Pro scene rumor mill 2016 Pre-Season - Page 125

On January 07 2016 03:30 Fusilero wrote:
Maybe I'm just being ignorant but shouldn't riot enforce teams informing players of potential offers.

On January 07 2016 03:30 Fusilero wrote:
Maybe I'm just being ignorant but shouldn't riot enforce teams informing players of potential offers.

On January 07 2016 03:34 wei2coolman wrote:

That's why their poaching rule is fucking stupid right now.

They probably want to prevent teams from buying and trading mid-split (can cause obvious roster issues and destabilize the splits); there's absolutely 0 way for players to test their worth between splits/season, at any point until their contract ends.

On January 07 2016 03:24 Numy wrote:
I believe Regi also put that in his contracts after/during the whole RNG scandal. Could be incorrect though.

On January 07 2016 03:36 Numy wrote:


Well that goes against the rules that teams can't talk to players so at that point why even have that rule in place if you going to enforce teams informing players. It's just that certain owners like the RNG and TSM guys believed that it's wrong and players should be informed so they put it in contract.



I thought roster lock happens at the start of the split so that would be pointless.

On January 07 2016 03:36 Numy wrote:


I thought roster lock happens at the start of the split so that would be pointless.

On January 07 2016 03:40 wei2coolman wrote:

I'm actually not sure how roster locking works exactly in LCS, I just thought teams just needed to declare their line-up at a certain time after all players are approved.

On January 07 2016 03:47 Kinie wrote:
Keep in mind that League is (from a traditional sports perspective) a 6-8 month season, with a little downtime in the middle as a sort of mandated/simultaneous "week off" for all the teams in their respective regions. The big reason why there's such a variance in the length of time for teams is due to how well or how poorly all the teams do. So if you're a bottom team your season ends on the last day of the Spring/Summer splits. But if you're a top 3 team you basically play from January to October with maybe a 2 week break sometime in late April or early May and again in late August through early September as you transition from Spring to Summer and Summer to Worlds.

Not to mention that if you go to MSI, your players will probably not even have those full 2 weeks, as they'll have to fly out to MSI, compete in it, fly back, get maybe 2 days off then go back to scrims to get ready for Summer split. There's such a crunch of time for the players in the offseason where they need to:

> Get health issues fixed (if necessary)
> Unwind/decompress
> Plan out what you're going to do for the holidays (trips, signings, etc.)
> Fulfill whatever team/sponsorship obligations you have

And oh, you still have to keep your mechanics up in the off-season via playing solo queue, not to mention that if you stream you're probably going to be doing that during the off-season to keep said mechanics up.

I do agree in that players should have some sort of say on hearing offers from teams, but Riot's anti-poaching rules (to my knowledge) make it be that if you even mention any talk about trading players between organizations or leaving one team for another without the organization's knowledge, you're getting fined or suspended.

On January 07 2016 03:53 Numy wrote:
I think I went through the numbers on some of the teams that stayed in LCS but didn't really make playoffs or do well in playoffs and they play something like 3 months(it may have been more around 4 I'd have to check it out again, think it was a post in here too) a year of league. So the time varies from something like 3 to 8 months. Really crazy when you look into it.

On January 07 2016 02:46 Ansibled wrote:
EUCS qualifiers again.

On January 07 2016 04:28 Redox wrote:

And Millenium won first game, despite getting rolled in the early game. They continue to look super solid although noone talked of them before this qualifier started. Would be pretty big if Huma gets kicked out.