League Of Legend

AFK :
- Away From Keyboard: a player who is not currently in control of their champion in a match.

Assassins 
- A champion type whose forte is rapidly ambushing and slaying enemy champions. They have abilities that may include stealthing themselves or having a strong dash skill.

Farm
- To seek out and kill minions to obtain experience and gold.

Fed
- A champion becoming disproportionately powerful after obtaining multiple kills on enemy champions.

Feed
- To repeatedly die to the enemy team, giving them gold and experience. A player who does this is a feeder

Killing Spree
- A champion who slays at least three champions consecutively without being slain them self.

Mana
- Resource used by most champions to cast abilities.

Positioning / Position
- A champion’s location during a fight. Good positioning is determined by the player knowing the optimal location their champion should be at.

Rage
- To display in-game frustration.

Troll
- A person who causes acts of disruption to other players and to the community. These acts may include writing offensive messages or intentionally feeding the enemy.

Jungler
- A champion who forgoes fighting in a lane in order to obtain experience and gold from killing creeps in the jungle.

Jungling
- To kill monsters in the jungle.

Def ( Defend )
- To protect the tower or base without attacking aggressively.

Champ
- A champion; a particular character that the summoner calls on and controls.

Carry
- A champion that generally starts off weaker than other champions, but becomes more powerful as the game progresses.
- The action of being ultimately responsible for winning a game.

Leaver / Leave
- Exiting the champion selection or the match before each game is finished, whether voluntarily or not. This is regulated by the Leaver Buster system.

Map awareness
- To be conscious of the events occurring around the map. To increase Map awareness, there are abilities and items which reveal the fog of war at strategic areas.

Mid turrets
- The three towers just outside the base.

History

The year of 2006 League of Legend was first developed in the month of September making it’s way to be produced on by the company named riot taking about a good three years to be developed the game for any additional touches into the game itself. The game was first titled League of Legend; clash of fate in 2007 to 2008. The game was pre-announced to the public in October 7 2007 with the game starting of 17 selective champions for players to choose form so new accounts can understand the masteries of each champion they choose in the game. This game was mainly played in Northern America and Europe with its most played in the whole entire world. In October 26 2009 the game of the League of Legend was officially given an newly title to end the year of 2009 since it big improvement and development in league play with an additional champion having a total of 40 characters to buy and play for players and screen quality of the game that helps players play more enjoyable. The coming year of 2010, the company riot made a map called twisted treeline its a smaller map than Summoner’s Rift, the Twisted Treeline is configured horizontally, with two lanes flanking a neutral area. Two turrets are placed along the length of each lane, and the nexus is defended by a single turret. Teams are composed of three champions apiece, and each champion spawns with a substantial sum of gold. The reduced map size and accelerated level curve makes for a shorter game length and higher kill scores.

Season one began in July 13th 2010 with a total of 55 champions in the game that was in the game with a choices for players can play with either 5vs5 or 3vs3 this choices let players to choose on either if they want to play with this certain amount of players on each team. Riot starts to build their own leader board ( a scoreboard showing the names and current scores of the leading competitors. ) to record all opponents deaths, kills, assists and victory game you won in the whole entire time each player has played a game. The more kills and assists then deaths you get the time you been a league player, your ranked in the leader board on what score you get when played each time.

League players also get a challenge out of it when wanting to be the top of the leader board, riot wants to give players something to achieve for when playing every single time. League of legend season one first world champion allowing groups to participate to play against other parts of the world players that enters the event to win the grand prizes of money. In November league had 11.5 million monthly players that were actively playing globally. The announcement of league season two coming was having more improvement in the game with a total of 88 champions, additional map called Summer Rift.

The largest map in League of Legends, Summoner’s Rift is mirrored diagonally and features three lanes into the enemy base. Each lane is defended by three turrets and an inhibitor, while the nexus is protected by a pair of turrets. Both sides of the map boast expansive jungles containing powerful buffs, and the central river is home to two boss monsters and a scuttle crab that provide team-wide benefits. This map really benefits players when experiencing real team building and also learning how to face your opponents in battle so you can fully understand what your champion can do. In July 7th 2012, league is trying to focus on producing 2 champions a month for the game with additional details by giving the champs every one a dance option for match each character, the game was to really focus on each character they develop the game to make sure their abilities and features are correctly looking good into the game. Tournaments that are giving money prizes up to one million dollars to the group that participate in the tournament.

