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There are never 6-7 day breaks, at least not until world finals.

For reference, groups ended on a Monday and QF began on Friday. QF ended on Monday and SF start on Saturday. So the break is 3 (G -> QF), then 4 (QF -> SF), then 5 days (SF -> F).

I feel the downtime for sure. I'm sitting here in my hotel room and the only direct work I've done since casting C9 vs Gen.G (outside of prep) is a 1 hour story meeting and then I'm back to having tomorrow off as well.

That said, weekends are pretty prime. This is an event that the entire world watches and that means someone's got the games at 5am and someone's got the games at noon and someone's got the games at 8pm, or thereabouts. You miss out on a lot of people if you don't let people have a weird schedule for a day or two to catch the games.

The 2016 and 2017 world championships already showed us that isn't true. Compare the results of either region to the following year, 2018, where they went back to best of 1, and they both improved.

In 2015, with best of 1, LEC had two teams in semis. They failed to replicate that during the bo2/bo3 era. They went back to bo1 and made finals in back to back years, including an MSI championship.

LCS's first and only worlds semifinal was that same year of coming back into bo1s.

We have teams celebrating their draw because the competition is not even. Is 100T a worse team for not being able to get out of a group that had 2 semifinalists than the current quarter finalists?

Is whoever wins GenG vs EDG better than loser of DWG vs T1?

Playing the bracket from GenGs side, it is actually much easier for GenG to win worlds than for them to win LCK

Here's what's interesting though: This isn't the fault of Worlds seeding or of the quarterfinal bracket. This is the fault of regional seeding. The fault (in my estimation) lies with the LCK. Gen.G is LCK #2 and T1 is LCK #3. By all rights, the way that teams were seeded, 100 Thieves are supposed to have an "easy" Korean opponent when they draw LCK 3. The reason C9 and Rogue were in the group of death is because they faced actual top teams: LPL #2 and LCK #1. Such is your life when you're LEC #3 and LCS #3. That's rightly deserved.

I think it is very, very reaso...

I don't see why not. As you noted, we already saw that the first split went separately: LCS went to bo3 while LEC went to bo2.

For what it's worth North America and western Europe are relatively similar culturally. Heck, the primary broadcast language for both leagues is even English. I'm certainly not an expert in league operations but it appears that viewers had similar reactions and so the experiments got shut down for both leagues in relatively short time frames.

Just to clear this up because I have seen this misconception multiple times so far. Jag was not in the same position is Mark Yetter. Mark was the Lead Designer of the Gameplay Initiative, which includes SRT (who handles balance among other things like PreSeason, etc.) Champions Team and a few other teams. Jag was just the lead design for SRT. When Yetter went to a RnD team Jag took over doing the posts about balance, but didn't take over his position as Gameplay Design Lead

It was Thresh for me. The haunting music still lingers in my mind to this day.

Acceptable

I think there are a few more that might roll in over the next little while. Not 100% sure though

No changes for it planned

How about a mystery reward? Everyone loves mysteries

Smh clip one of my sweet outplays next time

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Because territories are different and have distinct needs. I’d much rather Americans Make decisions for an American league and Koreans make choices for a Korean league. The countries, continents, territories, etc. are not the same.

What's odd about using bo2 as the landmark is that it's not actually different from best of 1: Every game matters. Every game directly results in more points for qualification into playoffs. Best of 3/5 is the only one where losing an individual game basically means nothing. Sure, sometimes you're tiebroken on game score (LPL did that this year for like five teams) but you can just 18-0 your season and not have to worry about it.

Either way, my comment was more about directly stating how Armut should clearly be able to have a larger champion pool than he does. I agree there are a plethora of reasons why the LCK and LPL have consistently outperformed the LCS and LEC (two years of Caps notwithstanding). It's clearly happening. It's definitely true.

I just take offense to the mudslinging at how it's all just Riot's fault because the league structure makes it so hard to improve. That's simply a lie. For reference, in 2016 summer and all of 2017 the LCS played best of 3 ...

Yes how could a professional player who plays League of Legends full time possibly expand his champion pool? I mean he's only played 271 games over the course of his career, not the mention scrims. It's literally impossible. There's no time to play solo queue, no time to play scrims, it's just impossible. You have to play your 18th Gnar game against Vitality otherwise you'll never make Worlds!

Oner's played a total of 55 pro games. By the metric of who played more stage games, Oner should be 1/5 the player that Armut is.

Guess who believes that? No one.

For reference, Cloud9 played more stage games this year than Gen.G did. And yet Cloud9 got clapped. They also played more bo5s than Gen.G did. Yet they got clapped.

Hmm maybe game count isn't actually the reason.

Was waiting for Jhin to pop up. Was not disappointed.

Proposed change to simplify his passive: haha 4

JEFFREYYYYY JEFFREY BEZOS

They're still in development. They will be present in a later run on PBE as we gain more confidence in the final direction.

Malphite R excels (or is even best in class) at number of things: Catching. AoE CC. Escapes. Damage output (high ratios). And so on.
This dampens the excitement and potential of other ultimates. Removing it effectively creates room for Vex, Akali, Xin Zhao, Orianna, and other ultimates to shine.