How to work for Riot in the League E-Sports scene ?

III BAKURYU III ·Jun 8, 2016·1 votes·541 views

How could I get a job working for Riot in the League of Legends scene dealing with stats and articles without a college degree under my belt?

Would I really need a college degree to get a job that requires you to sit at a desk for 8 hours and talk about how X player is getting cs and pushing towers etc ? Also how would that even come close to what I would have to learn in college that I can't learn at home?

Example would be to work as a analyst or as an caster for Riot; do I really need 4 years to learn how to ask questions and shake your head up and down like your thinking really hard?

" So Bjergsen went off that game he had 4 kills and 207 cs" -Riot caster
" Shake head often to agree and give a puzzling look on your face to seem important"- ME

Work as a Stat employee that works with predicting the lcs players stats; so game modes like Fantasy LCS, Articles, etc can be produced and made.
Do I really need 4 years on how to look at the previous years involving the players stats and predict what I think they would get in their next games for the fantasy LCS and post it ?

{ The next part is just ranting on my part }

I have asked Riot for 3 years now for a Leaderboard that involves players LCS stats from Spring 2013 to now and if they could post it on their site but the only answers I EVER get is " We understand your frustrations and are working to solve your questions" OK.... 3 years long enough ? Isn't that the point of the stat coordinators' job ? If they can't do it themselves and they get paid to do their job FIRE THEM and Hire me I'll do it.

 I have watched some LCS games where they talk about a certain player  so  they show a leaderboard of that certain players stats and talk about how that X player is nearing 500 kills  and how X player can get from #4 to #3 in the standings.

So I know for a fact that they have the stats themselves to able to have the leaders in order and able to show it from time to time but why hide it from just the occasional showing when they think its relevant ?

NAME-GAMES PLAYED -KILLS-DEATHS-ASSISTS-CS ADRIAN 54-34-123-632-1433 AMAZING 92-223-203-628-12286 APHROMOO 136-110-340-1285-3413 APOLLO 82-315-188-469-24824 BALLS 140-373-336-898-35280 BETSY 46-147-109-205-14324 BJERGSEN 155-799-349-844-49021 COP 130-581-223-722-39900 CRUMBZ 133-244-422-962-17427 DARSHAN 164-489-424-822-41220 DIAMONDPROX 145-361-411-1013-21526 DOUBLELIFT 164-815-408-859-52652 DYRUS 148-366-336-984-38049 EDWARD 149-156-444-1373-5311 FEBIVEN 54-245-96-340-16977 FENIX 56-221-132-341-19590 FORGIVEN 80-265-132-423-29462 FOX 54-245-140-281-15884 FREDY 110-188-296-619-31178 FROGGEN 155-658-327-908-53138 HAI 130-451-353-1009-29726 HAUNTZER 55-159-137-344-14113 HJARNAN 54-242-87-293-17658 HUNI 54-228-150-442-13579 HYLLISANG 54-32-190-519-1753 IMAQTPIE 112-455-245-645-33039 IWILLDOMINATE 95-204-240-711-13003 JANKOS 111-282-247-664-16430 KEANE 37-120-110-230-11168 KEITH 23-102-52-104-7565 KIKIS 50-141-136-386-7582 KIWIKID 165-279-524-1149-15897 KREPO 117-117-363-918-3205 LEMONNATION 122-113-335-1165-3447 LINK 127-478-306-771-34152 LOULEX 46-74-122-358-4982 METEOS 113-292-182-908-16745 NRATED 129-121-330-1160-3877 NUKEDUCK 85-300-183-459-27157 NYPH 132-116-375-1210-3770 ODDONE 84-179-218-761-10181 ODOANNME 54-149-135-383-13270 PIGLET 50-222-81-295-16417 POBELTER 111-395-292-644-32589 QUAS 94-249-247-624-24793 REIGNOVER 54-159-133-488-6903 REKKLES 110-517-139-564-38216 RUSH 55-163-151-472-7101 SAINT 82-146-272-729-10318 SCARRA 82-32-227-453-20618 SHIPHTUR 139-519-264-620-41705 SHOOK 102-218-255-706-14001 SNEAKY 140-637-249-812-41340 SOAZ 175-421-353-1014-38857 STEELBACK 36-183-53-233-11781 TABZZ 114-461-226-562-36640 VANDER 111-85-210-823-3802 VIZICACSI 54-150-166-367-13249 VOYBOY 111-416-310-646-30677 WICKD 126-281-313-775-33487 WILDTURTLE 151-739-338-889-45181 XMITHIE 140-282-379-1081-21532 XPECIAL 150-127-398-1513-4582 XPEKE 132-635-353-805-37387 YELLOWSTAR 166-269-371-1584-15217

You hire people that have college under their belt to be a stat coordinator but what about people that don't college experience and have in the past and still is showing promise to do the job themselves ?

