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Welcome to the competitive League of Legends thread for the Spring 2015 Season, and beyond! If you haven't been keeping up lately, this is a good place to start. The North America and European regions have expanded to a total of 10 teams, along with a new points system to ensure a more streamlined path into World's. Riot has also brought the other two major regions, Korea and China closer under it's umbrella and is now broadcasting the Chinese LPL and Korean OGN on their Twitch.TV channel for free. No longer will the mysterious Chinese land of pandas be shrouded in mist. Here's the starting dates for every region: Korean Champions: In Progress (Games played every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday night.) China LPL: January 16th EU LCS: January 22nd NA LCS: January 24th Before we get into all the major team and region changes, here are some important links to bookmark for the new season: Abios Gaming: Spiritual successor to eSportsCalendar. Tells you when competitive matches are going to be played, as a bonus lets you know about other competitive games and high viewer streams of professional players. eSportsPedia: Actual successor to Leaguepedia when all the original staff left that site and formed this one. Encyclopedia of Professional League Knowledge. LoL eSports: Riot's official site for Competitive Play. Reddit: LoL Event Vods: The very best place to get spoiler free VoD of competitive games, updated minutes after they finish, especially good for any games played out of your time zone. Tumblr: OGN Builds: A guy who is dedicated to syndicating in English the rune and mastery pages from Korean competitive matches which are posted online in Korean [1] [2] Are you looking for the main League of Legends discussion thread? Click here! RealFoxy fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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RealFoxy fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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Jan 12, 2015 18:57
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Fantasy LCS starts sometime this week, which means we need to start gathering up people for Leagues. If nothing's changed, if you're not there for a draft the CPU will automatically pick a player for you. It's usually really good, and goes for statistically the best player available at the time, but sometimes does silly stuff like drafts you first round Gleeb because his projected stats are great. I'm gathering players for a high-stakes League where the winner will get a Mystery Gift from every single participant. 7 Mystery Gifts. Quite a hefty load there, it also makes your players' performance mean a whole lot now that you have something riding on it. We had a fantasy topic last year, but after the season started it was largely abandoned until the end of the split. People suggested it because of the spam that people crying about how much Krepo let you down would flood the GDT but it wasn't that bad, so until we have people complaining we'll just play in here. RealFoxy fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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Jan 12, 2015 18:58
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Nice work. My only recommendation would be changing the forums tag to Event or Video instead of Let's Play. I'm not sure which is the standard for watching threads, but I'm pretty sure it's one of those two.
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Jan 12, 2015 19:18
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Libertine posted:Nice work. My only recommendation would be changing the forums tag to Event or Video instead of Let's Play. I'm not sure which is the standard for watching threads, but I'm pretty sure it's one of those two. Other than Zionspartan being spelled incorrectly I'll probably go back and update some of the quick team bios, and link to the official bios that Riot uses. Thought about putting team icons in there too but I'd hit the image limit way too fast and I don't have the OCD to paste it all into photoshop and make one, nice image. I'm not good at Desktop publishing.
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Jan 12, 2015 19:20
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You can just PM a mod of the forum it's in and they can change it. You didn't close the first [b tag for Giants! in the 2nd post and this is obviously the best time to address that also!
