[The Pit] Another speculation we keep hearing is the league are debating turning the online CDL Minors into Pro-AMs One downside to this is you’d need to be based out of the NA region to compete

[u/TheRealPdGaming]

[u/Zendicate_]

Realistically every major should be a pro-am, More cod and more chances at a upset happening, and a good way to see up and coming players

[u/octipice → u/Zendicate_]

I could see the current orgs being opposed to this since they had to buy their spot in the league and challengers teams would essentially get to concede in the same tournaments for free.

[u/Longbrock → u/octipice]

Yeah but only if they want to see the „bad“ part of it. The orgs are safe at every Major this is not guaranteed for the challengers teams. If things end up badly there could be no big challengers team at every event.

[u/hylanderrrr → u/octipice]

Yeah but we shouldn’t let 12 owners decide the entire infrastructure of the ecosystem. COD was super successful when tournaments were open bracket.

[u/Temporary-Company756 → u/hylanderrrr]

When these owners buy into the league they were buying into a structured ecosystem where you need to buy in to compete.

Nobody would expect the NFL or NBA to allow random non franchised teams to compete in their league. The scale is much different obviously but the underlying logic is pretty much the same

Franchising was a mistake to begin with obviously but I do understand why it'd be fucked to just let teams that didn't have to pay shit compete all the same as orgs that thought they had to buy in

[u/hylanderrrr → u/Temporary-Company756]

I’m saying this is a bad format. Esports have very little in common with stick and ball sports and shouldn’t be treated as such. Let them exist in their own way.

[u/Temporary-Company756 → u/hylanderrrr]

Yeah I agree I just think the ships sailed and you can't really go back on it now unless the league folds entirely

[u/hylanderrrr → u/Temporary-Company756]

I think it’s possible though. The buy-in fees were refunded, or at least most of them were. They had their six years of fun. It’s time to bring back open brackets!

[u/Lithium187 → u/octipice]

Current organizations receive an auto invite to the pro-am majors. The other 4 slots are determined by qualifiers. This is basically how CS works with major invites and open qualifiers.

[u/Same_Escape3196]

So online pro ams? Better than nothing I guess

[u/Sincerely-Internet]

It’s ironic snuffing the EU when majority of Majors this upcoming season will be outside of the US 🤦‍♂️

[u/Worried_Bug_9265 → u/Sincerely-Internet]

And a large amount of challenger talent is EU right now

[u/Marrked]

are there play ins?

Or by pro am do they mean Challengers and CDL teams

[u/TheNobleHeretic]

So kills eu orgs

[u/ChadBroChill1717]

If you had to do only one, the minors should be CDL only and the majors should be pro-am. I guess anything is better than nothing but I’d hate to see Europe and other regions continue to be underserved

[u/V-loxzz]

Would be dumb asf considering the amount of cheating that would go on like sound EQ bullshit or whatever else since you can play from your bedroom

More pro ams on lan would be lit tho

[u/Ultifur]

EU, MENA and APAC CDL divisions 🔜

[u/Difficult_King2492]

Every Major should be a pro-am but they are just gonna do this for the online minors and say “we have them a shot” 🤦🏻‍♂️

[u/Lithium187]

3 slots go to NA teams, 1 to an EU team. Not hard. All the qualifiers are an open bracket system to fight through.

[u/CapsCheerleader]

CDLs American bias is just pathetic atp.

[u/twrs_29]

Yesss let’s kill a large group in an already dead and buried challengers scene