S3 Changes

Yo! Just wanted to post a quick update for the sake of updating (since I'm so bad at it). I've been spending some time checking out Nami and the changes for S3 that are on the PBE right now. There's a lot of stuff to go through, but you can keep up with it all on one of your favorite sites, many of them keep updates on the changes made there. I'll just say S3 is going to be different and a lot of fun. I WILL post a longer update about the changes or something, maybe I'll get it done on my super long commute Wednesday. Thanks for the read!

Overhaul

Anyone still want that "FenixView 2.0" that I keep saying I'm going to get to eventually? Yeah, I want it too. Now that I have almost nothing but free time, it's going to happen. For real this time. I will be updating this at least once a week, if not more. I've got plans in the works for a video series or two, although I need to work out some (more) hardware problems before that can become a reality. I'm still with Lowelo, and I'll probably start casting more soon (I hope). Oh, and I went to MLG Dallas last weekend!

MLG Dallas was a lot of fun. I got to see Curse, CLG.NA, CLG.EU, Azubu Blaze (with Shy), Najin Sword, Team Dynamic, Dignitas, and TSM compete on the second stage at MLG Dallas. League pulled the biggest crowd at the event! I got to meet Oddone, Dyrus, IWillDominate, Yellowpete and Wickd. I also got to meet Chobra from ggChronicle, Travis from State of the League, and Phreak, who you all should know. I had a great time, and Blaze managed to win the finals against Najin Sword in the second set. I think I'm going to do a separate post about Dallas though, since so much happened. Expect another update within the week!

Featured!

Hello everyone! Everyone at lowelo.com got some very exciting news a little a while ago, news that we retweeted every ten seconds or so. We are now featured streamers on Riot's new stream portal. We've seen an explosion of viewers due to this fact, shattering our previous record of 206 on the second day. We have had a massive influx of new blood, so the stream is rarely short of players, and PlayDohBear and West Coast Carry keep everyone entertained into the wee hours of the night with their ELO grind. Everyone's very excited to be providing content to more people, we're always welcoming new fans. I should probably mention this blog has no affiliation with lowelo.com whatsoever, opinions expressed here are my own and have nothing to do with them. This is just exciting news I thought I'd share (even if it is a bit late).

In other news, my ranked grind is continuing and I've almost passed my previous maximum ELO (not that that was anything to be proud of). Also, the members of the ranked team Lowelo Men in Tights played our first five placement matches last night. We won four games and lost one, and this placed us at 1307 ELO. We all thought that this was rather low, and that most of the matches other than the last two were relatively easy (the last one was a bitter fight and great comeback, both teams played brilliantly). Also I finally hit 100 followers! And then dropped back down to 99. One final note before I go, Syndra is amazing. Or at least she was when I tried her, I do not know if they've adjusted her since. I am psyched. To borrow a line from EatGamer, stay classy summoners!

NA Regionals

Hello, hello, hello! How's everybody doing today? I'm absolutely exhausted (too much LoL and Tribes), but I feel great! After watching the NA Regionals this weekend I dove headfirst back into ranked play, and have only lost one game so far. Let's rewind a bit though, back to the NA Regionals part. This was by far the best tournament that has been put on for online observers yet. I can't speak to how it was for live viewers, as I did not attend the event, but from everything I've heard it was still amazing. As for the matches themselves, many of them were intense matches, and it was insanely fun to watch. It was constant action, very few of the games were passive, and I loved it. This is the direction that I want to see League going into, more fast paced active games, less farm fests. Aggressive play makes for, in my humble opinion, a more fun game. I've been known to be a very aggressive player almost no matter what role I'm in or what champion I'm playing, depending on who I'm up against. But I digress, back to Regionals, for those of you who don't know, TSM took first, Dignitas took second, and CLG knocked out Curse to win third place. Curse put up one hack of a fight though, and was the only team to take a game off of SoloMid. CLG came out with some crazy teleport plays, and some interesting lane swaps, putting Doublelift and Chauster mid lane, where they slaughtered. TSM played great, and I'm so glad that Dyrus played Jayce, it's about time we saw him. Gragas was also a very popular choice as were Nunu and Vlad. All in all it was an extremely well put together tournament, it was fun to watch, fun to discuss, and might lead to more aggressive games for people who aren't extremely high ELO. Congratulations to Team SoloMid on the win, I would have liked to see Curse do a bit better, but they were still very impressive. Now that I have pretty much infinite time other than a few hours in the midday to play, write, create, and otherwise do whatever I want, I will have blog posts more often, my goal is at least 3 a week if not multiple a day. I'd like to get more on top of the news and just update everyone as that goes. Unfortunately until I can get a new computer, videos will be tough to do in any HD resolution, and I'm not sure if I want to put out something that seems so lackluster and unprofessional, despite the fact that most things I've put out don't seem very professional anyways. Let's just say I'm upgrading all my content outlets. So look forward to FenixView 2.0 in the future!

