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United States2822 Posts
http://lol.j-cg.com/
http://lol.j-cg.com/news/12
It looks like Japan has started their own league system for intrepid League of Legends players in the country. The format is split into seasons of 6-weeks each and split into three classes of competition that all run concurrently. The league starts on April 29th.
The tournament will be streamed on http://www.twitch.tv/japanesports
The first is the open class, which takes place every Tuesday at 9pm JST in the form of 4-man single-elimination Bo3 tournaments. Each tournament distributes points to its participants based off of placement. 1st place 5 pts, 2nd place 3 pts, 3rd place 2 pts, 4th place 1 pt. Once you get at least 10 league points, you are eligible to participate in the second stage. Players can sign up either as a team or as individual players - individual players be randomly selected from a pool and formed into random PUG teams to participate, which they will stick with for the full season.
The second stage is the master league, which takes place every other Sunday at 9pm JST in the form of 4-man round robin Bo3 tournaments. Similarly to the open league, you receive points based off of placement. 1st place 5 pts, 2nd place 3pts, 3rd place 2 pts, 4th place 1 pt. The top 4 teams by point-ranking are eligible to participate in the third stage. For Season 0, entry is limited to players who have reached Platinum or higher on any server, but for future seasons, you will be able to enter based off of your league points you've received in the open class.
The third stage is the premier league, which also takes place every other Sunday at 9pm JST on the weeks that the master league tournaments are not held. The tournament format is a series of 4-man round robin Bo3 tournaments. Winners of these round robin matches compete in a playoff each season to determine the victor of the season. The victor of each season will get an invite to a LAN finals to take place in January 2014.
Yellow - Open Class Green - Master League Red - Premier League Striped Boxes - Playoff Matches
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Neat. Thanks for posting this! Is Japan too caught up in fighting games/arcades to be a major player in ESPORTS? Also do they play on the Korean server?
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United States2822 Posts
Most of the Japanese players I know play on the NA server.
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United States37500 Posts
Japan coming out of the FGC scene? :O I'm sending this to my Japanese friends, lolol.
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O.O damn if japan is taking LOL.... this is awesome
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I wasn't aware the japanese even played video games.
+ Show Spoiler +VNs don't count as video games in my book. + Show Spoiler +Yes, I'm generalizing and leaving out FG at the same time. Call the police.
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hmmm, when I was in Japan last year LoL was basically unknown and I had to install it whenever I went to a "high spec" PC cafe (most of the manga kissa where you can rent PC have shitty outdated computers). People generally played asian mmo, sometimes FPS games and very rarely SC2. I never saw any moba on the screens surrounding me.
Curious to see how LoL is developping there.
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From my understanding after speaking to Japanese players on an online RPG that I play, a large group of Japanese gamers do not like playing games that requires to really further their own skills (pretty much those outside of FGC). They enjoy playing mindless grinding (which is why you see a lot of Japanese gamers that play games that involve grind) and seeing their improvements via character avatar changes like levelling up, acquiring new items etc.
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I could see why this genre might be more appealing to Japan over something like SC2 - it has lower requirements than a lot of MMOs, and the team coordination is more what you'd get in an MMO while the mechanics closer to fighting game mechanics than what you see in a RTS like starcraft. Would be really neat if Japan starts showing up on the ESports radar for genres besides fighting games. The potential is there.
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On April 24 2013 01:41 NeoIllusions wrote: Japan coming out of the FGC scene? :O I'm sending this to my Japanese friends, lolol. my friend was telling me that godsgarden stopped streaming fighting games and only does lol now.
i tried watching a japanese tournament but it was pretty bad even though everyone was diamond/plat NA.
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Yay, more potential competition is always great!
Though to be honest the bigger appeal to me is that we'll probably get a lot more fan-arts if this becomes big in Japan hmm.....
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I think it's awesome they got their own league! :-)
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i guess kisshug is gonna be the doublelift of japan
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Ok this? This'll be interesting. Who knows, maybe LoL will be the game that seriously shifts Japan's gaming habits over to PC games...naaaaah.
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This is cool. Don't really see much out of gaming culture in Japan in terms of these types of games, so hope to see some cool things from it.
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Korea (South)11232 Posts
There should be a very easy way to market LoL in Japan without containing adult content
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On April 24 2013 08:18 ketchup wrote: This is cool. Don't really see much out of gaming culture in Japan in terms of these types of games, so hope to see some cool things from it. i can see it getting popular. PC games aren't really popular, but games like this do exist at arcades.
i've seen a ton of people line up to play this game. 10v10, blue vs red, destroy the enemy base, requires a lot of teamwork... hmm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Break
the tournament i was watching was the roccat&msi cup. here's a random game, requires niconico account. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20386200
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I play with a lot of Japanese players, they're actually really good:
+ Show Spoiler +
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what time are these airing/have i already missed them?
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it's been moved to may 2nd start, 21:00JST
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