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The Next Step for eSports, and I need your help.

MASKED WOLF·6/20/2015, 9:58:09 PM·7 votes·1,449 views

Dear Riot,

I have been playing your game and following eSports ever since the release of Xerath and have loved every moment of it. Anyways, enough about me I'll get straight to the point. So for a while now I have had this idea, and i believe it can be the next huge steps for eSports in America. It will open much more availability for players to become pro, it will help grow the industry by incredible numbers, and it will increase the competitive scene in America.

The idea is having a pro team represent a city, (ex. Seattle vs. Pittsburgh; Oakland vs New York) much like other pro Sports do. With cities involved, it will spark the curiosity of people who have no idea what eSports is and can break the scene wide open in so many different ways. I want to get this started, and I want your help in helping this get kick started. I would like to create a team and represent a city on the West Coast, and a good friend of mine from the game would like to represent a city on the East Coast. With that being said, I have no clue where to go or what to do to start this, and I seriously believe it would be huge for eSports if this were to be a success. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Your Friend,

Unbeatablee

11 Comments

TheGrandAlliance6/20/2015, 10:34:25 PM2 votes

Although I am not a failure at life and will not downvote your thread: One of the appeals of new sports (such as LoL/"Esports") is that are not localized is that they are not part of a city. City rivalry in other "real" sports only ruin the sport. They force people to care about "local pride" and not about the sport itself. One should be able to choose who they want based upon the team they think is best... and not be "region locked" or nerfed into oblivion by others for "not supporting the 'local' team" (MLB: NYC vs Boston for instance).

Although I understand the logic of trying to get more people involved... the international nature of this sport makes local cities effectively irrelevant. NA LCS is a joke compared to Korea LCS action for instance and first things first as they say...

Indeed it is so...

Reynard the ƒox6/21/2015, 12:14:42 AM2 votes

Professional sports teams are owned by individuals and organizations, not the city which they are based in.

EDIT: the Green Bay Packers are an exception

Cerbearus6/20/2015, 10:28:06 PM1 votes

We do have college league right now, separated into regions and whatnot. Not sure the actual pros will ever do this. Teams right now are owned by organizations and not cities.

Maybe eventually, but no any time soon.

Cerbearus6/21/2015, 1:20:17 AM1 votes

Also how would international competition work? Other regions have their own organization and idk if I want a city representing our country...