Isn't this like you know, elo boosting selling accounts? Example: Let's use XWX for this He made a bunch of account get them to Diamond and sell it
C9 basically made a Challenger team and boosting it to the LCS and selling the spot I mean IDK isn't that kind of boosting?
The players on the team aren't changed. The actual people who earned the LCS spot still have it. The team itself is just changing ownership.
Also, since LCS spots are based on merit, if the new owners switch the team out entirely to sort of boost a new group of people, if they can't hold up to the competition, they'll be eliminated and the owners just wasted a ton of money.
Boosting is specifically having someone else play your account so you can take credit for a ranking you did not earn. The owners of a team are independent from the players and their accounts.
oh believe me, this is the LOL boards. they will correct you
Kinda. It's boosting in the sense that a team is put together with the known intention of making lots of money (likely $2mil or more) in the end. There's still the fact that it's likely that some of the players will stay (Hai is most likely leaving, but he's also saying that everyone else, including the previously retired Lemonnation, will probably stay), meaning that while the organization is different, the actual team is similar to what made it out of Challenger.
This concept is actually getting a lot of people to call for franchising, or eliminating the promotion/relegation aspect of the LCS. That conversation is a lot more complicated, but it has recently stemmed from the relegation of NRG and the recent rise in Challenger teams that use pro talent for an easy boost to LCS (Origen, Renegades, Cloud9 Challenger, Team Liquid Academy, and even Misfits a little bit).
Well, is roster remaining same?
