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LCS should only relegate after Summer split

RobotRevolution·8/21/2016, 11:04:57 PM·4 votes·618 views

A lot of promising teams are coming in and out of the LCS at such a rapid pace they have little time to develop or get their players used to each other. It's hard to be a fan of a new team when they drop after a single split as well. Instead of bringing new teams in and out each split through relegation, LCS should only hold one relegation tournament after the Summer split. This would give new teams a full year to rise to the level of more established teams.

It would also allow alternate seeding into the relegation tournament - a reverse of the Worlds-qualifying system. This would more accurately reflect the strength of the teams and allow teams to improve between splits, or allow teams that struggled early in one split to make it up in the next.

2 Comments

Hellmet8/22/2016, 3:43:00 AM2 votes

Relegation is stupid as shet, how many years will it take for Riot to figure out that in the US doesn't work that way. What you are already seeing is organizations like C9 using their Champion teams to an additional revenue stream to sell off when they get in. Time to end that crap in the US.. give me a team I can follow every year.

III BAKURYU III 8/22/2016, 4:55:25 AM2 votes

Even if riot hears what you are saying it will take them like 3 years before they do something about it.
Look at the 2013-2015 Spring split.
The spring split was just a complete waste of Competition all the spring split really was is a place not to be relegated while the Summer split had the Worlds in the background and they only way to get to Worlds was from the Summer split, but it's okay cause it only took Riot like 3 years to figure that one out.