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TSMs going to win worlds this year and then I'm going to stop watching comp league. If I'm wrong, ban "the mattybee". This is my promise.
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Radical posted:dyrus is actually a really popular streamer dude. even scarra gets 5,000 viewers on the reg and hes one of the lesser popular streamers. Scarra's actually a really interesting case, IMO. He was hugely popular when he was a player (relative position of where Bjerg/Doublelift/Sneaky are now when they stream), burned out on it and basically stopped for quite a while, then has had to grind his way up into the public consciousness again from being like a 1-1.5k viewer stream (a nice starting point, but way below the threshold for a popular league stream). It's mostly been raw hustle on his part - things like going out of his way to seek out analyst desk positions, the show with QT, and the interview job he does for TheScore eSports are stuff that TheOddOne didn't bother with.
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Aug 24, 2016 18:23
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when you think about it all this drama was actually started by scarra. this is his revenge for dynamic queue.
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Aug 24, 2016 18:26
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people forgot about the fnatic financial ties scandal real quick
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Aug 24, 2016 18:27
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Kashuno posted:people forgot about the fnatic financial ties scandal real quick This is still the biggest story of the week for lol, by far. FNC is an enormous league brand and G2 is the best EU team; but you have to imagine there will be more than a slap on the wrist if the two owners are really in collusion or w/e.
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Aug 24, 2016 18:40
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wouldn't be surprised to see fnatic sell the team to dignitas if riot pushes them, fnatic makes much more money from csgo and dota
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Aug 24, 2016 18:44
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exethan posted:fnatic makes much more money from csgo and dota apparently so does everyone else
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Aug 24, 2016 18:45
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Radical posted:when you think about it all this drama was actually started by scarra. this is his revenge for dynamic queue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i5676n11NA "Eventually everything will be controlled by Riot...A pro's life could be dramatically changed depending on whether Riot likes them or not and it makes me uncomfortable knowing my future lays on being on Riot's good side. Aside from that, Riot has artificially inflated the competitive scene and not allowing natural growth and it's questionable going forward because you can't continue to grow without having backlash with such complete control. Unlike the original DOTA that had natural growth and in tern became a long, successful game with a very stable e-sports scene eventually, Riot is injecting growth into League of Legends 3 years into this game." Scarra, the prophet, talking about this exact scenario 4 years ago. As well as mentioning how hard it's going to be in the future to play new champion and compete at the top levels if you've got to sink so much time into the game just to unlock new champions...Back when there were 104 champions.
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Aug 24, 2016 18:46
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I didn't read the thread for four days, but apparently major ish is happening. Is there a summary somewhere so I don't have to read 500 posts
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Aug 24, 2016 18:48
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still waiting for some EU team owners to weigh in on this because i bet things are 100% more hosed over there since riot seems to care a whole lot more about NAShadow225 posted:I didn't read the thread for four days, but apparently major ish is happening. Is there a summary somewhere so I don't have to read 500 posts https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/4zbtma/rough_tldr_of_the_current_problems_for_everyone/
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Sexpansion posted:This is still the biggest story of the week for lol, by far. FNC is an enormous league brand and G2 is the best EU team; but you have to imagine there will be more than a slap on the wrist if the two owners are really in collusion or w/e.
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Aug 24, 2016 18:49
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With all this happening, investors are probably already a bit put off. Not punishing fnatic will probably be worse
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Aug 24, 2016 18:52
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Yo thanks. Just have sponsors sponsor skins. You know a Mountain Dew Singed would be money.
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Aug 24, 2016 18:55
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The International Wildcard Qualifier for the World Championship starts in two hours. There should be an english stream at http://twitch.tv/RiotGamesOceania
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I don't think anyone posted this yet, but Thorin's video on the drama is out, its good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oILTlJLDaZI
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Aug 24, 2016 19:01
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RealFoxy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i5676n11NA If there's one thing I think all org owners would agree on it's that instead of this whole LCS fiasco they would rather have the very stable e-sports scene of the original DOTA. (Also, not a single person at the top levels needs to grind to unlock anything.)
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Radical posted:still waiting for some EU team owners to weigh in on this because i bet things are 100% more hosed over there since riot seems to care a whole lot more about NA Eh, EU has a much more robust social safety net so players on the margins aren't getting screwed nearly as hard as NA
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Aug 24, 2016 19:16
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Also, looks like Riot pressed the Big Red Button in the office marked "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, BRING BACK SOLO QUEUE" http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/competitive/riot-pls-ranked-pls
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Aug 24, 2016 19:32
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they've actually been talking about this for a little while now but i think the timing of putting this out now was somewhat intentional
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Aug 24, 2016 19:39
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Radical posted:they've actually been talking about this for a little while now but i think the timing of putting this out now was somewhat intentional This comment from Pywff on reddit makes me believe its entirely intentional: quote:This is landing in some sub-optimal timing and conversation, but was planned a few weeks out (main reason for the delay was we wanted to be sure this time. Like last time. And the time before.). "We can answer questions, unless they are questions about this, in which case we don't know." I doubt they would have announced this without having most of the details figured out, unless some Riot higher up just immediately yelled "ANNOUNCE IT NOW!!". Also: quote:sub-optimal Pwyff is such a memer  .
