E-Sports News: An irrelevant and archaic league has finally hit the wall.

And here may finally come the death of an e-sports league which has needed to die for many years.

The North American League Championship Series of League of Legends has finally hit the financial wall because not only does no one care, no one SHOULD care.

North America is a frighteningly distant fourth, if not fifth, among the regions of world League of Legends.  It has not fielded a world-relevant team ever.  It has won one outside match in the entire history of the World Championships in the knockout phase.  (There was one NA v. NA losers-bracket match in Season 1, the one they did win was 2018.)

And yet it has tried to present itself as a relevant top-tier league.

Until now.

It started a couple of weeks ago when seven of the ten franchises in the North American LCS shut down their second-tier Academy teams, citing losses across the board in the NALCS, after Riot Games finally laid the hammer down, tightened up importing of players (North America is largely where Koreans and Chinese who can't cut in a real LoL league steal money), and then basically fired most of the Academy players.

Leading, Sunday, to a walkout of all the players on the ten teams, four days before the start of the NALCS season.

And now it appears, for at least a week before this, the ten franchises were trying to scab it up.

To which I have one thing to say:

WHAT IS THE DAMN DIFFERENCE?

You're stealing money.  YOU SUCK!!!!

OK?  That clear enough for you?  You couldn't PAY ME to watch a North American match at this point.

You are IRRELEVANT.  You might as well have Gold or whatever level scabs on your games, because your entire region is SHIT.

The reason that your teams are losing money is two-fold:  No one cares, no one SHOULD care.

This is why they basically moved a lot of this forward from next year to the Summer Split:  The NALCS is such an irrelevancy that it is not a question of IF it dies -- only WHEN it dies.

And if this is a move by Riot to finally aid in killing it...  Some of us have been calling for the death of this irrelevancy for years.

This is what happens when you try to claim a professional football league when, frankly, you might be Texas High School level -- at best!