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How do I get to know the Esport world?

Darquino·9/26/2018, 7:50:52 PM·1 votes·1,243 views

No, obviously my point is not to get into e-sports, but just to know them and start being part of that side of the community that is really into Wordls and other events. I've never been really a fan of competetive League of Legends, but recently i had the occasion to watch a documentary about the rise and fall of team AZF. No need to say i liked it pretty a lot, but with Worlds behind the corner i still have this feeling of "Where the fuck do i start" when trying to understand whic are teams, by whom are composed, what kind of personality they have, how do they play differently from one another etc. The thing is, from an outsider all team to me sound the same, if it wasn't for the different logos and colors, they could be all be the same team and i would not notice differences. How do i get to know team and choose my favourite? That's the big question. Thanks to anyone who will help this quite litterally noob of the esports scenes [vlad-salute]

2 Comments

GeminiRune9/27/2018, 12:58:05 AM2 votes

Usually for me it comes down to the type of player or the play style that a team produces. In the past, without producing bias for myself, I looked at each team as an equal and look into what kind of compositions the team would play or whom the team focuses around; however know that innovation isn't the most prominent aspect of competitive League and that it's usually player dependent rather than team dependent.

Choosing a favorite without throwing names is tough without knowing what you want to get out of it yourself? Are you one to play to win? Do you like the winning side? Are you one that caters to innovative strategies like stated above? But from there, you do need to have an idea how a team plays and probably the personalities on the team with it in order to really establish favoritism.

For my case, I used to have a bizarre favoritism towards Rebels Anarchy - now Afreeca Freecs - during the time their rising player in Mickey was a part of their team as a mid laner. I myself am not a mid laner...at all. But it was through him and his "live and die" style - which I compared to that of NA mid laner Shiphtur during his Team Dignitas stint - that gave me interest in the team. I have present cases as well but none of them are at Worlds.

Kotex9/27/2018, 3:34:12 AM2 votes

Aside from the great summary that Gemini posted, i can't think of another way to truly get into it besides first just watching it. Me personally my first viewing experience of competitive league (and e-sports as a whole just for the record) dated back to 2013 Worlds. I couldn't really follow along with what i was seeing happening in the games as i had just started playing very infrequently several months back, but i found incredible entertainment from the casters and the analyst desk more than anything. And usually their would be players from different teams that unfortunately didn't make it to worlds that co-analyzed.

From there it made me find the teams i wanted to root for by getting to know the individual players of a team in this way starting with DoubleLift back when he was on Rush Hour (the epithet of the CLG botlane duo), and Krepo when he was on Evil Geniuses. It made me keep watching to keep experiencing their personalities that were usually funny and entertaining.

It was really hard to get into any other league that wasn't NA even though as i grew as a player i could clearly see that NA was the worst of almost all leagues, significantly outclassed by EU and LPL and LCK, but i still just enjoyed my NA teams for certain players on it. SO it really didn't matter to me how good or bad they were playing at the end of the day and thats a cool feeling: being able to root for someone that gets their ass kicked and not letting that deter you from rooting for them each time. Not really just because theyre the underdog, but just because they're them.

I dont really see a way for you to remain a distance away from e-sports but also trying to get to know e-sports at the same time. If you want to get situated in the e-sports community of league i think it will truly just start with you watching it with a genuine interest or i just personally don't see any point.