MASSIVE changes to LCS, CBLOL feat. TL Steve, Kelby May and LS | Hotline League 323
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
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00:00:00 Intro
00:28:28 boggles' take: though the changes feel bad now, they might be better for the long term
00:51:24 NEW SPONSOR!! KIA break!
00:57:30 LS joins HLL!
01:17:40 darklight gives some CBLOL perspective, worries that an unhealthy rivalry will form now
01:53:30 Red's take: these changes might kill LCS entirely
02:16:45 Outro 
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00:00:00 Intro
00:28:28 boggles' take: though the changes feel bad now, they might be better for the long term
00:51:24 NEW SPONSOR!! KIA break!
00:57:30 LS joins HLL!
01:17:40 darklight gives some CBLoL perspective, worries that an unhealthy rivalry will form now
01:53:30 Red's take: these changes might kill LCS entirely
02:16:45 Outro
Yoooo!! Shoutout Kia for sponsoring TGI, Hotline League, and League of Legends in general. Those sponsorships led me to put the Sportage on my shopping list as a real contender. Congrats Travis, stoked you have a sponsor again.
Never been more proud to own a kia!
I’m thinking I’ll get an EV for my next car, and KIA wasn’t on my shopping list, but it is now. What do they have that’s smaller than an EV9?
That was an ASMR level snap you made at the beginning for audio sync my friend.
Every thing else is smaller than an ev9... @@StoicTheGeek
Steve actually coming onto HLL for topics like this, is one of the reasons TL is my favorite team. Let’s go TL!! Can’t wait to see them back on stage.
Sure he said nothing and is taking his team to Saudi Arabia for cash.
THANK YOU KIA! I can't wait for summer LCS to start! All the changes next year are a bit overwhelming and scary, but I am tentatively excited
I just bought a Kia K5 GT, thank you Kia!
2:03:35 I also don’t want to undersell that point, the LCS is an identity & as a long time viewer if we lose that then the scene in North America is in trouble.
The Brazilian caller actually was the Goat, I knew cblol as a product was doing well but actually hearing the fans perspective of it and why they don’t like the merge made a lot of sense.
It sucks when you have cultivated a winning formulate from scratch with no help and are now forced to change things up because of the global state of esports.
Hey @travisgafford, I'm pretty familiar with the Brazilian league, I am an American native but lived in Brazil for a number of years and speak Portuguese fluently. Let me know if you would like help or need someone who can be an intermediary between regions.
Brazil has had the right idea here from the start. LCS and NA would not be in the sorry state it is now if it focused more and celebrated more the regional competition and not have succsess at worlds be the only thing that matters ever. I have always liked LCS, it is my favourite region to watch. And that has never had anything to do with how they do at worlds.
Same here, plus timezones for any event outside of NA sucks for me so I can't watch, sure there are the vods but it is hard to make time to watch them with my current schedule.
The problem is that NA fans and content creators actually discourage support of the LCS when we don’t do well internationally. There are American content creators whose sole existence is trashing the league and making LCS the punching bag. I can remember Monte back in the day telling viewers to actually watch good teams in LCK/LPL instead of LCS. IWD also has participated in similar narratives.
The thing about this is that Brazil has a built-in advantage because almost everything for them is consumed in Portuguese. Everything for LCS was magnified with LEC and other English speaking fans chiming into anything that LCS did. Brazil was just left on its own by everyone else, which helped them.
@@supergold9390 It's funny you say that because here in Brazil, after constantly bad internacional results we get the narrative "the CBLOL is what matters, the internacional don't" basically every team has a narrative that we want to watch, the level of gameplay is poor, but it's funny, we made a lot of memes hahaha
True
It's really sad, that it feels like most if not all the conversation is around CBLOL and LCS. No one is talking about how LLA got absolutely blasted. You get rid of all their teams BUT 2 and then split them geographically in a way that would not work for LCS and CBLOL (otherwise there wouldn't be 2 conferences). And how does the LLA broadcast work now, all that talent has to do two streams of regions they don't belong to? Or they do a stream only for the games that their teams play?
