ARURF to Replace Clash This Weekend for League of Legends

After the announcement that the highly anticipated Clash tournament mode would be cancelled for this weekend, Riot Games has made the extremely popular ARURF game mode available, as a consolation for players.

“We realise this isn’t the same sort of competitive experience that you were expecting this weekend, but we wanted to offer something in the interim that we could quickly hotfix up to a playable standard while we work out our next steps for the players affected by Clash's cancellation. As ARURF is one of our most requested modes, we hope this will bring some respite to an otherwise rough weekend.” Announced Riot IAMWALRUS in a dev update. “Heads up: There are likely gonna be bugs and some weird interactions as we haven’t had a huge amount of time to test on this patch, so we might be disabling some runes and champs pretty early on.”

The highly anticipated Clash tournament was supposed to go live in most regions for this weekend, but while Riot North America has been tight lipped on what exactly is the issue that caused the failure, Garena, the third-party server vendor for much of Asia for League of Legends and other games, revealed the cause of the strife, stating “Unfortunately, when the scouting period ended and clash games were meant to start, there was a server issue which caused some games to fail as a result. The clash system has resolved those games randomly and assigned a winner/loser. Teams that "won" will be able to proceed on, while teams that "lost" will be out of this round.”

While Riot works for a solution, at the very least players can get some enjoyment out of the popular ARURF mode, even if it is also experiencing some minor bugs such as players not being able to trade champions.