Need a spoiler-free front page for lolesports

Elemeno·Oct 5, 2015·45 votes·7,703 views

I'm sure I'm not the first person to notice that the front page of lolesports has spoilers right when you get there. I don't know if it's a problem with the titles of articles "This team beats that team like THIS" or if the articles just shouldn't be shown on the front page, but every time that I try to look at a VOD (because I'm not able to watch the matches live) I have to cover my screen because I got a spoiler the first time I visited the site. I don't know if this is just whiny, but I feel like this should have been foreseen as a problem sooner and changed so that everyone would be able to enjoy matches even though they aren't live. Thoughts?

34 Comments

RiotHitstreakOct 5, 201512 votes

Hey everyone, totally agree that the spoiler-free experience wasn't optimal off the bat. We're currently working on having lolesports.com/vods redirect to the VODs page on the Worlds site as well as promoting that URL throughout the broadcast for people who are only able to catch a portion of the show. In the meantime, the best thing to do would be bookmark this URL and share it with your friends.

http://worlds.lolesports.com/en_US/vods/worlds/world_championship_2015

Thanks!

CuixOct 5, 20152 votes

Can we also do something about major spoilers on the Red Tracker? Any time a rioter responds to an E-sports thread, they show up immediately, basically meaning that forum-goers need to choose between keeping up to date on game-related conversations or keep event outcomes unspoiled while the Red Tracker fills up with unread content.

BudupopsOct 6, 20151 votes

WOOOO YAG

ElemenoOct 6, 20151 votes

Thanks so much for your response, I'm glad to know that riot is paying attention to this post! I hope that there is a change to the front page and not only a URL to follow. As petty as it may sound or seem, I've automatically programmed myself to type out lolesports in my url bar (which I admittedly probably should fix) and I think it would just be the obvious thing to not show spoilers up front in a huge picture and article title. Thanks anyway for listening!

KinjishiOct 6, 20151 votes

When I go to the tab, I want to be informed - not have a bunch of boxes to click on to see each single score. I've already stopped using the eSports tab in the client because of these recent changes. The client esports tab is more of a hassle to use.

Reynard the ƒoxOct 5, 20154 votes

bookmark the vods page

then you wont have to go through the home page

ElemenoOct 5, 20154 votes

I had to start doing that, but I mean really that's just horrible placement don't you think?

Reynard the ƒoxOct 5, 20152 votes

yeah i agree they need to change it but in the meantime bookmarking has worked for me

High5Oct 5, 20151 votes

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bookmark the vods page

then you wont have to go through the home page

The moved it to a different url for worlds. My old bookmark was no good. Thought they weren't doing vods on the first day.

ElemenoOct 5, 20153 votes

Also noticed the World's tab in the in-game client is spoiler filled as well. Like I said, I don't mean to just complain but I feel like this should have been thought of before.

High5Oct 5, 20151 votes

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Also noticed the World's tab in the in-game client is spoiler filled as well. Like I said, I don't mean to just complain but I feel like this should have been thought of before.

Yeah, that was kinda messed up. I'm glad I didn't log in this weekend to play until yesterday. After the patch, the worlds tab came up first. :(

Very poorly thought out for a company that took the time to change the ping indicator back to a number because colors weren't descriptive enough.

KinjishiOct 5, 20151 votes

"Like I said, I don't mean to just complain..." That's what you are doing though.

ElemenoOct 6, 20151 votes

I'm more just trying to point something out =[

OreninOct 5, 20153 votes

I agree with this, but I don't think its realistic, they need to have articles on the page. But I do want them to hire somebody competent to upload VODS. I was trying to watch the FNatic cloud 9 game 4 hours after it ended and got the message "This vod hasn't been uploaded yet". It is constantly like that. One event they NEVER got around to uploading the vods, I remember, until like 3 weeks later when I made a thread complaining. Somebody is not doing their job. Vods should be up ~15 minutes after the game ends, without exception.

ElemenoOct 5, 20152 votes

I'm not saying the articles shouldn't be on the page, I'm saying that they should be spoiler-free until you click on them. No game winning picture for icon, no title that says Team A gets the upset. That's pretty realistic to me.

AnihakuOct 5, 20151 votes

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I agree with this, but I don't think its realistic, they need to have articles on the page. But I do want them to hire somebody competent to upload VODS. I was trying to watch the FNatic cloud 9 game 4 hours after it ended and got the message "This vod hasn't been uploaded yet". It is constantly like that. One event they NEVER got around to uploading the vods, I remember, until like 3 weeks later when I made a thread complaining. Somebody is not doing their job. Vods should be up ~15 minutes after the game ends, without exception.

I had a similar issue when I tried to watch he VOD's........if you refresh the page, it should fix the issue.

If you load the page for first game........subsequent games will show as "unavailable" until you refresh the page.

No idea why this happens but it just does.

DrCyanideOct 5, 20152 votes

They need to stop with those titles all together. They show up on the boards pages too, and I think it's killing any desire to actually watch the games for me. After all, I know who won because Riot themselves threw it in my face, why should I spend 40 minutes watching the match. Give me the 3 minute highlight reel and call it a day.

