2015 MLG X Games CS:GO Aspen Invitational

Hello everyone,

            Quite a bit transpired today in the CS:GO scene. This weekend is the 2015 MLG X Games Aspen Invitational. This is a great opportunity for CS:GO to become more mainstream and potentially increase the popularity of its overall scene. The event through invitations and qualifiers obtained an impressive lineup that would ensure lots of action and plenty of thrilling moments. However, today MLG announced that GX, aka clutch cats, aka former iBP aka, aka Wicked Masterminds, aka Hugh Jass Construction (seriously guys, pick a name and go with it) have decided not to attend the event, despite qualifying for it. While the event hosts have selected another team to fill the vacancy (team liquid), overall the event did lose some steam as well as add controversy.

Rigged Match Controversy

            According to some sources, the reason GX did not want to attend the Aspen event stemmed from allegations of the team rigging a match for weapon skins that took place months previous in a Cevo match. Personally, after looking at the documented evidence available, there appears to be enough evidence to suggest that some sort of rigging took place. Traditionally the GX team (who at the time of the match was iBP) regularly beat the opposing team NCG. However, when the match took place iBP had already secured a playoff lan spot and really had no reason to “play to win”. One of the players on iBP also co-owned NCG (Dazed) and NCG needed a win to get into playoffs. At this current time most sources cannot 100% confirm the egregious act occurred. But seriously I have to ask, does it really matter? If people believe this is the first or last match to be thrown or rigged for various reasons they are surely in for an awakening. The fact is the betting of CS:GO weapon skins on sites such as csgolounge has proven highly profitable. In the case of the match in question, an alleged 7,000.00 or more may have been gained. And in NCG’s case, this may have been more than they made all year in CS:GO winnings. Most users who bet on the match feel like they were cheated but honestly they shouldn’t. It’s gambling. You win some, you lose some. If you didn’t have the means to lose the skins you shouldn’t have bet them in the first place. As with any competitive match or event, someone is always trying to gain an edge. We currently only have to look at the NFL and “deflate gate” or “spy gate” that organizations bend or ignore the rules to get advantages. I’m not saying we should just ignore cheating or put up with it, but what I’m stressing is this is not the first or last situation where the fix was/will be in.

            Acordding the Hiko’s facebook post the members of team GX (who he is standing in for) are waiting to hear from an outcome about the rigging of the match from Valve (the game maker) before attending another event. My question is what role does Valve have anything to do with this? Csgolounge is a third party entity as well as the league’s or events that these conduct the matches. Frankly, it’s not Valve’s job to ensure the integrity of these sites or organizations. If these organizations feel there is enough evidence to rule a judgment and/or enact a punishment then they should do so. Immediately. If Valve or the other organizations are just waiting, I feel as though they are pulling a classic case of the NCAA; where the event occurs but a verdict and judgment/punishment is handed out months or years later. Honestly, that’s quite lame, doesn’t punish the guilty party’s’ in a timely manner and in this case hurts the scene. No one can argue that the GX roster is not talented and potentially had a shot at winning the event. But, we will never know now because GX is not attending and in my opinion, NA’s dream of winning the event went with GX leaving the event.

Selection of Team Liquid

            Before I assess and predict the outcome of the MLG Aspen event I would first like to discuss the replacement selection of Team Liquid. In my opinion, this was a solid selection. Many have come out and cried that Torqued (a team that finished further than Liquid in both qualifiers) should have been selected. However, I disagree with this for two reasons.

11)    Two members of Torqued were on teams in the alleged-rigged match (steel and dboorn). If GX stepped down because of the scandal, why would another team that had individuals involved in the scandal be replaced for the event?

22)    If you follow the CS:GO competitive scene you know m0E. Is he an accomplished and good player? Yes. Can he help teams achieve success? Certainly. But is he one of the most harmful, infamous and potentially incident generating individuals? Absolutely.

The MLG event is a tremendous opportunity for CS:GO to further building its scene and to risk it on a player who has had a shaky track record would be a mistake. I believe this is why Team Liquid was selected and ultimately I believe it was the right decision.

