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Challenger Rewards Update for Season 2018

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Congratulations to those who reached Challenger in Season 2018! We're excited to announce that Challenger Backpacks will be shipped to 2018 Challenger players very soon.

We've really enjoyed creating items for and honoring the players who reached this much-sought-after rank in these past three years. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. For Season 2019 onward, we will no longer be rewarding Challenger players with a physical reward at the end of the season.

Again, congratulations to the Challenger rank players of 2018! And good luck to all those climbing the ladder in 2019!

16 Comments

iPhelex12 votes

wow thats sad.. ( still stuck in silver)

MrMFox11 votes

When will the Iron backpacks be shipped? I want mine.

Quáx4 votes

yea but we're all in silver.

Djinator031 votes

Facts [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Avanes4 votes

wait, there's tiers higher than silver?

Hellmaximus13 votes

I don't know why you would do this as so many 3v3s challenger were either boosted or bought their challenger accounts or wintraded for challenger and other unsportsmanlike conduct etc.

Tahngarthor1 votes

proof of accusations plz. Just because you don't like ranked TT doesn't mean that its challengers didn't work for their rank.

Hellmaximus15 votes

I actually do like 3v3, having been in a Challenger Team way back than (before the owner kicked everyone and sold it for 350$) and have been ranked in platinum-gold for the past 4? seasons in it, the problem comes with getting diamond or platinum and going vs these 3v3 wintraders because if you just get 1 of their alt in your team you lose, which is a struggle since they're already a strong team who can win games without doing this.

Some of them use the defense of "If I don't wintrade I'll decay because of the low player pool" which is true, but that doesn't excuse EloBoosting and selling of challenger accounts.

I would just link you the Reddit Link but per LoL Reddit rule changes the info was removed for "Naming and shaming".

The 3v3 has a history of abuse from EloBoosting to going back to when there was Team Name and they would sell challenger teams.

I'll try to look for some links but most of the SS were removed, However riot has Perma-Banned the original accounts but the same player just make new ones and do the same thing.

Edit: First MAJOR post about the issue (was well known to the 3v3 community before this) https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/3rvj58/high_ranked_3v3_teams_on_tr_wintrade_every_game/ Update to that story: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/3ssft7/today_the_wintrading_tr_3v3_teams_successfully/ Post about NA 3v3 Challenger's Eloboosting:https://www.reddit.com/r/LoLTwistedTreeline/comments/5c7ic5/3v3_challenger_boosters/ Post About the Wintrading down in Challenger 3v3 : https://www.reddit.com/r/LoLTwistedTreeline/comments/9meils/wintrading_in_3v3/

That last one was just 5 months ago mind you, If you look at top Challenger players currently you'll see some with 90% winrate who have quite a few games of them going 22-0 with the enemy team afk, opening lanes etc.

Inkling Commando2 votes

so now there is even less incentive to play ranked. thanks.

ExG Ênz1 votes

I really dont care 😥😭

Axis of Darkness4 votes

You cared enough to comment

How Do You Meta1 votes

But how will I get a 60% winrate on dates without PROOF that I was the very best that no one ever was!?

HardKano1 votes

Why are you stoping those rewards ? because of resale ?

Okami no Seishin1 votes

Probably because there was a lot of complains. The material of the rewards were actually really cheap.

Tahngarthor2 votes

No, it was a logistical thing, its a lot of physical items to send out when you factor every region.

woopy1 votes

None of what the others said is true. The real reason is that there are too many wintraders and boosters in challenger; right before the season ends everyone ends up paying to get boosted for the rewards. It's kinda fucked.

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