An enemy Rumble invades the jungle of Immortals’ League of Legends gaming camp participant Huynh. He calls for his laners to help as he skirts back to the bot lane on Lee Sin, away from the invading enemy in his blue side jungle.
“Walk through here so he can’t escape,” Huynh says as he pings the path he wants his mid laner to walk.
“He’s on me. He’s on me,” his teammate and fellow camper, Yi, says as the Rumble runs into his Azir in the Dragon side river. The bottom lane also joined the fray, trapping the enemy while he waits for his own bottom laners to rotate over to him.
The team collapses around the Rumble but hesitate, not wanting to fight if the enemy mid laner followed Yi’s Azir.
“Zed’s not here,” Yi says as his team engages the enemy Rumble and his bot lane, rotating over to the fight.
In the ensuing scrap, the Immortals gaming camp team came away with three kills to two deaths as they chased the enemy team toward their own jungle. As the comms cleared and the laners returned to their position, the coach and camp counselor for the summer camp, Luke Maake, explained what he saw from the fight.
“We can go over that whole fight in VOD, too. You guys misplayed it a little bit,” Maake said. “It turned out good for you but you could’ve committed on the Rumble a lot earlier when he was really separated from his team.”
This game was just one part of the free, week-long League of Legends camp put on by Immortals and Nerd Street Gamers. While chatting with other campers in Discord, and participating in daily AMA sessions with Immortals staff and players, campers like Huynh and Yi played with coaches and had their gameplay reviewed in the hopes of improving over the course of the week.
Rise and grind
Each day began with an AMA session with various staff members from the Immortals organization. The first day included Director of Competitve Esports Michael Schwartz and team manager Jake Pedro, followed by their LCS head coach, André “Guilhoto” Pereira Guilhoto. The next sessions included LCS players Mohamed “Revenge” Kaddoura and Andrei “Xerxe” Dragomir, along with some of the creative staff. The final day skipped the regular question format as two Immortals Academy players, Prodromos “Pretty” Kevezitidis and Joseph “Joey” Haslemann, hopped into two quick ARAM games with the campers and coaches.
After the first hour of asking questions, mainly carried by coach inquiries and a few curious campers, the two groups split and begin the rest of their days. The rest of the five-hour session was devoted to improvement in whatever way the campers want or need. Since the participants came from a wide array of League of Legends backgrounds, from level one beginners to high level Diamond and Masters ranked veterans, those needs varied.
The beginners group focused on game fundamentals like last hitting minions and basic macro functions. They also work through concepts not taught in League’s tutorial, like champion abilities, where to start in lane positions and roles in the game. In the advanced group, players hop into the ranked flex queue and either play with the coach or have him watch their perspectives to give tips and go over the games in review.
