Learn More: Spring Split Watch Missions

Riot·1/17/2019, 10:46:44 PM·2 votes·44,687 views

Esports Watch Missions Are Underway!

Now that the 2019 Spring Split is in full swing, we wanted to give you an idea of what’s in store for esports watch rewards. As a reminder, both live games and VODs from the current Spring Split will activate rewards when you’re logged in to watch.lolesports.com or watching on the League Friends App. At this time we are not able to grant rewards for watching rebroadcasts. You must watch at least ten minutes of a game for it to count toward missions.

Each week, you’ll be able to earn small rewards for watching games which can stack up to bigger ones throughout the split. Keep tuning in to unlock an exclusive Teemote that won’t be hitting the store! Here’s a full rundown of the missions you can expect.


Starting Mission:

Let the Games Begin Watch a live game or VOD from any global league on watch.lolesports.com Reward: Foam Finger of Destiny Icon, 500 XP

Weekly:

Watch and Earn Watch 3 live games or VODs from any global league on watch.lolesports.com Reward: 250 Blue Essence

Split-Long Achievements:

These achievements won’t sit in your client’s active mission log to avoid cluttering up the list for months on end, but any player who completes the very first mission (“Let the Games Begin”) is eligible to complete them. You can check your completed missions in the missions log for now; soon, we’ll show the number of watch missions you’ve done during Spring Split on the rewards hub as well.

Watch Wizard [Hidden Achievement] Complete 4 Esports Watch Weekly Missions before April 23rd Reward: Cheering Poro Icon
The Road to MSI [Hidden Achievement] Complete 8 Esports Watch Weekly Missions before April 23rd Reward: Teemote
The Road to MSI [Hidden Achievement] Complete 12 Esports Watch Weekly Missions before April 23rd Reward: Esports and Chill Icon

79 Comments

mage1921171/18/2019, 7:04:46 PM53 votes

I didn’t get any rewards for watching 2 matches :( and I definitely watched more than 10 minutes of it, was logged in, and had the “you are properly linked” notification

Reaper Soraka1/20/2019, 9:55:35 PM12 votes

start VOD select speed x2 mute play a game repeat

Sir Ender1/20/2019, 9:18:22 PM11 votes

My favorite part of these missions is the complete lack of support for just watching them on twitch. :) After that is the fact that watching them on the lolesports site doesn't complete the mission either. :)

Noizless1/19/2019, 2:36:36 AM11 votes

You can only show off one icon at a time and other people can't really view your collection. Riot please just give out more BE [zombie-nunu-tears]

BigPapaPimpins1/20/2019, 3:34:22 AM10 votes

Rioter 1: "Play rates and viewership has gone down in NA, what do we do?!" Ritoer 2: "It's only NA, the rest of the world is fine; we shouldn't panic yet, right?!" Rioter 3: "You fool! NA is our homeland! We need to keep up main support!"

Head Ritoer: Spins around in spiny chair at the head of the table "We'll just offer them some icons and an emote they can't equip more then five of; trust me, it'll be enough to attract in some new dogs."

Ritoer 1,2,3: "Wow, what a genius; truly amazing! So smart!" All three Rioters bark in agreement as Head Rioter spins back in the spiny chair.

How Do You Meta1/20/2019, 2:06:48 PM10 votes

This is the worst mission ever because of how buggy it is and the fact that we are getting bribed to watch esports.

Mr Puggles1/19/2019, 4:30:53 AM9 votes

Excuse me riot, where are my rewards.I watched your skt vod for well over 10 minutes.

LEPRECHAUNH8RED1/22/2019, 2:59:25 PM8 votes

Everybody is missing the point... These icons are to reward players who already watch E-Sports.. It's not necessarily to incite players to watch it. I mean obviously it does help but if you watch E-Sports then it's a nice + to have. Everyone has to stop getting pissed about Riot just trying to reward players. Also twitch support and the bug getting fixed would be nice though lol

J Girl 50921/21/2019, 1:50:59 AM7 votes

I watched 16 games yesterday, got zero credit, watched 2 VODs today finally got credit for 1*[sg-shisa]*

Parrot Trooper2/15/2019, 1:42:52 AM6 votes

Love these! been working great for me, and i dont need any encouragement to watch more esports honestly (183 games watched as of today) Keep up the good work Rito <3*[poppy-wink]*

36 ms1/19/2019, 7:15:18 PM5 votes

Can you actually make them function

Xián1/18/2019, 8:42:32 PM5 votes

I don't wan't icons :(

BlakeH331/19/2019, 5:00:45 PM4 votes

I am not getting my foam finger for some reason after watching G2 obliterate Shalke

Toph Siñex2/14/2019, 8:23:53 PM4 votes

I see a lot of people are here reporting that their rewards weren't earned even though they watched the VODS. I'm here to hopefully help and spread some details based on my own experience and relaying what was told to me from Riot Support when I asked about these.

Try these steps before blaming Riot and contacting Riot Support.

