I'll be honest I don't mind the buyout if they're forced to play as like Nongshim Sin Prisa Gaming or Sin Prisa Nongshim. Nongshim Red Force has really boring generic e-sports black and red branding.

Also changing the name removes the spirit and the story of their Ascension run imo

tldr let them buy it but don't let them fuck with it

The didn't buy the spot or the team, they bought the entire organization (which to be fair is probably not the most expensive org to buy out) . Think Giant X but less merger more corporate takeover.

In the same notion, a good hit of the horn goes well with a bit of swearing. Paid for the horn, gotta get your money's worth

Honestly that's not too far off the approach we use in regional Aus.

I feel like swearing at each other should just be the international standard, simple effective, gets the point across.

Autumn*

Honestly not the worst thing I've heard people say about bikers, granted I live in regional Australia so a bikes not exactly getting you far. But also, middle of the road is a pretty dumbass move especially if multiple cars are banked up behind them. Like people will try and pass and being in the middle of the road drastically increases the risk to the bloke on the bike and the drivers.

Imo a lot more people on peddle bikes need to approach the road with the motor bike mindset of "everything here can and will try to kill me any second" instead of assuming in all instances that right of way favours them.

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Idk about that one chief, did he suddenly become God's gift to valorant or is because got Super levels of charisma and would actually make the org likeable?

PGE as in the NRG Shock overwatch player?

Just a heads up, KFC in the US is literally the worst KFC in the world from what I've heard. Like do they even have zinger boxes there? Aus KFC clears

Antarctica 2, it's just penguins lot's and lots of penguins.

Yeah honestly sometimes I'm starting to think this. Like I saw a bogan roll past highway patrol with his roof literally caved in on his rust covered shitbox, ciggie in the hand held out the window. And the cops just couldn't be fucking bothered.

Probably mostly that they needed a sub. Will probably end up as a 2 way player or academy team player next year would be my guess. But of future proofing

Nah, this is OCE's year

Damn, I was really hoping to finally see babybay Jett on lan

but would you swap something for a tier 2 turk?

Do we know who's subbing on for him for the qualifier? Surely one of the pcfic players like LarOk, give some young talent a shot.

That would do it, how long is military service there? I know Korea's is like 2 years, not sure what the Turkish one is.

Surely Giant X Kr1stal

Bros not ready for when Billi Billi sign Ardiss

I was looking at the liquipedia, any reason why fut don't have ata kaptan listed. There's no rumours or announcements he's off the roster right?

Bro on holiday?

I'll be honest I thought it was pretty obvious from them trialing Mada and the way they announced it that they were signing Demon1 to play smokes full time.

My best guess would be the paperwork and discipline process behind the scenes. Likely needing a team or organisation to lodge a complaint (and if it was nrg who lodged it they wouldn't do it until they decided to drop him). Then as stated in the release from riot chet then had the opportunity to give a written statement which is more time plus the decision making on the relevant punishment. Then time to inform relevant parties and prepare a public release.

I meant it broke the record keeping, not the actual record

It broke the round records, there's no graphic for more than 50 rounds

Pretty sure it broke vlr, the site doesn't have a graphic for more than 50 rounds

We go another

Did they even program VLR for 3 rows worth of rounds?

Surely we hit line 3 of the VLR map summary

Maybe old mates just getting a few offers in then telling Geng to price match the highest bidder.

Then again maybe Gen-g just have enough confidence in their talent scouting/development after Karon that they think they can do it again. Given munchkin was a FA for all of about 7 hours it seems likely he's back on Geng so maybe a core around Solo, Munchkin, Karon and Texture to build up some new rookies on sentinel and initiator.

So basically this was the rough end date of what were 1 year contracts (or a 2 year last year for meteor) and odds are they're probably going to sign back unless someone else is offering them a chunk more money which seems unlikely since Drx is banking ok rookies, T1 is signing what ever they can get from DRX and SPG definitely don't have the money so this might be at minimum -munchkin and meteor +munchkin and meteor

Vitality doesn't have to be outbid for the statements to be true. If they're all bellow the buyout it's probably up to mutual agreement (so both fnatic and Derke) to decide which offer can be accepted. So if Fnatic put pressure on saying they're willing to except lower offers from teams who aren't vitality its basically just there to put pressure on to Vit pay sticker price putting the power back in their hands to see who compromises first Vitality's accountants or Derke's preference

But are they offering more than the actual buyout amount written in the contact. There's worlds where both the rumor's and Cojo's statement are true. If no one has offered the full buy out amount which is possible if it's set an unattainable level (which is possible if your selling a 2 time lan winner with huge amounts of longevity) then Vitality could still be the largest bid, but not meet the buyout.

