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henkman posted:Yeah but the real games start later than that You saying wildcard games aren't real?On a serious note I think wildcards are getting better and better so I will definitely watch the play ins.
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i think the underdogs and the polite fans really made their case for it today
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I'll probably have the second stage on in the background at work since the first round of that is like 2 PM EDT in the middle of the week. Actually might catch part of the group portion on the weekend, but I'm probably not tuning in at work for the first couple matches.
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Redmark posted:Wenger out Team Liquid fan spotted. Game 5 of NA finals was crazy and a lot of fun to watch.
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I do think it's funny that they took their baron buff to try to contest an elder while down on members. Just push mid, you have empowered creeps and a four speed recall if you need to defend base.
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Apr 24, 2017 05:54
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a well earned LCS championship by your boy, Strong
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Chris de Sperg posted:a well earned LCS championship by your boy, Strong good payback for that time you maliciously made tsm lose the world championship
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Lovechop posted:good payback for that time you maliciously made tsm lose the world championship
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Game 5 was nuts and I'm glad I watched it. Random thoughts: - Jensen is way too arrogant in laning. He just does not have the skill to make the dives that he attempts, even when he has Contractz babysitting him. - Why wasn't Camille banned by C9? I love pocket picks more than anyone else here, but Camille just dumpstered you every time that she was brought out. - I loved the Gragas flex, and I'm super glad that it got ahead. - Cloud 9 just is not decisive in its shot calling. I think it was game 5 with C9 traded 2 for 4 in a team fight, and decided not to crack the base with 30 second timers. There were so many times where they could have gotten an objective, but faltered. - I think it was game 3, but letting Hauntzer take both bot lane turrets for free was really bad and stupid. - I liked the idea of cracking the base by C9 at the end of game 5, but you have to recall sooner. Maybe don't take the inhib? - Camille is such a busted champ just my word.
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Sneaky was dumb as hell for recalling where he did, he still had time to dash into the jungle unseen where TSM couldn't find his empowered recall
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Shadow225 posted:- Cloud 9 just is not decisive in its shot calling. I think it was game 5 with C9 traded 2 for 4 in a team fight, and decided not to crack the base with 30 second timers. There were so many times where they could have gotten an objective, but faltered. Camille just looked ridiculous, it was pretty great seeing her blow up sneaky late game while her health never seemed to go down.
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Teikanmi posted:Sneaky was dumb as hell for recalling where he did, he still had time to dash into the jungle unseen where TSM couldn't find his empowered recall Sneaky has been really lazy and sloppy with his positioning and pathing over the last year and you can generally count on him getting caught out at least once per game wandering through a unwarded jungle/facechecking a bush/being too far forward in a teamfight. It's becoming so common that I'm beginning to think they should have swapped him for Altec on the C9 retirement home.
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Altec popped all of the way off in the consolation match Saturday. I didn't think that Balls played that badly either, tbh. EDIT: Strong, I'm curious if there was anything that threw you off in the match yesterday. I really enjoy reading your thoughts since you're a literal professional.
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Apr 24, 2017 19:29
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Work Friend Keven posted:Once, as a bet, Ernest Hemmingway wrote the saddest, shortest story in the world. It was this: Also quoting this for the new page
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Shadow225 posted:- I loved the Gragas flex, and I'm super glad that it got ahead. Shadow225 posted:Altec popped all of the way off in the consolation match Saturday. game 3 was weird because of that - yeah, C9 were ahead a bit coming out of early, but it wasn't enough to crush and they were getting blasted in terms of macro decision-making as usual - but looking at it again, the thing that really screwed us was that we could never get map or vision control compositionally. this split's TSM works because you have five intelligent players who know where their teammates will be at all times, and how to move around that. problem in game 4 was that nobody was naturally creating space in a sense - the Syndra into Ahri put a massive straitjacket on Bjergsen's, and to an extent Sven's, map movements, and that coupled with Hauntzer falling behind meant that everyone spent the entire game blueballedly right-clicking around on the edge of ever wresting effective map control and the game ended up being a drawn-out 50-50 basically. was probably why game 5 was so close too looking at the comps.
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Are they intelligent enough to compete at worlds or are we talking NA intelligence? look deep into your heart
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Are they intelligent enough to compete at worlds or are we talking NA intelligence?
