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League of Legends ‘Esports is woven into the fabric of who I am’: Pastrytime says goodbye to his casting career in the LCS
Julian “Pastrytime” Carr has been a League of Legends caster since 2010. Over the years, he established himself as an icon in shoutcasting world. This allowed him to transition from Australian-only broadcasts to the LCS, one of the 메이저안전놀이터 biggest leagues in the world. But today, Pastrytime retired as a caster in North America.
Sharing his incredible casting career journey, Pastrytime showcases his passion for gaming in general and esport. Since he already knew this would be his last year casting, he spared no effort to deliver a full-blown 메이저놀이터추천 experience for all those watching.
“As such, I gave everything I had to these final events. In some ways it’s a lot easier to go all out, risk your voice not holding up, commit fully to the moment when you know it’s your only one left,” he said 메이저토토사이트
Pastrytime also mentioned he will continue his career 안전놀이터추천 with Riot Games, but we still don’t know what exactly the future holds for him. “While the next steps of my career at Riot are currently in motion, nothing is certain,” he said.
In the meantime, Pastrytime stays open to passion projects to kill time before his next big career move. Although we’re sad to see him go, there’s no doubt he’ll brighten his next work environment.
The final verdict: Is League of Legends Champions Queue a miserable failure?
Champions Queue is a prestigious invite-only League of Legends server hosted by Riot Games that serves as a proving and training ground for professional and academy players. Designed in the image of solo queue, Champions Queue was launched on Feb. 7, 2022, as “the latest evolution of high-level competitive systems.” The idea was to create a highly competitive environment where the pro and academy players could play tournament-like games without any disturbances from trolls, griefers, and soft inters. Although the general idea behind Champions Queue is a step forward, especially for competitive League, Champions Queue hasn’t seen the glory Riot had in mind.
After only a single split, Champion Queue began showing its true colors, or rather problems. According to Kim “Olleh” Joo-sung, one of the biggest problems was the lack of interest and players for Champions Queue. Although Champions Queue is an exclusive server, Riot ensured enough players would join the queue. In fact, the real reasons why the players left were the skill discrepancy between players, lack of communication, and the tournament-like draft that doesn’t entice players to explore and experiment but rather to stick to traditional picks.
With Worlds 2022 kicking off on Sept. 29, Riot once again opened Champions Queue to welcome the most hard-working and consistent players from all across the world. Seen as the last-ditch effort to popularize Champions Queue, the queue has actually been facing severe community backlash that began with ex-pro player Tim “Nemesis” Lipovšek. Instead of blowing over, the backlash continued with content creator Christian “IWDominate” Rivera and League caster and coach Nick “LS” De Cesare heavily scrutinizing it due to invite inconsistencies and Riot prioritizing North American 메이저사이트추천 players over Europeans. But the drama doesn’t stop there. Nemesis, LS, and IWDominate were accused on r/Leagueoflegends of spreading misinformation to their viewers.
So, to clear the drama behind the Champions Queue and see what exactly the future holds for this unique queue, we dug deep into the ins and outs of Champions Queue, its current state, and the potential outcomes.
Riot doesn’t abide by its own rules
Back in February, Riot shared a detailed post outlining the general idea behind Champions Queue, minimal requirements, and total prizing of the 메이저사이트 first split. Since the main goal of this exclusive server is to be the training ground for professional and academy players, the server initially only invited the players that reached at least Master in solo queue. This was updated on April 13, with Riot raising the bar to Grandmaster. On top of that, one trick ponies, or OTPs for short, have been entirely banned from joining the server even though they satisfy the rank requirement.
Although this set of rules is intended to keep the standards of Champion Queue up, Riot has violated its own rules by inviting OTPs like rege who has over 700 games on Rengar, content creators like Samson “Lourlo” Jackson, substitute players that don’t play actively like Emanuel “Fatorix” Mendez, and retired players like Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng and Eugene “Pobelter” Park. Since Riot bent the rules, you’d expect the devs would let in well-known League content creators like Sanchovies, Danny “Shiptur” Lee, and Michael “imqtpie” Santana, but all of their applications were declined for unknown reasons.
