ESL summer 2016

ESL HotS Regional

ESL Heroes of the Storm Global Championship, Summer 2016 season.

ESL summer 2016

North American Regional taking place this week and the composition of Tempo Storm (HotS team) got the right to participate. 1 June 2016, players flew to Burbank, California, to take part in competitions.

After arriving at the international airport of Los Angeles, ESL has provided to players a private transportation to the hotel. Unfortunately, many arrived in the evening, so the players had to meet with the infamous traffic of Los Angeles.

The next day, the whole team woke up early in the morning to go to the area that was set aside for ESL practice.

Make-up players at ESL

After the first game, the participants went to the photo session to ESL could choose players pictures for broadcast. This time they hired a make-up artists, probably wanted to make sure that the players look in the best way.

Finally Friday

The first day of competitive games. In previous tournaments, ESL was trying to fit everything into two days. It was uncomfortable for both players and personal, as the game went too long, and the work day was about 14 hours. To avoid this, they divided the tournament for 3 days and had planned to start the group stage on Friday.

ESL work place

Due to the fact that the game has no built-in draft mode, players have to use third-party sites. Unfortunately, this site does not work too well. Tournament administrators sent to the teams a various references to the drafts, both teams pressed it quickly, and began to wait.

ESL tach issue

After the timer counted a few hundred seconds, administrator became suspicious and went to the Naventic room , to check his guesses. What have he seen? They were sitting and waiting for another team, and their opponents do the same.

Recap

In general, the championship was exciting, if we forget all the technical flaws in the beginning. All teams played at a decent level and showed the beautiful game.

One of the brightiest matches of this championship:


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Replays – way to improve your gameplay

Best way to learn your mistakes

HotS Replay

Every time, when you play Moba games you need to find ways to improve your game play. Many people thinks that to improve his skills they need more practice. But this is not the only way to the top. You may look at yourself by a different angle, and look at all your mistakes with help of the replay system.

If you are the player, which want to learn, then i highly recommended to start watch replays. When you playing it is hard to criticize your decisions and see the whole picture of the game. Right here replays will be very helpfull.

You may be shocked with things that you may missed during the match. Ability to pause the game and rewind it, that what makes replay system so great. You may analyze every target if you want. You have full control and you can find what went wrong in fight which you lost.

Start criticize yourself

Dota replay

So, what you want to do, when you watch replays? There is a various things. You may look at all your death or opportunity of ganks that you missed. You may look at map timings and mistakes that you made. May see how aggressively you play, when your healer has low mana. By other words, you can look at yourself and criticize as it is a different player.

The most easy way to improve your game, by watching replays, is to watch every your death. When you see that you lost a big chunk of HP then try to understand why this happen. You was out the preferable position? Run for enemy too far, and opposite team used it?

When you see what caused your death, then you will understand what you did wrong in that situation and learn to not do it in future. Of course you could understand it in the match, but the reason why we watch replays – too see what we missed during the match.

Another thing that you can do, while watching replays – learn every teamfight. Look at your position, cooldowns. Your position and aggression must be at the same level as your allies has. No matter on which role you play, if your allies retreated, you must run with them.

Recap

LoL replay

Thank due to replay system, you can watch at all your decisions at a different angle. It will allow to not do the wrong decision in future matches, and improve your game play style.

Every one who want to improve his game, must give a chance to replays. Enhancement that you can get through it is incomparable with anything else. Watching replays – is the one of the most profitable ways to improve your gameplay, but unfortunately not too many people bothered to use it.


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HotS Mana tips

HotS: Mana Tips

Five ways to save mana

One of the most neglected ways to improve their game in the Heroes of the Storm is the study of the proper mana management. Too many people come to the objects completely out of mana.

Nothing hits the effectiveness of the hero as much as mana ended.If you left blank at a time when the team needs your spells, then you will doom your allies. If this happens often enough then focus on a more rational use of mana. Regardless of the hero, whom you play, the following tips will help keep your blue stripe filled the whole match.

Learn the value of spells

The first step to good mana management is knowledge about mana cost of your spells. After that, pay attention to your mana pool. When these two parameters have become known to you all that is left to do is remember them until the end of the game. Almost no one keeps track of the amount of mana and just rely on their feelings, tells how much mana he has left.

For example, you may think: “I still have a third of bars, should be enough.” But in reality, you have 120 mana, and your abilities cost 70 and 60 mana, which means that you can not use both of them! You end up yourself in a situation where you will have to wait until 10 mana restored.

Obviously, to track mana throughout the match is very hard. I recommend something that is easier. Just pay attention to the value of their skills at the start of the match. Which of the abilities of the most expensive? What stands out for its low cost? If you find answers to these questions at the beginning of the match, then the understanding of the use of spells on a specific character will improve and monitor the mana cost will be much easier.

