Bruh what does it means? If apac has 12 slots kr will get 4?
It says its possible that KR is getting 3-4 slots but that does not make sense as franchising does not care about subregion and just sees APAC as a whole. If it cared about subregions like KR getting 3-4 slots then other regions like South Asia and Oceania would be guaranteed 1 slots but we know that is just not true.
I don’t see a corelation tbh. LCK is franchised and the orgs had to pay a buy-in. They are making money by being apart of LoL, it’s not like they are only helping Riot. Also why would you not bring in the orgs that are trying to grow valorant? That doesn’t make sense, especially if they’re good and stable orgs.
Listen, at the end of the day i don’t really care either way, personally i want to see DRX and KT in the league, other then that i don’t care about other korean orgs.
Here's a better explanation.
Suppose the APAC league has 12 teams. The APAC league's initial teams are region dependent; split into the three current regions we have: KR, JP, and APAC. Maybe SA and OCE too.
Out of those 12 slots, 3/4 slots are going to Korea. Another 3 are going to Japan.
The remaining slots will go to a mix of SEA, OCE, and SA.
probably true but kinda unfair for other sea countries, since all the kr and jp orgs just gonna have players from their own country. It's not like kr and japan are playing on a higher level. SEA players have high level players on average but now they have all have to share between multiple countries for slots.
probably not, 6 full kr and jp roster when thai, malay, sing, indo, pinoy, with same level players can fight among themselves for 3 slots ( viet as well when they actually have a scene ). Hopefully, theres a way for unfranchised teams from countries to get out there, if not then that country's scene just gonna die.