MLG Aspen Event

As stated earlier, a NA team will not win the event. I’d be even more surprised if they even made it into the top 3. Why? Well, we only have to look at previous event’s outcomes to know that Europe is ahead of North America. With potentially the strongest NA team backing out of the event, the remaining NA teams will have a difficult task ahead of them to prove me wrong. All matches appear to be a best of 1. This could lead to some upsets but until I see it, I’m not going to believe it. This is how I see the event unfolding (Yellow/bold is the predicted winner).:

Friday

10:30 AM   Pregame Show

11:00 AM   Pool B – Team Liquid vs. Fnatic

12:00 PM   Pool B - CLG vs. Team LDLC

1:00 PM   Pool A - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. Team Dignitas

2:00 PM   Pool A - KaBuM.TD vs. Cloud 9

3:30 PM   Pool B - Team LDLC vs. Fnatic

4:30 PM   Pool B - CLG vs. Team Liquid

5:30 PM   Pool A - Cloud 9 vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas

6:30 PM   Pool A - Team Dignitas vs. KaBuM.TD

Saturday

11:00 AM   Pool B - Fnatic vs. CLG

12:00 PM   Pool B - Team Liquid vs. Team LDLC

1:00 PM   Pool A - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. KaBuM.TD

2:00 PM   Pool A - Cloud 9 vs. Team Dignitas

3:30 PM   Semifinal #1: Fnatic vs. Team Dignitas

5:30 PM   Semifinal #2 NiP vs. Team LDLC

Sunday

10:00 AM   Bronze Medal Match: NiP vs. Team Dignitas

12:30 PM   Gold Medal Match: Fnatic vs. Team LDLC

Here are the rules and groups for the event:

2015 MLG XGames Aspen Invitational - CS:GO - Format

Bracket Format, Match Format & Seeding

1.   The Tournament will support 8 Teams and will be separated into Pool Play and a Single Elimination Bracket.

2.   In Pool Play, the Teams will be divided into 2 Pools of 4 Teams each, with the Europe Teams divided evenly among the 2 Pools and the Americas Teams divided evenly among the 2 Pools.

3.   Teams will play one Game against each of the other Teams in their Pool.

4.   Teams finishing their Pool in 1st and 2nd place will be placed in the Single Elimination Bracket.  Teams finishing their Pool in 3rd and 4th place will be eliminated from the Tournament.

5.   In the Semifinal Matches of the Bracket, the Pool A 1st Place Team will be scheduled to play the Pool B 2nd Place Team and the Pool B 1st Place Team will be scheduled to play the Pool A 2nd Place Team.

6.   Teams that lose a Semifinal Match will play in the Bronze Medal Match.  Teams that win a Semifinal Match will play in the Gold Medal Match.  The Team that wins the Bronze Medal Match will win Bronze Medals.  The Team that loses the Gold Medal Match will win Silver Medals.  The Team that wins the Gold Medal Match will win Gold Medals.

7.   All Bracket Matches will be Best of 3 Games.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – Qualified Teams

Teams that have earned placement include:

Top three Counter Strike: Global Offensive teams:

·         NiP

·         FNATIC

·         Cloud 9

Five qualified teams from the recent MLG/CEVO XGames qualifiers:

·         CLG

·         LDLC

·         KaBuM esports

·         Team Liquid

·         Dignitas

Pools:

Group A:

·         NiP

·         Cloud 9

·         Kabum TD

·         Dignitas

Group B:

·         FNATIC

·         LDLC

·         Team Liquid

·         CLG

Despite Fnatic’s forfeit/disqualification at the last major event, I believe they are still the best CS:GO team in the world. As stated earlier EU > NA (this coming from a NA homer who would love to see a NA claim the title) and thus I believe no NA team makes it to the semifinals. Maybe Cloud9 or CLG will prove me wrong but they will have to prove it to me before I believe it. Unfortunately for NA this looks like EU’s event to lose.

Thanks for your time and thanks for reading. More to come as the event unfolds and I’m hoping tomorrow to have a rant or two regarding the LCS, which is starting up this weekend too I believe. Good weekend for E-Sports!

-       McCl0uDY

CS:GO ESEA-Invite week 1 de_nuke

Hello everyone,

This past week ESEA started back up and the map of the week was de_nuke. I dislike nuke due to its clear CT advantage. I personally would like to see some changes made to the map so as to even the side disparity. Despite the almost-universal acknowledgement that nuke is heavily CT sided, I decided to look at the numbers from this week's matches in the Invite division. Here is what I came up with:

- Green = highest value per team (Frags and RWS) and then for ADR, FPR, highest player over the 2 matches
- G1 & G2 = Sides the team started on the match
- Rounds below the sides are the number of rounds the team won on their T sides for each match.
- Red meant they lost the game, blue meant they won the game.
- Overtime rounds were not accounted for

Things I took away:
- GX only team to win both matches despite starting T side each time.
- No team had a positive T half: GX & NCG were able to achieve the most rounds won on a T side with 7 rounds
- Average number of rounds won on the T side was ~4.6.


