How can we help the "Wild Card" regions develop their League circuit?

Torrence·May 16, 2015·3 votes·1,442 views

For the past few seasons, we've seen Wild Card teams come to the international events (Like Bejiktas from Turkey at MSI). Unfortunately, they haven't been able to compete on the same level as teams from more developed regions. Which makes sense. But I've been thinking, wouldn't it be nice if these teams were able to play closer to the level of those other regions? The tournaments would have more variation in their results, more exciting games, more diverse play styles. I think it would be awesome to see the lesser known regions get their own showing at a tournament sometime in the future.

Do you think there is a way that the League community could help these circuits reach a more competitive level?

3 Comments

Angelofchaos16xMay 16, 20151 votes

If you watched the Wild card tounament, I think that you could say that the best team did not win. Bjk did ok, but the Brazilean team of INTZ where destroying all the matches. In the finals, a there was a entire case of maybe the team cheated wih cell phones, but since there was nothine ofical, no one knows 4 sure ( https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/33v71a/a_serious_rule_violation_happened_during_the_iwci/), but INTZ where a better team the entire tounament long. The bangkok Titans where also really good, they smashed the round robin, losing only to Intz, but fell to BJK in the Semis. As someone who acutual watches the other lcs's ( Br and Oceanic mostly) I can say that they got a lot better, and I look forward to seeing them at worlds, where the level is slightly lower

Dungeon WarlordMay 16, 20151 votes

I tend to agree. Bjk came back from a 10,000 gold deficit in the international wildcard event, Rarely seen in any pro game, which was impressive. INTZ did look like the more favoured team in the event.

To improve the other developing regions, here are a few ideas.

Invest in marque players from the major leagues to play and develop teams in the smaller regions.
Give the developing teams more exposure to the big teams of the scene from other regions. MSI was good, but all the teams from the developing regions need exposure to the big guns, not just one qualifier from 6 regions.
Build live stages and hold live events for each split, giving the teams exposure to more stage experience.
Hype the best players in each region, and create more exposure for the game in general.

An FA Cup style competition which included all the teams from all the regions would be a great way to expand, giving to lesser teams some exposure to the bigger teams.