Surely riot could let 1 of these orgs buyout the guard roaster and take the VCT spot right.

Especially version 1, a big money org that's heavily invested in the scene who have experience within franchise systems (the operate and own a CDL team).

No brainer right

Bro imagine the memes, 2024 ascension champions being announced in a video,
NA the Union, highlights music slowly ramping up
EMEA Apex, highlights, music starting to build
And form APAC,
Basedrop*
The Singapore Armed Forces

And next year's ascension winner is the Singapore armed forces 🗿

They the real MVP for the EG run

I mean here's one you could realistically build without any of the current VCT players

• Braveaf, will continue his legacy as Russia's best sova 1 trick
• Deffo, continues the fleta deadlift hard carries he did while getting the bag in China
• Jenkin one of him or deffo ends up getting forced to flex and I think deffo probably holds out
• kr1stal, continues igling but moves to smokes so he can tp into the backline like ANGE1 and redgar, because traditions
• vo0kashu, best I could get with out going off the goop on India T2 games

I can't see it. The roles don't really work for it. I'd say he goes to Navi to fill take over for cNed who's rumoured to be leaving

Jenkins would exceed the import limit

Ngl it's kind cursed that demon1 and jawgemo rotate who plays smokes based whether they need a Jett or a Raze on that map. Yet both look rock solid on controller, kind of impressive.

ANGE1 ain't Russian mate

No, overwatch died for reasons mainly related to content. Goats was peak overwatch esports in terms of story lines, hype and significance. The games were also bangers.

Overwatch died because it wasn't profitable to put money into the game, it was unfortunately right before the games as a service battle pass model that keeps money coming into big free to play games right now and the parent company has been later outed as an absolute shit show that stunted development

I think she needs the help. Not 100% pick rate yet smh, d tier agent

Buffing everything would be more fun to play

Raze stonks gone to the moon after this one

High key, name a map you don't pick raze 100% on now. Breeze and ice box. But with a re-design to breeze and raze chamber being a solid comp on both maps I honestly think raze become a must pick

Me when Jett is hard diffed by raze on most maps but the nerf her into the ground and remove the fun stuff. Like why the need to take away an updraft

I'll just be sad about it tbh, legit only care that the took away an up draft. The fun mobility is gone, why directly hinder the interesting part of Jetts kit

Yeah they made the game less fun

Bro it's 3am already, bed time for me I reckon
I can wake up to one of NA or SEA coping

Damn that's pretty early. From what I remember Australians don't get their atars back until like mid December

The import limit is one player from outside the region for VCT, in tier 2 however it expands to 2 outside of the VCL (very important in somewhere like EU or APAC where the region is split into many VCLs). So a franchise team can only have 1 import player, e.g. something, ardiis, ayrin and ban whereas a VCL team can have 2 e.g. scars.

Though interestingly China seems to allow 2 import player e.g. gank, Weibo, rng and 4am

1 map advantages are anti climatic and less intuitive for new viewers. One less map played in your grand final also isn't great for sponsors. The map veto, prep time advantage and lower amount of vods for the other team are enough especially given how huge of an advantage the upper bracket team has in the veto

Bracket resets don't really work well for games where things take so long. Instead the team with the higher seed is given a huge map veto advantage over the lower seed. It's not quite a second series but it is still a huge advantage for the lower seeded team have to overcome.

Idk the new Maryville roster looks kind of stacked for collegiate.

Each country runs a qualifier between all the collegiate teams (university teams) and that one goes to the finals

That would probably make a difference in the choice, I know nothing about American colleges other than that shits expensive and a scholarship for clicking on heads seems like a good deal.

Honestly reckon a good career path for him would be to get onto an NA collegiate team (which are starting to come into Val), he would be an easy pick up for someone like Redbirds or Northwood if they enter Val. Full ride scholarship ez peak career move

Tldr, c9 left because na cs is a money pit. Then when Russia did Russia things and gambit had to release there rosters cloud 9 acquired the gambit roster and has built from there

Sounds like cope tbh
You can't really say winning an international lan event where the top 4 teams were Navi, drx, loud and Fnatic doesn't hold up to a regular. There was like no big upsets that heavily changed the results single Elim had basically no effect

Imagine a soccer team being top 4 at a football would cup

You know why

Fair fair, but at least unlike yay, ardiis could actually put up numbers against tier 2 teams...

Depends a fair bit on whether it's being calculated off vlr's rating system or strait acs. Both have their merit, but if your looking from the perspective of straight acs there's 3 duelists in the top 5 (ardiis, keznit and whyz). Aswell in the group stage both are influenced heavily by who's in your group

Nah it's worse, this is a 1 team game. Fnatic just clears

I don't know my ranked games always go better with a few cold ones. I can't imagine a few drinks would hamper Angel or redgars ability to blind to into the enemy

Vodka redbull clears

Pre-match drinks with the team > mid game nicotine injection

Give sayf a beer

Liquid win this, loud is in shambles

Idk Ardiis English is kind of questionable, translating from scouse to English is a full time job for fns

Prosciutto gets hard diffed by Serrano, granted wouldn't say I've put it on a pizza

To be fair kind of impossible to make a sequel for these kind of games. Especially games as old as csgo and overwatch that came right before the games as a live service model. If you change to much you lose your cult fan base, you keep the core of the game the same and your 'new release' is basically a major update (which to be fair is what most game releases used to be)

The necessary knowledge (and to and extent skill) floor to be able to pick up counterstrike means it has fuck all chance of breaking into newer markets. Valorants more intuitive utility and basic movement make it significantly easier to pick up and approach to a new demographic that wasn't born in the days of 1.6

Also tier 2 esports is still a money pit in CS, it just takes longer for orgs to realize since there's still something shiny at the end of it.