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Jan 12, 2015 19:29
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i thought forgiven was just a massive rage babby instead of a racist but i'm not 100% on this
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Jan 12, 2015 20:01
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Lovechop posted:i thought forgiven was just a massive rage babby instead of a racist but i'm not 100% on this
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Jan 12, 2015 20:04
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Nukeduck was the racist. Forgiven is just an angry rear end in a top hat.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:10
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As someone that hasn't followed anything League since the end of the season all the team roster changes in OP are fantastic! I had no clue that many roster changes happened. I'm pretty excited for the season to start up again.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:42
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Flameingblack posted:Was that he or nukeduck that was banned for sending a really racist message to his friends and someone sent it to Riot and got them punished? Either way, I remember Forg1ven raging like hell so regardless of his status as an open racist, he was most recently an idiot who got punished for being mean. There was that one post-game where you could see him on the player cam screaming at everyone on his team that went on for like 2 minutes before they cut away. it was Nuke and Mithy that got banned. I don't think forgiven got punished for anything but yeah he was the one who raged out like a motherfucker on his own team. the guy seems like a giant donglord but he's a really sick player so I'm looking forward to seeing what SK are like with him. alliance (elements lol), roccat and SK are gonna be monsters imo
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Digital Jedi posted:As someone that hasn't followed anything League since the end of the season all the team roster changes in OP are fantastic! I had no clue that many roster changes happened. Most of the players left Korea because they were getting offers much, much, much higher than what they'd be making in Korea + retaining the ability to stream solo queue and practice a whole lot less. Korea has the best infrastructure but apparently has the worst payout of any region. They're taking steps to fix this though, OGN is giving out large amounts of money to MVP players each week, all season long, and the teams are getting paid a much better salary + payout from winning splits than before. Doa and Monte keep calling this "Korea 2.0" which is entirely true. There's a few teams that are mostly unchanged, but almost every single big star left the region, except for Faker. As far as the story in NA goes, teams are filling up with old players who "retired" for a while, like the former Curse Academy, and filling in the gaps with players who might have been temporary or substitutes on teams like CLG that never would have had a shot on those teams. Europe is filling up with new talent all the time, teams like Compenhagen Wolves seem to pick up great players all the time, only to have them taken by another team or region. I'll never be able to say Alliance's new team name without thinking of Elementz
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Jan 12, 2015 20:51
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Lovechop posted:it was Nuke and Mithy that got banned. I don't think forgiven got punished for anything but yeah he was the one who raged out like a motherfucker on his own team. the guy seems like a giant donglord but he's a really sick player so I'm looking forward to seeing what SK are like with him. Like he used to rage out on CW because basically they didn't have the drive to be the best in EU or something. Agree on the EU teams looking good this split, Elements is a loving poo poo name too.
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Jan 12, 2015 21:41
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Another season to watch the one I love throw her soft drink at the monitor in rage because her husbandos are losing.
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Jan 12, 2015 21:49
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Flipswitch posted:He used to get talked about on Summoning Insight a bit and was on there once himself. The dudes a huge rager cause all he wants is to get better and win and if his team doesn't work on that same level he doesn't see the point, or something?
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Jan 12, 2015 21:54
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ill put my hat in the ring for high stakes fantasy league, just let me know when invites or whatever are going out
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Jan 12, 2015 22:02
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I'm also up for high stakes fantasy league if there's room, or will run another league (high stakes or not) myself if the first one is full :p
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Jan 12, 2015 22:07
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Lovechop posted:yeah, I changed my mind a bit about him after I saw the interview with him and Thorin, 'cause iirc that game was against Gambit and CW to decide who would get demoted and at the end of this huge deciding match Amazing just jumped into their entire team for no reason and died. their whole team was incredibly bad and I think he just snapped because he seems like one of those dudes who would kill himself practicing while the rest of the team weren't too bothered. doesn't completely excuse his being a bellend but I can understand a bit better. wonder what he'll be like on a decent team anyway. Their new line up goes look awesome though and despite two of the players being shitheads (forg1ven and svenskeren) they'll be entertaining to watch.
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Jan 12, 2015 22:09
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if anyone makes a high stakes EU fantasy thing i dare you to challenge me. i picked the entire dignitas roster last season and i'm not afraid to do it again.
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Jan 12, 2015 22:14
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Lovechop posted:if anyone makes a high stakes EU fantasy thing i dare you to challenge me. i picked the entire dignitas roster last season and i'm not afraid to do it again. Were you winning fantasy league lose up until you lost ?
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Jan 12, 2015 22:29
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Being able to sub during BO3 has made OGN quite a bit more interesting to me, although we haven't seen any teams with rosters who can really take advantage of it so far or need to. Other than the weird SKT pocket pick where they get way too confident and then bench the mid for no reason. That has been very next level.
