Honestly if it wasn't for people on the boards or ESPN.com etc, I wouldn't know much of anything that's currently happening about League.
Go to lolEsports.com you don't get much articles or much of anything.
However something that has bothered me the longest time about League(LCS) are the stats! Ok, so Riot are trying to do a league similar to the NBA with player stats etc but no leaderboard of those certain stats, lets say Faker retires and 5 years from now a random person bring up a conversation like
Person A - " Have you ever watched League or heard of Faker ?"
Person B - " Yeah, but was he good and he couldn't have been better than Bjergsen"
- What could person A say or bring up to the B person to show or explain how great Faker was ? Stats he all time stats, regular season, playoffs, Worlds etc etc! However Riot doesn't share any of that s$it until say a week or so when the topic is already on the front door or whenever they want to bring it up.
Don't quote me because I may have either the time or player wrong!
Somewhere during the 2015 NA split a player was close to a certain Assist stat something like 1200 assists or something and Riot brought up a leaderboard - What were is their leaderboard at and why hide it, also they brought that certain player's stats but 3-4 other player's total assists already passed milestones and no mention about their stats!
It's something that has always bothered me, but it needs either more attention or less lazy people from the Riot department.
" As a fan of Meteos it was one of the most entertaining games of the year watching him pound C9 into the ground. Riot needs to do a much better job at capturing these moments, hyping them up and getting people excited about the game ".
- Indeed, no hype video or pre game interview with either Meteos or Sneaky etc wasted potential from Riot! Hell the only cool part was when they hugged but it could have been much more.
Hype videos - Sucks, and any "hype video" they have they show over and over. Remember the C9 vs FQ hype video on say youtube a day or so before their game, what about the hype video before the broadcast actually began or the video when their game was about to start, it was the same video!
Or when a new split starts and the title on the official LOL Esports youtube channel says something like
" preview or promo" and it's the same video they show on both a week or so before the split starts and when the day off, " LAZY" and how unoriginal!
Honestly, look at EU's hype video for the 2017 Spring split
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfz3KQyZcP0
It's ok but nothing special!
Now look at NA's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eMUbbhCB3Y
It sucks!
It's players doing mundane things like sleeping, putting on their glasses with constant " X player will do this, X player has won the NA championship but no video no up beat song, music etc it's.... boring!
Where's the energy- for example TSM vs CLG moments with Aprhomoo speaking about wanting to face TSM again with clips of both TSM and CLG's greatest games, moments.
Froggen saying something like " I will show people why I'm still considered top 3 Mid in the world.
Ryu, Chaser, Looper being shown a clip or two about their time with their previous teams etc.
But nope, just another video of players...... walking......... Walking LCS on AMC
" As a suggestion, maybe they should take some notes from NASCAR. It has to be one of the most boring sports to watch cars go around in circles for 4 hours but the production is top notch and the coverage makes you want to watch and not miss anything that might happen. Can you say Daytona?
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Not much of a Nascar watcher but I have watched a few races back in the past and I do agree with you with " production is top notch and the coverage makes you want to watch"
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Indeed, you get constant info and the casters for those races are entertaining, where for League it's the same puns, jokes, memes 24/7.
Which brings me to another point where people are crying over PTL.
PTL is 90% memes, jokes and childish s$it with 10% of real info like stats, real stuff , if you enjoy PTL for what it was/is THAT'S GREAT, I applaud you and keep on keeping on, but the show was straight garbage.
Segments with " Can you guess what nose this belongs to" was really stupid, maybe for viewers that are 15 and younger found that stuff hilarious but most of the 25 and older viewers thought the show sucked.
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PROS -Things I like about the LCS and the direction it's taking so far - CONS - Things I would like Riot to improve on. Slightly!
I'm LOVING the in game interviews
It gives the games a sense of importance and makes it feel "real" like a journalist covering those teams/players.
Maybe something Riot could do is also have regular fans ask questions from time to time to the interviews like " What could Sneaky play to be better in lane" from say a 5-10 year old child and it gives the casters in game questions or theories to the viewers on why " this is a strong reason A-B-C etc"
Pick em's ?
Riot has Worlds pick'ems but no regular season pick'ems ?
Not only would this help Riot to branch off and potential get recruiters to possibly work for Riot if they get say 90% of their picks right but also gives fans that don't the game but only watch a gamemode for them also. As in game you have Summoner's rift, Aram, 3v3, ranked and more.
World 100% correct picks - Last year I thought only 1 person won the World pick'em but no name, no honor, no congratulations( from my knowledge) maybe Riot sent that person a gift basket IDK but why not have the 100% correct World pick'em winners actually play in a game with the pros say............ ALL STARS !
Sorry for the long post, but when you care about something it needs to be said in full.
- Thank you and Have a good one!
