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[–] Notensack ago  (edited ago)

Honestly, I'm glad. There is a clear disconnect between how traditional sports leagues operate and what the Esports teams created over the last 3 years. The most obvious one is the different structures of leagues between the West/East throughout his tenure. Then there's the non mandatory contract dates in order to ease player transition and create a fairer free agency periods. Competitive rulings that had little to no reflection on the precedence set by the Esports team judgments.

He had the perfect opportunity with Korea adopting the league system to get a unified structure in place globally and completely failed in all regards with what has transpired this season. He deserved to be fired for this poorly constructed system.

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[–] Devel ago 

Maybe Twitch offered him a better deal?

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[–] Dhsgunner ago 

I wonder how this will change lcs and twitch moving forward

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[–] mangoGuy ago 

Well that's something I never thought I would see.

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[–] Koosy ago 

Who's Nick Allen? Why would you ever leave a company as big as riot for a smaller company?

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[–] Diz4Riz 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Nick Allen is the League Operations Manager for Riot. You can think of his position as a sort of a coordinator for the competitive League Championship Series (LCS) and responsible for communicating decisions with regards to the LCS. He's most famous for writing many of the Competitive Rulings. He's been elevated to meme status with regards to the fining and punishment of Counter Logic Gaming, leading reddit to joke that whenever anyone does anything bad in the NA LCS scene that Nick Allen is coming to fine CLG (e.g. "CLG fines incoming!").

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[–] chomikko 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

So Nick Allen decided that Twitch. tv can offer more in long terms then Riot? Would that mean that he is tired with Lol, Lol won't go for much longer (according to his envision) or his position in twitch will be more "challenging"? Of course there is also "5 years" envision, where Nick thinks that twitch still'll be bigger than Lol can even be (which is fine, twitch is for ALL esport+) and he will be able to do more for esport at this possition?

Edit: I am happy for him and wish him the best, as changes can take a toll at you. Let's just hope that Nick will come along and show us his, esports, vision.

Welp, I'm half drunk and spouting bullshit at this point =.^

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[–] ijirving [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Twitch is the smarter career move. Esports will be around indefinitely, LoL maybe notsomuch.