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Improving Playoffs and Viewership Enjoy-ability

the4thdot·8/22/2018, 8:13:09 PM·2 votes·1,484 views

Fans are tired of watching two teams play 3-5 games and they choose the SAME CHAMPIONS EVERY MATCH. (Yes, there are always a handful of surprise picks) But generally, pending the last patch, there is a predictability to playoffs. High tier champs will always be chosen.

HOW ABOUT SOME CHAMPION SELECTION DIVERSITY? High tier champs will always be chosen.

NEW RULE:If a team plays a champion, they can not play that champion for the remainder of the series.

This will lead to: Teams need to be more proactive in their team comps. Professional players need to be more adaptable and show their overall skills with more champions. Fans don't have to watch back to back same matches but on different sides. Professional players can show us a wider range of champion skills, techniques, and combinations. Game variety would increase. Fans can watch more surprise wins and loses. More champions in the game will be used, and less will be forgotten. This could also lead to Riot taking a look at some past champions that are overlooked and need some tiny buffs or vice versa nerfs. We may actually see a Teemo chosen, for like, the first time, like ever instead of being a joke.

Let me know what you think.

3 Comments

GeminiRune8/22/2018, 11:21:39 PM1 votes

All I really did was search the word "Diversity" on the boards, filter it among the esports section and look at the good handful of times over the years this very suggestion has been pitched for this very reason or similar. Made me even remember where I as a rising fan came from with how stagnant champ select processes were with the original P/B system and how predictable it was able to be then.

I'm a fan and I'm not tired of "the same champions every match." It's been a summer split where the margin of predictability has been quite minimal thanks in lieu to those marksman changes early on and that to me made every match worth watching. Sure changes occurred to have things creep back to "normalcy" and metagame always stagnates with time but I'm still seeing enough out of teams and players so far that I can't necessarily grow bothered by the stagnancy just yet.

Player shouldn't have to play for one's entertainment. A pro player and team shouldn't have to be handicapped for the sake of fans and this is what would be happening.

Fraggleroc8/24/2018, 7:37:29 AM1 votes

I'm a fan (otherwise I wouldn't have played LoL since beta) and I've followed closely MLG, back in the days of TSM... These days I don't even care abt the competitive scene anymore, except for maybe some important games on LCK.

This is because of a large part - 1) Champion Diversity 2) Lack of fun skirmishes and fights in early part of game 3) Lack of off-game antics

At the moment I'm having more fun watching a game that I don't understand at all- dota2ti ... I played some dota allstars some 10yrs ago and havent played much Dota2 at all. Yet I'm having a whole lot of fun watching TI because it has all 3 factors above. 40-70 kills in a 1 hour game! Lots of action - surprisingly i feel LoL WAS made for more action-packed with its smaller map and no-frills, simpler format but somehow the devs were able to grind the game down into a dull fest with a dull laning phase, compared to a skirmish-filled dota2 game.

LCS game/events just seemed DULL compared to the dota2's.