re: Official League of Legends Thread

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C9 getting out of the easiest group

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C9 was in Group A?

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LUL

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About what all of your posts amount to.

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Yet I was right again and you were wrong again.

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Where? You were fully aboard the NA train after week 1. Then they lose and all of a sudden you're a cynical NA anti-fan again. Why don't you go ahead and post your pick'em?

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Now it's just sad.

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Post your pick'em? Since, you know, you were so right and all.

Not really sure how the gap is growing when its clearly not.
2015
15-3 Korea
6-12 NA
8-10 Chinese

2016
14-4 Korea
9-9 NA
9-9 Chinese

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Not really sure how the gap is growing when its clearly not.
2015
15-3 Korea
6-12 NA
8-10 Chinese

2016
14-4 Korea
9-9 NA
9-9 Chinese

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Apparently NA has to win worlds by having 2 of the region's teams in the finals and winning every game against other regions along the way.

No one is saying NA is close to passing Korea, not by a long shot, but to say they are getting worse comparatively to international teams is nonsense.

The stereotypical Korea dick sucking has gotten old. People think that just because they're Korea that everyone else isn't improving. Not sure how anyone can objectively say NA hasn't improved internationally.

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TSM just really really under-performed

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In that 2nd round of games, they absolutely did.

I'd like to see more international tournaments, personally.

I'd also like to see, as Andvari said, longer group stages. It's more games for fans, and the games are more enjoyable as you can watch teams adapt on the fly and make adjustments to truly show their potential.

Whereas in a Bo1, you don't get to see that from teams.

It is what it is. If riot keeps the Bo1 format for groups, then teams will just have to learn to play it that way. But I think everyone would be fine with Bo3 being the format going forward, because you get more games.

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Looks like literally every media outlet that covered League this year is a bunch of TSM fans, then. Because they ALL had them advancing out of the group. Along with people like Monte Cristo, every Riot analyst, every pro player interviewed, etc. It wasn't "blind" to pick TSM to advance. They were legitimately good and underperformed in week 2.

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That's all fine and dandy but you miss on one major point, analyst/caster/pro predictions for League are absolutely terrible and more often times wrong than they are right. The scene still has terrible media for the most part, so saying what those guys predicted doesn't really mean anything at all other than lol they were all wrong again.

And I never said it was or wasn't blind to pick TSM to advance, not even about that, it's about you making excuses every time TSM fails, literally any excuse possible doesn't matter what it is you will find it and use it. You TRASHED Samsung after 1 single game to open the group, you TRASHED RNG and CHINA at the same time. And they both came back to bite you in the arse.

You love to blast other regions and other teams and when TSM underperforms it's every excuse imaginable.

Week 1 of Worlds is probably the dumbest time to say something about the teams, the biggest change in the whole Tournament is from Week 1 to Week 2 where the teams get almost a week to adapt to the meta and play styles of the teams. That's when the teams make the biggest changes and the best move on. Samsung clearly adapted well and have rolled off 8 straight wins since you trashed them.

Hell, a lot of "analysts/pros" think Samsung are currently the favorite to win the whole thing.

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Where's my excuse? I said they underperformed. My only issue with you is you going full retard by bashing NA completely saying they "sucked" like usual. Anyone with eyes could see that NA performed WAY better across the board.

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Not really, maybe in your biased opinion, sure as hell not mine. All that hype to get 1 team of Groups, and probably the worst team of the 3 there (debatable with CLG). I said multiple times on here before Worlds started that with all this hype it's a failure for NA if they only get a single team out of Groups and that team gets stomped. Exactly what happened.

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RNG was arse in China's playoffs. Everyone knew it. Everyone said it. They were a team with "potential" that never lived up to it. Even Chinese casters were blown away at how they played in groups, specifically against TSM. EDG didn't even win their own group and got beat out by H2frickingK. My thoughts on China as a whole still stand It's a two team region. RNG looks like they finally found some kind of macro game sense.

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Correct, but still foolish to trash them first day of Worlds like you did. Speaking of contradiction, you want BO2's or BO3's for Worlds, but you were the only one on this board grossly overreacting to Week 1 BO1 results trashing Samsung, RNG, EDG, etc. I think you even trashed ROX a bit after they lost as well. I don't see how you can bitch that hard about BO1's sucking after the serious overreactions you had from them. TSM would be lucky to win a single game in a BO5 against any of the 3 Korean teams. That 18-1 was a prime example of why BO1's suck and aren't real indicators of how good a team is, as the results after that game speak for themselves (8 straight W's coasting to the Semis).