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Is tenz worth what SEN paid for him?
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That only matters if the org can monetize it.
Twitter is one of the most used sites in the world with engagement numbers that most apps and platforms can't even dream of, yet its financials are terrible.
From what I have heard, it is rare for an org to get a cut of a pro player's earnings from streaming. If they do, then that's great. If they don't, however, how exactly is TenZ's brand being monetized in a way that helps make up for the amount they paid for him + his salary which presumably is bound to be massive?
If they wouldn’t be getting a cut of the streaming revenue. They would’ve never paid such an insane amount and c9 would have nothing to back their insane price tag. Winning tournaments would never be enough to cover such a price tag. I’m assuming it’s stream revenue + sponsors willing to pump more funds knowing tenz is in the roster which increases their visibility as well.
If he ends up leaving then I guess the question would be for how much, I can very well imagine him being more valuable now as an asset than last year, so they might even make a return on their investment just on the transaction price. But then again, I don't think any org could by tenz right now anyways
It'll mainly depend on how Tenz's contract is structured. If they have him signed for the long term then they aren't gonna sell him even if he wants to leave because I think no org would be able to pay what Sentinels would want for him, other orgs would rather just wait for his contract to end. If his contract ends at the end of the year then I could see him leaving for a different team for the next VCT, or just pursuing cc(if he goes the content creation route I see him joining 100T).
I agree, but idk if Sentinels actually would've been able to do that. They seemed pretty desperate to get Tenz at the time, and Tenz at the time was the best player in the world and had essentially just been locked in contract jail by C9 for the past couple of months so he might've been able to negotiate a contract that could let him leave at the end of this year if he wanted rather than being locked in for the long term.
His social following is probably more important to the org than his performance. Before he joined SEN used to have 100k something followers now they have 600k, their tweets get the highest engagement compared to any other org. If you don't know important these things are then you are new to esports. Either you have to be the best at the game or you have to be insanely popular to be a great assest to the org
How is he holding his team back exactly ? He’s doing his role, maybe he’s shit some games/some games good but he will play as he has been asked to play by his coach/igl. The team is lacking structure and planning/strats. Kicking tenz won’t solve it. When the teams game plan is someone go get aim diffs and win us the round.
hell no, he forced shazam to play Sova (which was sinatraa's role before). He was definitely a downgrade from sinatraa overall, even though his raw aiming skills are better than sinatraa's, it's not like sinatraa was lacking in firepower. Also Shazam's jett is nothing to joke about, so imo no, he wasn't worth it as a pro, but CERTAINLY worth it as a content creator.
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