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Pantagruel
Profile Joined September 2011
United States1427 Posts
September 25 2013 22:06 GMT
#81
Riot ready said they are looking to tweak their format for s4.

Honestly, this doesn't need to be some complicated format with double elimination or anything. It's should be simple 16 team tournament with 4 groups of 4 based on seeding in respective regional seasons. Double round robin for a total of 6 games per team, top 2 advance with 1 seeds facing 2 seeds of another group. The only real consideration is if there needs to be a safeguard in place so we don't get 3 teams from one region in the same group but I'm sure something can be devised to prevent this in a fair manner.
iKill[ShocK]
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Vietnam3530 Posts
September 25 2013 22:35 GMT
#82
I feel like NJS will put up a fight against SKT, SKT's overall strategy and cohesiveness are a little too much for NJS. Though Piglet and Pooh have been arguably shaky in both group stages and quarterfinals, but if they don't feed Pray, SKT's eventual powerful midgame will dominate. Impact have been playing extremely solid this tournament and i don't feel like Expession (though a great top laner) can dominate or straight up win versus him at all. A glaring problem for NJS is are they going to put up 'rookie' Nagne against Faker; or play the veteran Ssong; controlling Faker is essential for NJS (because arguably Pray/Cain > Piglet/Pooh; Expession > Impact). Both Bengi and Watch's job are similar, though differ in objective: Bengi needs to control Pray and help counter gank for Faker; While Watch needs to control Faker and help counter gank for Pray. SKT 3-2 NJS in perhaps the greatest LoL match of all time; maybe.


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misirlou
Profile Joined June 2010
Portugal3303 Posts
September 25 2013 22:38 GMT
#83
On September 26 2013 07:06 Pantagruel wrote:
Riot ready said they are looking to tweak their format for s4.

Honestly, this doesn't need to be some complicated format with double elimination or anything. It's should be simple 16 team tournament with 4 groups of 4 based on seeding in respective regional seasons. Double round robin for a total of 6 games per team, top 2 advance with 1 seeds facing 2 seeds of another group. The only real consideration is if there needs to be a safeguard in place so we don't get 3 teams from one region in the same group but I'm sure something can be devised to prevent this in a fair manner.


Well we can argue that there are 4 major LoL regions, NA EU CN and KR, have like top 3 from each of these regions + 4 (or 8 making 4 groups of 5, 20 teams) from Wildcard/TW/SEA. And seed every region the same making it
G1: #1Na,#2EU,#3KR,Wildcard
G2: #1EU,#2KR,#3CN,TW
G3: #1KR,#2CN,#3NA,SEA
G4: #1CN,#2NA,#3EU,SEA/TW/Whatever
WhiteDog
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France8650 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-25 22:50:52
September 25 2013 22:45 GMT
#84
On September 26 2013 06:48 overt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2013 06:34 Nos- wrote:
It sounds arrogant is why


I would argue that World Elite sounds just as arrogant. Then again WE and Royal Club could be perceived completely different in Chinese from how they are in English.

lol when you think about it, most known chinese teams all have quite arrogant names.
You either have to be invictus, or part of the royal club, or just strait up world elite.

Complete contrast with their players behavior.
"every time WhiteDog overuses the word "seriously" in a comment I can make an observation on his fragile emotional state." MoltkeWarding
Dan HH
Profile Joined July 2012
Romania9215 Posts
September 25 2013 22:54 GMT
#85
On September 26 2013 07:45 WhiteDog wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2013 06:48 overt wrote:
On September 26 2013 06:34 Nos- wrote:
It sounds arrogant is why


I would argue that World Elite sounds just as arrogant. Then again WE and Royal Club could be perceived completely different in Chinese from how they are in English.

lol when you think about it, most known chinese teams all have quite arrogant names.
You either have to be invictus, or part of the royal club, or just strait up world elite.

Complete contrast with their players behavior.

I bet Positive Energy are assholes then
WhiteDog
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France8650 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-25 23:07:55
September 25 2013 22:59 GMT
#86
On September 26 2013 07:54 Dan HH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2013 07:45 WhiteDog wrote:
On September 26 2013 06:48 overt wrote:
On September 26 2013 06:34 Nos- wrote:
It sounds arrogant is why


I would argue that World Elite sounds just as arrogant. Then again WE and Royal Club could be perceived completely different in Chinese from how they are in English.

lol when you think about it, most known chinese teams all have quite arrogant names.
You either have to be invictus, or part of the royal club, or just strait up world elite.

Complete contrast with their players behavior.

I bet Positive Energy are assholes then

lol I didn't even know there was a team with that name.
"every time WhiteDog overuses the word "seriously" in a comment I can make an observation on his fragile emotional state." MoltkeWarding
lega
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada290 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-25 23:26:40
September 25 2013 23:06 GMT
#87
On September 26 2013 06:29 niukasu1990 wrote:
I am glad that Tabe has a lot of fans now.
Most of Chinese community are WE Fans.(65% based on Allstar vote)Because 'Royal Club' just sounds silly in Chinese culture, most people don't like them or even hate them.