Then to cover people saying they have accepted other offers, yeah they can probably do that. I could very much believe that there's a clause allowing them to accept lower buyout if the org is willing and they might only be willing to accept lower buyouts if the org's looking to buy aren't vitality.

Being poor and being willing to throw money at a buy out that they can possibly try reduce.
If your Vitality and have confidence Derke will refuse any offer other than yours why wouldn't you try lowball Fnatic for a bit until either it's later in the off season and they're more open to sell lower or until later in the off season when you just pay full price and it's the same as if you didn't try get a better deal.

Is the art of Facebook marketplace not something taught outside of Aus?

does MIBR give a shit about any esports. Like they're owned by Immortals and some of the contract / decision making shit immortals has done makes EG holding onto player contracts look like a player positive organization.

Any star player from South America's Tier 2 that can't get a spot on KRU and doesn't win ascension

Ok hear me out, now that Virtus Pro have moved operations to Armenia from being in Russia that likely contributed to them not getting a spot previously surely they're a solid shot if some teams don't make it past review in EMEA.

They have money
They have the fanbase
They have the history
They seem pretty stable
Seem pretty ethical in how they treat their players, I mean the payed a roster to compete in CS when they couldn't even use their name.

Really depends on what Aspas cost them to hold onto though, if a big part of his contract was re-share related to him then it's possible the base salary is still small enough to ride the bench in the content world if he doesn't want to play. If your weighing up the maths on capital losses does less buyout with more potential market loss (lower expected placing if you sell him to someone decent who would be competing with you, lower digital goods revenue) weigh up to be less than 1 year of Aspas base salary since the rev share stuff from rumors is only Aspas based revenue anyway (brazilian market)

Can any teams justify the cost though. Aspas had a super team star player contract. That comes with a massive fucking buyout. Enough of a buy out that rumors on the street was it was enough to cover the massive fucking buyout NRG had on Demon1 (baring in mind Demon1 also signed a super team star player contract which probably had the buyout to suit)

The reason it was Bleed Aspas is Bleed were the only ones who could buy out a contract that big (well at least they said they could....)

Sounds partially like vitality just gave them a shit offer compared to other teams. If your Fnatic you own the contract and have a buyout clause for him. Granted you don't know what else might be in that contract. There's the possibility the buyout it a flat cost + a financial compensation equivalent to a percentage of what a team buying them would play Derke (this was actually the written rules in OWL for T2 buyouts so there is precedence) and the NA orgs are willing to pay more. It could be they have massive buyout they can't afford and Vitality has offered a 'Trade' deal to try and reduce the buyout cost. Yes there's a chance it's a right of refusal clause in the interest of a non-compete.

Contract jail it isn't, this is just the financial part of the financial upside to replacing Derke with a rookie taking effect. At the end of the day it's a business and complaining about orgs doing business things doesn't really make sense in a league about financial stability.

Premier to Pacific is one hell of a story

I mean I agree EG seems like a miss.
C9 had history of playing in franchise leagues and managing their finances well.
Sen needed money in 2023 after they were already in franchising, in 2022 when they got partnered they were (and outside of china still are) the biggest org in terms of pulling viewership so even if they were broke I still think having Sen would have been a net positive for the league.
NRG telling chet to take a pay cut is probably just them not valuing him as much as the rest of the optic core they signed and not feeling he was worth the buyout.
100t have been pretty stable as an org and as a brand, starting an esports org from nothing is pretty much impossible in this day and age. You need to spend money to get the exposure and brand that you can convert into revenue for the org.

Personally I would have been way more concerned with MIBR given immortal's questionable history in franchise leagues (cough cough dropping their roster 2 weeks before play and moving to china)

Which 5 do you mean. Like EG sure, C9 or MIBR kinda. But also a lot of these decisions were made during an esports growth period where a lot of capital was being handing out to anyone with a brand and an idea of how to grow it. Then when the money slowed down some orgs didn't adapt well.

Bro they came from Overwatch, they have negative money

What a story, what a game, what an ending
Truly peak Valorant

Please call the article premier to pacific a SPG story

what a clutch

my god what an end

Most are pretty young. All of them would be 18 by the start of kickoff. Persia is like 26 though

Might have to open up the pockets I reckon these guys might already have a spot at this point

It's amazing the difference the cypher makes to slow the Neon value compared to the Sin Prisa's against full sense