Brazil gets to play more against LCS, so they should in theory get better, so they should be better internationally, so their league will grow even larger. Because from what the caller said, even when their teams do terrible they still watch, so even if 4 teams get cut, they will still watch.
LCS gets to trim more fat, and most likely will go through a rebrand so it looks like a fresh new product for investors, and they have a tier 2 system thst in theory should fix the "gate keeping" from Academy.
One of the players today after a game in LLA was like "I'm happy I could should up for my fans, even if this is the last time we will be here". How do you play a whole split knowing 66% of your league is gone next year with the other 33% getting moved to two compeltely different regions.
It's going to be an interesting 2025 for League in the "Americas"
Genuinely curious how Kelby can so confidently have the "trust Riot, they have the data" take when looking at the history of the LCS. Especially the last what... five years? The "data" also said moving to weekdays was fine. The "data" also said that Friday Night League was going to be big and positive for the scene. The "data" also said best of 3 was impossible for years and terrible for the league but now they are doing that. I could give more examples, and go further back for even worse ones. My point is, for me as a long time LCS fan who has watched off and on since I was in high school in 2013 why in the hell would I EVER trust anything Riot says to me?
I understand that this is a decision that probably needed to be made for the financial security long-term of not just the LCS but league esports globally, but man acting like Riot is god's gift to esports and they only make decisions that are reasoned and factually based is wild.
BO3's were a disaster for viewership and Riot has been dragged to doing it again kicking and screaming. Data is NOT the reason they are going back to it. Fan sentiment is.
The rest I agree with you.
THIS IS FOR KABUM! #Neverforget
Kia sponsoring the dive and hotline league has me window shopping even though I don’t need a new car
It's actually fucking hilarious hearing Steve say "Yes, competitiveness, but that's not everything, Travis!"
The irony is actually gold lmao
Lol
What's the irony?
@@c_spare Travis has ranted in the past about how he feels like TL don't really do anything to generate fandom beyond repeatedly spending huge amounts in order to be competitive, and Steve, in the past, has essentially implied that TL's LoL team's main approach is to focus on being competitive at the cost of basically anything else. It's worth noting that besides CoreJJ, the fact that players like Yeon and APA have been kept on for an extended period is pretty atypical of TL versus the past years; they often blow up the roster each year to start a big new import-based rebuild, which is something Travis has voiced frustration about on previous HLL episodes. So it's just kind of funny how Steve is saying this stuff as if he's the first person to have ever thought of it lol
found the minimum wage worker with no life experience
Okay, I know I said I'd buy whatever your next sponsor was selling but maybe I could do like a keychain or a t-shirt.
Although, real talk, could you tell KIA to make a car with manual transmission?
Hahahaha, I'll let them know. Thanks for the super chat.
is funny that the take is: "they are using us for engagement" and not "riot don't give a f about all these mid teams that exist in these regions and want to cut some corners and lose less money"
CBLoL is self sufficient, it doesn't have nearly the amount of money of LCS but it pays for it self because the fans maintain it.
LCS has absurd levels of money but it's bleeding that money for years. Teams in Brazil are actually profitable, even some soccer team got in the league because there is good money on it.
Riot is using Brazil for engagement to poach a profitable model to stop LCS bleeding
@@lucaschaves8308 >Brazil is profitable
citation needed. Something tells me you don't have their financial reports. Popular in their region doesn't automatically make them profitable for the company.
@@ForestOfSleep There is a lot of felling man. The ceo's of the teams in CBLOL said many times that the teams are not profitble yet. that the true, but what is also true is: Our league is being destroyed RIGHT KNOW
because of the LCS failure, the problem with money were not that serious as the Pain's Ceo said once, we could just make some minimum changes, e not losing 4 teams e our academy (the academy league got good numbers too)
btw the franchise system that riot force the times to join in cblol was a mistake.
@@lucaschaves8308 How is this move supposed to stop LCS' bleeding? Riot global just shot CBLoL and LCS and LLA with the same bullet, and you think it was to help LCS? This whole move is so that Riot global esports can give less money to all 3 of those regions.
