jammyz https://twitter.com/jammyzx

basically riot's gonna take vct and make into a league where only 10 teams can compete at the highest level, no qualifiers to get in - teams like optic, c9, 100t, and most of the other teams who were in vct this year should be able to buy into it no problem (this is happening for na emea and asia). however, for the t2 teams who are just below the vct teams (e.g. nyfu, akrew) this completely removes any possibility of accessing the top of the pro scene. these orgs are gonna pay thousands of dollars per year to only win like 5 grand prize pools, so they will understandably leave the scene and ruin the lower tiers of pro play. without these lower tiers, rising pros have a much harder time finding an org and actually signing onto a top team bc there's not gonna be much opportunity to play tourneys, have to grind longer to prove themselves, and more stuff like that

it's really good for the teams in the franchised league because it eliminates the risk of not being in the top league - as long as the team pays to be in and riot says they can be in, they will remain in the league. more sponsorships, more prize money, etc

this is all for now as riot hasn't announced any t2 stuff, so unless they do, all these orgs are gonna continue to pull out. csgo has some franchised leagues as well, but there are also so many more tourneys in the scene that an org can keep a team in the scene without being in one of these franchised leagues. imo riot did franchising way too early and without any plans for the scene outside of franchising