Needs to be a 1 foreign player limit on teams
all these foreign players coming to NA is getting ridiculous. TSM is a European team now for gods sake and all of the star players from other regions coming here is really hurting the other regions.
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Not really. It should serve as a spur for the local players to up their game. If they don't they deserve no slot.
That's like saying there can only be 1 foreign player on a NBA team. It's dumb.
The issue is that the EU LCS doesn't pay players much at all. It's definitely more sustainable to play in NA because you make more money. You could argue that "They're playing games for a living! It shouldn't be about the money!" but at the end of the day they have to put bread on the table and secure a financially safe future. It's not like professional gaming has a lot of transferable skills in the job world.
Also, I like the idea that players can go where they like to play on whatever team they want. When you look at another popular international sport like soccer, you could consider the barclays premier league in england to be the most competitive. When looking closer at each team, there is a trend that not all 11, or for the most part, not even the starting majority are from england. A league where many of the participants are from the nation however is the spanish league. If you were to look at the competitiveness of that you'd notice that simply Barcelona or Real Madrid win every year, while the other teams more or less compete for third place. The same goes for the german bundesliga. I like the idea of better players going to the more competitive league for an overall better LCS that each region having 1-2 teams that don't really have to try until worlds.
sooo we should tell players "you can't play where you want and make money on a great team that really wants you, because we already have a Dane" no ty