i think there are much better things you could be doing with it. like maybe giving the top 10 elo people in each state some money or something at the end of each season. something like that would be cool I think and give people a chance to feel semi-pro and to have some extra incentive to excel at the game.
TurquoiseYoshi1 votes"Congrats to this Plat 5 guy in Montana for having the 6th highest elo in the state!"
And what would they do for EU/Canada/people that live in other countries but play on NA because their country doesn't have a server (coughJapancough)?
prozak821 votesi don't see why you couldn't do it for other countries too
LazerFruit1 votesthis is EXTREMELY flawed, this change has nothing to do with solo q at all and its something that people have been asking to have for a while now, and besides most of the top elo players are pros anyways
prozak821 votesso thats an easy fix if they are already pro then they aren't eligible for the reward
prozak821 votesheck with the amount its gonna cost to make these format changes they could probly give out 10 grand per state
MegaManYYZ1 votesthere is no return on the investment. that's just throwing money away.
prozak821 votesnuh uh it could attract more players to play and to play more often. besides, I doubt the format changes are gonna increase viewership that much. I don't think people that weren't watching before are gonna suddenly start now that its best of 3.
MegaManYYZ1 votespeople will be watching longer. if it was 10 grand per state, you're looking at 500k a year, and the return on that would suck a lot.
prozak821 voteshow do you know people will watch longer? I think its gonna be the same amount of people watching but just distributed differently. the good games are probly gonna see more interest but the crap games are gonna get ignored cus no ones gonna want to spend 3 hours watching that crap.
jjjj4rd1 votesWhile I do agree that the new summer LCS format is questionable, I wouldn't think Riot would give out monetary prizes for soloqueue ranks in place of it.