Unfair ruling in EU LCS.

Apex Citavista·Jan 22, 2015·3 votes·780 views

If you watch the LCS like many of us, in the game between Roccat and SK, I'm sure you saw Roccat get stomped. But should that really have happened? If you noticed in the champ select, SK gaming player was hitting "random" champ button a lot to kinda troll, and ended up ACCIDENTALLY locking in the wrong champion because he ran out of time. Now the kicker? THEY RESET IT! They re-did the champ select upto that point, and then let them re-pick the incorrect champion. That champion that they accidentally selected was Kalista, and when they fixed it, they instead picked Lucian. In which he went 5/0/7. Personally I think that in that level of play, if they run out of time and lock the wrong champion, they should have had to play it. You don't get that kind of treatment in normal ranked. They made a mistake that was completely their fault, and they got a rest. Anybody else think that is unfair?

6 Comments

Deep Terror NamiJan 22, 20152 votes

No...

You don't get a pass if you disconnect/crash or have a bug in a normal game either. Not going to mention those? Championship games are clearly held to a higher standard so this nonsense doesn't get in the way and give another team an unfair advantage like a misclick lock-in or a DC 4v5 match.

Scuttler SlayerJan 22, 20152 votes

He didn't misclick though. He was intentionally fucking around and then he fucked up because of it. It's a "YDI" sort of moment. Not a genuine mistake.

I think he should have had to stick with it.

It's not like he locked in Poppy either. He locked in a viable adc when they needed one.

JubbinautJan 22, 20151 votes

There was a game at Nationals in Seattle last year similar to this. I honestly don't remember which game it was (that whole damn weekend is kinda blurry), though I'm pretty sure it was a TSM match. A player (I think Dyrus?) had started the game with the incorrect rune/mastery setup. They paused it to verify his pick, then reset the game.

And y'know? I'm glad. LCS is competition at the highest tier of play. I want to see everyone performing at the absolute top of their game every game.

Apex CitavistaJan 22, 20152 votes

But if they are at the very top, shouldnt they do better than making mistakes like that? and seeing them at their very best, wouldnt that be seeing them still play with that mistake, and see how they do?

JubbinautJan 22, 20151 votes

If pro football players grab ill-fitting gear, is it not appropriate to let them change into the pads that actually fit them? Because that's a thing that totally happens (though I doubt they'd pause/delay the game for long for it, since there's rules in football that allow for on-the-fly substitutions).

Should Dyrus (? I still can't remember for sure if it was him) have double-checked his setup? Sure! Should SK's ADC have not been farting around with the randomizer? Absolutely!

But do I think either of them should have their play gimped by that? Not a chance. Because that's not them playing at their best. That's limping along with an artificial handicap. And that's not what I want to watch professionals doing.

2000boxesJan 22, 20151 votes

I think its ok for them to get a repick because those matches are to show who is the best and how are you going to show you are the best if you are playing someone you can't play your best with plus im very sure roccat wouldn't have felt satisfied if they won like that just imagine

YA guys we just beat sk gaming because they weren't playing the best they could

thats just the equivalent of someone going easy on you and then you beat them. IMO I wouldn't feel satisfied if i only won because someone went easy on me