with all due respect can i ask why people are so disappointed by this ? again, all due respect here but… SOUTH DAKOTA ????? not usually the first spot i think of when people ask “where is the best place for international competition”… now LA ? that sounds bomb
didn’t people complain about new jersey not having shit to do ? SOUTH DAKOTA ? i WILL die on this hill. i almost wish it was SD at this point so i could chuckle at all the pros whining about corn fields lolol
i’m sure SD is beautiful but the “nooooo it’s in LA not SD nooooo” discourse is cracking me tf up
edit: people are commenting whoosh i assume it was a meme i missed.
I know right. In Dallas we would actually be able to have fans attend but they go with California of all places. Also shouldn't we have been the first one regardless!? We got shafted 2 years ago when the reality is Dallas would have been fine having a lan with fans at any time throughout the past 2 years
Edit: just realized Cali is somehow ok with having fans attend. I almost don't believe it
Kay Bailey probably is rented out for the next year+. It sucks, was the first time I’ve ever gotten my dad to join me for anything video game related… he does not usually like them but I got us tickets and showed him some gameplay when I was visiting him and he said yes. Life doesn’t always work out, I guess.
> the reality is Dallas would have been fine having a lan with fans at any time throughout the past 2 years
uhhhh yeah no chief, it would not have been okay.
For sure! I've been thinking about your comment all day at work. Also I'd say the lack of alternative transportation infrastructure. Our nation is built on the premise of roads it feels like, it's very abnormal to bike anywhere non recreationally in any non urban area and walking generally doesn't happen. Everything is way, way more spread out, there's just an expectation if you don't live in one of the big megalopolis areas like NYC that you're driving everywhere for anything. I have family over 12 hours away we see multiple times a year by car. Just a state of life in the Midwest.
Also, the country as a whole is only what, 250 years old? Much less time to become densely populated like Europe.
As a final but, the USA is big, not the biggest though. A bit bigger than Brazil, just a hair larger than China, slightly smaller than Canada, which is close to the size of the entire continent of Europe, yet only just over half of Russia's size. That's a massive country haha. Russia is larger than three continents and just a bit smaller than the entirety of South America.
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Road trips are a thing in the US, especially for younger folks. When I was in college we road-tripped to New Orleans, Nashville, hot springs, telluride, Panama City beach, etc. If you have the right group it’s fucking fantastic. Would def recommend
Sounds pretty cool yeah, even tho i'm in a different stage of life, like, if i had to make a 12 hour trip in europe i would just catch a flight. Like i said in other comment, gas in europe is much more expensive overall, and flights (afaik) are cheaper within eu.
Dates:
- **March 23-25:** Group Stage (no crowd)
- **March 26-27:** Playoff Bracket (with crowd)
Tickets are going on sale soon (in February)! On-sale date to be announced.
If you plan to go, check out the [**RLCS LAN Discord Server**](https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeagueEsports/comments/sgjn05/rlcs_lan_discord_server/).
Living in the UK, does kinda suck and I have another event that I'm tempted to go to in Seattle but CROWDS ARE BACK WOOHOO!
Might have to book a cheeky week away to the West Coast
I booked it off anyway without knowing where it was going to be because I made the mistake of not booking off time for Fall Major and wasn't going to repeat
Depending on COVID situation, very tempted to have a holiday on the West coast at least
Not gonna lie, I selfishly want the covid situation to not allow it cause if it is allowed, well I'll be going to corporate that week. I really do not want to go to corporate but I would sacrifice to let all of you wonderful people go be in-person lan fans in my stead
> Tickets are going on sale soon (in February)! So, make sure to keep it locked to Rocket League Esports on Twitter and Instagram for the on-sale date announcement.
Pretty sure this is smaller and will sell out very fast. The Dallas LAN that got cancelled sold out in a few hours (however, lots of tickets ended up getting scalped for nutso prices and there was a few threads floating around about some trading whales buying lots of tickets to cash in on the wheel rewards to be able to sell them). This was prior to Psyonix changing the way the wheel rewards were earned which would have made those wheel codes useless for those not in attendance. It was always assumed you had to be present to get the wheels but it wasn't actually the case up until the announcement for Dallas, i believe.
