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Unavoidable spoilers are ruining the LCS for me, suggestions appreciated.

Sunrize·6/13/2016, 4:56:13 AM·0 votes·863 views

I am a big time esports fan and I was very excited about the new structure and patch for the Summer Split. Stir the pot! I love watching new strategies. Unfortunately the one thing I can't adapt to is spoilers, and between cross-posting the results mid-stream and the unlucky twitch splash screens, I'm pretty frustrated. This isn't baseball where there are 10 games per day and everyone has a home team. I want to be able to watch and enjoy every game.

Maybe I don't understand how Twitch works, but my understanding is that the splash screen is pulled from the last few minutes of the broadcast. If this is true, it should be possible to run a blank "League of Legends" logo splash for a few minutes at the end of each broadcast to prevent spoilers. Even if this is incorrect, I'm sure Riot and Twitch could work something out.

Thank you for all the support given to fans, especially in production quality, picture-in-picture during replays, and continuous updates to the spectator HUD. Please keep the trend going by eliminating unintentional spoilers!

I'm curious to hear what other fans think of cross-posting results between NALCS1 and 2, and if there are any settings I can change in Twitch or my browser to avoid spoilers. Thanks for reading!

3 Comments

Shadowatom6/13/2016, 7:50:45 AM2 votes

Personally, I bring up two windows and just have a stream running on each (with one muted of course, usually the one that I'm less into to begin with). And if I don't do this, then I focus on one stream and mute once a game ends and unmute once the next game is about to start. Then I watch the VODs on the lolespsorts site (don't scroll down on the homepage), it usually works pretty well for me. In all honesty though I don't mind spoilers too much though, I have "The Score Esports" app on my phone, so sometimes I'll just check out the match score or the current game's stats to see how things are going for teams. Not the best for watching/avoiding spoilers, but I'm just more into knowing a team won more than how they did it I suppose.

Anyways, you can always check out the VODs on youtube (also youtube is a good stream to watch, no splash screen spoilers), if you want.

Maszii6/13/2016, 9:04:28 AM2 votes

YOUTUBE!! And yes i have to use caps cus i see these daily. Just go to youtube: epicskillshot f.e. he uploads them so fast (almost after every game is done) and then you can watch them spoilerfree.

Sunrize6/13/2016, 3:17:34 PM1 votes

Youtube is a great idea! Thanks so much guys. For some silly reason I thought I had to watch these on twitch. Very happy to have a solution.