I think this will make people re-think the whole thing:
Why not make ETF2L a Pay-To-Play league?
I mean, if the Americans want a LAN and bigger prizepools, and other stuff like that, and I believe that so do the Europeans, why not just do what was working for ESEA?
16 European teams have signed up to play the 1st season of European ESEA, that's goddamn nice, and tbh, more teams would have joined if it weren't a one division kind of thing.
I love ETF2L and the way it's being run, and even though there are no prizepools for lower divisions, I couldn't care less, it's free, so why should I get anything in return if I win the division?
However, if I were to pay to play in the league at a certain division, I would excpect atleast my money in return if I were to win the division and that would be fucking cool, but the thing about ETF2L that blocks it from putting out money to lower divisions, is the factor of TOO MANY DIVISIONS, 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E (and it goes on and on in different divisions up until 1/Prem).
The solution to that as I believe ETF2L should do it, is take the most similar like divisions and mash them all together, creating bigger divisions and allowing them a bigger prize pool, as ESEA did.
I think this would work beautifuly, it would mean changing ETF2L alot, but if we won't take risks, TF2 would just be stuck in place like it is for a while now, and that means sticking with ESEA for LANs and money would seem like the better option.
This may sound like you would want to copy ESEA for their league ladders but it worked for ESEA, ETF2L could make this work, they are a really great company, and not a shitty one like ESEA seems, the only thing that keeps the top Invite teams away from this probably is the factor of "NO-MONEY-NO-LAN" sort of thing.
I know that if I were to pay to play ETF2L I would pay, and I would support if it means you guys getting a little bit for faith in from sponsoers, since if they see money, and people paying and playing, then the odds of getting a sponsership will raise up, again an example from ESEA.
"You want a LAN and bigger prizepools? Pay up, and we'll get you what you want."
I would like to hear more invite players commenting about this instead of being silent or doing what TLR did, I mean, he's a got a point but that's not really helpful since ETF2L really wants this to work.