
This was a busy week in the world of e-Sports, and sometimes it's good to take a look back at the big events of the week to see just what we might have missed. The week began with IEM crowning a new champion, a first big victory for Reapered's new team SK Telecom T1. While the Koreans were still dominating, a new North American team was born as an old favorite shored up their roster. All this happened while another professional found himself on the wrong side of Santa's naughty list. Let's take a look back at the week that was in e-Sports.
Fnatic Falters late, Reapered Rises (and gets trolled)
No one can argue that Fnatic has rounded into form of late and has become a dominant force in the European scene again. They finished second place to World Elite at IPL 5 in Las Vegas, and looked very good throughout the tournament in Cologne. However, they couldn't stop an Asian team from ascending to the to spot on LAN once again as they dropped a very close set against SK Telecom 1 2 games to 1. In a tournament where CLG.EU failed to make it out of the group stages, Fnatic once again showed well though, and have made their claim to be the best team in Europe once again with their last 3 LAN finishes being 2nd, 2nd, 1st against some of the best competition the world has to offer.
Let's talk about the winner's of the tournament though. Reapered was Azubu Blaze's former top lane before they parted ways over shall we say creative differences but not because of his lack of talent. He is one of the premier top lanes in the competitive scene, and his new team is nothing to scoff at as some of the best teams in Europe quickly found out over the weekend. The other Korean team in attendance, CJ Entus also showed well earning a tied-for-3rd place finish knocking off CLG.EU in the group stages and pushing Fnatic to a third game in the semifinals. The rest of the world should be very fearful of not only the strength at the very top of the Korean scene, but the depth it is developing as well.
Reapered wasn't done making news out of IEM Cologne though, as he met up with everyone's favorite e-Sports reporter Uszat, better known as Carmac for a very fun troll interview. Carmac is better known for trolling Starcraft professionals, but his interview with Scarra last year was one for the ages. Here's his very fun interview with Reapered with guest appearances by CLG.EU:
Dignitas Decides on a Top Lane, a New Team Emerges in NA, Riot adds to their naughty list
Dignitas has been searching for a new player ever since IWillDominate was suspended from competitive League of Legends for 1 year because of repeated Tribunal infractions. Instead of finding a new jungle, Dignitas decided to move Crumbzz back into the jungle where use to play, and pick a new top. The name will be surprising for many League of Legends fans, but they were happy to welcome KiWiKiD to the team. KiWiKiD is a former professional DotA and HoN pro, and has played competitive LoL with the UT Austin team. They were in attendance at the Lone Star Clash 2, where they fell in the finals to UC Irvine.
FXOpen e-Sports, a multi-gaming competitive organization announced they would be throwing their hats into the ring with a North American team this week as well. They were happy to announce the acquisition of Team Clasik. Their starting lineup will consist of Navitar in the mid lane, 408 in the jungle, Entus in the top lane, JRTSeven and Daydream as AD Carry and Support respectively. The team is a brand new bunch to the the competitive scene, but they do have an online tournament to their name. As Team Clasik they won the Fall 2012 Alienware Arena tournament and will look to build on that to qualify for Season 3.
Finally, Riot showed they are definitely making a list, checking it twice, and you better be naughty instead of nice because they will ban you. In the wake of IWillDominate's ban and suspension from competitive play, players would think the pros would take notice that no one is immune to the almighty Tribunal and ban-hammer. However, Fnatic's sOAZ found himself on the wrong side of the tribunal, although only for a temporary ban. No professional repercussions are being enforced, but he will certainly have to watch himself going forward. He didn't believe he deserved the ban but you can review his case here and decide for yourself.
What do you think of all the happenings around the community this week RoG'ers? Will there be a stop to Korean dominance? Will KiWiKiD work out for Dignitas? Was sOAZ's temporary ban justified? Let us know your thoughts on all the news in the community and be sure to stay tuned to Reign of Gaming for all your League of Legends related needs.
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Posted 12/24/2012 9:16:51 AMSoaz wasn't being mean at all. That sort of conduct is completely expected and I don't agree with the ban in the slightest. He hardly did a damn thing and the only person to report him was ONE guy on enemy team.
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Posted 12/26/2012 10:36:54 AMit takes a lot for ONE guy in 9 ppl to report the others, and in more than 1 game, for manners.
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Posted 12/23/2012 6:03:12 AMThose typos are becoming annoying.
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Posted 12/22/2012 2:10:57 PMIt's happened. I just feel sorry about IWD's that his E-sport career is almost over. Stopped for a year gonna destroy him.
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Posted 12/22/2012 11:43:20 AMHe doesn't deserve a ban. Honestly this Tribunal system is just creating a community of crybabies.