Thanks for your time, let's discuss below!

- McCl0uDY

McCl0uDY’s Rants: Twitch Gaming/E-Sports Show

Hello everyone,

            2015 has arrived and with it the annual reflection of your life and the improvements you’d like to see and make. This past year has been quite a life-changer for me. My wife and I welcomed our first and only child. The amount of free time I had previously available has dramatically decreased and as a whole, I have been unable to pursue as many hobbies as I’d like: predominantly blogging/writing. This year, I have set some goals and aim to reverse course and potentially expand.

            Some years ago I was introduced to the Jim Rome Sports Radio show by some coworkers. I have to admit that I was initially not a fan. I thought Jim was arrogant, condescending and his pauses during his thoughts aka “takes,” drove me nuts. However, as a sports fan and by majority rules, I was forced to continue to listen to the show and slowly but surely, I became a fan (and ultimately became a clone). These days I do my best not to miss The Jungle that airs daily all over the United States.

The gaming and e-sports industry has been growing for decades now and I believe it is close to becoming mainstream (such as on Television Networks). Over the past few years I have determined that my passion is in gaming and e-sports industry. So for about a year I have been trying to come up with ways as to how I could get involved in this industry. Currently, I go to work on weekdays, do the motions that are required of me, but at the end of the day, I am ultimately unsatisfied. These factors have been motivators in me wanting to do a show of my own, which is related to gaming and e-sports. I feel over the course of my life I have always immediately had an opinion/perspective about something when watching, hearing or reading about it. I believe that I have enough intelligence and a great sense of humor that others would enjoy. Therefore, I believe that with the help of talented and passionate others, there is a chance this venture may become possible.

Just about nothing is given in life. All valued things are sought after by many and then concealed by the few whom attain them. There is a large chance of failure and/or making myself look foolish. And yet there is a possibility that I may succeed and potentially reach a dream I’ve had for years. Or even better, I create a new career for myself and other passionate individuals, one that I look forward to participating in each day. I know there is an opportunity for this due to individuals like Jim Rome and other personality innovators. They all started small but with enough hard work and dedication were able to make something of their opportunities. Thank you to Jim Rome for giving me inspiration, I hope to one day be “The Jim Rome of gaming/e-sports” (and maybe one day have some drones of my own). I would also like to thank my wife who has supported me in my random endeavors, even when they haven’t panned out.

“All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.”

T.E. Lawrence

I would now like to present: McCl0uDY’s Rants

I Need Your Help!

If you are passionate about gaming & e-sports, have a positive personality, enjoy working cooperatively and aren’t afraid of hard work; please contact: McCl0udysRants@gmail.com

There will be a vetting process before admission to the team.

My tentative goal is to start out with a weekly show and expand to daily show as resources become available. I currently foresee needs in the following areas:

·         LoL coverage: Follow, assess and report/write about the happenings of league of legends scene

·         Dota 2 coverage: Follow, assess and report/write about the happenings of Dota2 scene

·         SC2 coverage: Follow, assess and report/write about the happenings of SC2 scene

·         Fighting Game coverage: Follow, assess and report/write about the happenings of FG scene

·         CS:GO coverage: Follow, assess and report/write about the happenings of CS:GO scene

·         Console coverage: Follow, assess and report/write about the happenings of Console scene

·         Show Director: Run the twitch stream: required extensive knowledge of streaming program such OBS

·         Graphics and web development: Help create graphics for show and promotions

Any and all support would be greatly welcomed. Be sure to follow @McCl0udysRants on Twitter for updates on the latest happenings.

Thank you for your time

-          McCl0uDY

Building a Stream: Rock Bottom

Building a Stream: Rock Bottom

Hello everyone,

            About a week ago I made a decision to begin streaming regularly. I figured that since I was on my computer for a few hours just about every night, that I might as well give streaming a shot. I also believe that I am a fairly funny and entertaining person. That is, once people get to know me. I enjoy laughing and more importantly making people laugh. Since joining the Twitch community about two years ago I have frequented many streams and the ones I continually go back to are the streamers who provide a fun-natured environment. This is the type of stream I’d like to create for my audience.

