Do like me and get into eSports because that's how American gridiron football dies

ahem, Zion is Darshan now

apologies, he is serious eSports athelete. i wish the casters would go by their real names. or at least the guy who calls himself 'pyrotechnics'

Echo Fox has failed to submit an eligible roster for Saturday’s game and will forfeit that game. Despite multiple deadline extensions, they were unable to field a roster.

wut
did one of their players quit on them or something

visa problems maybe

ah yeah sounds like they were fielding people with unresolved visa status

TIP threatening an upset

man i don't understand how Cloud 9 turns back into a pumpkin every time they try to play without Hai. dude is some sort of insane mastermind of LoL

and against the team IMT steamrolled

seraph is a big upgrade in the top lane though for TIP, he's a good player. not sure if they've just got him on loan as a sub or if he's a permanent addition

"poppy everywhere"

Actually amazed how good the Twitch stream looks on my television

watching my first LoL game, here goes

twitch stream went down, youtube still up

can heroes buyback from death in league? TSMs base got thrashed after that bad baron fight where in dota they'd buy back on some heroes to defend

nah, if you're dead you're dead

yeah there's no buyback in LoL

is remi the only woman in the tournament?

ctrl+f this thread shows me that u said above she's the first in the tournament cool

Actually op... its gay

wow

So the meta-meta for this split is "how long can Immortals keep this up"

NRG misplayed their poke comp horribly, one mistake that massive and it's the end of the game. NA teams constantly throwing games back and forth throughout the season holds the whole region back when it comes to international tournaments.

are there any esports type games where you can play FFA but then create alliances after the game has already started?

many hours were spent in college playing starcraft with my roommates in the same room, and we'd join a ffa game only to ally once one of us started getting attacked, or at the last minute before stomping everyone else, to much swearing and aggravation on the part of internet randos

pretty much all esports are team vs team or 1 vs 1, i don't think anyone's found a way to make free-for-all game modes hold up under the scrutiny of competitive play. it's an interesting thought experiment though.

the only comparable thing i can think of that has a esports-esque devoted following is grand strategy games, but those aren't played as esports to my knowledge

they are played multiplayer; it doesn't work as realtime broadcasting (obv) but the write-ups/discussions are great. i wish i could remember enough about this one game i read for either civ 4 or civ 5 to google it up. there was a guy who [for one of 4/5] wrote a bunch of guides and iirc had great let's plays and he had a personal civ page. i think it was one of his multiplayer games.

i don't think there is professional play tho

ok how about games that let you do what I said, whether or not they're used competitively. changing alliances, etc

I guess EVE and games of that nature have alliances that can be broken and large economies but that's a bit more of an investment than I'm willing to make right now

televised/streamed grand strategy games would take longer than old school cricket

I guess I'm asking "what is the least esport-ish game that doesn't have a steep time investment"

I kind of keep wishing some iPhone game was like Fallout Shelter only with the ability to trade and have some espionage to wreck other players' vaults

that's a good pitch imho

http://www.pixelstarships.com/?

NA LCS week 3
Sat: DIG, C9, NRG, CLG, IMT
Sun: TL, TSM, C9, IMT, CLG

so someone told me rick fox owns a LoL team?

yeah he bought a team but then half-assed the roster for this season, it's one of the bottom of the barrel teams that's liable to get relegated in the summer

Today
DIG
TSM
NRG
FOX
IMT

Tomorrow
TL
TSM
C9
IMT
CLG

I assume TIP dominated that match because DIG fucked up their picks, but I need to watch that again.

nah, DIG just got massively rope-a-doped in cross-map trades. really interesting game actually in how it accelerated out of control.

i didn't realize that TIP has Seraph permanently now as well as finally getting their originally intended jungler/midlaner in from korea, they could actually be a real team now (by real i mean mid-standings rather than last place, they're still not gonna win playoff matches)

hai's lookin like a porcupine

oh wait they also picked Rengar into Lulu, that is in fact a fucked up pick. Rengar is one of those champions isn't very strong unless the jungler is a Rengar specialist, which no one in LCS is currently

C9 with the fisher price my first siege composition, yawn

ha, I missed this from yesterday

"poppy across every region"

week 4
sat: TL over DIG*, C9 over REN, IMT over CLG*, TSM over FOX, NRG over TIP
sun: IMT over TL*, NRG over C9*, TSM over REN, CLG over TIP, DIG over FOX

asterisks denote the games i'm most interested in watching

IMT are going to have to lose at some pt but it doesn't feel like this is the week

if there's any secret to IMT's success it's that they have really good players at both top and jungle which are otherwise weak positions in the league. they're crushing the top side of the map consistently and no one can really do anything about it

when does NA switch to Bo3? next split? this would be a good meta for it, short games. i would've liked to have seen a series between IMT and TSM.

yeah summer split will be best of 3 matches

TL
C9
CLG wut
TSM
NRG

IMT
C9 wut
TSM
CLG
DIG

I'd like to see Renegades get their shit together but I think this split is already a wash.