League of Legends General Discussion Thread

[Tyrmith]

I like the new system for a couple reasons; it gives people a goal to reach for for people who are already at their right elo and so arn't really moving up the elo ladder, and also gives them a feeling that they aren't entirely stuck with the whims of solo queue, since it's partially based on accruing points.

[Jowy]

Best finish in a game. Spoilers for IEM Katowice btw.

[VoiceOfUnreason]

Work around for "Undefined" server status during startup

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/show...st33729759

Apparently, Riot has been fighting a denial of service attack?

[Deceptus]

I got back from IEM Katowice like 16 hours ago (the train from Gdynia to Katowice and vice versa takes a while). Me and my teammates from our EU West team that plays competitively (in local, really marginal tournaments though; I'm a support for our team, not a jungler, BTW) decided to go.

The event was great. I was a little disappointed that I didn't get to hunt down too many pro players - me and Piotr wanted their autographs, but I only managed to catch Voyboy. Behold the epic Seyruun vs Voyboy exchange:
"Voyboy, is that you?"
"...Yeah?"
"fsdopfjsdofjsdopfsd @_@"
No, but really, Voyboy is a cool guy, he seemed genuinely sorry that he couldn't get Saintvicious to sign my Warwick poster - Saint was at the hotel at the time I was asking, and it was really hard to get to the players since they spent most of their time in the VIP lodge (the plan was to beg a proplayer from a team to get his teammate to sign something for us, which would have taken just about 10 seconds and made our days hard). The only pro that received much spotlight at all was SK Ocelote, who had a ton of fans in Poland.
In fact, I was so nervous that Voyboy got his scribble on my poster... upside down. Because of the way I handed it over to him - I didn't unroll it as a whole, I just got a little bit uncovered (I didn't want to waste too much of his time, since I kinda, well, ambushed him in front of the VIP lodge) and he just wrote on it >_> I got to see Azubu face to face but I was too shy to try to communicate with people who don't seem to speak any English and honestly I can't tell one Azubu player from another - Koreans just aren't very "medial", I have little idea who they are other than "Madlife is a godlike support player" and "Captain Jack is a phenomenal ADC" and "Woongfucker". So yeah.

I kinda went backwards there (the events above happened at the very end of the games), let's get back to the start. The wait for the event to start was long, and we were thoroughly searched before entering.
Spodek, the place where the event was held in, apparently didn't expect to be sieged so much, people were clumping up at the stairs, we were lucky to find 4 seats on both days we were on (Saturday and Sunday). Sitting at the stairs was disallowed for safety reasons so the people sitting on them were eventually asked to leave. A lot of them were grouping up by the heaters outside. I'm just glad there were heaters there because it was freezing like hell. It didn't seem like there were many people from the outside, mostly Poles, which might be just good enough, I can't imagine a Spaniard surviving in the cold outside, particularly if for any reason he came to Poland unprepared for the winter (I am theoretically used to it, and still I dressed myself in more layers than an onion has).

Another highlight of the event were cosplayers and the girls overall. The models that advertised for the Intel products wore skintight bodysuits that were supposed to resemble processors. I got to play around with Windows 8 on a touchscreen monitor. The cosplayers were amazing, all of them friendly, I got photos with most of them, including the 2 wonderful Jannas. Yeah, I know about the awkward cosplay dance, I don't give a crap about people hating for no reason.

You can also imagine how Piotr, a die-hard Kassadin player since Season 1, reacted to Fnatic xPeke's big plays (I myself felt a warm pinch when Cyanide picked Rammus!). He was sitting next to me. We pretty much both jumped out of our seats and went "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH". We hoped to maybe catch contact with xPeke since Piotr came to the event with a Kassadin poster himself, but to no avail. The finals were kinda disappointing though, they just ended so fast, Gambit Gaming mopped the floor with Azubu which was really unexpected honestly. For me, at least.

Also, Spodek, the place where the event was held in, is really kinda unfit for this kinda stuff. There were just too many people. We managed to grab seats at the very top of the stage. They were not very comfortable in the sense that the big screens at the bottom were too dark from our perspective, while the big, shiny LED display hanging from the ceiling was kinda blurry. It wasn't just me, a guy with really bad eyes, that needed to squint really hard to figure out that the bans were, say, Kayle, Lee Sin and Cho'Gath. If I wanted to watch the games peacefully and pick out the details from each game, I would have stayed home - it felt kinda weird to be unable to see creep scores or even the time elapsed or kills/turrets for each team! Watching teamfights was okay though. Everything went worse on Sunday when we once again failed to grab good seats and were stuck at the top... except this time there was this huge black rectangle covering the top of the screen. The rectangle was, of course, a reflector. Gah. It only covered the stuff that I couldn't see anyway (the score for the game, that is), but it was just annoying and distracting.

