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RouaF
Profile Joined October 2010
France4120 Posts
January 12 2016 18:25 GMT
#2561
Underdogs is a starcraft2 tournament so yes, possible. Afaik it's a tournament featuring "underdogs" aka known players that aren't really on top of the game.
Fusilero
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United Kingdom50293 Posts
January 12 2016 19:00 GMT
#2562
https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/40nqf9/lolesports_br_decision_regarding_intz_and_red/
Riot has declared that intz/red candids are linked. One of the two teams are to be sold until it is proven there's no links between the two teams. Failure to do so will result in one of the two teams removed from CBLoL, Intz's directors are suspended for a year, all staff have their riot money taken away from them and given to the players. Image rights are stripped from the staff and will be handed over to the players.

Tl;dr Revolta is rich yo
Glorious SEA doto
Skitter
Profile Joined August 2015
United States899 Posts
January 12 2016 19:32 GMT
#2563
http://gambit.gg/news/official-statements/welcome-gambit-cis-lol

How can we have a LoL scene without the clown fiesta that is Gambit?
xd
bbc23
Profile Joined September 2013
United States416 Posts
January 12 2016 19:43 GMT
#2564
"We're using the money from the sale of our LCS spot to re-invest in a LoL team"
I don't think this CIS team cost a million dollars, I don't think it even cost them 100k
Ansibled
Profile Joined November 2014
United Kingdom9872 Posts
January 12 2016 19:45 GMT
#2565
On January 13 2016 04:43 bbc23 wrote:
"We're using the money from the sale of our LCS spot to re-invest in a LoL team"
I don't think this CIS team cost a million dollars, I don't think it even cost them 100k

They're also using it to buy lots of nice things
'StarCraft is just a fairy tale told to scare children actually.'
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Fusilero
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United Kingdom50293 Posts
January 12 2016 19:58 GMT
#2566
They used it to buy dosia I'll have you know
Glorious SEA doto
Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
January 12 2016 19:59 GMT
#2567
They bought a CSGO team as well that featured some prominent CIS guys. Trying to find that info on their site is rather challenging though lol
Zato-1
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Chile4253 Posts
January 12 2016 20:04 GMT
#2568
On January 13 2016 04:43 bbc23 wrote:
"We're using the money from the sale of our LCS spot to re-invest in a LoL team"
I don't think this CIS team cost a million dollars, I don't think it even cost them 100k

Do we know that they got a million dollars for their LCS spot? That seemed to be the going rate for NA LCS spots, but for the same reasons that players get paid less in EU teams I imagine EU LCS spots are worth less.
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Dan HH
Profile Joined July 2012
Romania9118 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-12 20:18:05
January 12 2016 20:16 GMT
#2569
On January 13 2016 03:06 Ansibled wrote:
Dunno what this is, new tournament?


It's a French challenger tournament run by Ogaming, started a month ago

http://www.ogaming.tv/news/underdogs-le-tournoi-continue/10219
Fusilero
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United Kingdom50293 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-12 20:39:53
January 12 2016 20:23 GMT
#2570
On January 13 2016 05:04 Zato-1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2016 04:43 bbc23 wrote:
"We're using the money from the sale of our LCS spot to re-invest in a LoL team"
I don't think this CIS team cost a million dollars, I don't think it even cost them 100k

Do we know that they got a million dollars for their LCS spot? That seemed to be the going rate for NA LCS spots, but for the same reasons that players get paid less in EU teams I imagine EU LCS spots are worth less.

I imagine a million is an estimate based on what Splyce paid for dig.eu's spot. Granted though Splyce's purchase came with the players while Vitality had to build a whole new roster so it's probably beneath that.

Banditos beat the Polish national team *stunned silence*
Glorious SEA doto
Dan HH
Profile Joined July 2012
Romania9118 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-13 12:53:00
January 13 2016 12:45 GMT
#2571
http://lol.178.com/201601/246588486645.html

uhm... Kakao to LSPL? rofl

Edit: just saw it was posted already on the previous page, my bad
Saradin
Profile Joined January 2015
456 Posts
January 13 2016 17:17 GMT
#2572
On January 13 2016 04:32 Skitter wrote:
http://gambit.gg/news/official-statements/welcome-gambit-cis-lol

How can we have a LoL scene without the clown fiesta that is Gambit?


So the question of 'Who the hell owns Gambit'? will be eternal? As if it was one of League's seven mysteries?
bbc23
Profile Joined September 2013
United States416 Posts
January 13 2016 17:23 GMT
#2573
On January 11 2016 08:52 bbc23 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 11 2016 08:03 Fusilero wrote:

Because TiP wasn't XD enough

You want XD?

Because the lineup I'm expecting them to use based on several different factors (mainly Visas) is Feng, Beibei, Gate, Mash, Ken
I think Gate is garbage personally but they're not even allowing him the chance to succeed shuffling him around.

And the XD is official!
Fusilero
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United Kingdom50293 Posts
January 13 2016 17:24 GMT
#2574
On January 14 2016 02:17 Saradin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2016 04:32 Skitter wrote:
http://gambit.gg/news/official-statements/welcome-gambit-cis-lol

How can we have a LoL scene without the clown fiesta that is Gambit?


