I know education isn't important to you Americans. But this is temporary, esports' future is not guaranteed and in most countries doing exams late is looked down upon by good universities.

Observe

cant wait to satchel my teamates off the map

DFM BEAT T1!!!
T1 BEAT GENG!!!!!
DFM IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD?????

I want GENG to win but I also want these* NA fans to shut up

*annoyingly loud minority

bro edited out 'you moron'
here is where they said it... 'moron'
https://imgur.com/a/6VIwHht

Investment ∝̸ Results (directly), you can't bish bash players together and expect it to work 100% of the time, you need a system in place to incorporate new players, the best example of this is G2, they only just got Icy but they're already at least top 3 in Shanghai, compare this to a team like NRG who built what was hyped up to be the 2nd NA superteam. Every team is subject to their own 'circumstances'.

You're implying that tier 2 teams can't afford t1 salaries, and this is true. But just because its true doesn't mean its good, in fact this is an issue; an issue which a relegation system would help solve, the goal is to have tier 2 full of actually decent orgs who can afford it. To actually incentivise those decent orgs to play in t2, a solution is frequent relegation, as there's an actual chance for any well managed team to make it into tier 1

Yeah they thought they were gonna be 'good', but thats in context of the budget. Also relegation is quite literally designed to create pressure, so them not being able to perform under pressure would be just one reason for them to be in contention for relegation.

The thing is there is no such thing as franchising in valorant, we have 'partnered' teams. The main difference is that they get paid to be part of the league. Because there is no relegation, there is literally no reason to try and have good teams.

And yeah, maybe ME being weak could be a concern. But it depends on what turkish teams and players want, which has so far been to be closer to europe (in the context of VCT)

yeah, I was just trying to stretch it to 4 teams per region so it would fit with my point nicely.
But you still can't argue that a top 3 T2 team from their respective regions doesn't have an at least 50% of beating these guys

excluding G2, Americas is half US teams. Also if you have promotion/relegation it literally wont matter over a few years because teams will be in the league based on merit.

Hybrid as in players for Turkey will play in both VCT EU and VCT ME, and it will be up to the org to see which one they would like to compete in

combine CN and JP/KR and I agree.
Combining that with what I said earlier you get the perfect format imo.
6 leagues with 8 teams (2 of which are promo/relegation)

small thing, morocco and turkey are probably fine as hybrid subregions

c long is gonna prolly get shorter or wider
b choke should probably be a bit larger, ideally with no 50/50
a short is probably gonna get wider

Relegation for ascension teams only might be an idea, but actually good ascension team(s) will just gatekeep tier 1, whilst other low feeders will stay in. It's not a bad if you're given the presumption that we will absolutely not have partnered relegation.

But I think your argument is flawed in the sense that you're not taking into account that perhaps teams such as Heretics would've probably invested more if there was an actual RISK of being relegated. Sure maybe they wouldn't have been as good as they are now, but the quality across the whole league would still be higher

will probably just replace whats left of jett
and raze on cypher maps probably

I ain't reading your homework. bro gave an intro 2 paragraphs and a conclusion

For example I think these are the teams that are actually on fraudwatch for being worse than tier 2 consistently

MIBR
FURIA
EG
C9

BBL
GM8
KOI
GIANTS

RRQ
DFM
GE
TLN

Should there be a relegation system in 'franchising'?
imo there should be, the bottom teams in every region are so ass its unbelievable, and having more than 1 ascension slot per year actually might make t2 a good investment for orgs. In my perfect world there would be 6 teams who stay in t1, and 2 teams who get relegated/promoted. Creating at total of 8 teams per region

That also brings me on to the number of teams. Next year we will have 12 teams per region, which is wayyyyyyyyy to much, we already have like no matches compared to CS, and the local demand isn't even there yet (the crowd is basically empty when 2 shitty relegation worthy teams play)
It will always be possible to expand the league if there's more money coming in. Also with 8 teams per region we probably wouldn't have to deal with this half split BS in between masters events

the inverse is also true, the worse people aim the worse the slide is. People under ascendant already cant aim whilst standing still, what makes you think they can while they're sliding

stopped reading at 'valorant wasnt made to rival cs'

Go on

6/10 prefer it over breeze