I like how Dignitas basically admitted Lulu is broken and Soraka mid is the worst thing ever.
Yeah, I'm really impressed with the quality of play at this tournament. In previous tournaments I always felt like whichever team gets the early advantage is able to inevitably snowball it into victory. But this weekend there have been tons of really close games and upsets. Although the favorites are still mostly winning.
Wow, the Curse-Mono series was pretty sick.
I thought Mono was done in Game 2, after losing Game 1. It felt like Curse was going to push and win at any moment, and then Mono snuck in a three-person Baron and held on, in a very long game, to win. Game 3 was pretty good too, but the second game is the keeper.
That might have been the single worst comp to pick against poke comp. No hard engage, no hard CC at all to speak of.
Edit: my favorite reddit quote of the day: "Hopefully KPOP DAY 3 has less LoL interruptions than yesterday."
They will be distinct Bo3's. So CLG has to win the first Bo3 (with both teams starting 0-0) to force a second Bo3. So yes there could be 6 games.
It's how standard double elimination tournaments work, although with the Bo3 format it means a lot of potential game.
OMG KOBE24!!!!! *swoon*
Hmm, can't find the final two games online, missed 'em because of Easter family stuff.
By the final two games, I mean the games after CLG beat TSM in the first BO3.
Thanks. Wiser didn't have the last three games when I posted, but I finally saw them in the 9 hour VOD on the IPL site.
After CLG won the first BO3 so convincingly, I wasn't sure TSM was going to hold on in the final two games. It felt like CLG was all over them in both games, and one slip would hand the game to CLG, but TSM didn't slip.
And then TSM's coach, credited by the players as making the difference in their lifestyle and prep for IPL4, quits a couple days after the tournament
I'm watching a Korean showmatch between MIG frost and Najin, and some crazy stuff has happened. 3 minute dragons. The last game in a best of 3 is apparently blind pick? And the 3 blind pick lanes were all mirror matchups.
I'm watching a Korean showmatch between MIG frost and Najin, and some crazy stuff has happened. 3 minute dragons. The last game in a best of 3 is apparently blind pick? And the 3 blind pick lanes were all mirror matchups.
Googled the names, found it on Wellplayed if anyone else wants to watch.
And now it's over! I saw the last team fight in the third game
Awesome, it says they're picking up LoL for the rest of 2012, starting with the event in Anaheim.
So apparently some major changes happened in the last day or two for the NA teams. Voyboy left Dignitas and joined CLG as the top laner. HotShot is going to jungle and SaintVicious got kicked or demoted (not totally clear). Saint then joined Curse when Crumbz left because he couldn't move in to a Curse gaming house since he's in college. Then Crumbz joined Dignitas as their top laner, replacing Voyboy who joined CLG.
So basically a three-way trade among three of the top teams. HotShot going into jungle just baffles me because his playstyle is to AFK farm top lane which you can't do as a jungler. Not to mention he plays basically only two champions: Nidalee and Cho'gath. And then you have TSM who has seemingly stopped giving a crap about LoL with OddOne being the only one who steadily plays anymore.
LoL is never short on the drama.
One of my problems with so many esports teams is that the players are just total D-bags.
Unfortunately, this problem seems especially prevalent in LoL esports
Big event, but no M5? I don't like their players, but they certainly do well.
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