fill me in on the lore why does everyone hate them
Basically
It all started back in the days
SkRossi was just coming up. He was this "young prodigy" from India and Indians got so hyped watching him beat trash ass teams from the South Asia region they started shit talking
They beefed with a shit ton of pros about how SkRossi is better than them
They spammed how SkRossi is this insane level player
Then it all got away when they actually faced good teams
But SkRossi is gone, maybe they should stop hating on the team now right?
Nah
The CEO made unreasonable promises
And then the people just got sick of him
At the same time, Indians got sick of his bullshit too for not having Indian players
Also it's an Indian org
There will always be hate towards Indians online :)
Tldr:
No Indians
Indian org
Fake promises
Toxic fans
But this year, I think only Indians hate them for not having Indians on the team. Everyone else is probably just trolling and all. Which btw, I think is very valid to not have Indians on the team, since they held an open trial. You can't be on a team with open trials, you don't deserve to be there in the first place.
I, as a French, hate them for not having Indian player. They condemn a full region in the long term, not giving Indian player time in tier 1 to progress and make experience of this Indian player trickle down on the rest of the scene because they are afraid of having 0-11, yes this is a risk, especially the first year, but god this is thinking shortermwise, and I hate people that doesnt care about long term. Tanking few years to let Valorant grow in India is totally worth it.
Just imagine the effect that can have on Indian scene if you show that 5 Indian player can have a full salary in tier 1, that if you are good enough to be top 5 of India you can have a salary... Stop doing an inferiority complex, the only reason India is far worse than every other region is that they don't have esport culture, and you will not develop an esport culture by going on import route
Global esport was choosing to develop esport in India, and they are not doing this job, I can defend almost every T1 org and explain why I think they deserve T1 (Yes, even MIBR and C9), but GE is the only team I want genuinely be replaced by another Indian team, if Riot wanted another SEA team, they should have just pick another SEA team that proved themselves like BOOM. And god Oceania died for India to have a slot, Oceania have 5 players that have the T1 level as we can see in China (Maybe not top T1, but still T1).
GE is a barrier to the development of Val esport everywhere in the world.