Time

Hey all! So, I've finally moved in and now I have time to start posting here again! I've had such a busy Summer. Just thought I give a tiny update on what's taking me so long. Time to go watch more regionals!

Big Plays

Hello, hello, hello! Wow I've been so busy lately, I've gotten completely lax about posting here. Sorry about that. So, as many of you may know, I'm an official shoutcaster for lowelo.com now. That's the LowElo podcast's website, come join us Saturday's and Wednesday's for community events. Join the LowElo chat room in game when they're pulling people in and just ask for an invite. I'm going to try to lock down Tuesday's and Friday's as my nights, but we'll see what happens. I've got several projects going at the moment aside from the stream. I have a couple articles in the works that may be posted on lowelo but are going to be here regardless. I've got a WoW project starting up relatively soon after I work the details out with the special guest who will be joining me for at least part of the show. I'm also redesigning this page finally, as it is a bit of an eyesore and I'm striving to make all my stuff at least a wee bit more professional looking in the near future. Also, I may be up for a vote in Protatomonster's top 5 plays for a Varus play if I can find the recording again and resubmit it, so keep your eyes open there! I promise I'll post more often (haven't heard that before have you XD), so stay classy summoners, and I'll see you on the battlefield.

Progress

Hello everyone! I've made leaps and bounds of progress this last week. Other than League having some insane downtimes and problems (thank you Riot for sorting that out as quickly as you could), I had a lot of fun. I finally have every AD carry, and I believe I've come full circle and AD is my main again, just like when I started playing. I've been experimenting with Varus quite a bit, and hopefully will create a guide on him within the week and post that on the YouTube page. On to the big news, I am now an official LowElo Community shoutcaster. My co-caster, XxSlamFistxX and I have been casting quite a bit. We are still trying to get the hang of it (and I'm trying to get used to Own3d.tv), but we're having a lot of fun staying up all night casting community games. We have yet to work out a steady schedule, but if you go check lowelo.com/stream on Wednesday's and Saturday's you can find IceDarkKnight and Teemo Tactics streaming there, sometimes with guest casters. Go check out lowelo.com and the Low ELO Podcast, it's a great show and just a great community overall. There's always someone willing to play a game with you if you're sick of solo queueing and there's conisistently people trying to put together some in-house games. On to my ELO situation, I didn't play a single ranked game this week. I intended to play nothing but ranked when I wasn't doing something with lowelo, but since I was unfortunately one of those people who lost my runes and rune pages I didn't want to risk it. So I'm still at 1146. But it will rise. Last but not least there's a preview of the new Ahri and Xerath skins from the PBE on my YouTube channel (link should be to the right). Go check that out if you're interested. It was kind of a spur of the moment thing, so we just started talking about what we like about the skins and showing off the abilities and such. I do intend to do more of these in the future so please comment with advice and constructive criticism, as I do wish to always be improving the experience for you guys. Thanks for the read, and I'll see you on the battlefield.