Maurice Stückenschneider

Third-party tournaments always lended more spice to the Riot internal tournaments too: the fatigue of watching competition has only set in once the monotony of the monopoly became predominant. Variety is the spice of life, from graphics to formats to caster diversity etc.

“The rise of the third-party ecosystem has actually been really interesting” >literally killed it 10 years ago by eliminating IEMs, IPLs, Dreamhacks, etcetera etcetera The lack of accountability is remarkable. I am in awe.

For KR it’s almost the opposite; scaling junglers work because laners play according to predictable, high level routines that are so detailed and fleshed out that they account for jungle being late/being the follow-up. Junglers loosen up once lanes loosen up, not vice versa.

Their laners are great, but they’re not top tier KR level, but the jungle x lanes interactions is where it’s at. If jungle can play loose, their lanes loosen up, and you want to mitigate confidence acquisition in the early game for that reason. Don’t grant them their rhythm.

I don’t know what G2’s scouting indicated, but jungle against Chinese teams and Xun especially (unless you have plenty of long term scrim experience against them), usually boils down to matching early game strength. You can play scaling lanes, you can’t play scaling junglers.

Sacrifice jungle scaling for ensuring you’re getting through the early game should be the name of the game for G2. Xun gets to play an “illegal” game, while Skewmond has to adhere to routine setups that Xun continues to be able to violate

G2 needs to opt into early, cheesy botside plays if BB continues to play defensive, scaling matchups. They’re not given the same afk affordances GenG granted them, they need to fight fire with fire and pick better lvl 3 jungle champions. Heck even Nunu would be a good pick

@TheTriarii That tracks

@Amazingx I don't have the data in front of me but I am pretty sure Na's Eastern upsets are usually against Chinese teams and eu's are typically against Korean teams. Tomorrow will be interesting.

As dumb as this sounds, the map states JDG/BLG generate are going to be a lot rougher for G2 to face. They could rely on scouting purely today, but CN teams don’t abide by the same meticulous, standardized play patterns

Moreover: CN teams have tendencies, instead of “routines”: volatility is intrinsic. So unless your routines incorporate all of their tendencies and punish them continuously, you’re in for a fist fight

Honestly need LYON to lose just because I want to see Inspired’s reactions after

Honestly, awesome response. Also great that she gets to speak not just through the paradigm or lens of an athlete, but with the respect of being acknowledged as a full-fledged individual with a multitude of high level ideas and interests beyond the sport (League could use this)

@MZLeothechosen @Drewskeezlol My season 7 Elise game w/ Fnatic shall not be mentioned.

@Amazingx @Drewskeezlol I know exactly what list you're on

Gryffinn is the first player in #LCS history to end a game at 0/8/0. There were 9 players before him that ended at 0/7/0.

@MZLeothechosen @Drewskeezlol Didn’t make the list, god bless 🙏

@Drewskeezlol Chovy, Wunder, and YoungBuck just to name a few. Here's a list of all 8+ death 0/x/0 games from Worlds Qualifying Regions.

@vvanitycs I don’t like upset either, but he’s not the problem

@Amazingx how many chances upset will get? this guy should be out of the league after his vitality stunt

If FNC was serious about improving, they would clean house. Fire the GM, the coaching staff, top, support, jungle. Keep mid and adc.

@onam3000 It is heavily contingent, diff picks require diff skillsets. I wouldn’t compromise, but it is good to have an understanding as to why other picks work better in soloq.

@Amazingx How much of that do you think is due to champion picks? I mostly play pro meta stuff cause my primary goat with soloq is to get a better understanding of the limits and powerlevel of pro meta picks, always feels like spamming Talon Diana would make climbing a lot easier.

Different roles have different levels of overlap between competitive and solo queue. There’s often a fascination to equate LP with competitive skill, but especially roles like jungle (which essentially become mostly PvE and tempo based) don’t find that much positive transfer.

@ohlomass Yes, it is. There have been plenty of regional phenomena, but no global phenomena like LR. It’s a different ballgame

@Amazingx It’s a tiny bit unfair to say los ratones showed that when KC did it right before, but I guess language barrier is the issue

Los Ratones did show what is and has been lacking ever since we’ve corporatized League after Venture Capital entered: Authentic passion, and some sort of friendship bond between owner/coach/players, and making it work despite non-ideal player types. Reminiscent of OG LoL.