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BackSideAttack
Profile Joined December 2010
1103 Posts
September 20 2013 07:04 GMT
#10561
On September 20 2013 16:03 JonnyLaw wrote:
No, because match fixing has never been a topic that's allowed to be speculated on TL.

That is an incredibly serious allegation.


Really? Cuz the entire Fantasy vs Rain situation was allowed to be talked about.
Cubu
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
1171 Posts
September 20 2013 07:04 GMT
#10562
On September 20 2013 16:03 ChEDo wrote:
"Korean teams wont lose to EU" - Proceeds to lose to EU teams and laugh about it.

Story of how Ozone won OGN, got picked up by Samsung, replace Homme, and proceed to get eliminated along with Mineski and Vulcan. What a story to tell.

yeah i never understood why they replaced homme.
Amui
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada10567 Posts
September 20 2013 07:04 GMT
#10563
On September 20 2013 15:59 BackSideAttack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2013 15:57 AsnSensation wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:55 BackSideAttack wrote:
sigh plz fnatic don't throw...please at least try to win


you dedicated like 5 post to the "fnatic might throw for gambit" topic, drop it already.
On September 20 2013 15:57 Shikyo wrote:
So who are all the teams waiting to play after groups? C9 and that one korean team and...


royal club from china
and gamania bears from TW
sword from korea


Cuz you know it's gonna happen.


Can you stop. All you have is guesswork and conspiracies, and it's cluttering up this thread.
Porouscloud - NA LoL
Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-20 07:07:36
September 20 2013 07:05 GMT
#10564
On September 20 2013 15:58 O-ops wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2013 15:48 Itsmedudeman wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:45 Swords wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:44 Itsmedudeman wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:43 Fionn wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:42 Itsmedudeman wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:36 Fionn wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:35 wei2coolman wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:35 Fionn wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:33 Swords wrote:
[quote]

After this I would offer to coach a team that isn't Ozone. Being benched after captaining the team to worlds only to see it backfire would cause me to probably leave Ozone behind.


While this is true, Ozone probably should have benched him back when he was the biggest problem on Ozone. Everyone on the team looked good, he was awful, and he even thought about retiring. They could have kicked him or switched Looper in, but they stuck with him, he improved, found his role and they won OGN Spring.

You still believe in Dade? lol.


Huh. No. Dade has been awful. If he can't expand his champion pool or learn new champions before LoL Proleague or OGN Winter, he should be benched. I'm talking about Homme.

Homme has the exact same problem as dade but even worse


Because Homme, even when he was bad, was still just the #4 guy on Ozone. Dade is still used as a #1/#2 guy, so his terribleness is the difference between Ozone winning and losing.

If the game ever switches to top laners besides shen, zac, and nasus then homme will have to be replaced immediately anyway. You might as well just do that now.


At worlds? It's like having a football team make it to the super bowl and then switch the quarterback, it's stupid.

People are overreading this shit. Homme is like the dad but no one here clearly knows what he contributed in game. They've had so much time to scrim and practice and now that they've still remained with looper it's clear that homme was performing terribly. Homme is not the quarterback. He's like a linebacker and a mediocre one at that. It's not like homme is off the team either. He probably gives them a lot of advice outside the game.


He's also their brain and their source of mental fortitude when they're actually playing the game.

His skill didn't even matter that much because with the way carry priority is distributed in Ozone all he had to do was not die, which he did during the most important stretch of their season. Now they have a yoloqueue god and 4 other kids with no shotcalling experience and no one to tell them to cowboy the fuck up. You could see how they're running around like headless chickens compared to how they played before.

He's not even playing bad lol, he fucking put them in worlds.

No he didn't lol. Did you even watch summer? He got carried incredibly hard after the zac nerfs. He was a huge liability and would sometimes fall behind by upwards of 50 cs. And you can't say shit like he was their mental fortitude. We don't know what he contributed in terms of decision making. This isn't a 1 man shotcalling team like TSM.

