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On February 06 2013 15:47 niukasu1990 wrote:
So nowadays the LOL world is divided into 5 regions? China(LPL), Korea(OGN), Southeast Asia(GPL), Europe and America?
Personally, I think the level of NA LCS is similar to GPL without TPA.
TSM CLG may win.
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Do you watch GPL? I think GPL is probably the worst league internationally when it comes to skill. @_@
NA is bad but not that bad.
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United States23745 Posts
On February 06 2013 15:51 Alaric wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2013 12:27 Amethyst21 wrote:
Still cannot get over how bad the name Vulcun Command is. Like did anyone stop to think how stupidly corny it sounds? It's corny but I don't mind it. "Counter Logic Gaming" doesn't sound full of sense either, and most organisations with just "something gaming" or "team stuff" make them sound a bit bland in the end. Might Midgets, Taipei Assassins, Vulcun Command... all sound a bit corny, but there's more identity to them in some way. At least that's how I view it, from a spectator standpoint. Won't be able to watch friday (gonna have sooo many VoDs along with all of EU LCS, damn, BW PL has nothing on this in terms of hours, good cheer to the writing team if they try and get a weekly (p)review for both on top of what they're doing already), but thursday seems to have the big match-ups already, with TSM, CLG, Curse and Dig playing each other so we get a good idea of how it's turning out for them.
We're shooting for weekly recaps (with a dash of preview thrown in). No doubt it's going to be a lot of work but I know the rest of the staff and I are going to work as hard as possible to keep on track.
On February 06 2013 15:53 niukasu1990 wrote:
BTW, which patch will they play?
A suggestion to Riot,
Plz clarify the patch before every game
I'm sure it's just gonna be on the tournament realm, which is always a patch behind the live client
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You know, you wouldn't know that the opening games are a couple days away given the lack of change in player habits i.e. lots of big name players still streaming solo queue antics.
Pretty disappointed I must say.
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On February 06 2013 16:03 NeoIllusions wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2013 15:47 niukasu1990 wrote:
So nowadays the LOL world is divided into 5 regions? China(LPL), Korea(OGN), Southeast Asia(GPL), Europe and America?
Personally, I think the level of NA LCS is similar to GPL without TPA.
TSM CLG may win. ??? Do you watch GPL? I think GPL is probably the worst league internationally when it comes to skill. @_@ NA is bad but not that bad.
Ehh, the thing about GPL is that its more or less required to have 1+ team from each of the participating countries (and no more than 2). Think what would happen to NA LCS if you had a similar rules requiring Central American teams.
If you actually took the top 8 teams from SEA, even discounting TPA/TPS, the skill level would probably be around the level of NA LCS.
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On February 06 2013 17:22 ChaoSbringer wrote:
You know, you wouldn't know that the opening games are a couple days away given the lack of change in player habits i.e. lots of big name players still streaming solo queue antics.
Pretty disappointed I must say.
As long as they do team practice on top of that its ok. EG for example does 6 hours of scrims daily, and afterwards or before some of them do 3 to 4 hours of soloq.
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On February 06 2013 15:51 Alaric wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2013 12:27 Amethyst21 wrote:
Still cannot get over how bad the name Vulcun Command is. Like did anyone stop to think how stupidly corny it sounds? It's corny but I don't mind it. "Counter Logic Gaming" doesn't sound full of sense either, and most organisations with just "something gaming" or "team stuff" make them sound a bit bland in the end. Might Midgets, Taipei Assassins, Vulcun Command... all sound a bit corny, but there's more identity to them in some way. At least that's how I view it, from a spectator standpoint. Won't be able to watch friday (gonna have sooo many VoDs along with all of EU LCS, damn, BW PL has nothing on this in terms of hours, good cheer to the writing team if they try and get a weekly (p)review for both on top of what they're doing already), but thursday seems to have the big match-ups already, with TSM, CLG, Curse and Dig playing each other so we get a good idea of how it's turning out for them.
