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Between Two Turrets - Come chat with collegiate lead RiotSherman! [COMPLETE]

RiotA Small Man·4/12/2016, 8:11:11 PM·13 votes·46,134 views


Welcome to the latest installment of Between Two Turrets, a Q&A series through which we connect you with various Rioters to chat about League, life, and anything in between. You can expect a new Q&A every two weeks or so, with Rioters from all over jumping in to spend some time with you on the Boards. You can also check out past installments!

This week, we’ve got collegiate lead Michael “RiotSherman” Sherman!

Hey there! My name is Michael Sherman, but everyone just calls me Sherman, and I lead up our college esports program, otherwise known as the uLoL Campus Series.

A little bit of background on me, I’ve been at Riot for just under 2 years now, but have been playing League since 2009 during my senior year of high school. Over the years my involvement with the community evolved from just being a player, to starting a club at my school, running college tournaments for over 300 schools, and running events for pros and challenger teams.

Now my focus is entirely on uLoL esports. I want to help build the best competitive outlet we possibly can for college students to show off their skills as a League player while being able to remain active in school. In 2014, I joined Riot as an intern to build the North American Collegiate Championship with Riot Jaws and have since then helped evolve it to the uLoL Campus Series. If you’re interested in checking out some collegiate action, the Campus Series finals will be live from PAX East, April 23-34, on watch.lolesports.com.

On the Rift, I regularly switch between being a Jungler and a Top laner. My favorite champion is probably Nunu, specifically Grungy Nunu (Nunu bot’s alright too). Even though I’ve been playing for 6 years, I’ve peaked at gold 3 for the last 3 years mainly because every couple weeks I decide I want to main a new champion…yes, I’m that guy in champ select. Besides League, I love FPS and survival games.

Let's talk!

212 Comments

RiotSherman4/12/2016, 8:17:54 PM16 votes

uhh...Hello! Is this thing on? How's everyone doing today!

McRick4/12/2016, 8:22:44 PM8 votes

Hello! Thanks for taking questions. I was wondering how a college would go about getting involved in the uLoL Campus Series. I hope to be attending the University of Michigan beginning in 2017, and it'd be my dream to play for them in a huge college tournament such as the uLoL one. Is it something that the university's team first applies for then qualifies for? I'd like to find out if U of M is actively trying to get involved in it, or if I need to start suggesting it. Thanks in advance!

Solidair34/12/2016, 8:51:53 PM6 votes

What's your favorite color?

Favorite book?

Favorite movie?

Favorite ult in League of Legends?

And, are you having a nice day?

JustCasual4/12/2016, 8:47:03 PM5 votes

What is your ridiculous big dream for the uLoL esports scene in 5 years??

Now what are your realistic expectations of uLoL esports scene in 5 years??

Thanks!

Peregrin4/12/2016, 8:50:13 PM4 votes

Hi Sherman!

I'd like to get your opinion on the current one-team-per-school rule in place. Would it be possible to alter this rule for next year to allow schools that do not buy their players with scholarships to potentially have multiple teams compete? I totally get the ruling for scholarship-based programs, but for schools where academics is actually the main focus in attending the university, it seems like such a hindrance especially when they do have 2 (or even more) good enough teams for the campus series! From experience, UBC/SFU/UW all had sister teams with really strong rosters!

How happy were you with the viewer counts from this year? It seemed like the retention from LCS->uLoL was actually quite high on Saturdays, around 30% is really good! I would imagine it helps a lot that a large minority of the player-base is currently attending college/university?

Keada4/12/2016, 8:46:37 PM3 votes

Hello so i am a president of my college's (culver-Stockton college) esports organisation and we competed 2 years ago but this year we did not because we couldn't find a schedule for when the match's would be held. so my question is for the 2016 year when you put the sign ups out do you think that riot will put the times of the matches to be held on the website as well?

Staks4/12/2016, 8:25:53 PM3 votes

"Besides League, I love FPS and survival games."

Any specific titles?

FBl OPEN UP4/12/2016, 8:31:51 PM3 votes

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kirollos914/12/2016, 11:09:26 PM3 votes

Start something @ CUNY New York. They have a whole bunch of universities under CUNY. Riot has huge potential if they sign something with CUNY

Tails Thee Fox4/12/2016, 9:23:00 PM2 votes

What's your favorite kind of tank?

HFang4/12/2016, 9:49:40 PM2 votes

Any thoughts on updating the qualifier format for next year? Felt bad for clearly strong teams that didn't make it this year because of unlucky pairings against other top teams in early rounds.

5mi4/13/2016, 1:18:06 AM2 votes

In particular and especially in the past, many collegiate players in the West region feel/felt as though they were at a disadvantage. (i.e. "west is best," or west is stacked) Although it does add to the excitement that we separate colleges by regions for competitive diversity, does this not also in a sense take away from the competitive integrity? If one particular region yields players of lower caliber, would that not mean that there could be teams in other regions that don't advance forward despite being better simply because they are in a more difficult region?

SimiSim4/13/2016, 1:33:57 AM2 votes

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KhaosViper4/13/2016, 4:50:33 AM2 votes

why did uofm forfit

Budlowski4/13/2016, 8:39:08 AM2 votes

Hey I'm bad at league and I quit

ExclusiveGrezz4/13/2016, 11:29:35 PM2 votes
  1. I got perma banned lmao
PrincessuuKennii4/12/2016, 8:24:52 PM2 votes

So, thoughts on the Taric Rework?

KOC rule4/14/2016, 3:43:31 AM2 votes

Have you ever been to P.Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sydney?

TonyTonyMordecai4/12/2016, 8:50:30 PM2 votes

Speaking of survival games, have you ever played This War Of Mine?

Pick your top 3 champs who you can comfortably say are your real mains?

Hentai Overlord4/12/2016, 8:51:13 PM2 votes

Any interests in anything other than games? Like anime as a example.

TerraRising4/12/2016, 8:20:29 PM2 votes

Sherman? Like Peabody's assistant?

Serious question: At what point do you expect eSports to achieve legitimacy at the collegiate competitive level? Also, do you see possible Title IX as a hindrance or a benefit to eSports at colleges?

Dragonette4/12/2016, 9:07:46 PM2 votes

Does riot have any plans to stream regular season games for uLoL?

FaZeQuackGG4/12/2016, 9:20:54 PM2 votes

Taric i love the updates on taric keep it up dev [slayer-pantheon-rainbows]