anywhere else as in no one outside C9, o anywhere else as in only on G2?

he was talking about last years roster so no

he is under contract, not really how it works

But yeah he tried out for a few teams, G2 were interested apparently

I’m not up to date but I doubt R6 peaks much higher than GC even

First of all xD
And second of all, have you heard of timezones

I think the argument is more like there aren't enough games through the year. Like through the season you get weeks with like games every day at every hour. But then there's months with no games at all

One very important detail people often get twisted every time Iin franchising good/bad conversations. The fact that the franchising concept is the correct one in my opinion does not mean it doesn't need to improve a bunch of shit.

People blame franchising for absolutely any problem they see. "Franchising is terrible there isn't enough games" Wtf does that have to do with franchising, have riot add more games?

I understand what you mean and I also thought of that but I don't believe that would work at all for many reasons:

1. I don't think it makes up for the amount of skins people would stop buying. If you implement that the sells on new skins would dramatically drop. If you wanted a new skin you would spend 50 dollars on a skin from someone who doesn't wanna play anymore, not 100 on a new one. And the margin of benefit there for riot is way smaller

2. One of the reasons that works in cs is because the amount of items is limited, which means prices can grow bigger than the original price and therefore people speculate and it's like a bubble. In valorant other than very few skins, you can literally get any of them at your store at any moment so the price is kinda capped at the original price of the skin

3. How does this even benefit Riot, the whole point of this was that tier 2 would benefit from having gambling money sponsors related to the game. But how would a third party make money from a system like this without the gambling part? Maybe you could make a third party store where you could buy any skin. But then again if Riot really wanted that they could just do it themselves and allow everyone to buy any skin at any time.

Brother you're missing the point, ofc gambling is not bad for the pro players, it's actually great to make the scene work. The problem is the moral side of it, not anything else, it's just a line Riot is not willing to cross. It's like if they allowed drug ads, would help the scene grow with money but it's not ethical

And yeah the actual solution as you say is just Riot pumping more money into making more events

That’s quite literally what Sliggy meant tho.

Basically, I would rather have the situation we have now that the one in Cs if that means we have to allow gambling

Without cases is just pointless economically for Riot because people would buy skins from each other instead of from Riot

League has over a decade of history, it’s much easier to create narratives, give it time. Also another factor is that Valorant it’s easier to understand for an outsider so attracting new players is easier

But yeah LOL is insanely big, we are not anywhere close as of now

I’ve argued this before but that has nothing to do with franchising tho

I think it has the potential to be because it’s more global. Regions are a lot more even and it feels like it’s stronger in more countries

That’s exactly his point, so many tournament organizers can do what they do because of gambling sponsors and money

Aspas missed a bunch of events brother xD

He also had hoody as signed as of yesterday and he just got signed to Fokus so who tf knows xD

Idk about underrated because they're generally being placed top4 EMEA in most people's rankings which is where I also think they should be. But yes I have high hopes for them, the firepower is insane and I'm excited about the Saadhack + Engh duo

yes he is, I was asking for him to get picked up
The thing is tho, the firepower is not where he will shine, I'd say he has average tier 1 firepower. The strength is the comms and the flexibility with the roles. Enghh knows what he's doing so we'll see

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Maybe, but it’s not the same as NRG at all

No he said the peak viewership was 9.1M

potter would have cned playing brimstone

as long as he's off duelist

She's too busy preparing for the game against Geng tomorrow

Relyks?

Fuck no, just of off player base alone that statement doesn't make any sense

Depends on the sport I suppose, but no, it's not anywhere close to Messi or Mj's levels. 90% of the planet know who Messi or Ronaldo are, I don't imagine Faker's level being above 20%

So are many sports nowadays too tbh

It's probably technically correct but the word "athlete" feels wrong

They already said 90% of this years champs viewership was Chinese

Technically it has without counting China

The Chinese numbers must be fucking crazy

Probably have to wait for the official numbers but that shit must have been fucking crazy counting all platforms

This is what we have as of now
https://x.com/esportscharts/status/1852776636355321881?s=46

Genuine question, how does a game like Fn compare to those games mechanically? Without having played either much Fn looks harder to the eye

not anytime soon at least

You're def confusing him with someone else, maybe thunking of some of the old Swedish GUILD players

taught faker everything he knows

shit's too easy

Rekkles clutches up for EMEA

I was about to say koldamenta or some other random name but atp just gotta bow down to the goat

holy fuck

Rekkles is this you?

he plays lol in the mornings and val in the afternoons

He's been ahead of Ibai all of worlds but today, I think it's because of the schedule

According to vlr they didn’t change coaches. And no my point is more like they never actually played good Valorant, before or after Shanghai. Relied a lot on individualities but the amount of mistakes was through the roof and it just didn’t look sustainable

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If we’re being fair they didn’t even play very well at stage 2 gameplay wise. It didn’t look sustainable

I mean technically speaking, if you are racist then you probably consider yourself lucky you were born where you were born.

Not sure if that’s how it works tho xD

I’m so confused, are the academy player’s names actually Potter and Toast?