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I don't think so because we're tracking on our end viewtimes attached to accounts. If you unlink and watch 50 hours and then re-link you've lost the 50 hours but if you're fiddling with it, you should be okay.

I'll do some real-talk here around this... very few (if any) company puts engineering or resource efforts toward closed beta access because it's a single moment to test server loads. We wanted to do a lot here around making a more 'fair' way to get closed beta access, but needed to put resources elsewhere. It happens.

Right now Twitch is the best MVP approach because we really wanted to focus on players knowing what they were getting into before getting into it. VALORANT is a hard game and we wanted to prioritize people who knew this game was for them vs. passive interest of people getting a random key from a website key generator.

I personally think watching Twitch streams is a great way to start to understand the game, and then to decide if it's for you. I was okay with that number being small but... we're seeing it's pretty large.

Reach out to player support ASAP to change your regional home base

Where'd you register that account? If you're in EU, reach out to player support to change your home based location.

Every additional hour you watch of streams increases your weighting but adds less with each additional hour you watch. So going from 2hrs to 3hrs means more in weighting than going from, say, 80hrs to 81hrs of watching. We definitely see the ones marathoning and are thinking about how to help but don't want that to be the standard.

No, sorry :(

No, you're eligible for all waves.

A little tired but insanely excited :) Was up at 4am yesterday, slept at 1am because I wanted to play some games and couldn't through the day, and now up today to see how we can keep on going.

Thanks for asking!

I can't really expose the math of it because it's both complicated (our data scientist ran me through it and it's crazy albeit fair) and we don't want it to be gamified.

Here's what I'll say: watching more helps, it does, but watching like 12hrs of streams vs. 80hrs of streams isn't so significant that you should bleed your eyes out. The largest BY FAR impacting issue is the sheer NUMBER of people in line. They all have a chance, and we have a limited amount of space in the club.

Here to answer questions, lmk

(Now adding in answers here as I see questions...)

How do you personally feel about the lottery system for the closed beta access?

I'll do some real-talk here around this... very few (if any) company puts engineering or resource efforts toward closed beta access because it's a single moment to test server loads. We wanted to do a lot here around making a more 'fair' way to get closed beta access, but needed to put resources elsewhere. It happens.

Right now Twitch is the best MVP approach because we really wanted to focus on players knowing what they were getting into before getting into it. VALORANT is a hard game and we wanted to prioritize people who knew this game was for them vs. passive interest of people getting a random key from a website key generator.

I personally think watching Twitch streams is a great way to start to understand the game, and then to decide if it'...

unfortunately I don't think so

oh sh*t lol you got one

yikes

we were still figuring out the mechanics - there will be a small # of drops on Apr3 spread across the folks invited to the bootcamp who stream that day but we’re really just looking to pre-seed conservatively for Closed Beta. Rolling out a CB during a quarantine is a WILD ride so we’re taking it slow and steady.

no

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yes

sigh, it was made last year when we were first rolling out our internal playtest on jun3/2019 (these are all old assets)

lol

Damn we didn’t think anyone would find this one lol

Also to be clear: this was intended as an Easter egg, not some kind of league multiverse hint