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Chernobyl Peace Prize: May 7, 2007; Or later, later's fine.
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rabidsquid posted:

lmao is bunny seriously permanently benched because he lost a game

Gonna have to scoot down for Meteos after that ult.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2016 00:33

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 04:45

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Ahahahaha they're subbing Bunny back in.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2016 00:39

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"Tempo" is the new "rotations" and I hate Jatt's dumb voice.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2016 02:01

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steakmancer posted:

Bunny is still Top 3 in mechanical supports in the western hemisphere I really don't blame C9 for holding onto him for the sake of denying him to other teams

Deep rosters are the world's longest pick/ban phase.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2016 03:08

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Nook posted:

I like Jatt but he has a tendency to oversell the losing team's situation and ability to come back. I'm pretty sure Riot eSports makes the casters do that to some degree, but sometimes it just gets ridiculous (a recent IMT game being a prime example of this).

Phreak and Riv are pretty bad though

In fairness, Jatt knows more about getting extra chances to win than anyone else

# ¿ Jun 18, 2016 02:57

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Let's be real though, Piglet defeat-tears are the only reason to watch a TL game

# ¿ Jun 26, 2016 16:37

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Unless the meta is "being EULCS" in which case yes. This is always the way.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2016 22:56

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Schnorkles posted:

lmao god hates TL if they get a remake

If this game gets a remake, RealFoxy is no longer allowed to post about how much Riot plots and schemes to bring down glorious C9

# ¿ Jul 2, 2016 02:56

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Hypocrisy posted:

This would really suck for TL if they had to start this game over.

Welp,

Now, let's see if Rek'sai is banned for the rest of the patch. That would be funny at least.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2016 03:01

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rabidsquid posted:

dont talk poo poo about Dyrus like this

In fairness, Dyrus and Darshan have "CLG doing everything they can to make him dead" in common

# ¿ Jul 3, 2016 21:09

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Guys. Guysguysguysguysguys.

Stinxxay.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2016 21:58

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Lovechop posted:

shen mindlessly face tanking everything a riven does and coming out massively on top nice meta

People doing badly on Riven above 1v1 tournaments/Silver is new to which meta exactly

# ¿ Jul 3, 2016 23:33

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Hypocrisy posted:

What's the cooldown on that Ashe arrow?

With max cdr, it's 60s/54s/48s

# ¿ Jul 10, 2016 01:07

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That's definitely a Huhi TP play, as a pejorative.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 01:51

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Jensen playing Taliyah badly shouldn't be a surprise, since Bjergsen has been playing her well and Jensen's always been the Kirkland Signature version of Bjergsen.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2016 20:37

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exethan posted:

c9 should consider swapping their entire starting roster to challenger series

Given time I think that decision will be made for them.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2016 22:43

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Lovechop posted:

apparently none of the eu teams got asked about this as usual lol

How would something involving the game before 30 minutes ever be relevant to an EU team?

# ¿ Jul 22, 2016 16:32

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If you're feeling beat up on in this thread, why not rebrand yourself as Calax Challenger and go shout down some kids on Gamefaqs

# ¿ Jul 24, 2016 23:45

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You'd think they'd do better with a tie-in with Depends

for when they get to playoffs and poo poo the bed

# ¿ Jul 26, 2016 17:41

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How Rude posted:

i haven't been watching LCS the past month or so, why is Karma a 20% ban? is her Mantra E considered that good?

Initiation in the current meta is "blow a speed buff and run at them fuckers" so Karma and Sivir are highly valued right now.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2016 23:30

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INORI THE GOD

e: P1 v NV. game 3. a game worth watching.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2016 04:30

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P1 playing rock-paper-scissors during a pause is the most endearing thing.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2016 23:54

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Savage Cracker posted:

Let's see if IMT will stay strong or fall to the craven ways of TSM and ban the #1 champ

A Morde ban in competitive play is basically a win for all viewers.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2016 00:10

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Dueling Bandsaws posted:

And IMT with Illaoi for the counter-troll champ pick???

