Sep 30, 2026 · 2 hr 24 min · 16 segments
Riot has canceled LEC Versus barely a year after announcing it, and MonteCristo, Thorin and LPL caster Jamada open by asking what that says about a League of Legends league whose salary cap is also…
Christopher MyklesHostDuncan ShieldsHostIsn't that another reason why it would have been really difficult to brute force Los Ratones into the league? The implication behind the season in the eSports industry is people did not get paid salaries to play in Los Ratones, at least before LEC versus.
If they joined the league, there's another reason, by the way, why if I'm even the worst team, I'm going, why are they in the league? If I had to pay 100k minimum salaries, that's a lot for me to pay.
That's a good point because the only person that was getting a salary was Velia.
Like everyone else was just kind of doing it for the sake of doing it, right? Like everyone was already made.
Yeah,
I'm actually not sure.
I imagine as like air quotes guests, they wouldn't have necessarily put any regulations on them for the actual...
Because then otherwise it's like, well, yeah, you have to give them, what, three month long contracts? Because that's how long potentially the split, you'd have to do January, February, and then just barely into March.
Yeah.
Yeah, and that's obviously too much.
And I remember a lot of the rumor talk around like, oh, LR maybe merging with one of the teams and this and that and the other.
Exactly, yes.
Like that... financially like Cade was a smart guy he understands the implications of like even doing a merger with an LEC team like that is a lot of money that you have to like either have or dig out from somewhere so yeah I doubt they would have forced salaries on the rest of them and yeah if they had to come back next year then I think that's something that maybe the LEC teams in the league would have maybe tried to just any edge they can find to kind of push it away from happening again
And to expand on that, like, OK, so maybe it's worth it to invest in a team if it looks like team valuations are holding steady.
But LEC valuations, I mean, we're talking about teams that were selling for what, like 20, 30 million dollars even a couple of years ago.
Isn't that another reason why it would have been really difficult to brute force Los Ratones into the league? The implication behind the season in the eSports industry is people did not get paid salaries to play in Los Ratones, at least before LEC versus.
If they joined the league, there's another reason, by the way, why if I'm even the worst team, I'm going, why are they in the league? If I had to pay 100k minimum salaries, that's a lot for me to pay.
That's a good point because the only person that was getting a salary was Velia.
Like everyone else was just kind of doing it for the sake of doing it, right? Like everyone was already made.
Yeah,
I'm actually not sure.
I imagine as like air quotes guests, they wouldn't have necessarily put any regulations on them for the actual...
Because then otherwise it's like, well, yeah, you have to give them, what, three month long contracts? Because that's how long potentially the split, you'd have to do January, February, and then just barely into March.
Yeah.
Yeah, and that's obviously too much.
And I remember a lot of the rumor talk around like, oh, LR maybe merging with one of the teams and this and that and the other.
Exactly, yes.
Like that... financially like Cade was a smart guy he understands the implications of like even doing a merger with an LEC team like that is a lot of money that you have to like either have or dig out from somewhere so yeah I doubt they would have forced salaries on the rest of them and yeah if they had to come back next year then I think that's something that maybe the LEC teams in the league would have maybe tried to just any edge they can find to kind of push it away from happening again
And to expand on that, like, OK, so maybe it's worth it to invest in a team if it looks like team valuations are holding steady.
But LEC valuations, I mean, we're talking about teams that were selling for what, like 20, 30 million dollars even a couple of years ago.
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