For SPG&Others, Some rumors that might help :

Official Korean commentator says SPG are doing 'very well' against Tier 1 teams

In CRWS' apac grand final stream, stax picked NAOS/Oasis and CRWS picked Riddle as the winning team predictions.

Talon coach Frost said they lost heavily in mechanics to a Japanese Tier 2 team.

NS is rumored to have crushed Riddle in scrims (and they haven't beaten spg once all season).

SPG and NS both won scrims against Bleed.

In Bind's last match against T1, Bleed used a deadlock comp that only SPG uses.

Bleed's coach is confident SPG will win Ascension.

Go spg

D R X

Bind Deadlock comp was unbeatable in the regular season, but lost to DK in the playoffs. They picked Bind in every game, but not in the playoffs. There is a real weakness and opposing teams have found it.

Some rumors that might help :

Official Korean commentator says SPG are doing 'very well' against APAC Tier 1 teams

In CRWS' apac grand final stream, stax picked NAOS/Oasis and CRWS picked Riddle as the winning team predictions.

Talon coach Frost said they lost heavily in mechanics to a Japanese Tier 2 team.

NS is rumored to have crushed Riddle in scrims (and they haven't beaten spg once all season).

SPG and NS both won scrims against Bleed.

In last match against T1, Bleed suddenly used a deadlock comp at Bind that only SPG uses.

Bleed's coach is confident SPG will win Ascension.

Actually, I think predictions are meaningless. The format is so short that a lot will be decided by pure luck.

Time is a better benefit for SPG among Ascension teams. Because They can play a lot of scrims with teams participating in champs. And RID could see similar gains. Comparatively, SEA teams will have fewer opportunities to do so.

His skills... I didn't use a translator for that sentence and you let me know I've become a killer lol. I'll just use the translator.

He's the same age as Munchkin, and he hasn't completed his military service, so he only has a year or two to go.

Sadly Persia is so old, I hope he explodes for a year or two and finishes beautifully.

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And this has left T1 in a very bad financial position.

It's even more expensive for NA, TenZ's C9->Sentinels transfer fee was seven-figure dollars. In 2021, an unknown APAC team offered cNed $1,000,000 and he turned it down. Asuna was paid 30K per month in 2021. In 2022, Loud players were paid around $25K per month. The founder of Global Esports said the ransom for Tier 1 NA players has jumped to 40K/month. Bleed is rumored to have paid Yay over $500,000, And it's fucked up.

Esports is an industry in a bubble. The real numbers are usually bigger than the rumors. It just can't last.

In case of league, star players are unconditionally paid $1M+, but it threatens the financial health of the LCK. For Valo, wages still seems to be relatively low.

Old Tier 1 player like Sayaplayer has no reason to go to Tier 2 unless he just wants to extend their careers. And he can speak bit Japanese for a long time.

That's because he's an old gamer from the OW era. However, over 100K is very common. Maybe every korean Tier 1 player other than the minimum salary will be paid more than $100,000. Riot rules state that the minimum annual salary for Tier 1 is USD 50,000/KRW 67,000,000. for JPY 7,438,000 per year.

There are rumors that he was paid more than $400,000 per year.

Rumor has it he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars at T1, and it's impossible for any Tier 2 team to match even half of his salary, except Bleed. And Bleed is already not a Tier 2 team.

SPG plz plz

I don't think their condition is bad. The problem is, because of the must-Haven ban, PRX have to play Ascent in every Bo3. Of course, there will be some comps and strats they have hidden. But nothing will be more efficient than the basic comp.

There are rumors that he received over $400,000 from T1. No single Tier 2 club in the whole world can pay even half that(except Bleed... and they are not T2 team now). He'll want a Tier 1 team, and if he can't find one, he'll just go to military service.

What is a 'proper' win? Victory is victory. SCARZ almost achieved its goal, although it failed at one last step.. For the reasons you said, imports are the two birds with one stone, not only winning but also reducing the power of the KR T2.

nah. If Korean tier 1 teams don't win for a long time, they'll just find another game. Before being reorganized into the Pacific League, Tier 1 VCK had no viewers.

Isn't it importing to win? T2 is also there to win to become T1, not to train players. That's why Riot didn't even let the Tier 1 Academy team participate. If you want to stop imports, remove each team's will to win. Otherwise, you can modify the vcj import rules.

Koreans just aren't interested in Tier 2. Why would they seek out Tier 2 when they can bask in the glory of Tier 1? They're even more cold-minded than Riot itself, who ruthlessly abandoned Tier 2 because they're only interested in highest level competition. The same goes for wages. Koreans understand the fleeting nature of E-sports hype better than anyone else in the world, and in fact, Tier 2 players are paid accordingly.

If we're lucky, we'll be able to create an Astralis of Valorant someday, but permanent domination like league would be impossible.

Cuz there was only one Grand Final.

no. It literally means don't hurry. They said they gave it that name because the players were very young.