List of players not able to play at LAN due to covid/Visa issues. Sourced from Kanochu on Twitter.

Your source is, without as single doubt, bullshit...it doesn't even show data for Japan :)

Like how to explain this? For people familiar with gaming or streaming scenes in Japan they know that Apex in Japan reached peak Wow and Lol level of popularity, I am saying that they alone could match and beat all the other regions lol, like even NA clips have more views when translates to Japanese...in late 2020 and the first half of 2021 even household wives watched Apex.

That said there are issues: since around last year April Valorant has been eating Apex share slowly but surely and it is completely EA fault through ans through and I can already expect this Lan becoming a meme when compared to the big success the recent Val one had...,blame Ea for not doing anything for them and leaving it all to 3rd parties, letting cheaters run amok and watching as top streamers leave the game=it used to be a seasonal thing but they are no longer returning to Apex the way they used to, CR cup for instance is finally hosting a Valorant version this month if they can replicate the success then it a an official rip.

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