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Riot Korea recently made headlines after it appeared as though they were building a stadium to house the LCK. Today, Riot Korea held a press conference to announce its plans for the future of LCK as it looks to house the competition under one roof run by Riot. Here's a breakdown of the news, courtesy of RallyJaffa:
- Riot will take over the broadcast for the LCK starting 2019. The stadium will be ready in September 2018.
- Still in talks with OGN and SpoTV over continued partnership (Very little detail provided on this).
- Riot keen to highlight that they are committed to the LCK longterm as they've leased the stadium until 2029.
- Riot KR were fully in charge of this decision. Head office only okayed the decision.
- LCK will not follow the NA and EU LCS and will remain a Bo3 format.
- Caster decisions have yet to be finalized, however, Riot is confident they will provide a strong casting crew.
- Riot committed 7.4million dollars to the Korean LoL scene in 2017.
Poll: What are your thoughts on the changes?Bring back OGN Champions. Peak of LoL. (32) 58% Wary of the changes, but will wait and see before making a decision. (10) 18% Excited to see what Riot comes up with. (8) 15% LCK is dead. Push me to the edge. (5) 9% 55 total votes Your vote: What are your thoughts on the changes? (Vote): Excited to see what Riot comes up with.
(Vote): Wary of the changes, but will wait and see before making a decision.
(Vote): Bring back OGN Champions. Peak of LoL.
(Vote): LCK is dead. Push me to the edge.
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In other LCK related news. CJ Entus is dead. End of an era 
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I think OGNs been kind of meh the past couple of years, so I'm kind of indifferent to the change. Isn't it kind of odd for OGN next year though? If they're going to lose it anyway I guess they have no reason to care, 'continued partnership'?
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I don't really care either way unless it negatively effects the popularity of lol in Korea.
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Isn't leasing the stadium until 2029 a bit unrealistic? What happens if LoL collapses before that, can the contract simply be terminated? Or does Riot actually have long term plans?
Hope they bring us OGN quality production, but I'm not banking on it. And please make sure the casters stay on board.
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It wouldn't surprise me if they didn't have a backup plan because they could not concieve of a situation where the game dies.
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On November 14 2017 06:42 DarkCore wrote:
Isn't leasing the stadium until 2029 a bit unrealistic? What happens if LoL collapses before that, can the contract simply be terminated? Or does Riot actually have long term plans?
Hope they bring us OGN quality production, but I'm not banking on it. And please make sure the casters stay on board.
Riot's prob just securing the stadium for as long as possible/at best price possible. Like zer0das mentioned, Riot def doesn't think League is going to die down any time soon.
In a hypothetical where League dies and Riot has no real need for the stadium, they'd most likely use an exit clause to get out of the contract earlier and pay some sort of penalty, assuming it'd be cheaper to pay the penalty rather than continue leasing the stadium until 2029.
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Riot is trying to put the S in Riot Games still, so maybe their back up plan is their Fighter game coming out....never.
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I mean they straight up bought a studio with a basically done game and then took the game off the market. In theory all they had to do was implement league characters but idk how long that would take or why there isn't even like a 2 character teaser yet.
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The one change they are likely to make that I really want is eliminating the gauntlet playoffs. Its fine giving byes to the top 2 like the NFL or NA does, but the current system is much less entertaining and I don't think it makes for the best team winning very often.
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Really dont care at all who the broadcaster is.
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OGN is way better at doing this that Rito.
Leave the fans of the best and only worth LoL pro scene alone, keep your dumb experiments to EU and NA Rito plz.
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CJ had been moving out of their old esports for a while now. It seems they are committing all their resources to PUBG.
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