You don't have 5 thousand dollars.
I'm happy in advanced and I'm not paying for lans been there done that they mean nothing homie
That too
Which lans did you go to and in what role? Maybe we saw each other there!
I went to lan ets multiple times tried to make it work. It's the biggest lan on the east coast 3000 people came 2nd had viraplur up on the main stage and it barely moved the needle he said and I did this for like $1500 Canadian
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Either way the lans they want are like fragadelphia where the stream gets 50 viewers and has 300 attendants
I went to LAN out in OC it was some fragadelphia related event. Qualifiers to go to fragadelphia or have your trip paid for or some shit like that. We beat a main team and then I think lost game 3 to an advanced team or something like that. We were in open at the time lol
I absolutely would not pay to sponsor a team to go to any of these LANs though, nobody really watches that shit
Nobody even really watches like premier or whatever the rank above advanced is either, unless it’s like a pro team that was forced to slog through a season down there for whatever reason like MIBR
exactly its all the travel hotel all that shit + WE NEED JERSEYS BRO thats another fucking $400 there lol its literally a waste of money. I get it for teams like NRG that have a 3 million budget
The new VRS point system is causing people to come in and dump money thinking oh we gonna farm VRS points and go to majors EZ while there is a lan in windsor (beside detroit) happening in a few days. 2 polish teams 2 brazil teams and NRG the poles and brazilians there there to get easy VRS points lololol
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yeah you're right, all those orgs that have premiere teams appearing at LAN events with high enough viewercounts to justify companies buying advertisement on the player's teams and jerseys, therefore allowing the org to make back the money they invested and turn a profit? those are for stupid orgs.
the real money is in paying a bunch of random people in gum and peanut butter, and then taking a screenshot of them getting third place in an online $50 cup. and posting that screenshot on twitter.
i love it when i can't afford to send players to lans so I make up fake shit in my own head and then believe that fake shit because the truth is too painful to come to terms with
kinda like how you pay escorts to sleep with you and then convince yourself you're "an alpha boss" and that having a girlfriend is stupid, what you're doing is far superior
you say, as you sit alone in your house drinking vodka, snorting welbutrin, and posting screenshots on twitter of your CS team having 17 viewers while they play a match.
like how in your head Lan ETS is somehow a more relevant CS event than fucking fragadelphia
hahahahaha lmao dude like lmao
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i will say that fragadelphia as a LAN and a circuit is certainly more impactful than lan ets.
also i think sending ur team to LAN is basically the most important thing you could do as a gm? for basically any counter-strike org? if you want your team to become a serious team that is, and not just languish in NA main or advanced playing against shitters for 3 years which is a fucking waste of time (first hand experience!)
can't you qualify into ESL events through online leagues though
I think both sides make a decent argument.
From the business owner perspective unless there is a lot of marketing value to be gained, it’s just an inherent risk to cover a (nonlocal) lan for a team like that. If you were in esports for the money and not the charity or the scene, you’d have a hard time swallowing that cost.
And on the other hand, slowdives right that atleast it makes a ton of sense for a team to choose an org who will sponsor it. Those moments are peak for those players and what they’ll look back on when they reminisce. I’d know, I got a few friends like that myself. Guys who still use a pic of them at lan for their profile
The grand irony is that being in esports for the money on pretty much any end is a fools game compared to doing it for the love of the game, the competitive scene, so on. Unless you’re a snake oil salesman, a prodigy or some other shitty edgecase.
So ironically, it might look worse to be an org head focused on fiscal reward over an esports player who puts in a lot of hours trying to make it big. One of them usually isn’t really that concerned with money so much as being impactful and enjoying themselves. That same one might be wasting more hours but they’re having a better time being involved to say the least.
It's not worth the money. It never will be at this level the return is not there. I'd rather buy stocks and fuck around for $250 in ESEA advanced na then deal with that bullshit.
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