About the only sad things that happened were only slightly related to the IEM Katowice organization. Notably, between games, it was really almost impossible to get to the food stand, and the prices were atrocious (5 złoty for a hotdog doesn't seem huge to you guys with real currency, but I consider it a luxury when I can have a good meal at McDonalds, and a McDonalds cheeseburger costs 3,5 złoty. I'm not even in an impoverished family, I just don't get pocket money that would allow me to feed myself on tiny little hotdogs). You couldn't really go outside and order stuff. About the best thing to do would be to bring food with yourself and we didn't. The worst part about it is that I was so hungry and dizzy from the whole thing that I misplaced my backpack. I only realized the fact when I came back to my seat. I went looking for it but never found it again. R.I.P, my Rammus, Amumu, and Royal Shaco pin-ups. :'( LUCKILY, I didn't have anything else in that backpack really (my pen and pencil, I can just rebuy) because I decided to leave most of my stuff at the hostel we were staying in. Otherwise I'd be extremely depressed, and still, I was wallowing over the backpack for quite a while just because of being such a doofus.

The other thing was completely unrelated to the IEM, it's related to our trains. When coming back home, the heating system went bust in our wagon and we had to relocate if we wanted warmth. We ignored it for a while thinking that our jackets and other stuff was enough. Big mistake. It was impossible. We finally switched wagons but we could no longer sit together until the people in the train cleared up. Also, the train was really eerie there - you have the well-lit interiors and warm corridors, and then you come by to the wagon with the busted heating and light. It's completely dark, nobody passes through there, there's a light at the end of the corridor, and there's hoarfrost gathering at the window. Cripes.

So yeah, the event was pretty damn cool overall, I might post some photos once I get around to them, but it's really mostly me or the others with the cosplayers.

PS: Aside from Voyboy, I managed to pass Carmac in a hallway, but he looked so serious and no-nonsense that I didn't feel a "Your team are have tomorrow big" joke would have been appropriate. Being a bit socially insecure doesn't help.

[Merovech]

(Not directed at anyone here):
Man, I know I'm bad, but when you're smurfing (and admitting that you're smurfing) a game with level 6s in it and I go 5/2/9 and we win (4 v. 5, too), you think you'd be able to excuse the fact that I make some stupid mistakes and occasionally left click the mouse instead of right click it.

[Dantski]

I got back from IEM Katowice like 16 hours ago (the train from Gdynia to Katowice and vice versa takes a while). Me and my teammates from our EU West team that plays competitively (in local, really marginal tournaments though; I'm a support for our team, not a jungler, BTW) decided to go.

The event was great. I was a little disappointed that I didn't get to hunt down too many pro players - me and Piotr wanted their autographs, but I only managed to catch Voyboy. Behold the epic Seyruun vs Voyboy exchange:
"Voyboy, is that you?"
"...Yeah?"
"fsdopfjsdofjsdopfsd @_@"
No, but really, Voyboy is a cool guy, he seemed genuinely sorry that he couldn't get Saintvicious to sign my Warwick poster - Saint was at the hotel at the time I was asking, and it was really hard to get to the players since they spent most of their time in the VIP lodge (the plan was to beg a proplayer from a team to get his teammate to sign something for us, which would have taken just about 10 seconds and made our days hard). The only pro that received much spotlight at all was SK Ocelote, who had a ton of fans in Poland.
In fact, I was so nervous that Voyboy got his scribble on my poster... upside down. Because of the way I handed it over to him - I didn't unroll it as a whole, I just got a little bit uncovered (I didn't want to waste too much of his time, since I kinda, well, ambushed him in front of the VIP lodge) and he just wrote on it >_> I got to see Azubu face to face but I was too shy to try to communicate with people who don't seem to speak any English and honestly I can't tell one Azubu player from another - Koreans just aren't very "medial", I have little idea who they are other than "Madlife is a godlike support player" and "Captain Jack is a phenomenal ADC" and "Woongfucker". So yeah.

I kinda went backwards there (the events above happened at the very end of the games), let's get back to the start. The wait for the event to start was long, and we were thoroughly searched before entering.
Spodek, the place where the event was held in, apparently didn't expect to be sieged so much, people were clumping up at the stairs, we were lucky to find 4 seats on both days we were on (Saturday and Sunday). Sitting at the stairs was disallowed for safety reasons so the people sitting on them were eventually asked to leave. A lot of them were grouping up by the heaters outside. I'm just glad there were heaters there because it was freezing like hell. It didn't seem like there were many people from the outside, mostly Poles, which might be just good enough, I can't imagine a Spaniard surviving in the cold outside, particularly if for any reason he came to Poland unprepared for the winter (I am theoretically used to it, and still I dressed myself in more layers than an onion has).

