re: Official League of Legends Thread

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I could be completely wrong get but I thought they did away with spot selling for lcs

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That seems like a pretty terrible formula.

You bust your arse as a challenger team, only to come in second and watch potential players that didn't make as far as you did get into LCS because of $$.

40 min game and Leblanc mid only does 16k damage

Also sounds like Santorin is the new NRG jungler.

Could also be Diamondprox though, he left Gambit and is heading to NA.

A couple of C9 fanboys jumped down my throat on reddit for implying that C9 is as much (or more) concerned with turning a profit on the LCS spot bubble than developing talent.

They are fielding a roster that is better than 3 or 4 LCS teams (most likely) with Balls/Rush/Hai/Altec/Lemon. I mean sure they may bring on some alternates and run them out a bit (especially to keep Balls/Rush available for worlds), but this seems like a pretty blatant cash grab.

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Whether it is or isn't a cash grab, having better competition in Challenger is good for NA development.

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Not if C9 sell the spot and buy their way back into the Spring Challenger scene with a similar team. Doing that will devalue the spot though (since you can't necessarily secure it), but still it may only be a matter of time before more orgs are using retired players to try to create money from nothing in the Challenger Scene. That would be quite bad for LoL's development.

I'm not sure the roster is really upgraded, but that really depends on BunnyFuFu. Impact didn't look great last split (with the understanding his jungler was shite and he played a bunch of off-meta champs). Still I'm not sure he is some crazy upgrade over Balls. Meteos is not an upgrade of Rush (the best outcome from this could be Rush just expanding his champ pool for a split without the pressure to perform as highly). Hai to BunnyFuFu has to be considered a downgrade until C9 looks at least mildly competent without Hai.

Their road to Worlds is quite narrow. The early loss puts them between a rock and a hard place on points. So they most likely have to win the split or win the gauntlet. Given you have to contend with Immortals, CLG, TSM, and Liquid....... shits tough man.

Either way SKT look pretty solid to roll over Worlds again.

Eh, I like it for the Challenger scene, those guys need to face better players and if playing multi-split pros retired or not, is how they do it then so be it. As currently and previously constructed NA Challenger is a bunch of scrubs beating up on even bigger scrubs, the top scrub getting to LCS for a split, and getting absolutely destroyed and relegated back down in an endless cycle of trash teams up and down. That helps no one, LCS or CS. Nor does it help develop the younger players that are potentially future stars like Contractz who is already considerably better than 99% of the junglers he faces in CS, same for any top end young player. CS needs quality competition and if it's not there, by all means bring in whoever you can until NA develops more on it's own.

From my understanding, Rush gets NA status next year and will no longer be an import, so they want him to spend a split in CS expanding champ pool for next year. C9 may have given up on this season after that 1st split, they weren't winning Summer, and the odds of another Guantlet run are very slim.

2017 C9 will have
Impact
Rush
Jensen
Sneaky
Bunny/Hai


That is very good.

I can't remember the last time I had a game that started with an afk. However I can remember last night when our Draven died once an afk'd.

NRG officially announce Quas, Santorin, and KiwiKid.

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So sick of this game's community. The game just isn't fun anymore.

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then stop playing