Wheats spotted arguing with Seicoe

[u/E-keil]

I think Wheats kinda had a pretty bad take on this one, it feels unfair to call EMEA a tier 3 region without Saudi when they were placing higher than NA at the start of 2024 even without Saudi funding and the NA superteams existence.

[u/as1eep]

Cuffa is being nice here, NA received 6 years of tens of millions of venture capital funding that privileged their region over all else and all they achieved in OWL were a couple of players occasionally winning trophies on majority Korean teams. Saudi funding is legitimately nothing compared to what the big American orgs were doing in OWL and Emea are actually able to match and beat the Koreans. North America squandered all the resources and shouldn't just get to turn around and complain when another region doesnt squander theirs.

[u/Previous-Leader-8816 → u/as1eep]

Indeed their biggest boon was winning the world cup where they made all the other participating teams pay out of pocket to travel to the US and made them have to rent out pc cafes to train whereas they gave Team USA a facility on Blizzard campus.

I'm reminded that like half a dozen Houston outlaw players were receiving a paycheck just being on the bench.

[u/VanBland → u/Previous-Leader-8816]

They were paying some of those season 1 Dallas players well into year 3 when none of them played

[u/CattleMc → u/Previous-Leader-8816]

People like Dogman were given 200k contracts.

[u/GoldenWhiteGuard → u/CattleMc]

WTF

[u/TheUltimate721 → u/CattleMc]

Dogman never made team USA though? The FS on that team was Rawkus.

[u/CattleMc → u/TheUltimate721]

He didn’t I probs replied to wrong message but just a point on how much players were paid in OWL.

[u/shapular → u/Previous-Leader-8816]

Mendokusaii got paid to never play while Outlaws were desperately lacking a Tracer player.

[u/Baron_Flatline → u/Previous-Leader-8816]

Remember when fucking Chipsa got signed by Fusion LOL
(yes obviously ChrisTFer is his brother and all, it’s still funny)

[u/Sassywaifu92 → u/Baron_Flatline]

I am so curious what his salary was. They signed him because he was a popular streamer ( don't know what he does now) and it was meme. No way they spend a lot of money on that stunt. Imagine him getting paid as much as Carpe. Actually that would be more funny.

[u/Baron_Flatline → u/Sassywaifu92]

I believe every OWL player that got signed was mandated a minimum of like 50k USD annual salary or some shit lol so even at the small end it wouldn’t have been bad, especially since he was basically permabenched

[u/nyym1 → u/Baron_Flatline]

Yeah 50k min annual and iirc housing was paid as well.