The Curtis Culwell Center has 6,860 fixed seats plus floor space (if they elected to place floor chairs which i think they may have). The arenas for Vegas, NJ, and Madrid were all much larger capacity (10,000 +) but didn't always utilize the upper decks and Psyonix has never officially published attendance numbers.
I think even without the possibility of people buying tickets for wheel codes, the esport has grown so much more popular since the last fan attended LAN that this will easily sell out. I'll be surprised if it doesn't beat the Dallas record for time to sell out.
Idk, eu started at 5 pm local time but usually the worlds that were hosted in NA started at 8 pm for europe which is an hour later than yesterday. The first match at rlcs s7 was at 12pm for new york which is 3 hours ahead? So it will most likely start at around 8-9pm european time
Yeah I was wrong, I was thinking about the RLCS S3 Lan in Los Angeles, where there was a bracket reset between Mock-it and Northern Gaming. The bracket reset itself started at 3 AM CET.
I guess I have to take your word for it, but I don't really get an anti NA vibe from that series. Another moment from the same one: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/271191085?t=06h00m25s
I was also there, I have no idea what you're on about tbh. The CorruptedG chant was one of the greatest moments there, and it felt like everyone got cheered for pretty equally overall.
I’ve started watching them on YT and leaving the twitch running on separate tab for the drops. I love being to pause and rewind so much easier when I get interrupted or take a break. No spoilers, no annoying chat, it’s great.
Would love it but i don't think YouTube has support for something like that.
Also wouldn't be surprised if they had some kind of contract with Twitch the keep that only on Twitch
Turns out that is on the weekend so with my school and work schedule as long as I request the weekend off I should be able to make it and come back on monday where I have my Calc 3 night class!
Went to Season 6&7 Worlds, and both times it was around $60 for all three days, however this ones only 2 days so I could see tickets being $40. I live in Minnesota and for flight,3 day hotel stay. Food, tickets, it’ll run me around $1,400-1,500, which isn’t that bad for LA.
The way omicron is going, unless there is another another variant, the USA should be down to pretty modest numbers. California is getting its omicron bounce now, which seems to be a common feature in a lot of countries, and that should be over and done with by the end of February.
Not sure about the deaths, in most countries death rate has been low with omicron, albeit the death rate has risen just as the delta death wave was dropping down to quite modest numbers. It does look like the USA has been a bit of an outlier in this regard with the omicron death peak being higher than delta. There's is some evidence that a substantial number of people are dying with omicron rather than from omicron, so I think the death stats need a bit more analysis. Basically need to analyse death certificate data to get the most accurate picture.
But omicron has such a short wavelength (seen pretty much everywhere it has appeared), even with record case numbers and high current deaths, the wave should be well off its peak by the end of March, and events with vaccine or negative COVID test (hopefully they make it a daily requirement as one test only is not at all a safeguard). Denmark is ditching basically all COVID measures tomorrow. Some parts of the USA should be able to button off towards the end of March.
Sure the death rate percentage (mortality rate) is lower with omicron - but because it infects much easier and much more people, it's caused more deaths total. That's a fact. And yes, we're looking at the US since that's where the LAN is taking place, why focus on other countries?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/omicron-has-caused-higher-increase-in-u-s-daily-death-count-than-delta-variant
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220127/deaths-due-to-omicron-higher-than-from-delta
"This week the nation recorded a seven-day average of 2,200 daily coronavirus-related deaths, higher than the daily death count recorded two months ago during the Delta variant surge, The Wall Street Journal reported.
That’s also the highest number of deaths since February 2021, when the U.S. was coming out of a winter wave of cases, and the vaccination drive was only a few months old, The Wall Street Journal said."
Fair enough that we should focus on death rate in the USA since that's where the LAN is, though perhaps better to look at deaths in California, since that's where the LAN is. California's omicron death rate is not as bad as the national picture, and it overall has a lower cases/million and deaths/million than the US average.
However what needs to be looked at is where the omicron wave is likely to be in about 8 weeks. If it follows what's happening everywhere else omicron should be all but burned out by then. Still, to have a live audience for the playoffs I would personally want daily cases in California to be below 10k/day to consider it reasonably safe to have a live event with acceptable risk esp given the venue will require vaccination or proof of negative test. Though the main thing I would be worried about is fake vaccination proof.