No. The name is not the reason why Royal has tons of haters in China. Basically their players are assholes on soloq/stream, trolling, yelling, being toxic, afk, etc. Tabe looks like a completely different person when he starts speaking English. Kind of surreal.

EDIT: except Godlike. He is the only player in Royal who does not have a bad reputation.
johnnywup
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States3858 Posts
September 25 2013 23:20 GMT
#88
whee i'm going to see this live. couldn't get finals tickets so had to go with semis.
kainzero
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States5211 Posts
September 25 2013 23:45 GMT
#89
On September 26 2013 07:54 Dan HH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2013 07:45 WhiteDog wrote:
On September 26 2013 06:48 overt wrote:
On September 26 2013 06:34 Nos- wrote:
It sounds arrogant is why


I would argue that World Elite sounds just as arrogant. Then again WE and Royal Club could be perceived completely different in Chinese from how they are in English.

lol when you think about it, most known chinese teams all have quite arrogant names.
You either have to be invictus, or part of the royal club, or just strait up world elite.

Complete contrast with their players behavior.

I bet Positive Energy are assholes then

Livemore is dead, makes sense
niukasu1990
Profile Joined July 2012
1007 Posts
September 25 2013 23:59 GMT
#90
On September 26 2013 07:54 Dan HH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2013 07:45 WhiteDog wrote:
On September 26 2013 06:48 overt wrote:
On September 26 2013 06:34 Nos- wrote:
It sounds arrogant is why


I would argue that World Elite sounds just as arrogant. Then again WE and Royal Club could be perceived completely different in Chinese from how they are in English.

lol when you think about it, most known chinese teams all have quite arrogant names.
You either have to be invictus, or part of the royal club, or just strait up world elite.

Complete contrast with their players behavior.

I bet Positive Energy are assholes then



The problem is, in China, they are only called WE,PE in public;however, Royal Club are called Royal.
The community are not comparing World Elite and Royal Club, but WE and Royal. WE is obviously much more acceptable than Royal.
LaNague
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany9118 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-26 00:22:42
September 26 2013 00:15 GMT
#91
4 groups with 4 or 3 teams.

no major regions first place goes to a group that allready has a 1st place in it.
1st and 2nd place from the same region go to opposite sides (AB one side CD one side).
double round robin. Points for 1-1 and 2-0 need to be calculated by a mathematician to minimize potential ties.
first 2 teams advance to a standard knock out stage just like every big tournament is using (see FIFA world championship for references).
knockout stage will be BO5.

all the 5th games and all 1 game tiebreakers must be blindpick to assure no team gets firstpick advantage unfairly.



Weakness is: assuming 3 teams in each group because of financial restrictions, 4 teams will only play 2 other teams and then be out. But that also means they lost vast majority of their games and at some piint you have to filter out bad teams to get a high quality tournament going.



On September 26 2013 07:38 misirlou wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2013 07:06 Pantagruel wrote:
Riot ready said they are looking to tweak their format for s4.

Honestly, this doesn't need to be some complicated format with double elimination or anything. It's should be simple 16 team tournament with 4 groups of 4 based on seeding in respective regional seasons. Double round robin for a total of 6 games per team, top 2 advance with 1 seeds facing 2 seeds of another group. The only real consideration is if there needs to be a safeguard in place so we don't get 3 teams from one region in the same group but I'm sure something can be devised to prevent this in a fair manner.


Well we can argue that there are 4 major LoL regions, NA EU CN and KR, have like top 3 from each of these regions + 4 (or 8 making 4 groups of 5, 20 teams) from Wildcard/TW/SEA. And seed every region the same making it
G1: #1Na,#2EU,#3KR,Wildcard
G2: #1EU,#2KR,#3CN,TW
G3: #1KR,#2CN,#3NA,SEA
G4: #1CN,#2NA,#3EU,SEA/TW/Whatever



yeah like that except you switch 2 and 3.
everyone will have a fair chance, weak regions and teams will be filtered out and it will delay regional teamkills as much as possible assuming the regional qualifiers reflect the skills of the teams properly.
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
September 26 2013 00:18 GMT
#92
On September 26 2013 07:45 WhiteDog wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2013 06:48 overt wrote:
On September 26 2013 06:34 Nos- wrote:
It sounds arrogant is why


I would argue that World Elite sounds just as arrogant. Then again WE and Royal Club could be perceived completely different in Chinese from how they are in English.

lol when you think about it, most known chinese teams all have quite arrogant names.
You either have to be invictus, or part of the royal club, or just strait up world elite.

Complete contrast with their players behavior.

It's a cultural thing, in regards to "royal" as opposed to "world elite".