Congrats on the sponsorship Travis! I'm glad Riot is doing something. I'd rather watch a smaller-scale LCS with dedicated teams, than slowly watch the LCS die off. Also, promotion into LCS is gonna be hype
I find myself aligning more and more with Cubby's comments the longer he hangs around. I know he isn't our "constant" co-host (still laugh a bit that Travis leaves that out now), but he really does bring a lot to the show.
Big shout out to KIA. I love driving my KIA Forte GT & I’m happy to see TGI having a great sponsorship
Super excited for these changes. Totally understand people (especially central and South Americans) being very down on this, but I think the vast majority will be very happy with how this turns out by this time next year.
I'm not excited but I am curious and not negative. I would love to get into a huge rivalry with Brazil and South America. I'd loved the LLA team that comes into the LCS to win it. All of this would be fun.
The vast majority dislikes it, given by the fact that LCS has less viewers than CBLOL.
This change sacrifices two championships just for LCS to cope with the fact that no one cares about you anymore.
Yoo, that’s sick that Kia is sponsoring you Travis! I need a new car and a I’ll have to give the kias a test drive now and check them out!
Great episode, thank you for giving so much time to the caller from Brazil. My wife drives a KIA and it's great! I'm glad to see them sponsor such a great product/person/industry.
Splitting up LLA was one of the strangest parts of the announcements. Both LLA teams should've went to either LCS or CBLOL.
I'd like to add, as a former R6 competitive player (at the pro level), this situation reminds me HEAVILY of the ESL to Blast changes that happened some time ago in R6. ESL had the regions very split up, almost down to countries in some situations (I remember EU West vs Nordic being a hot conversation piece for awhile), even down to their communities and the clash-esque tournaments they would run. When Blast took over the pro scene, regions got changed drastically, more splits added, more majors in general, to increase competitive play internationally. prime example was for years, Penta/G2 ran the pro scene, winning the Six Invitational quite a bit, and through time, and Blast eventually shaking things up, LATAM came up to par and ended up taking the fight to a lot of these EU/NA teams that were really running the shows, and even surprise regions like APAC now having more majors and serious play, they would come in and shock a lot of fans with how they play and the passion the fans bring to the region.
All in all, my point is, on paper, and in practice, this is a good thing. I'm hoping for the best, and hoping it'll not only help viewership and the like, but also the competitiveness of the regions. Making people care more about their splits, practices, scrims, etc, and act as a breath of life into the scene as a whole. Just my take.
Considering a Kia Carnival so this sponsorship news makes it even better
I'm from the Boise area, thanks for the kind words Cubby
Haven’t watched in like a month this is going to be a great episode! Finally guest I recognize
Appreciate darklight's calm and structured explanation of the CBLoL perspective. Not an easy thing to do on such an emotional topic.
insane how much this podcast is up in riot ass
Awesome work Travis. I'll be buying a KIA as my next car!
Im sorry but being from OCE, domestic competition only gets you so far, CBLOL is maybe currently in the 2019 stage of LCS but eventually this will end as its not sustainable! what the brazil callers is talking about (narrative etc.) is all things LCS fans were talking about, with these changes CBLOL is still going to be there (essentially the same) its just 7 teams instead of 10, as the guest team has to be from their tier 2 system, so the team of young talent he was talking about is likely just going to be that 7th team so they will still exist. All their operating costs are still going to be in brazil, as i understand it each team will still require 3 native southern conference players, so 3 brazil players minimum. The only thing that's essentially changing is they get to play LCS more which will help them improve, and they get a shot at the extra worlds spot which is what the caller was only talking about wanting. If they keep growing like the caller claims they eventually will get that spot almost every year. This is a non-biased perspective, brazil fans were delusional if they ever thought CBLOL on its own was going to get another worlds spot. Heck OCE even in its dying moments made it past play-ins MSI something brazil has never done, if anything this is detrimental to the LCS as they are losing a worlds spot and teams, having to play games against worst opposition, to essentially help out Brazil, to improve. This is someone's perspective from the outside looking in. Not to mention CBLOL teams get access to American viewers and therefore American sponsorships, and therefore more revenue.
