He/Him I work on TFT at Riot Games. Former rank 1. All opinions are mine alone.
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🖤🏆 COVEN CUP PRIZE POOL 🏆🖤
Presenting the final prize pool for the Coven Cup!!
Thank you so much to @FinaLobbyGaming for joining in as a sponsor for this tournament!! Our final prize pool is now $14,500 in cash plus various Riftbound products!
@RiotGames has also included a CONVERGENCE FEST Competitor Pass to be given to the winner of the tournament!! 🎟️
Full prizing breakdown below! Signups also below and are closing on November 3!
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🖤ANNOUNCING: EMILYYWANG'S COVEN CUP🖤
🌟A $14,000 TFT tournament for women and marginalized genders, sponsored by @TFT and @TFT_Academy !!
🌟Games will be NOVEMBER 6TH, 7TH AND 8TH at 2pm PT!! Signups close on November 3rd!
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Balance patch scheduled for tomorrow morning.
While never ideal to need to do one 1-week into the patch, the team felt it was necessary given the prevalence/consistency of Kha and 7 Riftbeast.
Over the first week of Patch 18.5, Brambleback and Kha'Zix have outperformed other carries. To keep the meta as varied and vibrant as the Enchanted Wilds should be, we're shipping a small and targeted balance patch tomorrow.
For full details check the notes: teamfighttactics.leagueofleg…
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Here is the 1 Balance Change scheduled for the Micropatch tomorrow, adjusting Rageblade Brambleback's power. We're keeping the damage buff to him since he did need the help.
Beyond this, the micropatch has the initial bugfixes we could quickly verify and solve, and some Wisp cost adjustments to fix the bug where players can be offered Wisps they cannot buy.
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This is 90% to cover bugs. There is only 1 very minor balance change that we wanted to tune.
I would not expect any significant impacts from the balance side.
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Hello everyone! I recently got to have a very productive conversation with @esportslaw and @LauraMarieGG regarding TFT esports as a whole with a focus on areas of improvement for Tier 2. Over 1-2 weeks I gathered player feedback from current Tier 2 players and players recently
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IM BACK BABY!!! As of last week, I’m the new Global Head of @TFT Esports at @riotgames. Words can’t properly express how excited I am to return to this game and community I love so much, with the opportunity to make things even bigger and better.
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We’re disabling ranked while we clean up the current issues.
For some context on what happened... 18.4 was the first patch since Set 18 launched where we shipped from the latest shared version of the game (what we call main) whereas for the first few patches of the set we were creating each patch from the one before it, so 18.2 was built from 18.1. While that live line of release was happening everything after 18.4 (patches, Set 19, modes etc) were being built in main. That meant devs had to work twice as hard and ensure they were making the same fixes in multiple versions, which was a messy process and made it harder to keep everything in sync.
This sucks and we should have told you ahead of time that this patch had a higher chance of being unstable. Not communicating this risk is on us and this patch experience is on us. This was a big hump to get over for our release process and we should have shared what was going on.
Patches going forward will be deployed from main again like it was for years. This should ensure we get back to the consistent patch-to-patch experience you expect and we need to deliver.
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Our B-patch is now live with nerfs to Kha'Zix/Blackthorn, fixes to inadvertent rollbacks of 18.2B balance changes and more. For full details check out the notes: teamfighttactics.leagueofleg…