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We’ve partnered with @hellcase to giveaway a total value of 7000$ 🔥 Check the link for all the goods 👀
Hellcase is the go to platform for CS2 case opening and skin upgrades, and now they’re backing the M80 grind.
What’s coming: case openings, giveaways, tournaments, and in person activations. A ton of content is on the way.
To enter, follow the link below 👇
this looks like its from one of those chinese tiktoks
"Big Game Mode" is OUT for Counter-Strike 2 🚨
A few things you should know about it 👇
- Currently available only for Casual 'Defusal Group Alpha' maps
- If you have a negative KD, your head is smaller and your voice is higher.
- If you have a positive KD, your head is bigger and your voice is deeper.
- Depending on your KD, your head and voice will change for everyone in the lobby.
Will you be playing it? 👀
THANK YOU, HIKARI.
What a time it's been. @HikariNYC became the 2XKO EVO champion in Japan, then ran it back in Vegas with a losers bracket comeback through a 1,000+ player field. Two EVO titles in M80 colors.
Thank you for every win, every hype moment, and every laugh along the way. You'll always have support from us. We can't wait to see what's next for you 🙌
🎙️ What’s one piece of advice for someone trying to go pro in esports? 🤔
"Good luck trying to convince your parents” 😭
Which tip do you find most accurate?
if you're interested in a deeper insight on the landscape of upcoming VALORANT competition give this a read ‼️
Everything @LudwigAhgren is saying here is 100% fair and accurate. Let's do the math:
1. To support a Valorant challengers team like the 2026 M80 roster which won NA would be approximately $500k annually give or take. That's 5 players, 1 HC and 1 AC/Analyst on monthly salaries + travel etc.
For us to take this roster into the new ecosystem and compete we would have to make EVERY Cup + at least ONE Masters event to just break EVEN on the investment into the game. If we miss even 1 cup we are down six figures. If we miss a Masters its an even bigger hole.
Most teams cannot afford to take this risk for so little return. It's financial suicide.
We could just look to drastically reduce salaries but then you are just in a race to the bottom. Playing T1 Valorant is a full time job and you have to be able to pay people full time wages. I would rather go do something else than pay players a fraction of what their time is worth. It's sad because there are many t1 Valorant players in North America who will miss out on opportunities to have a career.
Sucks to even write that to be honest.
2. Competitive Integrity. This will be an 8 team league in Americas and there should be no doubt about that.
Any non-partnered team that has an inch of success or develops an amazing talent will lose those players at the first break in the season to partnered teams and have to start building chemistry over. Agents will insist on their players being moved to partner teams and if you try to retain them you will be holding them back. This is fair as the best salaries and financial opportunities will only come from partner teams.
This, even more so that the financial picture, is the real reason M80 will not compete in Valorant in 2027. It's just a completely unlevel playing field and that's not something we are interested in.
I got into esports because of Valorant. We launched M80 with a Valorant roster announcement. It breaks my heart to leave.
We love the game and the community and would love to return in an instant when things make more sense. I look forward to that day.
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Everything @LudwigAhgren is saying here is 100% fair and accurate. Let's do the math:
1. To support a Valorant challengers team like the 2026 M80 roster which won NA would be approximately $500k annually give or take. That's 5 players, 1 HC and 1 AC/Analyst on monthly salaries + travel etc.
For us to take this roster into the new ecosystem and compete we would have to make EVERY Cup + at least ONE Masters event to just break EVEN on the investment into the game. If we miss even 1 cup we are down six figures. If we miss a Masters its an even bigger hole.
Most teams cannot afford to take this risk for so little return. It's financial suicide.
We could just look to drastically reduce salaries but then you are just in a race to the bottom. Playing T1 Valorant is a full time job and you have to be able to pay people full time wages. I would rather go do something else than pay players a fraction of what their time is worth. It's sad because there are many t1 Valorant players in North America who will miss out on opportunities to have a career.
Sucks to even write that to be honest.
2. Competitive Integrity. This will be an 8 team league in Americas and there should be no doubt about that.
Any non-partnered team that has an inch of success or develops an amazing talent will lose those players at the first break in the season to partnered teams and have to start building chemistry over. Agents will insist on their players being moved to partner teams and if you try to retain them you will be holding them back. This is fair as the best salaries and financial opportunities will only come from partner teams.
This, even more so that the financial picture, is the real reason M80 will not compete in Valorant in 2027. It's just a completely unlevel playing field and that's not something we are interested in.
I got into esports because of Valorant. We launched M80 with a Valorant roster announcement. It breaks my heart to leave.
We love the game and the community and would love to return in an instant when things make more sense. I look forward to that day.
To clarify
Riot changed the way Valorant works so that any team can make/win an international tournament
But they chose 4 teams in NA to become partners
They give those teams millions of $$ AND a skin in the game (they get a percentage of sales)
If an unpartnered org builds a moneyball team that absolutely crushes at an international event- those players will be poached by a partnered org
It happened to us with Brawk and Mada going to NRG it is happening to C9 who just lost partnership and already letting their players shop around
I just don't know if it is worth competing in the esport long term as compared to investing into an esport with a truly open system
