PLATINUM KARLS

Tonight we saw the mighty Karl start at 0/1 in his series to plat V.  Then 0/2.  Then 3 straight wins to plat V.  All hail the lord bryff for his mighty assistance and the retarded S- tryndamere .  Lord of split push regardless of what we see on the map.  Hero of the north.  Speaker of the words "why aren't you guys doing anything." Herald of karl my liege.  

Other fun stuff.  Tonight, for whatever reason, I decided I wanted to play only on main. I qualified for a series at the end of the night.  Didn't really care.  Doubt it will last, but not caring about LP is a goal of mine anyway.  Was super happy to be a part of karl hitting plat already and am curious to see how far he can go.

Not sure if I'll keep this enabled, but you can currently now view past broadcasts (starting today)

https://www.twitch.tv/1pacov1/v/67441512

To look up the last broadcast normally, just go to the twitch page. The link above it specifically to tonight's games.

My 4.5 year old graphics card died so I am kind of limbo land right now. I don't know If I should upgrade everything or just get a lower end card for my 4.5 year old mother board.

Me... I'd get a whole new beast setup.  That's a bit of work if you want something good though.  

Depending on how much money you're sitting on, the new Video Cards are supposed to be coming out soon - AMD's new ones are supposed to be relatively cheap but good performance (eg, they aren't pushing the envelop quite as much but have similar performance as the current top-of-the-lines for a lower price)

And, of course, take a look at the various deals on Newegg. They usually have pretty decent "bundles" where you get Tier-2 RAM/CPU/Cases/Mobo/PowerSupply all for $400-600 as long as you or a friend are capable of assembling it. Honestly, if you're only playing League you really don't need to go crazy, and you can get some pretty cool stuff! 

The computer-world is always advancing, so it's easy to say 'heyyy i should wait another X years for a new technology' but it's sort of true. New architectures are coming out. i'm really crossing my fingers for commodity-priced PCM - a new architecture for RAM. Even then, DDR4 is pretty crazy fast... i dunno, it's exciting! But try not to get too carried away either.

Spent the past couple days mining IP on an alt account over the party IP bonus weekend. Reddit always has some chat channels setup for events like that, so its easy to get in with a group.  Add on an IP boost and boom.  Much ip.

Anyway, done with those shenanigans, so I should be back around tonight.  

Saw capt America civil war last night.  Really enjoyed it.  Back around for gaming nerding tonight

Got the new card in today and I am back in business. Should be around tomorrow.

should probably pick up overwatch also - karl and i have it now - $40 for basic version

http://fantasy.lolesports.com/share/join/league/1090647/c6tPXVlcu8RmO18F1LXi

if anyone is interested in fantasy I would really like to do it again. was a lot of fun the first time!

"After considering all possible options and assessing the gains (and losses) of dynamic queue over the last five months, we've made the decision to not bring back solo queue." -Rito

http://oce.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/features/dynamic-queue-and-future-league

Riot is making it really easy to not play League anymore.

Now the queue is going to be limited to 1-3 players, so we have no solo queue, and can't queue as more than 3 any longer...It is like they took what each side wanted, chopped it in half, and smacked it together.

Edit: The 1-3 players is only for Diamond and above, so I suppose I wouldn't have to worry about it. It makes me feel bad for diamond teams that were trying to practice as a team since there is no more 5 man ranked though,

yeah - reddit is titilated with itself today about it.  

I don't personally care about the ranked 5's mode crap, but I'm all for having it for folks to form proper teams and play against other proper teams.  No impact to me in any way if they give folks the option for that.  The 1-3 folks thing is probably going to help a bunch with queue times for higher elo folks.  Hoping that auto fill thing impacts mostly them - and rarely at that.  True solo queue would have been swell.

#Istillsuckatoverwatch

So it looks like there is enough interest for doing fantasy LCS swan works late on Thursday for drafting but if people stick around until 11-12 we can do it that day. 

We do need 1 more participant. So Thunder, Pacov, Hunny, or Hedgie would be my personal preference. You can sign up here:

http://fantasy.lolesports.com/share/join/league/1090647/c6tPXVlcu8RmO18F1LXi

Please let me know if Thursday night can work for you guys otherwise we can try to reschedule for Friday night. 

Thanks

Who is the 8th?  Pacov is too afraid.

I decided to have two teams anyway the only one that counts will be the GameOfThrows Account. I will just not start any players on the other team.