You can point to an easy target like that for ozone's performance but we're all just armchairing here. Ozone knows what's going on with their team.
BackSideAttack
Profile Joined December 2010
1103 Posts
September 20 2013 07:05 GMT
#10565
I blame the Chinese teams. They shouldn't have scrimmed so much with the European teams and made them all better. I hope to god it doesn't come back to bite them in the ass.
vthree
Profile Joined November 2011
Hong Kong8039 Posts
September 20 2013 07:06 GMT
#10566
On September 20 2013 15:58 Vonthin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2013 15:56 BackSideAttack wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:55 ChEDo wrote:
Riot should just have 2 spots reserved for teams that didnt make it to Worlds. From LCS, LPL, OGN etc. and just have 2 good teams that have a potential to win the worlds. Like as much as its fun and dandy to have teams from each regions and the international wildcard. GG.EU and mineski dont deserve the spot, sure they "earned" it, but why not give that 2 spot to far far better teams and we can have sick games. Imagine a tournament full of teams that didnt make this years worlds. CLG, Curse, KT, CJ, iG, WE.


They should just combine the Taiwanese and Sea qualifiers.


This and let anyone join the wildcard spot, make the tournament held after na/eu lcs and ogn/lpl finals and make it a super deathmatch for the last spot, sort of like how NASL would have 15 spots from their season then held a open bracket for people who didn't get into the tournament for the last spot


Well with a 'world qualifier' is that if it is held online-only, lag is a big issue. Offline is pretty too expensive if you need to fly teams from all over the world just for a qualifier.
Dan HH
Profile Joined July 2012
Romania9179 Posts
September 20 2013 07:07 GMT
#10567
On September 20 2013 15:58 Vonthin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2013 15:56 BackSideAttack wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:55 ChEDo wrote:
Riot should just have 2 spots reserved for teams that didnt make it to Worlds. From LCS, LPL, OGN etc. and just have 2 good teams that have a potential to win the worlds. Like as much as its fun and dandy to have teams from each regions and the international wildcard. GG.EU and mineski dont deserve the spot, sure they "earned" it, but why not give that 2 spot to far far better teams and we can have sick games. Imagine a tournament full of teams that didnt make this years worlds. CLG, Curse, KT, CJ, iG, WE.


They should just combine the Taiwanese and Sea qualifiers.


This and let anyone join the wildcard spot, make the tournament held after na/eu lcs and ogn/lpl finals and make it a super deathmatch for the last spot, sort of like how NASL would have 15 spots from their season then held a open bracket for people who didn't get into the tournament for the last spot

This would have been awesome, a tournament with KT-B, WE, EG, etc. for the wildcard spot. I'd be so disappointed if they don't make format changes next seson, there are just so many things wrong with it.
Ryuu314
Profile Joined October 2009
United States12679 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-20 07:10:31
September 20 2013 07:08 GMT
#10568
Honestly, as bad as Ozone is playing right now, they deserved this spot at worlds regardless. Right after OGN Summer, the top three teams in Korea were easily SKT, KT, and Ozone. The CJ teams were not playing too hot before that and Ozone did take third place in Champions. Everyone saying KT/CJ should've been here over Ozone is on crack/anti-bandwagoning really hard. What should've happened is Sword should've been replaced with KT.

I think the Wildcard slot is stupid. Taiwan/HK/SEA should be combined into one qualifier with 1~2 spots at least until they reach parity with other regions. The "wildcard" slot should've simply have been the All-Stars slot. OR get rid of the All-stars slot or only give Taiwan/HK/SEA one slot and do an international wildcard online tourney a la TI1~3. As much fun it is to see GG.eu and Mineski get stomped, it's really unfair to the teams that couldn't make it to worlds and are clearly better.
PhOeniX[MinD]
Profile Joined August 2008
361 Posts
September 20 2013 07:09 GMT
#10569
On September 20 2013 16:03 ChEDo wrote:
"Korean teams wont lose to EU" - Proceeds to lose to EU teams and laugh about it.

