Riot Video games has introduced its plans to consolidate the three Americas leagues, CBLoL, LLA, and LCS into one mega league, and the Brazilian group isn’t comfortable about their league being dissolved.
On June 11, Riot revealed its plans to merge the LCS, CBLoL, and LLA right into a pan-America league much like the way it has arrange its North American Valorant competitors, VCT Americas.
The setup is completely different than the FPS league, nonetheless, because the plan is to host north and south conferences with eight groups in each. Notably, the conferences will preserve six current partnered groups from each the LCS and CBLoL, that means two LCS groups and 4 Brazilian groups can be lower from the competitors.
The LLA has it even worse, with solely two current groups becoming a member of the brand new mega league, one within the north convention and one within the south.
League of Legends’ esports group has been rocked by the information, because the adjustments sign an enormous shift within the aggressive ecosystem.
Nevertheless, the Brazilian group doesn’t appear open to the change and is indignant their league will quickly be sacrificed for the sake of its floundering North American counterpart.
Replies to the huge replace on social media have a number of followers saying, “Brazil doesn’t need LCS.” Photographs of the LCS logo have been crossed out, as effectively.
“They need to persuade me that killing our identification, extinguishing the CBLoL title, deleting 4 groups from our historical past, leaving a number of professionals unemployed, devaluing the title with the implementation of three splits, rising the prospect of shedding a superb participant to the NA is a GOOD THING,” Hugo Augusto ‘Galfi’ Garcia, a Brazilian coach mentioned on social media through machine translation.
Whereas LCS viewership has repeatedly dropped for years, CBLoL has been one of many fastest-growing leagues on the planet, outpacing its North American counterpart in response to Esports Charts.
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“What a disgrace, Riot will inform 4 CBLOL groups to depart, in a league on the rise to attempt to save the LCS. I discover this very disrespectful in the direction of Brazilian followers, getting used to save lots of the LCS. Now simply hope it really works,” former LCS and CBLoL participant Loïc ‘toucouille’ Dubois mentioned.
Freelance esports host and frequent LEC contributor Eefje ‘sjokz’ Depoortere identified that the Brazilian league has discovered this development regardless of an absence of main match success, one thing the LCS has not managed to seek out.
In style League esports streamer Marc Robert ‘Caedrel’ Lamont echoed this sentiment on social media.
“It’s unhappy to see LCS failure affect and actually damage the CBLOL with this new change. Brazilian league was thriving they usually’ve now simply been pulled down out of no fault of their very own,” Lamont mentioned.
Riot have but to reply to the outcry from followers following their announcement.