ds_santos_ Diogo Santos
Country: Portugal
Registered: January 19, 2021
Last post: December 23, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Posts: 514
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marved is also a possibility. he igl'd for SEN once dephh left

e: chet tweeted it will be ethan

posted 4 months ago

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

posted 4 months ago

😂😂😂

posted 4 months ago

blud actually forgot how to read

posted 5 months ago

five interviews I did over the course of 3 months!

posted 5 months ago

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

posted 6 months ago

nah this is an ultra common 🐔 W

posted 6 months ago

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

posted 7 months ago

my boy gui putting in work

posted 7 months ago

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

posted 7 months ago

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

posted 7 months ago

#39

posted 7 months ago

which one

posted 7 months ago

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

posted 7 months ago

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.

posted 7 months ago

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

posted 7 months ago

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

posted 7 months ago

oh cmon don't give gtz that much credit

posted 7 months ago

my bad. fixed, thanks!

posted 7 months ago

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?

posted 7 months ago

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

posted 7 months ago

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.

posted 7 months ago

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.

posted 7 months ago

mostly financial stability. that's what they're built for. not heightened competition.

posted 7 months ago

with george now gone, americas is kinda dead. but anonimotum in emea, seulgi does good moves in pacific too. lembo has some presence in emea but he's mostly a content creator.

posted 7 months ago

hi

posted 7 months ago

that's a two-way contract. a VCT team can loan to a VCL player, but not the opposite. the opposite is a two-way contract. at least that's my understanding. falls under subsection 4.5 and 4.6 of the rules

posted 7 months ago

yeah man it's so hard :( i don't know how i can live like this :( i am utterly shattered

posted 7 months ago

thankfully the naysayers don't pay me

posted 7 months ago

slight correction: the dates cited as "roster deadlines" are roster submission dates. teams must submit to riot a roster that can play at that tournament. the lock itself only takes place later and they are separate dates. the champions lock, for example, is only july 26.

posted 7 months ago

hesketh is a liquipedia employee (and a good one at that)

posted 7 months ago

woops. thanks!

posted 7 months ago

nah im the guy who typed "o7" in respect of daveeys and got flamed by the echo chamber. but it's all good!

posted 7 months ago

behaved shady with women, some (many? can't recall) underage. otherwise has a solid track record breaking roster moves. questionable twitter moves at times (like the way he handled the recent esic news) but people do things for impressions

posted 7 months ago

just another day on the job getting torched by the echo chamber hivemind that these forums have become

posted 7 months ago

o7

posted 7 months ago

"james" is an absolute clown

posted 7 months ago

basically the guard's ownership group (kroenke sports & entertainment) is killing its esports venture (the guard) and TG not signing this Team Participation Agreement is basically their "fuck you i'm out"

posted 7 months ago

nothing official has been announced.

posted 7 months ago

i'm a dog person bro
tough luck for that cat damn

posted 7 months ago

leo is probably higher than alfajer in contention for a 2023 MVP, if there were such a thing. he had incredible impact in every one of fnatic's games. he was the lockin mvp and wasn't the masters tokyo MVP by just a hair -- it could have gone either way.

alfajer has been incredible ever since lockin, but he didn't show up at lockin. that's the only reason i'd give leo a slight advantage

posted 7 months ago

so takas just doesn't exist huh

posted 7 months ago

got better shit to do than write articles about something a player said on his stream a few times. not that a forum dweller like you would know.

e: disregarding the fact you think we're going to chase after news because some vlr forums popped up on this subject, the person above said it well. it came from an official source this time, not a twitch sound bite.

posted 8 months ago

no restriction on regions, just on teams from the same group

posted 8 months ago

0-team region

posted 8 months ago

EG are largely backed by PEAK6, a VC investment firm. In layman's terms: they have a shit load of money and 0 knowledge or notion of what to do with it

posted 8 months ago
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