I don’t know whether anyone else has watched it, but one of Netflix’s 7 Days Out documentary episodes deals with League of Legends and the NA LCS Spring finals.
It also happened to be filmed in the week Doublelift got the news about his mum passing.
The documentary is not only for LoL players. It just shows the behind the scenes for Riot, the teams, the players. I found it quite interesting.
This year’s MSI was exceptionally entertaining, you’re missing out if you haven’t seen it. Both semifinals were great series, the final itself less so.
Sure. My visit was part of my interview loop for a Director-level position at Riot’s HQ in Santa Monica several years ago. YMMV, but it had several unsavory elements, e.g. introductory fist-bumps (a bit odd in my business attire, but given the company logo and culture, I get it), a very disorganized interview schedule (shuffled between different buildings and conference rooms) and sadly, several senior engineers who expressed a “my-way-or-the-highway” attitude and ego…
My friends at Riot say that things have changed in recent years, but I would summarize their issues as growing pains that accompany too-rapid growth. I still hold Riot Games in high respects for the problems they’ve tackled at scale, their advancements of e-sports, etc., but my interview experience soured me enough that I stopped playing/watching League and haven’t looked back.
I got the script ahead of time so I wasn’t particularly surprised by the picks. It was the most entertaining of the finals I’ve watched so far though (NA, LCK,LEC.)
Oh right except it’s just that it should have been the finals. The team playing against the winner of this series is gonna get rolled.
Been back playing league with some old guildmates. Still a really fun game and the community has overall been substantially less toxic than a few years back. If anyone is looking to play again and wants some regulars to play with, feel free to look me up as BanzaiExsulum. I think Im also in the qt3 group there.
I need to do something i haven’t tried in a few months - logging in. If I do play with you guys, be warned that I’m gonna be real, real rusty. It might be better if I play ARAMs for a few days until my brain learns how to read the game again - when I’ve been away for a while, team fights all start out as a dizzying blur of colors for the first few games, then eventually I can read them a little more properly.
I wouldnt say that any of us are particularly good at the game, so no worries. We have a lot of fun though and do win about half the time. I think Im the only one playing any ranked games atm and I have done terribly in my placements, so no high expectations from any of us.
I find it amazing right now that most of the competitive league of legends tournaments are down right now [thanks covid19!] , but the players are getting together to play open houses, and the casters are getting together to organize and cast the games.
These will no doubt be far better than the actual LCS games.