LEC not showing what teams are playing and the score, but show the sponsors/Riot in-game purchases

Sarabjot·Aug 24, 2019·2 votes·2,190 views

Tuned into LEC and I couldn't find the score or who's playing in between the games during the break. I can find out based on the stream's title, but the screen doesn't show who's playing or what's the score. I would have to go on Reddit to find the score. However, the sponsors and Riot's in-game purchases are clearly shown. What kind of design is this where the timer is shown tilted to the side? Wouldn't it just be better to add what the score is and clearly show the time horizontally so we can avoid this annoyance?

9 Comments

Jerry SeinfeIdAug 24, 20192 votes

this is literally nothing special or uncommon.

I get that this is the perfect time to farm upvotes based on "greedy rito" posts but advertising on your stream is perfectly normal. and there's a reason sponsors exist, they ain't doing that out of the goodness of their hearts.

They have a section dedicated to the standings on lolesports if you genuinly can't find it.

SarabjotAug 24, 20192 votes

Lmao relax there bud. I don't care about sponsors. There's no information about the game. How many other esports or sports do you see where you have to go to another web site to find out what the score is? Do you actually believe it's okay to hide the score and the teams are playing but focus on showing the sponsors?

GeminiRuneAug 24, 20191 votes

So for 6-7 minute breaks plus some analyst desk segments, you can't be that patient to either wait for the next champ select or the "Welcome back to blank where blank " in which one of those blanks is usually the game number or the score?

Lighter reference: LCK puts you on a camera of the LoL Park for the English cast while the Korean cast does their analyst segment. No scores during that.

You're letting those segmented 10% of entire main broadcasts be your own detriment because what? You tuned in late? Well I didn't watch the LEC series as dedicated myself. I blipped in a few times - once on an ad break - and I just took a guess based on the time elapsed since the series start as to the game number, and checked back in after break. Next time I check in its game 4 with colored dots indicating the score.

On that note: since when has any previous Lolesports overlay used DOTS?! There are those who wouldn't get that change just as much as your ad break gripe.

Also don't yank sports into this shit. Ad breaks happen there all the time and even on ESPN it doesn't give you the damn score at all times until it's back on air!

My point is Jerry's point. Nothing freaking new. If it matters that much, rewind youtube or go to Reddit or something.

SarabjotAug 24, 20192 votes

It's not a matter of patience, it's a matter of clarity. They can easily add the teams playing and the score. I don't think it would take that much to simply tell everyone what's the score when they are able to instead making others go somewhere else. It's a small fix for clarity. No point in this whole "my detriment" shit. It's lack of clarity and it's as simple as that. I will yank sports into this shit. They don't hide the scores when they get the chance to. How about just do the small fix so everyone knows what the fuck the score is?

GeminiRuneAug 24, 20192 votes

If its clatity were talking, I'm almost certain the LCS incorporated the score at analyst desk starting in semis. This was just the first week of playoffs for LEC. All it takes is calling it out in the right place and boom. It's not worth complaining over though

Jerry SeinfeIdAug 25, 20191 votes

yes this is all perfectly normal. some games don't even have their own site with tourney results, games that rely on community ran tourneys and often also rely on a third party sites for brackets of said tourneys. if all riot asks you is to look at a picture of their shit and the logo's of their sponsor's i really don't think they're going too far. you coulda had actual ads for said sponsors.

all that aside you don't actually need to go to any other site than lolesports.com. It's as simple as clicking on standings in the top bar. unless ofcourse you're just going straight to twitch to watch it, at which point none o this shit is riot's problem. I don't even watch lcs anymore and i can find that shit, it ain't hard.

GeminiRuneAug 24, 20192 votes

I went back and watched the broadcast vod for its ad breaks. The sequence that was played was promoting the finals in Athens, Pro View, then the LEC Team Pass in that order. The only exception was that of Game 3 where they had a score update from 3:20 on the countdown to 2:10 before advertising Pro View. So it's not like the production team didn't have it on deck to display.

Rogue vs Splyce also displayed the score during the break as well. From 3:20 to 2:10 after Game 1, and during the last 20 seconds after Game 2. Once again, it's not like they don't have it.

If you ask me just sequence it like this: 45 seconds at the start and end of the break for the score overlay. The remaining time of 3 minutes fills the between ads they regularly sequence.

I didn't even have to take the effort to do this, but at least acknowledge that I freaking did for something so petty...

SarabjotAug 24, 20191 votes

It's a tiny inconvenience. I'm simply making the suggestion to add the teams playing and the score in-between games. It's a very small deal, but might as well add the suggestion in addition to the vertical timer. As for your other reply on my comment, the LCS also the time remaining during the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals.