Its been over a year without the tribunal...

Intoccabile·3/25/2015, 4:40:10 PM·80 votes·4,874 views
Upgrading the Tribunal | League of Legends

I remember I used to enjoy visiting the tribunal every so often, it made me feel that league was different from many other games and that I could help out the community improve either by removing the toxic players and by preventing unfair punishments. I enjoyed this system because it proved out to be quite fun and enjoyable and it even had its own ranking system which was a neat little bonus to it. I even had the honor of quoting league's tribunal system at university (law student) praising it for its simplicity and effectiveness.

However, its been over a year since the tribunal has been shut down, several of the friends I have invited to play league have never even had the pleasure of visiting the tribunal and it seems like we're in for a long wait. My only hope is that someday, in the same way as the Emblem of Valor came back as Relic's Shield, the tribunal we all knew and loved will be back as a reborn mechanism to enhance the community, yet most importantly, lets hope that day comes soon.

64 Comments

rinsujo3/25/2015, 8:09:05 PM30 votes

Holy cow, has it been a year already? Would explain why it feels like so many more people are toxic. When I got tired of playing with ragers I'd go into tribunal and read about other people who had it worse than me.

I do kinda miss that.

I Kill Commies3/25/2015, 8:03:49 PM19 votes

Ah yes,

I too miss the Salem Witch Trials

Minisephirot3/26/2015, 7:23:58 AM8 votes

I miss the tribunal too. Made me feel like L. Yagami.

ActualPain3/26/2015, 3:27:47 AM6 votes

Honestly I think the absence of the Tribunal is a disgrace for Riot. Like, what the fuck are they even doing with it>!?!\

iainB853/26/2015, 1:35:17 AM5 votes

Crazy how slow League dev is.

Not claiming it's an easy system to setup, but you gotta think with the resources Riot has this a bit of crazy time frame.

bad arcade kitty3/25/2015, 11:13:22 PM4 votes

tribunal was very funny to read, i recall some guy composed and recite rhymed bawdy poetry about lol champions in the chat etc hilarious stuff

also one of my favorite pic about ahri mainers is from tribunal (i'm not like them :3) about pooping on the carpet and imagining themself to be a punished dog

Doctor Dyment3/25/2015, 11:47:34 PM3 votes

Well, a good majority of those arguments on the Tribunal ended in a disconnect from one person or another. But now, Leavebuster does the punishing digitally and automatically. Don't feel personally offended by it, I mean it really is just business. Why would you stick with people who can make mistakes, when you could use a robot that obviously never makes those mistakes?

bad arcade kitty3/26/2015, 5:45:13 AM2 votes

dota2 has a better report system btw your reports are limited like very limited, may be 1 per 10 games or so, not sure, but you have very few of them and cannot use for some stupid crap

Pastramka3/25/2015, 11:10:44 PM2 votes

Me and my team have just being referred as "Pigs", by an unprovoked enemy that was wining and writing ":D" after the "Run pig run";

I bet that he just gets by only with warnings - This would not have been the case if his case was met in the tribunal. The new system tends to be much to tolerable.

Buy the way we shut him up by wrecking him at the end :D.

JonathanBlue3/26/2015, 5:10:07 AM2 votes

I currently played a game and was disappointed when a toxic player was reported and they just laugh cause they knew riot was going to do nothing. Sadly if this keeps up I may quit league. I used to enjoy playing but now it seems like every other game has a toxic player in it. I'm not talking about your regular run of the mill toxic player, I'm talking about toxic players like twitch's poison mixed with Singed's poison bad. And if it continues then I most likely will leave. I come on league to relax after a days work, or to enjoy spending time with friends but lately it feels like I'm going through the motions. If Riot does not implement some version of a tribunal soon or announced a time when it will return I will must likely leave, as much as it saddens me.

Iron Viking3/26/2015, 7:01:31 PM1 votes

I sure hope they bring the tribunal back.

I don't think a computer is the proper way to implement justice. If it worked that well we wouldn't need jurors now. We'd just put the information about the trial in a computer and boom! Verdict, sentencing, done.

I wouldn't want my fate left up to a computer.

dandyangel3/26/2015, 8:35:53 PM1 votes

I've been wanting to review cases since I started playing I didnt get the chance and I'm still waiting item 3070

delonix3/26/2015, 8:43:18 PM1 votes

Don't worry though, the tribunal is still working and making the game better. Why, just a few games ago I got a notice from Riot that said "Did you know: The Tribunal has improved the attitude of 280,000 players in the past 12 months."

Sounds to me like it's working pretty well.

Aerothal3/26/2015, 8:51:44 PM1 votes

Did you expect Lyte to come by and assure you that it's going to be back soon®?

Death By Salt3/27/2015, 2:05:25 AM1 votes

They took it out and replaced it with teemo, fight toxic with toxic simple as that. Why else would teemo say ""Turns out, I've got a proficiency in killing." It all makes sense if you think about it.

Loken Stoneheart3/27/2015, 5:33:02 AM1 votes

Its cathartic and I miss it.

FluxBound3/27/2015, 5:56:55 AM1 votes

I like how this post is not whiny and complaining about the lack of Tribunal. It's more of reminiscing the joys of the past. The Boards needs more of these

Nucleophilic atk4/1/2015, 11:16:23 AM1 votes

I miss the tribunal, too. It actually gave me a reason for being chat banned. Now I send in a ticket and I literally get, "it is important to note that you didn't do anything wrong", next time it's, "you told a flamer to stop flaming your teammate", and the 3rd time it was, "you asked your teammate repeatedly to 'please stop chasing the tank into the unwarded jungle'." Rito support sucks.

Damorion2153/25/2015, 11:59:20 PM1 votes

Well, it's not like it did much when we still had it. It was still poorly made and thus, it had to be removed to be fixed. But it shouldn't take over a damn year to fix such a system. Riot wants us to suffer a bit longer, lol.

Urdnot Entar3/26/2015, 1:38:48 AM1 votes

When it comes to development, Riot's concept of time is sort of like Valve time, only taking into account the fact that they are about 1/24th as efficient (I did the math :p)

King Bisu3/26/2015, 1:56:12 AM1 votes

yea you enjoyed perma banning ppl, the new system works better. its people like you that made me hate the tribunal

NommyPancake3/26/2015, 1:58:56 PM1 votes

I miss the forum section called "tribunal inquiry" or something, where a bunch of toxic players trying to justify their action... And I always had fun replying to them LOL

Takeuchi 173/26/2015, 2:38:42 PM1 votes

I miss tribunal (Q.Q)

ThePlasticSpork3/26/2015, 6:56:00 PM1 votes

I mostly used the Tribunal because most of the text there was pretty funny. You could find some real comedy gold on some of those reports.

Call me a bad person, but the whole "doling out justice to toxic swine" bits were just a side bonus to me.