tier 1: all franchise players. 30 teams, 150+ players.
tier 2: Ascension teams. basically all teams from all different VCL that qualified to Ascension. 10 teams per region with total 30 teams, 150+ players. only 1 teams per region (total 3) can be promoted until 2026.
tier 3: all VCL, including Americas (3 VCLs), EMEA (9 VCLs), and Pacifics (10 VCLs). 200+ teams, 1000+ players.
tier 4: nothing?
is this correct? let me know
this makes sense, i'd personally consider ascension teams more of like a tier 1.5 since a lot of those players would be at a similar or possibly even better level than some of the lower-end franchise teams, plus 1/10 of those teams will directly become franchised teams and likely several other players will end up getting signed to other franchised teams
and then i'd have tier 2 as all the VCL teams and tier 3 as any other formulated teams competing in open tournaments such as knights monthly for NA, etc
then tier 4 would probably be the in-game premier mode
that's fair, but it generally seems like tier 2 is significantly larger than tier 1 in professional scenes, and additionally the line is very blurred between the bottom tier franchising teams and the top tier ascension teams, since there will likely be some ascension teams that are better than some franchised teams
that's why i'm considering it as a tier 1.5, i don't really think it's a full step down from tier 1 and it makes more sense to think of the VCLs as the tier 2 scene
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