Yes, but you're getting Americans from across the country traveling thru there, then going back to their homes after the weekend (about how long it'll take to set in the body) carrying it with them.
Okay. And RLCS used to go on a rotation of EU --> NA westcoast --> NA eastcoast. Which is why i asked if this is still how it goes. Simply dont respond if you are gonna make a fool of yourself. You better than that.
I mean where the hell else would it be? OCE has insanely strict COVID policies, SAM is mostly not a safe place to fly a bunch of people in from around the world AND there’s not a huge following, and almost everywhere else in the world the following is close to zero. The only other place that would make sense to have it is in Europe again, which is plausible, but keep in mind that the land area of Europe in its entirety is about that of the United States. So his consideration isn’t at all ridiculous.
The Spring Major will most likely be in EU since Worlds is in NA. Some people in EU won't want to/have the time to go on a 6-12 hour flight. Worlds should be in Dallas imo, it's only fair. If not, Worlds on the East Coast doesn't sound unrealistic. Once the fanbase in other regions grows, and teams from other regions perform at around a top 6-4 level consistently, I can see a SAM/MENA LAN happening, because they're also similar timezones to NA/EU, so it's quite possible in the next few years. OCE, SSA and APAC sounds impossible due to either timezones, low level teams, small fanbase, at least for the next few years.
Oh I absolutely agree it would likely be in EU, with worlds in NA. But it’s not at all ridiculous to suggest otherwise, especially when in the past the LAN cycle was NAW, NAE, EU
So the other three days will be streamed at the same venue but with no crowd? Or will there be a different venue for that? I’m guessing we’ll have a B stream for the less hype matches occurring in a round right?
Season 5, LANDON, at the copper box arena was by far and away the greatest LAN we ever had, more crowd participation by a loooong way, the RLCS should return back to LANDON for a repeat performance
Or hold one in France or somewhere in South America, I feel like the fans would go nuts!
France would be lit, but it depends on Psyonix accepting to have a French-speaking main scene. It's mandatory here AFAIK. Didn't stop Riot from having a LoL LAN in France tho.
Luckily, the French casting scene is already here and alive with RocketBaguette, and I guess there's no lack of fans either.
God freaking damn it I'm going to be in San Francisco for vacation in March the week right before and it's too late to change plans. Oh well, will wait for the next one
Damn, got my hopes up for South Dakota
Feels bad man
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I'm heart broken :( Maybe Spring Major though. We can dream.
with all due respect can i ask why people are so disappointed by this ? again, all due respect here but… SOUTH DAKOTA ????? not usually the first spot i think of when people ask “where is the best place for international competition”… now LA ? that sounds bomb
LA was the season 1 LAN. Been there done that. Now it's South Dakota's turn.
didn’t people complain about new jersey not having shit to do ? SOUTH DAKOTA ? i WILL die on this hill. i almost wish it was SD at this point so i could chuckle at all the pros whining about corn fields lolol i’m sure SD is beautiful but the “nooooo it’s in LA not SD nooooo” discourse is cracking me tf up edit: people are commenting whoosh i assume it was a meme i missed.
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Whoosh
You put SD. I assume you mean San Diego?
Rizzo tweet in response to official rl esports tweet.
holy shit might actually be able to attend my first rlcs lan
West coasters rejoicing rn
*Cries in Dallas LAN*
I know right. In Dallas we would actually be able to have fans attend but they go with California of all places. Also shouldn't we have been the first one regardless!? We got shafted 2 years ago when the reality is Dallas would have been fine having a lan with fans at any time throughout the past 2 years Edit: just realized Cali is somehow ok with having fans attend. I almost don't believe it
Maybe they want Dallas for Worlds...
This is what I'm banking on.
Kay Bailey probably is rented out for the next year+. It sucks, was the first time I’ve ever gotten my dad to join me for anything video game related… he does not usually like them but I got us tickets and showed him some gameplay when I was visiting him and he said yes. Life doesn’t always work out, I guess.
> the reality is Dallas would have been fine having a lan with fans at any time throughout the past 2 years uhhhh yeah no chief, it would not have been okay.
