fray` League of Legends (11)
That's right, the Frenetic Array LoL team have taken out the second series of the Mwave & ANTEC League of Legends Tournament powered by ESGN. If you don't know already the Mwave & ANTEC series, consisting of 4 online events dating from the 2nd of June until the 26th of August is open to all teams across Australia and New Zealand. There’s an impressive $1350 in cash and prizes for those who place up for grabs and at the end of the series the top two teams will battle it out for a chance to play against the prestigious American based organisation Team Dignitas in which should be an intense showcase match!
The boys got stuck into it early convincingly beating the two amateur teams 'OptionsLimited' and 'Burn the Koran'. The fray` boys then proceeded to play the well-known team of Reborn, even though Reborn had a strong team, fray` experience and mechanical skills made the difference between these two sides which definitely showed in the game with fray` winning this game 1-0. Soon enough they moved on to play Carnage in a best of 3 series in the Double Elimination Semi Final. Although the first game was one sided in fray` direction the second wasn't with Carnage pulling out the big guns crippling the fray defence early on with some quick kills. But the team of Frenetic Array played it safe and pushed through as the always do, being the better late game team fray slowly began out scale Carnage and get back into the game. With superior warding and team positioning fray identified an attempted backdoor and base-raced to victory winning 2-0 on the fulltime scoreboard.
Coming into Sundays play Frenetic Array hadn't lost a map and they were hoping they could keep it that way. Their first match of Sundays play was against Team GAMECOM in the Winners Bracket Final. In the first match with quick kills from raydere and heavenzcure in the early moments of the game, really set the tone leading to a 22 minute surrender from Team GAMECON. The second game was turning out to be the same with raydere getting some quick kills once again but GAMECON hit back quickly evening up the scoreboard. GAMECON shut down Raydere putting fray behind, luckily mid-game Aznmatty roamed down to help the team slicing through GAMECONs defences putting Frenetic Array back in the game. Once again fray` superior team composition led to kill after kill winning the game at the 31 minute mark.
Team GAMECONs 2-0 loss to fray put them down into the Losers Bracket Final against Carnage, with Carnage winning 2-1 to move on to play fray in the Grand Final. Fray only needed 1 map to win, Carnage was granted the early lead but not for long as fray fought back forcing Carnage to change their top laner for a mid laner. Only 15 minutes in, fray identified that Carnage were building up their items for a late game attack. The team of Frenetic Array countered that by forcing some mid-game action which paid off extremely well to finish the game off at the minute mark.
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fray` LoL at ESGN winter
Our main stay League of Legends team are pumped to attend this weekend’s ESGN held at the University of New South Wales. Some of the best teams from all across Australia will be there to battle it out for the first place stage. The boys are expecting to take out the event coming off an impressive victory at the recently held Gigabyte eSports Championship Winter Slam held last weekend. This being the prime of League of Legends competitive held to date, there has been a lot of hype leading up to the event so we can expect a lot of professional teams all battling it out for the much prestigious first place finish. The overall amount of registered people that will be attending is currently clocked at three-hundred and three.
The team are looking very strong coming into this competition having only dropped three maps over the last nine months after placing second at the WCG Nationals competition held in Gold Coast, Queensland. Although there has been a major line-up change for the team with Obbie stepping down from the usual line up, he is now replaced with Aznmatty. The boys will be competing with a new line up consists of Kingpin, Domo, Heavenzcurse, Raydere and Aznmatty. There have been some speculations on how Matty is going to fit in with the team and how they will work with together, all though he had already showed how well he fitted in, performing amazing well when he filled in with them at the Gigabyte eSports championships.
Captain ‘King Pin’ had this to say about the team:
Aznmatty is a unique player, his decision making and ability to perform well under pressure is what sets him apart from the rest and he demonstrated this when he subbed for us at the Gigabyte eSports Championships. We also feel very confident now that he's in our core line-up. I'm also feel quite confident, but not overly confident. LANS are a lot different to online tournaments and anything can happen so i like to keep a bit more conceited going into these sorts of events.
Make sure to tune into the stream to catch our League of Legends team at www.ESGN.com
New Skin in the Store
- Soul Reaver Draven
League of Legends v1.0.0.140
Draven, the Glorious Executioner
- Wicked Blades (Passive) - Draven's Critical Strikes deal bonus physical damage over time. Spinning Axe also causes this effect even if it does not Critically Strike.
