Professional esports team H2K has reached an agreement with French soccer powerhouse Paris Saint-Germain to bid together for a spot in the European League of Legends Championship Series. There is a $12.7 million entry fee for new teams wishing to join the league, which was originally founded in 2013.
PSG was a member of the EU LCS in 2017, but left last fall. In a post on the PSG eSports website, the team raised concerns about the LCS economic model. “The revenue sharing model offered by Riot Games is very far from compensating the costs of a structure with European ambitions, partly because of the strong inflation of pro-gamers salaries, in our mind unjustified regarding the audience numbers evolution of the last months.