Winning teams only contribute 2.5 points to pool party

Nebuul·Jun 22, 2015·1 votes·519 views

The joke with pool party, which requires either teaming or spending real $ to earn points for the community is that you only contribute 2.5 points each time you play instead of 5. Why? Because if there is a group pool of points, and that pool increases by 5 after two teams play, then there had to be a loser and a winner of the match. In other words, you cannot increase the community pool by 10 points after a game, because that would mean both teams won. You are incapable of increasing the pool by 5 points without another team increasing the pool by 0.

Funny enough, the fastest way to earn points for the community would be for a team to surrender at 15m every game in an ARAM.

6 Comments

ZielmannJun 22, 20152 votes

The flaw in this logic is that it assumes that every game is full premade vs. full premade, which isn't always the case. Especially in ARAM.

NebuulJun 22, 20151 votes

I'm fairly certain that premade teams are always matched against other premade teams in all game modes.

ZielmannJun 22, 20152 votes

They most definitely do not. Not always at least. I believe the system does try to match premades with premades where possible, but sometimes a similarly-rated premade isn't available. Back when I used to play premades almost all the time (regardless of mode), we did fairly often come across teams that weren't full premades. I would say we probably ran into this more in ARAM than we did on SR, though.

Drunk RummateJun 22, 20152 votes

We're getting a free mystery champion and we got double IP during the entire week.

Stop acting like you were wronged somehow because their reward system was a little off. It comes off as really entitled and annoying.

ZielmannJun 22, 20151 votes

I agree with this in general. I actually think it's neat that the Mundo skin was basically a stretch goal that they possibly didn't quite expect us to hit. After all, giving a skin to every player is a bit of a risk, in the sense that it would give them little return on the investment put into making the skin.