Counter Logic, it essentially means reverse psychology.
Anyways, Curse should be able to win both their games this week.
Gunna be rooting for Curse!
On February 06 2013 17:33 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2013 16:03 NeoIllusions wrote:On February 06 2013 15:47 niukasu1990 wrote:
So nowadays the LOL world is divided into 5 regions? China(LPL), Korea(OGN), Southeast Asia(GPL), Europe and America?
Personally, I think the level of NA LCS is similar to GPL without TPA.
TSM CLG may win. ??? Do you watch GPL? I think GPL is probably the worst league internationally when it comes to skill. @_@ NA is bad but not that bad. Ehh, the thing about GPL is that its more or less required to have 1+ team from each of the participating countries (and no more than 2). Think what would happen to NA LCS if you had a similar rules requiring Central American teams. If you actually took the top 8 teams from SEA, even discounting TPA/TPS, the skill level would probably be around the level of NA LCS.
I remember one of the seasons of Garena, during TPA slump, they only dropped 1 series (or game?) during season.
I think you over estimate strength of SEA. (well maybe equal to the bottom 4 of NA LCS).
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Pootie too good!4331 Posts
Really excited for this! TSM TSM TSM!!
TSM got me into the competitive LoL scene, as TL got me into the competitive SC:BW and SC2 scene - needless to say I am a TSM fanboy. Only until TL gets their own LoL team of course 
Will there be live reports? Or just weekly recaps/previews? As someone (where I know I am a very VERY small minority) who only has their Blackberry, I can't watch live streams or VODs - so I would be interested to know what sort of coverage there will be.
Also, is it possible to do a fantasy league for this? I know there is one at bossminions.com, but I was interested if TL would be able to run their own?
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On February 06 2013 15:53 niukasu1990 wrote:
BTW, which patch will they play?
A suggestion to Riot,
Plz clarify the patch before every game
Oddone was mentioning that Tresh wasnt allowed on his stream so i assume its Tresh patch with Tresh disabled.
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On February 06 2013 19:27 wei2coolman wrote:
I remember one of the seasons of Garena, during TPA slump, they only dropped 1 series (or game?) during season.
I think you over estimate strength of SEA. (well maybe equal to the bottom 4 of NA LCS).
GPL is basically not representative of "top 8 SEA" though. Even ignoring TPA it would be like 4 Taiwanese teams, 3 Singaporean teams, and Saigon Jokers, lol.
SGS and Saigon Jokers are probably representative of the average skill of "top 8 SEA" and I'm hard-pressed to believe they would be that much weaker than NA LCS.
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On February 06 2013 20:10 JonGalt wrote:Really excited for this! TSM TSM TSM!! TSM got me into the competitive LoL scene, as TL got me into the competitive SC:BW and SC2 scene - needless to say I am a TSM fanboy. Only until TL gets their own LoL team of course Will there be live reports? Or just weekly recaps/previews? As someone (where I know I am a very VERY small minority) who only has their Blackberry, I can't watch live streams or VODs - so I would be interested to know what sort of coverage there will be. Also, is it possible to do a fantasy league for this? I know there is one at bossminions.com, but I was interested if TL would be able to run their own?
No fantasy league since TL doesn't "endorse" LoL the way they do DotA and BW/SC2.
As for the live reports, while we won't be doing 100+ pages over the span of a few hours like it happened frequently on BW (and SC2 too I guess? Stopped following that awhile ago), there's always some. It's hard to really detail it since there is less "downtime" than in BW, being a 5v5 game and all, and there's also more information to conveil so it's not a very precise/step-by-step LR like some did (props to them).
