That's why Riot established the LCS and all other pro leagues and international competition in the first place, and basically paid for almost all of it out of their own pockets for years until teams were established enough to start attracting sponsors and income on their own. Would anybody play little league if the MLB didn't exist? Would anybody play hockey if there was no NHL? How many semi-obscure sports only exist because they are Olympic medal events? Your top players are your best marketing tool.

Although they are 1% of the playerbase, they are the players that many new and casual players watch and aspire to become. I think you underestimate the importance of high level play to maintaining a pool of casual players and attracting new players. In example 3, the enemy amumu attempts to AFK and remake but fails, so the bet still goes through, while T1 is running it down, and T1 literally predicts him reconnecting to try and counter-run it down. This places the control fully in the hands of betters who are then able to freely snipe again and again until they are on his team. Tyler1 explains that he gets games remade constantly on-stream because the players attempting to snipe him and bet on his games sometimes fail and are placed on the enemy team, and instead of playing it out will simply AFK to remake, so the bets are cancelled. Tyler1 in particular has been getting targeted the worst of all, and has been calling this out on his stream. My own games on stream, as well as the games of other streamers, such as Tyler1, have been consistently queue sniped by high elo players who have realized they can run it down for profit by betting against the streamer. The problem with this is that the existence of these sites ruins competitive integrity among games. As you can see in the screenshot, my own stream is on there, among many others. The list shows live streams (unsure of what the criteria is) who's games are about to start, when you are able to bet on them, their win/loss history, and more. However, the website also has a 'streamers' tab which contains links to place bets on League streamers, as well as streamers from many other competitive games.

This site allows betting on competitive esports matches such as League world championships, Dota, CS:GO, and Valorant. Recently LS has taken a sponsorship from an esports betting website (proof)known as.

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