Ranking practices and distinction in League of Legends

Yubo Kou; Xinning Gui; Yong Ming Kow

doi:10.1145/2967934.2968078

Ranking practices and distinction in League of Legends

Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui, Yong Ming Kow

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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Abstract

Player ranking is a common feature of competitive online games, but little research work has closely examined the ways it mediates player practices within this game genre. In this paper, we present a qualitative study of player practices around ranking in League of Legends (LoL), published by Riot Games and currently one of the most popular eSports games. We found that ranking is a cornerstone of LoL's competitive gaming practices, shaping the ways players distinguished and narrated their game experiences, thus engendering a culture of collaboration and competition through distinction.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI PLAY 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	4-9
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450344562
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2967934.2968078
State	Published - Oct 16 2016
Event	3rd ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2016 - Austin, United States Duration: Oct 16 2016 → Oct 19 2016

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Name	CHI PLAY 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Conference	3rd ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	10/16/16 → 10/19/16

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Human-Computer Interaction

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Kou, Y., Gui, X., & Kow, Y. M. (2016). Ranking practices and distinction in League of Legends. In CHI PLAY 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (pp. 4-9). (CHI PLAY 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2967934.2968078

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Kou, Y , Gui, X & Kow, YM 2016, Ranking practices and distinction in League of Legends. in CHI PLAY 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. CHI PLAY 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 4-9, 3rd ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2016, Austin, United States, 10/16/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2967934.2968078

Ranking practices and distinction in League of Legends. / Kou, Yubo ; Gui, Xinning; Kow, Yong Ming.
CHI PLAY 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. p. 4-9 (CHI PLAY 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play).

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