Fixing the LCS

IncrediPhiLL·Apr 23, 2017·1 votes·435 views

How does RIOT fix the atrocity of competitive League of Legends? It is easily the worst esport out there right now. They have no competitive leagues in their arsenal and all global events that are competitive are dominated by Korea. It's getting a little embarrassing and funny watching "Professional League of Legends Players" continually step up on this "great stage" and get dominated by 2 teams consistently for years. LCS is a train wreck in NA and EU. If I wanted to watch the same team win something over and over again, I'd just watch women's basketball. RIOT has ZERO ability to make their product exciting. They might as well sell the company to Reginald and let him dictate who wins the LCS every year from an office. Watching these blowout games in the finals is pretty ridiculous. There is only so many times RIOT can hype up a series and have it end in a complete destruction. I feel bad for the fans who pay good money to go watch that in a stadium.

Other sports have a sense of excitement and underlying hope that anything can happen, but LCS and even LCK is just rough right now. No excitement. No competition. No fun.

It also doesn't help that every sports analyst they hire is a biased bumfuzzle who gets his panties tight every single time a certain team (you know the one) appears on screen.

I just want RIOT to make some kind of change to make this sport exciting again. The last 2 to 3 years have been tough to watch as a fan. I might as well save my time and just know that the same exact teams will win a split and go to the finals every single time AND that every single international event will be won by Korea. I mean... why watch when you know everything that is going to happen? Not trying to be a Debbie Downer about the whole thing, but I can't help but think that there is something RIOT can do to get people excited to watch this esport again. I've gotten to the point where I watch game one and just shut it down.

8 Comments

420 gramsApr 23, 20172 votes

I don't follow or watch lcs but here's everything I think I know about it

Skt usually wins
Tsm is the best American team, but loses to Korea
Cloud 9 is worse than Tsm, but the only other good American team.

Is any of that accurate?

IncrediPhiLLApr 23, 20171 votes

Perfectly accurate. Couldn't have said it better myself XD

GeminiRuneApr 23, 20171 votes

Okay. I've been seeing these all split. I'm gonna make this short:

It's the end of the split. What's your point to even express such feeling? Why now particularly in the NA LCS Finals, especially if you're watching the steamroll that's going on? How much have you even watched in means of content to want to make the claims you want to make? What did you think of the split as a whole in every facet?

I am darn willing to answer these questions myself but to say there's a lack of quality that needs to be changed is just your opinion. And I find that opinion terrible in a word.

IncrediPhiLLApr 23, 20171 votes

I find your opinion that my opinion is invalid invalid.

I've expressed these feelings several times before. I have no doubt that these feelings go unnoticed considering the community of League of Legends is hardly ever heard outside of the challenger scope.

I've been watching for roughly three years... and have been met with the same result for roughly three years. It's not "my opinion" that the league lacks excitement. When the same teams win over and over again, it becomes a fact. Excitement at its very core is not knowing what is going to happen... and well... we all know what is going to happen before split even starts... hence a lack of excitement.

I guess watching the league over and over again is pretty much insanity. I know what's going to happen, but I'm always hoping for a different result. I guess I just keep continuing to think that the diversity of the league and the talent distribution will change things, but it doesn't. League is one of the few sports that has a consistent winner no matter who is on which team and therein lies the problem. I'm not saying I have a solution, just saying that I've noticed the trend and am losing interest because of it.

It doesn't matter much anyways. I'm sure RIOT will do just fine with one less bronze viewer.

GeminiRuneApr 23, 20171 votes

And that means there needs to be a "fix" to the LCS? Results don't change by just willy nilly forcing winning teams into scenarios that either cause them to lose or fall out. That's Esports in general. Any other team based Esport pulls the same amount of stagnant results depending on the competitors. If League is getting that stale to you, then step back. You might as well just change your title of the post to "I'm done with League Esports" instead.

IncrediPhiLLApr 23, 20171 votes

Thats fair, but I don't consider myself being particularly picky with the league. I've stayed loyal to professional eSports throughout some disappointing times. I understand that RIOT really can't control who wins and which players play where, I'm just saying that they are suffering from a repetitive league with repetitive outcomes and it is very unfortunate. I'd like to see SOMETHING done to add excitement.

GeminiRuneApr 23, 20171 votes

And I've gone through 2 years of a single player in a different game coming in top placement or 1st tournament after tournament and was practically unstoppable. And no it was not Starcraft. Repetitive outcomes didn't kill that game.

Nobody can discredit individual nor team orientated talent in esports. Times change no matter where you look at it. It just happens with League, the top rarely changes. If all that matters to you as the viewer is where the very top lies, then that's just dismissive of the rest of the scene, which actually has some value and different flare from time to time. But like you said, you're not as picky. I have to respect that.

IncrediPhiLLApr 23, 20171 votes

They should pass out refunds in Canada today. That's for sure. No one should have to pay for a product that bad.