Just happy that Honeymancy is playable again

les get dis partah started

Not sure why we are going to call this a success, we literally just went from Syndra reroll meta to Zoe reroll meta. Every single lobby is full of Zoe and/or Portal reroll and it's actually just as ridiculous as Syndra reroll meta.

After watching this video I promoted to Emerald IV in like 3-4 more games. Goated analysis.

Don't know what they were thinking buffing blasters this much and not nerfing Molten Caramel. They're really sleeping at the wheel sometimes.

Three 8 portal players and then 2 Akali and Nilah players on my first game of set 14.16. Yea im just not fucking with TFT like i use to.

iv ebeen doing vanguard with scholar since launch front line rumble,galio,mord,kench, back line zoe,ahri,bard ryze. sometimes ytou get rng fucked but its normally a free top 4

hey i'd just like to add, i played nomsy 3. 4 hunters, 4 shape + 3 drake. he was easy topping all charts. kinnda silly but he actually scales insane

Fast 8 doesnt feel so bad now, now that Im not getting stomped by op reroll comps.

Hey, sorry I’m new, what’s does “portal +1” mean? +1 means the portal augment?

Is 5 pyro better or should i just stick to 3 + frosts or shapeshifters I feel like pyro kalista is insane too but shown in the data

ive seen a lot of ppl force kalista fiora sending it on 8 but replacing briar and morg for neeko, works pretty well tbh

set feels 1000% better now. seeing so many cooks in the kitchen top 4ing

This patch is whoever gets the pyro emblem first and puts it on smolder wins. I’ve never been able to beat pyro shoulder 2 even with a 3 star nami.

you helped me a lot during my first set #10. glad to see you doing better and back. lets go

I hate hero augments, they are way too overtuned all the time. Basically if you get one then you are guaranteed top 6 which is not balanced

I was really enjoying Chrono Kong a lot too since the new update. Zil is still so op and annoying if you build mana on him.

Like seriously, I am climbing better now because Syndra no longer feels so overwhelming to play against. Currently Diamond 1 now and nearing to reach Master in a couple games from now.

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It's under preforming because you need another culprit for match fixing. How can you label it match fixing, "who is he fixing for?" I'm sure he is fixing for somebody BUT there is no proof or evidence of the other party therefore it has to fall into the under preforming category. You're welcome.

people really defend Setsuko's fine xdxdxdxd

who the fuck cares the devs are so trash and made the game syndra simulator abnd mort went of to pbe not his problem

This is kinda interesting to me coming from the MTG scene where players will intentionally draw rounds to help other players get into top 8. In magic when you go to a large event usually players go as "teams" even though they compete individually. it is often seen better to have more members get prizes than maybe 1 person winning an event. if they went as a group it could be seen as good team play.

if this is the punishment, there is nothing that will stop poeple. those guyseither make their money from streaming or arent even full time TFT players. its not like 30-50% of prize money makes them unable to pay their bills. so 90% or more will be like "worst case i lose a bit of money, who cares, that sum of money wont change my life in a meanignful way, i might as well try" also, fines have a drastically different results on your life depending on your circumstances, which is why im always an advocat for different punishments. i think these guys deserve a 2nd chance and its tough to punish the guys that profited, unless there are like chats that prove they were communicating. but a solid set or 2 bans from competitive also seems reasonable to me. that way u put something on the line so its actually a risk u dont want to take. sure, then u have people not doing it bc of a threat and not bc they are good people, but these guys are young and a lot of them will notice how important competitive integrity is and wont do it again if the punishment keeps them from doing it for a few sets.

why cant they just hide player names during competitions?

For Riot, the distinction between someone cheating or "underperforming" depends if the player is chinese or not. This goes for tft and league

Gambit banned 6 supports vs Vaevictis and Riot said - it is disrespect. All this 5 girls were support mains. At least 4 of them. Midlainer was Kata main. It was not fair to fine Gambit in this situation, they should fine Vaevictis for hiring 5 low plat girls in pro team. Low plat in ru server = gold 3-4 EUW

