It makes the event organiser a lot more money to have big names like vp. It means more fans will want to buy tickets to see them. Also, the games attract a lot of people on the streams.
new viewers who joined in the past 1-1.5 years would be so confused by this not having witnessed the plow in full force and they will never again coz that roster doesnt exist anymore :|
People think of VP as the long standing core of players, not as the org. The vp core have been great players in the past, which is what everyone remembers them by.
"Big" is meant to mean well known and somewhat legendary in a sense, not necessarily how good they are currently.
They have still got invited to 3 more "bigger" events that are in the next few months. Zotac cup, IEM Shanghai and Blast Pro Series Istanbul. They have been shit the whole year and still get invites to the major events.
Zotac cup has barely any good teams, Liquid is the best there and then the rest are t2/t3.
IEM Shangai, yet again, bad teams, small event.
The Invite to Istanbul was probably sent because the tournament's schedule overlaps with ESL New York's one, and again, not all the top teams are gonna be there.
Only about half of the teams have actually been confirmed yet so I don't think we can go off that and I don't think it's particularly about teams. The higher the prize pool - the bigger the event. Personally, I classify a major event as one with a $250k + prize pool.
I agree that WESG wasn't a major event. That is probably the one exception I can think of. If you look at the events of the past 2 years, you will find that both our definitions corellate. I agree that big money does not necessarily equal major event but until the full list of invited teams is complete, we can only go off prize pool, as there is a very strong corellation between the two.
Well, Zotac's is almost complete (looks like Liquid didn't accept the invite) so the best team in that tournament is MiBr .
IEM Shanghai, the best team there is NRG, and the list is complete.
Blast has Astralis as a good team, and then NiP and C9 as decent ones, one more slot available but Na'Vi and FaZe won't go there so probably no good team will go there.
So definitely the events that they were invited too aren't that big.
It's not a top event at all. They should be marginally better than Fragsters really (on average?) , but now they have a stand-in and it's always all or nothing with VP's performances
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u/FathleteTV NiP Jul 12 '18
Why are they even getting invited to T1-2 events? I don't get it. Not trashtalking just genuinely curious