It's been a long time now when if ever are strictly online tournaments coming back to NA?

Emanon·1/16/2017, 9:07:01 AM·15 votes·1,493 views

With the a plethora of time to rework the event finder tool is it possible strictly online riot prized tournaments will ever come back to the NA server? As a player and a host I miss them so dearly, being able to be in a semi-competitive environment with the potential for a reward large or small is what drove me to play league in the first place. Part of the fault of not having much participation of these events was lack of promotion by riot them selves as well as on the communities that hosted them but if you compare a small non for profit community to a multi billion dollar business it's not even close to apples to oranges. So the main question is will strictly online tournaments come back, or what would need to be done to bring them back?

11 Comments

Jet Sett1/16/2017, 12:00:51 PM3 votes

I'm up for encouraging healthy competition outside of LCS in NA.

DarkRitual1/16/2017, 7:28:57 PM2 votes

I think Riot should prize larger ones, but not smaller ones. A 32 team event is definately more worthy than a 8 team tournament.

Perhaps if Riot was getting a portion of entry fees, they should be offering prize support.

I could see a system where Riot offers a prize pool partial match. Organizer puts RP into the tourny prize pool through the game client, and Riot matches a portion of it.

calmacda1/16/2017, 8:22:22 PM2 votes

If the issue they have is with shady unorganized tournaments abusing the system, they should take steps to fix that as opposed to just completely eliminating the prizing for online tournaments. I would love to compete in a tournament but where I live there are never any, I'm fairly certain that's the case with relatively large portion of the community.

Rofl Kartoffle 1/16/2017, 9:15:57 AM2 votes

As a player that is still learning the game I feel like these would be a great opportunity to learn from people that know a lot more about the game then me

dakm1021/16/2017, 11:20:57 PM1 votes

Would love to see smaller tournaments since it allows people to learn more because you are gonna be in a team with people. its just great so yeah I'm would love for riot to provide prizing

Reiyalin1/16/2017, 5:24:36 PM1 votes

Would like this back so I can compete with friends who don't live close to me so Riot's live events would never work for us. Though there were definite understandable issues with the old online tournaments and their prizing but I think it is resolvable with just a little work.

ShinobisDemon1/16/2017, 6:45:14 PM1 votes

They should meet us with a compromise and at least allow some trusted tournaments like VG to be funded.

ABlueQuaker1/16/2017, 9:13:25 AM1 votes

I mean, every 2nd thread is about how someone Disconnecting from a game lost their promo series for them...