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All Draft All Mid

Tztop·7/4/2015, 11:47:14 PM·2 votes·1,112 views

I love ARAMs and wish there was a ranked version of them, or at least a draft version of ARAM that was ranked. I've seen old posts that there used to be a draft version for Howling Abyss, but it was removed and the likelihood of it returning I'm guessing isn't that high let alone a ranked version.

So until they add it back to the game, I'm going to try and take matters into my own hands and work on making a ADAM community with free weekly tournaments to add a competitiveness to the all mid style. The tournaments would be held weekly with 5 players per team. The tournaments would start as a round robin, as long as there are more than 8 teams, and finish in a single elimination bracket playoff. Teams and their individual players would then be awarded points based on their performance within these tournaments with larger tournaments providing more points.

At least one member of each team would be required to stream the game on twitch as to maintain a record of the game and the result to prevent disputes amongst teams and to get the stats for the players in the game.

I wanted to see how many people would be interested in playing in these tournaments or even casually, whether as a free agent or as an already made team, before I went through the effort of making a website to host stats and the tournament. So if you're interested, leave a comment below and feel free to give any suggestions you have for this idea.

3 Comments

Minarde7/5/2015, 2:45:18 AM1 votes

I've seen old posts that there used to be a draft version for Howling Abyss, but it was removed

As far as I'm aware, all the ARAM variants (All Blind All Mid, All Draft All Mid, All Random All Bot, and so on) were always just custom games. ARAM's the only one that got an official queue.

Teams and their individual players would then be awarded points based on their performance within these tournaments with larger tournaments providing more points.

What would these points be used for? Leaderboards/Hall of Fame-type stuff?

At least one member of each team would be required to stream the game on twitch as to maintain a record of the game and the result to prevent disputes amongst teams and to get the stats for the players in the game.

This requirement might be problematic, as finding at least 8 teams capable of streaming could be tough. It also complicates matters for free agents or random teams, as you'd have to balance randomly dividing people with dividing people based on streaming ability. Screens of the custom game lobby, pick/ban phase, and post-game results from each team could be simpler. As a sidenote, one main stream for the whole tournament could help gather viewers and attention for the community/tournament.

Anyway, good luck if you decide to go through with setting up something. Check Community Events and see if you can get prizing from Riot for your tournament(s). Rewards are a lot less for smaller tournaments now, but it would still draw some more interest.