Talking about the ESL tourny earlier when they played catch the teemo. It was supposed to be just fighting and no laning. Dominion sounds like the perfect map, but nope they went with SR. I'm sure the thought of using Dom didn't even cross their mind either. Catch the teemo thing even originated on Dominion.

I'm just saying this because it kinda pains me to see you all passionately discuss ways to improve Dominion and how to make it competitive but the reality is ...well it just hurts really. Feedski tries to make threads on Reddit to promote DD tournies but there's more downvotes than upvotes. Like wtf? So much bloody hate.

Big SR tournies have always been the key to success for Dom IMO. Just simple show matches between pros on Dominion inbetween games is PERFECT way to waste 20-30 minutes that they have instead of listening to a lame song or watching commentators talk about nothing. If Riot wants to improve faulty impression that majority of folks have on Dominion they have to do it at large events.

Dominion is slowly crawling up in both popularity and community, however it needs major help from Riot themselves to make large jumps forward.

Sorry, random post.

On the bright side: Leaving to Dominican in 5 hours for a week! woo

What can we do? People really like the boring laning phase.

My main issue with Dominion is that it is marketed as "fast and fun!" . well thats about 4/5s true. For one member on each team they baby sit bot and push for the whole game. When one team is absolutely in control top they can spare someone to go bottom and pretty easily take it away from your team.

I want to see some creative way to change the meta of dominion away from the 1 bot 4 top.

Personally I would to see the 5th point be put in the center of the map, where storm shield is now. And take each 'mid' point and move them up higher/further away from the base/spawn to make them less defensible.

Another neat idea would be to put storm shield down bottom, between the two bushes on bot. but it requires two allies chanelling on the stone for it to work. encourage people to go bottom perhaps.

or maybe when you control both bottom towers give some sort of small buff.

Right now bottom is pretty boring, every now and then some of us somewhat enjoy the grind of it. but the biggest problem is the "if I don't do it, no one will, and we will lose" phenomena. If I don't pick a good pusher who can 1v1 and escape 2v1 about 90% of the time no one on my team will either in solo queue.

So either I go bottom with a good bot champ, or we lose. Story of my Dominion experience.

Your low dominion ELO sounds depressing. It's about as bad as low ELO SR when no one jungles.

I've seen so many threads lately about how people don't play this way or it's stupid to play that way. Join dominatedominion chat and team up with some people in their for some premade dom games. Then you will see how unboring the game is.

Hello. Perma-bot laner here!

I love bot, it's not boring. It's you versus the world but you can employ all kinds of strategies to win your lane: gank, push, or sustain. When you win your lane, difficulty increases due to forcing an additional enemy to come down. Can you waste his time? Can you kill them both? Can you force a 3v1 or a 4v1? Can you stay alive while you do all this? It's the perfect role for people who love the under-dog mentality like me!

ESL actually follows DominateDominion on Twitter. I just sent them a link to this thread.

I wonder if Riot couldn't get top Dominion players to play during those 30 minute SR event breaks instead of using SR players. Use Dominion players to convey that Dominion has its own playerbase; it's not just a time-waster for SR players. Even the strategies will make more sense.