User blog comment:Fistful of Force/Team Liquid: Snowballing in Lol/@comment-150.210.231.36-20120705152538

No offense, but why does this come off as a surprise to anyone?

Snowballing is a part of the game. What's the point of playing if there's an equal chance of winning all throughout the game? That's a ludicrous suggestion. How many games do you know that actually operate like that? Almost none, I can guarantee that. Even in games where there's no technical advantage in grabbing an early edge, there are psychological advantages to such. Any kind of teamplay game more or less is setup so that taking an early advantage facilitates a victory at the end. And it's only common sense that it works this way. Even in FPS games, taking many kills early on gives a considerable advantage as the losing team must try to act more conservatively, which often tends to work out terribly. This is not always the case in League, but this also does happen often.

Regardless, if you secure more gold, then you have better items. If you have better items, you can defend or fight much more efficiently. The implications of having more gold giving an advantage are obvious. These people mention the whole "7% gold" fact like as if it's some sort of chance factor when it actually means that the winning team has been farming better and getting kills better as well. It's not some wildcard factor that arbitrarily decides who is going to win or unfairly gives an advantage to another team.

The only time this doesn't really hold true (leaving aside human error, such as poorly executed team fights on the winning team's behalf or getting picked off and such due to carelessness) is when the winning team is composed largely of early-mid game heroes and begin losing effectiveness as the game drags on.