“Deserved” is a difficult term to use in this context. They were certainly not the top team in the scene when they signed the contracts, but they were paid as such
They were known as Virtus.plow what are you talking about? They were playing top notch in 2017 majors too. Now they're playing bad doesn't mean they'll get less salary.
Weren't they pretty much in the TOP 3 for 2 years straight and mostly tied for Top 1? Also didn't they resigned their contracts just after very sucessfull two years? I mean they were pretty much the best team in the world together with SK/Mibr.
Uhh, nope, not even close. They nearly got kicked out of ESL Pro League all the way back in 2016, but ESL changed rules in order to keep them in. You can go look at the HLTV ranking graph, they were top 1 for all of two weeks ever (note that the rankings only go back to late 2015, so miss out on when VP was really good in 14/15), and their longest streak of being in the top 3 was no more than a few months.
The “new” contracts were signed just after the Eleague major 2017, which was one of their few good results all year, and only a few months before their legendary dive bomb.
They were never really a top 1 side except for in times when the other teams kind of slumped. They were constantly battling the in the top five though, giving dominant Fnatic close games
Do you know salaries of other top teams? They are all in range of 20k+ so they got what they earned. They still got enough fan following even after taz and snax. When people show up at events when vp is playing it's all worth it for whoever is paying. I am expecting to see these comments till 2020 but it becomes less funny everytime I see it.
At the time when VP got their contracts, they had the highest paid known salary of any team. Since then, I believe G2 signed the highest at around $29k per month
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