I feel like some TO will come into the American scene. PGL took international, Blast took Europe, I feel like there is just that juicy NA market left for the taking

and Shanghai has a huge chance to become that next step. Right now americas has 7 team slots, asia has 3, europe has 14. Given that europe will likely have shaky teams like falcons, virtus pro, astralis and NA+SA+asia has teams like liquid-m80-wildcard-9z-imperial-pain-mibr-mongolz-furia-complexity barging in, I am sure americas and asia have a chance to claim more slots

I mean spirit aren't at their best rn, but I am sad for wildcard, only a historical game stopped them from the biggest upset of round 1

except that it does exist, the org isn't locked to the region, the region changes depending on what players the team has.
3 or more players from the region = locked to that region FOR THAT time frame
2-2-1 split = the org chooses the region

This. A person outside of the game and in the game are two separate entities. Michael Jordan outside of the NBA is a petty bettor, on the court he is 6-0 in the finals. Ronaldo is an egoistic maniac, but on the football field he is one of the best to ever do it. You can get away being a prick if you are talented in something, but you cannot get away from underperforming despite being a nice person

I would, but it would require A) no war in Ukraine B) Higher Ua/Ru population in Valorant;(

Because being a nice funny guy doesn't bring you trophies. People are attracted to winners, those who aren't winning are immediately a target to hate.

Yikes, I like groups, they at least make the seeding worth something

His full name is quite telling :Eduardo Kenzo Nagahama Sato

Close enough, welcome Jetstream Sam

Part of the Japanese diaspora in Brazil

X has some weird metric for views, basically If it appeared on your feed, you are a viewer. Same reason why esports awards had 4 mil viewers or something

What even is the difference between coming 1st and 2nd within your own region?

Isn't Worlds right around the corner? I am sure that would explain the production being so bad

most orgs will still prefer to get the more experienced players

my guess is that most whose places the tier 2 takes :D
either that, mcdonalds or cs2

''many of these players moving up to T1 ''
what about people moving down?

I mean not all of them, you still have your heroic ( who needed new owners), astralis (who had like 3 years in a row in the red) etc. maybe this bullshit from na orgs might lead to a collapse in the ecosystem

maybe it has now lead to EMEA orgs being more financially stable?

I doubt snax and malbs costed a lot in buyouts (500k for malbs, idk for snax), c9 tho actaully somehow managed an almost profit for their ru lineup (cost around a million, sold sh1ro for 1.5mil, bought elec+perf for 2mil, sold elec for 1.5mil, so it's actually not a huge minus

are you not entertained?

ain't no fucking way, does that mean there is NO financially sustainable org in NA? That's bad...

Riot get their sales, players get their salaries and orgs just get a risky investment . Like i know most football clubs operate in the red as well and take loans, but those are clubs which run for decades, not some child game 'org''

I would say player salary is a huge L in terms of finances, just too high.

I would say FaZe is probably the richest, like they are owned by GameSquare, not some content creator group

I doubt esports is cooked, just overinflated. The only ones making profits are players and the game developer, Orgs need to jump out of their fucking pants to afford the best players.
IMO the best solution is a clear salary cap, kinda like what F1 does, limit the spending and punish anyone who goes over it

I mean I didn't see similar messages coming from EMEA orgs, so maybe someone just overinflated on expenses?

take a look at the North American teams
EG - had to cut costs on their Champs winning team
Sen - needed injections to stay alive
NRG - Chet took a pay cut to afford the buyouts
C9 - CEO admits to cutting costs
G2 - pretty stable but not a franchised team
100T - NadeShot had an hour long podcast on how much money 100T lost on esports
I wonder how these problems might affect the 2027 resigning

I mean it's not aspas level of liquidity, but I am sure there will be buyers

is there a public figure somewhere?

Tenz is one of those players where you just go for them if they are available

nice org choice by Riot I guess,
EG - almost dead
C9 - losing sponsorship
100T - has nadeshot having an hour long talk on how much money 100T lost
NRG - buyouts paid by coaches
SeN - needed cash injections
G2 - limited time slot

most of the bundles money isn't a profit no? More like sustaining the cash

probably G2 have the most cash, I guess NRG as well

m80 is NA's only hope

https://www.vlr.gg/402203/geniune-question
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valorant is and always will be a worthy rival to cs, fixed :)

it's a record for cs2, boaster actually featured in the longest hltv.org broadcasted pro game :D

it has 2 germans ....

35-34, 37 needed for a W

not happening, that shit had like 10 round overtimes where you needed 6 to win, different format

tsm vs galorys = equal match up
fnatic vs m80 = ''both teams can't finish the match
reality: both games shit, deadlock is the way

slaxz, don't go to BIG, please

this game so long I didn't notice Brollan going 0-14 in a parallel game

NA CS is truly peak, fuck those pussy ass 2-0s of tier 2 teams, we going into 7 overtimes

this game is a tier 1.5 matchup, imagine being at VCT americas and just having furia and mibr going at it 30-30 halting the entire gaming day

valorant would benefit from this overtime system of 6 rounds, win 2 rounds in a row is for pussies, win 4 in 6

it was never caused by the game running for so long, afaik medical thing was a reason, but not the time

riot would slowly relocate more time towards lol, valve would relocate ALL of their time and resources on deadlock, both games are winning from this

THEY ENDED EVERY SINGLE HALF EQUAL, 6-6 first half, 6-6 second half, 3-3 every set of overtime, fucking insane :D