On top of all of this, ex-professional player and now 메이저놀이터 caster, Marc “Caedrel” Lamont, who had been initially accepted to Champions Queue, learned only a couple of days before flying to the U.S. that he’s no longer eligible to play in Champions Queue since he’s playing on any active roster qualified for Worlds 2022. Nemesis was in similar shoes to Caedrel, but unfortunately, he didn’t receive any valid reasoning behind this sudden decision.
Ignored quality-of-life changes
Pro players have, with a few minor breaks in between splits, regularly played Champions Queue hoping to unleash its full potential and prepare for matches better. Unsurprisingly, pros were full of ideas on how to improve the server to keep its integrity and increase the quality of games. So, pros proposed obligatory voice comms, a regular pick and ban phase, and a skill-dependant queue that would immediately skyrocket the quality of games. Unfortunately, Riot adopted none of these ideas to improve the queue but rather only focused on drawing in players with lower latency. Although this is a step forward, all these previously mentioned issues still remain unresolved. If Riot invested time and effort to fix Champions Queue, the player reception and involvement would have probably been through the roof.
Champions Queue games are an imbalanced low-quality nightmare
Thanks to Riot biasedly accepting and declining players from Champions Queue, the finest League players are suffering the consequences in the form of low-quality games that are, as a rule, decided in the first 10 minutes of the match beginning. This is largely due to Champions Queue letting in OTPs and low-ranking players that simply can’t keep up with professional and semi-professional players. Since Riot doesn’t regulate Champions Queue at all to provide a meaningful experience for all, some games end in a 15-minute stomp. As a direct result of this, Champions Queue fell down to 20 to 30 regular players in the first split, making the queues excruciatingly long.
Here are the most notable examples from Champions Queue:
Riot sabotages the promotion of Champions Queue
As we already mentioned, Riot revoked Caedrel’s and Nemesis’ invites to Champions Queue only a few days before they left for the U.S. According to Nemesis, this is a huge missed opportunity since League steamers like them, who regularly have over 5,000 viewers on Twitch, are promoting League and its esports scene left and right. They would, as planned, stream Champions Queue, and therefore raise the interest for the queue significantly. This could result in a long-term viewership investment, and professional players playing Champions Queue on a regular basis. Since Riot subjectively chooses the streamers to join the server, Champions Queue probably won’t ever reach its fullest potential and become the true training ground for professionals 안전놀이터추천
Will Champions Queue fail miserably?
Generally speaking, Champions Queue is an excellent idea poorly executed due to Riot ignoring the players’ feedback, inviting lower-skilled players, and not promoting the server enough to reach its fullest potential. Expectedly, Champions Queue will have a guaranteed player base over the course of Worlds 2022, however, the exact future of Champions Queue still remains a mystery. Unless Riot puts on its responsibility pants and realizes that the future of Champions Queue is in its hand, the server is most likely to dwindle in both popularity and player base. There’s still more than enough time to fix these recurring mistakes and perk up the server to truly be a home for the finest League players looking to push their own limits and practice their skills to perfection.
3.7 quintillion health? League’s new Mythic item is already breaking the game
League of Legends Season 12 is slowly but surely coming to an end with less than a month left to grind your ideal rank for the season. That being said, Riot Games shipped a series of changes that will hit the live servers as soon as the 2023 preseason begins in November. Since preseason testing can never go 토토사이트 without a myriad of bugs, unintentional interactions, and unexpected errors, we are seeing a similar pattern this year too.
