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would you be for or against franchising in the lcs?

xTropicalPenguin·8/22/2016, 7:15:40 PM·2 votes·735 views

With the LCS/LCK/LCL growing bigger and bigger do you think that the teams should be a permanent stay and become franchises? I think they should do away with relegations, and have all 10 spots be permanent teams so players won't have to fight for their lives like animals. Granted if they're doing poorly they can have that player and their sub battle like animals or just have that player desperately try to prove his worth so he doesn't get replaced by someone outside the org who's better. New teams aren't coming up to replace them, so this way even the lower teams can have an established fanbase, because right now there's no point in liking a team that does poorly because they're going to be gone next split so what's the point?

this split was tla and cgc, and they just had a lot of former pros on those teams, all of the players on TLA had lcs experience, not a lot(excluding piglet) but still, for c9c it was mostly the same. and then if they win the promo for 2017, that spot would just be sold off to some potentially shady owners. There are other positives that people can probably articulate much more smoother than i can, and i know there are some negatives to franchising as well, so i ask you guys on your opinion? yes or no to franchising in League of Legends?

I'm not the greatest at these kinds of things but i would like the discussion this would bring up so please share your thoughts with me.

4 Comments

III BAKURYU III 8/23/2016, 5:05:46 AM1 votes

Yeah really interesting point and I'm really into this topic as it can be an "itchy" topic to discuss.

I for 1 love the original teams such as Team solomid, Team Curse(Liquid) Cloud 9, Dignitas to name a few and when well known teams get relegated such as Dignitas it pains because the memories are eliminated especially when the team changes their name and are no longer their former name such as Dig becoming Apex.

I would love a division for NA at least mainly due to the fact that I watch more NA than I do EU and EU and other regions do what they want and some of the other regions are "not" part of the LCS style such as LPL(China).

The Division setup would be Group A(6-8 Teams) and Group B(6-8 Teams). Each team faces each other from their respective groups twice while facing the other teams from the opposing Group Once.
Each team needs to fill out their respective roster with 10 total players. The team doesn't need to pay the extra "bench" players(5) money unless they sub for certain players on the team. This way it will eliminate the creating other teams if a Team's Top player doesn't get along with their Jungler the team can sub in for that player etc etc.

If flaming becomes an issue with a certain player on a team the team can replace them with a sub and if the player continues flaming at the team house or what ever the team can trade that player: contacting another team and if no teams want that player they can release the player and pick up another player from the challenger scene and the flame player will be eliminated from the LCS unless they get picked back up say from the challenger scene as a "Free Agent".

 This will eliminate toxic players to not continue their ways or be eliminated from the LCS all together.  If the same X amount of teams know about the player behavior that  player will have no choice but to change his ways.  They can't just form another team from a relegated team and continue being toxic with a "new and Fresh" team that doesn't see the bigger picture but just wants to represent the LCS.

A few years ago I could name Every team in the LCS from NA to EU with each player on each respective team but now I can't keep up with each year an old team is replaced with a new team with a new name. How many splits say Echo Fox or Apex will be called Echo Fox and Apex instead of XXX you know?

I talked long enough and most of what I posted will most likely not be read ;[ Thank you and Have a Good One !

Fraggleroc8/24/2016, 7:13:44 AM1 votes

Relegation promotes competition. Without competition, viewership goes down. When viewership plummets, there will be no scene.

Reality is.. even big teams such as TSM are dispensable to Riot. Riot may suffer a temporary loss of some enthusiastic fans. Most of these fans will switch to support other teams.

Reality is... there are a ton of other teams waiting in line to try to snitch the spots of the top LCS teams.