Why are there so many orgs in EMEA Franchising that didn't make VCT Challengers 2022?
Giants: No Namers
Heretics: No Namers
KOI: No Namers
Vitality: No Namers (they played in vrl i guess)
FUT: No Namers (they won in vrl i guess)
wasted fucking spots (maybe fut and vitality werent)
3 spanish teams, 2 french ones, 2 turkish ones but 1 cis team, 0 eastern europe teams and 0 german teams (FNC and TL are just multinational EU, NaVi are full CIS)
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I took that into consideration and it still made 0 fucking sense
KCORP maybe cause they have a massive fanbase in france, but FUT and fucking GIANTS? it makes 0 sense, turkish teams already have BBL for representation (they could've given acend a spot for that cNed farming anyway), spain has wayy too many spots already even without giants
1 fucking CIS team man
0 VRL Northern/DACH team even though they got a lot of fans up here
rito is not prioritizing quality or even viewership, wtf are they prioritizing?
my brain may be small but i know that partnership is just viewership + clout + org money
giants: 0 viewership
FUT: 5 fans
KOI & Heretics combined fan count: 3
Vitality i was coping with, they have fans + massive clout
anyway
no dach teams even though their vrl viewership stats werent even that bad
and no eastern europe teams even though vrl east was doing alright as well (tho ig the orgs there are pretty poor)
yeah but is 2 really needed for turkey
still no german orgs
koi & giants could probably carry spanish viewership solo like gambit solo carried russia viewership or how sen carried LCQ viewership
still like, i feel like they could've sneaked in more VRL regions in the partnerships without compromising any popular region in any major way
BBL was 100% in, FUT did a lot of stuff like open watch parties, collabs more and more. I never hear anything about BIG (prob the only DACH org in consideration for franchise league)
And FUT pulls up numbers too.
I would have liked to see a DACH team too, but instead of one of the three spanish orgs
Well, idk what the situation is with GMB rn, idk if they will be able to recover and be an org anymore, but if they do and they get to move their Cs fanbase to Valorant Riot would definitely consider them ofc
About zeek, pretty sure he will be in franchising this year I don't see why he wouldn't get picked up
It's between how much money orgs are willing to invest + how good is the project proposal in terms of business.
People has to consider that some orgs don't have the economic solvency for franchising. Also not that much people notices that some orgs simply don't like the franchising system or aren't interested in Valorant.
ah, fair
tbf secret never fielded a val roster so that was probably a bad example. G2? Again, massive viewership, clout and money. and again, responsible TO's haven't had any problems with letting G2 play despite the carlos stuff (which ig doesnt matter anymore, but it did matter at the time)
or maybe HEROIC? Astralis? Many ppl had them pegged to get in. big clout in other games, could ez pull in tens of k's of viewership, and afaik big pockets
G2 was punished for what Carlos did, they had a last minute meeting to kick them out, it was just a bad timing, but they already had their spot in NA locked and the start of a deal with XSet's roster
Astralis is not a solid org economically and they have done horrible in LOL (basically signing tier 2 teams knowing they were gonna place last but not caring about it cause they just wanted the money Riot is giving them) So yeah no chance with them
Heroic has mainly Danish fanbase and the nordic countries and CIS are still very CS regions that haven't been able to grow in Valorant. Copenaghen masters was literally half empty
Yes, I agree BIG should have been in, instead of either Giants or Futbolist who are the smaller orgs even tho they are huge. Imo should have been Fut, Ik I'm biased but at the end of the day giants is an Spanish org yeah but European roster, so kinda neutral, meanwhile fut is just 5 more Turkish players
Giants was one of the first orgs to fully invest in valorant, they have a solid fanbase and they are involved in the spanish speaking scene so it makes sense Riot decided to reward their project. They are not the most clouted nor they have an inmense fanbase like other orgs but they are the exact type of org that Riot can count to do the right things for developing the esport.
yeah, the lesser popular turkish team goes back to ascension so that bbl can pull all the turkish viewers without wasting a slot (which i think they can do) and they put big in
turkish val has already had a lot of development with stars like qw1 and cNed in the scene unlike german valorant, german val only has teams qualifying to challengers and frankfurt servers for representation (+ why would you not add german orgs if ur gonna host emea league in berlin anyway?!?!)
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