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On February 12 2017 07:02 VayneAuthority wrote:Show nested quote +On February 12 2017 06:52 dsyxelic wrote:On February 12 2017 06:06 VayneAuthority wrote:have you seen him in solo q lol, he can barely scrape masters and has a mediocre champ pool.Goldenglue is bad but eons ahead of link. yeah but I thought it was a motivation issue (not being on a team) because when TL picked him up he shot up to like 300+ LP challenger which is nothing amazing for a pro but showed at least to me that it could've been motivation issues and not taking soloq seriously before TL knew this too and picked him up despite that so its surprising to me since this was all information we were already given before the link pickup, and we still drop him like a sack of hot potatoes before even trying him. which means he was so shit beyond what we even expected his only good winrates are like ryze and lb and i think picking the super OPs in scrims is generally frowned upon or banned out to test strats so I would assume he just got trashed mid when not on good champs. I think his secondary champs are like lulu/ori/cass/zed or something
https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=link
Those arent his only good winrates and he likes playing other champs too ie Ekko.
https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=sooyoung
There is also his smurf where he likes playing other champs like TF.
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On February 12 2017 04:08 Sent. wrote:
Can we have "permanent" threads for EU and NA like we have for LCK? At least for regular games, playoffs should get their own threads
I'll get it done in an hour or two.
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TL should start asking players they sign for 20% of their future earnings as some kind of finder's fee. That's one way they'd make money.
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This is literally the same announcement as LiquidLink with less of a to do about it. Like the literal same thing, player who retired wants a second shot so he'll live off site and possibly play in LCS. I can't imagine this change impacting anything, something just feels off about the ex-Curse side of TL. They're in a perpetual state of "no this was the problem, NOW we're ready".
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Why does nobody want to attend IEM events?
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On February 21 2017 01:49 Sent. wrote:
Why does nobody want to attend IEM events?
Because in LoL they don't matter. No one cares who was IEM world champion if you bomb out of worlds in the group stage. For whatever reason the LoL esports ecosystem gives no fucks for IEM and its not worth traveling if that means doing worse in your respective domestic league
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On February 21 2017 01:49 Sent. wrote:
Why does nobody want to attend IEM events?
Most of them happen during the offseason when players want to spend time with family/loved ones, teams don't have whole rosters, or teams have very new rosters and don't want to give an unpracticed impression. Katowice throws off Spring Split practice, which has a large impact on 2/3 of the regions' Worlds spots.
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On February 16 2017 13:49 chipmonklord17 wrote:This is literally the same announcement as LiquidLink with less of a to do about it. Like the literal same thing, player who retired wants a second shot so he'll live off site and possibly play in LCS. I can't imagine this change impacting anything, something just feels off about the ex-Curse side of TL. They're in a perpetual state of "no this was the problem, NOW we're ready".
yea idk what is going on with the league side/ex curse side its like they just leave you high and dry. like breaking point was just hell and the whole team needed a therapist. CLG and TSM both used weldon to help through that but man, liquid needs like dr strange it seems.
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TL apparently had jared tendler, someone much more well known for sports psychology and therapy. doesn't make a difference lol.
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They tried to build a team around Piglet and he's just not performing, which isn't surprising since last year he went to chill out in casual NACS.
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Are those rumors about Piglet switching to midlane legit?
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On February 22 2017 11:02 Sent. wrote:
Are those rumors about Piglet switching to midlane legit? They are trying out various rosters, but that is one of them.
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https://esports.yahoo.com/team-liquid-to-hold-tryouts-during-two-week-iem-katowice-break-015929728.html
full on tryouts for liquid.
choice quotes from steve:
“We recognize that [Greyson “Goldenglue” Gilmer] is underperforming on the roster.”
“We tried Link out in scrims, and we have statistics associated with those scrims,” Arhancet said. “They were very obvious that Goldenglue was the better choice for the team… It was unanimous that [Goldenglue] was the better player.”
When asked about the rumor of Piglet moving to mid lane, Arhancet said it was a possibility.
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honestly at this point its worth trying since its hard to find good players available right now
piglets actually a decent mid from what i've seen in soloq. kind of the jensen type. strong laner that puts pressure but kind of demands attention ( i guess pretty much how he played bot)
theoretically its a much better style to play in mid than bot right now for sure
the only question I have is his non assassins. i've seen some good play on his stream on ryze and such but only saw him play it rarely. his zed is clean tho lol
question is whos adc if he mids? some rumors said link but wtf
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So everyone tells them GG isn't good enough quantity for LCS at least not as a starter, they go with GG anyway. Then instead of picking up any kind of potential mid laner they pick up another very old washed up talent in Link, kick him weeks later. Now they are in full crisis mode trying out anything. Absolute disaster right here.
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On February 22 2017 18:25 Numy wrote:
So everyone tells them GG isn't good enough quantity for LCS at least not as a starter, they go with GG anyway. Then instead of picking up any kind of potential mid laner they pick up another very old washed up talent in Link, kick him weeks later. Now they are in full crisis mode trying out anything. Absolute disaster right here.
We have to remember Arhancet's not top dog at TL anymore, but rather this co-ownership group with Peter Guber, Ted Leonsis, Magic Johnson and so on, so when they see their investment is 2-8 and flirting with relegation, it makes sense that they'd do an intervention and go into full crisis mode, especially considering they just got a week off to try things out.
The person who must be in really hot water right now is Arhancet, who's still in charge of management and day-to-day operations. He got more money and put together a weaker roster for Spring 2017 and is ultimately responsible for the team's results thus far. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets the boot between now and the summer split.
It wouldn't be unprecedented for a team's CEO to get replaced, either. HotshotGG handed over the CEO reins for CLG to Mylixia (I think that's how it's spelled) a while back, and he's done a pretty respectable job of keeping CLG relevant in the NA LCS in the face of progressively tougher competition. The same can't be said of Arhancet.
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The clg thing was more of a hotshot not doing anything to generate revenue to the point that it became a problem.
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EPT