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Aug 24, 2016 19:50
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RealFoxy posted:Championship Zed isn't that big of a deal but Riot Re-Releasing Championship Riven for everyone is. Probably like 5% of the people still playing from Season 2 have it and all of them are complaining loudly. This is from 2 pages back, but they totally hosed over people who owned S1 and S2 holiday event skins. They constantly said on the forums they would never bring them back, then a few years ago they completely changed tack and now they bring them back every time that holiday shows up. The compensation they gave people who bought them in the original run amounted to an RP refund, which is decent I guess but still doesn't make up for it, and a really lovely overlay on the loading screen splash. It really ticks me off that when they were talking about why they weren't bringing Championship Riven back they said it would be unfair to players who bought it with the expectation it would be exclusive, because they already burned that loving bridge! If they hadn't gone and run their mouths about the holiday skins being exclusive so many times before bringing them back anyways, I wouldn't care, but as it is it was extremely dumb. Riot Squad Singed is still exclusive, at least. I think...
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They've said for years they'll likely bring back championship riven when there's five championship skins for bundling purposes
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Silento posted:This is from 2 pages back, but they totally hosed over people who owned S1 and S2 holiday event skins. They constantly said on the forums they would never bring them back, then a few years ago they completely changed tack and now they bring them back every time that holiday shows up. The compensation they gave people who bought them in the original run amounted to an RP refund, which is decent I guess but still doesn't make up for it, and a really lovely overlay on the loading screen splash. It really ticks me off that when they were talking about why they weren't bringing Championship Riven back they said it would be unfair to players who bought it with the expectation it would be exclusive, because they already burned that loving bridge! If they hadn't gone and run their mouths about the holiday skins being exclusive so many times before bringing them back anyways, I wouldn't care, but as it is it was extremely dumb. Riot Squad Singed is still exclusive, at least. I think...
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Aug 24, 2016 20:07
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RealFoxy posted:I'm not mad that I have to give up the "hey nice skin" comments I get playing ARAM once every couple months for a chance to get skins I missed out on. I've played since Season 1, there are pros going to World's this year that didn't start until Season 3. Oh yeah I totally bought Mundo Mundo and Lollipoppy when they came back, it just feels really dishonest.
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lol https://twitter.com/bedraggles/status/768523472666435584
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wonder how soon he gets fired
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Scarra and QT's next show should have this as the screen the entire time they're talking about Riot's PR:
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I love the literal dozen of Rioters flocking to the SoloQ reddit thread all clamoring, "This announcement is a coincidence! Honest!! Thinking otherwise is just being paranoid  "
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I have Championship Riven and I'd only care if I was planning on selling my account and I'm probably never going to do that so gently caress it let whoever wants it have it.
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Aug 24, 2016 20:29
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http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sp1mhh
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im not going to read that because monte is going to make a 30 minute video where he reads it to me and makes funny faces im assuming. maybe tryndamere ran that one by PR first this time (considering the length i really hope he did)
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quote:Our 2017 plans include new in-game team-specific items with revenue-sharing for teams and pros, as well as smaller steps like working with teams to sell more jerseys - currently in the NA LCS studio store and at the summer finals in Toronto - and with the cooperation of teams, we hope to bring them to our online store as well.
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Wildcard matches on soon http://watch.na.lolesports.com/en_US/international-wildcard/en e: wow Riot is playing some amazingly horrendous music here
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Aug 24, 2016 20:51
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"We did a poor job of communicating - we'll do better next year. Honest."
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Aug 24, 2016 20:52
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It's basically saying Andy is right and we'll be better in the future plz don't hate us
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It is concerning that he points out "we already do profit sharing!" when the NME owner made very clear how pathetically small that amount is. It makes it seem like, if they do add more profit sharing opportunities, they will be woefully inadequate.
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panda clue posted:It is concerning that he points out "we already do profit sharing!" when the NME owner made very clear how pathetically small that amount is. It makes it seem like, if they do add more profit sharing opportunities, they will be woefully inadequate. Don't worry Riot will let the teams sell t-shirts at the LCS studio. That'll fix the problem.
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I love Atlus and Spawn
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So... I have an open question regarding the IWC broadcast: should I care about any of these games? Any chance any of them will be fun? Or, for want of that, at least good?
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