It was obvious from the start

I feel like he was bought as a place holder in the first place. Win win for ence. They got more time to scout for new rookie talent and at the same time they didn't pay much for Valde.

Yes, they did a 55M deal or something like that, funny when Carlos laugh at them for taking the danish trio saying they were burning the money but they got a major before G2

It was India not China

It was a large investment from a Switzerland-based technology VC, Rewired linkedin.com/posts/fabiendevide_e-sport-.. Thrilled to announce Rewired.gg's second round of investment. The overall amount, €34M, is the highest in European esport. Another millestone for Team Vitality #VforVictory

How are you going to defend the management of a team that until this year never made top 20 (And I'm not sure if even top 30 because they've had some atrocious rosters) and say one team that has had 3 iterations in the last 3 years but still managed to be top 20 is questionable? lol Doesn't matter how questionable benching mir was, it proved to be the right decision and they made major semifinals after that and then another major. Now they kicked Wonderful and sold Patsi and still seem to be tier 1. They've managed to have one of the strongest academy, which proves good management. And the fact that they retracted on benching Chopper and it worked it's also proof of good management.

previously, perhaps as #25 states but not right now, they have fallen off for sure

Indeed I think both ENCE and VIT are organizations, that while quite different in structure/size, are both quite good at getting the most of their assets to achieve great sporting results. However, they are different in the sense that Vitality, financially in CSGO, makes no sense and ENCE does. I don´t care how many jerseys they sell, the sponsorships, or any other of the revenue streams they have (Blast/ESL partner rev-share, etc) there is a 0% they make enough money in CSGO to offset their costs. Their players are some of the best in the world and it´s fair to assume the salaries match that. When teams like Faze pay something 500k a month for a ballpark (and FaZe lacks a LOT when it comes to supporting staff/structure) it´s likely that Vitality pays more or less the same a month (plus all those mental/physical/analysts and that fancy bootcamp office in Paris) which should be about 6,5 M Euros (12 Months + 1 Holydays) a year. In my opinion, that number is higher if you include the bloat which Faze doesn´t have so you´re probably looking at 8M Euros a year. They most certainly do not make that in revenue. To summarize while both are great sporting organizations that achieve good results, ENCE is sustainable and Vitality is not. Additional reading: sportsbusinessjournal.com/Esports/Sectio..

If siuhy had signed up contract with mouz than with GL the team will be literally 0$ cost. Like as in the videos "Hello guys, I got just 1 paper-clip. Let's see what I can trade it for"

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