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Why does every thread that mentions LoL NEED to turn into a LoL vs HoN vs Dota2 thread? Seriously, cut it out.
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On August 15 2011 22:58 Moosai wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2011 22:56 klops wrote: Throw a 5 million dollar tournament.
Still don't have spectator support.
wat. The LoL season 1 championship had about 250k people watching.
As said before, the stream numbers were bugged out. 250k is far from the actual number, it's much lower.
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On August 15 2011 23:22 Looky wrote: all pro dota players pick this game up take the money and go back to playing dota2. ez. even one of the best hon players got ranked 1 on solo ladder for playing it only a month.
Yeah bro chu8 and his team just dominated the shit out of the LoL scene, oh wait they havent won anything..
Derp?
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On August 15 2011 22:45 FieryBalrog wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2011 22:41 Ryhn wrote: Valve: 1.6M~ for a three day invitational tournament
Riot: 5.0M~ for a 365 day worldwide season, spanning multiple tournments.
I think Valve still has a record, guys. Uh.... Riot: $5 million for an actual functioning tournament scene Valve: $1.6 million for pre-selected teams for a marketing hype Valve's prize pool isn't actually supporting the scene yet. It's no different from Black Ops hype prize pools of $1 million. It's part of marketing.
Yeah agree with this, valve throws 1,6 mil in a marketing move and Riot sets up a year long functioning tournament scene, complete with a kick-ass final for probably a large chunk of that money.
Cant say i like LoL but Riot actually seem to know how to properly support E-sports more than any developer or organiser i have seen before.
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On August 15 2011 23:26 Trizz wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2011 22:58 Moosai wrote:On August 15 2011 22:56 klops wrote: Throw a 5 million dollar tournament.
Still don't have spectator support.
wat. The LoL season 1 championship had about 250k people watching. As said before, the stream numbers were bugged out. 250k is far from the actual number, it's much lower. Stop spreading false information.
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Dota2 will make money hand over fist, just watch. You have most of the HoN and DOTA community going over, those who are tired of LoL, and generally all those who want the next gen MOBA. If Valve is good at one thing, it's making a shit ton of money; I would expect no less from them and Ice Frog.
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On August 15 2011 23:26 Trizz wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2011 22:58 Moosai wrote:On August 15 2011 22:56 klops wrote: Throw a 5 million dollar tournament.
Still don't have spectator support.
wat. The LoL season 1 championship had about 250k people watching. As said before, the stream numbers were bugged out. 250k is far from the actual number, it's much lower.
idd m8 get ur facts straight. Cuz ur Dutch I'll explain it to you. They added a link to the stream into the gameclient, this link didn't autoplay and you had to click on it to go to the stream. If it would have autoplayed the viewernumber would have been much much higher since LoL's daily playerpeak is usually around 500k. so Yes the viewernumber was legit.
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On August 15 2011 23:26 Senx wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2011 23:19 Cevari wrote: I'm curious, does LoL have any kind of tournament scene outside these events directly sponsored by the developer and if it does what kind of money moves in those tournaments? Just wondering because despite how enormous $5 million in prizes is, it's not actually in a different scale of magnitude when compared to the entire sc2 competetive scene since release. A very fast guesstimate derived from sc2earnings.com would put the total prize money distributed in sc2 competetions over this past year and a bit at somewhere around $2 million. And there's no reason to believe that figure won't go higher this coming year imo.
The sc2 scene is just extremely different in structure. I expect Riot to be organising more events than in the past but it feels like they're still keeping the numbers relatively low, so what I see happening is a lot more centralised scene with the top teams competing at pretty much every event, instead of the extremely decentralised sc2 scene. Whether this is a good or bad thing is up for debate, though for the spectator it's probably a good thing since it limits tournament overflow and creates storylines that are relatively easy to keep track of. From a business point of view I can't imagine it's a good thing the entire scene is sustained by the developer though. Afaik Blizzard accounts for a fairly marginal piece of the sc2 prize money pie at least for now, with almost all of the money coming from sponsors. This seems the better option to me. ESL runs quite consistantly tournaments and cups, MLG will also be starting with LoL at Raleigh. There is a LoL scene, its just poorly covered, we also have no good commentators like SC2 has. Prolly cause no one want to cast that piece of crap.
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On August 15 2011 23:29 Jakkerr wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2011 23:26 Trizz wrote:On August 15 2011 22:58 Moosai wrote:On August 15 2011 22:56 klops wrote: Throw a 5 million dollar tournament.
Still don't have spectator support.
wat. The LoL season 1 championship had about 250k people watching. As said before, the stream numbers were bugged out. 250k is far from the actual number, it's much lower. idd m8 get ur facts straight. Cuz ur Dutch I'll explain it to you. They added a link to the stream into the gameclient, this link didn't autoplay and you had to click on it to go to the stream. If it would have autoplayed the viewernumber would have been much much higher since LoL's daily playerpeak is usually around 500k. so Yes the viewernumber was legit. I don't even understand why people keep saying an actual stream was embedded into the client despite all the various efforts to prove that it wasn't. >.<
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Well chu did dominate soloQ in a fast manner, no one can deny that. He said he never planned on taking the game too seriously, which is why he's back on HoN (Starting streaming this week too!) and just awaiting Dota 2.
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You're supporting E Sports! : ) Go LOL!
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Looks like a pretty desperate all-in-ish move from riot to keep "competitive"-LOL playersbase for at least another year.
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On August 15 2011 22:47 GTR wrote: i just see all the chinese dota teams just picking up lol for a few days then taking all the money. Who else would compete? I'am totally clueless when it comes to the LoL-scene, are there any sponsored teams?
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It's great for esports that Riot is doing this, but it won't change my opinion on LoL. I've had an account since the game came out, and have played many games. LoL is too simple and boring. In terms of skill and quality it is nowhere near Starcraft 2. I just find the strategy and decision making in LoL too easy.
Of course this is just my personal opinion, i have respect for all gamers and people can choose whatever game they want ^^
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On August 15 2011 23:26 Senx wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2011 23:22 Looky wrote: all pro dota players pick this game up take the money and go back to playing dota2. ez. even one of the best hon players got ranked 1 on solo ladder for playing it only a month. Yeah bro chu8 and his team just dominated the shit out of the LoL scene, oh wait they havent won anything.. Derp?
Wanna see something funny?
![[image loading]](http://i52.tinypic.com/1z48h9w.jpg)
Took him less than 3 months. Imagine if an ENTIRE team were to go to LoL.
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I really hope that they talk about this on Lo3. 5 million is a ton of money. Jesus christ.
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Lol this is getting ridiculous. Good news for the players I guess.
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On August 15 2011 23:26 Senx wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2011 23:22 Looky wrote: all pro dota players pick this game up take the money and go back to playing dota2. ez. even one of the best hon players got ranked 1 on solo ladder for playing it only a month. Yeah bro chu8 and his team just dominated the shit out of the LoL scene, oh wait they havent won anything.. Derp?
yeah because chu was on a team derp.
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There just trying to compete with Dota 2. Nothing wrong with healthy competition.
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lol ezcash to the hon/dota players if they switch over to LoL
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Agree with screenshot. Took him just over half the games than HSGG to get there in 3 months, not even counting his 2 smurf accounts.
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