the past of LMS would not happen
“Some of the necessary changes are necessary for the operation of Tier 2 teams but we are committed to ensuring the main markets (VCS, PCS …) will have strong partners to cooperate with us in continuing and developing their local tournaments, as well as providing talents for teams.
However, the VCS teams also have to make efforts because now their opponents are very fierce competition and will be able to eliminate each other from regional qualifying tournaments, not the need for MSI or Worlds
From the assertion of the Riot representative, it can be understood that the prospect of VCS is restrained by the combination of areas with League of Legends not really too strong in the APAC area as before will not take place. However, attending the Worlds and MSI now will be really harder and the VCS teams themselves must make efforts if they do not want to be eliminated “from the parking round” before reaching the international playground.