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Admittedly we removed it from the sidebars because it seemed like duplicate information that we already establish with the logo on the top scoreboard. Might be more up to personal taste, but I'm all ears for feedback!

With the artifacting, if you have the chance to grab a screenshot when you see it to send over to me, and let me know where you watched (youtube/twitch) and at what quality (source/720/etc) that would help us out immensely. The names appear fine in-studio on our monitors, but maybe some funkiness with the compression that happens when the video is encoded is to blame.

Hey there. It is not specifically an LEC product only, but it is currently a product developed by us the EMEA team. So you can see it used in the current EMEA Masters as well for example. We do rely on a bunch of products developed and supported by different tech teams at Riot and have been fortunate to have their support in adding new data such as champion stacks for the HUD, so there has been great support in letting us experiment in this space.

We are of course collaborating with other regions and the global side of things regarding these implementations and I think you will see more development in this area across the board in the future. Hopefully our work here can lower the thresholds for others to implement some of the functionality.

I'm happy that I could inform!

Different Leagues have different Studio Hardware and Tech, as our studios were built and upgraded at different times. This means that we have, across our studios, a number of different graphics systems. (It's actually really interesting, because different countries have different TV Broadcast "metas" where hardware that is super common in one country is not particularly common in another!)

However, we agree— and are working to get to a place of common operations. Our studios have become a lot more standardised in the past few years, and we are continuously getting better at developing things together from what I've witnessed across the past five years I've been here at Riot. (Though, admittedly I can't share much about this collaboration, because I'm not sure how comfortable other broadcasts may be with me sharing more!)

Hey there! I'm John Depa, the Executive Producer of the LEC!

Was lurking around Reddit and saw this post. I have experience with this— so I can definitely chime in! Ahaha.

I'll start with why things go wrong. Super TL;DR - A lot of reasons that are not related to the game, and it's getting better with time!

We've been talking about building an improved HUD since 2018. For a few years, we utilised a graphics system called Viz Trio (which we use for most of our other show graphics) to design and render our HUD over the game, but we found that it was ultimately too limiting for what we envisioned for a great HUD display for our game. And so, after awhile, we decided to simply build a new tool from the ground up to run our HUD. We test this tool regularly whenever we roll out new features, but ultimately, because we're building it ourselves, we don't benefit from the sheer amount of user testing that larger graphics systems benefit from. This is what ended up ...

Cheers! Shout out to MarkZ and the content team for putting that idea together. I will admit I wasn't the demographic lol but trusting our talent and team definitely pays dividends.

Every day is a banger! Thanks for giving me a chance 💜

Cheers <3

That's actually awesome <3

Awesome to hear!

Yeah that’s happening too.

Thank you :)

<3

Thank you kindly <3

Awesome to hear. Shoutout to Justin Restaino, he's been a huge part of our content strategy and he has true love and passion for the LCS. I was really excited we were able to bring Dash back this year for the Adventures videos and for our Finals/content.

It's not, I've been battling health issues since December and have been hospitalized twice, and have multiple medical appointments, treatments, etc from December through now. I wish this wasn't happening to my health. I've been going non-stop in this industry for 16/17 years and my body just gave out. I really do have faith in the LCS and I do believe it is something really special.

Last year I worked on Spring and Summer Splits and Finals and helped to set the new production direction for the LCS this year as well. Unfortunately my health over December declined and I was not able to communicate how the community deserved. For that I am sorry. I know it is the right step for me to take to focus on my health, as you all deserve someone that can approach the LCS with full energy, health and vigor. I appreciate your kind words on the positives, and I hope it leaves a positive impact on the LCS.

Thank you! I've been hoping people could see the more fun side of LCS and that we could really be more player-focused and try to incorporate more community and fan feedback.

Thanks so much for tuning in each week and for the kind words <3

Thank you, that means a lot to me. I've loved getting to know the community and I really did put my heart and soul into the LCS. I hope the new product direction/content/broadcast/events speaks for itself and that our fans can enjoy it <3