League of Legends worlds prize pool saw some big drop over the years but they are still one of the most watched and played. So that guy is just wrong about prize pool of valorant AND prize pool having direct impact on the game's future.

Shit man, I want to bait people but I see actual dumbasses like the screenshot and I just wonder if they actually drank water with lead.

In esports, it's quite hard to open vacant positions just for scouts. That's why they hold open trials if they are looking for new talent, which has worked out well in several cases. Esports in general is not as big as sports in terms of player base (depth), nor does it have the stable profit (its quite hard for esports orgs to make enough profit to fit in "scouts" when open trials and coaches already do the job)

hydrogen baby vs coughing bomb

I've never seen a team meeting each other 7 times in 2 years

January - October = Convergence, Kickoff (groups until grand final), masters (swiss until grand final), stage 1 (league phase and grand final) , masters (swiss stage and grand final), stage 2 (league phase and grand final), and to champs.
Map pool rotation + multiple buff/nerf with scrims going on every day.
After every stage, GENG left for an international tournament (travel + scrim)

not everything is about the number of LAN events dumbass, even riot admitted that events were crammed this year which is why they are stretching the events for 2025.
too bad N0v0 could only dream of making it to the grand finals in 2024 but its MEMEA so its not surprising

regions start falling behind

ngl the reason why other leagues in LoL is falling behind isn't because of franchising. Ranting about franchising is bad won't change the fact that it does/did more good than harm to orgs. No team looking consistent is the nature of the game. Map pool changing every now and then with agent buff/nerf and lack of rest made it hard for teams to be consistent. GENG had no rest in 2024 and everyone was just burnt out in champs.
signing the same tier 1 players rather than tier 2 players cost more money so orgs being too pussy don't make any sense and teams go through trials to pick up players.

no its happening the next day

do you perhaps drink lead water? because your take gives me the idea that you might have a damaged brain

you seem like the kind of dude i would trust in vlr. i like this guy.

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-yeap, sound of freedom. We are coming for all the trophies.

i tried to reply but i had to wait 175 seconds wtf. I have been lurking around without any account for a long time, just joined in to type braindead shit (username check)

EDG needs an import from the superior region (NA, not the entire americas)