The belle of the ball, or rather Goliath’s Ascendiary, is the latest addition to the Mythic item assortment that grants you 800 health, 200 percent base health regeneration, 20 ability haste, and charged-up attack against champions. Designed as a bruiser and tank item, Goliath’s Ascendiary allows you to stack HP similar to Cho’Gath each time you use this item. Since the item has no restrictions tied to the HP-stacking mechanic, the item has infinite scaling 메이저놀이터
This resulted in players stacking up to 3.7 quintillion health and casually wandering Summoner’s Rift as unkillable raid monsters on the 안전놀이터 Public Beta Environment (PBE). If you want to see for yourself Goliath’s Ascendiary in action, here’s a video from the popular League bug 안전토토사이트 discoverer, Vandril:
If that’s not good enough for you, here’s an image from a PBE tester on Twitter:
Battle between giants: Breaking down Group B at Worlds 2022
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With the play-in stage coming to an end, the 안전토토사이트 League of Legends World Championship will move onto the highly anticipated group stage, where 16 teams will fight in four different groups in the hopes of advancing to the knockout stage.
Every year, the group stage features incredibly 토토사이트 competitive groups, thanks to the particular seeding process of the teams from each region. This year, the combination of Group B appears to be an explosive one; LPL summer champions and big favorites JD Gaming, LEC Summer runner-ups G2 Esports, MSI semifinalists Evil Geniuses, and 2020 Worlds champions DWG KIA have all been seeded together.
With such huge stakes on the line, Group B is bound 안전놀이터 to become merciless. Let’s dive into the teams that will be fighting each other once group stage kicks off.
DWG KIA – Helped by the meta shift
DK has been the most successful team in terms of international results in the last two years. With that being said, the Korean team led by ShowMaker and Canyon have had a rough 2022 season so far. The bot lane roster change and Nuguri’s return weren’t enough for DK to replicate the previous year’s results: the team finished third in both spring and summer and never looked as strong as the other two seeds from the LCK.
Nevertheless, DK is known for being a team that delivers during the most crucial moments. Worlds might be the turning point for them, especially considering how the meta shift can also be an advantage.
Based on what we’ve seen so far in the play-in stage, we saw a large variety of team compositions, as each region or team brought its own ideas to the table. Still, there has been a common pattern throughout the whole stage: the absence of many hypercarries down in the bot lane. The meta now offers the possibility to also play through top lane, which fits perfectly with how DK would like to play. Seo “deokdam” Dae-gil and Kim “Kellin” Hyeong-gyu haven’t been a duo that can go one-vs-nine, but they are capable of absorbing pressure.
On the other hand, Jang “Nuguri” Ha-gwon is the type of player who can choke the enemy laner and extend his lead if given the attention. In this meta, Canyon will likely play around him more which benefits both of them since the Korean jungler himself can also play carry style. All of this gives DK more options, especially in draft. In other words, DK were some of the bigger winners from the Worlds patch.
Overall, DK have a strong chance of advancing to the next stage. It might be tough to advance as the first place team, but second place in Group B should be within reach. As the finalists of the previous two Worlds editions, DK is looking to keep that streak going in 2022.
G2 Esports – Identity crisis?
After having a successful run until the LEC summer playoffs, G2 found themselves with a huge reality check when they were 3-0’d by Rogue. Not only did they not manage to win a game during the series, but the team’s performance was way off compared to the usual standards, considering how they had already won against RGE in the upper bracket.
While the enemies did make a step up in their gameplay, G2 seemed to have lost their direction. The recent drafts weren’t that optimal since they required Victor “Flakked” Lirola Tortosa to be the main carry of the team. The team, however, found more success when the resources were given to Caps, and this did not happen in the last series against RGE. We’ll have to see whether G2 have realized this issue and what playstyle they want to bring to the table at Worlds.
Despite the issues, though, G2 can still count on great individual talents. Support Raphaël “Targamas” Crabbé has improved constantly over the year, showcasing large champion pool flexibility and strong game sense. Jankos and BrokenBlade had some poor performances recently, but they can rely on multiple years of international experience to handle the pressure.
