User blog comment:Emptylord/Blogs/What if wards were contestable objectives instead of items?/@comment-13852033-20130729183544/@comment-3974211-20130731104427

No, I'm talking about the more coordinated/aggressive team buy one more pink ward than the enemy team (sometimes many more) and simply continuously denying one team sight. I've been on the receiving end and I've been on the causing end - it's frustrating when there is literally nothing you can do, and I also feel like a twat watching the enemy support frantically try to out-place my pink wards.

It has nothing to do with quantity. While yes, you can usually still place wards - sometimes if they are at the stage you cannot compete for brushes, you cannot afford to leave to try and ward more obscure locations. Tri-brush and river brush wards, I'mma just leave the lane for 5 minutes to ward behind red buff and at dragon.

Quantity is a separate but also problematic issue. Riot also wants to solve support gold.