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never compare to big sports, esports isn't even close to them (except for LoL I guess). Riot needs to implement crowd mics and allow the crowds to actually talk their shit, same for players. CS just doesn't have a filter, you have broky double middle finger after 1-11 comeback, cadian calling enemy team noobs, Dallas crowd going ''FUCK YOU APEX'' and Apex actually responding to them https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dMi-wTtiQL8?feature=share
it's actually insane that something has to apologize for a middle finger, let the pros have fun, and the fans will have fun as well
Ok yeah maybe the real sports comparison is far, but CS crowds are certainly the gold standard. I understand why Valorant is 'PG' or 'soft' as some would say (it's due to advertisers), but ill be real if they want the esports to succeed they need to realise that treating it more like a sport (ie playing into a more mature audience, which has money to spend) is a vital thing
I just don't see vct growing with these rules. you have dead orgs like KOI, MIbr, furia, EG, BBL, NaVi, Liquid, most of APAC and China just munching on that riot money, doing nothing of relevance. tier 2 teams won't get their chances, get fucked if you don't make it to champs, then these tier 2 teams are banished to challengers again, their best players are stolen and the org just quits.
imo it needs to be 4 teams that play through ascension and maybe 8 teams fixed in t1 for stability.
Ideally maybe it would be 6-6 but 4 is very realistic. 4 would be enough to make actual demand for orgs to invest in tier 2. but 2 slots given the current rules (where an existing ascended team may just stay in if they make champs) is clearly not enough, that means that we will have years where no teams are ascended, which is crazy to think.
it just fucks the game. CS and Valorant are competing for the same people, and for me it is concerning that valorant has not overtaken CS when CS doesn't have a functioning anti cheat, had a franchising locking away all the prospects, problems with the new game, that was the golden opportunity for riot to pounce. But instead, most people find valorant getting quite stale, vct just looks sterile and CS esports still bags higher viewership, and now valve actually seem to have woken up (snap tap ban, anti cheat updates, open circuit next year). I fear that valorant might just go down the way of overwatch league.
It would actually be sad if riot took all the player base from overwatch, siege and other games to 5v5 shooters, only for them not to capitalize on it and for those people to leave for CS when CS actually gets their shit together
CS audience is the only one getting there imo, esports crowds probably have a better atmosphere than hockey and basketball crowds in the US so that's progress already. I just don't understand why people are against emotions. VCT will just turn into a fucking circus where the same players sit with a fucking stone face occasionally standing up from their chair as if their ass is itchy, crowd just turns into a golf one. Riot legit want to kill their fucking esport it seems, limiting teams, killing tier 2, limting the fans
Other sports aim their matches at working adults, and service the local community. 40 games a year, 20 at home 20 away for the diehard fans, cheap alcohol at the local clubs. Valorant is polar opposite. 12 league games a year all in the same place, price gouging bars in venues as riot tries to break even. Marketing at teenagers who, like every teenager ever, want to look cool and certainly don't want to risk starting a chant that doesn't catch on and then get humiliated.
Telling the ref to fuck off? mocking the oppo centre back's Sex Offence conviction? good luck at a VCT event. Sau Paolo loud vs fnc was the closest valorant will ever get to an atmosphere.
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