Boycott LCS. They watered down competition by abandoning Best of 3. Riot won't share profits from sponsors with teams and their policies make it hard for teams to gain their own sponsors. They have inexplicably cut out a couple very solid organizations (NV and IMT) while letting in a clown org of 100 Thieves.
Support healthy Esports, don't support bad Esports.
AirKingNeo6 votesAlso let's not forget the balance state of the game makes competitive boring.
"Wow, they picked Maokai JUST LIKE THE OTHER TEAM!" "WOW, MAOKAI IS UNKILLABLE as usual..."
Abibyama1 votesNever forget Maokai vs Nautilus INSANE 1V1 FIGHT
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ChompyWulf1 votesThe more reading I've done after the franchising announcement really flies in the face of that claim, and Riot is awful at making a viable Esports league for teams in the LCS.
Teams make far more on a single Smite skin or CS:GO stickers than they get from LoL icons sales. Riot shared NONE of its sponsorship revenue with teams. Teams were not allowed to sell merch with team sponsors logos on them, one reason teams struggled to make any sponsorship revenue on their own. (This has led to teams such as CLG and DIG being bought out by venture capitalists to stay afloat.) Riot got belligerent with at least Reginald when he was expanding TSM into other Esports. The prize money for DOTA2's The International winning team eclipses the entire prize pool for LoL Worlds.
Clearly, for a young organization like IMT, to get sponsors you'll have to run into the red and expand into multiple Esports to get viable sponsorship, particularly into more lucrative Esports such as CS:GO or DOTA. But as established above, Rito is a jealous lover, and aren't willing to acknowledge their greedy ways force teams to spend money in order to make money.
I've seen people claim IMT was too risky because their backers might drop them at any time. However, there are a number of LCS teams supported by rich owners...by definition, venture capitalists. Echo Fox, Flyquest, Counterlogic Gaming, 100 Thieves, Golden Guardians, Clutch Gaming....the actual majority are funded first by venture capitalists.
Furthermore, why allow in a team such as 100 Thieves? The organization only had a FPS team for half a year, then a year of nothing. No players or any roster at all in any game. Surely at least NV, a group with a solid organization would be better, or take a shot on a competitively successful group like IMT, would be better than accepting a dumpster fire in.
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ChompyWulf1 votesThe Cavaliers chose to back 100 Thieves. They could have stepped in and negotiated with denied LoL teams to get a ready built infrastructure and keep a set roster to then tweak, they chose to back a shit org in an Esports genre they've never touched. Like it or not, it's trash, and their team is going to be bad.
And yeah....I covered already how other teams are kept afloat by venture capitalists and Riot has caused that to be the norm in the LCS. So your point reinforces that Riot picked who they want, not necessarily who is worthy.
Partholonian2 votesIs there even an LCS to boycott, yet? (Checks official site: no, there is not.)
When there is, I'll let orgs prove on the rift which ones are clowns and which are not. Although I did like Bo3s, it's not like seasons before them were terrible or anything.
Akali is SO HOT2 votesAn LCS without DIG isn't an LCS worth watching
ChompyWulf1 votesIt's a shame DIG is one of the teams left out, one of the oldest teams there was. Another example of "why didn't someone buyout their roster?"
Snowplosion2 votesThe problem I have with the change back is there are just a lot less games being played. That's a lot less content for us and a lot less play for the teams.
ChompyWulf1 votesAgreed. I don't care about watching every match every week. I'd rather watch my favorite team play a best of 3, and MAYBE watch a team they are competing with in the standings.
daviidnavidad1 votes100 thieves is, as I see it, just a well known logo being put onto the Cleveland Cavaliers, whether or not Nadeshor(or whatever) is a clown is not really the org, He seems not to know much about league so he seems like more of like a mascot.
ChompyWulf1 votesThe thing is, why allow a face put in the league which has really only been a flop? It's still a head scratcher at least, and a a slap in the face at worst.
daviidnavidad1 votesThe thing is, why allow a face put in the league which has really only been a flop? It's still a head scratcher at least, and a a slap in the face at worst.
I don't know but I also know that we did not have all the information, maybe the cavaliers had a strong financial bid, and just chose Nadeshot as their face. Maybe Immortals had a really poor application. I just don't know.