I'm a big nerd

[randomlegend]

I'm playing League of Legends for UEA in the final of the National University Esports League on Sunday.

https://euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/esports/esports-event/rising-uk-university-talent-nuel-winter-finals

I'm so cool :cool:

[SincereTheRebel]

Postcode?

[Jimmy Floyd]

What is league of legends? Shooting or fighting?

[Amigo]

That's pretty cool. I'll try to watch if I can remember it.

Did I end up adding you to my friends list the last time I asked?

[-james-]

DotA is better though.

[phonics]

League is for babies.

[randomlegend]

Haters gonna hate.

I can't remember Amigo, what's your LoL name?

[randomlegend]

What is league of legends? Shooting or fighting?

Errr mostly neither, sort of both.

It's what's known as a MOBA, not the easiest genre to succinctly explain to be honest.

[Pleb]

"You must construct additional pylons."

Is that right?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Errr mostly neither, sort of both.

It's what's known as a MOBA, not the easiest genre to succinctly explain to be honest.

I've googled it and it looks like one of those really complex board games you'd play for half an hour and then get confused and pack away.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah, definitely right about Randrew and the kid on Robot Wars.

[phonics]

That'd be Starcraft.

[randomlegend]

I've googled it and it looks like one of those really complex board games you'd play for half an hour and then get confused and pack away.

Mmm not really.

This is a half-decent, short explanation:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0byVn5mQe4

[Lewis]

'U-E-A! U-E-A! U-E-A!'

Do us proud, dweeb. RIP Conte (nonce).

[Disco]

It's team based wizard wars.

Good luck man, sounds like a lark.

[Spikey M]

I have no idea what you basement dwellers are talking about.

[igor_balis]

You've brought more shame on UEA than the Rugby side (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118077/Top-university-disbands-rugby-team-amid-accusations-racism-sexism-players-dress-warlord-Kony-Gary-Speed-Klu-Klux-Klan-bad-taste-party.html).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

No Mugabe and Paul Ince though which is a shame.

[randomlegend]

It's team based wizard wars.

Good luck man, sounds like a lark.

Thanks, it's been good fun. :)

[Lewis]

You've brought more shame on UEA than the Rugby side (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118077/Top-university-disbands-rugby-team-amid-accusations-racism-sexism-players-dress-warlord-Kony-Gary-Speed-Klu-Klux-Klan-bad-taste-party.html).

I met one of those LADS in the gym a couple of years later, and he reckoned that the fun police had had it in for them since one of them made a German girl cry on a bus (there was a really lol Nazi-based reason for this, but I've forgotten it), but they failed that time, so when that happened they deliberately went well overboard.

[igor_balis]

I met one of those LADS in the gym a couple of years later, and he reckoned that the fun police had had it in for them since one of them made a German girl cry on a bus (there was a really lol Nazi-based reason for this, but I've forgotten it), but they failed that time, so when that happened they deliberately went well overboard.

My good pal was actually on the team but didn't go to the night in question. He thought they were all wankers. Initiation ceremony sounds like the kind of shit Mert would think was character building.

[Lewis]

*with you*
'I just play rugby with them. They're all wankers mate.'
*with them*
'I just go drinking with them. They're all greebos mate.'

[randomlegend]

http://blog.thenuel.com/league-of-legends-winter-championsip-2017-the-final-preview/

Since I know you're all on tenterhooks waiting for 5:30 to roll around.

[Ian]

If you were all playing from home and there was a chance of your mum and dad coming in and having an argument with your about tidying your room I might have considered it.

[randomlegend]

We are playing from home but obviously you can't hear our skype conversation on stream...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Let's hope your Mum has run you a nice Epsom Salt bath in preparation.

[Samadini]

Post a victory selfie from your post game lavender bath :cool:

[randomlegend]

We moved house, we don't have a bath any more :( I just have to take it as tablets.

It's one of the worst things that has happened to me.

[Magic]

That's fucked. Whilst I have them rarely, they are the most incredible, indulgent thing.

