Riot addresses issues at League of Legends playoffs

Congrats, Riot. eSports was making ground but its a joke yet again.

simple solution, put the competing teams in separate booths. I believe i saw that being done in Starcraft tournaments and I think I saw it in some Asian league of legends tournaments as well.

I live for the day when E-sport games' developers will start to bring LAN support back. I mean, if these connection issues aren't proving anything, i dont know what else  will.

And as for minimap issues... well, as for anything that is made and organized by human, someone will always try to find the way to exploit whatever measures put. It is in human nature.

Big Riot and LoL fan, but I find this incredibly stupid oversight very entertaining. It's really not that hard to arrange things so the audience can see the minimaps but the players cannot. I lol'd LoL. It's like this event was run by the government or something.

 Ok cheating is bad we get it. How about you explain that to the participants and maybe teach them the value of honor and fair play ?

 Oh right you can't, because the rest of the world, just like you, is bread and told that if they see a downed person they should kick him in the face and take the money he has. An exploit is a hero's gift after all.

Anyone comparing this to "real" sports seem to be forgetting reality. Something goes wrong with Esports, the problem is fixed within a week. Something goes wrong in "real" sports, we suffer through the season with a stupid rule and it doesn't get fixed until next year, if we're lucky. Unless you're the NFL and get embarrassed on national TV....

For a game that is riddled with lag spikes I am surprised they didn't have some sort of tournament LAN build ready. I will instantly go from ~50ms to ~6000ms right as I approach enemies. I have friends who I play with who have the same problem so it's not my connection.

As far as mini-map cheating off of the big screen goes, that would be the lamest thing a team could do. If they have evidence that someone did that, their whole team should be disqualified. That is just shameful.

This is why we can't have Esports on Tv.

Olympics : "sorry guys, we have a problem, we'll have to delay the games to next week."

Gj Riot.

I hate when connection issues get in the way of a NFL came. Still, Romo and Bryant do have connection issues, so I guess thats one way to see it.

Maybe we should get replacement ref??

Had to have refs and security cameras when they could just string up some big black curtains? I think their people were over-thinking the problem.

Cheating in video games? *gasp*

I love League of Legends but this is kind of embarrasing

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I was piss because on that day I was busy and was thought to for sure miss the M5 vs TPA match up but I'm so glad things turn out like this LOL but yea cheating sucks.

If at once you don't succeed, try, try again.

The scene is still in its infancy. Live and learn.

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