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Uncle Ryze Wants You! Come Get RP for Your Service to the League!

Slycorpse·6/12/2015, 4:50:52 AM·1 votes·915 views

Recently LOL posted an article bringing to light the tournament community that is kind of unimpressive, so far (somewhere in the neighborhood of 4000 participants per day just on what I've seen from a cursory search). 6-10 daily tournaments through several hosting companies are offered for free with FREE RP (and skins) offered to placing participants (just for battling on the fields of justice, like you're already doing) . Some of these tournaments are solo queue, while others are for pre-constructed teams. Most are for 5v5 in Summoners Rift, with a few 3v3s and ARAMs offered. These tournaments represent varying skill levels as well; my first tournament i won 800 RP (bronze 5 here). The vast majority start in the 4-5 eastern time slot, which I (being on the west coast) have difficulty making. I would love to be more active in this part of the community, and I'm sure many of you would love to as well. For those looking to play in tournaments start here http://events.na.leagueoflegends.com/

We, as the community, need to step up and let these tournament runners know what we are interested in doing, and they will provide for it! If we show them the demand is there, they will supply more tournaments of the types, and times we want to play them; at least, Not So Stock Gaming has stated as much (and I'm sure others will follow suit). It takes 16 teams (minimum) for a tournament to be run. That can be 16 preconstructed teams or 80 solo queue players (the more the merrier, with better matchmaking as well).

I want to play solo queue 5v5 summoners rift starting between 9-11 eastern/ 7-9 pacific (at least until I find a solid team to play with).

Please log on and respond to this post with what YOU want to see made available for tournaments. The people that set and run these tournaments read these boards, and will respond to an adequate demand for service. If you don't speak up, they wont know the need exists! There are over a million League players in the North America Server, and less than 1% currently play in FREE tournaments. LET"S FIX THIS...SPEAK UP...SHARE THE INFO...UNCLE RYZE WANTS YOU!

3 Comments

Bmac 16/12/2015, 5:46:47 AM1 votes

I would love some ranked 5's tournaments with predetermined teams. I go to a small, private university that cannot compete with the top tier NACC teams and would love a tournament I could compete in with my fellow peers.

TheGrandAlliance6/12/2015, 6:20:07 AM1 votes

  1. Finding them is almost impossible via pvp.net. There is no clear comprenhensive list of what is and what is coming up.

  2. Formats need to be more then just SR: That is what LCS is for. Having non-standard tourneys such as 1v1, "champion mastery", and even weird stuff like who can summoner 4 over the walls in a period of time (obstacle course) would be interesting. Of course some of these would require RIOT to enable REAL custom games that allow players more control.

  3. Too many tourneys can be a bad thing as well: The prize values and their importance cannot be overlooked. Consolidating some into "meaningful and desirable" ones will get people out to play.

  4. Need to have famous people particate in the events... a "guest of honor" if you will. This could be someone like PHREAK or an LCS player. They either could be "the final boss" that someone has to defeat or simply involved in some way. In other words there needs to be community AND Riot relations... RIOT cannot expect the community to pull all of its weight.

  5. Where is IGN? I thought they cared about MOBAs...

  6. Finally don't overlook concepts such as "L2P" and other non competitive events designed to help players learn to play better and not simply try to kill each other.

If I can think of more stuff over the next few days I will update this post alas.

Indeed it is so...

darkorpse6/13/2015, 1:11:01 AM1 votes

www.notsostock.ca offered mainly team 5v5 tournaments, though we're changing things up a bit for july and will be offering a solo entry event, as well as dominion, 3v3, and aram tournaments. Ryze wants you! to join NSSG