Story of how Ozone won OGN, got picked up by Samsung, replace Homme, and proceed to get eliminated along with Mineski and Vulcan. What a story to tell.


im more worried about SKT, the korean hope cause they are not playing solid, im sure they will make it to the next round and SKT vs KT bullets was a close series, i think bullets could have easily been on worlds but let faker use zed so shame on them
KT_FlaSh #1
BackSideAttack
Profile Joined December 2010
1103 Posts
September 20 2013 07:09 GMT
#10570
On September 20 2013 16:07 Dan HH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2013 15:58 Vonthin wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:56 BackSideAttack wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:55 ChEDo wrote:
Riot should just have 2 spots reserved for teams that didnt make it to Worlds. From LCS, LPL, OGN etc. and just have 2 good teams that have a potential to win the worlds. Like as much as its fun and dandy to have teams from each regions and the international wildcard. GG.EU and mineski dont deserve the spot, sure they "earned" it, but why not give that 2 spot to far far better teams and we can have sick games. Imagine a tournament full of teams that didnt make this years worlds. CLG, Curse, KT, CJ, iG, WE.


They should just combine the Taiwanese and Sea qualifiers.


This and let anyone join the wildcard spot, make the tournament held after na/eu lcs and ogn/lpl finals and make it a super deathmatch for the last spot, sort of like how NASL would have 15 spots from their season then held a open bracket for people who didn't get into the tournament for the last spot

This would have been awesome, a tournament with KT-B, WE, EG, etc. for the wildcard spot. I'd be so disappointed if they don't make format changes next seson, there are just so many things wrong with it.


I'm pretty sure Riot wants to make the game more international, so if that means they have to sacrifice some slots at worlds they will do it. Back in the day people asked Riot to remove first round byes, but Riot refused citing that they didn't want a single region to dominate like in SC2.
ChEDo
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada310 Posts
September 20 2013 07:09 GMT
#10571
I'm going to bed disappointed at Ozone, They embarrassed Korea. Its a sad day for Koreans. My head will be heavier as I walk toward my bed, in my walk of shame.
vthree
Profile Joined November 2011
Hong Kong8039 Posts
September 20 2013 07:10 GMT
#10572
On September 20 2013 16:05 BackSideAttack wrote:
I blame the Chinese teams. They shouldn't have scrimmed so much with the European teams and made them all better. I hope to god it doesn't come back to bite them in the ass.


Right, because scrimming with the EU teams wouldn't have improved the Chinese teams at all...seriously, take your salty tears somewhere else.
PhOeniX[MinD]
Profile Joined August 2008
361 Posts
September 20 2013 07:10 GMT
#10573
On September 20 2013 16:09 BackSideAttack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2013 16:07 Dan HH wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:58 Vonthin wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:56 BackSideAttack wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:55 ChEDo wrote:
Riot should just have 2 spots reserved for teams that didnt make it to Worlds. From LCS, LPL, OGN etc. and just have 2 good teams that have a potential to win the worlds. Like as much as its fun and dandy to have teams from each regions and the international wildcard. GG.EU and mineski dont deserve the spot, sure they "earned" it, but why not give that 2 spot to far far better teams and we can have sick games. Imagine a tournament full of teams that didnt make this years worlds. CLG, Curse, KT, CJ, iG, WE.


They should just combine the Taiwanese and Sea qualifiers.


This and let anyone join the wildcard spot, make the tournament held after na/eu lcs and ogn/lpl finals and make it a super deathmatch for the last spot, sort of like how NASL would have 15 spots from their season then held a open bracket for people who didn't get into the tournament for the last spot

This would have been awesome, a tournament with KT-B, WE, EG, etc. for the wildcard spot. I'd be so disappointed if they don't make format changes next seson, there are just so many things wrong with it.


I'm pretty sure Riot wants to make the game more international, so if that means they have to sacrifice some slots at worlds they will do it. Back in the day people asked Riot to remove first round byes, but Riot refused citing that they didn't want a single region to dominate like in SC2.


i dont see LAN-LAS spot there im sure they can play at mineski level
KT_FlaSh #1
BackSideAttack
Profile Joined December 2010
1103 Posts
September 20 2013 07:11 GMT
#10574
On September 20 2013 16:09 ChEDo wrote:
I'm going to bed disappointed at Ozone, They embarrassed Korea. Its a sad day for Koreans. My head will be heavier as I walk toward my bed, in my walk of shame.


