What is Franchising?

Im very new to esports in general and was wondering if anyone could explain to me what franchising was as it seems riot are doing it next year.

I’m not an expert on the topic, but in short, it’s basically just riot making each region into a league and giving the orgs that’ll benefit them the most (financially, viewership-wise etc) a guaranteed place in the league

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Like kfc
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Well, regular franchising is basically a closed league with partnered orgs. This orgs usually buy their spot and simply compete in it. This is a way of ensuring orgs to have a save investment and something that is going to be stable.

This being said in Valorant we thought that is how it was going to be but it actually has very few things of those now that we have more information tho so technically is not really franchising, just the name we call it xD

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