I wouldn't be quick to judge as of yet. But I am not too impressed with their team:
http://wavesplatform.com/#daTeamBut let's wish them the best of luck nevertheless and congrats to a successful ICO.
did you watch Tai Zen's interview with Sasha? Tai made several videos about Waves worth watching.
Also, Waves' whitepaper was fairly lacking.
Impressive ICO, yes, and if it can improve blockchain world, great. im not saying they cant succeed, just that the risk/reward looked poor at end of ICO. i have a hard time rationalizing why Waves market cap should be more than Lisk (and i think Waves market cap should be less than Lisk), yet the ICO raised about half the value of Lisk's market cap. then again crypto world aint always rational! so it'll be fun to see this play out.
If you want to speculate then WAVES is already trading at double what LISK was on YoBit's iou's.
There's also going to be buy walls and support on exchange launch at or above ico price.
The team have already confirmed, then deleted, the intention of major interested parties in the chat.
Aside from that LISK imo already has blockchain problems. I don't believe in the team AT ALL. They messed up the launch and ETH for me is so much better as an alternative.
WAVES would also appear to work better with ETH. Hence I love being invested in these two.
There are many other things as-well but I'm not going to write a whole blog post.