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I have recently joined a team from Prodigy Gaming - Team Protégé.
It's a sponsored team, but nothing huge and I'm certainly not getting paid. We just enjoy free things like vent servers and the like. Admittedly, my collegiate team probably would do better in a tournament, but they've seemed to have died out on me over winter break, so I decided to apply for a position on Team Protégé.
Team Protégé is a League of Legends team (sorry, not looking to join any SC2 teams, I'd still get my little zerg ass handed to me). While I normally play solotop, I've been recruited for the support position. Admittedly, I have been playing support a lot in ranked games, so I feel fairly comfortable with the role and it's nice to be able to just bully, harass and not worry about farm.
I prefer playing on teams because it's a good way to enjoy League without the baddies and ragers. Unfortunately, my first tournament game showed me that it wasn't fully the case. Admittedly, I made a somewhat risky move to try to get a kill. She got away with 3hp and I ended up barely dying to her lane partner. This caused one of my teammates to go on a full rage stint including calling me a "dumb cunt," "stupid whore" and a few other terms I've forgotten. All on our lovely sponsored vent and stream, of course.
While the rest of my team checked up on me after the game (we won by a landslide, btw) and apologized for his behavior, I've found myself a bit less enthusiastic about playing with them again. I don't believe such raging will happen again any time soon (it's rare for me to make such a risky move and I hear he got rather chewed out for it), but I still feel a little more "meh" about it all. I can fully understand his rage, but I don't even speak like that to players that aren't my teammates. I just generally hiss and curse a bunch afterwards when no one can hear me.
Well, I guess that's how it goes. We're currently competing in the Alienware tournament. If we make it very far I'll be sure to post about it.
  
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I'm probably not the only one that thought this after reading this blog entry: What's your motivation for playing? This doesn't look fun at all.
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On January 09 2012 04:40 rupert wrote:
I'm probably not the only one that thought this after reading this blog entry: What's your motivation for playing? This doesn't look fun at all.
I really enjoy League of Legends and I'm quite passionate about the game in general. I've found my friends are a bit flaky when it comes to playing premade 5s, so I decided a team would be the best way to go. All of the practices thus far have been fun and have helped me improve my skill, it was just that one tournament game that rubbed me the wrong way.
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Canada5155 Posts
Does this mean you're retiring from BLOGSPORTS?
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the Dagon Knight4015 Posts
On January 09 2012 04:49 HawaiianPig wrote:
Does this mean you're retiring from BLOGSPORTS?
Seldom is the transition made from problogger to progamer.
When she comes back, she'll likely be out of shape, her punctuation micro will be sloppy, paragraph macro will be poor... sure, she could adjust back, but the fact is that she'll almost certainly not return to blogsports as a serious competitor.
Still, she could find work as a commentator or helping analyse the scene.
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This caused one of my teammates to go on a full rage stint including calling me a "dumb cunt," "stupid whore" and a few other terms I've forgotten.
Quit. That shit shouldn't be tolerated with people within your team.
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On January 09 2012 04:57 Torte de Lini wrote:Show nested quote +This caused one of my teammates to go on a full rage stint including calling me a "dumb cunt," "stupid whore" and a few other terms I've forgotten. Quit. That shit shouldn't be tolerated with people within your team.
Actually that guy should be kicked the fuck out.
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Same shit, but if they apologize for him, they accept his behavior.
Which is just downright retarded.
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On January 09 2012 05:20 Xiron wrote:Show nested quote +On January 09 2012 04:57 Torte de Lini wrote:This caused one of my teammates to go on a full rage stint including calling me a "dumb cunt," "stupid whore" and a few other terms I've forgotten. Quit. That shit shouldn't be tolerated with people within your team. Actually that guy should be kicked the fuck out.
Fuck that, have you ever played competitive CS for instance? The terrible things my partners said about me and my mother... Then we won tournament money and collected sponsor dollars.
Nothing wrong with being passionate.
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I can't understand why any competing team would hire a rager. They can't cope with pressure, are easy to tilt and create chaos and low team morale. After a quitter they are pretty much the next worse thing. If he's not absolutely amazing, you guys should just ditch him next time this happens.
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Because sometimes, ragers are pretty good. I know a guy who rages hard, giant asshole, really full of himself but backs it up with a lot of wins (however he quits a lot when he starts to lose early in the game and doesn't bother trying if his team isn't up to par).
It's a huge trade-off.
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England6749 Posts
you mean like the kind of ragers you here bitching mid scrim on famous streams? ;p
sounds shitty from the outside looking in but it seems that lol is a stressful game for people trying to be good, so im not gonna judge the guy. obviously we would all prefer it to be different but thats just wishful thinking ;/
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Well at least you got your foot in the door with a decent team. Just toss it on your gaming résumé and keep looking for a better team.
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Well that´s what you can expect if you play in a mixed team, you just have to deal with it, not that girls are much better when they take gaming in tournaments to serious :D but he should learn to use "nicer" language to express his anger.
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Well if I were you, I'd play through the current tournament with them. Then as soon as you have the prize money (if any) just quit the team right after and look for a new team. You would likely get a better team with a better environment too.
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edit: I raged at my teammates a bit. This game makes people rage. Unless you're dying a lot for no reason, there's no reason to feel bad.
going to go play a game now with friend.
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I would treat all raging as water on a duck's back. It takes some mental discipline, but you tune out the anger, and try to play as well as you can.
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If you get emotional during a match you play worse. I say quit because the guy sounds like a pretentious jerk and also isn't playing as well when he can't even keep his head on.
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On January 09 2012 07:33 hp.Shell wrote:
If you get emotional during a match you play worse. I say quit because the guy sounds like a pretentious jerk and also isn't playing as well when he can't even keep his head on.
How do you know that? Having played in a few serious teams in the past, I can tell you people yell at each other, a lot. In my CS team, the team "leader" was an excellent player, even when he raged at us when we sucked. Likewise, we yelled at each other a lot and we did well, if not better, after angry wake-up calls were thrown around.
That's how coaching works... if you don't have a coach, players coach each other.
I mean part of competitive play is being able to handle the pressure, both in real sports and "e-sports".
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