Another highlight of the event were cosplayers and the girls overall. The models that advertised for the Intel products wore skintight bodysuits that were supposed to resemble processors. I got to play around with Windows 8 on a touchscreen monitor. The cosplayers were amazing, all of them friendly, I got photos with most of them, including the 2 wonderful Jannas. Yeah, I know about the awkward cosplay dance, I don't give a crap about people hating for no reason.

You can also imagine how Piotr, a die-hard Kassadin player since Season 1, reacted to Fnatic xPeke's big plays (I myself felt a warm pinch when Cyanide picked Rammus!). He was sitting next to me. We pretty much both jumped out of our seats and went "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH". We hoped to maybe catch contact with xPeke since Piotr came to the event with a Kassadin poster himself, but to no avail. The finals were kinda disappointing though, they just ended so fast, Gambit Gaming mopped the floor with Azubu which was really unexpected honestly. For me, at least.

Also, Spodek, the place where the event was held in, is really kinda unfit for this kinda stuff. There were just too many people. We managed to grab seats at the very top of the stage. They were not very comfortable in the sense that the big screens at the bottom were too dark from our perspective, while the big, shiny LED display hanging from the ceiling was kinda blurry. It wasn't just me, a guy with really bad eyes, that needed to squint really hard to figure out that the bans were, say, Kayle, Lee Sin and Cho'Gath. If I wanted to watch the games peacefully and pick out the details from each game, I would have stayed home - it felt kinda weird to be unable to see creep scores or even the time elapsed or kills/turrets for each team! Watching teamfights was okay though. Everything went worse on Sunday when we once again failed to grab good seats and were stuck at the top... except this time there was this huge black rectangle covering the top of the screen. The rectangle was, of course, a reflector. Gah. It only covered the stuff that I couldn't see anyway (the score for the game, that is), but it was just annoying and distracting.

About the only sad things that happened were only slightly related to the IEM Katowice organization. Notably, between games, it was really almost impossible to get to the food stand, and the prices were atrocious (5 złoty for a hotdog doesn't seem huge to you guys with real currency, but I consider it a luxury when I can have a good meal at McDonalds, and a McDonalds cheeseburger costs 3,5 złoty. I'm not even in an impoverished family, I just don't get pocket money that would allow me to feed myself on tiny little hotdogs). You couldn't really go outside and order stuff. About the best thing to do would be to bring food with yourself and we didn't. The worst part about it is that I was so hungry and dizzy from the whole thing that I misplaced my backpack. I only realized the fact when I came back to my seat. I went looking for it but never found it again. R.I.P, my Rammus, Amumu, and Royal Shaco pin-ups. :'( LUCKILY, I didn't have anything else in that backpack really (my pen and pencil, I can just rebuy) because I decided to leave most of my stuff at the hostel we were staying in. Otherwise I'd be extremely depressed, and still, I was wallowing over the backpack for quite a while just because of being such a doofus.

The other thing was completely unrelated to the IEM, it's related to our trains. When coming back home, the heating system went bust in our wagon and we had to relocate if we wanted warmth. We ignored it for a while thinking that our jackets and other stuff was enough. Big mistake. It was impossible. We finally switched wagons but we could no longer sit together until the people in the train cleared up. Also, the train was really eerie there - you have the well-lit interiors and warm corridors, and then you come by to the wagon with the busted heating and light. It's completely dark, nobody passes through there, there's a light at the end of the corridor, and there's hoarfrost gathering at the window. Cripes.

So yeah, the event was pretty damn cool overall, I might post some photos once I get around to them, but it's really mostly me or the others with the cosplayers.

PS: Aside from Voyboy, I managed to pass Carmac in a hallway, but he looked so serious and no-nonsense that I didn't feel a "Your team are have tomorrow big" joke would have been appropriate. Being a bit socially insecure doesn't help.

Thanks for sharing, I'd like to see the pictures you've gotten.

[Gustaran]

Behold the epic Seyruun vs Voyboy exchange:
"Voyboy, is that you?"
"...Yeah?"
"fsdopfjsdofjsdopfsd @_@"

Hm, something went wrong. You should have replaced line 3 with:

"Hi, my name is Seyruun and my father owns "www.progamercases.co.uk". Our company is planning to release a custom art painted League of Legends case series and we are looking to sponsor a pro player who could represent our new models.
How about we go into the VIP area and have a little chat?"

(Well obviously you would have had to setup a fake website beforehand, but still...)

[Deceptus]

Thanks for sharing, I'd like to see the pictures you've gotten.

Yeah, I figure that with me and Piotr being teenaged guys (and only him being taken), there weren't that many pictures and their focus is rather monotone.

[v8mark]

Seyruun, awesome write-up (and cute models!)

One day I'll drag myself along to one of these events if someone decides to host one within a couple of hundred miles...

[antisocialmunky]

Hey guys, Own3dTV is shutting down

http://www.own3d.tv/blog

If you guys have videos up there, it might be worth backing them up somewhere until they figure out how to transfer them to another provider (twitch maybe?)