League of Legends: Clash of Fates

Cool Annie (Tibbers can suck it, though)! OH! I wish I could have been there. I love PAX Prime. Even though it's crowded as fuck and it's near impossible to get a ticket these days. Oh, and I'm in Texas (whatever). I'm hoping PAX South will be a little more chill, but equally as exciting :). You really can't beat Seattle, though. Unless they moved it to Portland. That would be infinitely better. Also, I've been drinking.

If they moved it to Portland it would be smaller but easier for me to get to.

Enjoy drinking

Oh yeah! Made my team earlier today - http://fantasy.eslgaming.com/teams/34126 . Too bad Meteos and Bjergsen are so expensive. I had to sacrifice jungle and top picks to make it under cap.

This is really cool! I'm still relatively new to the competitive names in esports, but I love this idea and hope it's wildly successful. Is it possible to make a private league? Would be cool to compete with other CGers!

Are the seasons and players in LOL stable enough for this to work? When I follow SC2 the tournaments and players were really volatile

There's a Dota 2 Fantasy League as well! http://blog.dota2.com/2014/05/introducing-fantasy-league-season-one/

Good question, @Sungorth. The rosters seem to be fairly consistent, without much interruption to the seasons. I'm not that deep into it, though, so that could just be my perception.

Oh man, I totally forgot about this post! I was going to write up a post about how Draft Kings offers LoL fantasy betting. The reason I feel this is significant is that Draft Kings is a MAJOR football and baseball daily fantasy site (paying out one billion dollars this season for NFL fantasy). I think having LoL in such a public spot (listed along with NFL, MLB, MMA, Soccer, etc) really could help legitimize esports even more (more than the millions of viewers and prize dollars already involved in it, this could open it up to people who have no clue what esports are).

What is League of Legends? - DraftKings Playbook
playbook.draftkings.com/news/what-is-league-of-legends
Here's a cool introduction someone on the site would see if they're interested in what LoL is. It's a pretty good summary of what a MOBA is and done without mocking gamers like one might expect from a site catering to more tradional sports fans.

I like the explanation for why RIOT's system appears to be working. Using a combined punishment/reward system, with its roots in the community, they're able to publicly shame those responsible for bad (or unwanted behaviour) and publicly praise those who create a more harmonious gamespace. Contrasted with the typical approach of primarily negative disciplinary action against players, RIOT's approach appears to be working.

It was a fun match to watch in person. CLG played well.

Cool. Can you get this off Steam or from the developers site only? I didn't know this is free to play.

I sort of expect any DoTA clone to be rife with douche-bags. DoTA was, for sure. I know because I dared play it as a lowly noob-cock mortal....

Pretty sure this is only available from Riot. I'm used to the elite being arrogant braggarts, but I have been blindsided by these apathetic verbally abusive middle schoolers. The amount of trash talking far exceeds the typical CS/HALO/ bullshit I'm used to dealing with. I'm not bitter...

Lol. I think the online douchery in certain game communities is a bit over the top. Then again as long as they all congregate to one or two games that I don't play.... ;)

I play this one too. It's a blast, especially when you can get a few guys you know to play with ya. It matches you with players that team up, as well, so if you have a group of five, you're almost guaranteed to play another team of five. That's when the games can get really heated.

Yeah after you get some games under your belt the matchmaking system is pretty good. However, if you're a group of 5 you get matched to other groups of 5 regardless of ranking. So those can be pretty lopsided sometimes, unless you're playing ranked of course.