1 spot is so brutal for 2024

This format is brutal like winning the whole ascension for just 2 year promotion and then coming back to normal challengers. So basically every league has only 1 spot for a team to fill in the franchise league??
Or there are few more spots?

anyone who is worthy of it is just gonna get picked up regardless. i only want the guard to win so i can see them stick together, cuz they're just gonna get picked apart by the franchise teams anyway even if they lose

By 2026 there will be 16 franchise team.

I think riot will slowly open up more spot, I'm excited to see how they will integrate their in client tourny system with vct.

Alright I see a lot of confusion I’ll explain this again

2023: 1 team ascends (11 team league)
2024: 1 team ascends (12 team league)
2025: 2 team ascend, 2023 team is relegated (13 team league)
2026: 2 team ascend, 2024 team is relegated (14 team league)
2027 and on: 2 teams ascend and the 2 teams that ascended 2 years ago (2025) are relegated (14 team league forever)

There is something else tho, which is what gives the pressure to actually perform well to every single org and avoid Astralis LOL kind of things. Every 4 years (2026 or 2027 not sure rn) Riot gets to change as many franchised teams as they want, so if they decided any of the ascended orgs does a better job than one of the partnered ones then you’re out. Plus doesn’t limit you to just 1 descended, it can be as many as Riot wants