Finaly, Season 3!

It's been a month since my last post but I didn't have much to post anyway. The big news is that Season 3 is now Live, which means 2 things:
a./ New Ranking system, a tiered one, so we can finally say goodbye to that god-awfull Elo Ranking system. At least now it's easier to find your place in the ranking.
b./ Riot announced Weekly HD streams so, we have something to watch every weekend! :D

In any case, I made a new page on the spread sheet to keep up with my Season 3 progress (since the last one was elo based and it's not viable to use anymore) so, check it out! I'll gonna leave the old one there too, for statistic purposes.

I'm a little behind on replay uploads though, I hope I can find the replays I'm missing so I can upload those too.

Have fun in season 3, best of luck to all of us! :)

Happy new year!!

And what a year it started to be!!!

First things first!!! I wish 2013 will be the awesomest year ever, bringing everyone health, happiness, comfort and every other blessing you can think of!! So, now that the typical parts are out of the way, let's go to more serious buisness!! ;)

I was actually rather frustrated to lose the first game of 2013 just because flamers are a constant presence on ranked games. My next two games where no different, still had flamers and idiots in general but I somehow managed to win those games. And I didn't just get 2 more wins... I got a new Elo high score!!! It's now 1368!! :D Hope it just goes higher and higher in 2013! :D

Well, that's all! :) Happy new year once again! :) Take care everyone!

Happy Holidays!

Hello everyone!

I know, it's been a while. No excuses here, I often thought of making an update post but never really got to to it. So, first things first...

(Late) MEEEEEEEEEEERRY CHRISTMASS everyone!!! It's already 2 days passed that but better late than ever, right?? :P May the next year find us all healthy and filled with joy! :) (Oh, and less trolls on our games! ;) )

Secondly, a couple of announcements. First off, I hit a hundred ranked games a while back. I'm still stuck under 1400 elo, don't know if I'll ever ge through that but, won't hurt trying, will it??

Also, I managed to climb over my last Season's best (S2: 1357, S3: 1364). It's not much but it's a start to slowly work my way higher and higher. :P Well, if that keeps up, maybe I'll pass 1400 elo on season 7! :P :P

Oh! Update on the Dropbox Replay folder!! I managed to complete some milestones that Dropbox had so I was awarded with +25GB of storage for the next 2 years!! :D So, every game I play up to Season 5 (!!!) will be stored and available on my Public Dropbox Folder ! Still, if you can keep using the refferal link on the post below to make a DropBox account and help ourselves with +500MB of storage, it'll be really awesome! :D

Well, that's all for now! The Spreadsheet is growing, I added another graph to represent the Victory/Defeat variation in relation to my performance in each game but better head over to the sheet and watch the graph itself than having me talk about it here! :P

Be well and have fun on your holidays! See you around everyone! ^_^

Update about replays!

Lately, League Replays encounters some server stability issues that made both uploading replays to their servers and accessing those replays a bit of a hustle. For this, I decided to give their servers some breathing room and not upload any more of my games on the League Replays servers.

In order to give you access to the replays of my games, I've set up a Dropbox account, which is a cloud server where you can access the replays I upload. It's not as easy to upload them as it was with the LoLReplay client but still, at least now I, and you, won't have to encounter any problems getting to the replay files.

You can find the Replay folder here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2njuk5lduxyhu9k/Drb7saQkLk (I will also post this link on the Spread Sheet for ease of Access)

Now, I would like to ask for a favor. You see, on their free license, DropBox gives out 2GB of storage. Still, they give out +500MB for every friend I refer to create an account and use DropBox, up to a maximum of 16GB. I managed to upgrade my storage up to 3.8GB, which is enough to get me started, but, if you don't have a DropBox account yourself, please use my referral link and help me get more storage, along with expanding your own storage by getting +500MB just by using my referral link: http://db.tt/pRrg783I The more people that help me upgrade my account, the more the replays that will be available for sharing (if I reach maximum storage capacity, I'll have to delete the older replays to make room for the new ones). Thank you in advance! :)

