franchised should be 20 teams per league with relegation and promotion
makes the season a lot longer and has more slots
maybe 20 is too much but make it like 18
pro-rel is an option to implement in a few years but RIGHT NOW orgs need a strong financial sense of stability. Look at the A-League (Australias footballl top flight). We started off as a franchised league, pretty simmilar to VCT, but now we're starting plans to implement PRO-REL into these leagues.
But in order to do this we needed to wait for:
T2 clubs to be financially stable
T1 Viewership to be a majjor incentive
T1 orgs income to be both a major incentive and stable
T2 clubs to even want to go into the first division with their smaller stadiums(viewership)
Imma post what my opinion on the best possible VCT option is in forums
it should be 25 with 5 relegated 5 promotoed
2 gain auto promotion and ournament in t2 for rest 3 slots
3 mid season tournaments with one being champs so you have 4 t1 trophies a year with two being majors (league, champions)
should be 4 tiers aswell just have an extensive qualification
also 35 teams in t2 and more matches than t1
salary cap and contract cap for t1 and standardize contracts so that all clauses and contract stipulations are uniform throughout the whole league allow trades mid season and free agency after champs
Relegation is so incredibly stupid for a partnership system. The point is league stability not having every team be good. Its impossible for every team to be good there are always gonna be bad teams. Relegation would be especially bad in Pacific where individual country representation is super important. If Team Secret got relegated and Bleed got promoted, the Philippines would have 0 representation, which would hurt viewership.
Frankly The Guard is a bad org for partnership, they just fired like all of their staff and are monetarily in a really bad spot. They will likely crash at some point, and if they were a permanent spot in the league, that would be really bad. How would you handle that? in eSports stability is way way more important since there is less money in it
Assuming 20 teams in each league, that means all teams that participated in this year's Ascension will join the league, correct?
To be clear, I don't think Dplus, Orangutan, ONE TEAM, etc. should be able to compete in one of the best leagues in the world this year. It will only lead to a lower level.