- Spinning Axe - Draven's next attack will deal bonus physical damage. This axe will ricochet off the target high up into the air. If Draven catches it, he automatically readies another Spinning Axe. Draven can have two Spinning Axes at once.
- Blood Rush - Draven gains increased Movement Speed and Attack Speed. The Movement Speed bonus decreases rapidly over its duration. Catching a Spinning Axe will refresh the cooldown of Blood Rush.
- Stand Aside - Draven deals physical damage by throwing his axes, knocking aside and slowing his targets.
- Whirling Death (Ultimate) - Draven hurls two massive axes dealing physical damage to each unit struck. Whirling Death slowly reverses direction and returns to Draven after striking an enemy champion. Draven may also activate this ability while the axes are in the flight to cause it to return early. Deals less damage for each unit it hits and resets when the axes reverse direction.
Ahri
- Fox-Fire
- Damage reduced at later ranks to 40/65/90/115/140 from 40/70/100/130/160
- Ability Power ratio increased to 0.4 from 0.375
- Spirit Rush
- Damage reduced to 85/125/165 from 100/140/180
- Ability Power ratio increased to 0.35 from 0.3
Amumu
- Fixed a bug that caused players to hear Sad Robot Amumu's voice across the map
Darius
- Hemorrhage (Passive) bonus Attack Damage ratio reduced to 0.3 from 0.4
- Noxian Guillotine will now only refresh its cooldown when it deals the killing blow
- Apprehend pre-pull animation modified to be more readable for enemy Champion
- Fixed a bug with Hemorrhage applying Rylai's Crystal Scepter slow and Spell Vamp effects
Ezreal
- Essence Flux Mana cost reduced to 50/60/70/80/90 from 60/70/80/90/100
- Trueshot Barrage Mana cost reduced to 100 from 150
Galio
- Resolute Smite Ability Power ratio reduced to 0.6 from 0.7
Graves
- Buckshot
- Damage reduced at later ranks to 60/95/130/165/200 from 60/105/150/195/240
- Damage per extra bullet increased to 35% from 25%
- Smoke Screen duration reduced to 4 seconds from 5 seconds
Jax
- Empower damage reduced at later ranks to 40/75/110/145/180 from 40/85/130/175/220
Kog'Maw
- Living Artillery damage bonus to Champions reduced to 125% from 150%
Nautilus
- Titan's Wrath damage reduced at later ranks to 30/55/80/105/130 from 30/60/90/120/150
Nocturne
- Umbra Blades healing amount per target hit adjusted to 10/18/26 from 15/20/25
Nunu
- Fixed a bug where Absolute Zero was revealing Nunu when cast from brush
Renekton
- Slice and Dice Armor reduction increased at later ranks to 15/20/25/30/35% from 15/17.5/20/22.5/25%
Shen
- Ki Strike cooldown increased to 9 seconds from 8 seconds
Swain
- Basic Attack range increased to 500 from 480
- Decrepify
- Range increased to 625 from 600
- Slow increased at later ranks to 20/25/30/35/40% from 20/23/26/29/32%
- Ravenous Flock cooldown reduced to 8 seconds from 10 seconds
Urgot
- Terror Capacitor shield health reduced at later ranks to 80/130/180/230/280 from 80/140/200/260/320
- Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser Armor and Magic Resist bonus reduced to 60/90/120 from 80/105/130
Welcome to the Draven Champion Spotlight, summoners! Draven is a ranged physical carry built around throwing and catching spinning axes. Through this gameplay, Draven can dish out tons of damage and dominate a game. For those interested in the flashiest of ranged carries, take a look at the Draven Champion Spotlight!
Corporate Mundo keeping busy, cash monkeys! He open email attachment in junk folder promising pictures of naked girls. Computer stop working after that. IT tell Mundo that it “infected with virus” and all files corrupted. Mundo then pound on laptop with cleaver to make work; IT tell Mundo he turned laptop into “10-pound paperweight.” Mundo gave laptop new job that better match its abilities! Mundo made of win!
