NA homefield advantage

Stillname·9/13/2016, 11:50:47 PM·1 votes·555 views

So the World Championship is going to take place in NA this year and only one of those locations is near where the servers league servers are located in NA (Chicago).

Although the actual event will take place on a LAN with almost no ping all of the players will have to practice at various locations with much higher ping then a lot of the "out of town" teams are used to (especially the Korean players). But the NA LCS players have had a whole 2 splits playing dynamic queue with 60+ ping and then playing scrims and real games in a no ping environment.

Do you guys think this will throw off the non-NA players or will they be able to easily adjust between higher and no ping?

18 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer9/13/2016, 11:56:41 PM2 votes

And the Europeans had the homefield advantage last year, and the Koreans the year before that. Your point?

Kal Vas Flam9/14/2016, 12:20:43 AM2 votes

Most of their practice will also be on zero ping servers. These guys will probably not spend a ton of time on the NA main servers. I don't know what ping they have at home, but it's probably very similar to ours anyway.

Kal Vas Flam9/13/2016, 11:53:15 PM1 votes

They have like 1 ping at these tournaments because they use a local server. The ping won't matter, but the atmosphere might.

Navarune9/14/2016, 12:13:01 AM1 votes

They scrim and play on the tournament realm so there's not going to be any ping issues at all, for any of the players. If anything, the Koreans will still have the upper hand because that's pretty close to what they play on live at home, which means the rest of the world will have to adjust to the difference. This is only one reason the Koreans almost always dominate LAN events.

TurquoiseYoshi9/14/2016, 1:18:06 AM1 votes

Considering that everyone bootcamps in Korea where the ping is 8 ms, I think it will throw them off more in the meaningless DQ practice than in an actual Worlds match (obvious exception is before Quarters). And remember, they get lots of pre-game button checks where they get to practice on low-ping before games.

So no, it probably won't mean anything.