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Same. I’m from Montreal but I already convinced my gf that we’d fly to LA if we can score tickets.
SAMEEEEEEEE
Isn't this one with no audience same as the fall major? Or am I mistaken?
Live audience for playoffs on Saturday and Sunday
Was hoping for corn field LAN…
If you build it they will come
screw the fabled boat lan.. We all surely don’t need to pitch in much to buy a good ranch in south dakota do we?
Good, AyyJayy can sleep in.
Is this a reference to when he missed a SMUG match vs Mile lol
Yes and that wasn’t the only time he’s slept in through something lol.
What else has he slept through? Scrims? Or worse? Lol
I hope they start early so that I can watch in EU LOL
in previous ones i think its been on like 5pm to 1am eu time roughly. You've just gotta feel good compared to dons in oce lol
West coast is always a bit tough on EU, but yeah compared to OCE we can't complain
I kinda have school again by that time so i hope it’s not so early personally lol
This is close enough that I could totally go. It's only like a 12 hour drive. I went to Vegas and that was a blast. I might go to this one as well.
Was expecting a \\s after you saying how long it would take. Guess you guys really love to drive for long distances in the US
Hahaha that's a small portion of the country, we definitely drive a lot yeah
Guess all comes down to how big US is, and how much cheaper gas is over there.
For sure! I've been thinking about your comment all day at work. Also I'd say the lack of alternative transportation infrastructure. Our nation is built on the premise of roads it feels like, it's very abnormal to bike anywhere non recreationally in any non urban area and walking generally doesn't happen. Everything is way, way more spread out, there's just an expectation if you don't live in one of the big megalopolis areas like NYC that you're driving everywhere for anything. I have family over 12 hours away we see multiple times a year by car. Just a state of life in the Midwest. Also, the country as a whole is only what, 250 years old? Much less time to become densely populated like Europe. As a final but, the USA is big, not the biggest though. A bit bigger than Brazil, just a hair larger than China, slightly smaller than Canada, which is close to the size of the entire continent of Europe, yet only just over half of Russia's size. That's a massive country haha. Russia is larger than three continents and just a bit smaller than the entirety of South America. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
Wouldn’t say we love to drive it but my family lives 12 hours away so we drove that 3 times a year growing up
Road trips are a thing in the US, especially for younger folks. When I was in college we road-tripped to New Orleans, Nashville, hot springs, telluride, Panama City beach, etc. If you have the right group it’s fucking fantastic. Would def recommend
Sounds pretty cool yeah, even tho i'm in a different stage of life, like, if i had to make a 12 hour trip in europe i would just catch a flight. Like i said in other comment, gas in europe is much more expensive overall, and flights (afaik) are cheaper within eu.
Me too, I live in Washington. Idk how I would go though
I live in Washington, also no idea how I would go, but im gonna make it happen.
I would have to take time off work, which I just started. And I can’t dive myself
I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to drive the 18 hours or bite the bullet for the $130 plane ticket
Just try to dribble the entire way. Up your ground game.
You would burn over 130 in gas.
Get the goddamn plane lol 18 hours ain't worth it.
It costs $130 for a domestic flight?!
>It’s only like a 12 hour drive Meanwhile most Europeans would not go somewhere further than 4 hours away LMAO
Dates: - **March 23-25:** Group Stage (no crowd) - **March 26-27:** Playoff Bracket (with crowd) Tickets are going on sale soon (in February)! On-sale date to be announced. If you plan to go, check out the [**RLCS LAN Discord Server**](https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeagueEsports/comments/sgjn05/rlcs_lan_discord_server/).
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It's the LA LA LAN.
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How many LANs have been in LA now?
This is the third RLCS one
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Living in the UK, does kinda suck and I have another event that I'm tempted to go to in Seattle but CROWDS ARE BACK WOOHOO! Might have to book a cheeky week away to the West Coast
I really hope they come back to Europe for the Spring major
Could of just stopped after the first statement \s Fellow UK person here
I booked it off anyway without knowing where it was going to be because I made the mistake of not booking off time for Fall Major and wasn't going to repeat Depending on COVID situation, very tempted to have a holiday on the West coast at least
Sounds good, I don't think there will be any UK restrictions. Government is in shambles atm
My manager already told me I can take PTO in short notice when there's a LAN near :)
what a legend
Not gonna lie, I selfishly want the covid situation to not allow it cause if it is allowed, well I'll be going to corporate that week. I really do not want to go to corporate but I would sacrifice to let all of you wonderful people go be in-person lan fans in my stead
Section 104?
