Franchising won't kill the scene

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Alova02

First off while u can compare franchising to other eSports version of it, riot way of doing it has already deviated since the start. It's not a buy-in franchise, it's a Riot-controlled franchise. If a team dares to milk the system and underperform u can bet riot would immediately take them out of the league, as they have mentioned they will change orgs in the league's every few years.

2nd off alot of ppl complain ABT this killing t2 but i don't see how that's the case? Riot is setting up VRL for basically everything and with an promotion system in place, yes a few top teams got shafted like optic and g2 ( tho this is obvious for reasons ).

The 30 teams that start it off are just that, starting teams, and underdogs stories can still form, but it won't be flops like tgrd since they will need consistency to perform for more than a year. Give it time, shit just got announced and people seem to forget alot of the safety nets that riot has put in place.

Side note people talking about low viewership for T2... Look at VRL or if u want even better example LOL Europe T2 leagues, they are pulling in crazy views

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All my homies hate franchising

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Only floptic and gold2 fans

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Only SEN fans like franchising because Riot bailed them out despite being a dogshit team with trash players

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BrotherMan

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FNS > SEN history

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Marleyz

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''floptic''
bro Optic is the most consistent team in vct history.
i swear a team can win 5 lans in a row and stil wil be called a bad team.

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W

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All my homies hate valorant

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2real wtf

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Kyoune

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Only 1 team get promoted each year. Imagine if xset and optic must fight for that one spot.

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Alova02

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That's just for the first few years,where 2 teams will ascend every year and while I don't know if riot will expand the league to cover more regions seperately, and xset most likely won't stay together. There's already too many t1 supposedly team in the first place.

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Kyoune

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Also it's pretty funny that one of the best team in the game can't play on highest league

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Alova02

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While I agree optic getting rejected was definitely surprising and honestly a bit blindsided, there's alot of things going on behind the scenes that we don't know about. Look at CR who could have got in APAC league, but failed due to paperwork problems. For all we know there may be more stuff behind the front that stopped optic from getting the spots beside finance or org problems

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optic was dominating and org structure was bad..riot don't like dominating .they like stories.rags to riches

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BrotherMan

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Wait but didn’t a lot of T2 teams (at least in NA) disband because of franchising?

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Alova02

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There's no competition in this few months and na teams were paying insane amount of wages, rather than fully disband, it's like they discontinued their Val rosters until next year rolls around. Most of the team that didn't get into franchise and releasing their players are letting players have the chance to seek out t1 competition and those that didn't make it will settle for T2

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that was before they knew about how riot would handle the t2 system, some are looking to come back

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A lot of these teams knew valorant will eventually franchise a lot of the initial hype is for some of these tier 2 orgs to get star players or team that could potentially be tier 1.