TLDR, Outside perspective, LCS are actually the ones who lose from this and CBLOL are the big gainers
Shout out to KIA for sponsoring my favorite podcast I’ve been planning to buy a car this year been on the fence between a KIA stinger or an MX5 I think this just pushed me toward the stinger
They talked about 2018 C9. And as a C9 fan heres a fun fact about C9. Since 2018, I believe they've had Jensen, Nisqy, Perkz, Diplex, Emenes, Fudge, Jensen (Again), and Jojo as mid laners. Mid being the most "turbulent" role they've had. Something cool I noticed (and I could have missed a mid laner I wssn't active in the early 2021-2023 of lcs
Was thinking about getting a jeep this summer but might grab a Kia instead!
Hey, idk if was, but would be nice to invite a 1 or 2 brazilians fans
Tbh if it they made a tournament between americas cblol fans would be hyped, but the thing about taking off teams was the thing that the most affected us. We Brazilians dont care bout improving we know we suck lmao
Definitely needed to watch the dive cause a lot of these were answered by Mark
I'll definitely consider a Kia as my next car; very glad Travis found a great sponsor :D
What happens if TL or FQ NACL teams win the qualifier?
another great show travis
"TRASHES LA IN EVERY ASPECT" Yeah man, reeeaaaal high bar youre setting 😂.
the brazil guy might be my fave caller ever lol, very interesting to hear their points
what i would find super interestingis if because they are now conferences any player from latam or brazil don't count towards imports cause its the same ecosystem and vice-versa, now that its a interesting prospect to me roster wise...
A lot of the CBLOL sentiment seems to revolve around people stating that the 'LCS is dying' so consistently that there's no way our sharing a region could make them feel anything but disdain toward being connected to the LCS. I can understand the idea of being upset about losing teams... But honestly, without the constant negativity surrounding the LCS I doubt the reaction would be nearly as toxic. At least the CBLOL perspective is on par with our own Reddit now. We do it to ourselves.
Thank god they had ls instead of fans. Most of the fans’ take are shit. Less callers more celebrities! Maybe 1 random caller per show
35:00 Lmaooo, Brazilian fans are gonna be pissed when LCS imports all of their good players and sends them a bunch of leftovers.
Language barrier is even greater. How many North American pros or KR/ CN pros know Portuguese? English is definitely the most common 2nd language but not in Brazil.. quick google search says 5% of Brazilians speak English 😅
@@CB38096 Language barrie will not be a problem, i think. Most of the korean´s import that we have here speak "poor" english and most of the times in CBLOL speak English because they have korean in their roster. You search is right, but the majority of the brazilian player speak or know key word in english that enable a team work, and most of the team have english teachers.
@@CB38096Bro most Brazilian teams have Koreans and speak decent english
@@CB38096 Most gamers usually speak English in Brazil. They might not be fluent but anyone that plays a game usually knows at least the basic of English. By the way that 5% you mentioned is regarding fluency. Many people know at least the basic but they're not fluent.
Kelby is very big on the appeal to authority angle
Yeah, I mean, Riot are literally the people who have egregiously mismanaged the e-sport to this point in the first place. Sure, they have all of this data, but that has never stopped them from repeatedly doing stupid shit.
Riot with all their infinite wisdom and unlitmited data rolled back the LCS weekdays change after 1 year. This guy think clairvoiants work at riot.
@@copypasta1585 Except that's just not true. It's literally the BIGGEST Esport in the world. Only from a NA perspective have they 'mismanaged' the league.
@@rylanmarriott8116 and that mismanagement is largely due to team management spending unsustainable amounts on imports. It’s not even necessarily riot’s fault
@@rylanmarriott8116exactly, this problem isn’t a league problem esports as a whole is facing this problem and riot does actually have a way to create long term stability.
Eyyy, good shit, Kia
So happy to hear TGI has a sponsor. Beyond deserved. Thanks for your dedication to the League scene Travis! I'm beyond excited to see what these new changes bring.
