I tend to mute people the second they say something derogatory towards somebody else on the team. I used to try and talk them down but it would only work on occasion. I find that it's easier to win when that negative attitude simply falls on deaf ears.

I also applied for a summer internship at Riot yesterday! Hopefully they consider me.

Nice! Hopefully they do and you get it! *crosses fingers*

As for me, I tend to just ignore them. Same as muting, but I guess if I want to see what they are saying, I can. Meh.

I hope so too. I applied for an e-sports intern, and I'm working on my communications intern application today. They want a grad student, so I'm trying extra hard to convince somebody that I'm just as good or better.

I used to just ignore what they were saying, but I guess it kinda subconsciously gets to me. I end up feeling like I just want to lose quick and get the game over with so they stop yelling. Muting seemed to solve that for me.

Whatever works for you. It's part of the game right now unfortunately whenever it pops up.

And nice, well.....best of luck! I'm sure they will definitely put you up there in consideration.

I feel like implementing voice chat in the game would solve a lot of rage problems. It's easy to forget that there's another human being on the other end of that computer. Hearing somebody's voice makes people realize that the other players are actual people with feelings, and I bet a lot more people would tone it down if they could be reminded of that every once in a while.

It would, but at the same time look at games like CoD, MoH, and games/systems that already utilize voice chat, and see how it has "evolved". Sure, it makes it easier to recognize and remember that there is another person on the other end, but on the flip side is the fact that instead of typing it out and taking the time, you can now simply voice it and add all sorts of vulgarities and tone into it.

http://www.riotgames.com/careers/esports-intern
That's the position I already submitted to. It sounds like a really cool job that kindof covers a lot of different experiences. It would be fun because I would get to work on a lot of different things!

I think the real problem with voice chat is reporting people who do abuse it. They could store the voice logs only for games where somebody was reported to save memory, but I still wouldn't want to listen to a whole 50 minute game while doing Tribunal.

Yeah.....that would take a paid position for sure and probably just a section dedicated to listening to voice logs. Easy to do for chat logs (well, easier......)

Sounds like quite an interesting internship.

I think voice would get escalated bans though... C: I like the idea but it's just hard to implement properly.

It sounds like an ADVENTURE! If they offered it to me, I'd have to check with my department to make sure it would count towards graduation. But it never hurts to apply!

I need to play some more... i played last night as riven.... 2/3/1... rengar fed though but i survived each hit from enemy riven and eve... we won thanks to graves being awesome

Volibear, vi, riven, malphite, rengar sometimes, and singed... i think that is all but not too sure

Support lulu, ap or ad mid, jungle and adc

Thats good. I had to branch out from adc and jungle bc people wouldnt let me do those roles

Insta locks are very annoying

they just dont care what others do

The servers are so annoying right now. Everyone is getting lag out the ass.

lol glad i didnt get on yet

Yeah it has been quite a pain in the ass for the past little bit.

I mostly play draft so I don't have to worry about instant lock ins as much, but it is obnoxious if people won't cooperate on choosing roles. Pick order and calling roles are secondary to the rule, "Don't be a jerk."

Yeah Lucid. I hate when I get in a match, and someone calls like top and then another guy is like no I'm top. Or in one game I was gonna be Fiora top I called it I picked and another guy when his pick comes up instalocks Garen. Steals top from me. Says nothing until in game, and all he does is call people noobs and bad. While I'm stuck doing Fiora support in the bot lane.

So the new eSports website looks super sweet.
http://na.lolesports.com/
http://euw.lolesports.com/
I'm looking forward to seeing teams compete weekly. I hope they keep VoDs because I know I won't be able to watch them all live. :c

Damn....new website looks sweet.

And I feel your pain Law.

so season 3 has started whoot

Don't think I will watch, but might keep tabs on.

Lulu is the best mid champion of all time.

I went lik 14/2/?? a little bit ago with a super noob team against bots xD

Seriously, build Tear of the Goddess early on, and then just Q them to death, it's hysterical. Annie especially has a hard time against it, as does Ahri.

I would argue that....but I don't prefer casters.

Build ad as lulu. Shes a gattling gun

I'd have to disagree with AD Lulu. I think she is much better as aspd on-hit effect lulu. Things like Wit's End, and Malady paired with her passive.

Just had a ranked match vs a weird team. Elisa, Voli, Diana, Malz, and Nami. They were all AP and could dominate early with excess amounts of damage, but ended up losing in the end. My team kept giving me shit as support saying things like you have no wards, and I'm like my wards just died and I have to buy more.
Don't run down the lane past their first tower, and expect not to die with no vision on anyone.
I also kept having to say build magic resist you idiots they literally do nothing but magic damage. Except voli with a little bit of mixed damage.

I just don't see why on-hit Lulu is so great. Pix bolts don't proc on-hit effects, they ARE an on-hit effect. If you built her AD at least she would scale into lategame.

Last night i played 2 ranked games... my teams were victorious

*sighs* Slowly building up my champion base. Going to take a while for sure. Can't decide whether to have lots of "cheap" champions (i.e. low cost) or save up and get the few that I really want.....decisions decisions....

At the low level you are i say save. You can earn ip faster than higher levels

True....guess I'm going to save up for a while then and go after a few of the higher cost champions.