LA Liquid and NY Evil Geniuses huh?
Sounds an awful lot like the disastrous CGS to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_Gaming_Series
It was awful, but perhaps it was just ahead of its time and executed improperly. Too much power to TV executives and producers, overriding the very tenets and integrity of the game. They basically tried to make a TV show fabricate a league, instead of just a broadcast of matches from a sporting event. I wonder if today these teams would survive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Championship_Gaming_Series_teams
Seoul, Singapore, Stockholm, Berlin Allianz...so many memories of awfulness. Thing is, the concept based on this would mean a few things:
1) teams would start creating "team facilities" that they train in
2) players would start relocating to the same city as these team facilities, either living together in a gaming house or getting their own residences/apts/houses in the same city
3) teams would realize LAN matches are more profitable and the online schedule is too intensive, would start playing against each other less but always on LAN
4) the matches would be so profitable that teams would have their own stadium, ticketing and basically host a LAN event each week for their match up and the opposing team would fly their team out
5) Their would be regional leagues just like there are now, and teams would travel internationally to play in majors and international league mix finals for like ESL, CEVO, Faceit and then for odd tournaments like Starladder and Gfinity
Only thing I can think of is that currently it would mean there would be like 5 teams from LA in the North American pro division alone.
Los Angeles Liquid
Los Angeles Cloud9
Toronto Luminosity (Owner buyaka is from Toronto even if they live in LA now)
Los Angeles Counter-Logic Gaming
Los Angeles CompLexity
Chicago Winterfox
Chicago OpTic
New York Selfless
Las Vegas Renegades
Minnesota Tempo Storm
Sacramento NRG
New York Splyce (Splyce's owner is from NY and would prob want part of the NY market)
Now on to the real European powerhouses:
Stockholm fnatic
Stockholm NiP
Paris EnVyUs
Paris G2
Copenhagen Astralis
Moscow Na'Vi
Copenhagen SK
Copenhagen Dignitas
Cologne Mousesports
Katowice Virtus.Pro
Kiev Flipsid3