UM vs OSU League of Legends on BTN2GO February 27th

Submitted by austinnt on January 19th, 2017 at 3:31 PM

I did a quick sweep of the board and didn't find any information pertaining to this so I thought I'd share.

I play League of Legends frequently, and an announment came up saying that a Big Ten tournament was going to be broadcast through BTN2GO and that Michigan vs. OSU was going to be on February 27th. For those that don't know, League of Legends is a fairly popular online game where teams compete for fun and/or money.

I know many people don't classify eSports as a real thing, but I thought it was cool for the Big Ten to embrace it and hand out scholarships to its participants.

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Half Blood Dut…

January 20th, 2017 at 7:22 AM ^

Michigan would have had Walshy on their team.

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jfree77

January 19th, 2017 at 4:15 PM ^

I used to be low-Diamond before I had kids (now I'm Gold and pretty terrible). I remember the feeling of facing a Challenger/Masters player back then; a feeling of complete futility.

I hope those OSU players feel that in their bones. Go Blue.

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PrincetonBlue

January 19th, 2017 at 4:18 PM ^

I think I remember watching an Aphromoo stream once and the opposing Jhin had a "UMich" clan name. Crazy how you can be that good but still go to school

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litwild

January 19th, 2017 at 10:02 PM ^

Aphromoo is my 14 year olds' favorite player. He plays primarily support like him. We took our son to Toronto this last August for the North American League Finals. I was an absolute blast. We've been to dozens of UofM football games and that ranked right up there.

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RioThaN

January 19th, 2017 at 4:18 PM ^

Do we have any 5 star 500apm player? Can we tailgate?

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The Maizer

January 19th, 2017 at 4:47 PM ^

You can etailgate only. I was going to expand this joke, but I just realized etailgating is basically gameday threads on mgoblog...

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freelion

January 19th, 2017 at 4:46 PM ^

Delaney probably rigged this thing too

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Wide Open

January 19th, 2017 at 8:03 PM ^

Not sure if there's refs. But I'm positive the developer lead is an OSU fan and gave them all the cheat codes and easter eggs.

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MGoManBall

January 19th, 2017 at 5:03 PM ^

Run it down mid at 10 minutes. Fuck them.

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ken725

January 19th, 2017 at 6:21 PM ^

anyone down for some ARAM?

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MGoManBall

January 19th, 2017 at 10:51 PM ^

Ziggs ARAM is amazing. Unless you're against it.

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Cranky Dave

January 19th, 2017 at 5:26 PM ^

Are not a sport. I'm sure I'll get negged but e sport is like saying r sport for a speed reading contest. I'm not saying it doesn't take skill but Cumong man it's not a sport. Painting takes skill but it's not a sport.

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MGoManBall

January 19th, 2017 at 10:52 PM ^

That's why they're called 'e' sports, sport.

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MGoRedemption

January 19th, 2017 at 5:43 PM ^

It shouldn't be called esports because video games aren't sports. I'd rather it be called competitive gaming or something like that.

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Beat Rutgerland

January 19th, 2017 at 6:49 PM ^

People get hung up on that, I don't think most people who watch and play would really care if they called it competitive gaming. I'm agnostic on if it's a sport, but it is high level competition with a reaction speed/manual dexterity element, and an actually really deep strategic element. I can't really recommend watching MOBAs if you're not already a fan though, because unless you play some yourself, the action in the games is nearly incomprehensible.

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