Whats franchising?

What is all this franchising this about and why is it making orgs leave the scene?

Limited amount of teams get franchising and teams have to pay for the franchising slot I think

bad thing

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its some kind of italian food ig

McDonalds. KFC , etc

idk but if it doesnt come with a fantasy draft style roster shuffle it's bad.

Franchising is where a team pays x amount of money for a permanent spot in the event (in riot’s case it’s pseudofranchising so orgs don’t pay). This benefits the orgs because they have the threat of open circuit where they can lose and not have events for months which makes the orgs get no return on their investment. With having a permanent spot in the league they get a return on their investment. However franchising has it's downsides because with only 6 teams the game risks becoming stagnant with the same teams playing each other. Also open circuit system is gone which means there will be no DHBK (Kooky koalas) or The Guard storylines. Another downside of franchising is that it affects the tier 2 scene greatly. Tier 2 orgs won't be able to afford the spot in the league and they will be locked out of real Tier 1 competition and I believe that in order for valorant to not become it is ESSENTIAL that the tier 2 scene is supported so that new players can enter the league. T2 overwatch is dead and riot must learn from OWL's mistakes in order for the game to succeed from franchising.

I copied this from an old vlr thread

Really the reason why teams are leaving is due to limited spots and it seems LG is not a team that will get one of those spots. So, they have no reason to keep a roster if they are only ever going to compete in T2 tourneys. If there are any T2 tournaments happening after franchising.

I don't see how this is a good thing at all if there's no qualifying for the big events how do we know we're getting the best competition in each one?