2012-09-02, 12:45 PM
I don't quite know how much of it is off-stream or whatnot, but, as an attendee at PAX Prime and thus the LoL NA Regionals, this is what I've been seeing:
-- Multiple screens. Some are for the minimap itself, some are for the player reactions, and some are for the "FIRST BLOOD" and victory/defeat signs.
-- Full resolution, full FPS goodness. Damn son.
-- Cosplay show every day of PAX. My bro decided to go as Talon this year, even though he's never played him or heard any of his quotes. Notable mentions include Sejuani (including Bristles), Orianna, and Wukong. Some people had to cosplay without weapons because airport security was being a douche.
-- When they're not shoutcasting a game, they're reading stuff on a screen behind the camera. Actually, when they're shoutcasting a game they're probably reading stuff on a different screen in front of them (I couldn't see) when stuff like replays ambush them, DDR style.
-- There's a merchandise store! Includes T-shirts, Rammus figurines, Tibbers/"Barron" pillows, Teemo hats, and so on. Being the cheapass I was though, I just waited for them to throw swag at us. Managed to score a Teemo hat and a T-shirt that says Top, Middle, Bottom & Jungle.
-- CLG Chauster threw his swag at his GF in the crowd >_> LOL
-- Sometimes when throwing swag, they bust out the Kog'Maw T-shirt cannons. One of the T-shirts got stuck up in the rafters after he hit a bouncing beach ball in the crowd.
-- Additional swag included lanyards, buttons, and foam oranges that have GP and the LoL logo on them. They have a ridiculous number of oranges.
-- There's a blind pick Murder Bridge area with its own queue line. Everything is unlocked on those accounts, including dodge seals and some strange runes from a sponsor I guess. They're standard T3s. Each computer was refurbished with kickass headsets and Gunnars (I didn't try the latter), and they had gaming keyboard and mice. While we were given time to set up runepages and masteries, we hardly got time to reconfigure our keybinds and shyts, which inevitably varied from match to match. Matchmaking was based on your place in line and how big your group of possies were. For some reason in my only match to date, they had a Darius. We wiped the floor with them, with me grabbing FB and MVP as Team Spirit Anivia. WREQ'd.
-- Volibar and Classick staged a Q&A session between the two games on Saturday. Heimerdinger and some non-meta champion were being looked at, but there were no timeframes of any sort. The rest of the questions were just general stuff that you probably wouldn't already know/guess by looking at other news outlets.
On a side note, CLG vs. Dignitas game 2 was the longest match of around 76-77 minutes or so. -_-;
-- Multiple screens. Some are for the minimap itself, some are for the player reactions, and some are for the "FIRST BLOOD" and victory/defeat signs.
-- Full resolution, full FPS goodness. Damn son.
-- Cosplay show every day of PAX. My bro decided to go as Talon this year, even though he's never played him or heard any of his quotes. Notable mentions include Sejuani (including Bristles), Orianna, and Wukong. Some people had to cosplay without weapons because airport security was being a douche.
-- When they're not shoutcasting a game, they're reading stuff on a screen behind the camera. Actually, when they're shoutcasting a game they're probably reading stuff on a different screen in front of them (I couldn't see) when stuff like replays ambush them, DDR style.
-- There's a merchandise store! Includes T-shirts, Rammus figurines, Tibbers/"Barron" pillows, Teemo hats, and so on. Being the cheapass I was though, I just waited for them to throw swag at us. Managed to score a Teemo hat and a T-shirt that says Top, Middle, Bottom & Jungle.
-- CLG Chauster threw his swag at his GF in the crowd >_> LOL
-- Sometimes when throwing swag, they bust out the Kog'Maw T-shirt cannons. One of the T-shirts got stuck up in the rafters after he hit a bouncing beach ball in the crowd.
-- Additional swag included lanyards, buttons, and foam oranges that have GP and the LoL logo on them. They have a ridiculous number of oranges.
-- There's a blind pick Murder Bridge area with its own queue line. Everything is unlocked on those accounts, including dodge seals and some strange runes from a sponsor I guess. They're standard T3s. Each computer was refurbished with kickass headsets and Gunnars (I didn't try the latter), and they had gaming keyboard and mice. While we were given time to set up runepages and masteries, we hardly got time to reconfigure our keybinds and shyts, which inevitably varied from match to match. Matchmaking was based on your place in line and how big your group of possies were. For some reason in my only match to date, they had a Darius. We wiped the floor with them, with me grabbing FB and MVP as Team Spirit Anivia. WREQ'd.
-- Volibar and Classick staged a Q&A session between the two games on Saturday. Heimerdinger and some non-meta champion were being looked at, but there were no timeframes of any sort. The rest of the questions were just general stuff that you probably wouldn't already know/guess by looking at other news outlets.
On a side note, CLG vs. Dignitas game 2 was the longest match of around 76-77 minutes or so. -_-;