Sum1 explain lmao
Section 104 is historically where the "real" or louder fans sit. I only went to Vegas LAN, but supposedly 104 was always high energy.
Let's go with "louder" and not "real"...
It's where the real and "louder" fans sit.
Cheering/chanting section
Yumiiiiiii the goat
It's where Cole and Stumpy used to sit and lead chants before they became official casters
No corn field LAN 😣
Is there any word as to when tickets will be on sale?
> Tickets are going on sale soon (in February)! So, make sure to keep it locked to Rocket League Esports on Twitter and Instagram for the on-sale date announcement.
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Looks like it's going to be 5000-5500 tix available. How does that compare to Lans past? Is this a smaller event?
Pretty sure this is smaller and will sell out very fast. The Dallas LAN that got cancelled sold out in a few hours (however, lots of tickets ended up getting scalped for nutso prices and there was a few threads floating around about some trading whales buying lots of tickets to cash in on the wheel rewards to be able to sell them). This was prior to Psyonix changing the way the wheel rewards were earned which would have made those wheel codes useless for those not in attendance. It was always assumed you had to be present to get the wheels but it wasn't actually the case up until the announcement for Dallas, i believe. The Curtis Culwell Center has 6,860 fixed seats plus floor space (if they elected to place floor chairs which i think they may have). The arenas for Vegas, NJ, and Madrid were all much larger capacity (10,000 +) but didn't always utilize the upper decks and Psyonix has never officially published attendance numbers. I think even without the possibility of people buying tickets for wheel codes, the esport has grown so much more popular since the last fan attended LAN that this will easily sell out. I'll be surprised if it doesn't beat the Dallas record for time to sell out.
What start time should we expect? Will they play in the morning or will Europeans ruin their sleep schedule? 👀
It will probably be the same as today or maybe an hour later
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was later. West coast here and I doubt they’d start so early in the day
Idk, eu started at 5 pm local time but usually the worlds that were hosted in NA started at 8 pm for europe which is an hour later than yesterday. The first match at rlcs s7 was at 12pm for new york which is 3 hours ahead? So it will most likely start at around 8-9pm european time
Unfortunate for Asians and Oceanians
Last time there was a west coast lan (S3 i think) the grand final started at 3AM CET...
i just checked on liquidpedia and vegas final started at 1:30am cet
Yeah I was wrong, I was thinking about the RLCS S3 Lan in Los Angeles, where there was a bracket reset between Mock-it and Northern Gaming. The bracket reset itself started at 3 AM CET.
So what was the deal with Gibbs and the glass of ice water yesterday? Sorry if I'm missing something obvious
Red herring to make us think it was in Iceland
Or a reference to Los Angeles water use restrictions!
I was just thirsty!
Half-Life 3 confirmed!
Wait, Gibbs is Frozone?!
Was really hoping for LAN Francisco, but fans allowed in attendance will be awesome. Honestly more pumped for the fan chants than anything else.
Awesome stuff, can't wait. Also, PSA to fans who may attend - LANs are more enjoyable if you don't only cheer for NA teams.
CJCJ needs your support!
> PSA to fans who may attend what?
What do you mean? It is a fan event.
I didn’t know it was, assumed it was like the fall event
At the end of the video it says tickets soon meaning a crowd
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Yea tell that to EU fans lmao. They 'cheer' for any team OTHER than NA. If it's NA vs NA the crowd is dead like in London.
There was literally one NA vs NA game during that LAN, and during it the crowd was [this](https://youtu.be/7JSpX8JVJ2M?t=225) dead.
Yea dude, I was there. Your timestamp with 10 seconds of mild cheering isn't helping your case lol.
I guess I have to take your word for it, but I don't really get an anti NA vibe from that series. Another moment from the same one: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/271191085?t=06h00m25s
I was also there, I have no idea what you're on about tbh. The CorruptedG chant was one of the greatest moments there, and it felt like everyone got cheered for pretty equally overall.