Perseverance

            So far streaming has been very disheartening. For the past three days no one has come to my channel while I was streaming and on my weekend streams, only people I know in real life have come to my channel. I’ve never had more than four people in my channel and two of the four people did not appear to have Twitch accounts so I was unable to communicate with them or add followers.With little to no results the notion to “just quit” has emerged nightly (after completing a stream) and hourly while streaming.            

I’m realistic and believe I am just an average looking guy with little to no visual stimulation being initially generated for viewers. I also am not a professional in any of the games I play. Therefore, I do not believe I have a strong-initial pitch for people to watch my stream. That’s not to say that other streamers with these same qualities have not been able to achieve successful streams. All I am saying is that I do not believe I have a huge “click/what’s that/ watch me” factor. Thus I believe my only course of action is to stick with it and try and build an audience, one viewer at a time.

Connecting With My Audience

            Not being able to connect with my audience is probably the most frustrating thing. I try and say “Hi” whenever I notice a new viewer has joined the channel but when they don’t have an account and/or don’t say anything in chat, I really have no idea how to reach them on a personal level (and reaching people on a personal level is the only way I believe I am going to generate an audience). Thus, I have determined that I need to just start being myself regardless if someone is watching or not. This means looking like a crazy person and potentially talking to myself and laughing at my own jokes. If I remain quiet and wait for viewers to show up before being exciting and entertaining I will never have highlight clips to promote and share.

Support

            Another thing that I have relied on early on is a strong support system. For starters it is always nice hearing from my friends and family that I am a great person and that ultimately I do have things to share with others. Not to mention these friends and family are the ones that will most likely be the ones to help spread the word about my stream by re-tweeting my stream, playing with me while I stream or be my initial audience. Every successful streamer I have seen has always had helpful people around them to assist in making their stream a hit.

            So I’m going to continue my grind and hope I start reaching viewers. I’ve got some additional content ideas that I may or may not get around to. On Thursdays I plan to play some old school games for #TBT. This Thursday I plan on playing Final Fantasy III, which I am very much looking forward to. I had a copy for my SNES with near maxed out characters. Unfortunately someone I knew stole it from me years ago and I’ve forgotten much about the game.

Thanks for your time and I hope to see you in my channel or reading another one of my blogs.

I’m on the West Coast and do a majority of my streaming during the hours of 7:00-11:00 PM PST. This is after I have had family time and put my child to bed for the night.

Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/mccl0udy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/McCl0udY

 -          Jeremy ‘McCl0udY’ Muller

Harassment that Twitch Streamers Face Daily

All views and opinions expressed in this blog are my own. Any person who is referenced or quoted may not share the same viewpoints conveyed in this piece. All quotations were taken from public communication outlets.

Edited by: @pandamoz

Harassment that Twitch Streamers Face Daily

Hello everyone,

I’d like to take a few moments of your time to discuss an on-going issue that I believe is disturbing, pathetic, and unacceptable. There seems to be a trend of male gamers verbally abusing female gamers for no good reason. Whether these attacks are motivated from jealously, poor attempts of hitting on these females, or pure boredom; the motivations are irrelevant. The important thing is that these attacks are happening and the effects of these attacks are damaging. The disturbing part is anyone who attempts to counter these attacks is immediately labeled a “white knight”. Apparently, showing everyone the same amount of respect regardless of their race, age or sex is still a minority practice on the internet. The point of this blog is to address the on-going harassment that female streamers receive on Twitch.tv chat.

If you’ve read my other blogs it should be no secret by now that I am a huge fan of Twitch.TV. I think the more accurate term is I’m a Twitch Junkie: I pretty much have Twitch going whenever I am at my computer (which is everyday). In January I joined the two monitor club so watching streams has become even easier. Over my countless hours of watching streams I have found a select core of streamers that I prefer watching and interacting with. I’ll admit most of them are female. My reasons for this are:

1)      As a typical dude, women tend to stand out and thus I check out their streams first.

2)      The atmospheres that these female streamers create are generally really fun, comedic, and overall pleasing. There seems to be less focus upon being the best ever in the perspective game and a larger emphasis on making sure everyone is having a good time.

