2015 LCS Changes - Page 4

Zdrastochye

Ivory Coast6262 Posts

January 08 2015 13:55 GMT

#61

I think at least for the NA region upping the LCS to 10 teams almost certainly guarantees that the 10th team is probably worthy of relegation. Right now there's a lot of questionable teams that hover on the bottom of the standings, and I think its fair to say that the last team amidst those questionable teams is probably better suited for the challenger circuit to face more equivalently skilled teams. If NA suddenly does get deeper and have more teams that have developed into strong teams, then maybe relegating the 10th team would be an unfair punishment.

I think there's plenty of time to reformat the LCS once it reaches that point. EU LCS is similar but I think it's a bit deeper and has more potential newcomers who do have talent so they're closer to that point than NA is. Korea is pretty close to that level, maybe a one-size fits all might not be the best here, but I'm not sure either way.

joohyunee

Korea (South)1087 Posts

January 08 2015 14:31 GMT

#62

I like the changes at the end of the day, it gives challenger teams a clear goal and the bottom feeder teams one as well - fight to keep the dream alive for both ends.

IH8U2D34TH

United States2 Posts

January 08 2015 14:59 GMT

#63

I think they should take the 9th and 10th teams from LCS as well as the 1st and 2nd teams from challenger, and have them all play a group stage format for the two LCS spots.

Pilesos

Switzerland24 Posts

January 08 2015 15:06 GMT

#64

I like the changes a lot. I also appreciate the fact that the 10th is automatically eliminated and the best challenger automatically joins the LCS. The LCS teams always have the advantage of having at least one split full of practise behind them whereas the challenger team does not really. On top of that the CS teams tend to choke a lot in the deciding bo5 unable to show their raw talent.

thealexpenn

United States3 Posts

January 08 2015 18:27 GMT

#65

On January 08 2015 11:17 wei2coolman wrote:

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How early? Like early enough to plan for free agency of players?

This I don't know. At the very latest it was at the Owner Conference that was held a few weeks back. It could have very well been earlier than that though. Riot shares a lot with the teams behind the scenes.

JonGalt

Pootie too good!4331 Posts

January 08 2015 18:58 GMT

#66

I am in love with almost all these changes. I really like the direction they are taking. I would have liked to see a real tiebreaker happen instead of giving it to the team that did better in summer, but I can see why they did it.

Luepert

United States1934 Posts

January 09 2015 03:03 GMT

#67

Wait is it that just 1 team gets replaced each time or that one team is auto replaced? Will there still be relegation matches? It wouldn't make sense to expand to 10 teams then only replace 1 each time. What if there is 2 good challenger teams?

MajorityofOne

Canada2506 Posts

January 09 2015 03:13 GMT

#68

I think the guaranteed add/drop is a great idea, really makes a lot of the later games mean more. Circuit points were an obvious addition, it made no sense how little the spring split meant in terms of world qualification

Intrepid90

United States9 Posts

January 11 2015 02:50 GMT

#69

Like the new changes, should make LCS even more competitive

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