as a new viewer in 2023, it was really easy for me to just click VCT Pacific, VCT Americas or VCT emea to watch. you also got to watch teams from diff regions w diff fanbases playing against each other. for new viewers who don't care about challengers and only about tier 1, franchising is definitely a more streamlined way to watch vct.
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I don’t mind franchising. However I think contracts should be 2 years maximum and in that time orgs need to prove they deserve another contract. There are certain teams that are clearly making budget teams because they know their spot is secured anyway.
Also I think there should be more ascension teams. The original 4 made sense to me and having the top 2 stay and the bottom 2 relegated feels right to me.
EMEA & NA orgs would be fine with this 2 year thing, but for Asia/South America orgs it’s awful. RIOT would need 6 month to reselect another org screening and handling orgs overseas operation, making foreign bank account, overseas team house and majority of non 1st world passport holder players would need 3 to 6 months of visa application just to get into LA/Korea.
ppl bring up a struggling t2 as a reason why franchising doesnt work but they forget that pre franchising it was very public that no orgs were close to making a profit. It sucks that tier 2 orgs are struggling but franchising atleast gives a better chance for some orgs to profit rather than everyone drown equally
For same reason as OP I agree that franchising definitely is good, at least viewer-wise and for some clarity in how things work overall. But it just hurts me to see all of the Tier 2 leagues in all regions struggle just to look barely alive. And it's not just a franchising issue, if you kind of follow Val since its esports start, you'll know that everything was horrible even pre-franchising.
It's just about the realisation that we can't just juggle the same players all around between teams in T1, some of them will go and retire or have some issues or you name it. And that's why we need T2 circuits, for new players to realise themselves and to just get reps in, get some reference material for orgs, but there's no way it can be self-funded. The money needs to come from somewhere and the game as an esport also needs to stay attractive for players and orgs.
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