So the question of 'Who the hell owns Gambit'? will be eternal? As if it was one of League's seven mysteries?

If you don't know the owner of a team it's either Wang Sicong or Baixing.

Or both
Glorious SEA doto
Saradin
Profile Joined January 2015
456 Posts
January 13 2016 17:47 GMT
#2575
On January 14 2016 02:23 bbc23 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 11 2016 08:52 bbc23 wrote:
On January 11 2016 08:03 Fusilero wrote:
https://twitter.com/KefkaLoL/status/686319415290286081
Because TiP wasn't XD enough

You want XD?

Because the lineup I'm expecting them to use based on several different factors (mainly Visas) is Feng, Beibei, Gate, Mash, Ken
I think Gate is garbage personally but they're not even allowing him the chance to succeed shuffling him around.

And the XD is official!


Hell yes. When you can either be bog standard forgettably terrible or memorably terrible, gotta be memorable.

Huh, it just hit me. Somehow, Impulse has managed to stay entirely of various Asian descent, from LMQ to now. Apollo and Rhux seem like exceptions at first glance, but Apollo's half Japanese and Rhux's half Filipino.
Rhux also gets to serve the Token Black Man role, and I suppose Impulse's Black Dude Dies First entry, if we look at his subbing in for week 1 of last Spring in a certain way.
Fusilero
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United Kingdom50293 Posts
January 13 2016 20:35 GMT
#2576

This Huma meme is getting out of hand
Glorious SEA doto
Azarkon
Profile Joined January 2010
United States21060 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-13 22:16:36
January 13 2016 22:11 GMT
#2577
On January 09 2016 23:29 Fusilero wrote:


Aaron is going on a spiritual quest to save the LPL, god speed


Rofl. Did he actually say that?

Also, it's not hard to see why the Chinese eSports scene fails -

* Too much drama
* Poor practice environment
* Players are too casual/lazy
* Managers/coaches don't have enough control over players
* Competition for talent from stream companies

Same issue with American scene, actually.

And it cuts across eSports, not just League of Legends. I'll just put this here, because I thought it was impressive that a Chinese professional gamer finally had the guts to lay it all out:

http://www.gosugamers.net/hearthstone/news/33872-tiddlercelestial-the-chinese-players-are-far-less-professional-than-the-others

He's talking about Hearthstone - lelz, I know - but even so, what he says here applies to all of Chinese eSports:

We lost CN v EU, we lost CN v NA, nobody is in the Ro4 of WCA or BlizzCon. It boils down to one reason: we practise to little. We are far less professional than them. I don't think we can have a BlizzCon semi-finalist even we hand-pick 4 guys. The whole community practise very little. Had we had another CN v KR or CN v JP, we wouldn't win it anyway. They've made incredible improvements.

For example, Lifecoach actually moved and lived with Thijs for five days before BlizzCon. They practised 12 hours a day. And another is that at Celestial Invitational, there was a Korean player (Shrink: Surrender, since he was the only Korean there) that hardly went out the hotel room. He just sit in his room playing the game. Even though he hasn't achieved much, the altitude that Koreans displayed by playing 10 hours a day is not what we can compare with. And this hard-working spirit is why Korea leads the way of e-Sports.
oo_Wonderful_oo
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
The land of freedom23126 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-14 00:55:10
January 13 2016 23:17 GMT
#2578
http://www.lolesports.com/en_US/articles/2016-lcs-spring-split-rules-changes

Automatic relegation/promotion is gone, double elimination between 3 bottom LCS teams and 2 top CS teams is going to happen.

LCS #10 vs CS #2 - loser is out, winner is going to the next round.

LCS #8 vs the winner of the first game - winner is in
LCS #9 vs CS #1 - winner is in

Losers of the second day matches are going to play for the final spot.
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MooMooMugi
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States10531 Posts
January 13 2016 23:26 GMT
#2579
No auto relegation is nice, means theres gunna be more competition within the CS series
|LoL & SC2 IGN both my username| Just livin' the baylife| Hearthstone ID: MooMooMugi#1544| Dank Memer since 2011
Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-13 23:37:05
January 13 2016 23:36 GMT
#2580
On January 14 2016 08:17 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote:
http://www.lolesports.com/en_US/articles/2016-lcs-spring-split-rules-changes

Automatic relegation/promotion is gone, double elimination between 3 bottom LCS teams and 2 top CS teams is going to happen.

LCS #10 vs CS #2 - loser is out, winner is going to the next round.

LCS #8 vs CS #1 - winner is in
LCS #9 vs winner between LCS #10 and CS #2 - winner is in

Losers of the second day matches are going to play for the final spot.


It's not quite a double elim as LCS 8/9 and CS1 just have to win 1 game to make it to LCS while LCS10 and CS2 have to win 2.

This also means that fewer teams have the potential to be relegated per season as well as giving way more protection for LCS 8/9. Feel like removing auto-relegation is good but this solution makes it too hard on CS teams to actually make it up and too easy for LCS teams to stay.
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