LoL eSports Discussion

[Papa Zito]

look do you want airtime or not

[Papa Zito]

ohman my pagetopper game

goml

[SleepyKrew]

shugi shugi shugi

[Glork]

look do you want airtime or not

This.


Gotta go all out, yo.

[Voidedmafia]

Are cartwheels out of the question?

[SleepyKrew]

the 76ers bought the Apex spot/roster and the Dignitas brand

[PJ.]

the 76ers bought the Apex spot/roster and the Dignitas brand

I don't trust the process in a league with relegation and no draft.

[pickemgenius]

I mean the 76ers would just draft 4 ADCs in a row and 'stash' them.

Or just run a team with 5 ADCs.

[Voidedmafia]

Are we disparaging how the 76ers would try to run the team?

[zoraster]

World Championship Pick Em

You have only about a day to make your picks! do them today!

[zoraster]

I hate looking up game schedules, so I'm posting this here and then I'll post in the OP. Game schedule is as follows:

Day 1: September 29th at 4:30pm PDT (7:30pm EDT)

G2 vs. CLG
ROX vs. Albus (I wish this team had Dumbledoge)
H2K vs. ahq
INTZ vs. EDG
Samsung vs. Splyce
TSM vs. RNG

This is a deceptively good set of games. It has 2 sets of games we expect to be fighting for the 2nd spot and another that's important for both teams (TSM vs. RNG). If Splyce can upset Samsung Galaxy it makes things really interesting too. I think that's a long shot though. A couple of what should be super boring games though with wild card teams vs. 1 seeds.

Day 2: September 30th at 4pm PDT (7pm EDT)

SKT vs. C9
Flash Wolves vs. I May
TSM vs. Samsung
RNG vs. Splyce
H2K vs. INTZ
EDG vs. ahq

A front heavy lineup, I think. The front three games are important for determining order, but barring an upset the last three don't seem very competitive.

Day 3: October 1st at 4pm PDT (7pm EDT)

CLG vs. Albus
ROX vs. G2
FW vs. C9
I May vs. SKT
Splyce vs. TSM
RNG vs. Samsung

Probably my favorite schedule of the first week as this one is full of games that I expect to either be really meaningful (FW vs. C9, RNG vs. Samsung) or at least offer the possibility of a big upset (ROX vs. G2, I May vs. SKT, RNG vs. Samsung). CLG vs. Albus only offers sadness if CLG can't beat them.

Day 4: October 2nd at 4pm PDT (7pm EDT)

ahq vs. INTZ
EDG vs. H2K
Albus vs. G2
CLG vs. ROX
SKT vs. FW
C9 vs. I May

EDG vs. H2K and C9 vs. I May seem to me to be the big matches here.

Week 2

Group A (Day 5): October 6th at 4pm PDT (7pm EDT)

G2 vs. ROX
Albus vs. CLG
CLG vs. G2
Albus vs. ROX
G2 vs. Albus
ROX vs. CLG

Group C (Day 6): October 7th at 4pm PDT (7pm EDT)

EDG vs. INTZ
ahq vs. H2K
H2K vs. EDG
INTZ vs. ahq
INTZ vs. H2K
ahq vs. EDG

Group D (Day 7): October 8th at 1pm PDT (4pm EDT)

Samsung vs. TSM
Splyce vs. RNG
TSM vs. Splyce
Samsung vs. RNG
Splyce vs. Samsung
RNG vs. TSM

Note time change for games.

Group B (Day 8): October 9th at 1pm PDT (4pm EDT)

I May vs. FW
C9 vs. SKT
C9 vs. FW
SKT vs. I May
I May vs. C9
FW vs. SKT

They clearly loaded the second week groups with most popular groups on the weekend. Tickets for Saturday and Sunday are ridiculous, $125+ per.

[zoraster]

OP has the above schedule without my annotations.

[mykonian]

haven't watched competative lol in ages, but picked some groups anyway!

[zoraster]

I've listed my ticket today for $175. It's a prime seat and there's only one other seat being sold and it's super crappy. So we'll see if anyone bites before I leave in a few hours.

If someone really does buy it at this price they'll be sitting next to someone who bought the seat next to them for $45 (I bought two, realized no one I knew was going to come so I sold it a few weeks ago).

[hitogoroshi]

Updated my picks to have ahq beating h2k. I just see a team with Forgiven on it as being very brittle over the grind of Worlds

[zoraster]

Guess I'mnot going today! My ticket just sold for $175. Kinda sad I won't be there for Day 1, but relieved I don't have to spend 3 hours on trains today to get there. I'll be there on Saturday with my wife anyway and I have tickets for next thursday as well, so not missing too much.

[Voidedmafia]

I'm going to completely miss the first day live because of school (dammit), then I'm going to miss a lot of time on catching up because of my grandpa's birthday Friday (and my parents are coming back from Kansas <_<), and then saturday and Sunday are going to be full of just catching up. I already figured I'd have to do this, but it's still slightly galling.

For Day 2, I think EDG vs. AHQ is a possible upset given how AHQ did back on 2014. Two years ago, sure, but it's still possible, I think.

[SleepyKrew]

oh my god they're opening with kobe + deficio
it's too good to be true that's why phreak is there

[Lady Lambdadelta]

Can we do a group chat thing for this?

[zoraster]

MS or discord? either would be fun

[Lady Lambdadelta]

not MS seems best?

[pickemgenius]

so Intz just uh.

BLEW EDG UP.

LIKE. whaaaaaat?

They even had the sloppy bits you see from massive underdogs up against huge favorites but uhh... that didnt matter. They just came back stronger and sharper after each minor slip up.

wow.

That was great.

[zoraster]

yeah. that was awesome. Ravolta and Yang were awesome.

That lee sin Q onto Nami so that he could get into position on deft was gorgeous.

[animorpherv1]

If someone wants in on the worlds spoiler skypechat, let me know!

[pickemgenius]

so like.

we the cubs now?