AND the Support Kench.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2016 00:23

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That double-trade mind game.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2016 21:15

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This is the best game of League of Legends.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2016 21:24

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The important thing here is that, while Teemo was played, people were shown why Teemo should not be played.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2016 21:42

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5-man fountain diving was worth it though.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2016 22:32

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Anyone in competitive play can look good on Jhin when the competition is stixxay, who ults whenever he remembers where R is regardless of where enemies are or what their life bars are at.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2016 23:29

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Inori was the true solo queue all-star in a season that looked like dynamic queue. One man with a 4-stack against nothing but 5-stacks. Triumphing through sheer force of carry-from-jungle will.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2016 17:04

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So who's going to name their fantasy team OHQ's Hurricanes this season

# ¿ Aug 7, 2016 22:59

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Radical posted:

theres been a lot of discussion on reddit about franchising LCS and despite literally thousands of posts on the topic i havent seen a single good one yet which i think is pretty impressive personally

Depending on what you mean, I can see three problems to explain why:
1. How would you even do it without every instance (save the biggest) turning into a Silver All-Stars clowntown immediately? If you mean franchising as in the idea of the leagues, the talent pool is pretty shallow for most places and given how badly Riot handles it as the IP owner with theoretically the deepest pockets, I'd be surprised if anyone else could do not-worse.
2. Same as one but on a team level; even expanding the active team count to like 10 gave us Echo Fox (and P1 for the first half of the split).
3. Who has the money to burn on a wider level? Usually organizations dumb enough to dip a toe into esports are doing so by making a game of their own to do poorly, and individuals with the cash to throw around may look at ROI that Rick Fox and Shaq have seen and put away their wallets.

So I would imagine without delving into literally thousands of reddit posts, that the reason those posts are bad is because there's not really much to talk about beyond insane speculation about dream scenarios instead of the very dull reality.

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Libertine posted:

If anything other pro leagues should get rid of franchising. You shouldn't be able to own the right to suck rear end for a long period of time and not have someone else replace you. I've never seen a team get relegated that didn't deserve it.

I dunno, it's fine for other pro sports. Then again, a huge part of that is no doubt because we have a collegiate infrastructure in place that means more than 5 people in the country can not-embarrass-themselves on a national stage on the reg in a given field.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2016 16:55

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Radical posted:

yeah, its basically a bunch of people making the same argument but in favor of a different side "if the league is franchised teams will spend more money and the level of play will rise" "if the league isn't franchised the teams will try harder to do well and the level of play will rise"

the actual reality is that theres gonna be poo poo teams no matter what

Unless they can magic up a past decade of people playing way too many video games full time while also remaining young and spry and having not-Hai-wrists

Then boy, won't we look silly

# ¿ Aug 9, 2016 17:05

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Lovechop posted:

what's even the point of watching sports if you can't have cool loving stories like leicester in the premier league

If there were any justice in the world, Inori would be a forced substitution on a random team at Worlds.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2016 17:12

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Radical posted:

it feels like the same argument as shrinking LCS back down to 8 teams, "i dont wanna watch these bottom tier rear end teams play get rid of em" like there wasn't lovely teams before they expanded it.

Here's the thing: I felt the same way, like a moron, until scarra and imaqtpie's show started.

Now I want a 36-team roster with 32 shitters and I want those streaming geniuses doing 3 hours of coverage a week.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2016 17:21

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Savage Cracker posted:

Budget Sven/Bjerg

Canonically Jensen is the budget Bjerg

# ¿ Aug 11, 2016 20:42

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rabidsquid posted:

jensen gets all the resources, bjerg doesnt get jack poo poo and is the best player in the west. jensen isnt even remotely on the level of being a budget bjergsen.

He's budget because in a given match he's probably going to be worth way less gold.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2016 05:08

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Gonna call this LOD's second most embarrassing finish on a stream in history

# ¿ Aug 13, 2016 23:06

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It's ok, Huhi will have the entire off-season to learn a second character.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 23:26

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 04:45

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Make it 10 bans, but each team picks 2 at the start of the series that stay throughout.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2016 14:25

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