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Jan 12, 2015 22:37
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Lovechop posted:yeah, I changed my mind a bit about him after I saw the interview with him and Thorin, 'cause iirc that game was against Gambit and CW to decide who would get demoted and at the end of this huge deciding match Amazing just jumped into their entire team for no reason and died. their whole team was incredibly bad and I think he just snapped because he seems like one of those dudes who would kill himself practicing while the rest of the team weren't too bothered. doesn't completely excuse his being a bellend but I can understand a bit better. wonder what he'll be like on a decent team anyway. "I'm just too passionate about winning" and "my team is just too bad for me" is like the most solo queue excuse for being toxic.
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Jan 12, 2015 23:03
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rabidsquid posted:Being able to sub during BO3 has made OGN quite a bit more interesting to me, although we haven't seen any teams with rosters who can really take advantage of it so far or need to. Other than the weird SKT pocket pick where they get way too confident and then bench the mid for no reason. That has been very next level. SKT seems to have been alternating Faker-Easyhoon-Faker-Easyhoon. It's not so much random as evenly spaced. I hope EasyHoon finds a good home, the guy is as good as anyone not named Faker.
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I expressed interest in the last thread, but totally in for the "high stakes" fantasy league. Need to get my fix now that football is over.
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Easyhoon seems to be much better than Faker on siege type champions, which seems to be more what SKT needs in the lineups they are running. From their first 5 games it's very clear that they prioritize Xerath very highly (more highly than any other team it seems like, they've taken it in 60% of their matches) and Easyhoon appears to be much more comfortable on that champion than Faker. I think it's an extension on his old Ziggs mastery, he's just a really excellent player of long-range mages. Faker is much better on assassins and big play type champions because his rapid decision-making is just superior to almost any other player in the world. He had a great game on Leblanc so far this season and really unimpressive games on Xerath and Ahri. Additionally, when Faker is in the lineup, enemy teams seem to be camping mid to shut him down but Faker isn't getting the same level of jungle support he used to when he and Bengi were basically attached at the hip. When Easyhoon is in the lineup he gets a lot more reign from the enemy team and they usually pay for it. I think they are both excellent players who have completely different styles which compliments different things SKT is trying to run. It also makes sense that Easyhoon is more comfortable early in the season, because this team that is now SKT is basically SKT T1S with Bengi in the jungle and sometimes Faker. The rest of team K is all gone.
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I'm a huge fan of the new substitution rule in OGN. Hope it gets introduced to EU/NA/China ASAP. I think it adds a lot to the strategic flexibility of teams and makes for more interesting series.
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rabidsquid posted:Being able to sub during BO3 has made OGN quite a bit more interesting to me, although we haven't seen any teams with rosters who can really take advantage of it so far or need to. Other than the weird SKT pocket pick where they get way too confident and then bench the mid for no reason. That has been very next level.
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Jan 13, 2015 01:33
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what are "high stakes" and can they be higher
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Jan 13, 2015 01:53
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curiousCat posted:what are "high stakes" and can they be higher
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Flameingblack posted:That's where everyone agrees that they'll pay a mystery gift to the winner. If you win Fantasy E-Sports you get 7 mystery gifts. Also, don't bet on E-Sports. My significant other has told me I have a gambling problem but I keep bringing money back from poker so I don't know if it's a real problem
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Jan 13, 2015 01:59
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curiousCat posted:My significant other has told me I have a gambling problem but I keep bringing money back from poker so I don't know if it's a real problem it's only a problem if you're losing imo infact let's bet cash money on fantasy lcs, always all in on CLG
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Jan 13, 2015 02:01
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Lovechop posted:it's only a problem if you're losing imo Ah the old Cash Losing Game.
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Jan 13, 2015 02:07
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I am also totally down with Fantasy LCS: High Stakes mode. I KNIW NOTHING I WILL LOSE
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Jan 13, 2015 02:12
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Libertine posted:Ah the old Cash Losing Game. no way dude, now they've fixed [old problem] with [newer, bigger problem] nothing can go wrong!!