The releasing of season three finally came to opening towards the public on computer gaming with now a total of 110 champion in the game with more digital screen improvement to help players play better without having big blurry screen pages while playing when fighting during the game. League of legend had 32 million monthly players with a additional 70 million requested accounts, for that the game was rated the most popular mobile game in the entire world. The game started to quickly be given its stop to be the most famous mobile game to be played so for that, it was also titled the most popular streamed game in the world with a daily high online ( active ) players. In 2014 league had about a high of 67 million monthly players, playing around the world. The game have high improved the last couple of months with on how the rate of active players being online to play, league progress of having prayers go into the game select champions, roles, and parts on the map they want to play gives them great feels into the game making them want to continue trying and trying then sharing this game to everyone. The season four of league of legend was fast announced having 24 million viewers that watched, showing amazing updates on the incoming of its also season five preview on whats going to be in the newer version of league play. The coming of season five was November 20th pre-season of to the increase the champion diversity and item selective so players can build up their champion damages, abilities, speed and mana when collecting money and building up level skill. In 2015, season five began with a new update of a total 123 champion, and more updates on map with the changes of adding all the dragons to the summer rift map to give champions on opposing sides some sort of strength to gain during the game after slaying each dragon. The season five world championship had a live audience of 55,000 plus people with a live stream show case for people to watch was a really big event success. The same year in November 11th season six updates is players that the year of 2016 the features of league of legend players would be given the power to cancel some players from players choosing so they can choose them to play during a selective play and also get a chance to choose your position or role you want to play in the game.

U&M League Of Legend Community

I was studying a gaming community that played a online computer game called League Of Legend, the club that was hosting this was at the University of Minnesota at the Bruininks in classroom 330 on the 2nd floor. When I first came there I had to find my own way there so having to GPS my way to the university, it was really stuggle, I had no clue where this building was because I never clearly got a chance to know all the building name on campus when I did a school visiting. The train I had to get off at was very easy to go off from because it is the most reliable transportation that didn’t cost as much, when it comes to traveling anywhere. It took about a good 35 or less minutes to get there then 10 minutes to walk across the bridge where you can see the Mississippi River.

( picture inside the bridge )

After crossing the bridge, I entered the building where I was suppose to meet my league of legend group to do my first info. session for my ethnography notes. Before I arrived there my phone instantly died once I got there, so for that I have no way to figure out what room I was actually suppose to be in because I didn’t understand the meet up session was going to be at but I knew exactly that this was the building my group was meeting at this Wednesday at 6 pm. Walking around hoping maybe to spot someone people in a classroom playing league would help me but I was clearly walking in a circle for a good 5 minutes, then for that moment my phone magically comes back on. I quickly call the host of the club to see what room and floor located, silly of me I passed that floor and room many times before so I was freaking out over nothing. Finally, getting to the room I quickly grab my lap top to be prepare what’s going to happen in this time where I will be observing this group for a certain amount of time. This group have a variety of diverts community, where there’s boys and girl and other race of color playing and enjoying this game. On that similar day I was going a interview of a couple of people both female and male in the club asking a similar question that was asked “What does League Of Legend symbolize to you?” in both of their response was very much the same is that, they can connect with people that are very far away because it is a way to keep in touch with that person and also get to interact in games that can build that sort of friendly connection still alive even if that person is far away. Plus it gives a great experiences in making more friends to play with online and also acknowledge teamwork so being able to have reliable friends who can play the game with you and have similar interest. When talking like normally with some of these club member they have some sort of reason why they love to participate in these clubs is because they can have fun with new people every day and enjoy going tournament that are competitive then play with people around the place. I learned how to play many things about league of legend by participating in watching couple tournaments, game plays, and a little game trial myself so I can understand how to play the game and get a good experiences.

The League of Legend club at the U&M is allowing all gender and none students to join and get a first experiences to understand this amazing world wide spread game to everyone who is into computer gaming. I think of joining this group myself because it is something I can really enjoy because it is something really fun to do with others around me who also have the same interest as me plus I can really have a good communication skills. The league of Legend club is looking to invite more people to come and try it out this game so people can just get a chance to know what this is about.

Contact Information :

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1644024745881263/ ( Facebook Page )

http://sua.umn.edu/groups/directory/group/2915/

Conclusions

League of legend is a virtual game that starts you off in the summoner choices menu where you select a certain character that plays a certain role in the game, those role are mid, top, bottom, or jungle. These roles help the player get a more understanding about what the champion point in the game, because building knowledge that about certain character and leaving to communicate with your teammates can build great success for you can your team. League is the top world wide played game with many active players, actively playing around the world, this game brings all sorts of people from the world to join in doing tournament and creating a safe enjoyable environment for those who are either competitive and noncompetitive.