ElemenoOct 5, 20151 votes

I don't frequent the boards, I didn't know that it was plastered here as well. They really do being to be shoving results everywhere they can in plain sight. Thanks for bringing that up too!

High5Oct 5, 20151 votes

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I don't frequent the boards, I didn't know that it was plastered here as well. They really do being to be shoving results everywhere they can in plain sight. Thanks for bringing that up too!

Lolesports.com was pretty good when they let you turn off results and didn't plaster them on the front page.

I like to watch the the EU LCS after work in the US Mountain Time region. Vods are perfect if not spoiled.

aítchOct 6, 20151 votes

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High5Oct 5, 20152 votes

Moving the vods to a new url was frustrating. I didn't even realize the vods existed on the world site as I was trying to avoid spoilers last Thursday. I started watching the full rebroadcast, which was a choppy mess.

I've figured it out since, but the first couple of days was really annoying when I expected things to be in the same place on lolesports.com and they weren't.

foristOct 5, 20152 votes

Can't upvote this enough. The best part about watching c9 games this worlds is that I'm never sure if they are gonna win or not. Makes every team fight get more and more suspenseful as the game goes on.

ElemenoOct 6, 20152 votes

I completely agree! It's still fun when I know the outcome, but watching a game knowing the results doesn't compare to the suspense of who may actually win.

AzmoranOct 5, 20152 votes

You are not being whiney. When I went on vacation and couldn't watch live the page annoyed the crap outta me.

PePsiLemoNNOct 5, 20151 votes

I don't watch 2 much LCS and sh1t but i guess spoilers aren't welcome everytime :-s

ChrogoOct 5, 20151 votes

I just go to the RiotGames twitch channel at 4pm and hide the side chat window... That way I get to watch without spoilers.

Can I just say the timing for broadcast and rebroadcast is really sucky though? Being on the NA west coast, the live broadcast happens too early and during my work hours, and the 4pm broadcast is still during my work hours...

I guess only people who don't work 9-6 jobs get to watch worlds...

KinjishiOct 6, 20151 votes

"I guess only people who don't work 9-6 jobs get to watch worlds..." It's in Europe. You expect Worlds to revolve around a NA convenient schedule? This is an international game.

ChrogoOct 6, 20151 votes

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"I guess only people who don't work 9-6 jobs get to watch worlds..." It's in Europe. You expect Worlds to revolve around a NA convenient schedule? This is an international game.

Duh, I understand that. I'm mainly talking about the rebroadcast time of 4pm Pacific. I miss out on basically the first 2 games of every day because of work.

KinjishiOct 6, 20151 votes

" I don't know if it's a problem with the titles of articles "This team beats that team like THIS""

Articles are titled like this already and have been for a long time. However, you could try and make them more elusive... then people will click on them wondering what they are about (and complain that it spoiled the game because they didn't know what they are clicking on). People can always complain about something.

As a few examples: "Rundown: Junior advances in a thriller Dale Earnhardt Jr. managed to squeak into the next round of the Chase by the narrowest of margins. He may be primed to make a real run now, writes Bob Pockrass in the Monday Rundown."

Rundown: Pain Gaming still alive in shocker

"Falcons not getting ahead of themselves after 4-0 start"

C9 not getting ahead of themselves after 3-0 start

These could be considered spoilers, but this is how sports writers write articles - to be engaging and informative. It isn't remotely realistic to hide all the outcomes content until everyone has had a chance to see a game or event. Whenever you go to ESPN.com or watch their TV channel, you see sports scores constantly ticking across and being updated.

ElemenoOct 6, 20151 votes

I guess my initial thought on reading this was "Just because ESPN does it doesn't make it the best way to do it, so why not try to improve something that can easily be seen as a flaw?"

And as I agree with you on people looking for reasons to complain, I honestly don't think it's too much to ask to, as you said, make them more elusive or be part of a drop down menu or something. People who click articles on match results should expect to see... well.. the results.

Anyway, I think it should be a fairly easy fix, but that's just my two cents

KinjishiOct 6, 20151 votes

I get your intention of wanting to have improvement; however, then what can they reveal after each game and how long do they wait? Already the client hides all the results and you have to click on each game, which is tedious and makes it rather worthless in my opinion. When I go to the tab, I want to be informed - not have a bunch of boxes to click on to see each single score. I've already stopped using the eSports tab in the client because of these changes (and the handful of people whining for these changes). Headlines will be vague and elusive, so they don't reveal too much. No thanks and thank you for making the experience less informative and more of a hassle for people.

ElemenoOct 6, 20151 votes

I'm gonna go ahead and assume clicking isn't too much of a hassle and that having something spoil a match (and for many from the response) is worth someone having to click to read something...

DarclasOct 8, 20151 votes

They fixed it! The esports website is now completely spoiler free for week two. They removed all information from the site, because riot takes preventing spoilers seriously.

t3r3thApr 4, 20161 votes

Have you tried watching on a spoiler free site like here: http://lol.unspoilr.com/#home? You can't watch live, but the vods are usually up within an hour or two and it is completely spoiler free.