To celebrate, Mundo bring new sale for you. Buy skins and champions, and give Mundo money to continue “Computer Retasking/Cleaver Whacking” program at work. Soon, all computers do their job or get downsized to paperweight department!
- Viktor look like he really good at smashing computers. He redundant. Mundo let you have him for 487 RP.
- Skarner shoot crystal energy, fry computers’ motherboard. Mundo love his mother, and her board, so he get rid of Skarner. 487 RP and he yours.
- Sion survive his own beheading, have axe bigger than Mundo’s. Mundo get rid of competition by selling him to you for 292 RP.
- Temple Jax at one with the universe. Universe include computers, so he must be downsized with them. You buy for 487 RP.
- Pentakill Sona seem to know more about computers than Mundo. She call Mundo’s expertise into question. Mundo fire her and her hippie musician friends. For 487 RP, he give her to you!
- Marble Malphite already giant paperweight, so Mundo no need him for new program. You pick him up for 260 RP.
Sale start June 5 and run until June 8. Buy lots! Mundo no want competition for paperweight making!
Greetings Summoners!
Here are this week's free champions:
Week 28 (this week):
Wondering how we picked this week's free champions? Read up on it HERE.
See you on the Fields of Justice!
Draven the Glorious Executioner - New Champion
- Damage:50(+3.5 per level)
- Health:502(+82 per level)
- Mana:282(+42 per level)
- Movement Speed:305
- Armor:19.3(+3.3 per level)
- Magic Resist:30
- Health Per 5 Sec:5
- Mana Per 5 Sec:6.95
- Range:550
(The data for the Range on all of his spells may be inaccurate)
Wicked Blades (Passive)
- Draven's Critical Strikes deal bonus physical damage over time. Spinning Axe also causes this effect even if it does not Critically Strike.
Spinning Axe
- Draven's next attack will deal 0.6 bonus physical damage. The bonus is equal to 45/55/65/75/85% of his total Attack Damage. This axe will ricochet off the target high up into the air. If Draven catches it, he automatically readies another Spinning Axe. Draven can have two Spinning Axes at once.
- Cost: 45 Mana
- Range: 0
- Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8 Seconds
Blood Rush
- Draven gains 40/45/50/55/60% increased Movement Speed for 1.5 seconds and 20/25/30/35/40% increased Attack Speed for 3 seconds. The Movement Speed bonus decreases rapidly over its duration. Catching a Spinning Axe will refresh the cooldown of Blood Rush.
- Cost: 40
- Range: 0
- Cooldown: 12 Seconds
Stand Aside
- Draven throws his axes, dealing 70/105/140/175/210 (+0.5) physical damage to targets hit and knocking them aside. Targets hit are slowed by 20/25/30/35/40% for 2 seconds.
- Cost: 70
- Range: 300
- Cooldown: 18 Seconds
Whirling Death
- Draven hurls two massive axes to deal 175/275/375 (+1.1) physical damage to each unit struck. Whirling Death slowly reverses direction and returns to Draven after striking an enemy champion. Draven may also activate this ability while the axes are in flight to cause it to return early. Deals 8% less damage for each unit hit (Minimum 40%) and resets when the axes reverse direction.
- Cost: 120
- Range: 1050
- Cooldown: 110 Seconds
Champion Changes
Ahri
- Fox-Fire: Damage decreased to 40/65/90/115/140 (+0.4 increased) [max damage:80/130/180/230/280 (+0.8 increased)], from 40/70/100/130/160 (+0.375) [max damage:80/140/200/260/320 (+0.75)].
- Spirit Rush: Damage decreased to 85/125/165 (+0.35 increased), from 100/140/180 (+0.3).
Ezreal (All buffs, Pulsfire skin incoming?)
- Essence Flux: Mana Cost decreased to 50/60/70/80/90 Mana, from 60/70/80/90/100 Mana.
- Trueshot Barrage: Mana Cost decreased to 100 Mana, from 150 Mana.
Galio
- Resolute Smite: Ability Power Ratio decreased to .6, from .7.
Graves
- Buckshot: Bullet Damage decreased to 60/95/130/165/200, from 60/105/150/195/240.Damage per additional bullet increased to 35%, from 25%.
- Smokescreen: Duration decreased to 4 seconds, from 5 seconds.