I dunno how to describe it, but calling yourself "royal" is sorta taboo-ish? I'm sure yango has a much better explanation.
liftlift > tsm
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
September 26 2013 00:20 GMT
#93
it's not only royal. it's royal clan or something. almost a parody in snobbery
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
Leeto
Profile Joined August 2007
United States1320 Posts
September 26 2013 00:41 GMT
#94
What do they think of the name "OMG"? What kind of team name is 'Oh My God'..
Fionn
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States23455 Posts
September 26 2013 00:47 GMT
#95
On September 26 2013 09:41 Leeto wrote:
What do they think of the name "OMG"? What kind of team name is 'Oh My God'..


It's the same as white people getting Chinese tattoos of 'Love' on their backs. Asian culture have lots of t-shirts with just random as fuck English words on them.
Writerhttps://twitter.com/FionnOnFire
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9808 Posts
September 26 2013 00:58 GMT
#96
On September 26 2013 09:47 Fionn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2013 09:41 Leeto wrote:
What do they think of the name "OMG"? What kind of team name is 'Oh My God'..


It's the same as white people getting Chinese tattoos of 'Love' on their backs. Asian culture have lots of t-shirts with just random as fuck English words on them.

My favorite are the ones they took from random newspaper clippings
boomer hands
1ntrigue
Profile Joined May 2012
Australia948 Posts
September 26 2013 01:13 GMT
#97
On September 26 2013 09:18 wei2coolman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2013 07:45 WhiteDog wrote:
On September 26 2013 06:48 overt wrote:
On September 26 2013 06:34 Nos- wrote:
It sounds arrogant is why


I would argue that World Elite sounds just as arrogant. Then again WE and Royal Club could be perceived completely different in Chinese from how they are in English.

lol when you think about it, most known chinese teams all have quite arrogant names.
You either have to be invictus, or part of the royal club, or just strait up world elite.

Complete contrast with their players behavior.

It's a cultural thing, in regards to "royal" as opposed to "world elite".

I dunno how to describe it, but calling yourself "royal" is sorta taboo-ish? I'm sure yango has a much better explanation.

To put it simply, China is a country of aspiration.

Anyone and almost everyone strives to be world elite, to have positive energy or w/e. However, to call yourself a royal is a big "no" in a society that has a love/hate relationship with getting rich and high status with no effort. Being a royal isn't something that people can aspire to or achieve. It's an unattainable status in a country all about status. There are many people in China who feel that they are like royalty and they may even delude themselves that they are, but even these people would feel second-rate next to royalty (the Chinese perception of such).

i.e.
1. Chinese people hate feeling second-rate
2. Calling oneself royalty is ludicrously arrogant in an aspirational society without religion or monarchy
3. Chinese people love tearing down tall poppies
Haasts
Profile Joined October 2011
New Zealand4445 Posts
September 26 2013 02:25 GMT
#98
On September 26 2013 10:13 1ntrigue wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2013 09:18 wei2coolman wrote:
On September 26 2013 07:45 WhiteDog wrote:
On September 26 2013 06:48 overt wrote:
On September 26 2013 06:34 Nos- wrote:
It sounds arrogant is why


I would argue that World Elite sounds just as arrogant. Then again WE and Royal Club could be perceived completely different in Chinese from how they are in English.

lol when you think about it, most known chinese teams all have quite arrogant names.
You either have to be invictus, or part of the royal club, or just strait up world elite.

Complete contrast with their players behavior.

It's a cultural thing, in regards to "royal" as opposed to "world elite".

I dunno how to describe it, but calling yourself "royal" is sorta taboo-ish? I'm sure yango has a much better explanation.

To put it simply, China is a country of aspiration.

Anyone and almost everyone strives to be world elite, to have positive energy or w/e. However, to call yourself a royal is a big "no" in a society that has a love/hate relationship with getting rich and high status with no effort. Being a royal isn't something that people can aspire to or achieve. It's an unattainable status in a country all about status. There are many people in China who feel that they are like royalty and they may even delude themselves that they are, but even these people would feel second-rate next to royalty (the Chinese perception of such).

i.e.
1. Chinese people hate feeling second-rate
2. Calling oneself royalty is ludicrously arrogant in an aspirational society without religion or monarchy
3. Chinese people love tearing down tall poppies


Dumb question from someone w/v.limited Mandarin &c - does Royal's name (or the use of royal in general in China) imply a post-Qin imperial sovereignity, or a strictly pre-Qin (Shang/Zhou/etc) kingship?
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oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
September 26 2013 02:45 GMT
#99
lol. in this particular instance it is neo-feudal declaration of class, a rather primitive human category. doesn't have much to do with actual history.
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
Caphe
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Vietnam10817 Posts
September 26 2013 02:52 GMT
#100
World Elite is called WE in English in China, so most Chinese doesn't even know what WE means, its just a name for them. While Royal Club is called "Huangzu" in China which means Royal family, thats where the hate comes from.

But tbh, even if Royal change their name, I doubt they can out-popular WE in China cos WE inherit alot of fans from WC3. WE.Sky was the first Chinese Warcraft WCG gold medalist. So WE will remain the most popular team in China unless Royal win this S3 and continue to perform well in Chinese LPL.
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