And how could it effect Valorant if rito decide to franchise valorant
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What is Franchising Like in lol
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Europe is doing very well. I think the viewership for LEC is increasing every year. New players are joining the league every year from lower leagues. Recently, Barcelona has just invested into a lower league european team. Shows there is a quite a lot of promise in Europe in general.
China league is popular as always. Getting big sponserships irrc such as nike.
NA is slowly dying and the contracts of players are super duper expensive, making it very unsustainable
Idk about korea.
Have players and teams for each region play weekly in a franchised league that would qualify them for regional/international/world championships.
There would most likely but Invitationals like there are in League with open quals with the agreement of Riot, given that they've franchised the competitive scene.
Most likely the richest teams that have the money to sign the best players would mostly be there, but if Riot decides to put out some financial ruling we might just see some diversity along the way.
In the short run, yes, in the long run, obviously not.
Franchising in Sports is legitimating the instant place to small amount of clubs/orgs/teams in tournaments. For instance, American MLS system is a franchise where only approximately around 30 clubs in it. No chance for small team with talented academy roster to join without 300 mln payment. In Esports its kinda the same and gives big orgs like TSM or T1 instant places on LAN tournaments, in which TSM and T1 are interested because in real competition they could not do shit - but franchising system secure their investments and allows to participate just because how big they are in terms of money, marketing etc.
Good or Bad? For orgs ofc it's the best option. For true competition it means death.
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