Step 1: Make sure you are on the lolesports website and logged in. I know this seems condescending but we've all forgotten to log in before. Not to mention that yes, the games are streamed on both youtube and twitch respectively and while you can watch the games on those websites only watching on lolesports website will earn you the rewards.

Step 2: Disable Adblock, all of your adblocks. It should go without saying that you should disable adblock when trying to get watch rewards but some people are stubborn about it. I will admit, more than a few times I got watch rewards while still running adblock but it is known to cause issues.

Step 3: Pick the right games. As of typing this, February 14th, 2019. I am still unaware of the reasoning behind it but I'm still seeing many reports of this issue. LCK, LPL, and LMS games are not counting towards games watched for many players and therefore do not work for the quests. I recommend using the CBLOL, EUCS and NALCS as your games for the quests.

Step 4: Leave the games open. From pregame, champ select to Nexus explosion. If you feel the urge to play league while you're watching these games or simply need to do something else during them, make sure to keep a window open. Navigating away or switching tabs seems to reset the counter but not switching to another window like playing an ARAM or ARURF while its playing. That being said it takes anywhere from 15-20 minutes sometimes for the games to be counted so to be sure myself I never closed them until my counter had changed.

If you are still experiencing issues I would try clearing your cache and relogging into the website and doing the steps again. If all else fails this is the time to contact Riot Support about the issue. I hope this helps some of you get your Blue Essence and Icons and I hope you all have a wonderful day. <3 [sg-ahri-2]

Kikiyu1/19/2019, 12:26:55 AM3 votes

So The Road to MSI is basically for watching the streams/VODs each week then?

I know it seems like a basic question, I just want to make sure.

eGoat1/19/2019, 7:40:37 PM3 votes

I have the first reward, but not all of the times I watch are being registered. This is very frustrating, because I have an updated browser and latest build of Windows 10 with the LoL client running in the background.

supporter master1/20/2019, 1:36:41 PM3 votes

Hello,Riot! I am on the mission of watching 3 live games. Even after finishing more than 6 games on LEC, LCK, and LPL, the status still stays on 1/3, not getting any rewards more. What happened?

DereC41/20/2019, 9:50:56 PM3 votes

This isn't working i watched 2 full vods and no rewards or videos added

Da DonBot1/21/2019, 8:18:19 PM2 votes

Yeah so my vods and live matches arent giving me credit. What gives Riot?

Flashes1/19/2019, 12:39:10 AM2 votes

I didn't get any rewards even though I watched the 2nd game between Fnatic and someone else i just wasted my time

LORD V3NUS1/21/2019, 6:31:18 AM2 votes

It's not hidden anymore if you tell us!

supporter master1/20/2019, 3:35:33 PM2 votes

Hello, Riot! I'm on the misson of watching 3 live games. But even after watching more than 6 live games on LEC, LCK, and LPL, the status still stays on 1/3, not getting the blue essence for reward. I clearly logged in with the internet explorer, and didn't use any ad-blocker. What happened?

WARN5941/21/2019, 6:02:59 PM2 votes

Worked perfectly for me

freshwawa2/16/2019, 1:08:09 PM1 votes

I left the website on while I did other things and it played for a couple of hours but I still didn't get the reward for the first mission. Honestly looking at the rewards though, I don't think it's worth the effort to even try and get these...

So in some ways I'm actually grateful that I don't have to leave a tab open lol.

Bump12/16/2019, 4:07:42 PM1 votes

I to haven't gotten my teemote icon and I watched all the NA games Sunday and a few of the others as well

DaSheets2/17/2019, 12:56:19 AM1 votes

i watched with safari and edge with out any ad blockers or anti tracers and it seemed to work. but you have to be watching at least 10 mins of it... but i did finally got to work. and i been watching the euro and japan league

WrstPlyrNAPlzRpt2/17/2019, 6:45:55 PM1 votes

tbh it would take a lot more than some icons to get me to watch any of that stuff.

m21tactical2/15/2019, 12:23:13 AM1 votes

I got nothing for watching matches last time. Why would I even try this time? I went to https://watch.na.lolesports.com and watched the matches, I even tried some vods, and got nothing for the time I wasted, and yes I was logged into my account.

Why would I waste more of my time watching matches that the champions that I play will NEVER EVER be in?

BlazinBlueJay2/15/2019, 3:10:40 AM1 votes

Improve the game so it's more entertaining to watch? Nah, let's just bribe them with icons they can't show off, and sometimes scam people out of their rewards.[zombie-brand-facepalm]

despepastranador2/15/2019, 6:13:25 AM1 votes

i have like 20 tabs opened with VOD and the rewards never get updated or synced-

I dunno rito you have to compensates the failures on your system.

PowerFool22/15/2019, 6:21:46 PM1 votes

These rewards work fine if you watch the correct videos. It says "Global League", not LCS Academy, not the Allstars events, not the Championships from last year. Current Global Leagues.