Incorporating voting on LCS matches into earning IP?

So while I was watching LCS today, I was checking out what matches were coming up. I was looking at the vote percentages for each match, and that's when it hit me. Riot should add a feature to promote voting on the matches. This feature would be to log in to your account on lolesports.com and if the team you vote for wins, you earn IP. This will obviously be a very small amount of IP, say 10 per game.

Well what if a number 1 team is playing a number 8 team?

Well, i'm still trying to figure this out. My only idea thus far is that maybe the higher the percentage of votes a certain team has, the lower the IP reward. So if a #1 team beats a #8 team you would earn a lot less IP if the #1 team had ~90% of the votes. The people who did vote for the #8 team, in the 10% of votes, would get more IP because it their team was much less favored to win the game. This would also make things interesting because upset games where lower ranked teams beat higher ranked teams would reward the people who voted for the lower ranked team with more IP.

How would this help riot?

This would benefit riot because more people would be watching the streams. If the audience is more involved, they are more likely to watch the game. With a bigger audience, more ads are being watched which means more money for riot.

I would love to hear what everyone thinks about this. Please leave any comments and ideas below.

tl;dr: New system where voting for the winning team in an LCS match rewards you IP.

Riot pls!

Edit 1: Fixed the bold and italics... sorry this is one of my few posts on here :P

Posted Apr 13, 2013, 10:47 PM UTC · edited

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