Does anyone prefer franchising over open qualifiers? If you do tell me why
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Do people like franchising?
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no way you think vici or fisker are worse than genghsta steel nerve or exalt, i agree with you sometimes but this take aint it
also you cant compare something which hasnt got a 20 bomb in all this champions to yay who got 60 and 70 bombs on plenty bo3´s with +20 kd against a lot of competitive teams on international turneys and got first on rating (mvp of masters berlin) at his first ever LAN tourney https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/466/valorant-champions-tour-stage-3-masters-berlin
Idk what Fisker you remember but trust me I've watched all of the Japan league and he is absolute garbage and so were the other 2 Japanese on the roster. Yes 100% worse than Genghsta, nerve and exalt
And yes, exactly, yay was way better in international than something ever has (even tho he is kinda new), yet look how much he has struggled. I'm sorry it's just not justifiable, yes many tier 1 in yay's position would have done way better (Fucking Narrate averages 250 ACS)
Open circuit like in CS is far better. You have a ton of different organizers jockeying against each other with different production styles and commentators and the best ones prevail, and the seasons are packed with opportunities to compete for teams outside of franchising. Meanwhile, Riot was running their goofy ass cyber-cringe production style for ages, they pushed out Sean gares and DDK from commentary for some reason, their off-seasons are disasters running the T2 org scene to the ground, and franchise locks keep shitters and regretful roster moves trapped for an entire year. Theoretically Riot can suddenly do great but there aren't as much selective pressures to really improve when Riot is withholding the right to big scale events for themselves. Worst case scenario in open circuit is just getting ran by Saudi blood money, but does it really make a difference since Riot is in bed with China?
I just mean franchising in the colloquial sense everyone seems to use it, which is like 1 entity practically controlling the esport and living and dying off that. I might be wrong now but last I checked in cs, you aren't really barred from competing in other shit simultaneously online and there's a ton of competition and overlapping. Otherwise the debate becomes "should esports have profit share leagues?" which is a boring "sure, who gives a fuck." It only gets fucky when it's 1 corp driving the ecosystem.
I think franchising is perfectly fine, the only real problem is the long off season, but wtf does franchising have to do with that, that’s just poor planning. Same with tier 2, franchising is not the issue, it’s the circuit
People just uses franchising to as an excuse to blame on all of Valorant problems, when in reality franchising is the only thing giving some stability to this game which as you guys know are going through a a crisis due to the esports bubble exploding. The amount of huge orgs financially unstable is insane, franchising is a great way to give those orgs a guarantee when they invest
It's not the end of the world
Ideally I would've preferred less partnership slots to allow more room for promotion of non-partnered teams. (Maybe 6 partnered teams in a 12 team league)
Most of the issues currently stem from how riot are handling the t2 scene, scheduling , commitment and honestly the way they perceive the scene.
Partnership is not that bad, biggest problem is with the main schedule and the ascension schedule. People claim things like these bad teams will get to keep being bad in the league even though this is a partnership and not a franchise. If teams and orgs are doing a bad job riot literally is in a position to do something supposedly will do something if theres an issue. Just people whining over first year problems.
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