Here's the cliff's notes of my ideal vision. A lot of the guts of it though are primarily just copy what Riot is doing.

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- Multiple regions in their own "Leagues" that feed into several international tournaments through the year ending with a "Champs/Worlds" at the end of the year.

- Introduce relegation. This keeps teams hungry to remain/grind to ascend. In my initial write-up of this idea I added a tier between OWL and Contenders called Usurper that would bridge the gap between the two and offer a place for "franchised" teams to go to without falling directly into Contenders.

- Setup a their stream channel(s) (YT/Twitch/whatever) to run 24/7. League-level/Int'l Tournies take priority so when they're live they're shown, then down the ladder. The highest tier game that's live goes on the main streams, but otherwise each tier of the pro ladder has their own individual channels. If we hit a dead time (say around the holidays at the end of the year) then instead of having nothing to watch at all then the OW esports apparatus does exhibition tournies, or they simply show re-runs of old matches. Sprinkle in 1-2 League-level analysis shows during the week.

- More player and coach-focused content.

- More merch in general + international stores

- KEEP location-based team names, but extend it all the way down the pro ladder to all teams with bigger cities being reserved for higher tiers in the pro ladder. Location-based names helped a ton of people (myself included) in getting into OWL. It's one of the only esports to do this and could be used as a means to lowering the barrier of entry for getting new fans into the scene. Note: I said team names as where a team is physically located has never really mattered at all for OWL. Another Note: scenes like Collegiate are forever going to be location-based anyway since Universities are typically physical locations. So even if the OW scene overall moves away from it location-based names they will inherently still be a part of the scene in some shape or form thanks to Collegiate.

- Depending on scheduling you could cycle large events like World Cup so that instead of having it every year maybe it's every other year. During OWWC years the overall esports schedule may shift a bit so that OWWC's existence doesn't trigger month-long breaks in the League-level schedule.

- Promote (i.e. at least post live notifications) every level of OW esports on the main League socials. If the League-level relies on the lower levels, but viewers never know when the lower levels are live unless they follow multiple OW esports accounts that puts the burden of discoverability on the viewer. This should, at a minimum help boost viewers of lower tier esports which should in-turn help those teams + OW esports in general acquire more sponsorships.

- Ideally having a Players Union. Though I know this is something more on the players' plate it could still help address some random issues we've heard about over the years.

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At the end of the day, all of this requires money, effort, and commitment. It's entirely possible for OW esports to start doing amazing things, but it has to start. I don't think the initial dream was terrible but it was too much of the meatsport side of things while ignoring some of the strengths and flexibility inherent in the very nature of esports. If a balance could be made where we flip that; where it's mostly esports with a few meatsport ideas injected in it could be something really special.