Dominion needs to be eSport.

Kholdstare13·Oct 7, 2014·1 votes·535 views

Out of the 4 maps in the game, it's the most exciting to spectate. There is always something big happening somewhere on the map. From the second the gate opens, it's pure PvP action. Compare that to SR where you MAYBE get 1 early teamfight over jungle invade security, then sit for 30 minutes in lanes PvE where a ward kill can somehow be the high point of the action. In Dominion, there's always an opportunity for a comeback. On SR, the rich get richer, snowballing any advantage into a game win, after dragging it out for another 40 minutes of one-sided gameplay.

So why has Riot not hosted anything themselves? The DD community made an excellent show of it, but Riot has the further reaching audience and would attract tons of views and enough attention and players to the map to sustain ranked. Even starting as a small tournament run and streamed between other LCS matches, it would generate a ton of interest, and likely prove to be the high point of the stream.

2 Comments

JuOkutVjkEOct 8, 20141 votes

Sorry but no it wouldnt; dominion is dominated by raw early game 1v1 fighting champions. There is no meta, it's just a slaughterfest. This game would not attract the e-sports attention it does if it was not emulated in a "DOTA" fashion -- that's what defines a MOBA.

Kholdstare13Oct 9, 20141 votes

I played one game at the noobest of default beginner elo and think I know everything about how the game works now.

At those low levels, SR is an even bigger no-meta slaughterfest. For beginning players, it comes down to who can get the most kills and snowball out of control the hardest. Does that define the entire map?

The point of the MOBA is NOT to be "just a DotA clone." It's about exploring the genre and what i can become. What if the FPS genre had never stepped away from the "Doom clone" formula? We wouldn't even have Quake! Dominion has just as much of a place in the genre as anything else, and my point was ONLY that it is exciting to watch and would be worthwhile to include alongside the current SR matches.