Congrats to Fnatic, they played superbly and glgl to them in the Semis!
No one is saying that Fnatic only won because of the level 1 in Game 3. Please keep the nationalistic statements out of our subforum.

2. Riot's Worlds format is atrocious. Let's not beat a dead horse here. I will certainly be talking to Riot's eSports dept about it in the near future.

I simply ask everyone to be civil. Humble in victory, graceful in defeat.
Enjoy the games~

-Neo, Sept 23rd, 3:20 PM PDT, page 120

Typhon

United States387 Posts

September 25 2013 07:02 GMT

#5801

On September 25 2013 15:36 Kinie wrote:
Were any of today's games worth watching? Didn't really get a chance to check them out, this thing called real life jumped up and decided to gank my free time.

OMG vs RC was quite possibly better than any of the group stage matches. SKT vs Bears .... well, quite possibly the worst games.

Fionn

United States23455 Posts

September 25 2013 07:07 GMT

#5802

OMG vs. Royal Club were probably the best games of the tournament.

Only watch SKT vs. Bears if you want some Piglet and Faker porn.

Kinie

United States3106 Posts

September 25 2013 07:34 GMT

#5803

I'll watch the OMG vs. Royal Club games tonight or tomorrow then.

Nothing wrong with Faker/Piglet porn, but I want to see high level plays on both sides, not just two pros (if not top 1 of their role) face-stomp another team.

kongoline

6318 Posts

September 25 2013 07:40 GMT

#5804

hilarious how aatrox from being "bad" becomes pick/ban in almost every game, is there anyone else claiming koreans dont follow other regions in meta ?

AsnSensation

Germany24009 Posts

September 25 2013 07:41 GMT

#5805

uzi's cleanses are so fast he didn't walk a single step towards ahri after getting charmed

Kinie

United States3106 Posts

September 25 2013 07:41 GMT

#5806

On September 25 2013 16:40 kongoline wrote:
hilarious how aatrox from being "bad" becomes pick/ban in almost every game, is there anyone else claiming koreans dont follow other regions in meta ?

I think they banned it mostly out of not knowing how to counter it, where-as the majority of the other champs they know how to counter/deal with.

UmberBane

Germany5450 Posts

September 25 2013 07:42 GMT

#5807

Rewatching the games on the OGN vod right now... Oh man it's just a whole other experience. The way their observer switches between the team's visions to tell the story of the game is just SO GOOD.

Shiznick

United States2200 Posts

September 25 2013 07:50 GMT

#5808

On September 25 2013 16:42 UmberBane wrote:
Rewatching the games on the OGN vod right now... Oh man it's just a whole other experience. The way their observer switches between the team's visions to tell the story of the game is just SO GOOD.

makes me wonder if i should just watch OGN and have the english stream only for analysis desk. Loved watching brood war streams back in the day anyway, even without english casting.

AsnSensation

Germany24009 Posts

September 25 2013 07:54 GMT

#5809

the obs has been severely lacking for riot indeed, someone should slap clakeyD and lykaeus on the wrists and force them to watch some ogn vods to learn how to spectate, unreal how many kills they missed this tournament so far.

UmberBane

Germany5450 Posts

September 25 2013 08:02 GMT

#5810

Ah I don't think that they're doing a bad job, it's just that the OGN spectator is exceptional. To me it's not really about him doing something better than Riot's guys (he also misses kills), but rather that he uses concepts that the Riot observers don't seem to use at all. I wouldn't be surprised if he treats his spectating more like a craft that you consistently work and improve on, while others might see it more as a job that you do properly and to the best of your ability while you're at work, but probably not something you would practice and analyse in your free time. Just random assumptions, though.

chalice

United States1945 Posts

September 25 2013 08:15 GMT

#5811

no, the observing has definitely been poor, it's one thing to miss kills, but there have been times where i'm asking myself if they even have a minimap.

UmberBane

Germany5450 Posts

September 25 2013 08:21 GMT

#5812

Okay that's very subjective, of course. I found it to be sufficient and it met the expectations that I had for the NA observer.

Vlanitak

Norway3045 Posts

September 25 2013 08:27 GMT

#5813

catching up on these threads makes for a hilarious read

looking forward to semis, cant tell whos going to win

wei2coolman

United States60033 Posts

September 25 2013 08:33 GMT

#5814

On September 25 2013 16:41 AsnSensation wrote:
uzi's cleanses are so fast he didn't walk a single step towards ahri after getting charmed

God's aren't easily charmed nor taunted.

tissue

Malaysia441 Posts

September 25 2013 08:36 GMT

#5815

Somehow I feel like my enjoyment of the games was enhanced by the commentators not mentioning "rotations" at all. Funny how one gets sick of a term so fast.

UmberBane

Germany5450 Posts

September 25 2013 08:47 GMT

#5816

Interesting. Tabe also gave an interview for the OGN broadcast and said that at first he was very depressed when he drew OMG as their opponent. However, they scrimmed a lot with SKT in preparation for this match and afterwards he was extremely happy that he didn't draw SKT instead, because they are just completely destroying them.

Doctorbeat

Netherlands13241 Posts

September 25 2013 09:58 GMT

#5817

On September 25 2013 17:47 UmberBane wrote:
Interesting. Tabe also gave an interview for the OGN broadcast and said that at first he was very depressed when he drew OMG as their opponent. However, they scrimmed a lot with SKT in preparation for this match and afterwards he was extremely happy that he didn't draw SKT instead, because they are just completely destroying them.

It's sounding like the SKT train is the only hype train that will not get derailed. I would really love an upset though. I mean, you can sort of say that Royal winning against OMG is an upset, but not really. Fnatic beating Royal or Najin beating SKT would make things more interesting imo.

Numy

South Africa35471 Posts

September 25 2013 10:17 GMT

#5818

Tabe just realizes the law of the train so he's trying his best to make sure SKT's train is more hyped than theirs.

Dandel Ion

Austria17960 Posts

September 25 2013 11:44 GMT

#5819

Uzi is a god

holy shit

cuppatea

United Kingdom1401 Posts

September 25 2013 11:48 GMT

#5820

On September 25 2013 15:29 TheYango wrote:

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Because there's more hype to Faker vs. Uzi than whatever storyline you could make for Sword vs Fnatic.

What hype is there for Faker vs Uzi? No one outside of China knows anything about Royal or any of their players besides the 2 games they saw them play last night (which no one in Europe will have watched). Pretty sure there'd be far more interest in an SKT vs Fnatic final then SKT vs Royal, certainly everywhere outside of Asia if not everywhere outside of China.