Here I was hoping for a close entertaining searies but like last year it was another stomp... I fell asleep on my chair after the end of the second game jesus. Might as well just hand the crown every year to korea and not even bother having a worlds since they are just too superior.
BlazingSalvo2 votesMaybe Riot should do Best of 7 like Major League Baseball. :^) Then they can have throws from 3-0 positions which only the Cleveland Indians seem to be able to achieve.
JevelFaithful1 votesHonnestly, I already don't have the patience to sit trought a full 4 games. I'm pretty sure it's taking it's toll on the players too! Bo7 would work only if they made it over 2 days because it would be fairer for the final, only for the final.
League matches last quite a while, mustn't forget that. It's not a 3-minute fighting game, those can relatively easily do Bo21 and it ends up well.
Cabo2 votesFirst off a 3-1 is not a stomp. you can claim that SSW just loves to throw game 3 but i think that is nonsense.
Second, there has only been 4 worlds which is not a large sample size to claim we should just hand them crowns every year...
third, Riot has Designed Esports so that China and Korea will always have the upper hand. They have the best internet and the best servers with dedicated teams that create personalized content just for them. They get different more advanced clients. They get better rewards etc.
Riot puts more Resources into those 2 regions than they put into all the other regions. so by default all other regions are underdogs.
GameofThrawns1 votesPretty sure South Korea has dominated e-sports since Starcraft: Brood War.
I'm intrigued really. Do CN and KR really get more rewards than the other regions? I do know that China often uses its own splash art, but beyond that, meh.
Cabo2 votesThis is not starcraft and the domination you see in starcraft is not even comparable to LoL.
All of the top players in starcraft are korean. the only time you see anyone else is at the start of the tournaments...then they are all eliminated.
League has much more variety at the top of the leader boards
12tales1 votesthird, Riot has Designed Esports so that China and Korea will always have the upper hand. They have the best internet and the best servers with dedicated teams that create personalized content just for them. They get different more advanced clients. They get better rewards etc.
Riot puts more Resources into those 2 regions than they put into all the other regions. so by default all other regions are underdogs.
Citation?
JevelFaithful2 votesFirst off, 3-1 is actually jsut 1 game from the max. I'd call it the normal score.
That being said, RC did at least do things in game 2 and 4. In #4, it looked like they'd get back in quite a few times even thought SSW always just barely got out (or stole dragon). If not for SSW's perfect score and we knew they'd win in the end, game 4 was tense for a while.
Even when SSW won, at least it was intertainning to watch. Those team plays were pretty impressive before they had a 15k lead and their stats could make them win every fight.
TSM was cowering in fear until game 3 and game 4 was less close than RC's game 4. Actually, by game 2 RC was at least trying to do things, compared to TSM's cowering in fear, it was a lot more fun to watch.
And for the record, S2 was won by China. It's only been 2 years since Koreans won.
The Archítect1 votesI think the E-sports thing of KR>CN>everyone else, is just a matter of a cultural difference as well. From what I've seen from streams read about the E-sports communities in those countries it's just more accepted as a life style than it is say in the NA region. From what I understand and gathered when SC2 was in it's prime being a pro player for that in Korea was the equivalent of being a professional athlete in America.
12tales1 votesEsports is still a niche market in Korea - the main difference is that it's been around for so long over there, corporate interests see it as a safe and effective way to market themselves. That's why you've got a team literally called Samsung, and that's why as a region, their support staff are far superior to Western coaches etcetera - you actually get paid enough for coaching to be a viable career in Korea.
But no, if you just pulled some random dude of the street in Korea, they probably wouldn't know any more about League than someone in the US. Maybe they'd recognize Faker, but they probably couldn't tell you the roster of Najin White Shield off the top of their head.
The Archítect1 votesEsports is still a niche market in Korea - the main difference is that it's been around for so long over there, corporate interests see it as a safe and effective way to market themselves. That's why you've got a team literally called Samsung, and that's why as a region, their support staff are far superior to Western coaches etcetera - you actually get paid enough for coaching to be a viable career in Korea.
But no, if you just pulled some random dude of the street in Korea, they probably wouldn't know any more about League than someone in the US. Maybe they'd recognize Faker, but they probably couldn't tell you the roster of Najin White Shield off the top of their head.
That was something I had forgotten to add that it's also been around longer there. But as far as the random shlub off the streets there's a high likely chance he won't be able to tell me the name of the offensive line of their home team (heck I'm a football fan and even I can't do that for my team). There's always gonna be people who don't have that interest.
