Franchise Will be SHIT in 2023(Unpopular Opinion)

Franchise Will be fucking shit in Valorant, big orgs Will have Their shit Teams in the big events only because they are big.
Small orgs Will be used only to sell players for big orgs, and this is absolutelly HORRIBLE.

2023 Valorant Will destroy any underdogs story and Will completely destroy my Reagion as a whole.

No one Will invest in a game If their Brand isn't gonna be showed to the World, Valorant Will become boring and unfun to watch as a game.

For you to have some Idea, this shit Sentinels team would always play with the big teams, while Akrew would never even get the chance to play against Sentinels or other big teams, even that they are clearly better.

Valorant Will become super boring in 2023, Shit move by Riot.

agreed

ok but no one asked+didn't read

“Will” shouldn’t be capitalized

based actually

Interesting take 🤔

Still getting paid tho

Its so stupid. I'm pretty sure 90% of the Valorant community were begging no Franchising in the future. Somehow them removing the buy in and calling it "Partnership" completely fooled everyone.

with an ideal franchising system, while smaller orgs may not be represented, the lesser-known but skilled players would definitely be picked up by franchise orgs.

they have a vested interest to be the best, after all.

I do agree that it results in a lack of straight-outta-nowhere underdog runs, but there will still be unknown players like Trent, making deep runs and somewhat of an underdog run in their own right!

Sentinels in your example would 100% remain in the franchise. However, if they perform worse they have not only the financial backing of the franchise created revenue but also the benefit of being a franchise org to pick up better players. I.e. the situation where they weren't able to acquire a coach due to finances would likely not happen in a franchise system.

It all depends on how it's set up. I will miss the T1-T2 matchups, though, and I hope Riot has put in serious thought into ensuring T2 doesn't die as it has in countless games so far. Ideally, there would be a wildcard spot in the league itself, or at least to international competition.

also, i don't think your opinion is unpopular at all. it's absolutely normal and a valid concern.

True

The fact that they put all of NA and SA into one “league” is crazy. How many slots will it have? Cause right now the most fair distribution of slots would basically be 80% NA and that will KILL Brazil.

Also, teams don’t have to pay to be in the league and I think they have no relegation… meaning they can’t lose their spot… like what’s the motivation to do good and spend tons of money on good players if you get to be in the league forever anyway.

Isn't it better for smaller teams to have teams in a franchise (ie get more money) so they can sell their players for more. It's not like we see f/a teams go far in this system or get picked up as a 5 stack anyway. That was only part of the early days of the competition.

But it would be nice if there is a way, like EMEA qualifier now where the worst performing team can get dropped & a good performer from lower level can join since the franchise won't be based high on buy in's.

100T Will got you dreamin

TRUEING Riot is shameless