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and a lot of these roster moves are weird imports that seem to have no real basis in anything or shuffling deck chairs. it's rare for an up and coming player to actually show up anywhere outside of LCK or LPL. LCK teams tend to have good scouting and development and LPL teams have weird FA rules that force them to sign solo queue people in season.
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Lovechop posted:on the real tho, i'm starting a competitive mario party league and you're all invited unironically down
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rabidsquid posted:i actually think that lcs viewership has been dropping a lot in the past two seasons at least partially bc of the promotion/relegation situation and a lot of teams being sold. for the first couple of seasons of LCS you could more or less follow the teams, even if old team coast or evil geniuses were total garbage there was like a familiarity with the orgs and rosters that no longer exists. Yeah that's probably more of an issue.
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theres a bunch of stuff i think riot should have done with LCS but as i started to write it out i realized i was just describing how OGN did things
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We're a billion years into this & US attention is heading back to FPSes now that they're on PC again and not baby trash like halo or tf2. I think a decline was inevitable but realistically lcs isn't going anywhere before I get sick of watching league anyways so I don't worry about it too much one way or the other.
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Jul 10, 2016 19:19
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I think the meta is just boring to watch. Most teams play nearly the same way and everyone plays mostly the same champions, so you don't get nearly as many signature champions/comps/styles that you used to up until the end of Season 4. Like back then, you could tell the styles of every top team apart, even Samsung White/Blue, Naijin Shield, CJ Frost/Blaze etc. Now they all pretty much play the same style.
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Jul 10, 2016 19:43
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For all that people complain about teammates and dynamic queue and all that poo poo one might think that there would be at least some movement back toward 1v1 competitive, but nope I guess that ship's sailed forever  People will choose to play team games and blame others for being bad until the end of time...
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I actually had a guy in game the other day that looked up that I was in a premade and spent the entire game deliberately never being anywhere useful / trying not to win, simply because he was mad at "premades." Then in the post game lobby he claimed he was constantly BM'd the whole game by our premade that didn't say anything to him or do anything to him. He wouldn't tell me what his reddit username was when I asked.
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Jul 10, 2016 19:56
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Congrats on being owned.
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Jul 10, 2016 19:59
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I'd actually be more interested in the worldwide stats for things. NALCS and EULCS having declining viewership is probably cause for concern, but if its being made up everywhere else, Riot probably dgaf. NA is already basically their smallest market.
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I won't be surprised if Hearthstone and Overwatch become the most popular esports in Korea soon, but it depends on how badly Blizzard decides to gently caress around with competitive. The decline in popularity for LoL is pretty much entirely Riot's fault.
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Jul 10, 2016 20:07
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I am looking forward to Liquid v. EchoFox.
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Overwatch is kind of interesting because FPSes never got much penetration in asia before but I personally do not care about it at all.
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Jul 10, 2016 20:15
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rabidsquid posted:i actually think that lcs viewership has been dropping a lot in the past two seasons at least partially bc of the promotion/relegation situation and a lot of teams being sold. for the first couple of seasons of LCS you could more or less follow the teams, even if old team coast or evil geniuses were total garbage there was like a familiarity with the orgs and rosters that no longer exists. Yup, agree with this. The other issue with NA at least is that the regular season is almost pretty much decided, and there's still three weeks and change left to go. The only thing that's really at play is which team of the five mid-tier teams won't make it to playoffs, and say with near 100% certainty it will have to be between Apex and EnvyUS. There doesn't feel like there's much parity between the tiers of teams.
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wow im glad azir guy made a new broken dipshit champ im going to have to look at for the next year.
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Work Friend Keven posted:wow im glad azir guy made a new broken dipshit champ im going to have to look at for the next year. in my day everyone played warwick, we had one button that actually did anything, and we liked it
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Jul 10, 2016 20:35
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Warwick Jungle, Annie Mid is oppressive and OP
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Fiddle and Annie should become viable supports again
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Jul 10, 2016 20:40
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I told Saint that he'd have to ban Zilean and Taliyah but did he listen...
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Jul 10, 2016 20:47
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I haven't been watching; why is there a Jarvan ban?
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Arcturas posted:I haven't been watching; why is there a Jarvan ban? Ray is good-esh at it.
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RealFoxy posted:I won't be surprised if Hearthstone and Overwatch become the most popular esports in Korea soon, but it depends on how badly Blizzard decides to gently caress around with competitive. The decline in popularity for LoL is pretty much entirely Riot's fault. Hearthstone tournaments have never been that popular, even in Korea. And the decline in popularity of LoL is pretty much entirely Overwatch coming out...
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Firebert posted:Hearthstone tournaments have never been that popular, even in Korea. And the decline in popularity of LoL is pretty much entirely Overwatch coming out... And the "decline" is from "overwhelmingly the largest game in the world" to "the largest game in the world" so
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YancyQ posted:I told Saint that he'd have to ban Zilean and Taliyah but did he listen... Well that won't do any good because Cop is actually coaching Apex now 
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Jul 10, 2016 21:18
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Like, Worlds games still routinely hit 8-figure viewer numbers worldwide, I don't think Riot is concerned.
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Jul 10, 2016 21:26
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Jul 10, 2016 21:36
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Killed By Death posted:That baron bait from Apex was shockingly awful. Being shocked at terrible play by Apex is a sign of traumatic brain injury
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Neither C9 or NRG have any idea what they want to do.
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Jul 10, 2016 21:44
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The real OhQ has finally shown up for a game in NA
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rabidsquid posted:The real OhQ has finally shown up for a game in NA Too bad about GBM
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Manic_Misanthrope posted:Too bad about GBM
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Manic_Misanthrope posted:Too bad about GBM The real OhQ lost a ton of games and I am on record as having said that GBM has not been good for awhile. i hope he plays more like that again
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where are the ppl who argued w me last year tht gbm (and easyhoon, rip lol) were top 3-5 mids world. show yourselves
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i think that putting froggen on an immobile mage with ignite is going to be Dumb as gently caress Yet Again
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