Lads its Tottenham

fa real top tier

4 weeks late, but HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!

I was dying, the original comments & the reaction (-8

eSports simply isnt big enough for that yet, especially overwatch. I dont think that the nationality of the owner and the players matter much, its not like football players exclusively play for the clubs in the cities they live in. the scale for esports just doesnt add up. if you wanna have a league system, then you have to settle for one small studio for a major region like in the LoL scene. having teams be associated with cities/regions can work but it cant be forced. an org has to figure out themselves how to do it organically. For example in the european lol 2nd tier leagues, the french team KCorp manages to sell thousands of tickets despite not even being a LEC team. Just as a fun fact, the french LFL which is one of the tier 2 leagues in european league of legends, has had a higher peak viewership in the summer split than the LCS, same goes for the spanish LVP and other minor leagues such as brazilians CBLoL or the vietnamese VCS. as developer you can create a system that gives orgs the opportunity to be creative, give them a lot of freedom in which they can move around but you cannot enforce it. and of course as developer giving orgs more freedom means not getting everything you might want, im sure riot doesnt necessarily like IWD and the boys calling themselves the nutsack and there obviously are certain lines that cannot be crossed but if you take away too much freedom, things end up feeling dull and lifeless. the american LCS still has better average viewership than the other minor region leagues i mentioned but a lesser peak. that just tells us that no org really sticks out, no org is particularly loved or hated and if youre riot and create such an environment, youve done something massively wrong. people didnt stop watching lcs because they fail internationally, people stop watching lcs because its not a good product in itself anymore and that used to be different. its no coincidence that the LCS is the one league riot has most power over. the european league has become a lot more independent when it rebranded itself from EU LCS to LEC and changed many things up and granted the league a huge boost in the quality of the product which resulted in a big boost of viewership. you go back to 2016/2017 summer splits and they had no more than 100k average viewership which is far less than todays numbers.

I like watching the overwatch league - the city-based franchises didn't really change much about my viewer experience compared to watching any other esport, though this was obviously impacted by when I started to watch (2021). (It's a little funny that you mention the "grassroots UK backbone" in London Spitfire now that the Backbone is playing 😛)

10:30 we got it

I read the title in that voice. No way not to🤣

My first thought aswell lol.

One of the best “I told you so”s I’ve ever seen

Would you be able to provide a link to the Clapton interview? Sounds like an interesting watch,

Uploaded on October of 2017 so you know

As best I can tell the stream was from July 20, 2023. Used the ATP Overwatch video shown on stream as reference.

I am the liquour.

don't forget "wreck me harder, Blizzard daddy"