Although Riot Video games is making an attempt to revive the LCS with new concepts, the area nonetheless will get slammed for nearly each hiccup by League of Legends followers. To deal with this concern, LS joined Travis Gafford’s podcast on Feb. 13 and talked about how he feels the area is having its finest 12 months but.
As a critic and ‘adverse LCS persona’ labeled by League followers, LS thinks the area is method higher than it’s ever been this 12 months. From the stage to the brand new segments, LS praised Riot’s initiatives to make the North American league extra immersive and enticing to look at.
“I feel the stage seems very nice. It helps get immersive in watching,” LS mentioned. “The segments that they did, like I used to be a extremely huge fan of the QTCinderella section.”
In accordance with him, integrating gamers with full segments on them throughout breaks is one thing Riot and LCS have by no means finished earlier than. “I feel the route of going that route in loads of methods is sweet. Full-blown segments on the precise gamers are all actually good,” he mentioned.
As a co-streamer, LS feels these steps are like an uptick which makes the published extra noticeable and a reduction to look at. On account of these participating segments, there was much more engagement amongst viewers even throughout breaks.
The competitors this 12 months can also be participating to look at. With no assured top-four groups on the LCS leaderboard (except maybe FlyQuest), LS thinks LCS has a great move proper now.
“There are sufficient enjoyable storylines even with like among the backside groups which have like huge names,” he mentioned. “Like Dignitas fully floundering about, Staff Liquid making an attempt to determine what’s occurring, and every little thing occurring with CLG, I imply LCS is fascinating in that regard.”
As a consequence, LS feels horrible seeing the unnecessary LCS drama unfolding on social media platforms over the previous few weeks. “I really feel like analytically [it] doesn’t really translate into something. It’s identical to folks need to take psychological blows and it’s nearly for naught. It simply feels actually brutal,” LS mentioned.
LS was pointing to the TSM and Doublelift segment during the Feb. 4 broadcast which gained large backlash from the League group. Followers felt the best way LeTigress dealt with the subject was far too nonchalant because it concerned the alleged abuse of TSM gamers and workers members. However LS felt it was odd everybody tried to go after just one particular person, whereas Riot kept its silence on the segment earlier than addressing it far too late.
The 2023 LCS Spring Cut up returns tomorrow, Feb. 15, with Evil Geniuses going through off in opposition to 100 Thieves at 4pm CT.
