Absolutely horrible for the hype, huge loss of identity, you are our favorite rival (I hope Koi do good so KC-KOI will be amazing)
But will it be the same if we just cheer at some logo and not cheer people that have common things with us ? (Language, place where we grew etc)
Also, our best talent have no shot in our T2 because we want to be comeptitive and we fully import, if we want our player being good we need to ask for Riot to stop purely and simplely the fact people can gain a residency to be sure we have at least 3 of our player per team (It have to be a change of rule, if a team choose to not import it may just be relegated and will have 0 chance to win asc)
M8 did the impossible in 2023, M8 is mush more hype than any team with full import x) Maybe even Tier 1 team should have a minimum of T2 player wish they represent to make it more hype, if not, every EU team will just be bland (But that mean Germany will need a T1 franchise and one of3 Spain partnered team is replaced)
I mean for the fanbase it's always the same with this. It depends if you win or not.
I can guarantee TH fans prefer what they have to 5 spanish players that place top 10
But if you're gonna place last like KOI anyway without spanish players then they're gonna kill you
In Spain we're used to supporting the badge no matter the nationality. Real Madrid it's just a bunch of French and Brazilians put together and nobody complains. That mentality is just not that common in esports
Me personally Idk how to feel about it. It's hard, I think we need to develop talent in our VCL first
To be fair when KC 2023 did have a lot of hype, more than KC 2024 before they start winning. To me aiming for good result is just short term thinking, but in long term this is destructive, this will destruct our fanbase and our hype, and that basically what destroyed NA LoL.
If KC pick full inter and go on a run we go cheer, if KC pick full French (French speaking counted, if it's 5 African it's the same to us) and go 0-11 we will be hype until the end and beleive the miracl run, but not every team can be top 4/8 and if KC have full inter and 0-11 we will care mush more less,
Thats also why the "Max intra-import rule" should be universal, if not, team that will go full inter will have unfair advantage against team that choose to think in long term.
One of hope I have with KC is that they succeed to find french young player, they kinda did on LoL (But too mush import) and hope they will on Val, I have no doubt they will have an Aca team And if they dont it will be their female player with maybe 1 or 2 male sub lol so they can aim at ascention, and maybe in long term we will have french player... I hope so
Obviously it’s sad, but for gentle mates they are kinda forced to, Vitality I already said it have no interest in it whatsoever, Ze1sh is still in the team and like a lot a lot a lot of people love him (understandably so (I do love him too)) so it doesn’t change too much for KC
Tldr; 99% of the French does not care at all about the team going international
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