Just think about it, no team in South Asia got a slot in franchising (yes it is highly possible we dont get even a single slot) but instead of slot riot decided to give our TO's little bit of financial support and permission to hold Tier 2 apac (aka the teams which are not in franchised slots and includes both SEA + OCE) maybe even LAN (one is already in talks by skyesports where bleed esports will play in that lan this year maybe after masters) , if something like this happen than even if we lost to make it to masters or champions but SA (unfortunately India in this case) will become an esports hub in a decade right? I mean if events like SEA + SA + OCE held than ofc even SouthAsians people will want to watch the matches especially if its LAN (if we get even 1% of our teenagers population as viewers it will easily cross 2+million viewers yes we have 253 million of people between the age of 10 to 19 but its impractical rn maybe in a year with heavy marketing or two three years with no marketing it will not be) on top of that we will get SEA + OCE viewers too and maybe even from other region as it will be kinda like mini apac challengers the best part if it will be LAN even if SA teams lost people will still watch it just for the expressions but maybe just maybe with OG new lineup, GE new lineup (high chance of kohli in and kappa out after some months like 6-7 source trust me bro it already looks like both skrossi and lf is fed up by all this now + eraser wants some changes so yeah highly likely), Vlt new lineup + sleepy's guidance and enigma's grind SA teams will win atleast one match kekw
Its a win even if we lost
Lmao, but tbf it holds some value like in pubgm india placed second when they were given chance but after ban the performance was heavily down maybe it will rise again but it holds some value of giving chance to a region we didnt got our chance in pokemon unite for the first time when most of the top leaderboards were indian just saying not like we will never improve but more like we will improve with new talent even if we have boomers like kappa who had been a pro player since cs 1.6 we still face downfall after forsuckan inccident but to be also fair valorant is new and we just suck as of right now yeah we got our chance later than other even in valo but everyone will only speak results
Da faq bro bgmi have 1.5 crores prizepool even in third party???? Fricking available on tv!!!! Even spotify sponsorssss it!! The live quality is okay but I want auidence bro I want crowd even through we have alot of statiums with over 30000 capacity but I dont think we can organize such events in stadiums and on the other hand indra gandhi area only have 14k seats sadge if we could organize such lan in stadium then fk yeah nodwin make it come true otherwise just gotta wait for global esports to make their own arena
I was just joking its just I love valorant not bgmi thats why I watch it and yeah I will too support our pc gaming but damm mobile esports scene is fastest developing esports scene it took so many years for pc esports to reach where they are today but mobile esports did that in mere 3 fricking years????
I think because its different culture
most south east and south asia is dominated by mobile gaming
see VCT Japan has Huge arena despite dnt have cs scene
Viewership Japan has more than SA + Apac combine
Thats why Organization and Riot is considerate having a big event like that because most esports is mobile only
I mean skyesports was able to organize almost same level lan
as vct korea while this was just the begining + the reason we dont have views is because most people dont watches esports otherwise we have the largest biggest stadium for cricket and the second largest stadium in the world, maybe the current bgmi lan by nodwin that is being broadcasted in tv will bring alot of audience to esports woth the completion of that tourney and maybe this would also leads to growth of valorant viewers in SA + pc esports have to thrive even if riot leave our support
Take for example a kid started watching that lan and he loved it then when everything ended he wants to watch more so he goes on to youtube types nodwin gaming and see their channel subscribed them for another lan tour then when a valorant tourney happens on nodwin he watches it and likes it too this is just one of the many scenarios that could happen on tv and dude it could also possible that on tv esports will be getting 10 million views
I think you misunderstood here
Its not because they can or not, its because its not profitable to do so
see, esports came from having a huge active community not the other way around
certainly riot can address this by spend money on lan event but its not healthy in long term
You need bigger community first
If you are thinking that we will organize big lan events in a month or two than thats not what I meant but what I was saying that little by little we will become self independant its just the early stages and we can still afford lans along with inviting sea without getting into much loses speaking for the TOs here + you are saying smoething like viewers dont grow with time on esports which is kind of a joke even japan took 20 years to organize a lan like this from just playing cafe but yeah if there is no innovation in the scene with the same teams competing again and again than viewership only decrease
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