In retrospect I really wish KTB had beaten skt in the finals. That way Ozone wouldn't have made worlds sigh
BackSideAttack
Profile Joined December 2010
1103 Posts
September 20 2013 07:13 GMT
#10575
On September 20 2013 16:10 vthree wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2013 16:05 BackSideAttack wrote:
I blame the Chinese teams. They shouldn't have scrimmed so much with the European teams and made them all better. I hope to god it doesn't come back to bite them in the ass.


Right, because scrimming with the EU teams wouldn't have improved the Chinese teams at all...seriously, take your salty tears somewhere else.


Considering that the Europeans couldn't deal with the Chinese's aggression, Europe benefited a lot more. Gambit got stomped so hard by OMG they had to adjust their early game to be less passive. Fnatic lost their first game in 20 minutes with every lane losing. Considering that almost everyone is doing 3v1 dives is the direct result of OMG scrimming with everyone.
Chexx
Profile Joined May 2011
Korea (South)11232 Posts
September 20 2013 07:14 GMT
#10576
On September 20 2013 16:11 BackSideAttack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2013 16:09 ChEDo wrote:
I'm going to bed disappointed at Ozone, They embarrassed Korea. Its a sad day for Koreans. My head will be heavier as I walk toward my bed, in my walk of shame.


In retrospect I really wish KTB had beaten skt in the finals. That way Ozone wouldn't have made worlds sigh

It looked so good at that time
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Jacmert
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Canada1709 Posts
September 20 2013 07:14 GMT
#10577
On September 20 2013 16:09 ChEDo wrote:
I'm going to bed disappointed at Ozone, They embarrassed Korea. Its a sad day for Koreans. My head will be heavier as I walk toward my bed, in my walk of shame.

Are you Korean Canadian? BC or Ontario?

And don't lose faith in SKT. SKT will carry us to the top! (I'm Chinese, btw, lol. But, you know, "Starcraft", so...)
Plat Support Main #believe
Ryuu314
Profile Joined October 2009
United States12679 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-20 07:16:54
September 20 2013 07:14 GMT
#10578
On September 20 2013 16:09 BackSideAttack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2013 16:07 Dan HH wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:58 Vonthin wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:56 BackSideAttack wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:55 ChEDo wrote:
Riot should just have 2 spots reserved for teams that didnt make it to Worlds. From LCS, LPL, OGN etc. and just have 2 good teams that have a potential to win the worlds. Like as much as its fun and dandy to have teams from each regions and the international wildcard. GG.EU and mineski dont deserve the spot, sure they "earned" it, but why not give that 2 spot to far far better teams and we can have sick games. Imagine a tournament full of teams that didnt make this years worlds. CLG, Curse, KT, CJ, iG, WE.


They should just combine the Taiwanese and Sea qualifiers.


This and let anyone join the wildcard spot, make the tournament held after na/eu lcs and ogn/lpl finals and make it a super deathmatch for the last spot, sort of like how NASL would have 15 spots from their season then held a open bracket for people who didn't get into the tournament for the last spot

This would have been awesome, a tournament with KT-B, WE, EG, etc. for the wildcard spot. I'd be so disappointed if they don't make format changes next seson, there are just so many things wrong with it.


I'm pretty sure Riot wants to make the game more international, so if that means they have to sacrifice some slots at worlds they will do it. Back in the day people asked Riot to remove first round byes, but Riot refused citing that they didn't want a single region to dominate like in SC2.

Their rationale at the time was fine. But post Worlds S3, I think they need to revamp the entire format. It's clear that there is no one dominating region if groups is anything to go by. The four main regions all seem very strong and capable of taking games off each other. Granted, China seems really strong atm, Korea seems to be choking, EU's on a hot streak, and NA still has some sloppy play, but each region is within arm's reach of each other.

Tournament format wise, I think Valve got it right. A wildcard slot with an online qualifier is pretty amazing to watch and makes for a good underdog story without putting in complete semi-pro/amateur teams that will just get stomped. I also really liked how Valve made group stages less all-or-nothing by letting all teams go through groups; it just affects their seed. Bo1s are inherently random and give teams less time to feel each other out.