All in all, G2’s chances at a top-eight finish at Worlds will primarily depend on whether they can find pinpoint the right picks that work for the team. Caps will be the key to G2’s run and the rest of the team should play around mid as much as possible. If the team is at its best in terms of preparation, then G2 can fight for a top-two finish.
JD Gaming – Best all-around roster
The LPL Summer champions have landed at this year’s Worlds as one of the big favorites. JDG not only have great teamfighting abilities, but they can also count on the most well-rounded lineup. No matter the role, JDG had top-three LPL players in every category and some were even the best ones after the end of the split.
In particular, top laner Bai “369” Jia-Hao and support player Lou “Missing” Yun-Feng have been standing out from the rest. The first was the most consistent top laner in China, having the capability of playing both carries and weakside at peak level. It didn’t matter what champion he was on, but you were sure that he was going to make a major impact on any match.
Missing, on the other hand, flew under the radar, especially for those who don’t actively follow the LPL. Throughout the year, the support player showcased mechanical prowess with both enchanters and engagers. With such a large champion pool, he gives the team a massive variety of options, which will come in handy in the later stages of the tournament.
As for the rest of the squad, there isn’t much to complain. Seo “Kanavi” Jin-hyeok continues to deliver as one of the most complete jungle players in today’s League, mid laner Zeng “Yagao” Qi earned the summer playoffs Finals’ MVP, and JDG can always count on Wang “Hope” Jie for the late-game teamfights.
Given the results and the type of roster JDG has put together, the team is expected to make it out of Group B as the first-place team. Even if they won’t get the first spot due to the best-of-one format, JDG should still easily make it to the Knockout stage.
Evil Geniuses – Dark horse of Group B
Home heroes Evil Geniuses had to work hard in the play-in stage to make their way to Worlds’ group stage. They went through a total of 10 games already, having played two tie-breakers after the end of the group stage and then a series against the LEC team MAD Lions.
Against the expectations, Evil Geniuses dominated the EU representative, sending them home with a quick and convincing 3-0. The LCS team neutralized MAD’s jungler Javier “Elyoya” Prades Batalla by banning his most used champions and then proceeded to choke Nisqy in the mid lane with constant roams from top by Impact. EG found the enemy’s strength and shut them down in all three games 안전놀이터
After their strong performances so far, EG should have racked up some confidence ahead of their great test against three formidable teams. Jungler Kacper “Inspired” Słoma has been the key to EG’s success and Muhammed Hasan “Kaori” Şentürk is also delivering solid gameplay. With that being said, Group B’s level is on another tier compared to play-ins, so it’s unlikely that EG will manage to advance to the Knockout Stage.
League players already have one big problem with new Objective Voting feature
Riot is gearing up to introduce a new feature that will seemingly make obtaining objectives in League of Legends without voice coms a much easier task. But, some fans are already noticing things that could be improved.
The new addition, showcased on the PBE, sees players initiate a vote that will allow the team to flag their intentions to take the 토토사이트 dragon, baron, and other key objectives.
Reacting to this feature on Reddit, one fan pointed 메이저토토사이트 out an issue that could arise with this in its current state—right now the new League tool, while a good addition to the game, gives absolutely no indication of which teammates have voted in what way, limiting how much knowledge the team has over who is ready to go.
The example the poster used explained a situation could arise where three players vote yes but the two bot-lane players vote no. This could give the player in jungle the wrong idea that his bottom-dwelling teammates are gearing up to assist them 안전놀이터
Obviously, this new League feature is in its early stages and this issue could be fixed with a logo indicating each lane the voting player is in. With time still set before it rolls out to the live servers perhaps something like this could 메이저놀이터추천 be added.
For now, those on the League PBE will have a chance to dissect just how helpful this new tool is and all of the potential issues that come with it. This feature is set to go live on Nov. 16 when the 2023 League preseason begins.