@Riot Report Your Own Esports News!

Bronze 5 Teeto·12/12/2017, 6:27:46 PM·4 votes·1,789 views

There are actually a ton of people who play this game who like to follow what is happening with the lcs teams. You guys should have updates on the esports portion of your site about players signing with teams, being traded, etc... Why do we have to learn all this stuff on reddit or from the players themselves on twitch?

It would be way better to report this stuff on the league website. There's a lot of fans who care about where aphromoo signed and what all the new teams are and what team liquids roster is etc... :)

9 Comments

LF Annie12/12/2017, 6:29:44 PM2 votes

im unemployed if riot needs to hire no-lifes that spend too much time on league to write about the nothing really important stuff about pro's are doing, i'll take $ 15 an hour [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Grza12/14/2017, 7:37:10 AM2 votes

Hi.

So, our general position with teams is that we want them to control their own narratives - so while we know what, for example, Golden Guardians' roster looks like, we don't publish it on lolesports.com or in the Global Contract Database - we want teams to be able to put out their own content. As soon as they put out announcements, sites like Reddit, ESPN and others pick it up and write their own stories. We think this is a great thing. It shows the commitment and interest in the NA LCS ecosystem.

Could we require teams to post at X time and have our own story ready to go? Sure. But having an official Riot channel takes away from the media attention teams are able to generate and ultimately takes away from their narrative - so we'd much rather sit back and let teams make their own announcements without our interference. Ultimately, we will find the story lines and make content around them during the season - but until then - a team posting content is the #1 way for them to make connections with fans, and we want to encourage that.

--Grza (NA LCS League Ops).

LF Annie12/12/2017, 6:38:21 PM1 votes

at least you're in college, im praying i get the job i have an interview for thursday or i might be posting from stolen wifi when im sleeping ina mcdonalds parking lot at 2 am

III BAKURYU III 12/13/2017, 4:11:16 AM1 votes

"Don't count on it"-Magic 8 ball Toy Story I've said the same thing for about......4 years now and nothing has changed.

Hemanth12/15/2017, 4:49:25 PM1 votes

This excuse is amazing, I will use it in the future