Idea: If you manage to get 0 points in pick'em the whole tournament, Riot should gift you a pity award bag with ALL cheap 520rp skins like Commando Lux or Sherwood Forest Ashe inside, as an opposite to the Ultimate skins you get from a perfect pick'em.
LOL I actually kinda love this idea. But talk about salt on the wound…
I still find it absolutely hilarious Random Coin picked perfectly for Group A and D
Praise be the Coin, for it is always Fair
Praise be the Coin, for it is always Just
Praise be the Coin, for it is always Present
Praise be the Coin, for it is perfect an above-average amount of the time and got significantly more points than most players
Dude, I didn’t see your riot flair, though you were just some random reddit guy
Thanks for the info :)
Well, technically I am just some random human xD
Wait, is this true? Because according to other users seems right, but it may be confirmation bias
Yep, it's true. That is how it is coded.
My pick'em is the exact same. Let me guess, you have Fnatic winning Group C. Looks like whoever wrote the script at Riot doesn't understand that you don't want to re-seed rand with the same value before every pick'em.
The coin will always pick the same for users in order to maintain fairness :)
Praise be the Coin, for it is always Fair
Praise be the Coin, for it is always Just
Praise be the Coin, for it is always Present
The Mighty Coin will always give everyone the same picks in order to preserve fairness. However, it won't (I hope) always give everyone PERFECT picks.
So uh, yeah. Praise the Coin.
not sure why they changed the format of pick'ems, before every group fit on one screen for easy screenshots/sharing but now there's just so much wasted space.
We agree and are looking to update the desktop design soon to take more advantage of the size.
For context, the overall code base was updated to make pick’em friendly to mobile users (old pick’em was a nightmare outside of desktop).
Keep the feedback coming!
It's time...only hopium addicts may enter this chat
YES BROTHER PASS ME THAT HOPIUM
Crazy how times change. Faker and T1 are on the HOPIUM train.
Remind them to add "Group F" during group stage pick 'ems: TSM, G2, TOP, GAM.
This is pure gold
AHHH! Quick, page the dev team! We have a bug. I can’t seem to pick TSM.
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oh no…
FYI, the in-game mission for selecting a team isn't giving rewards atm.
Give it a few hours - sometimes the tech behind marking a mission complete takes a while, especially if a LOT of people are all doing the same thing.
We will double check this tomorrow with the team too just to be safe.
I kinda wish we could see people's votes, really curious who's the true favorite between FPX EDG and DK
Oh maaaannnnn, yes! Well, time to build another feature!
I used to be in a group that did NFL pick em every season. We had a lot of fun with it until one of the guys added two bots: One that coin flipped each week, and one that just picked the favored team in Vegas.
We quit because the coin flip bot beat 3 of the 8 people in the group and the Vegas bot won the league by 5%. (we had the Vegas bot 2 seasons in a row and it won both seasons)
Yeah this is a good cautionary tale. We have implemented some penalties specific to usage of The Coin precisely for this reason.
We want everyone to be able to meme about Coin picks, and also to catch up if they missed the first few pick stages, but we don't want The Coin to somehow end up with more points than any other human XD
can we get some info on why some countries cant do pick ems this year ? been doing these since the first time, now i cant
Hi ozmega!
I don't know the specific reasons for every region/country, but in general it breaks down into one of these reasons:
It's October 9th. I lean over my keyboard, eyes bloodshot. My fingers bleed from the furious notes I have taken, meticulously tracking every match played in every major league throughout the entirety of 2021. There are 20 monitors on my wall, each one tracking a pro player trying to level up in EU solo queue. heh, I think to myself, These guys have nothing on Balls.
This is my moment. I am the pinnacle of league esports knowledge. I can feel my consciousness merging with the data before me. Each flash, each tower dive, each kill another row and column of data informing my mental calculus. Billions of neurons reaching, striving, demanding an answer.
Who will win worlds?
I lean back in my chair and load pickem. The time has come. A choice will be made.
I better not lose to that fucking coin again
Read morewhen can i start my pickems?
The crystal ball picks (overall winner) will unlock Sept 25th. Group stage picks are Oct 9th. Quarterfinals are oct 19th.
some of that may depend on what timezone you are in actually - you should check the article on lolesports.com and confirm (https://lolesports.com/article/make-your-predictions-with-worlds-2021-pick%E2%80%98em!/bltfeb45b04ae95d98c)
didnt last year perfect pick ems get a pc?
Yes! We also had like...a lot of perfect picks hahahaha
Who needs Drunk Pick'ems when you have THE COINtm
THE COIN (NEW FOR 2021)
The Coin makes its debut for Worlds 2021! Too busy to pick or forget to lock in a stage? The Coin will do it for you! It will make random selections for players who miss a Pick Stage so they can always join late and let the RNG gods decide for them. So even if you missed out on making Group Stage picks, you can still check out what score The Coin got for you - you might be in contention to earn Points-based prizes because you won’t be starting from zero (unless you get SUPER unlucky).
If I lose to The Coin (spoilers - I will) I'm quitting Pick'em for good