I'm sure that Ludwig said in one of his streams "we'll give it another year"
Implying that Moist might leave Valorant if they fail to qualify in 2025
An G2 is only in tier 1 because Guard didn't want the spot and Carlos lost his mind. They would have to wait until 2026 to have a chance to get in
I seriously doubt that G2 would invest in VCL if they weren't in VCT
Just because Polaris had 2 orgs doesn't mean that NA is fine
You can hate FaZe (like I do), but I would rather have a org like them investing in a VCL roster than not at all
G2 is debatable
And I wouldn't trust M80 to stay another year. VCL sucks and M80 already lost almost 1 million dollars just trying to ascend (money which they haven't recovered), and will lose more if they fail to qualify in 2025. This is precisely why Leo Fahria's system sucks, you decide to trust that orgs will invest and pickup teams. DarkZero pickup Turtle Troop for only one month, and even assuming the TT players were paid decently for that month, that doesn't make up for all the time in the season they didn't get a single cent
With this system, tier-2 will only get worse and players will stop trying to chase a career
It's almost funny, how the only decent org in Polaris, won Ascension. You can't ask unpaid players to perform
it isnt just a random thing that orgs are pulling out, its a mix of lack of security from riot but also the fact that the economy right now is doing really bad, and generally NA suffers from the economy side and EMEA suffers from the job security side
as the economy doesnt improve, youll see more and more orgs pulling out, something you cant fix within the valorant ecosystem and thus unavoidable
Also as a counter point to unpaid players not performing, look at turtle troop. They werent signed, played great and then got signed. Thats the way tier 2 valorant works for NA, thats why NA will be fine. It happened in the first year of franchising for NA as well, many teams got picked up after the season started. Other regions will have unsigned teams do great but they have such bad prospects because they have to win their league, or if not get second then play in playins, win those playins which are pretty much a full tournament by, play a full tournament after winning playins when teams now have even more footage of you. Winning pretty much 2 tournaments back to back is brutal compared to the NA way. Thats why NA is fine, stop paying your players tier 1 salaries if you dont want to go bankrupt after being in valorant for 2 years. Thats all NA needs really. Tier 2 players need to be less greedy and be happy they are playing a game as their job, stop asking for absurd salaries when you arent a tier 1 pro
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