League of Legends has several modes that can be played. If you want to try your hand at tournaments as an ordinary player, you can play Clash regularly. However, this wasn’t possible for some players over the weekend, as they were locked in matches for hours.
What is Clash? Clash is a tournament mode in LoL that returns every few weeks.
- There are two versions, one for the normal Summoner’s Rift and one for ARAM.
- When a Clash takes place, you can participate with your own team on both Saturday and Sunday.
- Three matches are played.
- You must have a Clash ticket to participate. The regular version costs blue essence, while the premium version costs RP, which is real money.
- At the end, there is a special orb that contains different prizes depending on the number of victories and placement.
- Possible rewards include skins, emotes, or wards.
Last weekend (August 31st and September 1st), there was another ARAM Clash, but for some players, it was not an enjoyable tournament as they were locked in for hours due to a bug. Therefore, the tournament had to be canceled in several regions on Saturday.
Trapped in ARAM
What happened? Even the great MOBA League of Legends has bugs sometimes. Often it’s champions and items, but it can also affect various modes. In the last ARAM Clash, a bug caused players to be locked in the first match of the tournament for hours.
They could do nothing except attack each other. It was impossible to target towers and objectives. This meant that neither team could progress, no matter how many times they killed each other. Some players were even locked in for up to 5 hours, as shown by @Joel_0437 on x.com:
In a later tweet, the user showed that the game froze after 7 hours. The problem with a never-ending game is that even if you quit the game, the match continues, and players cannot start a new match in the meantime.
Only if a team forfeits can a match be concluded, and since some have spent real money on Clash tickets, it can happen that no team is willing to give up.
What was the consequence? As a Riot employee responded in a reddit thread, the entire Clash tournament had to be canceled on Saturday in several regions. Affected regions included Australia, Korea, and Japan. However, it was reported that some regions were fixed on Saturday itself. Some MOBA players want to intentionally hold their players in long matches. This happened in DOTA 2: DOTA 2: Player holds 9 others hostage for 3 hours because he is hungry
