League? Nice.

Anyone else here watching CS:GO at Dreamhack? by SeaTurtle on 2014-11-28 20:27:00 UTC Reply

For the uninitiated, Dreamhack is a big tournament featuring various games (League of Legends, Starcraft, Counter-Strike, etc.) and teams from all over the world.

Anyways, fnatic, a 5-man team that is currently under scrutiny because 2 of its players are accused of cheating by the community at large has just won a semifinal game, bumping off LDLC by using a super-sketchy boost. Normally, you're able to jump on ledges (or even on other teammates!) to be able to peek over things-- that's how the game works. But in this case, there isn't supposed to be a ledge where KRIMZ is standing and olofmeister was able to see virtually the entire map from his vantage point, enabling his team to consistently intercept LDLC and to prevent them from winning a single round. It also didn't help that he bought the auto-sniper, a 2-shot kill weapon and was raining death on LDLC during the entire half.

I swear, if the Dreamhack staff doesn't disqualify fnatic for these shenanigans, there's going to be a riot on the CS:GO subreddit...

...yeah, sorry. Needed somebody to complain to. Any other Counter-Strike PPCers here?

Damned Hackers. by HearthKitsune on 2014-11-29 03:21:00 UTC Reply

Hey. Yeah, I'm not really into the scene myself though I dabble in striking.

However, this recently came up to my attention from one of my friends who's huge into the pro gaming scene (I just focus on League of Legends, I don't really have enough time for a million different competitive games) and according to him, it's not even 'accused' anymore, it's straight confirmed, and it's not just fnatic, which by the way is making me grind my teeth because they sponsor a great LoL team which I always enjoy watching (The Summer LCS was great) but now this?

I don't know what they're playing at, but it's bullsh... uh... horseapples. Yeah.

Hackers at the pro level.

League? Nice. by SeaTurtle on 2014-11-29 14:30:00 UTC Reply

Yeah, a lot of pros suspect flusha and olofmeister of using hardware cheats to very slightly improve their aim-- things like a 10% aim correction that might be considered a flick shot 99.9% of the time. flusha is super sketchy and almost certainly cheating while most people are on the fence with olofmeister's case.

Anyways, Dreamhack set up a rematch for LDLC and fnatic but the latter forfeited, allowing the Frenchmen to move on to the finals. It looks like fnatic are trying to salvage what little honour they have left and to cut their losses ASAP.

Also: how's LoL? Guessing from Dreamhack's viewer count it's even bigger than CS:GO (which is astounding because GO has been growing exponentially since last year). I heard quite a few things about the game but I'm absolutely rubbish at MOBAs. Who's your favourite champion?

Well by HearthKitsune on 2014-11-30 00:36:00 UTC Reply

LoL's doing quite well right now. We recently just finished Season 4 and the World Championship was pretty intense, they got the whole thing on Youtube (Thank the Goddess) and while last year they sold out the Staples Center in LA, This year they sold out THE FIFA WORLD CUP STADIUM in KOREA.

It was pretty awesome.

And my favorite champion is split between all the roles-
Tank: Garen
Jungle: Vi
Mid: Ahri
ADC: Caitlyn
Support: Sona

Just watched the Season 4 final. by SeaTurtle on 2014-11-30 04:19:00 UTC Reply

That's... quite a crowd. Also: is South Korea the main LoL powerhouse? Given that many famous StarCraft players come from South Korea, I can see some of the micromanagement skills easily transferring from SC to LoL.

I also watched a couple of the League animatics. Pretty good stuff, but I don't think they represent gameplay as accurately as this ~~parodic~~ trailer.

Nah by HearthKitsune on 2014-11-30 05:30:00 UTC Reply

South Korea's got a lot of good players, but so does China, the US, Great Britain, and a few other places. It's really a world-wide game at the moment.

And no, the animations don't represent gameplay that accurately, but they are fun to watch.