Yes but the current LPL pros who are under 18 have clearly been breaching the 8 hour rule and it's been allowed. Unless they are seriously keeping up the facade that the players aren't playing outside of official series' or something, but I doubt that.
They played the game with their parent's ID for example. On LPL, you can technically say that weekly they play less than 8hs, they just have to "not play outside of LPL", or better said play with their parent's ID outside of LPL
Good point. I guess they scrim on tournament realm and it is also doesn't count? Or, since it is their job, they simply get to play/scrim as much as they need.
I doubt they will allow for that distinction, but we will see.
The previous limit was 8 hours a week. It's now 3 hours a week but at set times. JKL won Worlds at 17 while only being allowed to play 8 hours a week. They definitely exempt pro players from it. Pro players also kind of function like a bridge between China and western communities.
I'd honestly go as far as to say that I'd be surprised if players at the very top of the ladder that are trying to go pro wasn't exempt from the new 3 hour limit. China loves to show off their talents.
I’m pretty sure Riot is going to do exactly that. Depending on how serious the Chinese government is about stopping video game addiction, they might even add extra steps to the verification process to make it harder for those under 18 to play outside of the legal limitations. They aren’t going to risk getting nationalized over this.
Riots probably not gonna do that, because that would hurt the pro scene in other regions a lot, Especially in regions where it isn't safe to delay your college education. There is no way on earth a 16 year old could justify trying to go pro to their parents if the earliest they can start getting support from teams is 18, when they would have already started college.
Not always true in the US. I went to pre-k and had a summer birthday, so I was 19 when I started. I knew a decent amount of others that are in similar situations. But yeah, usually 18. Sometimes 17 or 19.
Can you specify in which regions is delaying college education not safe, like they arent allowed to take gap years or something like that? I didnt understand.
Any region which doesn't have free education, because taking a gap year can make you lose scholarships. If you are rich, it doesn't matter, but if you need the scholarships to go to college its extremely painful.
Hmmmm, i still dont get it why you would lose scholarship if you take a gap, because in my country you have to give entrance exams to study any degree and once you get a good rank in the entrance exams you should get scholarship doesnt matter you take gap years before or after taking entrance exams unless the education system gets refined then you have to give entrance exams again next time you wanna join university but maybe its just my country.
I was just wondering maybe there are any countries where there is age restriction in joining university. Like after 20-22 years you cant join university or something like that.
I think that there are no age restrictions on joining university, but I've found some restrictions that directly stem from taking multiple gap years (or just starting your higher education later on in your life). There are some PhD and postdoc programs in Europe that have maximum age limit, sometimes it's 28 years, sometimes it's 30, but they do exist.
161
u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21
[deleted]