I'd argue that it's the org's money and they're allowed to do what they want with it (unless riot had them on a contract that said they had to spend the money on valorant) the real problem is that the T1 system means that even teams that put in no effort get to stay. If they wanna spend money on CS and that means their val team sucks thats fine, but maybe that should mean they get sent to T2 if they do nothing but lose