5 Comments

ShadowatomJun 8, 20161 votes

It probably depends on what kind of job in the eSports scene you're looking for. I know Zirene (I think) had made a post on Reddit year or two ago about how to become an analyst (I personally have been thinking about becoming a coach/analyst for some lower ranked teams, but only as a part time thing unless I show some promise from those experiences), and obviously it takes a lot of work and time to become an analyst (and technically about the same amount of time to become a coach from what I've read up on), you need to know the game inside and out and understand why things happen or didn't happen. If you're looking just to become someone who manages stats... I mean... what makes that difficult? They could probably just get a program to record everything for them (and probably do considering they have the fantasy leagues), so.... If you're looking to just focus on stats I think that's your starting problem. If you're looking to look at stats and understand why they're able to get such good stats and analyze why those stats are important to focus on, then you're probably looking at an analyst job, in which case you'll need to know the actual game inside and out, watch replays/VODs and figure out why things happened the way they did by asking "Why?" until it becomes deeply philosophical. Be that annoying kid from when you were 5 who always wondered how the world worked. (Some of this post was pretty much a quote of that Reddit post I mentioned earlier, I'll see if I can find it if you are interested in becoming an analyst).

III BAKURYU III Jun 8, 20161 votes

Well Shadowatom we meet again I see. ;]

"become someone who manages stats... I mean... what makes that difficult?" and yet they still can't do their own job so it must be difficult.

I'm not asking to be that person who just looks at the match history and writes down the players KDA-cs etc, I mean I could do that as well but what you also said about " . If you're looking to look at stats and understand why they're able to get such good stats and analyze why those stats are important to focus on" is really what I'm asking to be and have the job for.

I like discussing why certain players should be the MVP or be praised for this game more so than X player and their performance etc.

I also want to start up booklets or sites with riot permission and/or on their site to have the players full BIO of accomplishments - example

BJERGSEN 155-799-349-844-49021 155 games played 799 Kills 349 deaths 844 Assists 49021 CS 2x NA LCS CHAMPION 2X Split Kill Leader
Have the players picture/ Favorite champions / Champions played all time/Recommend builds in Solo Q/ Builds built in game/ Who ever comes to the LCS events gets a free booklet with my stats and predictions for the new splits and have fan arts with pictures and other cool stuff from fans around the world put their own talents and qualities.

I would also talk in depth about players and teams going into the Splits and have the teams all time wins and loses (2013 LCS SPRING- Present)

I Don't know I might just be useless but I think I could do some good if I was ever hired for a job that involves my talents. As I'm in need for a job but these days who isn't !

" I personally have been thinking about becoming a coach/analyst for some lower ranked teams, but only as a part time thing unless I show some promise from those experiences"

I think you would be good if not Great as a Coach as your a person who speaks like an Adult and respond to questions with real thought and advice instead of saying stuff that is just rude!

Thanks for commenting and Have a Good One

ShadowatomJun 8, 20161 votes

So, what I'm getting is that you want to basically be an analyst, but more so for stats with a splash of pure analysis (not color commentating, but at the desk discussing how and why a game ended how it did and such). I'd suggest looking at this for a few tips on becoming an analyst (mentioned this in my previous post), it's a very interesting read imo.

I think you would be good if not Great as a Coach as your a person who speaks like an Adult and respond to questions with real thought and advice instead of saying stuff that is just rude!

Thanks, but I have so much to still learn about the game considering I just recently started playing again since leaving at the very start of season 1 (finally got a decent computer), so I feel a little outdated lol.

Either way, here's to the future!

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Kal Vas FlamJun 8, 20161 votes

You likely don't need a degree so much as you need a portfolio. You need to do something related to LoL esports and build a track record. It could be a blog you start or freelance work for related interests. They're not going to just hire someone off the streets though and say "hey, broadcast some games for us." You have to prove you can do it and then market yourself to the company.

III BAKURYU III Jun 8, 20161 votes

I couldn't be a caster as I can't really talk fast (Phreak-Rivington) say all moves in the game (wukong cyclone ult) for example, I know some but not all I do know all the champions ;] so thats a start. I would have to be just a (color commentator) however with the highest elo I'v reached is Silver 3 no one will take me serious with that elo.

I also don't seem to have anyone or friends that can pull conversations with me about league because they don't watch any LCS scene games or that side of the game so the extra part of broadcasting a normal game (ex) G4 game would be tricky to explain.
If for example I saw someone "backdoor" while I was practicing broadcasting a game in Gold 4 and yelled out " XPEKE" with another broadcaster next to me(friends-family members) they wouldn't understand it and I would have to explain the whole LCS history to them.
Which wouldn't be a bad thing as I could talk about that during the downtime in a game.

However I would need someone that is a higher elo than me that would know about the Game then me, while I could be a LCS type of broadcaster. Broadcaster 1- Talks about the game more in general like moves and tips and tricks, while I talked about the history of the LCS and could ask the higher up elo how X champion fits into the meta and other stuff.

Anyone watch/watched WWF/WWE I could be Michael Cole( BUT NOT ANNOYING) while someone could be like Jerry the "KING" lawyer