The sports teams are either clubs related to a location or national teams.
But there is no linkage between places in esports clubs, i wonder why is it like that, so much missed potential. Id like to see people being supportive of their country, not some random org across the world...
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NneonZz [#4]a few esports tried and failed miserably (OWL for example)
and i doubt actual cities would give a shit with how poorly esports is seen in the public's eye compared to esports. especially when esports is currently broke as shit right now making little to no money
I see, the popularity is the key, but i think national teams would run alright, since big countries like US, JP, KR, BR. Have a big audience.
What happened to OWL? It seems like a good idea
Cities are too small and unviable to tie an entire organisation to.
There are some newer orgs that primarily focus on 1 country (or language), the likes of karmine corp and Loud.
Which has helped them create a more tight-nit and die hard fan base/culture.
For a lot of the older orgs it didn't make sense to limit themselves to one market due to how small each individual countries esports interest was.
Some of the appeal of esports at the time was the ability to have competition which wasn't bounded by geographical location.
You will see a lot of the older european orgs have spread themselves into the "newer" countries/markets because at the end of the day esports is a business, expansion and capitalising on new opportunities is successful.
Fnc for example have a few teams and content creators in japan.
NIP are on the extreme end with ties to Brazil and China.
M0kii [#9]there isn't enough pro level players to represent a certain city I guess people will come support if players are actually from the city or state. look at OWL all teams named after NA cities and barely any NA player
they dont have to be exactly from the same city lol
Holistical_Nil [#8]cheering for a country LOL
i much prefer cheering for players
cheering for a country is 100% more hype than players wdym
Kkonakorner [#13]they dont have to be exactly from the same city lol
yeah but at least 1 or 2 players so that the people feel their city is at least represented
NneonZz [#4]a few esports tried and failed miserably (OWL for example)
and i doubt actual cities would give a shit with how poorly esports is seen in the public's eye compared to esports. especially when esports is currently broke as shit right now making little to no money
Karmine Corp is doing wonderfully in France. I think if an org starts off with a commitment to a certain locale it goes better. But most orgs, especially old ones, were essentially just some random org. So in OWL where it was essentially an org buying into a team tied to a location (and losing their own brand in doing so) it really didn't help the esports scene. You don't have to have the location in your org name to represent a place if you want to (ie K Corp is not French Corp), just make a commitment actually commit.
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