EDIT: Wildcard qualifier tourney will also let the weaker regions like SEA and LA field teams to participate in a truly international tournament without mucking up the quality of games at the actual championships. Iunno, watching GG.eu and Mineski play is just...boring and stupid. They put up a fight and that's pretty cool, but games against them are basically byes.
Cubu
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
1171 Posts
September 20 2013 07:17 GMT
#10579
On September 20 2013 16:14 Ryuu314 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2013 16:09 BackSideAttack wrote:
On September 20 2013 16:07 Dan HH wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:58 Vonthin wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:56 BackSideAttack wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:55 ChEDo wrote:
Riot should just have 2 spots reserved for teams that didnt make it to Worlds. From LCS, LPL, OGN etc. and just have 2 good teams that have a potential to win the worlds. Like as much as its fun and dandy to have teams from each regions and the international wildcard. GG.EU and mineski dont deserve the spot, sure they "earned" it, but why not give that 2 spot to far far better teams and we can have sick games. Imagine a tournament full of teams that didnt make this years worlds. CLG, Curse, KT, CJ, iG, WE.


They should just combine the Taiwanese and Sea qualifiers.


This and let anyone join the wildcard spot, make the tournament held after na/eu lcs and ogn/lpl finals and make it a super deathmatch for the last spot, sort of like how NASL would have 15 spots from their season then held a open bracket for people who didn't get into the tournament for the last spot

This would have been awesome, a tournament with KT-B, WE, EG, etc. for the wildcard spot. I'd be so disappointed if they don't make format changes next seson, there are just so many things wrong with it.


I'm pretty sure Riot wants to make the game more international, so if that means they have to sacrifice some slots at worlds they will do it. Back in the day people asked Riot to remove first round byes, but Riot refused citing that they didn't want a single region to dominate like in SC2.

Their rationale at the time was fine. But post Worlds S3, I think they need to revamp the entire format. It's clear that there is no one dominating region if groups is anything to go by. The four main regions all seem very strong and capable of taking games off each other. Granted, China seems really strong atm, Korea seems to be choking, EU's on a hot streak, and NA still has some sloppy play, but each region is within arm's reach of each other.


No Na is still behind compared to others (don't know about c9 we'll just have to wait and see). I don't see vulcan and tsm having any chance of getting out of groups.
Dan HH
Profile Joined July 2012
Romania9179 Posts
September 20 2013 07:17 GMT
#10580
On September 20 2013 16:09 BackSideAttack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2013 16:07 Dan HH wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:58 Vonthin wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:56 BackSideAttack wrote:
On September 20 2013 15:55 ChEDo wrote:
Riot should just have 2 spots reserved for teams that didnt make it to Worlds. From LCS, LPL, OGN etc. and just have 2 good teams that have a potential to win the worlds. Like as much as its fun and dandy to have teams from each regions and the international wildcard. GG.EU and mineski dont deserve the spot, sure they "earned" it, but why not give that 2 spot to far far better teams and we can have sick games. Imagine a tournament full of teams that didnt make this years worlds. CLG, Curse, KT, CJ, iG, WE.


They should just combine the Taiwanese and Sea qualifiers.


This and let anyone join the wildcard spot, make the tournament held after na/eu lcs and ogn/lpl finals and make it a super deathmatch for the last spot, sort of like how NASL would have 15 spots from their season then held a open bracket for people who didn't get into the tournament for the last spot

This would have been awesome, a tournament with KT-B, WE, EG, etc. for the wildcard spot. I'd be so disappointed if they don't make format changes next seson, there are just so many things wrong with it.


I'm pretty sure Riot wants to make the game more international, so if that means they have to sacrifice some slots at worlds they will do it. Back in the day people asked Riot to remove first round byes, but Riot refused citing that they didn't want a single region to dominate like in SC2.

I don't get that reasoning. By giving a bye to a team considered worse by Riot than some of the group stage teams just to keep the region it represents in the elimination phase, you actually make them play fewer games and get less exposure.

If Gamania were in the groups, they would play a minimum of 8 games as opposed to a minimum of 2 games which is very possible in the current system. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind having some exotic teams if they didn't play so many games in a short span like Mineski and GG.eu.

I wish they'd use the IPL5 system, it was by far my favorite out of all the LoL tournaments so far. Or at least a classic 4 groups of 4 into single elimination if they don't like double elimination.
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