Category:  LoL Tournaments

By Briggs, October 22, 2011 0 League of Legends, LoL Tournaments

Well the finals have come and gone and I have finally had a chance to sit down and go over the IEM League of Legends Tournament in New York. Now unfortunately I was unable to follow every match with the depth and intricacy I was able to at the kick off of the event but I am going to instead use this article to simply cover the final tournament winning match to you as in as great detail as possible…. Read More »

By Briggs, October 14, 2011 0 League of Legends, LoL Tournaments, MLG

The IEM III Event is Underway!!!…after a two hour delay… The Intel Extreme Masters Event III in New York began yesterday (October 13th) and needless to say it was an extremely impressive showing of all the teams involved. Upsets and shattered dreams were most certainly a large part of every match of the day. Many victories and defeats were decided, as they usually are, by the victors of the team fight at baron buff. All in all it was an… Read More »

By Briggs, October 1, 2011 0 League of Legends, LoL Tournaments

It has been a hot button debate for some time now in the LOL community, should the Elo system be revamped to allow players to have both a solo queue Elo and a pre-made team Elo? And if so how would such a system work? , Should the scores be completely unaffected by one another? Or should they be combined into a single score made up of some kind of averaging the two together? These are some of the questions… Read More »

By Briggs, September 25, 2011 0 League of Legends, LoL Tournaments

The term MOBA, for those of you who make a habit out of living under rocks, stands for “Multiplayer Online Battle Arena” and is the genre of games that League of Legends falls under. Now while DOTA gave birth to the genre as we know it today, games like LOL and Heroes of Newerth are making slight changes to the formula either by simplifying the system of gameplay to make it more accessible to everyone (LOL) or building upon what… Read More »