Steve owning that stache.. good for you king
kelby steve oh big ep
Cubby with the Brazilian flag in the background hahaha killing it.
Mad props to the Brazilian fan, great insight
You said you didn’t like Riot dropping this news right before the split. When would you have wanted this news then? I appreciate them dropping it now rather than during or after the summer split. It definitely will be interesting to watch and see how this all plays out. Me personally, I’m bummed we lose another 2 teams, to be replaced most likely with less competitive teams. This makes sense to why DIG did what they did with this splits roster. It appears they are trying to stay in the league. I think this change is great for players as this gives them more opportunities. Yes we lost 4 teams over a year span but this gives us the opportunity to redevelop tier 2 since now it means something. Also to note each region had the opportunity to poach players in the past and it’s not something that happened every split or frequently so not sure how that would now just become a problem since it hasn’t been between them. I also believe this will help CBLOL redevelop their talent faster as maybe talent will have more of a reason to go there. Just treat it as the import rule so it doesn’t change the regions identity. All in all good for the long run, crappy for the short.
1:55:46 bachelor/ bachelorette travis rofl :D
LS keeps saying fearless is fake but is the solution just true fearless where any champ that’s played is gone. Does that not solve the issue even for bo3s? Currently riot is implementing regular fearless
Cutting out the number of teams in Brazil is not just getting fewer stories, but is cutting history. Most of the teams in Brazil has thousands of supporters that been following their team for years (some more than 10 years, like INTZ and Kabum). It's just like you are a Green Bay Packer fan and the next day you wake up with someone saying "Packers are out of NFL due to low viewership in Europe".
That has happened. Teams get moved or cut in real sports too. It literally just happened in the NHL this season.
Lets not forget the sonics
@@ForestOfSleep For what reason though? I'm pretty sure it wasn't because hockey failled to succed in Europe.
Is there any actual evidence to suggest Riot is making this change because of viewership in NA? It sounds like they are doing it because they want to reduce the number of ways they have to split global esports money, and even if LCS viewership was twice as strong as it is now they probably would be doing exactly the same thing.
You took a shot at Fearless draft on your other video and I heard some mentions on it here... but no real discussion on the pros and cons. I think that would be a good conversation to have. I don't watch the region(s) that have implemented it so I have very little context here.
You draft champions: A, B, C, D, E - you cannot draft them in future games, and in a Bo3 Teams basically handshake games 1 & 2 where if there's a game 3 they basically already know the draft pattern / handshakes. It doesn't get interesting until G4 and 5. Bo3s it's kind of lame. Most teams handshake anyways depending on Red or Blue.
Shoutout Kia!!! I personally do not own one but my neighbor owns 4 and I'll say... I'm jealous, I really want a Kia Stinger
You can easily steal your neighbors
The EV9? Not the smaller vehicles or the Hyundai motor group's fantastic 74? If we're just trying to raise their prestige.
Kelby's question at 1:38:00 is kinda whack, no? Basically half the league is going away....I don't understand how one could not understand how that impacts the ability of those teams' fans to watch them play....2+2=4.
Think people should have read up on import rules before some takes. Brazil and NA players are still restricted across conference. You can not have a full NA team in Brazil.
Only Travis seems to have his thumb on what fandom really wants. The others throw out stretches and hopium
kelby simping so hard is wild
thank you KIA!!!
Thank you Kia!
I just think that Brazilian fans, if they agree with the caller's oration about them, are behaving petulantly and like greedy children that are just pissed at NA despite it being LOL global making the decision. They seem to be super narrow minded and closed off, despite that not working with an international game and competitive scene.
From the prospective of a LLA viewer all these angry CBLOL fans seem like ungrateful whining babies, sorry not sorry.
Every other minor region got nuked pretty much, they are the only one left standing that didn't get massive cuts all things considered. Riot is acknowledging their good viewership by letting them keep the biggest amount of teams out of any region in their tier, how is that sabotage? How is that unfair? Heck, at least you still *have* a region, others weren't so lucky.
