I’ve now climbed to a rank I’m comfortable with and am kinda done with League for the year. Same with my friend group actually, don’t see anyone online these days. Worlds is done as well and League is just not something I wanna spend time on for the rest of the year. Or at least not ranked League.

Up till now I’ve always stopped playing somewhere early November, which lined up well for school picking up, and me just generally losing interest in video games near the end of the year. It also tracks with most sports and movie releases and such peaking in november/october, and then december being the cool off period.

But now I’ll have to play at least one game per day on average as to not decay. Until January! That fills me with so much dread. It’s not just playing, but I’d also have to win at least some of the games, and to reliable do that in masters at least requires some commitment and keeping up with the game on my part.

Idk, just seems strange to me to remove preseason, especially if they’re gonna do the biggest meta shakeup maybe ever.