Do not waste mana to clear the Line

Too many people believe that they must use theirs skills against each pack of creeps. There are many situations where simple auto attacks wil be enough, they will help you to keep your mana until the next object on the map.

HotS Mana tips

So ask yourself: “Do I need to kill the creeps right now, or I can wait 5-10 seconds?”. Often the answer is positive, especially in the early game, where a saved mana can create a huge difference in power.

Usually, after you kill the pack, you will just stand at the gate waiting for the next pack of creeps, and it is 10 seconds of inactivity that could be exchanged for mana.

Of course, there are reasons to clear line with spells. For example, you need to buy time for rotation or Ganks. Perhaps you want to push the tower. Or to kill the creeps quickly gather all the Exp and move on. In such cases, a waste of mana will be justified. Just remember that there are situations where autoattacks will be enough.

Stop use magic for meaningless harass

Just like a wasting of mana to kill creeps on line, harrassing enemy on line won’t be very effective. Recently I saw a Valla player that spent all his mana to pull Muradin to 15% health, just to see how he stepped back a little, and quickly returned to 100%. After that Valla came on a mission completely out of mana. While Muradin walked around the battlefield with two full strips!

This is an extreme case, but it shows the problem. Too often, players use their ability to harass the enemy, but do not achieve with this absolutely nothing. Remember that the health regeneration is free, healers often helps his allies and your Skilshot may miss. All these factors indicate that early harass is likely to be an empty waste of mana.

If you have an excess of mana, then there is nothing wrong with harass. It may help to loosen them up and make them an easy prey. Just think for what happens after you harass and make sure you’re ready for it.

Take some time to return to base

Almost every game has moments in which you can quickly run down to drink from the fountain, or fly to the base. A hard part is determining right and wrong time for this.

If we talk only about the fountains, then i must remind you that you can drink, even with a full stock of health, only to restore mana. If you know that you need more mana in the upcoming battle, when you run past the fountain, just use it. If you know that an objective will appear in another 2 minutes, then you can use the fountain now (even if you have 80% health) and it will be available again when you needed.

Return to the base can be more dangerous, but still worth it.

HotS Mana management

Remember the importance of the spheres

I can not count how often people walk pass by regeneration spheres. Players believe that these green balls are useless, if any of the talent does not strengthen them. But they are not useless!

If that does not expose you to the danger (or your teammate) then take every sphere that you can find! Each of them will give you a bit of mana and hp, but during the game the amount of resources will be enormous. Two spheres that you have ignored, could give you extra mana that would need to heal one that can win timfayt!

Conclusion

If you start to play and keep these five tips in your mind, you will become more conscious of mana management. Now you can remove the key “O” and “M” with the keyboard, because you no longer have to write “OOM” never!


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Development of League of Legends

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Riot hired some of the most creative minds in the world to work and develop the map for Warcraft 3 in Defense of the Ancients.

LoL map

 

DotA players as well as the community members decided to work on a stand-alone game that is powered by its engine. The game was announced in 2009 and the beta version of the game was launched in April of the same year, and the game could be accessed all over the world in October, 2009.  It became popular because it was free to play, and it relied entirely on voluntary deposits.

The popularity of the game was so much that it awed the developers, and for that matter, Riot games hired as many developers as it could to work on various projects.

Some of the features that were added on the game include runes and dozens as well as League of Legends skins. The company also launched incredible cinematic every now and then. It only took a short while before the game became more popular than Defense of the Ancients and went to become one of the most successful games by Riot games.

Where to download the game

Riot development

You can download League of Legends for free on the official website of Riot and you don’t have to pay a single coin, no matter how much you play. The game is funded via micro-transactions which are absolutely voluntary and the game is meant for those who wish to customize their heroes with amazing skins or include trophies in the games. You can also spend real money to buy new heroes without the use of Influence Points.

What are people saying about League of Legends?

This game exploded as soon as it was introduced in 2009. A few years later it was played by more than 30 million people worldwide, becoming the most downloaded game in Korea.

The games received accolades and positive reviews when it was released. Many people appreciated the effort that the designers and the developers put into the game. The developers have continued to improve the game and the current version is way better than the previous one.

League of legends tournaments

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No game earned so much money and interest like League of Legends with many tournaments being held throughout the year. One of the best known event is the World Championship. The first edition was hosted in Sweden, which was the nation with the most successful players of the game at that time. The winners of the game won as much as 1 million dollars while the runners up went home with a quarter of a million.

League of Legends tournaments attract millions of fan. However, players from South Korea and Taiwan have dominated the game since 2013. League of Legends is among the most popular e-sports in these nations. Top players of the game are known to be professional athletes even by the US immigration services, which lets them enter the US without any problems. Finally, you can also bet on the game if you are not a player, and you can watch the game at the comfort of your home.