On April 20 2013 23:57 AsnSensation wrote: lol just watched dig vs tsm, I joked a few times last season about reginald's tf but that was hilarious, like it's sooooo^3 bad. Random Platinum players, play a better tf.
On April 20 2013 23:57 AsnSensation wrote: lol just watched dig vs tsm, I joked a few times last season about reginald's tf but that was hilarious, like it's sooooo^3 bad. Random Platinum players, play a better tf.
I get the feeling he was super fucking nervous and was jittery all game. His TF is pretty bad, but I've never seen it THAT bad before.
On April 20 2013 18:43 Shikyo wrote: About the speculation or whatever, I just woke up and watched the matches and I definitely thought that both teams were trying to throw that last game. I didn't at any point feel like either team was serious. Especially Crs though, there were some extremely dubious plays that you would make in a solo queue with an "oh whatever" -attitude, not in a competitive game. Considering that Vulcun also swapped all of their roles, I cannot really help but think that indeed, both teams were trying to throw that.
On April 20 2013 16:08 dae wrote: Honestly, curse trying out a radically different teamcomp when they have nothing to win/lose from the game is fine. What isn't fine is Vulcan swapping roles in order to try to lose.
If you watched the game with a critical eye, Vulcun actually played the game far more seriously. Apart from the roleswaps(Which are sort of understandable, Xmithie is kind of known for Xerath as is Mancloud for Draven and Udyr also is a good champion of Zuna's) they actually played it far more seriously. In many fights it seemed like Curse members were trying to intentionally die / lose the battles.
While, as a spectator, it looked like the teams were potentially trying to throw the game Riot came out and said that they reviewed the voips and that there was no evidence that either team was trying to lose on purpose. Curse just played like shit and Vulcun's players are just really versatile. I'm glad that Riot looked into it and even more glad that the games weren't intentionally lost by either team.
On April 21 2013 11:25 Slaughter wrote: Why would either team want to lose? I know the game didn't mean much but still.
Manipulation of the playoff bracket. The winner would get the side with CLG in it and the loser would get the side with dig. That said, there's really not that much to be gained so I don't think it was intentional throwing, just two teams with nothing on the line playing horribly because they're tired.
On April 21 2013 11:25 Slaughter wrote: Why would either team want to lose? I know the game didn't mean much but still.
Manipulation of the playoff bracket. The winner would get the side with CLG in it and the loser would get the side with dig. That said, there's really not that much to be gained so I don't think it was intentional throwing, just two teams with nothing on the line playing horribly because they're tired.
Curse was set for 2nd whether they won or lost so CLG was spouting bs. The only thing it affected was Vulcun's placement. If Vulcun won, they would be 5th (facing CLG). If Vulcun lost, they would have the same record as GGU but fall down to 6th because their season record against GGU was 1-3. Also, Zuna said in one of their post game interview that they would prefer dig. Maybe that's why they were doing all the weird picks.
On April 21 2013 11:25 Slaughter wrote: Why would either team want to lose? I know the game didn't mean much but still.
Manipulation of the playoff bracket. The winner would get the side with CLG in it and the loser would get the side with dig. That said, there's really not that much to be gained so I don't think it was intentional throwing, just two teams with nothing on the line playing horribly because they're tired.
Curse was set for 2nd whether they won or lost so CLG was spouting bs. The only thing it affected was Vulcun's placement. If Vulcun won, they would be 5th (facing CLG). If Vulcun lost, they would have the same record as GGU but fall down to 6th because their season record against GGU was 1-3. Also, Zuna said in one of their post game interview that they would prefer dig. Maybe that's why they were doing all the weird picks.
On April 21 2013 11:25 Slaughter wrote: Why would either team want to lose? I know the game didn't mean much but still.
Manipulation of the playoff bracket. The winner would get the side with CLG in it and the loser would get the side with dig. That said, there's really not that much to be gained so I don't think it was intentional throwing, just two teams with nothing on the line playing horribly because they're tired.
Curse was set for 2nd whether they won or lost so CLG was spouting bs. The only thing it affected was Vulcun's placement. If Vulcun won, they would be 5th (facing CLG). If Vulcun lost, they would have the same record as GGU but fall down to 6th because their season record against GGU was 1-3. Also, Zuna said in one of their post game interview that they would prefer dig. Maybe that's why they were doing all the weird picks.
Oh oops. Never trust tweets from doublelift huh
CLG's statement was that Crs wanted Vulcun to win because they see Vulcun as having a better chance at beating CLG than GGU, and apparently Crs is plotting to make CLG's life harder on the opposite side of the bracket.
On April 22 2013 09:24 HazMat wrote: Anyone got the deets on how next week is gonna go? When does it start, who plays who, etc.
No one knows the schedule yet but we can assume Friday are the quarter finals (dig vs GGU, CLG vs Vul, SK vs aAa, EG vs Wolves), Saturday are the semis (winners of those four play TSM, Curse, Fnatic, Gambit) and Sundays are 3rd/4th and finals.
edit: fk. I like MRN more than Vulcun so I subconsciously switched them around.
On April 22 2013 09:24 HazMat wrote: Anyone got the deets on how next week is gonna go? When does it start, who plays who, etc.
No one knows the schedule yet but we can assume Friday are the quarter finals (dig vs GGU, CLG vs MRN, SK vs aAa, EG vs Wolves), Saturday are the semis (winners of those four play TSM, Curse, Fnatic, Gambit) and Sundays are 3rd/4th and finals.
What makes you assume that NA and EU playoffs are concurrent? I'd think it'd be Thurs/Fri for NA and Sat/Sun for EU like usual.
On April 22 2013 09:24 HazMat wrote: Anyone got the deets on how next week is gonna go? When does it start, who plays who, etc.
No one knows the schedule yet but we can assume Friday are the quarter finals (dig vs GGU, CLG vs MRN, SK vs aAa, EG vs Wolves), Saturday are the semis (winners of those four play TSM, Curse, Fnatic, Gambit) and Sundays are 3rd/4th and finals.
What makes you assume that NA and EU playoffs are concurrent? I'd think it'd be Thurs/Fri for NA and Sat/Sun for EU like usual.
The rulebook section 7.2 has April 26-28 for Spring Playoffs for both regions.
On April 22 2013 09:24 HazMat wrote: Anyone got the deets on how next week is gonna go? When does it start, who plays who, etc.
No one knows the schedule yet but we can assume Friday are the quarter finals (dig vs GGU, CLG vs MRN, SK vs aAa, EG vs Wolves), Saturday are the semis (winners of those four play TSM, Curse, Fnatic, Gambit) and Sundays are 3rd/4th and finals.
What makes you assume that NA and EU playoffs are concurrent? I'd think it'd be Thurs/Fri for NA and Sat/Sun for EU like usual.
The rulebook section 7.2 has April 26-28 for Spring Playoffs for both regions.
Spring Playoffs (for both NA and EU) starts on the 26th. That means we'll know the 4 teams advancing to summer and the two teams dropping down to Summer Promotion.