potOdissiusTime to say fuck ESEA and make a TeamFortress.TV League and migrate all ESEA teams to it?
I agree with this. Entry fees are used to fund a LAN final for the top 4 teams, including LAN expenses and flights.
I don't know if you put much thought into this, but open players would have to pay much more than their moms would allow for this to be plausible at all. It's a fact that ESEA can hold a lan for TF2 because of the money it gets from the CS games.
potIt's clear that ESEA has no interest in promoting TF2 or expanding the scene whatsoever.
Their ads don't show any TF2 footage at all.
TF2 wasn't installed on a TF2 designated computer.
90% of our entry fees go to CS players.
Orange stream not even handled by ESEA.
You gotta enroll in a math class or something man. If you look at the money that ESEA pays in prizes, setting up tf2 servers, setting up lan events: there is no way that our money is going to another game. We don't pay that much in fees. Their money is actually going to our game so that we can have an invite prize pot that isn't tiny because of how little money our game actually brings into esea.
I know it's really popular and easy to blame esea for everything, but go look at what cbear said in response to extine. They don't make that much money on our game. They do us a big service because there is no other league that could get us the amount of attention they do. Are the unprofessional and shitty in some of the things they do? Of course, but if you look at the big picture esea is keeping 6's alive.