EPTi don't really know if riot is pouring money to get LoL into IEM but with the Season 1 Final they certainly did a great job of promoting ESPORTS to their own playerbase ( which is pretty big) and i'm pretty sure that they will pull the casual LoL players into IEM as well
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Der_Magen
182 Posts
i don't really know if riot is pouring money to get LoL into IEM but with the Season 1 Final they certainly did a great job of promoting ESPORTS to their own playerbase ( which is pretty big) and i'm pretty sure that they will pull the casual LoL players into IEM as well | ||
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Drazerk
United Kingdom31255 Posts
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clusen
Germany8702 Posts
On June 27 2011 23:27 Atlasy wrote: :D Not continents, countries! So i guess Germany, French, Spain, Poland aaanndd i dont know, hopefuly Hungary  Edit: Ukraine I bet there will be atleast one stop in Asia and atleast one stop in America like the last time. Germany is a pretty safe bet tho, IEM Hannover was amazing with such a huge crowd. | ||
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Mithriel
Netherlands2969 Posts
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Atlasy
Hungary229 Posts
On June 27 2011 23:31 Der_Magen wrote: well quake is a really fascinating game and i love to see some ql matches from time to time but i guess u have to go where the viewers go.... LoL season 1 finals had about 200k viewers at the same time Yes. But why? Because they inject the stream in the game client. If blizz do this the same way, maybe starcraft 2 reach 500 000 if the WOW client gets the stream also | ||
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zaii
Guam2611 Posts
I'm looking at you Sundance! Slasher you work for the man, Convince him! | ||
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NotSupporting
Sweden1998 Posts
On June 27 2011 23:27 zeru wrote: Sadly, they take in the games that are most popular. QL isnt popular. It's understandable. LoL is huge. LoL might be "huge" but it's no esport, SC, CS and Quake all have been around for a long time, they are all great games that are established as esports. LoL is a poorly made mod of the original Dota with bad, unbalanced gameplay that is no where near observer friendly but worst of all - it won't be around in the longrun. For e-sports it's better to have a few games that stay and develop rather then having games come in and out all the time. If they really wanted Dota they should have waited for Dota2 (by Valve) coming out this year - it can truly be the one Dota game to unite them all and create an esport out of it. | ||
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robih
Austria1086 Posts
thats probably why it replaced QL | ||
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th3_great
United Kingdom429 Posts
On June 27 2011 23:34 Atlasy wrote: Yes. But why? Because they inject the stream in the game client. If blizz do this the same way, maybe starcraft 2 reach 500 000 if the WOW client gets the stream also actually, the stream itself wasnt playing on the game client, it was just a link that opened to the riot website which had the stream on it. only those who were actually watching that stream, on various embeds, would count as viewers. the same stream was embedded on lots of websites though, so they could've picked up viewers that way. Either way though, LoL still got lots of viewers, far more viewers than SC2, and thats something we should respect. edit: you also have to remember that the prize pool at dreamhack for LoL was $100,000, and thats dollars, not euros. thats still divided among the highest ranking teams and the players, but its still a lot of money that should'nt be taken lightly | ||
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Cheebah
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Johnnybb
Denmark486 Posts
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Domination
United States1177 Posts
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labbe
Sweden1456 Posts
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Klive5ive
United Kingdom6056 Posts
Not that I think LoL is a particularly fitting replacement but they've done a great job of selling it as an ESport; as the guy above me mentioned. I'm glad it's an RTS though. Looking to the future that could be great. | ||
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balosan
Poland232 Posts
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Special Endrey
Germany1929 Posts
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ilikeLIONZ
Germany427 Posts
this is a sad day for esports, but hey, buy the new hero in our shop! | ||
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Frankon
3054 Posts
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Xanatoss
Germany539 Posts
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HornyHerring
Papua New Guinea1058 Posts
On June 27 2011 23:20 iG.Zeep wrote: yea wtf LoL replacing quake live? omfg u got to be fucking kidding me, rofl... thats so sadly fukin pathetic T_T I'd tell you to calm down, but you're already banned. xD Well the decision about removing QL was discussed on Live on three last week as far as I remember. I just had no return on the investment. And LoL had 200k online viewers on Dreamhack Summer. QL is wtfold and the scene is nowhere near expanding or even being stable, while LoL is a new game growing rappidly. Not that hard to understand the decision in it. Anyway, IEM always had great value in it. Hope to see some good games! | ||
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