[NA IHs] Running at Dusk - Page 163

On January 16 2015 11:29 ketchup wrote:
I joined TS, but looked like yall had a game going already. Enjoy!

On January 16 2015 15:32 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
A couple things about the inhouses that I've noticed over the last few weeks of participating in them;

1) First of all, they're really fun! Everyone (except for that one Ketara ragequit lol) is pretty amiable and willing to accept losses for what they are. This is definitely an improvement from the original IHs, where nobody would talk and most people didn't even have a mic.

2) Games are one-sided way too often. We usually just rush through to champion select without honestly considering balance (I myself being one of the chief culprits of this), seeing that everyone is more or less platinum. I think it's pretty clear that even though a lot of people are similar rank, some people just play in inhouses far better than others and we need to put more thought into balancing games

3) Too much target-banning, especially against Ketara, Scip, and occasionally me (I just wanna play Vel'Koz man ;
. We need to have less of a focus on winning and more of a focus on learning. This is more of a minor gripe though.

4) We now skip the older tradition of talking over each game like we used to, and I think the inhouses hold far less value than they used to since we never really discuss who did what and how they could do it better. I think, with more measured, controlled discussion at the end of these games we could get a lot more out of them.

5) No trolling. Couple people have been a little guilty of this (again this is almost totally me, sorry), but we haven't really let people know before they join that, despite the light atmosphere, we are here to play somewhat seriously and would appreciate it if you didn't go 0/20 (theres no excuse for that).

6) We almost always have a massive overflow of people who want to join, typically instead of scrounging for ten people we hit fifteen or sixteen people. Some way to create some semblance of a queue would be really great.

7) The games are all being recorded on my twitch stream if anyone ever cares to see em. I'm around for nearly every IH game, so feel free to come check em out!