best locations for franchising

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queueK

The alleged locations are:

Americas: LA
Asia / Oceania: Seoul
EMEA: Berlin

where would you like each league to be operated? personally, i think the Asian / Oceanic league could be somewhere a bit more central i.e. Thailand or the Philippines

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GBK

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texas is also fine

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queueK

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yeah texas is definitely better than the hellhole that is LA

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maybe Singapore for Asian/Oceanic? it's as central and accessible as it gets

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eSports infrastructure in Korea is the best in Asia(excluding china) as eSports literally one of their national sport

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queueK

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SG is ridiculously expensive to live in even compared to major cities like Seoul or Tokyo

Probably not easy to get a studio-sized spot to host the league and crowds (prayge) in too.

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But crowd is only insane in Japan 🗿

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that's true

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archetype

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Nah. Tokyo/Seoul for APAC. Arguably Seoul because KR already has Riot infrastructure from League, and they've been hosting Challengers on LAN for ages.

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I think Barcelona would be hype for emea

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Apac pls not in PH. I don't wanna see a match when suddenly blackout happens.
Kr/jp for apac is good bcs infrastructure, other option only SG.

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queueK

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i forgot about the power and internet issues in PH LMFAO

imagine they're mid-series and the whole place goes out it'd be hilarious

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la? good for SEN TenZ! yeah i agree with the asia one. it benefits jp, kr and some other north asia teams but the south teams are at disadvantage, oce, philippines, indonesia etc

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wodunt tokyo be better cuz JP huge in valorant and weebs would come to see

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Tokyo > Seoul

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queueK

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Tokyo would be fucking amazing for the scene tbh. every single game would have a sold-out crowd

I think housing and visa issues may be the problem since it's pretty strict there.

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I prefer tokyo more than seoul tbh valo is really small at korea, the viewership there is too low, maybe even worse than Copenhagen

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Visa issues 🥲

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As much as I want PH, nope. Internet sucks, always rains which causes blackouts. Just no it sucks here. Just go to kr/jp or sg

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A reminder that these locations would be for the regular season games, it's likely that playoffs or certain games could take place elsewhere

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LA will always be the home for Riot's esports in NA, they definitely won't change this, they might make a LAN server for the event though

Seoul, while not the most populous region for VAL Esports, like LA, it has a lot of the infrastructure from League. Also not too crazy visa-wise or CoL(Cost of Living)

Berlin also makes sense, home of Freaks4U, the production company for EMEA.

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Americas: Logical since LA is home to Riot's main office anyways. The LCS is headquarters in, a lot of Riot's infrastructure already centralized within LA.

APAC: Yeah, logical too. You can't count out Seoul as the esports powerhouse. While they are using the Sangnam Coliseum (former OGN studios), I can imagine LoL Park as a possible venue as well.

Berlin: Again, logical. The LEC has its studios there and Challengers EMEA also headquartered themselves in Berlin.

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First Strike at LoL Park was INSANE

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number1_ScreaM_fan

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i feel like emea doesnt really matter as they are all quite inter connected but i wouldve prefered something closer to the center of europe like antwerp or paris

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Americas franchise league in LA would mean I could see LANs lfg