LCS DYING? Riot's fault. Stop blaming imports and franchising.
League of Legends NA LCS just had its worst viewership performance ever in Spring 2026 and things look grim. Decades of bad decisions are to blame, NOT IMPORT PLAYERS, NOT FRANCHISING, and NOT CO-STREAMERS. There is far too much scapegoating and not enough self-blame by Riot.
Riot: Stop the War Against Your Community - Let creativity thrive. Let people play with friends.
Riot bizdev folks are at war with the community. Banning people for off-meta picks, bans or rank removals for people who play with friends, automated punishments that are insane, pros being banned for off meta picks they dominate with, and staff trolling and abusing users online. This needs to stop.
0:00 Please Stop the War Against Your Community
1:38 Who the hell am I to judge?
3:10 The Holy Meta
5:29 Creativity is Everything
6:54 Playing with Friends
8:45 Friends Grow the Game
10:00 The Empty Calories of Rank Obsession
13:03 The "Well Don't Play Ranked Then" Canard
13:48 Where Has This Gotten Us?
14:42 Solutions
15:54 My Final Plea: Listen to the Community
Threshold Combat Testing - Breakdown and game design analysis of combat data on Threshold.
A deep dive into the results from hundreds of hours of combat testing on a current version of Threshold (Feb 2026) and a version from Jan 2025. The results are predictable and normal in the aggregate, but when you zoom into specifics, other issues reveal themselves which create a myriad of game design questions necessitating complicated decisions.
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LoL Esports Asked: "What's the most legendary pro player quote of all time." This is my answer.
Professor Hartman August 15, 2026 6:46 am
Runner Up: 2023: Faker: "All roads lead to me."
But for me, the most legendary pro player quote of all time is:"To those that believed in us, no matter what. The fifth trophy... is for you.
Faker: ...