2018 Esports General Discussion - Page 20
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
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chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
G2, Fnatic, Misfits, S04, VIT in H2K and Splyce out No word on UoL, Giants, or Roccat | ||
Redox
Germany24792 Posts
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Gahlo
United States34964 Posts
Granted, not European, so I may be missing context about why this perplexes you. | ||
AdsMoFro
Japan4761 Posts
On October 03 2018 13:01 Redox wrote: Most surprised about S04. Not that they were let in, but that they applied at all. I would not have expected the club to make a non-football investment that big. Wonder if there will be backlash once the mainstream hears about that. They've been showing highlights of the team's games at their stadium before games so clearly they seem into it. There will always be backlash from idiots, though. | ||
Gahlo
United States34964 Posts
http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/24892443/giants-unicorns-roccat-not-participate-eu-lcs-franchising Not surprised and don't care about Giants. UoL basically lost their entire brand when Romain went to NA. Roccat's a bit sad to see go, considering they're an endemic sponsor - though they could just piggyback on another team. | ||
chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
Astralis first new team to be accepted. Four more new teams will join G2/Fnatic/Misfits/S04/VIT | ||
Gahlo
United States34964 Posts
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chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
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Gahlo
United States34964 Posts
Apparently xPeke's mom is making fun of who said it. | ||
AdsMoFro
Japan4761 Posts
So, let's start a discussion here. In Australia, the National Rugby League organisers (biggest or second biggest sporting league in Aus depending on who you ask) set a salary cap for both players and support staff (with some exceptions related to third-party deals and sponsorships). Currently, the player's salary cap is 9.4 million AUD for a squad of 30 with a minimum wage of 100K and the support staff cap is at 5.7 million. The NRL provides 11 million AUD in funding every year, essentially covering the playing salary cap and a bit of the support staff cap. What does everyone think of this style of cap being implemented in the LCS? Currently, the LCS minimum wage is 75K USD, which IMO is too high. AFAIK, almost none of the players in the LCS right now are on under 100K unless they started the year off in Academy. Riot covers an amount of that 75k, not sure how much. It used to be 30k (which when introduced, a lot of teams ONLY paid that salary) but I think it's much more now (MAYBE 50k?). | ||
Sent.
Poland8966 Posts
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
The problems facing LCS stem from 2 main areas. 1) VCs inflating cost of business while revenue streams do not match expenses 2) Riot's mismanagement in generating revenue from LCS Now salary caps can help with point 1 to an extent, they won't really stop the overall costs where players and coaches are being paid far too much money for what they generate. The lowing of min wage is interesting. Would teams lower salaries? Would there be outrage from players? Forcing teams to be sustainable is pretty interesting idea, they clearly would rather whine than do it themselves. The second problem is pretty tough too. Franchising itself wasn't actually needed to revenue share yet here we are. Riot hasn't shown themselves to be particularly competent in managing their esports side. Makes you wonder why these big investors were willing to pay so much money. They should work harder at generating revenue here but I do wonder if that will even matter. If the teams themselves would just keep raising costs with the increased income instead of trying to stabilize it won't do much. I know I said this years ago but I do believe the current situation is a combination of terrible investors in league and Riot poor management. Putting all the onus on merely one side isn't going to produce healthy results. | ||
chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
I don't think a minimum wage will solve the issue that its just not in teams best interests to collaborate for sponsors | ||
chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
Lets all pretend to be surprised together Part II:Hire Zikz boogaloo | ||
Gahlo
United States34964 Posts
edit: He addressed it on reddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/9q55vp/welcome_tsm_zikz/e86oy40/ | ||
AdsMoFro
Japan4761 Posts
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LightningStrike
United States14275 Posts
Alex Ich officially retired from pro League of Legends. I wasn't to shocked seeing he hasn't done much this year. | ||
JimmiC
Canada22759 Posts
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AdsMoFro
Japan4761 Posts
Riot finally announcing Worlds ahead of time as well as announcing Worlds final location for next year ^_^ | ||
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