3)      The following are generalizations: Men in general are more arrogant and in a male dominated community, women tend to be more appreciative of their opportunities and achievements. This of course makes me feel better and more welcome in their streams.

To sum up these reasonings: I checked out female streamers based initially on looks but many of the female streamers have kept me coming back because of their fun and high spirited efforts. Thus, when these compassionate-female streamers are verbally and sexually harassed by immature and potentially jealous individuals, it becomes upsetting for the streamer and the viewers who enjoy the broadcasts.

I ask for you to perform the following exercise: Load up Twitch.TV and find a female streamer and watch the chat. How long did it take for someone to say something that was verbally or sexually offensive? I performed this exercise for about a week while watching some female streamers:

Pretty funny these tools trying to correct grammatical errors when they are sexually harassing streamers (sarcasm), but I digress. These screen grabs did not take me long to capture and I’m sure I could have captured way more if I was fully paying attention to the chat (and not gaming on my other screen).

I have come up with three important reasons why this type of behavior needs to be addressed immediately:

1)      I believe that this type of behavior stems from their being zero/little consequences. As this tool put it: 

So this tool got banned and most likely found another female streamer and repeated the cycle. Just banning the users from the channel with nightbot does not stop the cycle. I believe further action is required.

It is unfortunate but it seems humanity lives by the following:

Many people on the internet are there are little to no consequences because they don’t have to be accountable for what they say; since no one can physically reach them. The only way to counter this is to make people accountable for their actions.

2)      All of this verbal and sexual harassment has an effect on female streamers.

 This is really a shame as these female streamers are really great people who love interacting and entertaining their followers. People’s livelihoods and professions have been created with partnered Twitch streamers. It is in all of the parties (Twitch, the streamer, and viewers) best interest to ensure these streamers broadcast for as long and as often as possible.

3)      The most important reason this should be dealt with immediately is Twitch.TV has a responsibility to its employees to provide a workplace free of harassment.

Not only do I believe there is a huge morality issue with the ongoing harassment that is taking place, I also believe Twitch could be liable if its employees (partnered streamers) demand repercussions for users who commit harassment and nothing is done.  

The fact is, partnered streamers and Twitch entered a joint venture where Twitch provides the system and the streamers provide the content and both parties’ benefit financially. None of this behavior would ever be acceptable in a non-virtual workplace. As times change and technology increases, virtual and non-virtual workplace boundaries have begun to lack differences. I believe Twitch has to be responsible for its customers.

My proposal is that Twitch implement sometime of escalation ban system:

- Any user that is banned from a channel he/she would go on a list where the owner of said channel could state a case for why the user’s account should be banned completely and even down to ISP/IP. If there were numerous occurrences (say 3 for example) where blatant harassment occurred, then enact the ban. This would actually make consequences for unacceptable behavior.

For now, my suggestion to all partnered-female streamers is to leave your chat in subscriber mode only. There are two particularly good reasons for this:

1)      It should substantially reduce the amount of harassment that occurs, as users would have to pay to gain access to the chat (and even if they paid and were offensive at least the streamer would gain something before banning the user in question).

Moxierawr is a great female streamer who used to conduct viewer Saturday streamers. However, after a recent troll, Moxie changed the Saturday stream to subscriber Saturday games because, as she stated on one of her streams, “if someone is going to troll me again, at least I will get something out of it now”. Leave it to one person to ruin the fun for everyone else…

2)      It will allow streamers to focus on their true supporters. The fact is, many of these female streamers provide great content and I believe they do not need an open chat to be successful. Users will catch the stream, see that it is a good time, and ultimately subscribe to participate and gain benefits of the stream.

However, what about the non-partnered female streamers? Or the male streamers who receive harassment? I’m fairly certain that the non-partnered streamers outnumber the partnered streamers. Should only partnered streamers receive assistance?

My answer to these questions is it should not matter whether the streamer is partnered or non-partnered. A culture change needs to occur and Twitch seems like as good a place as any to start. Great organizations that survive throughout the years are innovative, groundbreaking, and refrain from accepting the norm. I believe Twitch has an opportunity to set itself apart from the pack by taking a dynamic stance on curbing harassment.

I believe most users utilize Twitch for entertainment purposes. However, there are a few users whose idea of entertainment is purely trolling and harassment. It is these haters that detract from broadcasts and cause emotional turmoil to the streamers and viewers. These are users that Twitch could really do without.