Jax
- Empower: Damage decreased to 40/75/110/145/180, from 40/85/130/175/220.
Kog'Maw
- Living Artilery: Bonus Damage to Champions decreased to 125%, from 150%.
Nautilus
- Titan's Wrath: Damage decreased to 30/55/80/105/130, from 30/60/90/120/150.
Renekton
- Slice and Dice: Dice - 50 Fury Bonus Armor Reduction increased to 15/20/25/30/35% from,15/17.5/20/22.5/25%.
Swain
- Range increased to 500, from 480.
- Decrepify: Slow % increased to 20/25/30/35/40%, from 20/23/26/29/32%. Rangeincreased to 625, from 550.
- Ravenous Flock: Cooldown decreased to 8 at all levels, from 10 at all levels.
Urgot
- Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser: Bonus Armor and Magic Resist reduced to 60/90/120, from 80/105/130.
- Terror Capacitor: Shield Hit Points reduced to 80/130/180/230/280, from 80/140/200/260/320.
Cases of air guitaring have reached epic proportions among the League of Legends fan base. We here at Riot Games care deeply about the Air Guitar epidemic, and are devoted to finding fantastic League-based licks for our fans to properly handle their obsession. If you’re an awesome musician who finds inspiration in League champions, we need your help!
Create a Song about Your Favorite Champion!
Enter our Songs of the Summoned III contest by submitting a song based on, inspired by or dedicated to your favorite champion! Send us an MP3 featuring you or your band performing your song. We’ll vet them for air guitar-osity, champion love levels and overall awesomeness, then post the best for every League air guitarist to strum their invisible chords to!
Two grand-prize winners will get:
- A Native Instruments Komplete 8 bundle
- 16,000 RP
- A major feature on our official Facebook page!
5 runners up will get:
- A Blue Yeti microphone
- 12,000 RP
- The chance to be featured on our official Facebook page through a Summoner’s Choice vote!
10 special mention winners will get:
- $100 Amazon.com electronics gift card
- 5,000 RP
All winners will receive a spot in our Songs of the Summoned Hall of Fame on the official League website!
Before you start composing, check out our official rules and guidelines:
- Submissions must be sent as an attachment to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. along with the summoner names of the composers/performers; they must also include an upload link to either YouTube or SoundCloud.
- Submissions must be no more than 3 minutes in length.
- You must create, write and perform the songs yourself. No copying other songs or submitting songs that other people wrote.
- Up to 5 summoners can be credited with one song, but their summoner names must be included in the initial submission.
- Submissions must center around a specific champion or champions.
- Submissions must be appropriate for all ages. Young air guitarists need rocking licks too, so keep your sound and lyrics family friendly, please.
- You can sample sounds from the League of Legends for your submission – including effects and quotes – but they cannot be the primary sound in your song. Flavor or accompaniment only.
- Every submission must be a 160 kbps, stereo, MP3 file. No other file types will be accepted and the technical specifications cannot vary. If you wish to send us something of a higher quality, upload it to SoundCloud or YouTube, then email the link to us.
- YouTube uploads must include the Champion splash as background, as well as your summoner names (in-game name) and regions in the video description. The title must include the phrase “League of Legends Champion Rocks” for us to consider it.
- Soundcloud uploads must include “League of Legends Champion Rocks” in the title, followed by your summoner name and region. The title of the piece may also be included in quotation marks.
Submissions are open and will last until June 25, 2012 at 11:59PM PST. Check out our Contest FAQ for all the information. You can submit as many songs as you like, but there can only be one winner! Check out the official rules here.
Don’t leave the legions of air guitarists stuck with third-rate heavy metal songs and repackaged elevator music. Give them a proper champion-based tune and let the epic strumming begin!
Over the last year Australian eSports has taken huge steps towards developing a sustainable following that will allow it to take its place alongside its international counterparts. Over the last three (3) weeks alone ESGN have doubled their following and have a campaign planned that will continue this progress in the coming months. ESGN is very quickly becoming Australia's biggest and brightest in the e-Sports arena, which has spurred new interest from sponsors and gaming giants alike and signals an extremely bright future ahead.
