I Want Sponsor (IWS) is fine, but they haven't gotten a sponsor.
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| Registered: | July 18, 2024 |
| Last post: | May 14, 2025 at 7:03 AM |
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I Want Sponsor (IWS) is fine, but they haven't gotten a sponsor.
In Challengers Korea, half of the teams are unorganized and they get treated similar to what you said. The other half are salaried.
half of them get paid like dog chew peanuts. They have sponsors, but they just get some pocket money.
The other half are LCK orgs, who spend millions of dollars a year on LOL teams. They're bigger organizations than Zeta or DFM, and the players get a steady paycheck that doesn't require them to go to Japan (but it's shitty too, and still not much more than a convenience store cashier).
There's not much difference between the three. SPG was somewhere between the first group and second group.
Salaries are stable, but not ridiculously high.
VCJ's salaries range from 200,000 to 800,000 jpy. The median salary is probably much closer to 200,000.
Furthermore, it's not uncommon in esports contracts (especially in the financial vulnerable tier 2) to only get paid when you play a match and have your roster inactive in the offseason.
The minimum annual salary for Tier 1 (67,000,000 krw = 7,322,500 jpy) is quite high in Japan and will only be available to a small group of players and imports.
The vast majority of players are paid like convenience store cashiers, and they shouldn't be paid less than that to “cultivate their competitive spirit”.
Almost all attempts are on fearx. jojopyun's rumors were the most famous, but they considered importing almost every year. upset, mikyx, caps, jankos, and more. afreeca has also made a call to perkz at one point. Rumors only, except the cases like malice, rekkless, etc. that actually made it to CL.
doublelift, froggen also played in Korea in 2012 as an invitational team. Although it wasn't the LCK then.
Salaries are steady, but not ridiculously high. The minimum wage at VCT Pacific is close to the highest wage you can earn in Japan.
Historically, there have been more rumors and links to imports in the LCK than you might think. Teams just didn't do it because they concluded that it was more likely to lose.
Someone said bring in Deryeon.
Their floor is high and the ceiling is low. No team has a dreaded dominator vibe
And Japan has always had the second best environment in APAC in terms of the size of the orgs, the big tournaments, the tier 2 salaries, Riot's interest, everything. Since the game launched.
It took just three years for the LPL to go from a trash league that Koreans laughed at to sweep LCK. Before that, In my eyes, Japan is no different from the level of China at that time winning Worlds was easier than winning the LCK.
OK SK is one of the biggest empire in esports. But others? there are probably more PCs in Japan that can run valo at 60+ frames than the SEA and India combined.
Zeta's defense strat is the most abhorrent thing I've ever seen, PRX doesn't use any skill because they know Zeta is giving them plant for free.
I remember Korean league players going to China in 2014 and laughing at how lazy and selfish Chinese players were. Just three years later, they won worlds two years in a row, and it became clear that you can't beat them unless you fight to the death. Valo is in its fifth year, and time has passed a bit more than the Japanese fans' excuses.
Since 2015, China has absorbed the all merits of Korean scene, the LPL has grown to rival the LCK, and the entire esports industry has become stronger. It didn't take long for that to happen. My question is, why couldn't Japan do the same?
At least, you need a good opponents and a good goal. Losing apac's first league trophy to PRX was one of the crucial motivators for Korea's dominance today.
wanna write a cheeky ragebait comment containing the keyword 'pure luck' and some shits , but NS wasn't that good. at least BME's bind is real.
A Korean who joined GE as a Senti, but plays Duelist for some reasons? omg udo will be next t3xture
Please don't touch my trauma, that match will forever be the biggest shame in the history of the Korean scene, even when humanity moves out of the solar system.
It seems very tight!
Except z0ta.
He wasn't always a full-time duelist, he played Chamber and other shits at VCK and just did whatever.
The initial plan was to have five Korean organizations(maybe DRX T1 GEN DK NS) and one team (NS) with a Japanese roster instead of Korean. It was reduced to 3 teams.
League takes a lot of learning and skill, but child with a quick mouse click born everywhere in the world. And, In FPS, pure luck or how well you slept the night before can sometimes have more impact than actual skill. No region will conquer the very long term.
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Im loaded, let it go
fearx will be the 2nd SPG (if they don't lost current roster during the season due to their infamous C9-like bullshit org) and will ascend above all other challengers. Mark my words.
But after that, I doubt we'll ever see a strong enough roster to challenge for ascension in Korea again. Because the academy preference will intensify (mainly salary issues).
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fearX. SPG became Nongshim and the former Nongshim became fearx.
KR already has a second SPG, that will be your dad.
I really can't get over this shitty dumbag Nongshim logo.
preposterous!
Totally agree, the idealists in VLR don't realize that Riot and their viewpoint are completely different. Riot is not FIFA, all they want out of esports is to make money by selling skins to more players, and no one buys skins because they see a tier 2 player.
Riot's position is very different from the teams' position. Teams want a stable base, exposure to viewers, and more matches for their own survival. Riot wants fewer matches to save money and hopefully create some cool TikTok clips and a few superstars. They hope the rest of it works out, but don't need to spend money on it.
No, what they need is more Alex like guys in the team. They get all extremely excited when they get a single kill, and there's no one on the team to keep them in check. Alex can only say “Fuck you mfs, don't peek, don't die” twice in a match, and that's not enough.
People usually blame j0ng for all of PRX's losses, but today he's innocent.
He pretends to be cool and irrelevant, but he's a motherfucking psycho who spends five hours a day on Twitter and monitors everything that criticizes him. And on his birthday, two Korean teams he hates won. Enough gifts.
Did you know that Meiy and Primmie have fewer career league wins than Buzz's champions appearances?
Well, football wouldn't be of England's making if the Nintendo World Championships played by postcard or small-scale Quake Clan battles could be called esports. We created the whole modern framework, and the Secretary of State for Culture himself adopted the word 'eSports' out of a sea of words - competitive gaming, cybersports, cybergaming, etc.
yea i'm pretty sure what JonahP and TH players got was just a fan letter.
Dear PRX fans, you have never been humbled single time since the beginning of this scene. It's time to stop making death threats.
Bro we created the esport itself. but as England has shown, it's not easy to be good at what you made.
His sova ult seems to have over an 80% chance of getting a kill. I've never seen a player who can synchronize his skills so well.
DFM has to admit that Art's shotcalling isn't very good. It's been bad since abyss.
Kush guy seems really good at sova.
Bring ssees
No more Botzil, if DGZ was there last year, the result would have been better in Madrid.
He is the opposite of t3xture. t3xture is a hype guy and very loud, but he plays disiplined and methodical. Dambi is a quiet, shy kid, but he's the most demented crackhead in the whole valorant scene.
NS's great 17-game winning streak would be a shame to be broken by team like Zeta, and of course it wasn't.
I know you feel bad, but stop with the conspiracy theories. Globally, Tier 2 is unprofitable and in the red, and SEA is even worse. According to the rumored contract, SOOP will cover 100% of the operating costs for 4 years. If someone offers to buy you a rock for $100, why wouldn't you sell it?
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