Riot tells pro League of Legends players they can’t stream competing games

Re:Riot tells pro League of Legends players they can’t strea... by daken on Friday December 06, 2013 @03:38PM (#6863628)

Alright so this only concerns SPONSORISED STREAMS, and it's not that big of a deal (calming people down before they go crazy on articles that do not provide full details to a story)

This means they can stream other games during the LCS they just can't be paid to put company logos. It's just a commercial agreement more than anything

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Re:Riot tells pro League of Legends players they can’t strea... by chc on Friday December 06, 2013 @03:50PM (#6863693)

That isn't right. These players are not allowed to stream the games at all as long as they are affiliated with Riot. From the original source:

"onGamers has confirmed with the team representatives that LCS players are disallowed from streaming the games listed below outright"

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Re:Riot tells pro League of Legends players they can’t strea... by VintageCool on Friday December 06, 2013 @04:26PM (#6863906)

I had the impression that LCS players were only disallowed from streaming those games if their stream advertised League of Legends content.

At the top of the Elo ladder, queue times can be up to half an hour as the matchmaking service tries to build a fair game. Many of these pro players will play another game (Super Meat Boy, LIMBO, Dust, Mark of the Ninja, Hearthstone) on stream while they're in queue. This ban seems to target other games that could be competitive e-sports, specifically the new Blizzard game Hearthstone.

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Re:Riot tells pro League of Legends players they can’t strea... by chc on Friday December 06, 2013 @05:53PM (#6864411)

> I had the impression that LCS players were only disallowed from streaming those games if their stream advertised League of Legends content.

They're not allowed to stream those games if they have any affiliation with Riot.

> This ban seems to target other games that could be competitive e-sports, specifically the new Blizzard game Hearthstone.

It does lean that way, though I'm not sure there's much of a danger of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans becoming a competitive e-sport.

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Re:Riot tells pro League of Legends players they can’t strea... by crazypyro on Friday December 06, 2013 @03:56PM (#6863732)

False. The contract stipulates that during the LCS, they CANNOT stream any of these games on the same stream that they play LoL, as that could be considered adjacent to LoL.

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