Controversy in Esports

Sometimes, the decisions made by tournament holders can be seen as controversial.  Recently in the WCG qualifiers  team Dignitas pulled some fishy maneuvers, which led to much speculation on whether or not they should advance.  The controversy is mostly surrounding the player Jatt.  At first, he competed on a Canadian team that was eliminated, after which he used his double citizenship to fight with Dignitas on the US side.  It is against the rules to be on two teams at once, so WCG eliminated the Canadian team, which had already lost.  Dginitas went on to win and go to Korea for the finals.  I think that the whole thing was really shady, including rule changes mid tournament.  I think that CDE should be allowed to go to Korea and compete, even if it means both teams going, I think it would be more fair.

A little league spectatin'

So a couple weeks ago was IEM (Intel Extreme Masters) New York.  I didn't get the chance to watch any of the games live, but I did find the vods for the semi finals (I guess they haven't uploaded the finals or 3rd place games yet).  Even with my opinion that Summoner's Rift is pretty boring, it is always awesome to watch super good players go head to head.

My favorite were the SK vs CLG games, mainly because SK dominated for most of them.  I'm not a big CLG fan, although Saintvicious is one of the few streamers I have ever enjoyed watching.  I had never really seen SK in action and I wasn't disappointed.  The first game saw Ocelote playing an AMAZING Kassadin.  At one point, he pretty much ate their whole team after almost losing his own.  In the second game, Ocelote played Gragas, who is such a weird pick, but whenever he is played well he can be terrifying!  I loved the opening gank on Saint in the jungle.  By the middle of the game, Gragas and Vayne both had perfect games going, so they were doing CRAZY damage.  Ocelote could pretty much one shot the enemy Caitlyn with his ult.  All in all, I'm glad SK won.

In the Fnatic vs Sypher games, I knew exactly who I wanted to win.  Fnatic has some really cool players, like Shushei.  Shushei played Talon for both of the games I saw, which wasn't too exciting.  The real star of the show was either Mellisan or Cyanide.  Mellisan had some great Sona ults that left the other team completely stunned.  Cyanide did a crazy awesome job as Lee Sin during the first game.  The second game was really the only interesting one out of this series, because Fnatic was so far behind for most of it.  Sypher owned the early game, where their Garen did a seriously amazing job surviving.  Then at the very end, Fnatic got two aces and the other team just couldn't hold on any longer.

Pretty cool tournament!  Can't wait to see the finals.

League!!

The past few weeks have left me with little time to focus on fun things to do.  Mainly it has all been either school or work.  But when I do have some time to myself, I usually get on League of Legends and play a few games with my friends Pat, Kyle and Laura.  We are pretty bad at the game, but with the recently added Dominion mode, we have more fun then ever.  Dominion is much more fast paced and action packed when compared to the classic DOTA style play present in Summoner's Rift.  It's almost like there is always a chance to win a game, even if you've been behind the whole time.  It's so much fun!  I have a few replays that would be awesome to add on here, maybe I'll fraps a few games in progress so people can hear us yelling stupid things in the middle of games.  Dominion might lead to less of an esports focus for this blog, and more of a focus on the everyday player, playing exclusively for fun.