How widespread is this?
Free rider problem: you benefit from other org's ( prx zeta etc) and riot's money without doing anything or doing with minimal effort. (Just search the free rider problem on Google you'll get a better idea 😂)
I think this is one of the problem that riot forgot to consider when creating franchising.
Idk about others but I'm kinda convinced that japanese orgs are willing to, these mfs are so proactive , academy team in tier2 sounds crazy considering the fact that it took riot having to change academy team rules just so Talon and ( possibly) DFM to actually start forming academy teams.
I think regardless of their financial performance, I think japanese orgs make a better partner for riot rather than some T1 orgs.
The benefits to being franchised drastically outweigh the negative possibilities. Having some kind of relegation that isn't necessarily performance based, but is more behavior based is basically required for the scene to be as good as it can be, and Riot does already have this power and seems to be at least entertaining the idea of using it
Esports is already a really big loss of money for esports orgs so having the incentive of just being a t1 team gets you money gets more teams interested in joining the valorant scene and is (supposedly) meant to make the organization have a higher level of production quality (videos, players, content, houses, set ups etc.)
I honestly think they should make it so teams who don't make Champs don't earn Champs money, it's a bigger incentive to make Champs than the current system where everyone earns Champs money but qualifying teams earn a higher percent
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