This is difficult to evaluate. When you’re in a tournament, you got to the tournament because you are good in the first place. And once you are now in the tournament, you can decide what to do. If you want to intentionally lose, then it’s your right to do so, nobody forces you to play in a certain way. It is also your right to help others win* if and only if there is no bribing/corruption happening. Thus, underperformance is the correct term in this case because there is a rule that you have to TRY to compete but there is no rule that you can’t grief other players or help them win nor there is no rule that states that you can’t make mistakes and even though you are clearly making amateur misplays in this case that can give advantage to another player, the fact that you are still competing with the other 6 players and win/lose at least some rounds against them (depends) is enough to justify that you are «trying» at least from a legal point of view. Does this ruin the competitive integrity of the game? - yes. But is this prohibited? - no, you are clearly not playing for a first but on the other hand you are trying. So thats why its difficult to judge, on one hand you clearly didn’t play for top1 on the other hand you can then justifiably say that about any player who makes risks or tries to play unconventional comps which there are plenty in any lobby. Now i’ve been part of multiple tournaments including regional qualifiers from RU and i can tell you that this isn’t the worst you will see. Even people covering tournaments from riot admit this that the tournament favorites from RU get griefed by the underdogs too much and thus they almost never make it out to worlds. Like you would see players just sacking all their gold on their bench to buy out all the units that someone who is expected to win is trying to roll for and then inevitably going bot 4 just because they have 40 gold of units on bench that don’t fit their comp. And apparently its all the same in china. Its a shame that these things don’t get brought up in the west because twitter/reddit is banned there and thats where most information resides. But of course as for my opinion, nobody should be fined if there was no proven collusion between the players, this is a tournament and its your right to try hard and win or to lose but let somebody else win. Also there is just too many ways to help or grief someone in the game (taking important items from carousel, contesting other players, playing comps that don’t scale etc) that it doesn’t mean that if one person gets caught it hasn’t happened before. The problem is that the prize pools and prestige of winning are not incentivizing competition. 150k is great but not lifechanging money, in fact its laughable considering the fact that ever since set 6 players competing for world cup have been paid tenfold by sponsors (not to mention that some players are signed to esport team contracts xd)

Underperformance seems like it is just a legal thing. If they actually penalized him for cheating they would need hard evidence and even though every TFT player can see that this is basically matchfixing it is still mostly circumstantial. Nobody can prove what his intentions were 100% even if it seems obvious, but they don't have to prove the fact that he underperformed as that is factually true

Obviously looks like match fixing but unless you can 100% prove with certainty that its match fixing you cant fine for it or theres legal action that could be taken against riot its probably not that they wanted to fine him for underperformance but they wanted to hit him with something and that was the only thing that fit without leaving them liable

Underperformance might be the term used because he’s clearly sandbagging in that Dragonlord game

The chinese market scare is real, yo

Of course is a chinese dude doing that

A fck off is so bad you get a 50% fine? Its obviously connected to your way of presenting it being disrespectful in your behaviour, mimic etc. But srsly this is such a light missstep in professional sports. The matchfixing is so much worse. I hate that Riot is so obseesed with toxicity that even the slightest trash talk gets punished now

Unfortunately match fixing is very common in China

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Yes, of course Riot punishes in-game misbehavior much more lightly than naughty words. Riot *loves* punishing naughty words, but they don't want to do anything about in-game behavior. Only when it's absolutely egregious will they feel they have to do something, and then they'll do the least possible. This isn't as obvious in TFT where you don't (usually) have teammates, but it's still the same Riot that made LoL.

Riot is taking more away from a indication of trash talk then actually cheating to win money.... insane. I would take away 10% for the minor disrespect and ban the match fixer. Othewise E-Sport is rigged and fraudulent. Anyway "fuck you" Riot :D

shocker

I think the reason riot use the word "underperformance" is that it's hard to judge player's intention. One could always argue "I wasn't trying to match fixing I'm just nervous so I misplayed", and it's hard to prove that no matter how "obvious" the situation is, so riot just went with what they can confirm: "I guess you're just bad, and you're not allowed to be bad at the TOP level tournament"

The russian team bans wasn't trolling, all Baevictis team was full of supports.

That's insane Setsuko got a worse fine

Tft esports = joke

Rotten like their government, a match made in the underworld

Underperformance is crazy, this is straight up collusion. It's literally harming other players competing for placement and real cash money. In a professional sport this could even be considered criminal activity.

Imo the way they treated Setsuko is quite severe as compared to A Hao Ei. Yes, professionalism should be present during competitions, especially so for Tactician's Crown being the 'Worlds' of TFT. However, for simply typing the curse word that almost everybody has said or thought of AND NOT EVEN SENDING IT should just receive a warning. Worsening the game's integrity, on the other hand, should be dealt with more seriously, and therefore A Hao Ei should be fined or at least banned from participating in similar events for a limited time period. Think about it simply - it's a competition on/about a game that depends on both skill and luck, but mostly on how you increase your odds/luck for your benefit. To alter such odds to make it more beneficial for others and less for yourself is BLATANT CHEATING.

Even if they can't prove anything as nefarious as match fixing, what he did already deserves a worse fine and other penalties than what he got. Underperformance and poor sportsmanship should surpass what Setsuko got for sure.

Its harder to actually prove that he cheated, now we can say well its weird that he sold the illaoi cause his fellow chinese citizen was also in need of illaoi but anyway can just sayi "I did a bad transition" or make up any excuse to why they did what they did so even if they have their suspicions if their investigation didnt find anything to prove he did that to help the other player but they largerly suspect foul play their best option was well you "underperformed" compared to your level to find a way to punish him.

The problem is that if you set the bar too low for underperformance then it becomes a slippery slope. For example, using your rift example. League of all games rides a very thin line between trolling and strategy. What could be tried as a strategy with genuine intent may look troll when met with actual competitive response. I think you have to be very careful with these kinds of things.

it looks like tarteman was able to demonstrate he was intentionally throwing to help specific people win. it doesn't get more obvious in TFT than selling a 2* champ when you know someone is looking to 3* them, 30% fine is a slap on the wrist especially on the highest stage