LoL is fully franchised across most (if not all) of their regions so there's only one tier 1 tournament system. They have two regular splits of a certain number of matches per week and per split. IMO I like the system, it's a consistent number matches across most weeks throughout the year and helps build up storylines for teams and players. I would be very surprised if Valorant didn't move to a franchised league, at least in NA and EMEA, considering the success of both LoL and Overwatch, but we probably won't see it for a few years as the scene grows (IIRC they already announced they're not franchising any time next year).

Well tbf many teams in NA are starting to experiment outside of the "traditional" NA comp of 2 duelists, 1 controller, 1 sentinel and 1 intiator, mostly because of the Astra Viper meta, so I wouldn't be surprised to see them run some single or even no duelist comps if they wanna get really weird with it.

As much as I love Kaboose as a player, I think this is the right move for Envy. Ever since picking up Victor and Crashies Envy have had this weird carousel of duelist players, with Kaboose, Victor and mummAy all rotating through. By the sounds of it, mummAy may be moving over to controller full time (he's known for his Omen Op and was playing Astra for the team in recent games). We're likely going to see Victor commit to duelists (no more Victor skye lol) and see Envy pick up a new Op player who can one-trick Jett mostly.

Still I hope Kaboose gets onto a good team because he is a sick player.