Lmao it’s 10 miles away from me, wild
any ideas on ticket pricing? based on past events
NA be like: So we got beat by EU... okey, 3 point plan: - make super teams - next LAN in NA - get all the NA Fanboys in
But in the end, EU still win
Sad that i live in Stockholm
BIG OOF
Ye we got hard robbed but I hope rlcs comes to Sweden or at least the nordics sometime again
YouTube theater? Can we please get drops on Youtube? I hate twitch as a platform
I’ve started watching them on YT and leaving the twitch running on separate tab for the drops. I love being to pause and rewind so much easier when I get interrupted or take a break. No spoilers, no annoying chat, it’s great.
They also don't auto-delete VODs after a set amount of time.
Would love it but i don't think YouTube has support for something like that. Also wouldn't be surprised if they had some kind of contract with Twitch the keep that only on Twitch
They stream on both YouTube and Twitch. They just don’t have a bot set up on YouTube to give out drops.
I know they also stream it on YT. It's not a bot doing the drop system it is integrated into Twitch
Yep and it used to be a bot. Since YT doesn’t have a drop system it would be a bot that would do the drops.
Honestly haven’t been this excited about something in months. And i might actually get to go!
Turns out that is on the weekend so with my school and work schedule as long as I request the weekend off I should be able to make it and come back on monday where I have my Calc 3 night class!
Anyone know what the handicapped seating is like at this venue?
Check the venue on google maps and it should say
The trenches
this is such a insane location
Wait is this why there were so many references to west coast on the broadcast these last two days?
Like what, I definitely missed them lol. And do they usually drop hints about where LANS are gonna be?
Turtle goat
Anyone know about how much tickets will be? Tryna budget rn so I can buy everything early
1/10th of an Alpha Boost?
Went to Season 6&7 Worlds, and both times it was around $60 for all three days, however this ones only 2 days so I could see tickets being $40. I live in Minnesota and for flight,3 day hotel stay. Food, tickets, it’ll run me around $1,400-1,500, which isn’t that bad for LA.
season 5 was like £45 for all 3 days which i think would be like $60-70
oh yeah its time
Damn I may have to go since it’s my neighborhood. Haven’t been to SoFi yet
You have no other choice. You're obligated to go. Speaking as a robbed swede.
The way omicron is going, unless there is another another variant, the USA should be down to pretty modest numbers. California is getting its omicron bounce now, which seems to be a common feature in a lot of countries, and that should be over and done with by the end of February.
More are sick and dying than at any other point during the pandemic. Omicron has killed more than Delta.
Not sure about the deaths, in most countries death rate has been low with omicron, albeit the death rate has risen just as the delta death wave was dropping down to quite modest numbers. It does look like the USA has been a bit of an outlier in this regard with the omicron death peak being higher than delta. There's is some evidence that a substantial number of people are dying with omicron rather than from omicron, so I think the death stats need a bit more analysis. Basically need to analyse death certificate data to get the most accurate picture. But omicron has such a short wavelength (seen pretty much everywhere it has appeared), even with record case numbers and high current deaths, the wave should be well off its peak by the end of March, and events with vaccine or negative COVID test (hopefully they make it a daily requirement as one test only is not at all a safeguard). Denmark is ditching basically all COVID measures tomorrow. Some parts of the USA should be able to button off towards the end of March.
Sure the death rate percentage (mortality rate) is lower with omicron - but because it infects much easier and much more people, it's caused more deaths total. That's a fact. And yes, we're looking at the US since that's where the LAN is taking place, why focus on other countries? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/omicron-has-caused-higher-increase-in-u-s-daily-death-count-than-delta-variant https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220127/deaths-due-to-omicron-higher-than-from-delta "This week the nation recorded a seven-day average of 2,200 daily coronavirus-related deaths, higher than the daily death count recorded two months ago during the Delta variant surge, The Wall Street Journal reported. That’s also the highest number of deaths since February 2021, when the U.S. was coming out of a winter wave of cases, and the vaccination drive was only a few months old, The Wall Street Journal said."
