kkkkkk can't wait when your game only averages for like 80,000 users monthly and you gonna still bbe there watching tournaments be like "oh man, who cars about clout, I love watching random ass team on every tournament! cuz I've been watching this team ever since they're still in tier 4 cuz I browse HLTV tournaments for 7 hours a day!" while nobody outside of your bubble gives a shit about this shit ass dying game
Valorant fanboys not being smart enough to understand the irony of whats happening at the major XDDD.... its exposing franchising for what it is....a stupid and opressing system, the only reason you dont see these teams outside majors is cuz the other "T1" events are too busy being filled with partner teams that stink like OG and EG but it will eventually end in CS....Valorant on the other hand, not so sure XDDDD
tbh I think the actual "skill gap" people claim is their for tier 1 and 2 in both games is really just lack of experience and confidence playing in a highly competitive environment.
A lot of the tier 1 and tier 2 teams in both CS and Val are pretty similar in actual skill level, but the prep time and experience is what makes the difference
Valorant is a bit different it’s organised like football: you have national leagues (tier 2) to grow up your talent pool, and you have Major League with superclubs, chosed by rito on regional basis (all big eu countries included). So in future you may have full Spanish and French super teams or maybe Italy and Portugal as well when current partnership (4 year deal) ends xD
but its still a flawed system because sometimes you dont end up with superclubs, you end up with rich orgs making a mockery of this....just look at MIBR, they get a spot to play in the "major league" and their players dont even watch vods.....meanwhile you got teams like the union or MxM hungry to compete that suffer cuz their pockets aint deep enough
First year and 50% of clubs don’t even realised they won the lottery. Only SEN, Fnatic, NAVI and c9 realised and tried to build super teams. I will tell you what rito will do next season (they told this would be rn but ok). They are making in game skins for franchising teams and players - sharing are 50/50. Besides the 1.5 mln stipend for each org, in-game skins sharing, they will have skins share from Champions (Val Major). So basically if you are Valorant Franchised Org you can get 1.5 mln + 1mln from Champs + 1+mln from in-game skins share annually. Add sponsors and viewership here and you will get esports haven.
That means each franchised team must sign s1mple, t0nz etc for kids buying their in-game skins in future. Not every org realise that now. Fnatic, NAVI are behind all of them.
MIBR and other franchise teams will make reshuffle each season to be good enough for making cash & clout. If they realise it fast would be nice.