[Foe]

What sort of bullshit is a home without a bath? Where are you supposed to play battleships?

[Pepe]

What's the racial breakdown of your team? I cannot support you unless diversity.

[Lewis]

http://blog.thenuel.com/league-of-legends-winter-championsip-2017-the-final-preview/

Since I know you're all on tenterhooks waiting for 5:30 to roll around.


After our summer tournament victory, we’re super excited to make a PROPER final. It’s the third year of trying for 4/5ths of this roster and we’ve had so much fun competing together.

The TTH Style Guide. :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The captain and self-appointed “gank sponge".

Jesus.

[randomlegend]

Mahow's got a real hate-boner for me at the moment. It's a bit weird.

[Shindig]

My only hope out of esports potentially making mainstream is referring to real people by their 1999 internet handles.

[Lewis]

Did we win?

[SvN]

I was a Counter-Strike nerd about 10 years ago and went for a pint with a few of my clanmates. It was pretty good, but I kept accidentally calling them by their ingame name, which was a bit cringe.

[Baz]

Anyone want another one?
Yeah go 'head, Wicked Skills

:gs:

[randomlegend]

Did we win?

Lost 3 games to 2 :(

Enemy team had a professional coach lol. We'll win next split.

[Lewis]

Scummers.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a waste.

[Pepe]

Is the whole team in the same room? The smell must be something.

[randomlegend]

Hurr durr video gamers = neck beard basement dwellers.

[Shindig]

It's hard to make a case against that, to be fair.

[randomlegend]

It's really not.

[Disco]

Yeah, I haven't even been in the basement for years.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Are you a Proper Gaming Man, RL, or one of the fancy new breed?

[Giggles]

I still have no idea what this was about or what he was playing, but I love how bitchily defensive he always gets. What the fuck does he expect here? Some high fives and a few 'great stuff m8's?

Hurr durr :D fucking twit.

[randomlegend]

Are you a Proper Gaming Man, RL, or one of the fancy new breed?

I have no idea what this is asking.

[randomlegend]

I still have no idea what this was about or what he was playing, but I love how bitchily defensive he always gets. What the fuck does he expect here? Some high fives and a few 'great stuff m8's?

Hurr durr :D fucking twit.

Bitchily defensive :D

Pepe's comment was just a shitty, tired old joke.

[Spikey M]

Not as tired as your basement

[randomlegend]

Haven't even got one.

[Spikey M]

Sorry, ‘Game Room’.

[randomlegend]

'Bedroom'.

[Lewis]

War Room.

[Spikey M]

You don’t have a bed?

[randomlegend]

Real GAMERS don't sleep.

[igor_balis]

I bet you call your computer your "rig".

[SvN]

http://i.imgur.com/RGD0Rjn.jpg

[igor_balis]

i look cute in that

[Shindig]

One of the dodgiest things that happened at work was the guy next to me talking so much about gaming that our manager told him to stop. His response being, "Oh, sorry. It's only my livelihood."

In his fucking fifties.

[John]

I'd have had the Venn diagram for hardcore gamers and artisanal chocolatiers as two circles that never meet, but here we are.

[John]

One of the dodgiest things that happened at work was the guy next to me talking so much about gaming that our manager told him to stop. His response being, "Oh, sorry. It's only my livelihood."

In his fucking fifties.

Very dismissive for someone who links everything back to gaming and seems to have aspirations of making it his livelihood.

[igor_balis]

I think the main issue I have with video gaming is, and i guess it's only anecdotal and maybe my friends are exceptional cases, that most of my mates who are into video games are REALLY into video games, and basically vacillate between two extremes - being normal, sociable, functioning members of society, or just staying up until about 2am every night playing video games then all day saturday and sunday as well. The only people I know who are able to be, er, "functional" gamers are the super casual ones who just play fifa occasionally.

[Reg]

High five RL, great stuff m8!

I didn't know gaming was professional here, or was the other team's coach from South Korea or something?