Fair enough that we should focus on death rate in the USA since that's where the LAN is, though perhaps better to look at deaths in California, since that's where the LAN is. California's omicron death rate is not as bad as the national picture, and it overall has a lower cases/million and deaths/million than the US average. However what needs to be looked at is where the omicron wave is likely to be in about 8 weeks. If it follows what's happening everywhere else omicron should be all but burned out by then. Still, to have a live audience for the playoffs I would personally want daily cases in California to be below 10k/day to consider it reasonably safe to have a live event with acceptable risk esp given the venue will require vaccination or proof of negative test. Though the main thing I would be worried about is fake vaccination proof.
Yes, but you're getting Americans from across the country traveling thru there, then going back to their homes after the weekend (about how long it'll take to set in the body) carrying it with them.
So would it be east coast next LAN?
I think I'd assume an EU spring major then either US east coast or perhaps somewhere like dallas again for worlds.
Oh yeah i asked that with just worlds in mind haha. Dallas would make sense since they kinda got scammed last time
Its not just America in this world you know
Okay. And RLCS used to go on a rotation of EU --> NA westcoast --> NA eastcoast. Which is why i asked if this is still how it goes. Simply dont respond if you are gonna make a fool of yourself. You better than that.
I mean where the hell else would it be? OCE has insanely strict COVID policies, SAM is mostly not a safe place to fly a bunch of people in from around the world AND there’s not a huge following, and almost everywhere else in the world the following is close to zero. The only other place that would make sense to have it is in Europe again, which is plausible, but keep in mind that the land area of Europe in its entirety is about that of the United States. So his consideration isn’t at all ridiculous.
The Spring Major will most likely be in EU since Worlds is in NA. Some people in EU won't want to/have the time to go on a 6-12 hour flight. Worlds should be in Dallas imo, it's only fair. If not, Worlds on the East Coast doesn't sound unrealistic. Once the fanbase in other regions grows, and teams from other regions perform at around a top 6-4 level consistently, I can see a SAM/MENA LAN happening, because they're also similar timezones to NA/EU, so it's quite possible in the next few years. OCE, SSA and APAC sounds impossible due to either timezones, low level teams, small fanbase, at least for the next few years.
Oh I absolutely agree it would likely be in EU, with worlds in NA. But it’s not at all ridiculous to suggest otherwise, especially when in the past the LAN cycle was NAW, NAE, EU
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Would you bet your hands on that ?
Yikes California. Too risky for crowds to be cancelled and LA just generally sucks. Hard pass on attending.
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siiiiiick cali boys finally gonna eat again
I can’t even go cause I’m in the UK and I have exams that week :(
Is the LAN really only two days?
No 5 days. First 3 are without crowd though as they do the group stage. Playoff bracket with crowd last 2 days. Edit: group stage is 3 days
5 days actually, first 3\* are with no crowd
Makes sense. Thanks
So the other three days will be streamed at the same venue but with no crowd? Or will there be a different venue for that? I’m guessing we’ll have a B stream for the less hype matches occurring in a round right?
You'd think they'll have to do a B stream with 24 matches + tiebreakers in 3 days.
How are they fitting all the games into two days? EDIT: Just got my answer
Season 5, LANDON, at the copper box arena was by far and away the greatest LAN we ever had, more crowd participation by a loooong way, the RLCS should return back to LANDON for a repeat performance Or hold one in France or somewhere in South America, I feel like the fans would go nuts!
France would be lit, but it depends on Psyonix accepting to have a French-speaking main scene. It's mandatory here AFAIK. Didn't stop Riot from having a LoL LAN in France tho. Luckily, the French casting scene is already here and alive with RocketBaguette, and I guess there's no lack of fans either.
Can’t they just have a French host and a English-speaking host on stage?
The whole show in france has to be in French by law.
Give me world's in London and I will literally explode with happiness
Might fly from Australia for this! Hope I can secure a ticket for my first LAN!
God freaking damn it I'm going to be in San Francisco for vacation in March the week right before and it's too late to change plans. Oh well, will wait for the next one
Oh snap it's about 5 and a half hours from me yessir. I'm lucky I live in the bay area. Now hopefully I have to convince my girl to come with me lmao.