Editor's Note: An Apology

That Guy

Wednesday, February 8th 2012, 8:12pm

Last week we published a review of Ziggs, one that I was particularly proud of. It was the first piece by a new writer for the site. Up until then, SotL had been a two man project with Domenic and I keeping everything together. While we've recieved numerous offers to assist in keeping SotL updated, I had finally decided to let someone else write with us because I felt I could trust the individual after interacting with them for several months.

Yesterday it was brought to my attention that the article was eerily similar to a review written earlier on GGChronicle, another fantastic eSports website. We immediately removed the offending review from the website while we investigated further. Today I have the embarassing task of admitting that our one-time writer blatantly plagerized the impressive writing of Obscurica. The author of the offending piece is no longer affiliated with State of the League in any way.

I'd like to personally apologize to Obscurica and the rest of the staff at GGChronicle and thank them for being so gracious about the ordeal. They made no request for a public apology, refrained from writing a public response, and simply asked us to remove the review from our site. They're stand up guys and didn't deserve something like that.

-Travis

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Tnomad" (Feb 8th 2012, 8:18pm)

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FourCourtJester

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Wednesday, February 8th 2012, 8:26pm

Was this the one that got featured in the Fansite Focus by Riot? Or a seperate one?

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Gallath

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Wednesday, February 8th 2012, 8:55pm

Very professionnal of you Travis

Keep up the good work

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Obscurica

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Wednesday, February 8th 2012, 8:58pm

Fourcourtjester: The spotlight has since been changed to feature the ggChronicle article instead.

Travis: Thank you for your quick response and admirable professionalism. I look forward to the next SOTL.

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iori11

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Thursday, February 9th 2012, 7:49am

bad luck hope you fing someone else to help you out

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Spasik

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Thursday, February 9th 2012, 8:43am

How about keeping the ticker up to date when it comes to news, instead of writing articles? The only news I can see are projects you are personally involved with and the Riot news.. SK-Gaming and aAa websites are way better if someone wants to keep track.

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Spongey

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Thursday, February 9th 2012, 11:46am

stress

Forge on! The show this week was excellent despite the technical difficulties, and the rest of your material is great!

Thanks for taking care of us, Travis!

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Tnomad

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Thursday, February 9th 2012, 2:27pm

Quoted from "Spasik"

How about keeping the ticker up to date when it comes to news, instead of writing articles? The only news I can see are projects you are personally involved with and the Riot news.. SK-Gaming and aAa websites are way better if someone wants to keep track.

Can you clarify what you mean by "ticker"?
If you're just referring to our news feed, I think we do a pretty good job of showcasing the relevant Riot announcements that our audience would be interested in. This means, not talking about a 400 RP giveaway to level 3's, but discussing the new champion.
Domenic also does a great job of covering the eSports announcements with his articles, including some that tend to get ignored elsewhere (like new sponsored teams and such). I do agree we can do a better job, especially when it comes to event coverage. Dom and I were just discussing that, actually.
Thanks for your support btw guys.

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Spasik

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Friday, February 10th 2012, 2:32am

That's what I mean. While you do a good job covering the american scene there is way more going on in the european one than you can read in here. I totally understand that it's hard to keep track with that since there aren't many reliable sources and it's international. I just think it's something you should improve because EU is and will be the dominant force in e-sports in the near future.

Just as an example, from 1st of february until now your EU-West news were the ones regarding CLG/Absolute Legends. While what was also happening was: MoMa replaced Alth0r (aAa), wewillfailer replaced MeDroiD (3DMAX), former apeX got picked up by mTw, TT.Dragons picked up a new team after the old one was disbanded, former mTw got signed by BlueElph, mousesports signed For Mother Russia, the participants of the ESL Pro Series Germany were confirmed, yesterday the second semi final of the Cdiscount cup was played and the final will be SK vs aAa.

Don't get me wrong, I really like your site and your show, and what I find most impressive is the new show that for sure is a great idea. But when it comes to e-sports news coverage you could do better.

Would have emailed you something about it, but I can't find the contact form anymore on the new site.

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Tnomad

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Friday, February 10th 2012, 4:19pm

Hey Spasik, you're completely right, we do a poor job of covering the EU scene. We have limited resources in terms of time/writers etc. so we've tended to focus on the NA scene (and a general look internationally) since that's what seems to be missing the most. I'd love to spend more time with the EU stuff. Perhaps we'll be able to grab another writer for such a task in the future.

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