EPTWe now live in a world where Saint and Crumbzz are coaches on a team and their jungler is Diamondprox.
[Spring 2016] Esports General Discussion - Page 37
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
We now live in a world where Saint and Crumbzz are coaches on a team and their jungler is Diamondprox. | ||
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AlterKot
Poland7525 Posts
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Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
Procxin decided to ruin envyus' surprise and added the envy tag to his account | ||
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MuddyJam
535 Posts
On May 22 2016 09:19 Gahlo wrote: Gonna steal this from Reddit... We now live in a world where Saint and Crumbzz are coaches on a team and their jungler is Diamondprox. To be fair in normal sports it's not that rare for a ex-player to coach better players. If something very jungle specific came up you can defer to saint and have the 3 theory craft it out. | ||
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chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
On May 22 2016 11:18 Fusilero wrote: http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=envyprocxin Procxin decided to ruin envyus' surprise and added the envy tag to his account If I were a betting man I'd say their ADC is Korean or at least speaks it. Would make a lot of sense to have 4 Koreans for communication reasons. | ||
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
On May 22 2016 11:28 MuddyJam wrote: To be fair in normal sports it's not that rare for a ex-player to coach better players. If something very jungle specific came up you can defer to saint and have the 3 theory craft it out. True, but it's rare that a player that used to be one of the best in the world at his position and spoke mad trash about other people at his position and then becomes coached by them. | ||
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oo_Wonderful_oo
The land of freedom23126 Posts
On May 22 2016 11:50 chipmonklord17 wrote: If I were a betting man I'd say their ADC is Korean or at least speaks it. Would make a lot of sense to have 4 Koreans for communication reasons. They can't go for an actual Korean, because both Procxin and Ninja ain't foreigners. So you'd imagine that ADC should be someone like LOD, simply because of the NATIVE TALENT. | ||
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EsanLOL
479 Posts
A bit underwhelming, I was hoping they could grab Flawless or T0M or something. Better than Crumbz at least. | ||
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St3MoR
Spain3256 Posts
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
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Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
Well then, that's new | ||
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
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oo_Wonderful_oo
The land of freedom23126 Posts
TV rights for BPL are 8 billions worthy. Given that Premier League is lightyears ahead of LCS, but still. | ||
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
On May 24 2016 02:46 Ansibled wrote: There is no way that just TV rights are worth that much. Depends on how long the contract is for, if it's one LCS or both, and if it includes other league or not. | ||
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
On May 24 2016 02:52 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote: Why not. TV rights for BPL are 8 billions worthy. Given that Premier League is lightyears ahead of LCS, but still. because it's not going to win against Twitch or YouTube. | ||
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
On May 24 2016 03:01 Ansibled wrote: because it's not going to win against Twitch or YouTube. Twitch and Youtube don't have TV stations. | ||
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
Good observation. | ||
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Saradin
456 Posts
As gung ho as I am about esports' growth in real world money is, that's only part of this story. A very important thing to remember about ESPN's deals like these is their desperation to retain cable subscribers. In general, we should already kind of know how badly networks hate the cord cutting trend, given the absurd amounts of money thrown at any form of live competition. As the theory goes, sports/competition is the last thing remaining in this world that people still strongly prefer to see as scheduled, as opposed to later on demand and with ads skipped. This is very likely a bubble that will eventually pop and have huge ramifications on both networks and traditional sports leagues in the US that are already using this influx of cash, but that's another discussion. This applies extraordinarily moreso to ESPN, given how their business model works. They rely heavily on cable subscribers. I don't know how it works outside of the US, but here, our cable TV bill is largely a composition of a bunch of different fees going to each network. IIRC, most of these fees are about a dollar or less, but ESPN stands out at ~$6.61 per month per cable subscriber as of last year. That's a little over 79 bucks from you over the course of a year, if you have a cable tv subscription whose package includes ESPN. It's estimated that there were 92 million such homes last year, for an estimated revenue of 7.28 billion off of just subscriber fees for ESPN. And it's probably over 60% of their total revenue (it was over 60% in 2014). To me, it's continuation of what's basically a desperation bid by ESPN to try anything to slow down cord cutting. It's a compliment in the sense of, they think that esports is a growing destination for eyeballs worth taking a bet on. Would it be a successful wager? I dunno... The current base of esports followers primarily already watch via the internet, and it's predominantly a generation already prone to cord cutting. So it's a question of catching on with the outsiders who are the sort to probably keep a cable subscription. If the deal's long enough such that the per year hit isn't all that much relative to their current expenses (multi-billion per year for some other leagues...), I suppose that the influence it would need to have on retention wouldn't need to be that great for it to break even. | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
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suicideyear
Ivory Coast3016 Posts
On May 22 2016 20:58 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote: They can't go for an actual Korean, because both Procxin and Ninja ain't foreigners. So you'd imagine that ADC should be someone like LOD, simply because of the NATIVE TALENT. you was right | ||
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