Franchising hate thread #1

Fuck franchising. All my homies love regional league with relegation and promotion

Without franchising, organisations will not commit long term which ends up hurting tier 1 players.

If done correctly with good tier 2 scene and academy leagues i dont mind it that much sure open league is great but franchising if done correctly could give orgs and the game much more stability compared to current situation

These orgs won’t be joining valorant esports in the first place if there’s no franchising lol

You think they will actually pay a few hundreds thousands a year to upkeep a team just so their match can be viewed by 5-10k people in regional? Lmao
Most people don’t even watch even if you qualify into VCT unless they are playing against a big team like TL or G2

Franchising is good lol ppl are overreacting so much. It's better for long term growth of the org and scene because these random tier 2 orgs were never gonna last anyways. The top orgs need a way to have sustainable growth and a lot of these orgs are bleeding money waiting for riot to announce franchising.

But it's partnerships, not hard franchising like a OWL. It's just a better competition for the top teams/players and there will probably be an academy league. Should be more worried about what they are going to do for the T2 scene. We have heard nothing about that, thats worrying for the future of the game

imo league is the only game with a big enough playerbase for franchising to work in because it keeps t2 scene alive despite everything. I just don't think valorant is big enough for this not to kill the scene entirely

really sad to see so many people that dont care about the t2 scene and just label it as "bad players" and "bad orgs", people dont understand that healty systems include relegation so that the big orgs cant just sit on their ass and do nothing and incentives the smaller orgs to expand, invest and make their breakthrough, tier 2 nurtures talent and allows players that people dont expect to rise and show their skill, academy leagues are either going to be
A) like in League where its mostly washed up players that only want their paycheck and some young talent that gets picked up too late cause the washed ups are in the way
B) Like the CS academy league where most teams are super forward looking and hire 17 to 13 year olds to play, cutting off older players completely even if they have lots of talent(This is ok in CS cause the tier 2 scene is really healty in EU)

I feel like franchising might produce better games and teams overall, but it will also kill the career of a lot of players completely, players that might have done upsets or miracle runs in an open format wont be able to do that anymore, top teams that sit on their ass wont ever be upset and snapped back to reality like Sentinels when they failed to qualify for challengers at first, this is going to be a great loss for valorant esports as a whole imo, especially for the players, excluding the ones already at the top

yeah franchising kill tier 2 scene, sometimes works like League franchising, example LEC with franchising but tier 2 still working like LFL, Superliga, Ultraliga etc, i need franchising but not 3 region only, example NA VAL franchising with 10 main team + academy team so 20 team available for pros join. 10 team in latam ( BR + LATAM ), 10 team EMEA, 10 team apac south ( SEA + OCE + SA ), 10 team apac north ( Jp, kr, china, taiwan/hk, mongolia etc )