LoL eSports Discussion

mykonian · Post Post #6825 (ISO) » Fri Sep 30, 2016 12:48 am

doesn't matter that your sololanes lose: mata > TSM

SleepyKrew · Post Post #6826 (ISO) » Fri Sep 30, 2016 5:00 am

yay mata is playing ali again
also I loved sven's lee at IEM and I'm glad he played it and did well early

mykonian · Post Post #6827 (ISO) » Fri Sep 30, 2016 5:56 am

bjergsen was a disappointment though, that is worrying.

zoraster · Post Post #6828 (ISO) » Fri Sep 30, 2016 6:23 am

btw if you're watching the games live, join the LoL Worlds MS chat room!

zoraster · Post Post #6829 (ISO) » Fri Sep 30, 2016 9:07 am

something pointed out on reddit that I think is amazing:

At the start of the game, Xmithie started bot side at blue without the help of the bot lane. Darshan INTENTIONNALY went to crugs and took couple of auto attacks, making G2 think xmithie started top.

SleepyKrew · Post Post #6830 (ISO) » Fri Sep 30, 2016 9:23 am

I like that for that mindgame to work, G2 would have to think Darshan fucked up the leash, since he shouldn't have been tanking for the Olaf. He gave up first blood to further the mindgame.

SleepyKrew · Post Post #6831 (ISO) » Fri Sep 30, 2016 1:12 pm

I wonder if skt's "internal issues" or whatever during playoffs are what led to blank's benching
speculation speculation

BROseidon · Post Post #6832 (ISO) » Fri Sep 30, 2016 4:10 pm

So, uh.

RNG.

Looking really, really fucking good.

Voidedmafia · Post Post #6833 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 4:40 am

In post 6827, mykonian wrote:bjergsen was a disappointment though, that is worrying.

I think it was a mix of TSM as a whole disrespecting RNG in the mid-game (probly because they did stomp RNG early despite a good invade by mata) and Biofrost showing some nerves. I'm not overly worried simply because TSM lost to Starhorn back in 2014 and then back through to beat them and the rest of the group (other than a completely stupid throw against SK). It is still worrying, though.

I'm far more concerned about them vs. SSG. I haven't watched it yet (don't spoil me!), but if they can't beat either RNG or SSG this week, I'm writing them off as not passing groups UNLESS RNG stomps everyone except TSM so it's like RNG 5-1 TSM 4-2 SSG 3-3 Splyce I-don't-give-a-fuck-they're-only-fourth. I have little faith in TSM getting past a tiebreaker match against SSG, regardless.

dramonic · Post Post #6834 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 7:14 am

SPOILER ALERT:
Watch the matches.

Voidedmafia · Post Post #6835 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 10:11 am

In post 6834, dramonic wrote:SPOILER ALERT:
Watch the matches.

I was, dummy. Just didn't want to be told beforehand.

Such a dominant victory against SSG speaks very well, though. If they fix the mistakes against RNG and keep this up against Splyce, then this should be an easy in to quarters. I think it's now basically a question of if TSM can force a 5-1 tiebreak, though that only happens if TSM can beat RNG again. Spylce should be freebies, and SSG should be another victory.

So now my attention is toward the other two NA teams. CLG was very clinical against G2, but I need to see how they do against ROX. I expect they'll healthily land in 2nd (Luna should be two freebies, and if they can repeat Day one so will G2), but even one win or a very close loss will mean good things...provided they don't get placed against SKT or RNG or something.

C9 had a...very likely tilt-inducing game against SKT. It's SKT, so I'm not

that

upset; I expected that to be 2-0 in SKT's favor, but 2nd is still within their grasp so long as they aren't hit too hard.

SleepyKrew · Post Post #6836 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 10:48 am

In post 6835, Voidedmafia wrote:I was, dummy. Just didn't want to be told beforehand.

watch the matches before posting tho

zoraster · Post Post #6837 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:12 am

BROseidon · Post Post #6838 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:15 am

MARMESS!

zoraster · Post Post #6839 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:04 pm

I have never seen anyone as excited about anything as the girl next to me is about Uzi

SleepyKrew · Post Post #6840 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:11 pm

hope she knows RNG is game 6

pickemgenius · Post Post #6841 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 1:00 pm

cLULg

mykonian · Post Post #6842 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 2:18 pm

In post 6839, zoraster wrote:I have never seen anyone as excited about anything as the girl next to me is about Uzi

(time to drop your morgana, practice your ezreal!)

Voidedmafia · Post Post #6843 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 2:37 pm

CLG FreeLG, CLG FreeLG...

Cmon, now...

Voidedmafia · Post Post #6844 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 3:47 pm

Welp, I'm writing off everyone except TSM now. CLG's failing, G2 aren't going to win at this point, Splyce was dead already, and I have very little hope in H2K. Slight hope in C9, but.

Cabd · Post Post #6845 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 3:55 pm

Holy shit. This worlds isn't disappointing.

dramonic · Post Post #6846 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 3:56 pm

You LIKED that game?

zoraster · Post Post #6847 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 4:00 pm

It was certainly fun to watch here.

mykonian · Post Post #6848 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 4:01 pm

I have to be with the cynical owl there, one team was worse, the other lacked any hint of decisiveness to convert their advantage into a victory. The result was a game that had no business dragging on, but did anyway :/

EDIT: I can imagine the crowd was energetic, that could be great.

Cabd · Post Post #6849 (ISO) » Sat Oct 01, 2016 4:01 pm

"Liked" isn't the term I'd use. Amused by? Hell yeah.