Photo credit: Riot Games The very last best-of-one match in professional League of Legends has been played, at least for the NA and EU LCS, and thank goodness for that. As has been noticed by casters, community figures, and the teams themselves, a single IEM event can have a western team play enough games to...
Photography credit: Riot Games via Flickr The regular season has finally ended after nine weeks of play, and the Renegades’ victory over Team Impulse marks the last-ever match under the NA LCS’s old best-of-one format. The top six teams are now settling plans for a glamorous trip to Las Vegas to decide the North American...
There’s been a lot of disgruntled murmurs about the current state of professional League of Legends. The laneswaps, the tower pushes, the decided lack of fighting… it all adds up to a fairly dismal viewing experience for the long-term fan. Esports’ selling points are, after all, intrinsically tied to action: ace players styling on others,...
Photo credit: ESL/Adela Sznajder IEM Katowice’s League of Legends program went roughly as expected. There were two notable surprises: Fnatic did much better than their EU LCS form would have suggested, while Counter Logic Gaming’s individual weaknesses were exposed in turn. But it settled out as everybody predicted: SKT T1 had another perfect run through...