[igor_balis]

Very dismissive for someone who links everything back to gaming and seems to have aspirations of making it his livelihood.

false equivalence, as you're well aware m8

[Shindig]

Very dismissive for someone who links everything back to gaming and seems to have aspirations of making it his livelihood.

Look man, I play enough games for reviewing purposes. The last thing I want is for that to follow me to my 9-5. That's my livelihood. Gaming's a hobby.

[igor_balis]

https://frinkiac.com/img/S06E01/273122.jpg

Shindig's colleague

[Shindig]

Actually, I'd say he's more like this.

http://www.thefathertedguide.co.uk/fitzgerald.jpg

"Now I'd like to tell you about the time I spent with Doom in VR at length...."

[Mike]

Shindig needs to slip one of our cards onto his workmates desk.

[randomlegend]

I'd have had the Venn diagram for hardcore gamers and artisanal chocolatiers as two circles that never meet, but here we are.

I know right? How can ONE person have TWO hobbies that cool?


I think the main issue I have with video gaming is, and i guess it's only anecdotal and maybe my friends are exceptional cases, that most of my mates who are into video games are REALLY into video games, and basically vacillate between two extremes - being normal, sociable, functioning members of society, or just staying up until about 2am every night playing video games then all day saturday and sunday as well. The only people I know who are able to be, er, "functional" gamers are the super casual ones who just play fifa occasionally.

I'm not really a 'functional' human being regardless of the gaming.


High five RL, great stuff m8!

I didn't know gaming was professional here, or was the other team's coach from South Korea or something?

Semi-professional is maybe more accurate, but there are quite a few semi-professional UK organisations and a couple (https://lol.gamepedia.com/Alphari) of the professional (https://lol.gamepedia.com/Maxlore) LoL players who play for the big NA/EU orgs are English.

I have a friend I was at Med school with who now casts (commentates) professionally for Riot games, the company who made LoL and run all the esports associated with it.

One of the players on my Uni team is considering trying to go professional next year (as a player). He's currently ranked in the top 50 on the ranked ladder in Western Europe (out of over 3.5m players).

So yeah Esports is kicking off pretty bigly in the UK now, even if we are still quite behind some other places.

This is probably interesting to nobody but me but anyway.

[Mike]

I watched some of the first Battlegrounds eaport thing, the commentary seemed like they didn’t really know how to play the game. Was entertaining enough though.

Well done on your success.

[Pleb]

Clearly The Third Hard needs to be a semi-pro esports team :chief:

[Mike]

The lads in the switch thread are a few Rocket League games away from that I think.

[Samadini]

:cool:

PGM

https://i.imgur.com/PvowfWV.jpg

[randomlegend]

https://i.imgur.com/s9SCRCs.png?1

:uhoh:

[phonics]

Only another 9000 more hours and you'll nail it.

[randomlegend]

Tbh I'm still so fucking shit at that game. It's unbelievably hard to actually be good.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Tbh I'm still so fucking shit at that game. It's unbelievably hard to actually be good.

False.

phonics started playing a week ago and he's something special.

[Pleb]

I'm even better :drool:

[randomlegend]

False.

@<a href="http://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/member.php?u=1" target="_blank">phonics</a> started playing a week ago and he's something special.

I can't entirely tell if you're being sarcastic, but I mean like actually


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYW2zbFWCsE

good.

[Greg]

https://i.imgur.com/s9SCRCs.png?1

:uhoh:

Come at me brah.

https://i.imgur.com/DsL3GpT.jpg

[Baz]

One on one, one on one... :gay:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

So RL doesn't even have this anymore, what does he have?

[randomlegend]

Did I hurt you, Mahow?

[randomlegend]

One on one, one on one... :gay:

He's in Australia right? One of us would have to play with like 300 ping.

[-james-]

Come at me brah.

https://i.imgur.com/DsL3GpT.jpg


You are but a baby.

https://i.imgur.com/Znvk9PA.png

[randomlegend]

My League hours would dwarf that but it's not recorded anywhere so RIP.