There were compromises made globally by a lot of regions, even by some in tier 1. You can keep telling yourselves that Riot and the LCS are out to get you but this is just the current reality of the esport.
How did Travis go from his room to outside that building and back so quickly at 52:52 ???
I drove a Kia
Also have a Kia if I didn't already have one I'd buy one thank you kia
How do you say banger in Portuguese ?
we say "pedrada"
I will get a kia if the new ones fixed the hijacking issue
Viewer call-in LS got a mic downgrade to average discord user as well 💀
THANK YOU KIA!!!
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Needs workshopping but we're getting somewhere 😂
The better not change the music from the opening show that was the shit
What does LS mean by region locking?
No international competition every thing is kept within the region all the story line’s content ect
Man, I think they're making a big mistake if they don't just let the north and south conferences just call themselves "LCS" and "CBLOL." Unless there's some legal reason why they can't (and I can't imagine why there would be), I feel like keeping the names will help fans *feel* like less has changed. I understand that it's a bit silly, but emotion plays a big role in this kind of stuff and I feel like it'd just be a very small thing to give fans more of a sense of normalcy in these trying times. Not to mention, everyone's just gonna call it LCS anyway; it took me years to stop saying EULCS, hahaha.
Also, what's wrong with the LCS logo, KELBY? Ultimately, literally nobody is going to *start* watching because of a rebrand, but it's entirely possible that some casual fans will fall off because of it. You can say "the quality of the product is what's going to determine its success" all you want, and it's probably largely true, but branding and sentiment are definitely important, ESPECIALLY in sports. The whole reason why people root for their team is just because they've been rooting for them. They'll continue rooting for them even once all of the players and staff have been cycled out and the only throughlines are branding and location, and we don't have the luxury of creating fan loyalty because of location.
Glad I drive a Kia
Good to see kelby and cubby duo
Yo steve love you man but you gotta sort out that moustache lmao Oh Also all my homies love KIA, best EV car brand ever!
The lord Kelby is back...... If only it was to stay
I remember when I quit watching when they changed the name from nalcs to lcs. Oh wait I didn't stop watching.
I fail to understand your take on rivalry not happening between north and south - rivalry is literally a product of competition - I cheer for team A, so naturally I’m going to cheer against whoever they play. Team B beats team A and now whenever team A faces them again I’m more intense in cheering against Team B. Rivalry.
Edit: the fact that it’s also split into two conferences just BREEDS the opportunity for rivalry, it’s literally us vs them, but labelled as North vs South.
rivalries require back and forth and history. neither of those exist.
True. But history usually starts somewhere. Now there is an opportunity for back and forth. Not saying any of it is ideal but you never really know how things will turn out.
Not to mention that it's hard to care as an American when half the LCS players are foreign. Why should I care about watching two foreign teams playing each other?
I wish the have Steve talk more.
OTK x Starforge x Cincy Fear to LCS
Let's go kia
KIA BOYZ!!!
Translate to English from Ohioan
@@theelectricant98 nah, pennsyltuckian
Just adding why brazilians fans are blaming LCS for what is happening, it is because for brazilian fans LCS = Riot Global.
actually its because if the scenario was the other way around (with LCS having good viewership and CBLOL striving) there wouldn't be any concern from Riot Global. It's about culture and identity, and this might be difficult for people in north america to realize, because you are the ones at the "winning-end" of this debate. And I am not talking only about league. What pisses us off is that league would be just another case in which the most dominant cultures will only dictate what happens to us regardless of our opinion.
@@arthursilva7226 LCS is on the losing end of this deal, just not losing as badly as CBLoL. And LLA loses the most of all. This is not Riot Global being concerned about LCS and trying to help it, this is Riot Global wanting to reduce the amount of money they give to all 3 Americas regions. The ones who maybe 'win' the most in this deal are LEC and LCK since they now get a larger share of the global money.
I don’t know how I feel about all these changes. I like the extra international event, but the merger imo seems good/bad for both regions. More bad?, esports is kinda dying. Over 100k ppl have been laid off since July last year.