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The MSI Karma skin loading border looks better than the Challenger borders so it looks like I'm gonna be a filthy Karma main. Go Flash Wolves!! I wonder if SKT will take this MSI very seriously or phone it in? They're still miles and miles away the best team in the world right now and second place isn't even close but I can see them putting in subs or trying out new things and dropping a game or two to Flash Wolves or RNG e: The last match of the LCK Challenger series on, CJ Entus vs Ever. It's so weird seeing CJ without a single old CJ Entus guy because they were always the kinda org that would keep people way past their expiration date to make the fans happy RealFoxy fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Apr 25, 2017 |
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Apr 25, 2017 09:56
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With that jungle Jayce game from Ever 8, Jayce has officially been played in all 5 roles in competitive play.
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Chris de Sperg posted:i fell asleep just before G5 so that kinda stymies most of the interesting observations i could make. games 1, 2, and 4 were all pretty much exactly what i'd expect. TSM are just a LOT better than C9 in almost every aspect of the game post-10 minutes, and if C9 can't get that sort of lead you saw in game 4, they generally lose. Do you think TSM will be better with DLift next split? I think so but I'm not sure.
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Sexpansion posted:Do you think TSM will be better with DLift next split? I think so but I'm not sure. Will Wildturtle still flash forward?
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Schiavona posted:Will Wildturtle still flash forward? forever and ever forward into eternity
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Max Coveri posted:With that jungle Jayce game from Ever 8, Jayce has officially been played in all 5 roles in competitive play. I remember Rush use to pick it a bunch in soloq and would do well with it. Shockblast from fog of war with stormraiders you can gank pretty well. I mean its not good like a traditional jungle pick but its one of those good cheesy jungle picks like Twitch. Btw is MSI with Galio enabled? He has already been in use in LPL.
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MSI is 7.8, so Galio will be live I think. LPL just seems to do whatever, they were the only pro region to play on 7.7 as far as I know.
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Yes LPL never disable new champions or reworked ones. Famously LPL did play on the patch that had the super op Lucian back in season 4 where you could dash every 2 seconds or pre hotfix Skarner after the juggernaut reworks.
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Sexpansion posted:Do you think TSM will be better with DLift next split? I think so but I'm not sure.
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Is the 6 man roster really possible? I can't imagine Turtle not having the choice to be the sole starter for another team. At a minimum Echo Fox is counting the days to MSI ending.
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Hypocrisy posted:Is the 6 man roster really possible? I can't imagine Turtle not having the choice to be the sole starter for another team. At a minimum Echo Fox is counting the days to MSI ending. I guess it depends on what he values more, but I have to think that it'd be really hard to leave a team that's a clear favorite to win the next split, is practically garunteed a spot at world's, and that he's already familiar and comfortable with for an unknown comfort fit on a team that just barely avoided being in the relegation tournament and basically has no chance to make it to worlds unless they either win the next split or the play in tournament.
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What are pros/cons to a situation where you would sub Turtle and Double? I've always kind of felt they had similar strengths (they often really get huge) and weaknesses (they often make really bad decisions in high pressure late game).
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Wt Pro: wild turtle will flash forward and give lcs blooper vids more content Dl con: doublelift will flash forward and feed off camera
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Libertine posted:What are pros/cons to a situation where you would sub Turtle and Double? I've always kind of felt they had similar strengths (they often really get huge) and weaknesses (they often make really bad decisions in high pressure late game). Yeah that's exactly what people have said for like 2 years now
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If one of them starts tilting you have a backup for the next game.
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Hypocrisy posted:Is the 6 man roster really possible? I can't imagine Turtle not having the choice to be the sole starter for another team. At a minimum Echo Fox is counting the days to MSI ending. If he can stream and is paid reasonably it's probably a better use of his time than joining TL or echo fox. However, as others have mentioned: I don't think wt actually has distinct strengths from dl to the point where there's a good reason to sub them.
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If you combine both of their chins, you will have one normal person's chin.
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Work Friend Keven posted:If he can stream and is paid reasonably it's probably a better use of his time than joining TL or echo fox. However, as others have mentioned: I don't think wt actually has distinct strengths from dl to the point where there's a good reason to sub them. Well doublelfit said he gets bored tryharding all the time, so they'd be paying to basically rest him for the playoffs or some poo poo. What if they went out of the box and got an import... I've heard tell of a balding fuckface in greece ...
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Jerkface posted:Well doublelfit said he gets bored tryharding all the time, so they'd be paying to basically rest him for the playoffs or some poo poo. What if they went out of the box and got an import... I've heard tell of a balding fuckface in greece ...
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RealFoxy posted:Regi thinks it's super important that all team members speak the same language, and nobody's going to be able to understand anything Forgiven says Everyone knows what 'stupid noob oval office' means 
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RealFoxy posted:Regi thinks it's super important that all team members speak the same language, and nobody's going to be able to understand anything Forgiven says better for team synergy if u kno exactly why ur import jungler is flamin u
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