League of Legends: Ultra Rapid Fire Mode

Hello everyone,

I’m sorry it has been a while since my last post…

     On February 6^th of this year, my wife and I were graced with the birth of our first child. This event has altered my life in every way. Our perceptions of being parents prior to birth were that parenthood was going to be difficult but over-the-top rewarding. What we soon learned was that parenthood is tougher than anything we’ve ever known and no words or wisdom could truly prepare us for the hardships we will endure. These obstacles and an inability to find free time put me into missing-in-action mode, hence no blogs.

 Although, Diablo 3 updates/expansion didn’t help either…

In any case now to the blog!

     If you have been under a rock Riot Games released a new game type for League of Legends called Ultra Rapid Fire. Essentially URF is the classic game type, except cool downs, movement speed and mana cost were significantly padded to provide the fastest game possible. Riot added this game type as a prank for an April Fool’s joke to the community. What Riot did not realize was how much success the game was going to have. I have numerous friends who came back to play LoL for this new game type and they want it added permanently. And based on all the comments and a pending petition, a lot of other online players feel the same way.

          However, two days ago Riot announced that it would be removing URF mode and only making it available at a later designated time in a potentially different fashion. I believe this a huge mistake by Riot. The company may have originally designed the mode to be gag for the community but sometimes when a product is delivered it takes on a mind of its own. In this case Riot created its own monster and they would be foolish to take away something many community members are calling for. The old adage “the customer is always right” applies here. With competition from DOTA2 and brewing competition from Blizzard's MOBA (whom most gamers have strong feelings towards the characters in the game), Riot would do itself a disservice by not listening to its community.

If you think about it, the classic MOBA map has been around for many years. Some people have played hundreds or thousands of matches. I started playing MOBA’s in WarCraft 3 with the DOTA map. When I finally decided to play LoL, I found my interest more in ARAM games then the classic mode being as it was something new, faster, and quicker. I believe URF is the next addition. Consumers are always seeking improvements to the products they own, that’s why new generation of models are continually built. URF is LoL’s next generation. All you have to do is look at the comments on the removal announcement:

Riot... please make it permanent. Ultra Rapid Fire revived my waning interest in the game, please don't take this experience away from us players :(

 HagenBacon 

Please keep this mode riot, It’d my will to keep playing league. There's no logical reason why you can't keep it in custom games at least same with any other special game mode. You have one of the most popular games in the world with a huge support staff and you're telling me you can't put these modes in custom? I simply refuse to believe that. Oh well then, time to quit til either this mode comes back or the next special mode, i don't play normals anymore because they are boring. well time to find something else to do in the meantime.

 USAF Crusader

Seriously though, I've never been more addicted to League than ever before thanks to U.R.F. I need it to stick around now. :(

 Ermahgerd LOLOL

These are just a few of the comments but here is the kicker. The new game mode actually had a user spend real money to purchase champions to play in this mode.

I bought multiple champions with RP so I'd have a chance to use them in URF. They actually made money off me with URF being the sole reason; That's a pretty solid reason for them to permanently add the mode to me!

 Valkyrie Witch

I personally have never spent a dime on LoL (I believe I am in the minority). However, I have no idea if the above user was the similar to me prior to this mode release but anytime users actually spend money, Riot should be interested. So I will re-post the comment to emphasize the importance:

I bought multiple champions with RP so I'd have a chance to use them in URF. They actually made money off me with URF being the sole reason; That's a pretty solid reason for them to permanently add the mode to me! Valkyrie Witch

          It’s getting late and I have to get up in a few hours for an early-morning feeding, so please Riot, do us all a favor and make URF a mode staple of LoL. You can play hard to get if you want but ultimately my advice is to always listen to the community. Take it from Diablo 3, game interest can go from minimal to a sure explosion in moments with a patch/release that addresses community needs. Riot, we want and need URF 24/7, 365, make it happen. I’ll be boycotting LoL until it gets reinstated and I encourage all other users who want the URF mode available all the time to do the same. It's the only way to send a message to Riot. You could also re-tweet or share this blog.

Thank you for your time.

-          Jeremy ‘McCl0udY’ Muller

Oh and during my research I noticed this:

http://www.change.org/petitions/riot-games-keep-urf-mode