The League of Legends community in Australia has become passionate about supporting the growth of both eSports and of the game itself. ESGN are dedicated to taking League of Legends in Australia from being just a small but committed community, to a viable base for a range of major eSporting events. Some of what we have already planned for this year is below, but don't be fooled we have plenty more in store for the League of Legends fans.
Earlier this year, ESGN's amazing Season 1 Online League of Legends Tournament showcased players from around Australia as they battled it out on the fields of justice for their chance to be named the best of the best. Thirty Two (32) teams were split across 3 categories Professional & Amateur playing for major prizes and a free to enter open division to give new players a taste of the action. After 13 weeks of intense gaming action the finals were held at Intime Cyber Cafe in Sydney and sponsored by Razer and AOC. Over two (2) days sixteen (16) teams went head to head in a double elimination marathon for their chance to win over $8500 in cash and prizes.
ESGN is now excited to announce the much anticipated Season 2 Online League of Legends Tournament with even more honour, cash and prizes at stake is going to go live this July. With ESGN rapidly growing eSports in Australia, especially in the realm of League of Legends we have opened up another competitive division providing even more teams with a chance to take out the cash and prestige that comes with a finals win.
Powered By
Razer & AOC
Where: Online Event
Prize Pool: TBD
Info: Season 2 for ESGN will feature 3 leagues (Professional, Main and Amateur) rather the 2 Professional and Amateur leagues previously. Many more teams will be able to compete and have their chance at taking home some cash prizes.
Powered By
Razer & AOC
When: 20th and 21st of October
Where: Sydney (Intime Cyber Cafe)
Prize Pool: TBD
Info: The ESGN Intime Razer LAN marks the end of the online leagues with a 2 day LAN event where teams from around the country travel to compete for the title after earning their place in the online tournament.
As exciting as Season 2 is, the League of Legends community in Australia can't get enough of summoners rift and so ESGN has made sure to give all of our players as much League as they can handle. If you have never been to a live LAN event this is definitely the one to start with. The first of its kind in Australia the ESGN Winter 2012 event will consist of a massive $20,000 in cash and prizes for tournaments, live entertainment, trade stalls and exhibits, cosplay competitions, celebrity matches and a VIP area giving you the red carpet experience for the whole extravaganza.
When: 14th and 15th of July
Where: University of New South Wales, Kensington Campus, Sydney.
Prize Pool: TBD
Info: ESGN's biggest event yet with League of Legends and other games. Spectators will gain free entry and be able to meet some of their favourite players from around the country.
http://esgn.com.au/community/index.php?/calendar/event/40-esgn-winter-2012-live-event-social-competitive
Just to top off all the years fun, ESGN are celebrating another new partner in the eSports team with a series of tournaments being held by Mwave that will give new teams a chance to see what League of Legends competitive play is all about. Not to be out shone in the prizes department though along with a selection of cash and gear prizes for the top seeded teams, the first (1st) place team will play an epic showcase match against Team Dignatas giving them a chance to show the world what they are made of.
Powered By
Mwave & ANTEC
Tournament 2 - 23th and 24th of June
Tournament 3 - 21st and 22nd of july
Tournament 4 - 11th and 12nd of August
Prize Pool: $5,400 (cash & prizes)
Info: www.Mwave.com.au & www.Antec.com have decided to come onboard with League of Legends after success in hosting a tournament for another game, the tournament will be run across 3 months open for all teams to enter with the top teams fighting it out for the chance to play Team Dignitas in a showcase match.
http://esgn.com.au/community/index.php?/calendar/event/45-esgn-mwave-antec-league-of-legends-series-1/
At ESGN we know that the fans are a huge part of eSports as well and all tournaments held by ESGN offer a whole variety of ways for spectators to get involved including live streams, shoutcasted matches, news updates, YouTube videos and highlights, forums and a whole pile of prizes to be won. To be in the running to win and to get involved follow @ESGNau on Twitter, join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/ESGNau and sign up to our website today!
www.esgn.com.au.
Summoners,
This weekend from Friday, June 1st at 7pm PST, until Monday, June 4th at 7am PST, all League of Legends games in NA, EUNE and EUW will gain a double IP bonus. Yes, this 100% increase will work in conjunction with any IP and XP boosts you currently have on your accounts, too.
See you on the Fields of Justice.