I wonder what the players salaries look like..
$50mil per franchise... the revenue must be gigantic... gamer pools are huge... but like every sport, they must have to pay for the elite players... (assuming there is a significant difference from the elite to the next tier of player)
Wonder how much they earn.
When does the CBA expire? heh..
Depends on the game. In DoTA for example they have a major tournament called "The International" which was held at Rogers Arena a few weeks ago. The prize for 1st place this year was $11.2m with a total prize pool of $25.5m. I think last year or the year before 1st was $14m but I'm not sure.
League of Legends on the other hand has a ridiculously small prize pool despite the playerbase willing to crowdfund it like DoTA. However the players have stable salaries to encourage them to focus on a a professional team practice schedule rather than playing online and streaming. Given that some of the most popular streamers reportedly make over $1m/year the salaries can be pretty high and some players do get more than that if they're elite.
I have no idea about other games though. I would assume Overwatch has stable salaries given the franchising situation trying to operate it as a real sport with a season and playoffs rather than individual tournaments followed up by a major invitational tournament with a huge prize pool.
Meanwhile when I played a game 'competitively' it was an MMO and it was in the mid 2000s so there was no money in it aside from controlling a server to sell ingame currency for real money. I got screwed I COULD HAVE BEEN A CONTENDER. At least it got me into the old betty-foldy card-floppy game.
overwatch league has been around for a while it's.... really stupid and bad. The main thing I know about it is that the "athletes" keep getting suspended for saying racist/misogynistic ****.
lmao adorable
FPS games are all generally the same in this regard. You can hop on YouTube and see teams of CS:GO/CoD/whatever threatening each other and stuff. Are the suspensions internal team suspensions or by the league? The fans of FPS esports almost certainly don't care so it's about public perception either for the league on the whole or for the organization in their other esports.
Posters ITT be saltier than a tryhard in a pub match.
This team will be more popular than the BC Lions in a short time.
This "franchise" fee likely also includes options for teams in Activision Blizzard games released in the near future, so this is about more than just Overwatch. Expect to see Vancouver Canucks-run Heroes of the Storm or StarCraft teams, for example.
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"Heroes of the Storm"
Way to name a game even less relevant than Overwatch
"Starcraft"
Dead game tbh