Not necessarily. A company can sponsor a tournament to use for drafting purposes. I find it slightly weird for Azubu teams to participate in their own tournament but everything should be good as long as the officials can be impartial.

JerKy

Korea (South)3013 Posts

June 26 2012 08:27 GMT

#363

Leaguepedia NA Invitational
(Tentative) teams and bracket have been released

Its a lot of information and probably better if you just go to Leaguepedia Page to look at everything

Definitely deserves its own thread imo, just posting a quick notification here

JBright

Vancouver14381 Posts

June 26 2012 15:28 GMT

#364

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/esports-management-group-llc-announces-management-agency-representing-professional-gamers-2012-06-26

CLG/HSGG gets picked up by an agency group that has done stuff for poker and golf players. Tasteless and a few others also got signed up by the same company.

NeoIllusions

United States37500 Posts

June 26 2012 19:08 GMT

#365

CLG really needs marketing help. Hopefully eMG can turn them around. ;o

JBright

Vancouver14381 Posts

June 26 2012 19:55 GMT

#366

On June 27 2012 04:08 NeoIllusions wrote:
CLG really needs marketing help. Hopefully eMG can turn them around. ;o

It's interesting to note that only CLG.Prime and CLG.EU are listed as eMG's clients on their website.

And pfft. CLG isn't #1 ;P

On June 27 2012 05:21 sylverfyre wrote:

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They were #1 by rating points up until IPL4 - now TSM is ahead by 125 points.

sylverfyre

United States8298 Posts

June 26 2012 20:21 GMT

#367

On June 27 2012 04:55 JBright wrote:

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It's interesting to note that only CLG.Prime and CLG.EU are listed as eMG's clients on their website.

And pfft. CLG isn't #1 ;P

They were #1 by rating points up until IPL4 - now TSM is ahead by 125 points.

On June 27 2012 05:21 sylverfyre wrote:

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They were #1 by rating points up until IPL4 - now TSM is ahead by 125 points.

A lot of CLG's points came from preseason 2 (official start was IEM Kiev) so they were definitely strong ~6-9 months ago. CLG.Prime hasn't been #1 even in NA for a while now. They do have the #1 brand though with the inclusion of CLG.EU since they are arguably the best team in EU right now. Circuit point-wise, it's probably a 325 points difference since Riot hasn't updated the points for MLG Spring. [/QUOTE]

Just trying to figure out on what basis they make the claim, not saying it's true. I guess if you added up CLG EU and CLG Prime points, you get more than any other organization...? It's bad statistics, but I guess that's the basis for the claim? @_@

JBright

Vancouver14381 Posts

June 26 2012 21:16 GMT

#368

On June 27 2012 05:21 sylverfyre wrote:

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Just trying to figure out on what basis they make the claim, not saying it's true. I guess if you added up CLG EU and CLG Prime points, you get more than any other organization...? It's bad statistics, but I guess that's the basis for the claim? @_@

Oh, I was just trying to give Neo/MoonBear a jab by saying CLG =/= #1.

We all know they're big CLG fans...and I'm a TSM fan. It's obviously all PR talk since no one wants to be the first to say "we signed the #2 guy" when the #1 guy is still free.

NeoIllusions

United States37500 Posts

June 26 2012 22:18 GMT

#369

I think CLG.na is numba too atm. No need to lie about it.

JBright

Vancouver14381 Posts

June 27 2012 01:07 GMT

#370

http://competitive.na.leagueoflegends.com/competitive/circuit/points

New rankings are out. Evo gets to keep the points from EG.

NeurOnuS

France182 Posts

June 27 2012 11:36 GMT

#371

Groups for OGN are out :
A 7/4 - Azubu Blaze, WE, GJR, Najin Shield
B 7/11 - Azubu Frost, Dig, RoMg, Najin Sword
C 7/18 - Xenic Storm, NaVi, CJ Entus, StarTale
D 7/25 - LG-IM, CLG.EU, MVP Blue, CLG.NA

Too bad CLG.eu & na are in the same group...

IGotPlayguuu

Italy660 Posts

June 27 2012 12:53 GMT

#372

EDIT: sorry wrong thread

JBright

Vancouver14381 Posts

June 28 2012 02:56 GMT

#373

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=348516

Yet another BW legend join the ranks of LoL in Korea. This time it is Nal_Ra as a commentator.

JerKy

Korea (South)3013 Posts

June 28 2012 05:38 GMT

#374

Millenium does some roster changing

Former aAa players Yell0wstar and nRated are now on Mill (replacing Entenzwerg and Dax)
The current Millenium roster is now:


Player              Position   
Arcagod             AP Mid             
pHeoz               Top                 
Naijik              Jungle             
nRated              Support              
Yell0wstar          AD carry

Source:
http://www.millenium.org/lol/accueil/actualites/lol-changement-de-botlane-pour-m-christoph-nrated-seitz-et-bora-yellowstar-kim-rejoignent-millenium-lol-70303

NeoIllusions

United States37500 Posts

June 28 2012 20:21 GMT

#375

- Monomaniac eSports: new team assembles xHazzard (Top), DontMashMe (AD), Patoy (Support), Lexvink (Jungle), Vileroze (AP)

Source

Schmieds

United States312 Posts

July 01 2012 14:46 GMT

#376

When aAa was in form I thought nRated was one of the best supports in Europe. I'm willing to bet that his moving back to Millenium with Yellowstar, who he already has synergy with, will make that team markedly better.

NeoIllusions

United States37500 Posts

July 02 2012 16:56 GMT

#377

- Leaguepedia NA Invitiational
Standings: 1) oRb 2) TD 3) TSM.evo 4) Ordinance Gaming

JerKy

Korea (South)3013 Posts

July 02 2012 22:44 GMT

#378

Monomaniac eSports picks up a second LoL team:
Vermillion - AP Mid
Chow - AD Carry
lonz - Support
Next - Top
JDWU - Jungle
Source

CLG appoints a new CEO (this one is kinda funny)
HotshotGG steps down as CEO, (what I presume to be his mother) Helen "RealMomGG" Georgallidis is the new CEO
Source

Redox

Germany24794 Posts

July 03 2012 23:04 GMT

#379

As has been rumoured for some time MoMa has built a new team now:

Top: Arthana
Midlane: MoMa
Jungle: Dedrayon
Bot: CandyPanda and Dax

They call themselves Zuom so I guess they will be the new mouz team?

SK looks like this now:

Top: Youngbuck
Midlane: Ocelote
Jungle: Blooddragon
Bot: Kev1n and Nyph

Personally I dont expect too much from both teams for various reasons, hope I am wrong.

JerKy

Korea (South)3013 Posts

July 06 2012 09:10 GMT

#380

Apparently Absolute Legends released their LoL team (I'm assuming theyre referring to the EU team)
Three of the members are confirmed to have joined Acer's lineup

Source