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We won't be doing this for every single game, but all of us on the production team love getting more insight from players and we're hoping to continue doing this regularly.
We want to get coaches involved too!
We won't be doing this for every single game, but all of us on the production team love getting more insight from players and we're hoping to continue doing this regularly.
We want to get coaches involved too!
I think it's more than fair to say that Xmithie is the GOAT jungler of NA, if we look at accolades and longevity.
IMO he is the LCS jungle GOAT and it's not close and will not be close for awhile given how much he accomplished.
I think people often overlook that he is still the ALL TIME #2 LCS trophy leader.
Amazing career from an often underappreciated player.
Maybe we'll do an episode on him in the future *thinking emoji*
I don’t really care when you start and when you finish, but if the game starts at 1pm, there should be no reason the entire broadcast doesn’t end at 6 pm(unless a giant pause happened). Less analyst desk during the game, get a quick interview and move on to the next. You could have PGL like LEC or after show sometime during the week, we are here to watch games not listening to analyst deck keep repeating the same lines.
The time between games isn’t completely dictated by how much “post game analysis” time we want, it’s largely driven by logistics of moving one team off the stage and bringing another team on. We give teams time to remove their things, bring in COVID cleaning crews, and then give the new teams time to get setup.
We do believe that it’s important to close out games and setup the next one, as it helps add to the the cast whether it’s driving in on the impact a game could have on a team, or giving newer viewers info on players to watch. But that still shouldn’t be the thing that holds us from getting into champ select, it’s the items above that largely dictate how much time we spend on that.
Hey there, I’m on the marketing and communications team for the LCS. Couple quick notes:
-Most leagues including the LCS turn on their stream an hour before content starts, so in our case it turned on at 11:30PT today.
-Next Level runs on Sunday’s from 12:30-1pm PT
-Game 1 champ select should start by 1:10pm PT. These days due to COVID precautions, we find ourselves with some extra delays. For instance we have a lot more player headset issues these days because we swap them out between each game and sometimes we need to recalibrate for the pros.
-Game 1 also ran into an extra long pause. Not ideal, and was unfortunately as a result of a weird item interaction in the shop, but ultimately made game 1 last longer.
All of this is to say, we also want the time between games to be more streamlined, especially in response to last weeks Reddit thread, we kicked off some groups to explore how to streamline. Some of this is definitely because of COVID ...
Read moreAlso sucks cuz even if your playing a champ like Fiora you can't Parry it cuz Noct spellehields the parry...
You can Riposte backwards
Nocturne is still OP though
Pretty interesting. So one of you has to look at the entire game at once? That's a lot to process at the same time!
Yess, but my obs 2 is basically watching with me since he can't do much either until the action starts. Plus i have my direct camera pc next to me that is 3-4 seconds ahead, showing me everything that will happen right before it happens on my screen - This is my most important helper and probably the monitor i look at most of the time haha :)
How do observers split the tasks, actually? Are they all watching the entire thing, or are they split by lane, or by player? Is it decided on the go, or is it attributed?
1 observes the whole live game + base race / trade cam.
1 does the replays + Picture in Pictures in the corner for tps or other action + base race / trade cam.
1 does the backup replays in case something happens to the other observer and just focuses on making analyst desk replays & sick broll clips for the end of day broll ^
Calls are made on the go if i urgently need my obs 2 to PiP something i can't get to, otherwise he just PiPs up stuff that is interesting to watch while i can't move away from my spot.
I'm impressed the observers caught it
I'm the main observer and i didn't even know it was happening, my obs 2 just reacted insanely quick haha!
So, more like GOAT?
Really interesting write-up though, thank you for this insight :)
I pitched the idea of us being the 'Game Optimization Analysis Team' but it didn't take
I don't think it's fair to let Quickshot cast Misfits' games.
I mean, both the love of his life and his wife work for them.
The joy I feel when the org does well for the love of my life and the team plays well for my love of league. It was a good day.
Such nice guys.
So I guess the Udyr blog got delayed?
Yeah I was wrong, it’s next week
I'd like to apply One day, as a Master player with also a degree in computer science!
Definitely do! They're a sick team
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The Game Analysis Team (GAT) are real lifesavers sometimes (all of the time). They're great people and real value
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I think the best way to go is once you've done the tutorial and stuff just jump into some bot games with a character you think is cool and just play around some.
Try out a few others and just get a feel for the game. Maybe catch a streamer or two who seems interesting.
After a while when you're feeling comfortable try some PvP games and see how they feel
That wasn't my best cast and that was a really strange game to cast, ultimately FNC had control the entire time but as much as I could have criticized I could also compliment. Man my brain is fried trying to understand
Are patch summaries going to be anywhere as previously done in Twitter
There's a new Twitter account, @LoLDev I believe. That's where patch summaries etc should be
Can we expect to see Lillia changes today?
If PBE deploys, yeah
Goddamn /u/RiotPhlox, this was a great read. THIS was the extended from the mind gameplay thoughts that we have been missing. Biggest difference I feel is that since Irelia changes is likely your work, the writing feels genuine.
I appreciated that Yetter had this impossible challenge of writing for entire teams of people at once on his own (!), and that always requires a distillation of the content to represent the larger team. But it ended up reading like singular paragraphs for the last while.
I'm really looking forward now to the future quick gameplay thoughts each dev puts out if it stays like this. Hopefully its more content, more topics, and more detail since a single poor soul is no longer burdened with the task every two weeks to come up with something.
This "diary" format is new for us and definitely enabled by the new model of rotating authors! We're not going to use it all the time - not every topic is going to be a deep dive into one specific set of changes that's been baking for a while - but we'll add it to our suite of options for sure.