P.S. if you do make an account, please make a comment here so I can know who to thank!! :D

6 win streak

I managed to get a 6 win streak yesterday and today, which rose my morale a bit. Unfortunately, like most of my streaks, it was short lived, only to be ruined not because I got stronger opponents, but from idiots on my team. People who go premade to either win or flame everyone else for their own failings. Oh well... I haven't given up hope yet, I truly want to believe that people will start behaving better on this game... Maybe... Someday...

The worst of the worst.

Here:

http://www.leaguereplays.com/replays/match/2415900/

http://www.leaguereplays.com/replays/match/2416286/

Witness the worst of the worst, players that dream they get out of "Elo Hell"... Let them rot inside it FOREVER...

1st ranked, 1st win!

I got the strangest present on my first ranked game in season 3. I joined a game and I seemed to recognize the names of my teammates. On second look, I saw that it was indeed two of my friends that have been playing together for a while, even while I am streaming. So, I called them on skype and pretty much new that this game would be great, even if we where on the losing side, we'd give them hell before we lose...

It didn't happen, We steamrolled on our opponents, getting kills after kills, giving our team a solid advantage. Still, even with a huge lead, our opponents didn't surrender and some sloppy and greedy plays enabled them to farm some items up and do a few good teamfights. At a moment, our support got DC'ed and we lost the 4v5 teamfight, costing us a tower and baron. But when he reconnected, we managed to easily pull it together, catch them off guard and overpower them. All in all, a good game with a nice (almost) turnaround!

Here's the replay of the game, courtesy of League Replays.

Farewell Season 2...

...and welcome Pre-Season 3!!!

As of a few hours ago, Season 2 has officialy ended and the Preseason of the new one begun. The ranks got reset and the statistics where wiped clean, with past matches now hold their own card on our Profile's season history.

Many changes come with the new Season, with changes on the Masteries, Summoner Spells, items and a redesign of the jungle mechanics. Let's see how these changes will impact my progress on Season 3, will I make it to the higher ranks of the ladder or will I still remain at the same place I was for the previous 2 seasons?

Update

Did some tweeking on the Livestream output today, I organized the information on one side of the video and left the screen region clear on the left, now slightly bigger than it was before. That annoying (for me) scroll text is gone and also did a more minimalistic but easier to read "Now Playing" section. The Chat region and web-cam region are bigger and easier to the eye too (I hope they are, a least).

Also, on Season 3 I'll be introducing a new feature to uphold the "diary" part of my blog. I created a spread sheet where I will record the results of my games in Season 3, something like an extended match history that will record all games (instead of just my last 10 games that PvP.net provides now), comming together with Average scores and an Elo Flunctuation Chart. You can check the spread sheet HERE

Check out the above changes and give me any feedback you want, maybe something you don't like or some ideas I didn't think of. Any kind of feedback is welcome! :)

Have a nice day everyone! :)

Fun games

It's been quite a while since I post something here so, let's get back to it by posting two back to back games I played the other day that I enjoyed greatly!

The first one was a custom 5v5 game I was invited to play with friends. It was a semi-serious, semi-troll game that ended with one of the teams surrendering after 45+ minutes of pure fun! The laughs we had on skype is making this replay lack the spirit of it but check it out, it's totaly worth it! :)

http://www.leaguereplays.com/replays/match/2374004/

The same day, right after the game, Panic invited me to a game with some other of his friends and the game begun. I failed horribly on mid (later realised that my opponent was a much higher elo player) but we managed to make an incredible comeback, after three consecutive Aces!! 

http://www.leaguereplays.com/replays/match/2374019/

Enjoy these two great games guys!! Take care! :)

Edit: Oups, by mistake I posted the same game twice!! Here's the correct link for the first game! :)