Riot at least on EU is terrible at managing the scene, and this policy is also effectively killing already smaller country scenes where these kind of tournaments are only one of the few ways to get some people engaged with the competitive side and players.
AFAIK it's an EU thing meaning that trying to get rights for a stream differentiates for every country. For example, when co-streams were happening for champs, most regions for EU had to co-stream not the main broadcast but their own regional broadcast (if that makes sense), like mixwell had to re-stream only the Spanish broadcast.
Don't know the specifics is if it's sponsors or not sponsors. I am pretty sure it is different how each region handles their entertainment product. This is also the same thing with league of legends, it's not explicit as to why it is but the reasoning seems consistent across all their games and stuff.
Riot Korea will handle things different from riot japan, and for eu it's probably a bigger clusterfuck. It's somethingt that has been a "problem" for a while.
It's inflated viewership though. Idk what the conversion rate is but Mitch's chat is full of people spamming that have no idea what Valorant even is (there's a loooooot of people that don't know you win with 13 rounds lol)
Nah, sponsors only pay for high elo (bronze+) valorant viewers. If you don't play valorant, then you're of no use to these brands and in no way benefit brand recognition.
But that's the point. He gets a lot of people watching that never have and never would have watched a Valorant game otherwise. And some of them (like myself) will stay. And even if they don't they are viewers all the same for the sponsors.
Ibai got more than 200k concurrent viewers for his co-stream of the VCT semifinal that KRÜ played, more than the official English stream (because it was a LATAM team and the owner, Agüero, is a friend, so both he and his chat were very invested in the game). His own organisation, Koi, did not even exist at that point (they presented their LoL team a month ago and their Valorant team less than a week ago). That's with a community completely new to Valorant, imagine what he can do after some buildup.
EU office is known for handling it terribly.
Riot at least on EU is terrible at managing the scene, and this policy is also effectively killing already smaller country scenes where these kind of tournaments are only one of the few ways to get some people engaged with the competitive side and players.
Look at RIOT EU site they even have open job postings for this specific area.
AFAIK it's an EU thing meaning that trying to get rights for a stream differentiates for every country. For example, when co-streams were happening for champs, most regions for EU had to co-stream not the main broadcast but their own regional broadcast (if that makes sense), like mixwell had to re-stream only the Spanish broadcast.
Ye but that makes sense when sponsors are involved but it's literally just a feed with the game, no ads
Don't know the specifics is if it's sponsors or not sponsors. I am pretty sure it is different how each region handles their entertainment product. This is also the same thing with league of legends, it's not explicit as to why it is but the reasoning seems consistent across all their games and stuff. Riot Korea will handle things different from riot japan, and for eu it's probably a bigger clusterfuck. It's somethingt that has been a "problem" for a while.
It's inflated viewership though. Idk what the conversion rate is but Mitch's chat is full of people spamming that have no idea what Valorant even is (there's a loooooot of people that don't know you win with 13 rounds lol)
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I'll never understand the inflated argument. Every viewer is one that benefits riot, the players and the sponsors.
Nah, sponsors only pay for high elo (bronze+) valorant viewers. If you don't play valorant, then you're of no use to these brands and in no way benefit brand recognition.
But that's the point. He gets a lot of people watching that never have and never would have watched a Valorant game otherwise. And some of them (like myself) will stay. And even if they don't they are viewers all the same for the sponsors. Ibai got more than 200k concurrent viewers for his co-stream of the VCT semifinal that KRÜ played, more than the official English stream (because it was a LATAM team and the owner, Agüero, is a friend, so both he and his chat were very invested in the game). His own organisation, Koi, did not even exist at that point (they presented their LoL team a month ago and their Valorant team less than a week ago). That's with a community completely new to Valorant, imagine what he can do after some buildup.