How about have BO5 played over multiple days?

Rhlax·Apr 5, 2015·2 votes·1,129 views

NFL does BO1 in one day, while MLB/NBA/NHL does BO7 with each game spread out. When it comes to Olympics though it is always B01.

The problem of having BO5 played in one day is tilting, as explained in DL/Piglet's promo video. In a high pressure situation, the team winning game 1 is relieved from some of the pressure. Since we tend perform optimally in medium pressure situations, the winner has a better chance to perform better in 2nd game, and if win again, the 3rd game and so forth. It is kind of a snowball effect, mentally speaking.

The other case for a multiple day playoff series, is that it benefits the(some?) spectators. First having upwards to 5 games played in one day, is too much for some people like myself. The average NFL and NBA games have a lot of breaks and is much shorter. Another reason is that it gives teams more time to pull off difficult strategies. In CLG vs TL's game 1, CLG's TF 1/3/1 tri-push strategy was clever against a team with poor communication. With time off and a clear head, it can give teams time to prepare for cool strategies that is hard to pull off.

11 Comments

TheNameIsJohnnyApr 5, 20152 votes

Cost too much and viewers will decrease for RIOT. Everything that RIOT is doing is to maximum their profit( not blaming them).

Weekday= less viewers in both online and live. Since it is during a school+work day. also ticket price will drop since less games will be played.

Stadium = rental = more expense.

BO5 in 1 day is logical for the viewers and riot. Not good for the players

Joesus ChristApr 5, 20152 votes

in addition to this, LoL games are not nearly as long, or physically strenuous, as traditional sports. other e-sports like SC2 and Hearthstone can even be faster than LoL games! sports games can run 3-5 hours, especially with things like American football when coaches play the clock really well.

the other thing with E-sports is that we do replays and VODS waaaay better than traditional sports. streaming is substantially better for that than TV is. so we can have bo5 in one day, but you can watch the games at your leisure.

finally, tilt is part of the game. keeping mentally strong throughout a series is the sign of a really good player. bo3, bo5, bo7, and bo9 force players to be mentally strong. it forces diverse strategies, and really shows which player can remain calm and collected in really high pressure situations. a bo1 is stressful in other ways than a bo5 is, but you really see how good a team is by having them play longer series.

RhlaxApr 8, 20151 votes

Cost too much and viewers will decrease for RIOT. Everything that RIOT is doing is to maximum their profit( not blaming them).

If Riot wants to maximize their profit, then they wouldn't be doing LCS in the first place.

VixanysApr 8, 20151 votes

We've had this discussion before on another thread haven't we?

I'll just quote myself:

Best of 1s are limiting EU/NA LCS potential (ooooo), I have constantly thought that Best of 3 (LCK) is optimal in all sense. Even a Series of 2 (LPL) are more beneficial than a single game.

Time is the factor. Riot has this deadset mentality that fans have to watch EU AND NA and LPL and LCK. So they scheduled them (at least EU/NA) around each other. Which really just crushes the ability for those two regions to play more.

Think about this. 4 days for NA/EU LCS Starting Thursday and going to Sunday. Same days as EU/NA LCS are doing now. Teams still have two matches to play against teams, but the matches are best of 3. Now here is the twist, both EU LCS and NA LCS go on at the same time!!! 4 days for EU and 4 days for NA (times of course would vary).

The most obvious issue with this is teams losing out on practice time, but if the teams matches were only on two days. The teams would still have 5 days of practice, it may require that teams get more scrim partners (as if they constantly scrim the same teams, those teams may not be available in this format).

I think it would over all improve skill/experience for NA/EU. Current NA/EU Format Sucks. PJSalt

Found: LCS Format

ColinFlyApr 5, 20151 votes

I think what Johnny said makes the most sense. No matter how much we young folk love our Esports, we're just not yet at the caliber of NBA or MLB playoffs yet.

Riot is doing what is best for the situation that they are in right now, and that is trying to get LoL as much recognition and notoriety as efficiently as possible.

Hyrum GraffApr 5, 20151 votes

I disagree. I think seeing the opposing team's strategy, keeping your cool, and adjusting your strategy to deal with it, is an important part of BO5's. If we made BO5's over multiple days, teams would have time to go home and prepare something specifically against that team's new strat. This would make innovating with things like [insert UOL pick here] much less rewarding for the team doing the innovation, and that's not something I want to encourage.

RhlaxApr 8, 20151 votes

This would make innovating with things like [insert UOL pick here] much less rewarding for the team doing the innovation

You know, the team can just ban that pick(s) the next game? B05 in one day or not.

Hyrum GraffApr 8, 20151 votes

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You know, the team can just ban that pick(s) the next game? B05 in one day or not.

Yes, but as we saw in this weekend's BO5, UOL was waiting for that (the morgana ban), and had other stuff to pull out. Gambit didn't have time to go home and scrim against an udyr and counterpick it instead, or to get their adc to practice not eating bindings -- they were forced to ban those champs away, instead.

RhlaxApr 8, 20151 votes

Didn't you find the first 2 games exciting and the 2 after rather boring? Had games 3-5 were played on the following day, the entertainment value may be even higher.

VixanysApr 8, 20151 votes

So, what you are saying is that UoL came prepared for 1-5 games. But GMB was only prepared for 1-3 (if that).

I don't see why we should reward or even provide incentive for half cocked preparation by teams. GMB was not prepared. They lost to UoL Strats (Cheese if you will).

ModPrandineApr 8, 20151 votes

The reason that this won't happen is because unlike regular sports, LoL games usually only last a couple minutes at a time, with the longer ones going to over an hour a game there, whereas for the other regular sports there a single game can last a couple of hours give or take. That's also not taking into account physical exertion, possible player injuries, the weather and things like that there really. Since LoL is usually played indoors and on the computer, players don't have to worry about many of the things that players of regular physical sports like hocky, baseball and football there for example have to go through day after day, so there's that at least.