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Maximum PC: What would be the team's biggest comeback moment?
Cop: Our match versus Good Game University (GGU). We had two Inhibitors down and they were hitting our Nexus (last structure) ready to finish the game. We ended up acing them (killing all of them) while they were trying to finish the Nexus and counter pushed for the win.
Maximum PC: Which team is the one to beat this season? And what makes them so difficult?
Elementz: The best team is probably Dignitas. They are a really good team, their communication is excellent and they have Crumbzz who is one of the best junglers in the game.
Team Curse does a meet-and-greet with its passionate fans.
Maximum PC: What’s more important: a great individual player or five solid players?
Elementz: This one is obvious: five solid players. This is a team game, communication is paramount. You are only as strong as your weakest link. Individual skill means nothing if you can’t coordinate and move around the map properly. That is why you see teams that are made up of very high Elo (ranked) players sometimes do horribly in tournaments.
Maximum PC: Do you guys ever troll (mess around) in non-competitive games? If so, what antics have you guys gotten away with?
Elementz: Sometimes when you want to relax after a long day of scrimming, you get to play some fun unorthodox champions that are fun to play. Sometimes those fun games turn into amazing strategies that we use in our professional games. You never know. One of my favorite compositions is Cassopeia support and Singed on bot lane...it's so strong!
Professional gaming at the top level is serious work.
Maximum PC: This is situational, but in general, if you guys kill all members of the enemy team (known as "ace"), is it a better idea to use that time and destroy turrets or kill Baron and go for the Baron buff? I’ve personally felt that going for Baron has cost me many-a-game.
Saint: This is highly situational it depends on so many different things. It depends on oracle control, the health bars, death timers, how many towers you already have, if you have inhibitors or not, the minion lanes and where they are pushed, item builds, and how many players are left after the ace. With all of that being said, if you can get inhibs - typically it is better than Baron. In most solo-queue games, teams will overextend at the enemy base trying to pick up an inhib and over-stay and then they will get re-aced. It’s always best to take small-bite advantages. When you get greedy and overextend, it almost always backfires.
Maximum PC: Let’s say you’re pitted up against an unknown enemy team in a tournament. Which three characters would you ban and why?
Cop: This is way too hard to answer. It depends on the meta, the patch, red or blue side. In this hypothetical imaginary situation, I guess we would ban some of the more overpowered champions. At the moment that would be Tryndamere, Xin Zhao and Kayle. Tryndamere because he can fully heal himself with his Q which is on a four-second cool down. Xin because his ganks are godlike and he can tank tower hits. Kayle because she dishes out so much damage and her ultimate can make or break team fights because you can save someone.
Team Curse shows off it's Cooler Master gear.
Maximum PC: What do you guys think of the other multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games like Dota 2, HoN, and Smite?
Voyboy: They don’t even compare to League. They will have their own loyal fan bases but League of Legends dominates them all. Riot games has made significant investments in eSports and ensuring that their games have more fans than all of those combined.
Maximum PC: Thanks for the time, guys. We'll certainly be routing for you this season.
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firefox91
March 11, 2013 at 4:45pm
They "work" at playing a video game. Right. It may be earning you money now, but it will end. And those video gaming skills don't do much to spruce up a resume.
Guyde
March 12, 2013 at 10:49am
I'll skip over the jealous trolling part and focus on the resume: "Professional gamer" actually translates exceptionally well into a career as a commentator (e.g. "djWheat"), and to some extent as a video game developer (e.g. "Jatt", who commentates also).
That's not to say that those are the only options available after a stint as a pro gamer. Voyboy, for example, has simply tabled his university scholarship offers for the time being.
D00dlavy
March 07, 2013 at 11:54am
My colleagues and I have researched the LoL community for ten months for our exhaustive project in labeling and cataloging sub-cultures.
In our research, polling and projections based on well-known statistical paradigms have led each on my team to individually confirm what everyone suspected anyway: People who play LoL are involuntary virgins.
jimmthang
March 07, 2013 at 9:27am
They're currently ranked 8th in the world: http://www.gosugamers.net/lol/rankings (2nd in the US).
Up until fairly recently they were undefeated and ranked 6th in the world.
buttersoft
March 06, 2013 at 6:57pm
Enjoyed that. I play BF and wonder what the comp scene could be like if DICE bothered supporting it. LoL shows interesting possibilities. Gaming is only going to get bigger.
EDIT: I should have said if *EA* bothered, DICE probably want to.
Danthrax66
March 07, 2013 at 9:03am
Crytek would have went under and Dice needed a publisher... EA was looking to buy so they got bought. Valve should really start buying companies.
TheMissingPiece
March 06, 2013 at 6:27pm
So, uh, I guess Jimmy is into this League of Legends thing.
Xenite
March 06, 2013 at 4:35pm
Interesting that you decided to skip over the recent banning issues of players from "pro" *rolls eyes* teams. Or the consistent bad reputation LoL has for having a horrible community.
Or the bad sportsmanship, collusion and game rigging accusations their own team has faced in the past.
dgrmouse
March 06, 2013 at 10:23pm
At least it was a readable article. It seems like 90% of the stories about this genre of game are so loaded with acronyms and jargon that they offer nothing of interest to an uninitiated reader.
theEzzme
March 06, 2013 at 8:25pm
Maybe because all you said is irrelevant...
1st off only one actual pro player has been banned, most other players banned were from amateur teams who were entering the tournament to get into Riots season 3 championship series. Either way how is this a bad thing? They are eliminating players who they found to be toxic to others and the community no matter if their Pro or your average player.
As far as the community goes, the same goes for all MOBAs and like many others have said before the genre is a perfect combination to cause this rage. Long games that all rely on your teammates performances as well as yours makes it very frustrating, DoTA 2, and HoN both have just as bad communities, only LoL with its large user base is more prone to it.
As far as bad sportsmanship, when has this ever been something anyone has brought up about them? The only thing I can think of is the reddit/forum threads early on about how Saintvicious is a dick, which he sort of is because he's very blunt. Almost every team is friendly to each other scrimming and frequently visiting each other in their respective gaming houses. And about that collusion, all it had to do with was they plus another team decided to play an ARAM (All random all mid) instead of a real game at an MLG event due to the event being a week before the tournament to gain enter the $1 million tournament.
It seems to me you have no idea about any of the subjects you brought up. You either have something against e-sports as a whole judging by your rolls eyes comment about them being pro (they are pro, they get paid a salary to play the game and are very highly skilled at it, same as any other job that would have an employee called a pro). Or you don't like the game.
jimmthang
March 06, 2013 at 6:55pm
Any MOBA-type game is going to have a similar community to seem degree. It's just the nature of the gameplay mechanics. With that said, I've played with my fair share of friendly people as well. I think Riot has really improved the community with the ability to rate people post match.
While I can't speak on behalf of Team Curse in regards to the "collusion" aspect, they did offer a public apology about it. Furthermore, I personally don't think it's as damning as some portray it to be. Here's PC Gamer's similar take on the situation: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/08/27/top-two-league-of-legends-teams-from-mlg-summer-disqualified-for-collusion/
gogochicken
March 06, 2013 at 6:25pm
Ya I would agree with you on most of that.
The games still fun though.
