Also Redbeard, is there any formal structure of an Oceanic community, with Riot actively involved? If not, are there any plans to do so for season 3? Currently, as an oceanic player (Australia/NZ specifically, SEA and Garena don't count... Argue what you will, but they're not English speaking, and the qualifying process for a team is so flawed in this setup, bias against Aus/NZ) I'm also not referring to the community built website of LoLA. As this is not really a formally structured community, nor is it even well structured/organised.
is there any news on this front.. I know that there is a thread specifically of Riot employees asking for the connectivity details of Aus/NZ thats over 300 pages long with peoples connection latencies etc... But it's dated last year. The only thing I could see that Riot implemented to assist Au/NZ players was the predictive movement (which I know has helped us use Ali's headbut/pulv combo) but has brought out it's own significantly large problems that irritated the **** out of players, who aren't yet aware that it's the cause (getting pathing blocked by 2 minions, or in general, pathing blocking. Which is caused by the predicted movement saying you're going one way, when the two units move, and the quickest route is rerouted to be the other way - causing your champion to skitz out trying to path around two minions, who continue using predicted pathing aswell, causing you to seemingly be stuck trying to path around a couple of minions for 2 seconds.... Frustrating and can be game breaking, more so then not being able to do Ali's headbut/pulv combo)
Whilst I wouldn't know if Australia or NZ could be competitive on the world scale in a tournament, we should atleast be given the oppurtunity to demonstrate our abilities, should we not? When Season 1 started (I began on Kennen release, so preseason 1) I had a 5s team, that I had to leave due to being Australian and the harsh qualifying requirements. After this, the Garena and 'SEA' server was released (I know they're one in the same). However, to qualify with an Australian 5s team, you'd first have to go to your district-> regional -> National -> Singapore -> SEA or some ridiculous thing like that... Now that is all pretty standard qualifying to make it to nationals.... But this is something we'd have to do for EVERY tournament that would contribute to our circuit points. Furthermore - unless it was a WCG qualifier, you wouldn't be sponsored or paid to go.... this would all be from your own pocket. With LoL tournament winnings being <$500. For Aussies, $500 will get you to NZ.... but not back... So getting to a SEA country would be super expensive to send 5 people (that $500 would be $100 ea)
So please, give us a community that can actually compete.. We have the player base to do so - it'd really not be that difficult. And PLEASE don't contract it out - you may have your flaws in tournament organisation or even in your structure (in Aus highschools, tournament seeding/structure is a short course you can do to fully understand 'fairness' and 'fair seeding') but you have the ability to listen and interact with players. A contractor would not.
Also - if theres any plans to assist in Oceanic eSports for S3, I would appreciate if you located servers in NZ (cheaper) and setup base camp in Aus (if practical) purely because of Aus having majority of the Oceanic players (Brisbane/Melbourne, Melbourne is more of the hub in Australia, but Brisbane I believe again, would be cheaper. Don't bother with Sydney, you'll have a bad time.. mmk.)
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