bro is getting downvoted for being correct

As with previous years, 50% of net proceeds from the Champions 2025 Collection will be shared with VCT teams

fixed ty

meant VCT internationals only, should have noted that. thanks for the spot!

that was one thing i tried to kind of put forward: PRX are 8-4 on Ascent this year. Those 4 wins were 3 at home (BOOM, T1, RRQ) and once at Toronto (vs Wolves)

i give them the benefit of the doubt @ toronto because PRX's form was kind of stupid in that run, but you can't walk away from just 3 wins to 1 notable opponent thinking "yeah i can let this slide"

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by god this is genius.

good eye! fixed, thanks.

the math wasn't mathing thanks

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fixed thanks i misread the year

finger slipped, good spot! thanks.

my bad. fixed, thanks!

leads break some of the narrative-building but are (often, not always!) a harsh necessity of writing. it's a shame sometimes, and this is a great example of that. thanks!

brainfart -- wrote about nismo/cubert right before this but somehow forgot. fixed language and changed to "all but two," thanks.

all good! we tend to stick to using "match" to refer to a series (bo3, bo5) so when a match is "tied" it means they're going to a decider (map 3). OT is always OT or, at worst, "extra time" (as opposed to "regular time")

no idea where i got fracture from, thanks for that. on the rest -- by tying up the match i mean it's 1-1 and they go to decider. that's the language we use at vlr.

prankd XDXDXDXDXD

never left

win11 issue lol

whoops. translated it wrong in my head, apologies. fixed, thanks.

"nearly pushed" didnt make it through the edit for some reason. fixed, ty!

one lower bracket round has two matches. fixed the rest tho, ty

educated guess is that the big patch of the offseason is after ascension and before the third split of challengers. that's when the true offseason begins since ascension is still a part of this year's season

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listen prewrites have their drawbacks ok

never heard of him he is dead and buried

marved is also a possibility. he igl'd for SEN once dephh left

e: chet tweeted it will be ethan

really struggling to see your point here. are you talking about the "gamepod"?

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blud actually forgot how to read

five interviews I did over the course of 3 months!

good spot thanks

websites like dot and dexerto already have a lot of league coverage, and riot's own platforms + liquipedia are enough, making a lol-centric website basically pointless. surrender@20 is dead, for example. but trying wont hurt, who knows! if you can do something the others arent doing, it'll make your idea more valuable

nah this is an ultra common 🐔 W

bold of you to assume these people aren't in a cave

my boy gui putting in work

talking about gender is not politics. most of this thread is actually decent, barring the person who called trans people schizophrenic

missed a comma after fns. happens when writing late at night. fixed, thanks!

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which one

nothing public has come from sentinels or marved regarding his position in the team. he does not have a contract with sentinels at the time of writing, per the GCD, but who knows what his status is

disclaimer*

salary numbers are not mine. the 25k was a rough figure revealed by george yesterday, so the numbers are not exactly correct. will add as a disclaimer below the original tweet.

has to be monthly. yearly league minimum was 50k.

for money... exactly. not discussing open vs. closed here. you arrived at my starting point.

oh cmon don't give gtz that much credit

my bad. fixed, thanks!

i assume you're talking about BNE? i don't really follow cs anymore. in any case, that one team made more in one year than riot made in their champions bundle altogether (3M vs. the 2.something the bundle made this year). the scale of the community and what % of it flocks to those stickers/passes to support the major teams is gigantic in comparison to the same numbers that flock to support partnered teams.

valve has implemented crowdfunding methods very well over the past few years, dota 2 TI and cs stickers being the greatest examples of that. not sure what the numbers are for the Worlds LoL passes and a quick google search won't help me, but there's a reason LoL struggles to turn a profit.

when you keep boiling down these decisions and differences, they all come down to one thing: riot's dev-managed closed system. it is the fundamental reason for most of the differences between this game and CS. it's not pretty for a lot of things, but it's great for financial stability. why do you think the blast partnership and louvre agreement exist?

expect any further player releases to be an update of this article. separating players from the coach

the teams. that's who matters to riot. their "players first" marketing has been proven wrong time and time again. riot are a business and their business is making money, and in their eyes orgs are the conduit for that. stipends are pretty large, reported to be ranging from 600k (base stipend) to 1.2M (+400k for deliverables set by riot, usually regarding marketing).

in 2024/2025 we're expecting to see team skins, not just champs skins. can't do that with an open circuit (cs has stickers, not skins), can't do that with riot's current shop system and you won't EVER have an open circuit over a riot IP.

that's why the orgs get paid by riot to be in the partnership. that's why the LoL leagues are franchised. that's why the LCSPA and AVPA exist (to protect players from riot's teams-first decisions), etc etc.

lot of people here saying all flynn does is gather info from other reporters.. not true. his most recent update to the spreadsheet shows very clearly he is the one acquiring info for some of the moves he puts up there. if it's trustworthy or not is another conversation.