I understand Valorant is entering franchising for the first time, but the old schedule was and the current break is ridiculous.
This game's viewership is probably going to take a long time to build up since people's favorite teams play once every 10 months
how can this be profitable for the orgs involved?
I think people were expecting more from the offseason/independent tournament organizer series following Champions and its been a bit of a letdown. While the faze all-star weekend and spike nations were fun it was more content oriented than competition
Redbull HG and Knights freezeout are in the horizon but I'd rather see actual Ascension or even partnered teams attend rather than some pugs
Well, in big corporates they have to sacrifice some stuff to follow protocol even if it hurts a little bit ( this off season fiesta )
we all know that ESL, blast what ever dont want to run 3rd party events while being choked by riot, while those random 3rd party org probably agreed to, thats why we have them doing it
and you can tell how much they will invest that they invited 30 teams for a month just for a kick off tournament
we all know that ESL, blast what ever dont want to run 3rd party events while being choked by riot, while those random 3rd party org probably agreed to, thats why we have them doing it
nah i mean Valve should have contracted ONE entity to organize it if they werent going to do it themselves, its too complicated in its current form
for all riot care VALORANT esport didnt even start
They put on a bunch of international events on their own during a global pandemic, did a decent job, and built a solid fanbase so idk if that's totally accurate BUT yes I agree that their vision was almost always what we're about to get post Kick-Off, a slightly tweaked LCS format to cater to established FPS tournament structures.
and you can tell how much they will invest that they invited 30 teams for a month just for a kick off tournament
Yeah theyre gonna put everything they can into this because if it failed (it wont, but if) they wasted how many development years plus the last 2 years of VCT which Im sure have not hit the endgoal numbers that they're looking for
I honestly think this is better for long term esport,
we just have to stop comparing these new games to CSGO.
CSGO has die hard fans where they can have 99999 international events a year and still have viewers
but if VALORANT did the same, a lot of people will get bored of those repeated matches, no hype at all
look at all the other sports
mostly working the same way, very few big shot tournaments in the year calendar
while I agree with can have little more tournaments, maybe 1 more internarial tournament and thats it, no more
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