and @ everyone calling Mm bad, particularly zig, you are wrong. They are great players and great solo performers. Zig in particular always is amazing in solo q. They just aren't used to tournament 5v5 LAN!!! play. To put the hurt on Dignitas like they did in all 3 games was incredible, give these guys a few months and they could be winners.

As far as item choices, yeah, they looked pretty suspect - they looked like solo q builds lol. Whatever. Great (sloppy!) games.

HazMat

United States17077 Posts

April 06 2012 23:58 GMT

#1504

Hopefully we'll get to see CLG vs Dig but I feel like they'll stream TSM vs Curse since Curse hasn't had a game streamed. Both are gonna be sick games but CLG vs Dig should be amazing.

LaM

United States1321 Posts

April 06 2012 23:58 GMT

#1505

On April 07 2012 08:58 HazMat wrote:
Hopefully we'll get to see CLG vs Dig but I feel like they'll stream TSM vs Curse since Curse hasn't had a game streamed. Both are gonna be sick games but CLG vs Dig should be amazing.

I really wanna see Curse play. When Jacky. Pobe, and Crumbzz are on, they are so fun to watch.

GranDim

Canada1214 Posts

April 06 2012 23:59 GMT

#1506

On April 07 2012 08:52 Jaso wrote:

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You can't assume they were using fiber...

Even if the whole local loop is cooper (and that would only be Russian side, Riot as fiber in their data center with 100% certainty), its only going to be like 0.001% of the path length.

HazMat

United States17077 Posts

April 06 2012 23:59 GMT

#1507

On April 07 2012 08:57 daemir wrote:

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Not even in Hannover? :D

Haha didn't watch Hannover. EU timezone too strong when I have school at 6am.

HazMat

United States17077 Posts

April 06 2012 23:59 GMT

#1508

On April 07 2012 08:58 LaM wrote:

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I really wanna see Curse play. When Jacky. Pobe, and Crumbzz are on, they are so fun to watch.

Crumbzz is a sexy beast. Both in his play and looks.

vasculaR

Malaysia791 Posts

April 07 2012 00:00 GMT

#1509

I dont understand how Dignitas came back from that

snow2.0

Germany2073 Posts

April 07 2012 00:00 GMT

#1510

On April 07 2012 08:56 LaM wrote:
The most absurd comeback. Absolutely ridiculous. That shows you the difference between some really good high elo players (Mm) and a really good tournament TEAM (Dignitas). D got crushed in lane and in 1v1s/2v2s (in all 3 games in fact), but when the teamfighting/objective play broke out - Dignitas was dominant.

Still, a worrying performance from Dignitas for any fans.

Not sure how you get a reasoning into the high elo players beating dignitas lanes 1v1/2v2.

Scarra is notorious candidate for rank 1 soloqueue, with another account in the top 25s and voyboy is up there with him. Dunno about the other guys, but i'm sure they're not bad either.

Objective play... well. Dignitas didnt even challenge. they lost their lanes and challenged none of the dragons and 1st baron until they suddenly came in for the second baron and barely won that fight. Well played by them, but i can't understand your reasoning vs their own solo elo.

jadoth

694 Posts

April 07 2012 00:00 GMT

#1511

dig out comped mm so hard. they have soraka and taric armor buff and mm only magic damage is morg. morg does her damage but her long cool downs stop her from doing significant sustained damage. as long dig doesnt let anyone die to morg they have so much armor that the rest of the team cant really do much. you can see the planing in their builds too. olaf build shurelya's into warmogs to take advantage of all the armor buffs and to help get away from morg ult.

SnK-Arcbound

United States4423 Posts

April 07 2012 00:00 GMT

#1512

That's 5 heals, 4 of them aoe, also mundo ult, and the fact that dig had more aoe for team fights. Then they didn't focus voyboy, instead putting damage into soraka and the tanks. Then compare lee sin to olaf in late game team fights, and lee sin just can't do anything compared to true damage zerg.

overt

United States9006 Posts

April 07 2012 00:00 GMT

#1513

Yeah, I feel like CLG and Dig are both stronger than TSM/Curse. It'd be way cooler to watch that match.

vasculaR

Malaysia791 Posts

April 07 2012 00:00 GMT

#1514

On April 07 2012 08:58 LaM wrote:
and @ everyone calling Mm bad, particularly zig, you are wrong. They are great players and great solo performers. Zig in particular always is amazing in solo q. They just aren't used to tournament 5v5 LAN!!! play. To put the hurt on Dignitas like they did in all 3 games was incredible, give these guys a few months and they could be winners.

As far as item choices, yeah, they looked pretty suspect - they looked like solo q builds lol. Whatever. Great (sloppy!) games.

anyone knows why wildturtle got removed/left?
I dont think zionspartan is any good at all. I expect him to be removed soon.. haha

Fwmeh

1286 Posts

April 07 2012 00:02 GMT

#1515

Was that a thornmail on Riven at the end?

Chiharu Harukaze

12112 Posts

April 07 2012 00:02 GMT

#1516

On April 07 2012 09:00 vasculaR wrote:

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anyone knows why wildturtle got removed/left?
I dont think zionspartan is any good at all. I expect him to be removed soon.. haha

Turtle's parents wouldn't let him play LoL at the pro-level and go to Vegas.

LaM

United States1321 Posts

April 07 2012 00:02 GMT

#1517

On April 07 2012 09:00 snow2.0 wrote:

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What? It's pretty easy to understand. Any high ELO player can win a lane against another high ELO player, but winning a tournament game takes the type of coordination and experience that beating a high ELO solo q player doesn't give. Thus, Mono can win lanes as much as they want, but they don't have the 5v5 chops to take home the games.

What is not to understand.