Fracture Lotus

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Shadow_Monarch

Will these maps be played during Kickoffs or after?

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cloudberry

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During

Well, technically both, but I digress

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Shadow_Monarch

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So teams only have like a week to practice and find the right meta/comp and compete in Kickoffs, and only 2 teams from each regions who finds and plays the meta/comp the best will go to Bangkok?
Need more time in general to get accustomed to the maps with agents nerfs/buffs in my opinion.

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cloudberry

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Teams should already be prepping for and even scrimming on Lotus/Fracture. This is the reason why Riot is letting people know about map rotations ahead of time

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Shadow_Monarch

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With the agents nerfs/buffs included as well or just the maps? Or both?

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cloudberry

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That I'm unsure of. It'll probably be different depending on the patch and how major it is, if I had to guess

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Soddalele

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i believe tournament accounts can play on different servers that has different patches? i might be wrong

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nooomy

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are they changing the maps mid kickoff?

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Prancer

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No

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cloudberry

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They said they'd be doing a map pool change every act from now on. So for pro, it'd most likely look like this: https://i.imgur.com/lzIF7M4.png (green lines are map changes)

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bobwoblob

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Seems dumb to change the map pool between stage 1 groups and stage 1 playoffs (and right before champs)

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NioMS

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Hope they just do the changes every split which would make the most sense hence why it probably wont be that way.

Same map pool kickoff + Bangkok
Change
Same map pool stage 1 + Toronto
Change
Same map pool stage 2 + Paris

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cloudberry

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I don't have the link but they did say they're doing it every act

Jan-Feb: Kickoff + Bangkok
Mar-Apr: Stage 1
May-Jun: Stage 1 Playoffs + Toronto
Jul-Aug: Stage 2 + Stage 2 Playoffs
Sept-Oct: Champions
Nov-Dec: GC Champions

The only thing I'm unsure about is whether or not Stage 1 Playoffs will be on the previous map pool or not, since it is in very early May

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Two_Percent

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christ, it better be 1 map at a time or else this gonna look like a shitshow

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catNmouse

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probably the last few days of kickoff