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With the acquisition to air LPL live in English from the Riot offices in Sydney, it's been announced that not all games will be shown live. The main casting team will be head by “Atlus” Anderson, Julian "PastryTime" Carr, and Jake "Spawn" Tiberi.
The day one games will be shown in entirety, including the Chinese debuts of Imp, Spirit, Acorn, KaKAO, Save, Pawn and Deft. It will kick off with the most famous Chinese rivalry between Invictus Gaming and World Elite.
Due to conflicts in schedule, the weekend games will only show half the matches live. After those games are finished, the OPL (Oceanic's premiere league) will kick off and OGN's Champions will continue on the main Riot Twitch channel live. The rest of the games will be uploaded onto Youtube for free VOD's within 48 hours of them playing live.
Unfourtantely, VOD's of LPL's first week games will not be available at the time due to technical conflicts. Riot hopes to have the situation rectified soon, wanting to bring LPL English VOD's to the Western fans.
Source: http://na.lolesports.com/articles/lpl-english-broadcast-begins-tonight
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United States33225 Posts
Thank god, we've gone too long without seeing Looper
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The land of freedom23126 Posts
On January 16 2015 08:19 Waxangel wrote:
Thank god, we've gone too long without seeing Looper
But there is no Looper tonight ;/
Tomorrow though.
Looper vs SHRC, almost like in good old days.
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This is pathetic, they should have kept it on two channels.
Day 1 still has a conflict so who knows what's going to happen.
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United States23455 Posts
On January 16 2015 08:22 Ansibled wrote:
This is pathetic, they should have kept it on two channels.
Day 1 still has a conflict so who knows what's going to happen.
Obviously Monte and Doa will cast LPL and Champions at the same time.
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United States23745 Posts
At least vods will be easily accessible.
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On January 16 2015 08:26 onlywonderboy wrote:
At least vods will be easily accessible.
Not for week one.
Watching Monte/DoA cast two games at once sounds fun.
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Riot games - company when they realize day before LPL that China/KR is in similar time zone.
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Shame that previous LPL casters weren't employed.
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Presumably we can still watch the games on Douyu
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On January 16 2015 09:14 Zess wrote:
Presumably we can still watch the games on Douyu
Sadly, every chinese site lags for me as fuck.
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it is amazing the lack of foresight Riot displays on a seemingly regular basis.
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We're not getting OMG vs Vici live? That's a damn shame. I'm not sure what games will be airing instead of it, but that one's way hype. I guess it'll be back to douyu for me.
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On January 16 2015 09:27 Zyra wrote:
We're not getting OMG vs Vici live? That's a damn shame. I'm not sure what games will be airing instead of it, but that one's way hype. I guess it'll be back to douyu for me.
Don't worry, you can watch some high level Australian League of Legends, so competitive that even resident LoLesports defector Manisier almost made it in.
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As someone not interested in LPL besides watching ex-Champion players, can't say I'm too disappointed. But I am sure there a lot of people out there who are and Rito should've had plenty of time to have a better solution ready.
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That is some top class incompetence. What a good way to start the season Riot.
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No Papasmithy and it clashes with KR and OCE Challenger, losing out to the latter? What?
Are they going to put an alternate stream on tonight? OGN2 presumably still exists.
Also, what on earth is with the use of 'acquisition' in the first sentence?
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At least chinese language sounds cool so watching original stream won't be a problem 
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On January 16 2015 10:42 krndandaman wrote:
gah no vods for today?
to botch my sleep schedule or not
We (loleventvods) will cover as much as we can 
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United States23745 Posts
On January 16 2015 11:08 miicah wrote:Show nested quote +On January 16 2015 10:42 krndandaman wrote:
gah no vods for today?
to botch my sleep schedule or not We (loleventvods) will cover as much as we can
Pls do gods work.
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On January 16 2015 11:08 miicah wrote:Show nested quote +On January 16 2015 10:42 krndandaman wrote:
gah no vods for today?
to botch my sleep schedule or not We (loleventvods) will cover as much as we can
Will you be able to provide VoDs of the Chinese stream or do you not know yet? Since that seems to be the only way to not miss games this week.
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On January 16 2015 10:03 Zess wrote:
Don't worry, you can watch some high level Australian League of Legends, so competitive that even resident LoLesports defector Manisier almost made it in.
My team was top 8 last year, so I literally would have made it in if we didn't break up
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Well, looks like I'm staying up tonight. Who needs sleep?
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Riot, no one cares about the OCE. Please stop making god awful decisions.
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Honestly, wtf riot? Biggest region, highest paid famous players. I mean are we supposed to watch OCE?
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United States33225 Posts
Haha, Afreeca (Korean streaming service) announced with less than a day's notice that they will have to cancel their LPL stream. So at least English speakers HAVE a stream -_-;
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On January 16 2015 12:12 Raejk wrote:Can you use the Azubu stream? http://www.azubu.tv/ongamenetedit: Oh, that might be Korean language stream. Not sure.
It is the Korean stream, but I'm glad there's an Azubu option for it right now.
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Why you do disss?!
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It's a shame, but it will still be hella worthwhile to watch. This is going to be a good season!
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Welp, not surprised riot somehow fucked this up lol. China is probably the most hyped region this season for westerners whereas no1 really gives a shit about OCE (no offense). Hopefully the backlash will be big enough that they will come to their senses.
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have to watch this online.No audiences are allowed around the stage due to safety issues.
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On January 16 2015 13:35 Neverhood wrote:
Welp, not surprised riot somehow fucked this up lol. China is probably the most hyped region this season for westerners whereas no1 really gives a shit about OCE (no offense). Hopefully the backlash will be big enough that they will come to their senses.
No sane person is surprised. When it comes to esports, Riot seems to only be good at adapting to backlash from the decisions they make the next time around, rather than making the obvious choice the first time (if we divided the # of LOL fans who would have wanted to watch LPL by the number who want to watch OCE would the ratio be 10:1? 50:1?).
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On January 16 2015 12:08 botchedit wrote:
Riot, no one cares about the OCE. Please stop making god awful decisions.
Why do people keep assuming that Riot decided to prioritise the OPL over the LPL? I know most Americans are not going to be familiar with our scene, but the OPL was announced last year. The schedule was already set prior to today, it's not like someone at Riot woke up today and decided "Hey, I know what would be fun! Let's broadcast the OPL instead of the LPL, that'll teach those English speaking Chinese fans!".
Get angry about Riot's decision to try and use the same team for both broadcasts if you wish, but it's not Oceania's fault that they made that decision and it's not like this is a matter of prioritising one over the other. You guys might not be interested in watching it, but I certainly am.
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This is a fucking disgrace. Not only they decide that OCE>LPL (lol) but they won't even provide VODs for the games missing this week.
It's ridiculous that Riot took away the stream from the LPLen people for this shit.
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Just when the stupidity of riot is slowly fading from memory they quickly do something to remind people just how poorly organized they are. At this point it's rather incredible, like a magical talent for it. I'm honestly impressed
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Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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All hail bi/multi-lingualism!  CN casters > Riot casters anyway so no loss to me, but this is probably not the way Riot wanted to start their coverage of LPL >_>;;
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Great job Riot, let's see how you try to remedy this.
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Riot could have easily hired additional casters for LPL so I don't really understand their decision behind this.
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