5 team tournament kind of feels bad b/c it'll just be LPL / LCK punching down, and only 6 days? I don't see teams having much opportunity to boot camp like they do for MSI and Worlds. If anything, the teams are going to be exhausted flying in and out to play such a short tournament.
I gave up playing league after Riot messed up the game state over the last 3 years, last thing I enjoyed of the game was watching the LCS now that's gone, so I guess that's it for league...bummer way to go but it is what it is.
Riot will have to be very careful how it treats the two leagues because of the difference in culture, especially since Brazilians and Americans are patriotic as hell.
Riot should license: MAGA lmao XD
I am shock and surprised to see people happy that we are losing 2 teams, as if its obvious its going to be Immortals. If they don't want to leave, and if no one wants to leave, Riot might have to randomly pick teams to leave, that will be fun though we will probably never know about it. On flip side, when Riot offer all the teams a buy out, what if most of the teams accept that? Imagine if next year we have TL and 5 other spots that Riot has to scrabble to find orgs to fill it? Plus we already saw the LCS drop from 10 to 8 teams and the mess that cause. I don't like the odds for the LCS.
Also, NA/CBLOL worlds spot is not guaranteed. If a LLA wins the league and then the region fails to get the 3rd place slot, then you can have either NA or CBLoL not appearing at worlds next year.
I don't think there's any case where Riot would randomly pick the teams that leave. Most likely, they would just raise the buyout offer until two teams accepted it. Or possibly, invoke the relegation clause about bottom-2 finishes to kick IMT for a lower price, and then try to find one other seller.
Thank you Kia, if your car weren't so shit, I wouldve considered buying it instead of RA4!!!
The only rational take for anyone watching this is, let’s wait and see.
Kia the goat!
To Brazilian and Na fans who joined after franchising this is the tldr of the league- Ten people paid a lot of money so five solo q players wouldn't be allowed to remove them from the league do to their consistent incompetence and extreme corporate greed. They may have gotten to play god for a few years and ruin the lcs, but fans got the last laugh as that very incompetence shows brighter than ever as they drop like flies for pennies on the dollar from the position they paid tens of hundreds of millions of dollars for with nothing but red down arrows to show for it. The only thing that is unfortunate that in their last scramble for power and greed they are sacrificing the thriving Brazilian league just like they did the thriving Na league before franchising. If I were a Brazilian fan knowing what they ruined in this league I would be fighting tooth and nail to do anything you can to never let this happen.
The lcs was at one point a thriving beautiful plantation but people came along and bought the rights to control it claiming to have the answers of growth and prosperity with their tactics, and with their tactics they sprayed chemicals that allow nothing to grow, ruined the land value, ruined the natural order of this place. You can hardly call it a plantation anymore it's just a pit of sand where nothing grows, there is no land value, and is used for a landfill since that's the only value it has left. And yet as the garbage piles higher they will continue to try tell you putting more garbage on this land is actually a good thing for this place since it adds more colors to the sand. But as an Na fan let me tell you, as the pile of garbage has only grown since franchising happened the sight and smell of garbage is utterly repulsive, and the people who try to sell you on that idea seem less and less genuine.
And one last thing the Brazilian viewer from Sao Paolo had the realest take on this entire show by far.
Kelby calling out NA for not deserving the slots is so based… it’s insane that people still think NA deserves 3 slots. Imagine going down to 6 teams and thinking the top 50% should go to worlds… crazy
It's 8 teams still...
@@chiefhazza2711 how many other 8 team regions send 3 teams to worlds...?
I don't think the brazilians realize this mergers gives them drastically more money. They will get money from lol microtransactions and the money LCS will bring in. The darklight caller spoke some about the money aspect, but this merger helps them get more money which also goes into (and partially solves) his point about it being unfair financially.
but the cost is high man... 4 teams, the academy league (especially was really good this split) and a lot of narratives we just lose.
It’s obvious why CBLOL doesn’t focus on international because they have no hope of competitive play outside of play-ins lol