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In response to a reddit thread on the CLG subreddit speculating on organization owner George “HotshotGG” Georgallidis’ recent absence from streaming and possible increased workload within the company, Counter Logic Gaming’s director of finance and operations, Bryan Chen posted a statement providing context for what is happening behind the scenes.

“Much of what is going on right now involves corporate restructuring in all aspects of the organization, all on top of regular business operations (now substantially greater having expanded from 1-4 teams). We have not yet hired the proper support staff to ideally handle these new teams, neither are we yet in a position to do so as of now. But we have plans for that, and for now we have the resources to get by,” he said.

Chen also confirmed Georgallidis’ increased involvement and estimates the return of the frequently requested CLG merchandise store to be “within a month.”

CLG recently expanded from their single League of Legends team to include a Halo, CS:GO, and LoL Challenger team. Their LCS team is currently tied for first place.

(Images Courtesy: Counter Logic Gaming)

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One of my most requested articles is a return of my quick guide series named Spellsy’s Support Cards. This is a return of the series but instead of using my previous expertise I will be using statistics from high level games (Platinum-Diamond) across all regions (NA, EUW, EUNE, and KR) to find the optimal builds, good counterpicks and common runes.

This infographic is in partnership with champion.gg who assisted me in collecting the data for this graphic. As well, the Win rate, Play rate, Ban rate, and Matchups are straight from champion.gg. The rest of the information (runes, masteries, items, skills, etc.) is based on a 20,000 game sample with 5,000 from each of the 4 major regions listed above.

For our first edition of the cards we selected the three most popular AD Carries on the new patch (5.2). This data is mostly from February 1st.

Few additional interesting stats:

• While starting with your first 3 points as Q-E-Q is the most popular, almost 40% of players go Q-E-W, which has 1.5% less win rate than Q-E-Q. So, make sure to put that second point in Q!
• IE->PD->BT is the highest win rate build, which is the same for each of the 3 selected champions. Bloodthirster always has a higher win rate than Last Whisperer.

Few additional interesting stats:

• The standard runepage listed above is actually 2nd in popularity among Caitlyn players, with the most popular using Attack Damage quints instead of Attack Speed quints. However, this AD page has 3% less win rate than the Attack Speed page shown above, so make sure you use your attack speed quints!
• Similar to Graves, Caitlyn’s most popular first 3 skills are actually Q-E-W, with 37.3% of the population choosing that route. However, that build only has a 50.5% win rate, significantly lower than Q-E-Q’s 52.1% win rate!

Few additional interesting stats:

• After the Tristana update her play rate over doubled from 11.14% in 5.1 to 23.09% in 5.2.
• Meanwhile, her win rate dipped going from 47.5% to 46.1%
• Similar to Cait and Graves, Tristana’s most popular first-3 skills were E-W-Q, which was played 36% of the time but only had a 45.2% win rate, compared to E-W-E which was played 33.3% of the time and had 47.9% win rate.

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Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy series, will be receiving a lifetime achievement award at the 15th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on the evening of March 4 at the Moscone Convention Center during the 2015 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.

Sakaguchi was the director of planning and development at Square Company, Ltd. (now Square Enix) where he created Final Fantasy, a role-playing game that would go on to spawn numerous sequels, spinoffs, films, and television series. The game was named Final Fantasy in reference to his plan to leave the industry if the project was not successful, and with the intention of being the studio’s final project before it went bankrupt. Final Fantasy went on to be a success, establishing a legacy that has carried on until today.

“Final Fantasy helped pave the way for game stories that dealt with death, regret and character development in a mature and significant way, and we’re proud to honor Sakaguchi-san as a true leader in the space, and an inspired game developer,” GDC events general manager Meggan Scavio said.

Sakaguchi went on to found development house Mistwalker in 2004. There he assisted with the creation of Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, The Last Story and Terra Battle.

This year’s Choice Awards will be hosted by Double Fine Productions founder Tim Schafer. GameSpot will be hosting the awards’ live stream on site, so be sure to tune in for live coverage on March 4.

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