CrossFire has announced a new Seat System coming to the 2024 Chinese League
Coincidentally the Chinese League for VCT is gonna be next year as well, looks like the arrival of VCT CN does warrant CFPL to start moving
For starters CrossFire introduced franchising in 2019, a cost of $1.5M grants the owner entries to the PC and Mobile league together.
However since then they werent able to draw any new buyer and only two new buyer happens by replacing those who left
Considering VCT China has a Buy-in, but is surely much cheaper than CFPL + potential Temporary Seat, no wonder CrossFire has to made this change to try counter VALORANT
Specially CFPL has already loses out in Heat Number because VALORANT encourages Costreams
(Meanwhile CS still stuck with Perfect World's small scale league, which was the most of publisher effort coming out of PW)
TLDR: CS1.6 clone to improve their esports to try counter VALORANT Esports
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