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Nitan
United States3401 Posts
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SimulatedAnneal
765 Posts
On April 20 2013 15:50 red_ wrote: I didn't know about the Azure Cats/Relegation seeding thing though. That doesn't change my opinion over what transpired, but it does sound silly that the #1 seed is in line to face a better team. The format for the up/down is a 12 team tournament where the top 4 seeds get a first round bye. AC is the 9th seed and is expected to lose in the first round by the seeding. If they had placed third at the ranked 5's tournament they would be facing a team considered tougher by the seeding in the first round. The seeds are based on the expectation that the best two non-LCS teams to qualify for the tournament did so at the earliest opportunity(MLG), the next 2 at the next opportunity(IPL), and last four at the last opportunity(Ranked 5's). Noting that their 2nd round opponent is tougher than if they had placed lower is the equivalent of a 9 seed at the NCAA men's basketball tournament complaining that they'll face a 1 in the 2nd round instead of a 3 if they had been given an 11. | ||
DragoonTT
3398 Posts
And the Vulcun/Curse issue is what usually happens if you don't have simultaneous games for the last round - teams play for postition, just because they can. There's really no reason at all to punish them for it - next time, run two games at a time, if possible... (and I'm not even sure about the validity of the arguement. Why would Vulcun want dig over CLG? They're 2-2 against both teams) | ||
JBright
Vancouver14381 Posts
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=36904833#post36904833 Riot's statement - nothing happened. End of story. | ||
DragoonTT
3398 Posts
On April 20 2013 16:59 JBright wrote: CLG just bitter. They counter logic for a reason. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=36904833#post36904833 Riot's statement - nothing happened. End of story. I really think they should caution CLG/Azure (Kelby and Jiji, respectively) for spewing such stuff. It's really unsportsmanlike to go and accuse their competitors of colluding just so their team has a worse chance at qualifying. On a brighter note, can anyone recommend any games after the first two of yesterday's? Funny enough, the votes recommend all of them, which I can't quite believe, considering how the voting in here usually turns out... | ||
caelym
United States6421 Posts
On April 20 2013 17:03 DragoonTT wrote: I really think they should caution CLG/Azure (Kelby and Jiji, respectively) for spewing such stuff. It's really unsportsmanlike to go and accuse their competitors of colluding just so their team has a worse chance at qualifying. On a brighter note, can anyone recommend any games after the first two of yesterday's? Funny enough, the votes recommend all of them, which I can't quite believe, considering how the voting in here usually turns out... The MRN games today were really good. | ||
JBright
Vancouver14381 Posts
On April 20 2013 17:03 DragoonTT wrote: I really think they should caution CLG/Azure (Kelby and Jiji, respectively) for spewing such stuff. It's really unsportsmanlike to go and accuse their competitors of colluding just so their team has a worse chance at qualifying. On a brighter note, can anyone recommend any games after the first two of yesterday's? Funny enough, the votes recommend all of them, which I can't quite believe, considering how the voting in here usually turns out... A lot of the games were recommended because they were upsets. I think the middle four games were all decently good. Last two games were sort of meh but that might just be because they didn't have anything on the line so they lacked intensity. | ||
DragoonTT
3398 Posts
Edit: Just finished watching (bits) of the US matches. Kinda wondering why the whole Crs thing blew up that much - CLG could have been blamed the exactly same fashion for losing against MRN and GGU. Made horrible decisions, threw games etc, and hoping for MRN to qualify/fixing GGU as their opponent would benefit them way more than Crs supposedly speculating on Vulcun giving CLG a harder time. The whole thing is ridiculous. | ||
wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On April 20 2013 16:08 dae wrote: Honestly, curse trying out a radically different teamcomp when they have nothing to win/lose from the game is fine. What isn't fine is Vulcan swapping roles in order to try to lose. TBH, curse has practiced that comp in scrims before. Riot can't charge um for shit. I've seen Saint jungle fizz in scrims. We known Jacky's KNOWN for his trist play. And we just saw SoAZ kick EG's ass with nunu top. Seen Elise support, and Ez before obviously. Just because there is motive like jiji says, doesn't mean they did it. | ||
MagnusWolf
United States483 Posts
Riot's response to the Competitive Integrity Allegations. | ||
Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
On April 20 2013 16:08 dae wrote: Honestly, curse trying out a radically different teamcomp when they have nothing to win/lose from the game is fine. What isn't fine is Vulcan swapping roles in order to try to lose. If you watched the game with a critical eye, Vulcun actually played the game far more seriously. Apart from the roleswaps(Which are sort of understandable, Xmithie is kind of known for Xerath as is Mancloud for Draven and Udyr also is a good champion of Zuna's) they actually played it far more seriously. In many fights it seemed like Curse members were trying to intentionally die / lose the battles. | ||
Blurio
Germany288 Posts
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Gahlo
United States35076 Posts
On April 20 2013 19:02 Blurio wrote: All games are worth a watch? My timesssssss Check out ze polls. =] In other news: Brunch U is retiring. | ||
Slangen
Sweden1166 Posts
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Gahlo
United States35076 Posts
On April 20 2013 20:31 Slangen wrote: Why is the NA vods always 240p the first day? Feels strange as the EU vods gets high quality straight away :/ no logic me thinks.. i want to enjoy TSM in high quality For availability purposes, lowest quality is always up first so it can get up faster. | ||
Slangen
Sweden1166 Posts
On April 20 2013 20:36 Gahlo wrote: For availability purposes, lowest quality is always up first so it can get up faster. Ok, that makes sense | ||
gyth
657 Posts
On April 20 2013 16:08 dae wrote: Honestly, curse trying out a radically different teamcomp when they have nothing to win/lose from the game is fine. What isn't fine is Vulcan swapping roles in order to try to lose. The problem isn't with the teams. The format is at fault if teams are playing games that don't matter. Large scale pool play has to work hard to avoid this. Hopefully Riot learns better methods of keeping things competitive rather than comical. I'd suggest keeping the results secret at the play site, but most of the players would probably die if cut off from twitter. | ||
f_Ce
Germany29 Posts
The VODs can also be found in the twitch.tv archive . | ||
templar rage
United States2509 Posts
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AsnSensation
Germany24009 Posts
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