War of wards

DaddyMoo·3/6/2016, 6:58:51 PM·2 votes·423 views

Why the hell does the crowd go crazy every time a ward is destroyed? What is the big deal?

4 Comments

EPIKON3/6/2016, 7:11:10 PM1 votes

You must be ADC.

AzureDragoon3/6/2016, 7:37:50 PM1 votes

Courtesy of TvTropes for providing the answer for this.

During the season 2 championship series, a game between Counter Logic Gaming EU and World Elite came down to an agonizing stalemate due to one team's dedicated Gradual Grinder strategy. By about the 45-minute mark, practically nothing was happening apart from the two teams placing wards in their jungles, only for them to be swept out by the opposing junglers with the Oracle's Elixirs. The game was so boring that the commentators started sarcastically getting worked up whenever a ward was killed and the audience joined them, cheering loudly for each ward kill as though it were an exciting play. Even after the match, in more fast-paced exciting games, the audience has persisted in cheering loudly whenever a ward dies.

Here's the video in question https://youtu.be/-ZQkOf6EcRo