LOL PRO PLAYER SALARY SERIES
In 2020, the average League Championship Series (LCS) player already earned around US$410,000 a year, according to Hal Biagas, the executive director of the North America LCS Players Association (NALCSPA). In League of Legends, franchising has helped improve player salaries across the board.
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Riot’s new partnership model for the VCT 2023 season could help raise the salary floor for pro players. The minimum salary for players in the Americas League - which includes North America, Brazil, and Latin America - would be around US$50,000 a year, according to a report by ValorantZone in May. Riot Games’ partnership model would introduce a new pseudo franchising structure to the tournament circuit, in addition to three new international leagues that would represent the highest tier of competition. Riot has given no indication whether other top-level League of Legends competitions, like the LCS and LEC, will move to implement “financial fairness rules” in the future.The Valorant Champions Tour is about to change in a big way in 2023.
Since then, the Chinese competition has expanded to 17 teams, after eStar joined the Pro League ahead of the 2020 season. The LPL was the first major region to move into a Riot Games-backed franchising model, all the way back in 2017. The organisation’s academy lineup, Joy Dream, was paying all its contracted players upwards of $200k AUD per year. Just last year, top LPL team JD Gaming - who will be one of four teams representing the top Chinese league at Worlds this year - had their salary plans leaked.Īccording to the leak, JDG players can earn between ¥500,000 and ¥10,000,000 annually, or between $1m to $2m AUD.
Overspending clubs will also have a “tyrant tax” levelled at them if the LPL organisations are deemed to be spending beyond their means. In a similar fashion to the Chinese Super League, which introduced a salary cap in December 2019 after years of big spending, the LPL will impose a “luxury tax” on teams with regular top performances in the Chinese League of Legends competition. These changes are designed to “enhance the competitive nature of the event,” the LPL stated. There will be “certain restrictions” in regards to the upper limit of the LPL salary cap. “The LPL will gradually implement the rules of financial fairness for clubs and players, and pay for the club’s training expenses and players’ training income,” the Tencent esports chief executive Jin Yibo said, as translated on. The move should bring the Pro League “closer to traditional sporting leagues” once it has been implemented. The LPL’s salary cap plan was first announced at the annual Tencent esports conference in Bo’ao, Hainan late last month.
League of Legends Pro League administrators Riot Games and Tencent are in the process of implementing a player salary cap in the LPL, with eyes to begin the “financial fairness rules” from 2021.
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