neID [#46]
Nah bro, it seems like that is you who don’t fully understand how the world works and how media power operates. The majority of people who play Valorant don’t care about Esports or are only minimally interested. You could win a championship and still only have a few thousand people on your stream.
Everything is determined by your media presence, and Tenz has the strongest out there. He had more viewers on his streams than Tarik (not including watch parties yet). He has the potential to become an even bigger media giant, especially if he starts doing more IRL content, watch parites and developing his own brand. In the eyes of the people, he’s already a legend with two Masters titles and Riot is financially invested in ensuring that people like Tenz remain among the main faces of Valorant.
Look at any industry, like music, sports, or film - you don’t have to be the best statistically, by critics' ratings, or in the opinion of professionals to be the face of the industry and have the largest fan base or media presence. If he decides to quit streaming Valorant, then yeah, his media presence and status will lose some strength. But if he doesn’t, he’ll stay at the top of Valorant views, mentions, and fanbase for a long time. Don't be delusional bro
Valid, but you are being much delusional as me.
First, Tenz owned his fans by competitive Valorant, yes, the majority of val players doesnt see competitve, but you cant deny the vast majority of Tenz fans is people who watche competitive Valorant, the peoples who makes him the face of Valorant, is these people.
And say that a championship doesnt bring thounsands of views is beyond delusional, especially if you was team mvp (Like Demon1 or Aspas)
Tenz has the strongest presence now, bc he is the face of Valorant now, u cant secure that he is going to make brand or something besides live.
U cant be sure if he still is going to be one of the main faces, you whole argument is based in people being loyal to Tenz, and his viewership is just going to grow, even if a new NA hero appears and take NA to the glorius spot.
Let me break it down for you with a example, Fallen.
Fallen was the main face of BR CS for a long time, he did everthing i said, feats both IRL and in Cs, making Cs school to the poors and winning majors, until now, no other Br team winned champs, still, when you ask people about face of BR CS, they gonna say Gaules ( Or fuking Neymar 💀).
Ofc Fallen was the main face for years, and until this day, is one of the mains faces of Br Cs, but you get the point, even with everthing he did (That lets agree, Tenz didnt 10% of what he did), he still lost his role as main face.
Yes, people dont need to be professionals, just have a huge fanbase to be the main face.
But, take the three paragraphs above, Tenz fanbase vast majority is people who watch competitive, he has his fanbase bc at his time, he was the best in the world (2021), who make NA win the first ever Val trophy.
If another MVP NA hero, appears, and win champions, people will change their idol real quick, bc this is how the world works.
Tenz didnt anything until now, to be remenbered for Irl feats, besides live, that has a huge viership bc he retired like, 2d ago, watche parties isnt enough to say he still is going to be in the same level viewership for more than 3y.
Dont get me wrong, he still are going to be influent, top 10, but when we say "still at the top" we mean top 5, and he isnt going to be in this place for more than 2y.
You argument was good, just had one mistake, loyalt.
If after a time, Tenz dont have anything to offer besides live playing Val or doing watche parties, people will change to the "Glorius NA goat wo bringed home champs".