Monthly Reminder!

Riot reviewed all the LCS submissions and selected the teams with the strongest and most stable organizations backing them. Its called good business. Ya it sucks that Immortals couldn't put together a better package. I really liked them. But this isn't Riots fault.

Uh cool. thx. I like this team ;D

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League may get most viewership, but what will drive Esports forward? Views, or money? . Overwatch bridges some territory of both FPS and MOBA games, and Blizzard can really drive up hype. It may be small now, but don't blink, it could grow fast.

By views that organically generayes money And Overwatch viewership dipped shortly after the end of the burst of the hype bubble, partly because of Blizzard decisions to kill everything else for launching OWL, but also because it has a bad viewership experience AND people have lost some interest on it because of the Battle Royale genre success (PUBG, Fortnite)

You ask if viewership or money will push Esports forward... but wasn't money allegedly the reason, according to your posts in this thread, why IMT was cut for orgs like 100 Thieves? Right now OWL is pushed only by money and if the money stream is cut before it takes off, it is going to die. DOTA esports scene is irrelevant and far less attractive for young players than League despite TI improving their prize pool records year by year (thanks to fans that make for the majority of the contributi in, certainly not to Valve increasing their portion of prizepool) because if you are not in a top 4-top 8 team in the World (top 50 players?) you are not going to earn enough from the tournament to profiting from a professional career, and even the other majors have relatively low prize pool while Riot fund a stable salary in NA+ EU only (without counting other regions they have control of) for 140 players + coaches

You don't even know what you are talking about, your entire premise is that you are salty because IMT has not made the cut. It does not matter if I agree or not with Riot decision about IMT, but you are not questioning the process, you are only crying about the result making up assumptions without foundation and arguments that make no sense or are proved wrong by facts (then explain why DOTA esports is becoming more and more nicher despite still keeping the highest yearly prize pool with TI)

Perfectly reasonable comparison. Because what all is there to gripe about Immortals not making the cut? If the org had their investments and plans as sorted out as they could have, then there's potentially not a problem with them. So what their League ops had a steady environment for talent production. But did they genuinely have a long term thing going for them and could you really tell that?

I feel that your grievances are simply because you're upset that a popular TEAM didn't make the cut. You could transfer that entire roster and support staff to another team (say 100 Thieves) and if that were the case would you have a problem then or would you still have a problem because "it's not Immortals?" That's literally the same for if a fan jumps off the SSG boat for selling to KSV while the roster is still the damn same! Not once have you genuinely spoken of how the organization behind the scenes, specifically Noah, is anything of meaningful to you.

And that's why I plug in Longzhu into the equation. Like Immortals, both teams had rosters for success but were known for choking and sucking where it mattered. Then comes this year; both 7th place Spring split teams that didn't have much faith in fans despite their own star players and a rocky synergy (which dates longer for them). Yet come Summer, they get their acts together and people back them massively despite whatever back end stuff was happening or has happened in the past prior to their present success. So with all Kespa legal aspects aside; place Longzhu's success under a NA bubble. Would it be unfair then because they finally got a roster that clicked? Hell! Let's go as ridiculous as MYM or Origen. What if they had a world class roster despite a garbage org. Or even Tainted Minds; let's go borderline crazy here! Any of those teams could put up the money but would they have the genuine long term plan for their players to stay relevant? Unfortunately, that's Riot's direction.

But if I had to answer your final question...

Now tell me...how is 100 Thieves more worthy?

At least compared to Immortals, 100 Thieves doesn't have much going for them besides a League division. Organizations don't need to have 7 different esports divisions to make their point that they would be a stand in for a suitable and comfortable environment for their teams. And whether they suck or not in League, the org can still show a comfortable environment; the players act to their own. I don't know the full extent of the application process but if I had to take a few shots, 100 Thieves may have had a better pitch, a more focused direction, and works for a better environment for their team. They sold their brand better than Immortals. Better than Dignitas. Better than Envy or Phoenix 1.

So face the reality. I can say you don't know much about Immortals at all, especially seeing as you dodged my initial question entirely. You're just bandwagoning by yourself sulking over the team at hand when most people have already accepted and got over it.