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Jan 13, 2015 02:19
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I always try to throw this out in these threads, though I don't have the time to keep up with them, but I write about esports for the Daily Dot and Lolesports. If anybody has questions or wants to work in the industry but doesn't know how, feel free to drop me a line. I've stepped a little bit away from LoL this year but am still keeping close tabs on it, and since Riot has me on contract it's pretty easy to get answers to any random questions y'all might have, if any. Also I can invite people to the Competitive League Chat Skype Group (currently named saved on my client as "XDG Banner Bearers") where people can talk about games happening, share news, and make Teemo jokes. Just poke me there (Frgrbrgr or just search for Ferguson Mitchell) and say you want in the league goon chat and I'll add ya.
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Jan 13, 2015 03:23
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Alex Ich is now a sub for Team8 Is this real life?
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PlaceholderPigeon posted:Alex Ich is now a sub for Team8 As if I need more reasons to root for Team 8! 
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Here's some bonus information about the NA Challenger scene for anyone who cares: The challenger ladders just locked and the top 16 teams will play Bo3s to get in. There will be 4 brackets and the winner from each will get in. They will be joined by the 2 remaining teams from the expansion tourney, in this case Fusion and Final five. Fusion dropped Gleeb and Maknoon and have gone with TranceTherapy, a challenger NA support, and Chunkyfresh, the team's sub, for support and top respectively. My thoughts: While Maknoon was a massive carry when he was on the ball he had an abysmal Expansion finals vs Coast, same with Gleeb. Huhi and Nien could be developed into a solid pair of carries too, if the team can be coached out of choking. They recently did well against their challenger peers in the NESL tourney too and have a good chance of hitting 1st in NACS and auto-qualifying. Final Five dropped the toxic Prototype Black as well as jungler ShorterACE (who had a meh series), and replaced them with Oceanic ADC Veritas from Avant Garde. Their Jungler has yet to be revealed. My thoughts: Veritas, who looked good in the OCE tournaments, is a good upgrade from Prototype, both for play and PR reasons. The lack of a jungler in NA's shallow jungler pool will set them back though.They havent played much so it's hard to tell if they'll really do well. Despite the dilution of the scene there's still interesting teams forming for the upcoming series, here's a few to watch. -Roar; which is being coached by China expert Frostkurrin with Richard Mirkie. It features PhaseKiller(Korean challenger top and Heimerdinger expert), Inori (NA carry-style jungler from NME), Spicy (Aka Xaisu, Chinese midlaner from Energy Pacemaker Carries, an LSPL team), Chaox, and Yuno(female challenger support, was on Curse Academy). My thoughts: I'm most interested in this team, they scouted well to get KR/CN players who could communicate well. Chaox is a big question mark, but if Frost and Mirkie can coach them well they have a chance to be solid. -MSI Dragon Knights, a team featuring ex-CLG top Seraph, NA Jungler Kez(of Complexity),Korean challenger player Kyle(last seen on VTG in the OGN qualifiers), LouisXGeegee on AD and KonKwon on support. Thoughts: They did well in the recent NESL tourney and Kez, Seraph and Kyle both have LAN experience and their solo laners stand up decently at this tier. Not expecting tons but they could challenge for top 3. -Cloud 9 G2A, C9's new challenger team featuring Soloking at top, Hard on jungle, Yusui in mid, LOD on AD and Stixxay moving to Support. My thoughts: LOD and Yusui were quite good on LOLPro, and Soloking has been a decent challenger top for some months. I don't know Hard and Stixxay, who was an ADC before, has to prove he's a good support. They will benefit from C9's coaching though as Charlie is heading the team. There's also Alex Ich's rumored challenger team, Beast, but there's no indication about him playing yet. We Love Shakira, the challenger team that has the players he's rumored to be playing with, is ranked high enough to get into NACS qualifiers so he could join up with them. Alex becoming a T8 sub cements his presence in NA too.
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Flameingblack posted:[*]TSM, the John Cena of E-Sports, has replaced Amazing with a very jittery Santorin, who led TSM to a defeat by a very recent Challenger-turned-LCS team, Unicorns of Love. Let's go Cena
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cena sucks can i get a link to the jungle TF game?
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