Exactly, you hit the nail on the head. Orgs don't get money from prizepools, they get them from sponsors, merchandise sales etc. Who sells more shirts, yay or Bob? Who has more people on stream? Who's tournaments are more watched? That's what sponsors pay.

So yeah again, exact same case than traditional sports, Women don't get paid less because "They are worse and biologically inferior", they get paid less because less people watched them play, as simple as that

Sure, that's game changers purpose, and that's why Riot has set a whole circuit to promote it, a circuit that has been the most watched out of any female circuit in any game. But orgs are business my friend, not ONGs, it's not about what's fair or what's not or who's better and who's not, it's about who makes itself worth for the org. So, if you do not generate the same numbers the male team does, the org can't give away money just because.

Exactly, C9 dropped their roster, good you mention it, we do not know why. But now imagine C9 Blue places 4th next champions, would they have dropped them? So why did they drop the girls and leave the female scene even after so much success? Maybe because it wasn't worth out for them?

Yeah no that's not how it works. This is not like a two persons doing the same job getting paid different, it's like two athletes doing different jobs getting paid different. Completely different cases, for example, does a female football player get paid the same?

For the people who mentioned Madrid, my guess is if they wanted it here it would be in Barcelona since there's where Riot has it's offices. And honestly if it was to be in Europe I think it's pretty likely since Riot was about to do the VCT in Barcelona instead of Berlin, but teams complained since they were already established there for LEC

You can give the street number if you want too

finally free

Since they made LEC they seem less annoying xDDD

Hell nah, have Sen even started practicing?

Well actually, most part of Istanbul is not in Europe, if you wanna be technical you would have to check in which side on the Bosphorus strait the stadium was. But I’m pretty sure it was the Asian side

Nope, Bind and Breeze are going out to leave space for Split and the new map

I think it’s the perfect combination between stability and story telling for orgs but also leaving the path open for any open talent to make it by themselves. Valorant has a bright future

I mean I'm not completely sure but what I'm sensing here is that they are applying everything they did in LOL they actually liked how turned out, and remaking everything that they didn't like how it turned out (Like not giving orgs full control over spots etc). At the end of the day LOL competitive system was created many years ago and I feel like they've learned a lot.

But that's just my opinion tho, we can't really know how good of decisions this are until we actually see the long term results. I'm really really excited tho, I love the ascension and own version of franchising idea

Yeah and no. I mean they can increase the number of splits but I don't dislike the rule. There is a tier 3 circuit to start growing talent and tbf if a player wants to make VRL they need some minimums, I don't buy the idea of forcing 30 regional players if they don't have the level. And also arguably by doing that you would create more Spanish tier 2 players, but less Spanish tier 1 players since the level would obviously be lower. So it does have it's downs but it also has it's ups and it works the same way in LOL for example and in my opinion it's pretty successful so I don't see why it wouldn't here.

Also that rule rewards longterm projects and big investments, even allows the possibility to create an ascension roster on every league and create more competitiveness so some leagues don't just stay behind forever

Yeah Turkey does have a shit tone of talent, just not title contenders yet other than the cned and alfajer, and they're not available to make a full Turkish team

Yeah we lack talent, but we got 3 orgs and that's good enough for me. And about the 3 regional player per league, they are gonna keep that rule. Bu there is another rule, starting from this year, every player that plays 2 splits in a league becomes regional. For example it's already happening in Spain with Rebels. Rebels it's keeping a 6 man roster with Gatsh, Janny, and Vokashu rotating the places in order to make them be regional for next year.

Yeah sad that there's not a CIS VRL but it's understandable why they didn't

Americas does, NA doesn't

Pretty sure BaddyG did IGL last split on Vitality, so that would make it even better roster yeah

Why do you think so

100% agree

Surprising Ig. I don't agree at all, but we'll see

What? FNC Navi or TL look mid to you?

Wdym?

Sure, but don't you think if he is free agent is for a reason? Don't get me wrong he is a tier 1 player, just not a player that would turn KC into a contender for anything.

Edit: And actually now that I think about it Finland could also be one of those few nations that could make a full national team that would contend for everything imo

Yeah no, that's the issue, same one BBL and fut have. There's just not enough talent in their countries to make a contender team. (Turkey could if they had cned and alfajer available and talent not so spread, but not like this). Tbh russia and is pretty much the best country that could be contender for anything in EMEA with a national team

Bottom 5, which is not necessarily bad. But they're a step behind on the fight for any type of contention

Ah yes, KC number 1

They had 4 match points that game

Choco Mcfly

KRU vs GMB, I just wanted KRU to finish that run so bad

Good to know, thanks

Dang, really? I kinda find the opposite, russz is underrated, I’ve been seeing him play all season and even if the conditions weren’t the best you could tell how he is a world class player. But Ig it is pretty hard to know. Fair enough

What about Riens and reazy? Are they good?

I’m surprised you have so low hopes on S2G. Isn’t Russz, paura, Aslan like a really really good core?

Isn’t that a good thing

Again, and still get less hours watched overall? Does that not make it worse? Game is even more dead for casuals

And still get more hours watched? Does that not make it worse?

Idk how good the Spanish league is gonna be tbh, but Case esports and Team Queso are building some pretty decent rosters. I doubt they reach the levels of those tho

Yeah I hope they have checked well because I’ve heard something like if you play the quals for one of the leagues you can’t really switch to a new one until next split I think

Why, just assume he retired. He has the right to go get money like everyone does

Game is approved now, probably many orgs are gonna join

Dude, Ik it looks like an exaggeration but it’s not. Him and Nutable won’t leave me alone, it’s continuous messages and insults calling me dumb. They’re so mature that absolutely all of my posts spawn with -2 downfrags, not one more, not one less, whatever it is I’m talking about, and then they go up again

I don't reply to your posts nor you to mines. Neither mentioning each other on other people's posts. Why can't we just not fight

Fair enough, it's really hard to affirm who is better between players that don't regularly play against each other. I just named a lot of players cause I just can't rank em in order. For example I can't find any argument to affirm Alive is better than, jugi, purpo, lauress, miniboo, ssk yk, which doesn't make him worse, but not better either

Alive could maybe fit in some lower board vct teams, I wouldn't disagree with that. The best tier 2 duelist? No

You can't ask G2 and TSM the same you ask Acend. It's completely different cases, once franchising was anounced, ascend was automatically a tier 2 org with no chance of making it.

That being said I do like this roster better than TSM's, and I have to see oxy, penny and Brodie but if G2 or TSM are better than this (which I doubt) it's not by a lot

If you add Monster that is an almost tier 1 core

is that a no to my deal

Whatever

I told him that he contradicted himself, unlike you I don't insult people

Wow, you must have thousands of friends cause you seem to need to consolate one by insulting me on every one of my posts and now you bring bullying up? I can't bro.

Look, for the thousand I'm already trying to ignore you, just please stop this war, I leave you alone, you leave me alone

Alive is not good enough for tier 1 yet, but he is definitely top 10 duelists in tier 2 with players like kamo, miniboo, purpo, bisk, 7ssk7, lauress and a couple more

You really don't see the hypocrisy of you telling me I'm looking for a fight after randomly insulting me out of nowhere?

And same happens to a police officer, and that doesn't mean it's a good thing to do (see, an analogy, not a topic change)

Ah yes, because you randomly insulting me on all my posts is because you're not searching an argument. Heard enough hypocrisy for today