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eLane retweeted
Everything @LudwigAhgren is saying here is 100% fair and accurate. Let's do the math:
1. To support a Valorant challengers team like the 2026 M80 roster which won NA would be approximately $500k annually give or take. That's 5 players, 1 HC and 1 AC/Analyst on monthly salaries + travel etc.
For us to take this roster into the new ecosystem and compete we would have to make EVERY Cup + at least ONE Masters event to just break EVEN on the investment into the game. If we miss even 1 cup we are down six figures. If we miss a Masters its an even bigger hole.
Most teams cannot afford to take this risk for so little return. It's financial suicide.
We could just look to drastically reduce salaries but then you are just in a race to the bottom. Playing T1 Valorant is a full time job and you have to be able to pay people full time wages. I would rather go do something else than pay players a fraction of what their time is worth. It's sad because there are many t1 Valorant players in North America who will miss out on opportunities to have a career.
Sucks to even write that to be honest.
2. Competitive Integrity. This will be an 8 team league in Americas and there should be no doubt about that.
Any non-partnered team that has an inch of success or develops an amazing talent will lose those players at the first break in the season to partnered teams and have to start building chemistry over. Agents will insist on their players being moved to partner teams and if you try to retain them you will be holding them back. This is fair as the best salaries and financial opportunities will only come from partner teams.
This, even more so that the financial picture, is the real reason M80 will not compete in Valorant in 2027. It's just a completely unlevel playing field and that's not something we are interested in.
I got into esports because of Valorant. We launched M80 with a Valorant roster announcement. It breaks my heart to leave.
We love the game and the community and would love to return in an instant when things make more sense. I look forward to that day.
To clarify
Riot changed the way Valorant works so that any team can make/win an international tournament
But they chose 4 teams in NA to become partners
They give those teams millions of $$ AND a skin in the game (they get a percentage of sales)
If an unpartnered org builds a moneyball team that absolutely crushes at an international event- those players will be poached by a partnered org
It happened to us with Brawk and Mada going to NRG it is happening to C9 who just lost partnership and already letting their players shop around
I just don't know if it is worth competing in the esport long term as compared to investing into an esport with a truly open system
eLane retweeted
As someone who ran an esports team, most people don’t understand just how terrible it is to run teams in Tier 2 - Tier 1.5 esports.
If you have a good player or roster, they WILL get poached or bought up in an instant by bigger orgs. All that time and money, down the drain for pennies on the dollar.
Then there is the financial side. What is the point of raising players into superstars, and spending thousands on a salary + travel when partner teams can eat that cost like nothing?
Practically speaking, mixing franchising and an open circuit will ONLY work if there are contract buyout clauses for non-partner teams.
Oh you want to buy a tier 2 player from a non partner teams? You should be REQUIRED by Riot to pay a minimum buyout fee (let’s just say $25,000).
This allows amateur teams to not only sustain operations, but also for Tier 1 orgs to not fuck over smaller teams with no leverage.
eLane retweeted
so crazy how much of being a trans woman is getting dressed in the morning and deciding if you'd rather people think you're just a kinda faggy dude or have them gawk at you like an animal in a zoo
eLane retweeted
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eLane retweeted
Some of you know kvk-hub, the Kovaak's asset library I've been building.
It's now Yanori.
It covers more than Kovaak's now: Aimlabs themes, Aimbeast config presets, guides and resources, a crosshair maker and a sens converter.
Analyze and Profile were rebuilt.
Link below.
eLane retweeted
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eLane retweeted
ウォームアップや試合の待ち時間に遊べるアイトレーニングサイトを作りました。
eyetrainer.hrn-ytwork.worker…
・的の数やスピード、大きさを個別に変更出来ます
・スピードを0°/秒に設定した的はドラックできるようになります
→中央に置いて別の的を周辺視野で追うとか
好きにカスタマイズして使ってください
Amazonで買える点ソールのメーカー別一覧表みたいなサイトを作りました。 日本で買えるマウスソールって意外に何があるか分かっていない人が多いと思ういます。
xraypadみたいな有名所以外にも手軽に求められるものもあります！
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