Possible Valiant Takeover

Im gonna start this by saying rn this is only a rumor and nothing so far is confirmed. It was reported this week by haloofthoughts that immortals gaming was looking to sell the valiant and that a Chinese group was in the process of buying the team. He says that the Chinese group would release the whole team and start over with a Chinese team and that’s why they are going to play in the apac division for this season. The la valiant Twitter page actually responded to halos tweet saying that this rumor is completely false and that immortals gaming is committed to the valiant. It seemed like the rumor was over but halo responded saying he’s doubling down on it and yesterday the valiants new off tank Adam tweeted just “sadness”. I really don’t know whether any of the rumor is true but if it is and does go through it’s going to be bad for the la valiant and the league as a whole.

Why do you think it's bad for the league as a whole? Just cuz its a bad look to have a team completely blown up in only the fourth season. I've seen a lot of hate towards valiant on reddit recently but I need a reason other than "they r screwing their fans and players"

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Why do you think it's bad for the league as a whole? Just cuz its a bad look to have a team completely blown up in only the fourth season. I've seen a lot of hate towards valiant on reddit recently but I need a reason other than "they r screwing their fans and players"

Because ur not only eliminating a fan favorite team, but an org that has focused on recruiting good talent from western contenders that most teams don’t try to so ur eliminating a big portal team for contenders talent. Plus the point of going Chinese and pretty much sacrificing your fan base because I don’t think most of the valiant fan base is going to stay if this goes through is to gain popularity in China but there’s already 4 teams there there really isn’t space for another team in that region. And last Chinese talent in the league has never really been good. All Chinese teams have for the most part struggled massively in the league and the only kind of exemption was 2019 hunters who barely made the play ins. The best Chinese players tend to play along Korean teams (guxue is probably the best in the league). You have these really hyped players like leave come in thought of to be the first Chinese superstar and he is just average. Chinese contenders is just a very bi polar region and there isn’t enough high level Chinese talent available in the league rn for the team to be built well and have success

I was listening to the new plat chat episode today and they went in on this for about a half hour. I would recommend watching it and it was nice they had custa be in the episode becuse of his ties to the org. Some of the stuff they said was that most likely part of what halo is saying it’s true but he likely don’t have the full story yet. They said judging by immortals response on Twitter that immortals isn’t outright selling the team but due to their lack of a response on the players being dropped and some of the recent tweets by players that this is likely true about the team being released. They went on to say immortals gaming has kind of shifted the past couple years since noah Winston stepped down as ceo that they are no longer like trying to be the top dog like they were in Winston. Back when he was ceo they would spend big money to be successful in games like overwatch, csgo, and LOL. They said now immortals as a company is basically making more money from non esport investments in gaming then in their esports teams competing and that basically they were trying to reduce the amount their spending in their owl and lcs team and that’s why they are being very cheap with them. They also said that most likely immortals isn’t selling the valiant outright but they their are going to sell a partial or possibly a majority share of the team to this Chinese buyer and immortals would basically help and assist them similar to luminosity with Vancouver or c9 with the spitfire. So overall from what I’ve seen and know that most of what’s been rumored is going to be true the only thing that looks like it’s not is immortals pretty much selling the whole valiant franchise