Sounds like the difference between this year and last year's call of duty tbh

Trust me it exists, it might involve dfm dropping their roster for bonkers because the teams better, completely rebranding their org to bonkers because it's a better brand and the LCQ into champions run of a multiple lifetime. But dammit that world exists somewhere

On my way to run the sim on an Intel super server until I find the one possible universe bonkers win

Give jett a frame 1 jump cancel hitbox

The bit I kind of left because it would have gone from happy potter to game of thrones was that hopefully with pushing personalities and tier 2 players other revenue like streaming and social media influencing opens up as an option to support a career in Val.

Knew I should have made it a 10 second tik tok and not a post in forum

Sell orgs on sponsor and brand exposure not prize money, integrate the T1 and T2 calendar, get T1 players vs tier 2 players/teams you don't need a whole event for it, make it a show match

Time to find out if there's a word limit

I survived overwatch and heavily followed the games tier 2 scene (I know I wasted a lot of my time) but here's what you need to make it work.

Tier 2 brings value to the scene in 2 ways
-It creates storyline and history for new talents entering the scene giving them brands and personality that's marketable to sponsors for either a VCT team or Val in general

-provides stability for upcoming players to persue the dream of playing in VCT

To create a history and brands you need to make story's worth giving a fuck about. You do this with event's and opportunities the break players from the tier 2 bubble into the main VCT audience. To do this you need events, not necessarily big ones with massive prise pools and financial investment. Think show matches with no stakes but high profile names against tier 2 teams. "VCT emea split 1 All-stars plays VCL split 1 winner Istanbul wildcats" so stakes, just exposure. But this also needs content surrounding it, invest money into produced content surrounding tier 2 teams e.g. "how M80 use breach on ascent to disrupt the meta" it's clicky, throw it on tik tok for the I pad babys brings attention to the tier 2 team and highlights a playstyle or prominent figure that fans will remember. To steal something that overwatch league actually did well this year press season to fill the gap of a long off season a bit run a pro-am VCT teams vs challengers teams. If a VCT team lose, great you have a story for the upcoming VCT season and hype for some tier 2 talent. If the VCT teams stomp then ohh well that's what's meant to happen, another great example of this was the Overwatch world cup which was hype as fuck but also created the story for so many of it's biggest tier 2 players (great off season tournament)

Stability for players is a lot harder to do achieve borderline impossible so here's some ideas.

• tier 2 should not have an off season, no matter what it is run some cheap events from riot /3rd party run events. As long as there's an open Qualifyer and the main event streams to the main VCT feeds it's all you need.
• events need to have budget set aside for direct VCT marketing that makes them more appealing to an org trying to sell to sponsors than a prize pool would be. Drop $1000 of the prize pool and allocate the budget to have every team get some form of product placement desk segment/brand activation on the main broadcast. Idk have a the guard from the guard ride a horse on a stick in a race against one a faze power wheels car driven by the head coach.
  -Provide more to orgs than just a prize pool, sponsors pay the bills no prize pool winnings.

Also some easy stuff.
Combine the main emea VCL's into 1 league with cis and mena sperate that feed into one playoffs bracket for the each split. (Yeah its a pain to sell sponsors on because of how emea works, but at least you have decent product to sell).

Anyway here's my rough idea of a skeleton calendar to run:
Mid January,
VCL split 1 starts during VCT off season (online)
VCL playoffs into VCL VCT Pro-Am mid to late Feb (online like weekend event)
March
VCT starts split 1
VCL split 2 starts
VCL split 2 playoffs
VCT group stage ends
1 week gap
All starts show match vs VCL split 2 champs(online because it's cheaper maybe fly them in to lan) probably do this as the opening game of VCT playoffs and not before the finals
Late April
VCT split 1 playoffs
May
Masters 1
June
VCT split 2 starts
VCL split 3 starts
July
VCL playoffs
Late July
VCL split 3 champs vs VCT split 2 All-stars
VCT playoffs
August
Masters 2
Early September
Last chance qualifiers/world cup qualifiers
Early October champs
Off season start*
Mid November
world cup lan finals time 3 emea nations, 3 na nations, 3 apac nations and 1 China representative

December-January
*Red bull home ground, LATAM cup, summit invitational, (the good thing about a regional off season is a number of events can run at one time)

For a bit of context, deffo was much more of a utility usage and structured player on gambit (part of why we only really saw him brain off click heads when he went over to CN) would slot in much better to angel's system than cNed who came from a very loose ascend team