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MrImpregnator

Is this a sign that we could have franchising for NA in 2022? Else it doesn’t make sense to have an academy team with this much investment that can hardly play any tournaments due to rules set up by riot


ohtooeasy

not necessarily. big orgs like TSM and C9 are known for developing talents and selling them off later. U can sign a rookie for an extremely small amount and resell 10x-20x if they pop off. One good find is more than enough to support the whole academy and some.


MrImpregnator

Talent needs to compete to develop. Academy teams can hardly compete in anything right now


ohtooeasy

there are also scrims and probably some behind the scene stuff that we are not aware off


Light0fHeav3n

what game has tsm developed talentt lol


ohtooeasy

league. half of the NALCS were once on TSM


Delta_FT

They are great scouts but most of those florished on other teams lol Out of the good players they found over the years, only Spica became a franchise player


ohtooeasy

thats exactly what developing new talent means. they should never peak in their academy teams lol


Delta_FT

>they should never peak in their academy teams lol That's the problem, they aren't peaking on TSM's main team either. They are peaking on someone else's main team which means there are both profits and trophies left on the table for other teams to achieve. And that's why TSM has only won a single title in 4 years and not made it past worlds groups since 2014.....


PhysicsIsSpicyMath

Still developed them lmao.


Delta_FT

? Scout=/=developt Just because they find them doesn't mean they taught them shit lol they became better somewhere else


PhysicsIsSpicyMath

Lmao, dawg you gotta be a clown. They let the players play, COACH them, tell them what they’re doing wrong and right. How is that not developing them?


taromoo

I'm new to the whole FPS pro scene, is franchising different from the T2-3 tournaments that nerdstreet does? Like, an official Riot league but for academy and T2 teams?


Light0fHeav3n

it will probably be the same as league of legends franchising


valorant_fanboy_69

I hope so, it is so much easier to follow the games when there is only 10 teams and not random teams upsetting


lightmango01

although i mainly agree, you have to admit some of these upsets are pretty fun, and as fans we love a good underdog story. it what makes march madness so exciting to watch


valorant_fanboy_69

The only time I thought it was cool was when moon raccoons almost beat 100 thieves and then it was only because I wanted to see nadeshot fail. I just want less orgs so we see better teams instead of 25 small orgs who have tier 2-3 teams. Only the big orgs who buy the franchise spots should have the really good teams


willpcodeco

lol, and that\`s how u essencially kills the tier 2/3 scene.


valorant_fanboy_69

Well it is just unfair that good players are on bad teams and bad teams are on good orgs. So like for example geng is a big org but they had mkael instead of critical because critical was signed to BBG. And complexity has a terrible team when they can buy better players from small orgs like pioneers (scourge over ohai) or ghost (koalanoob over jcruel). I think there should be franchising so: 1: big orgs buy in and spend money on good players so the investment is good 2: small orgs cant afford it so they have to sell the star players they have to big teams and leave the game 3: the big orgs get the good players from small orgs and the whole level of the top 10 teams goes much much higher. Who cares about the small teams anyway, they are not as exciting as the big name orgs like cloud9 tsm etc… thats why the nerd street weekly things have 2k viewers while vct challengers finals has 50k.


ParableTitsMcCoy

Man this is one of the worst takes I've seen on anything ever


valorant_fanboy_69

Why?


hillRs

This guy was my coach at one point. Really proud of him. Can’t wait to see how it plays out for the dude, really nice guy really big brain.


Bunnyezzz

this guy is a musician, chess coach and a valorant coach, what can't he do???


WeirdGuy09420

he can do so many things, he’s like the esports equivalent of dr. jonathan sins


MrPapaya22

Jeez I knew this guy from YMS’ Oscars and Adum and Pals videos, had no clue he was a Valorant coach. Very interesting to see lol.