About International Tournaments

Bytesu·5/24/2017, 9:42:23 AM·1 votes·396 views

> Excerpt from LoLesports - "Why not add more international play on top of the current amount of regional play? > > Our season is already long, and we want to make sure that pros avoid burnout by having a sufficiently long off-season. Elite teams are practicing or competing in as many as 42 weeks over the year, sacrificing even weekends to be the best, and with very little time off to relax, take a vacation or do anything other than train for long hours at high pressure. "

Although I agree that there is enough international competition for elite teams, I do believe that there is plenty of room to introduce smaller invitational tournaments for lower seeded teams, kind of like some of the CS:GO ones. I don't really see any downsides, increased exposure for smaller teams without the elite teams there will let them gain some fans and more tournaments for spectators. Thoughts?

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III BAKURYU III 5/24/2017, 11:21:11 AM1 votes

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC OFF OFF OFF ( Spring Split + Summer Split Combined) MSI OFF ( Worlds)

Optional tournaments are what they say Optional but for the most part January - March are the players' off season to rest up. April - August are the LCS season. Sept- 1-2 weeks is MSI OCT- Since the Spring/Summer/MSI winners and standings are in the books it gives the players a full month to prepare for the biggest tournament of the year. Nov-Dec - Group stage during Thanksgiving break - Playoffs during Christmas break

Didn't include All-Stars because I figured watching the players at their best during Region/MSI/Worlds was the All-Stars ?

Similar to why I personally wanted the LCS(EU-NA) if other regions did so that more easier to understand and all regions be in sync. Have the LCS Spring and Summer Splits combined in say April or May at the start and ends around August.
In short -

                 Regular season - Burnout - Schedule

18+ games will have teams sub out certain players during burnouts, I know the 40+ games are long enough but the game series is the problem, if a team are say 0-3 in total game series out of 18 game series I'm pretty sure the players on the team will feel like they have 0 chance to make it to playoffs etc, but if say they are 0-3 in maybe 28 game series because of the extended game series it gives teams/coaches some flexability to sub out players if they are burned out during the regular season. Not to mention the Spring Split Winners goes to MSI - OK, that's fine, but the Summer Split Winners are auto locked as the #1 team in their region - What? Most viewers of League/plays are around the Middle school age group all the way to High school young adults, so having their respective region during the Summer where most of the "children/young adults" are out during Spring break(1-2 weeks) as well as Summer break(2 months) instead of having 50% of the season(Spring) where most viewers will be in school, /Weekend Friday-Sunday but even then most school children will be doing homework if they're in highschool as well as having Spring Split January makes 0 sense to me to begin with.

               Rift Rivals

Honestly, I don't think Rift Rivals will stay for more than 2 years, but I think the point was an International tournament where Korea doesn't just win automatically like they always do. Once your tournaments/League/etc gets predictable it's time to change something up and eliminating Korea from the other tournaments makes 0 sense, so adding more is the only viable answer at this point.

Sorry for long post and my rambling.
Thank you

Ale non è male5/24/2017, 2:32:46 PM1 votes

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Although I agree that there is enough international competition for elite teams, I do believe that there is plenty of room to introduce smaller invitational tournaments for lower seeded teams, kind of like some of the CS:GO ones. I don't really see any downsides, increased exposure for smaller teams without the elite teams there will let them gain some fans and more tournaments for spectators. Thoughts?

That's what ESL/IEM should have done, imho, and their laziness (?, I don't know the exact term to define that, stubborness maybe?) in not trying to change/innovate IEM formula once, from Season 5 onward with IEM Season IX Worlds fiasco (the IEM won by TSM) and the introduction of MSI, it was clear that IEM wouldn't have been considered anymore by teams the best international competition outside Worlds (since IEm didn't invest enough from an economic or technical point of view to keep it relevant) and was going to fall into irrelevance if it couldn't find a clear different identity, which they did nothing to find

They should have pushed a different theme, like expanding IEM to wildcard regions before Riot did expand their own tournament to these regions to make it the only real global tournament, and/or going for including top Challenger/semi-pro teams from various regions alongside pro teams to make IEM something like "the tournament of future" or similar

IEM wasn't capable to find its own space and got eaten by Riot tournament once Riot decided to step in, and that basically seal its fate and the one of the other third party orgs since IEM was the only one left with a foot in. Right now, third party tournaments will come back only when and if Riot will every decide to change their structure and allow it, and this only if they will decide to not host these tournament theirself