Alright this is awful for the players and I wanna see them franchised too. We are all blaming Riot, but I am yet to hear a better alternative than what they have done.
The Guard fired all their staff and does not have money at all, letting them in is a risk too big, players could not be paid or have scandals like that. People say then they shouldn't have let the guard in in the first place but there was literally an open qualifier, plus The Guard had their financial struggle mid year so what were they supposed to do kick them mid season?
Alright so we are put in this situation, now what do we do, we have 3 options imo.
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We let M80 in, which ig is an option but how does that beenfit the Guard players? And most importantly, why is it more fair than announcing 2 teams will ascend next year to compensate and all teams can plan accordingly. M80 didn't ascend, is not fair.
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We give the Guard players another org, but how? We let the players choose? Then it becomes a massive auction to see who pays more, which can lead to massive issues again, inflated salaries, or orgs pulling out and just waiting for opportunities like this one. The other option is riot chooses the org, in which case how is that fair with M80 and the rest of the orgs competing in VCL?
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We could also let the players compete FA and Riot pay them, but that wouldn't really make sense because at some point you still have to go through scenario number 2 at some point.
Those are the options I have been reading the most and none make sense to me. Before criticizing Riot let's think first, what is a viable solution that makes the most sense. Please be reasonable