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On February 07 2013 01:34 Alaric wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2013 20:10 JonGalt wrote:Really excited for this! TSM TSM TSM!! TSM got me into the competitive LoL scene, as TL got me into the competitive SC:BW and SC2 scene - needless to say I am a TSM fanboy. Only until TL gets their own LoL team of course Will there be live reports? Or just weekly recaps/previews? As someone (where I know I am a very VERY small minority) who only has their Blackberry, I can't watch live streams or VODs - so I would be interested to know what sort of coverage there will be. Also, is it possible to do a fantasy league for this? I know there is one at bossminions.com, but I was interested if TL would be able to run their own? No fantasy league since TL doesn't "endorse" LoL the way they do DotA and BW/SC2. As for the live reports, while we won't be doing 100+ pages over the span of a few hours like it happened frequently on BW (and SC2 too I guess? Stopped following that awhile ago), there's always some. It's hard to really detail it since there is less "downtime" than in BW, being a 5v5 game and all, and there's also more information to conveil so it's not a very precise/step-by-step LR like some did (props to them).
Riot is hoping to implement their own Fantasy League by the second half of the season. Otherwise there's a couple 3rd party sites but I never fell in love with any of them.
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On February 07 2013 02:02 onlywonderboy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2013 01:34 Alaric wrote:On February 06 2013 20:10 JonGalt wrote:Really excited for this! TSM TSM TSM!! TSM got me into the competitive LoL scene, as TL got me into the competitive SC:BW and SC2 scene - needless to say I am a TSM fanboy. Only until TL gets their own LoL team of course Will there be live reports? Or just weekly recaps/previews? As someone (where I know I am a very VERY small minority) who only has their Blackberry, I can't watch live streams or VODs - so I would be interested to know what sort of coverage there will be. Also, is it possible to do a fantasy league for this? I know there is one at bossminions.com, but I was interested if TL would be able to run their own? No fantasy league since TL doesn't "endorse" LoL the way they do DotA and BW/SC2. As for the live reports, while we won't be doing 100+ pages over the span of a few hours like it happened frequently on BW (and SC2 too I guess? Stopped following that awhile ago), there's always some. It's hard to really detail it since there is less "downtime" than in BW, being a 5v5 game and all, and there's also more information to conveil so it's not a very precise/step-by-step LR like some did (props to them). Riot is hoping to implement their own Fantasy League by the second half of the season. Otherwise there's a couple 3rd party sites but I never fell in love with any of them.
What happened to the Leaguepedia Fantasy League? I had high hopes for them setting up a proper one - all the other ones I checked kinda suck. bossminion.com looks solid, but has horribly tilted ratings for the players - you can easily run a lineup with Doublelift, Alex Ich, sOAZ and other comparably s-tier players for the other positions...
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werent NA games supposed to be Thursday and Friday with EU Saturday Sunday? I remember seeing it like that somewhere and leaguepedia also lists it like that.
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On February 07 2013 02:32 misirlou wrote:
werent NA games supposed to be Thursday and Friday with EU Saturday Sunday? I remember seeing it like that somewhere and leaguepedia also lists it like that.
They are. what your seeing is the CET times probably in which cast the 2nd set is on saterday morning because of the fact they start in the US evening.
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On February 07 2013 02:46 Gorsameth wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2013 02:32 misirlou wrote:
werent NA games supposed to be Thursday and Friday with EU Saturday Sunday? I remember seeing it like that somewhere and leaguepedia also lists it like that. They are. what your seeing is the CET times probably in which cast the 2nd set is on saterday morning because of the fact they start in the US evening.
