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Franchising is will basically ruin any chance that 90% of amateur players had to get involved in Valorant eSports.
Why should we continue to support Riot Games's attempt to push this eSport?
Why play the game and grind to Radiant...
if you can't even participate in pro teams
Why stay around as an organization
if you can't participate in the VCT events or VCT Champions in the future?
SoaR is gone due to this
50+ other organizations will soon be leaving forever, too, due to this franchising system
Players who were getting paid salaries to play VALORANT for the past 2 years
Now getting paid absolutely nothing
literally jobless, unemployed
When the VALORANT eSport scene looks like it may be dying out in the next 12 months... how do you all care who wins next weekend?
How are we supposed to still "care" or "get hype" about VCT Masters 2?
Not to mention that during the current VCT Masters Copenhagen & VCT Reykjavik 2022
Players can hardly hear anything in-game
due to the white noise being far too loud get
Players can hardly practice & have lag
The practice PCs and stage PCs are still not as good as "personal PCs" of most players
Players have had to play multiple days in a row
Awful scheduling by Riot
FPX had to play 4 days in a row
OpTic has often rarely had a break
Players haven't had equal warm up time at VCT Masters 2022
Change only occured in 2022
Wasn't this way during 2021 format
Doesn't make sense to have added this change, as Riot did, this year
100% illogical advantage for 1st seeds from regional playoffs
Straight to playoffs of VCT Masters, no group stage play required
Insane "advantage" for a mere 1-time win in a BO3 during their regional playoffs
But somehow seems to be a disadvantageous situation rather than an "Advantage" (?)
Since historically these teams always underperform
Potentially due to the "lack of time to get over their stage jitters", compared to the lower seeded teams, who get plenty of days to warm up on stage against relatively weaker opponents
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