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　　With the EU LCS kicking off Season 4 tomorrow, the esports team at Riot took to /r/lol to field questions from the community. They addressed concerns, made jokes, and offered insightful commentary on the future happenings of esports and League of Legends .

　　The Riot Games esports AMA is live! | http://t.co/5tbx43vn0C

　　— LoL esports (@lolesports) January 13, 2014

　　The top voted question was from user LoLDraft, who asked about statistics and their inclusion into lolesports.com. Director of Esports Whalen 'Riot Magus' Rozelle responded with a numbered list, saying "Stats are freaking awesome." He went on to say that real-time stats are being worked on, and Riot wants stats during the broadcast. Additionally, they wants stats to be interactive.

　　"Graphs for consumption and stuff is cool and all, but we want fans to have them at their fingertips and be able to look at cool trends," Rozelle said.

　　User FadedLily had the second-highest voted question and asked about League of Legends esports merchandise. VP of Esports Dustin 'RiotRedBeard' Beck said it would be a while, but they are working on it as "part of our larger merchandise efforts that are now underway." Some users lamented that they only have third party stores for merch, and Beck sympathized with the lack of options.

　　"Yea sorry - we know, and are building out a team that will be focused exclusively on merchandising efforts!"

　　Concerning Worlds, alchemist87 wondered about byes for teams and how the format might change. Esports League Operations Manager Nick 'RiotNickAllen' Allen gave probably one of the juicier answers of the AMA, stating that Worlds in Season 3 was "kick ass," but the format can be improved.

　　"You won't be seeing byes at the 2014 World Championship," he confirmed.

　　eSports AMA Update- No byes at the 2014 World Championship: http://t.co/boAO2XY6W9

　　— Nick Allen (@RiotNickAllen) January 13, 2014

　　Beck also chimed in, saying "Yes, we got a lot of feedback from the fans on our format this year and so we will be tweaking it accordingly."

　　He then shared a brief story about Allen and himself.

　　"We love everything about Nick, except his love for double elimination. We recently touched beards, it was an explosion of epic proportions..."

　　Associate Esports Manager Chris 'RiotChopper' Hopper answered user irprOh's question about organisations having two teams in the LCS.

　　"I mean, if these two teams are good enough to qualify, why not let them?" they asked. "Good teams are what makes a good show - shouldn't this be your priority, rather than making sure there are no two teams with one name?"

　　Hopper said the esports team "felt it would diminish the value of those games, and lead to many questions about incentives and the integrity of the match."

　　He continued, saying "We realize this is something permitted in other regions, and we are currently discussing (internally and with the regional teams) the systemwide effects of implementing that policy in those regions. We'll continue to iterate on this policy as the ecosystem develops."

　　Click here to check out the full AMA.

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