LCS Format

Molkane·2/20/2019, 10:14:59 PM·1 votes·1,013 views

Im new to posting here but I have played LOL since 2011. I am an avid esports fan and love watching league as much as possible. With NA recently changing their format to best of 1's it feels really stupid with all the content available. I spend a lot of time watching player interviews and extra coverage content based on League. I feel like the TSM situation in general is fueled by this best of 1 stuff. Like the reason Korea has always been so good is the amount of games played and the time to adapt and learn in a stage performance setting. Like look at SKT in pretty much all of their worlds wins. They lost a tons of matches early and adapted to be the better team in the end. In NA we don't get that chance. Its do or die and then people suck or don't suck based on one game, which in my opinion devalues a lot of the work these players put in everyday to win. I feel like we should at least have a best of 3's to showcase the teams ability to be consistent. Lets face it, best of 1's will never be consistent. If Doublelift decides to accidently click a minion on his vayne E then it could lose him the game. The chances he does that 3 games in a row is negligible. This to me is a problem within the NA scene and teams like TSM and possibly others are struggling based on this. BTW I am NOT a tsm fan, rather I watch specific players such as Doublelift and Jensen. Can a Blue give some insight as to why we have to have this format in NA versus some kinda real tournament feel? Seems like the traditional American way of being lazy to me which hurts esports in general for NA because we only have snap shots of players performance rather that hard data that tells us what is good and what isn't. Any thoughts?

6 Comments

Octavia2/20/2019, 10:28:18 PM2 votes

BO1 is trash everyone knows it

GeminiRune2/20/2019, 11:01:19 PM2 votes

Didn't stop Cloud9 from reaching semis or Fnatic from reaching the finals on what was....oh right...Best of 1 regular seasons! So......point?