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Posted 12/29/2012 11:35:53 AMYeah, I read his case, and the ban wasn't justified at all. I have to agree, the community is becoming increasingly oversensitive about pretty much anything, and dumb Riot Lyte is backing up that stupid trend.
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Posted 12/22/2012 1:43:03 AMSK Telecom's AP mid was like 1600 elo season 2.
Dat Korean elo.
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Posted 12/22/2012 1:17:35 AMHe is worth for the ban IMO, too much raging, even if his mate don't do that well it is not an excuse for the bunch of insulting.
However, should competitive players being banned for that is what I questioned, also, he is anonymous when ppl judge his words, Soaz's name is revealed somewhere in the chat but I am quite sure not everyone will notice it.
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Posted 12/21/2012 10:12:15 PMwell he certainly overused his enter button a lot but i don't think he deserved that ban. nothing major just your average omg look at him/team sux report QQ
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Posted 12/21/2012 9:45:02 PMYeah I read the Soaz case and it doesn't look banworthy to me, and I've judged my share of tribunal cases.
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Posted 12/21/2012 7:14:21 PMWow, Soaz didn't deserve that at ALL. IWD's ban was totally warranted, swearing is one thing but racism isn't and well shouldn't be accepted. Soaz just gave some calm complaining about his team? And judging from the fact he's an amazing player his teammates probably were screwing up. Are we just supposed to ignore our AD carry being atrocious if we're support and not say anything when he indecisively walks back and forth during a slow instead of auto-attacking people? What about when he hard focuses the support with the AD next to them and the AD gets a double-kill?
Or are we supposed to calmly give constructive feedback when any attempt at that is going to be met with a brick wall of "fuk u" or "u mad"? Which I might add was basically what he got from his teammates, there were consistently people far, far more foul and in need of a ban than him on his side. He was barely even rude, far more civil than I and most others are in games that's for sure.
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Posted 12/21/2012 9:30:07 PMTotally deserved imo, I would have reported a teammate saying things like those and also would have hit punish on tribunal.
A few quotes of that precious language:
good jungler i have ^^
Best team EVER
MAN YOU SUX SO HARD
but i'm sure your the real trash naru
this mofo jungler finally died
can you report all the guys of my team ? thx
i dont care, i get ban aswell so why u wouldnt?
go qq to riot after
die pig
worst team ever again
i try to splitpush cuz u sux
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Posted 12/22/2012 5:11:22 AMDude if you banned people for that kind of shit you'd literally lose over 99.9% of the playerbase. I want to get rid of obnoxious assholes and worthless players as much as the next person but you can't just ban everyone except the Christian grandmothers and call it a day. I doubt I even go a game without calling someone a worthless moron (because I don't go a game without seeing a teammate have a death:time ratio of 0.5:1 minute) and the only thing close to as offensive as that is "die pig". The rest? Whatever. Grow some skin man, there's no racist stuff there, there's not even a single curse word, there's not even anything personally offensive except for die pig and maybe calling someone trash. Not to mention this is sOAZ we're talking about. We've just confirmed he's an incredibly good player who knows the game better than anyone in these comments, so you really can't be angry if he calls someone bad, he's almost certainly right.
If you're going to get that defensive over being called "worst team ever" then you should be looking at yourself, not others.
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Posted 12/22/2012 6:29:05 AMYou're quite wrong if you think 99'9% of players usually rage like that. You probably deserve a ban too. I've seen a bunch of tribunal cases when the reported one say things exactly like "worthless moron", and that's an insta-punish (unless he was provoked before etcetc).
Also, no. Being soaz gives him absolutely no rights to call whoever he wants a noob. Moreover, the fact that he play a famous 5-premade-pro-team doesn't really make him a better soloQ player.
If I see someone failing on my team that isn't doing it on purpose I'll just try to do my best to cheer him up and tell him to play more relaxed/focused/whatever-he-needs-to-play-better. That's actually a way to win more soloQ games than raging whenever someone starts to fail.
In fact, I would pretty happy if all the people that do that (raging at their teammates when they fail) get permabanned. SoloQ would then be an actually enjoyable place to play. And if soaz is included in that bunch of people, so be it.
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Posted 12/21/2012 2:14:39 PMProfessional players need to set examples. or be made examples of if they are incapable of behaving like professionals. Either way, The league community is by FAR to negative. this type of behavior is OVERLY common to the point that casual players cant even enjoy blind pick unranked matches. If the community continues to be overly negative it makes the community weaker, and a weak community is usually not a long term community. If you guys wanna keep league in the esports scene then we need to try and improve.
maybe im wrong... but what if im right?
ban deserved imo