Hello, I just wanted to say that I absolutely LOVED fantasy LCS and even though I lost my league : ( I had a great time and it was a fantastic way for me to stay in touch with my friends.
I was wondering if there were any plans to have a fantasy season just for the world championships? Being able to create a team from the best players in the whole world and not just NA and EU would make fantasy even better.
Błaze3 votesthe points would be too inconsistent for example a team gets knocked out and you lose a player you get no more points for that week and someone who has a player on the winning team does and has a clear advantage
Azurr3 votesI think there is a bracket thing that is in the works. Which would be much better than a fantasy league.
MrBuffington1 votesThere's going to be a huge fight for Faker, lol. In all honesty though, I would like to see this happen (I missed out on the first one since I don't have any LoL friends to play fantasy with...), but I feel like this might just turn into Korean Fantasy League (unless you're a really loyal TSM fan, or something). It'd be fun though!
Old Man Teeto2 votesI'll take Dade over Faker, tyvm.
MrBuffington1 votesI agree with you, but I expect we'd be in the minority #FakerHype
Arctic Wolf2 votesThat's assuming TSM even quallifies. 1-3 Vs Dig this year, should they win then they'd have to go through LMQ still. Should they fail there, they'd still have an opportunity to qualify at 3rd place against the loser of C9 vs (CLG/CRS), but even that would be very tough still. My guess is they'd only qualify if they can beat Dig and then either upset vs LMQ or Curse beats CLG but looses to C9, thus putting them in the 3rd/4th place match. With their luck, Curse would yet again claim their throne at 4th place, pushing TSM to worlds.
MrBuffington2 votesEven though Dig is my favorite team, can't say they've been looking particularly strong lately. But anyways, not really my point; just saying that most people would probably pick Korean players for fantasy league over any other region, unless they have very strong ties to a particular team. I only used TSM as an example because they have a particularly strong fan base
Arctic Wolf2 votesFair enough, I can definitely see that. But I still think it would be interesting to see, because you would have to pick fairly strategically. Do you take someone like Dade, who may be on a team with a bye, do you fight to get Faker or Pawn, or do you go for less contested players like members of Fnatic, C9, Alliance, and TSM? I know personally, being a C9 fan since the days when they still had WildTurtle, I was so happy to pick up Meteos, Balls, and Hai for my fantasy league. It did not end well, Meteos was not the KDA god, Hai took a long time to return to form after his injury, and the 3v1/4v0 meta really hurt Balls and Meteos's stats. You'll definitely have fanboys going for their team, I completely agree. But as someone who was burned by that in the past, I think it'd also be quite interesting to pick from purely a performance viewpoint where you have to decide whether you hope to pick up a korean superstar to earn all the points, or a more well rounded team to go for the win.
MrBuffington1 votesThat's a good point; I'm in sort of a rough spot since I only really know the NA players, and I don't think either of my favorite teams are getting very far (I like rooting for underdogs like Evil Geniuses and Complexity, and I also like Dignitas just because it's Scarra's team, and I was a big fan of Coast last split because of Shiphtur and Zion). So I would probably be blindly going for Korean players (I rarely get to watch OGN since the streams are in the middle of the night for me, and so the only players I really know of are the SKT guys and superstars like Dade, MadLife, inSec, etc.)
EMOFRATPARTY1 votesPrior to coming into this year's LCS, I knew nothing about League. Even when I drafted my fantasy team, I might have been playing for a week or two at most and had yet to see an LCS match. Essentially, I drafted entirely around projections.
Lo and behold I lost my league, but it was still a fun modifier to a traditional LCS viewing experience. If I had been playing for a large reward on the line, I might have felt differently about the whole thing, but overall it was just...enjoyable. I couldn't have asked for anything more.
For me, that anecdote relates because I would have no idea who to take for Worlds. But that's ok! There is this weird allure that would allow me to enjoy a team made up of people I know nothing about, understanding that I would be learning about them as the tournament progressed. Not everyone will agree with that, and they shouldn't, but if I'm only playing for bragging rights then I wouldn't have any qualms doing a Worlds league.
However, that lack of knowledge can present itself as a potential barrier in many cases, so it would be something to consider when deciding whether or not a fantasy league for Worlds is feasible.
