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Two_DoWn
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States13684 Posts
February 28 2011 19:27 GMT
#461
Riot didnt make the event happen. ESL did. Riot just piggybacked on cuz otherwise we would have had no way to watch due to lack of observer mode.

Hell, Riot didnt even advertise the ESL until after I made a post on the lol forums telling them they needed too.
"What is the air speed velocity of an unladen courier?" "Dire or Radiant?"
r33k
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Italy3402 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-28 20:47:36
February 28 2011 20:46 GMT
#462
On March 01 2011 04:18 baneling wrote:
I enjoyed watching some of the games, in the end even having played the game I found it confusing and frustrating to watch. I think I'd rather just first person follow one player through the game with a commentator on top talking about the overall action, that's probably just personal preference though.

I haven't read the entirety of the thread so I don't know if it's been commented on but I think the players need to stop swearing in the in-game stream viewable chats and in general act more like adults. If LoL ever wants to attract real sponsors for events, the sponsors aren't going to want to see that and it makes the entire event feel amateurish when the players are swearing away and chatting about their girlfriends and how they need to take a dump before the game starts. This looks bad on the players, the LoL community and Riot for hosting and publicizing the event.

Thirdly, I found it gross that players openly bashed Riot in the pre-game chats, talking about how certain skins sucked (that's going to cost Riot money), as well as discussions around the LoL Replay Tool, to quote some player 'you know the one Riot couldn't make.' Riot did a lot to make this event happen, publicize it and bring the viewers to it. Warranted or not I think the players can keep the comments to themselves during the event just out of respect for what Riot did to make the event happen. If Riot feels they are being portrayed in a negative light while these events are happening they'll simply stop doing it.

Anyways that was my thoughts on the event fwiw.

Look at HoN, look at DotA. While the bashing of s2 isn't as common the way the companies act with their players are different. Riot did promise things, and they did not deliver. S2 just recently made paid ingame money worth more than its earned ingame counterpart and people are giving them shit about it. In the middle of the games. Like literally, pausing the game, making shoutouts and calling them greedy and all.

Both top HoN and LoL terms do this jokingly, and tbh the game needs to attract people way more than it needs a professional image right now. There are only 2 top teams, before giving them an image change a tournament needs to have at least 8 teams with somewhat comparable skill levels.

The replay rant from rambo was over the top, but it took a third party to make LoL into a competitive game because Riot promised and did not deliver, so his frustration is completely justified.
Goshawk.
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United Kingdom5338 Posts
February 28 2011 23:56 GMT
#463
Some VoDs here:

http://www.gamersbook.com/community/groups/league-of-legends/blog/lol-5on5-ems-qualifier-finals-clg-wins-ems-na-finals/#the_post
locodoco
Profile Joined July 2010
Korea (South)1615 Posts
March 01 2011 05:28 GMT
#464
zzz real sad
i wish riot would give me better ping
r33k
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Italy3402 Posts
March 01 2011 06:20 GMT
#465
On March 01 2011 14:28 locodoco wrote:
zzz real sad

Yo loco do you have the replays of your games from the 3rd party client?
locodoco
Profile Joined July 2010
Korea (South)1615 Posts
March 01 2011 10:38 GMT
#466
On March 01 2011 15:20 r33k wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2011 14:28 locodoco wrote:
zzz real sad

Yo loco do you have the replays of your games from the 3rd party client?

i dont but oddone and chaox might ill ask them for u
i wish riot would give me better ping
cascades
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Singapore6122 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-01 16:14:00
March 01 2011 16:08 GMT
#467
Why phreak is high elo despite being shit according to people in this thread:

From the official forums I find an explanation:

I did it on purpose. I saw him coming and threw the spells out. Like with the Vladimir spotlight dodging Sion stuns, they were intentional. Haven't checked the poll yet, but I'm sure there's plenty of, "lol luck noob" votes, but I'm really good at this game and on LAN ping. I'd be embarrassed not to be able to pull out moves like that.



I'm way worse than other top LoL players at map awareness and probably overall teamplay dynamics (which showed somewhat during the ESL cast on Sunday), but yeah, this is the type of stuff I'm good at


Everything is clear now.

TL:DR - Bold part.
HS: cascades#1595 || LoL: stoppin
HeavOnEarth
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States7087 Posts
March 01 2011 16:53 GMT
#468
give lan ping please... --..
"come korea next time... FXO house... 10 korean, 10 korean"
ArC_man
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States2798 Posts
March 02 2011 01:27 GMT
#469
It's weird that Phreak has poor map awareness considering he *was* a pro War3 player and caster back in the day...
locodoco
Profile Joined July 2010
Korea (South)1615 Posts
March 02 2011 13:07 GMT
#470
On March 02 2011 10:27 ArC_man wrote:
It's weird that Phreak has poor map awareness considering he *was* a pro War3 player and caster back in the day...

white people throw around the word pro so loosely
milkfat called himself pro sc,sc2,wc3,hon player
phreak calls himself pro warc3 player
i wish riot would give me better ping
Vlanitak
Profile Joined November 2009
Norway3045 Posts
March 02 2011 13:49 GMT
#471
well Loco remember that we have two levels of pro
pro
and
Korean (which is obviously above pro)
washed
ArC_man
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States2798 Posts
March 02 2011 18:52 GMT
#472
On March 02 2011 22:07 locodoco wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 02 2011 10:27 ArC_man wrote:
It's weird that Phreak has poor map awareness considering he *was* a pro War3 player and caster back in the day...

white people throw around the word pro so loosely
milkfat called himself pro sc,sc2,wc3,hon player
phreak calls himself pro warc3 player

I dunno about Milkfat but Phreak was on a sponsored War3 team which I hope would qualify him as being a "pro". It wasn't as well known as SK/4K/MyM since the US scene was small compared to the Euro scene but it was probably the strongest US team at that time (which is not saying much).

Anyways, my point was that I expected Phreak to cast much better because of his previous experience and not to dick around half the cast trying to show off by calculating what runes/masteries people started with.
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