author: Paul Wozniak
As LoL Leagues are Suspended, Commentators Organized Their Own Games
After the announcement of the suspension of professional League of Legends games, commentators and analysts decided to organize their own. They invited willing players to join them in teams, and then streamed the competition with a more relaxed commentary.
- Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the European (LEC) and American (LCS) professional leagues of League of Legends were suspended for a week;
- As the announcement of this information appeared quite late, commentators and analysts of both leagues decided to organize their own games in a slightly more relaxed form;
- Willing professional players from different teams have been randomly assigned into teams and commentators have tried to provide more and more interesting forms of commentary.
Last Week, fans of professional League of Legends had to accept the sad news that the matches of both the European (LEC) and American (LCS) were temporarily suspended. The reason for this was the coronavirus pandemic and the organisers' fear of endangering the health of staff and players. Today, however, we already know that the seasons will be completed entirely online, so that the games scheduled for this week can be viewed as usual.
However, let's go back to last week and the moment when the information about the suspension of the leagues reached the audience. In the case of LEC it happened literally 30 minutes before the start of the planned games and the fans had to come to terms with the fact that this evening they won't see their idols in action on stage. However, a moment after the announcement, the league commentators decided to gather willing professional players from different teams and comment on their online (so called in-house) games on Twitch. A similar situation took place in the case of the LCS league.
In this way, many of the players who played against each other on a daily basis had to join forces in one team, providing a lot of entertainment for the audience. As the action was coordinated incredibly quickly, LoL fans were able to spend the evening watching the idols struggle and listening to a slightly lighter than usual commentary.
The casters came up with more and more interesting forms of adding variety to the stream, e.g. by using different languages, including Polish. Admittedly, it was an interesting departure from normal weekly games, but it's a good thing that the organizers of both leagues quickly found a solution.
