Originally Posted by
Jakeway
The trend of game developers backing competitive tournaments and leagues is a very new concept and is not wide spread. League of legends and Dota 2 are the only ones doing it and soon to be csgo(maybe sc2 idk if Blizzard hosts). All other events and leagues for those games and others are third party. Some of your ideas are good, grip break is a very good idea. But as far as esports goes they don't owe you that and it's not going to happen unless one of the toribash esport advocates does it.
Jake, competitive tournaments have always been around within the communities, and most often its sponsored by the developers themselves. Nowadays however, with SC2 as a leading example among the DOTA games in general we have 3rd party hosts; but ever since the early days of CS you saw valve-sponsored tournaments on the forums.
Think not small-tier, think mid-tiers, not end-tiers.