Thx ure righ (WET actually :p), why the games start later on friday? :/ 1am (2am CET) start is pretty late for us EU folks. Its Friday/Saturday but still staying up to 6 am if we want to catch the games is insane
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On February 07 2013 02:08 DragoonTT wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2013 02:02 onlywonderboy wrote:On February 07 2013 01:34 Alaric wrote:On February 06 2013 20:10 JonGalt wrote:Really excited for this! TSM TSM TSM!! TSM got me into the competitive LoL scene, as TL got me into the competitive SC:BW and SC2 scene - needless to say I am a TSM fanboy. Only until TL gets their own LoL team of course Will there be live reports? Or just weekly recaps/previews? As someone (where I know I am a very VERY small minority) who only has their Blackberry, I can't watch live streams or VODs - so I would be interested to know what sort of coverage there will be. Also, is it possible to do a fantasy league for this? I know there is one at bossminions.com, but I was interested if TL would be able to run their own? No fantasy league since TL doesn't "endorse" LoL the way they do DotA and BW/SC2. As for the live reports, while we won't be doing 100+ pages over the span of a few hours like it happened frequently on BW (and SC2 too I guess? Stopped following that awhile ago), there's always some. It's hard to really detail it since there is less "downtime" than in BW, being a 5v5 game and all, and there's also more information to conveil so it's not a very precise/step-by-step LR like some did (props to them). Riot is hoping to implement their own Fantasy League by the second half of the season. Otherwise there's a couple 3rd party sites but I never fell in love with any of them. What happened to the Leaguepedia Fantasy League? I had high hopes for them setting up a proper one - all the other ones I checked kinda suck. bossminion.com looks solid, but has horribly tilted ratings for the players - you can easily run a lineup with Doublelift, Alex Ich, sOAZ and other comparably s-tier players for the other positions...
Never saw an actual Leaguepedia League, just the bracket predictions they always do. Yeah, there have to be some trade-offs in order to make it fun. I'm still waiting for somewhere to do it like really fantasy sports where a player is only allowed on one team so once you draft him no one else can have him.
Edit: Obviously this would have to be done with small groups of people, not the free-for-all set up most of these sites have.
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Am I right in that CLG vs TSM is in about 3 hours? My favourite time converting website just went offline few days ago.
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On February 07 2013 02:56 little fancy wrote:
Am I right in that CLG vs TSM is in about 3 hours? My favourite time converting website just went offline few days ago.
Your a day early. Its in 27 hours.
Also set your TL timezone and the times in the OP will show your own local time :D
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On February 07 2013 02:57 Gorsameth wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2013 02:56 little fancy wrote:
Am I right in that CLG vs TSM is in about 3 hours? My favourite time converting website just went offline few days ago. Your a day early. Its in 27 hours. Also set your TL timezone and the times in the OP will show your own local time :D
l0l fuck, you're right. My day was somewhat bad and I'm kinda trashed. Probably wishful thinking to come up with a highlight tonight. Thanks.
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Pootie too good!4331 Posts
On February 07 2013 01:34 Alaric wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2013 20:10 JonGalt wrote:Really excited for this! TSM TSM TSM!! TSM got me into the competitive LoL scene, as TL got me into the competitive SC:BW and SC2 scene - needless to say I am a TSM fanboy. Only until TL gets their own LoL team of course Will there be live reports? Or just weekly recaps/previews? As someone (where I know I am a very VERY small minority) who only has their Blackberry, I can't watch live streams or VODs - so I would be interested to know what sort of coverage there will be. Also, is it possible to do a fantasy league for this? I know there is one at bossminions.com, but I was interested if TL would be able to run their own? No fantasy league since TL doesn't "endorse" LoL the way they do DotA and BW/SC2. As for the live reports, while we won't be doing 100+ pages over the span of a few hours like it happened frequently on BW (and SC2 too I guess? Stopped following that awhile ago), there's always some. It's hard to really detail it since there is less "downtime" than in BW, being a 5v5 game and all, and there's also more information to conveil so it's not a very precise/step-by-step LR like some did (props to them).
Well that's OK. It'll be fun to rifle through all the pages on my Blackberry during teaching downtime. The first game is at 11pm, but I just might stay up for it since it is TSM vs CLG and my Fridays are easy.
Too bad about Fantasy. Yah bossminion.com does look good, but I found it way too easy to pick almost any combination of really good players and have money leftover.
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