So, 2/4 seasons of the first cycle completed, 3rd one coming to the conclusion. Thoughts on franchising so far? Good or bad?

ong, especially Mouz. They are literally the perfect fit. Stick around in the disciplines they are in, focus on young players, are a very consistent top team. Just 1 major out of all majors played in CS post-covid has not featured a player who has been in MOUZ at the start of their career

honestly the fact that Germany were snubbed of a franchising slot yet the league is hosted in Berlin is so strange on so many levels

ngl my perception of Greece has been ruined thanks to this fucking video https://youtu.be/HfFx5UvzSxc

I guess vitality are on a streak to collect as many flags in their team as humanly possible. Estonia, Finland, Poland, Brazil, Switzerland, Moldova, Sweden, France, Russia. Morocco is just the next step before vitality get Ukraine, Latvia, UK, Greece and Turkey next year

so now 3 french orgs, 1 turk and 0 eastern european?

if it was hosted in a studio it would get like 300k mb, no more no less, be realistic.

I don't understand how Riot made EMEA with an expectation that people will watch it.Ain't no way a region where people watch either real sports or CS with a huge cult of fans following players would love to watch a fucking studio event 3 times a year

like I am pretty sure it's quite concering for EMEA as well that now 6/12 teams own a CS2 team, with Karmine Corp saying across several years that having a cs2 team would be great. VCT EMEA was supposed to at least come close to CS A-tier events but it gets dicked down by a fucking online blast event

regionals overall are a shit unwatchable slugfest. Same matchups, dead studio, even tech issues sometime. You know it's bad when yet another run of the mill tier 1 cs event with several tier 2 teams which is held ONLINE smurfs your REGION Finale. https://escharts.com/tournaments/csgo/blast-open-fall-2025-closed-qualifier
https://escharts.com/ru/tournaments/valorant/vct-2025-emea-stage-2

because stages are really boring to viewers. Like you tell me you have the interest to watch like the 3rd rematch of the year between liquid and bbl inside a studio which has like 200 fans in it?

I would guess it's a reference to those ''do not redeem it'' scammer call centers

Then they can just make appealing jerseys, like retro styles, A vitality jersey which looks like A PSG 00 jersey would slap.

orgs like navi, fnatic, nrg, eg, g2, vitality shit out culture in terms of esports

it was so clean bro, now it's generic black jersey https://www.hltv.org/team/6665/astralis

I mean I just simplified it, but CIS players aren't the ones to hold back and say tolerant stuff, most of the time it's just ''you did shit''

couldn't handle the huge gigachad CIS mentality of ''just click heads lmao''

Wouldn't this logic of owing money and working at a net minus result in like half of americas getting booted the fuck out of franchising?

true, but imo some of these jerseys would be saved if it has no sponsors, but then it would be generic af. T1 honestly looks like something if it was made for a football club or an f1 team, it has this high standard because of the sponsors as well

I mean t1 also has this nice thing that it has good sponsors. mercedes+red bull fit, if it was shit like 1xbet and stake, it would be so ass

I would guess if you are from russia wildberries or ozon has to have a replica at least

imo, clean, but I am biased because I like the collar when it's done right

tough but not worth 75 dollars bro

it's unavailable now, sadly https://shop.teamspirit.gg/ru/products

okay, these look clean at least

first it was the black, but then the white came, holy shit bro...

https://imgur.com/a/yQgnocE
https://imgur.com/a/v0x5jyg
https://imgur.com/a/NZo2rPB
What happened to the jerseys I love bro

I'mma be honest. It's just a generic sen jersey + japanese on it. Yes it looks good, but it's still not something I would buy imo

I would be lying if I denied that. I come from CS and I also wanted to buy a jersey, shit is first overpriced and second ass. https://imgur.com/a/5Ex5YHK just as an example, all 4 are generic as shit

this merch is so ahh bro, most of them are just AI generated: ''generate a jersey for an esports team. The main colours are black and one of the billion different colours''

like their shit isn't even worth buying bro. I would probably buy Spirit's 2023-2024 jersey (the one with the dragons on one side), G2's shanghai major 2024 jersey, astralis crimson jersey and that's fucking it

there isn't enough money to launder. Most orgs work at a net minus

and their shit is just generic af. Sen just added a city skyline on their jersey, wow. And fnatic is just black with pieces of orange

crazy how they cost so much when most of the jerseys are just generic

shit costs like a Real Madrid official jersey and you just get a generic print filled to the brim with sponsors

esports orgs don't make profit, wowzers

2/4 tier 1 events this season were won by asia (tyloo at fissure playground, which wasn't so tier1), and now mongolz.

I swear mongolz deagle rounds are fucking cracked

I mean there were a lot of people talking shit about their run :D you never get a winner who sits well with everyone

a) you get a deserving winner flaw: this team is more or less likely annoying to most fans (e.g. g2)
b) you get a feelgood story flaw: this run is called a fluke

because americas tiebreaker rules are different, yes :D

the fuck? So you are telling me riot have just 1 calendar with 3 international LANs and they STILL fucked up to maintain the rules equality in 4 regions?

https://imgur.com/a/LWrMvWd alright that's fucking crazy

mfs had one job to make sure the rules are the same 😭😭😭

''the Americas tiebreaker rules are different than the other regions.''
How the fuck could that possibly happen? I hope OP is wrong, because if he is right, riot might actually have a combined IQ of 9.5

shouldn't riot then double check it themselves? or hire people who make sure it's the same?

so like in this half year long off season not a single VCT employee thought: ''Wait a minute, are our strict rules which are several pages long the same for every region?''

tf do you mean a format which implies all 4 regions are equal (slot allocation, number of teams, formats) does not have the same rule book? Are riot restarted?

they are already the national team of mongolia (so like they are linked to the government), they host homecoming events where they recruited an academy team, helping the mongolian region grow. They are also great lads with tyloo and lynn vision afaik, so asian cs is at its best

would it honestly be crazy to say that the 4th seeds in each region should just be wildcards? Like whoever gets more points wins? regardless of region