[NA LCS] Summer Playoffs Week 1 - Page 72

On August 25 2014 15:30 krndandaman wrote:


wait wtf, what happened to curse and why are they suddenly 'worlds material'? I thought it was just awful play by clg more than worlds caliber play from curse. they definitely improved so that they aren't 'lol4ever4thhahaha' but I'd be VERY surprised if they manage to beat an asian team let alone alliance or fnatic.

On August 25 2014 18:10 Maluk wrote:
As much as I like Montecristo I think he was the biggest problem here and he should step down from his coach position if he has respect for the team. CLG remains an average/bottom team as it shows ; this doesn't change from the "pre-monte" era.

They clearly did not have solid strats against Curse (which is all on Monte), and going to Korea right before an important match was an extremely risky move which didn't pay off as expected. The addition of Seraph, which is Monte's idea, really didn't do anything great for CLG.

The team even showed forms of arrogance that Montecristo seems to have encouraged : underestimating the bottom NA teams while they are in fact one of them now, Doublenoob and Aphro thinking they "can go against top Korean botlanes"...

Montecristo did everything wrong and should take responsibilty for it. Not only did he not improve the overall performances of CLG, but anyone who tries to find the causes of CLG's crushing defeat can see that Montecristo's attitude is one of them. The excuse that he has, which is that he didn't spend enough time with the team yet, doesn't work, because the result that we witnessed has a lot to do with his own move : the Korean bootcamp, which means that we did see what Montecristo's coaching influence looks like through this match.

On August 25 2014 18:25 ShootAnonymous wrote:
well the lol subreddit has well and duly gone to sh!t. The level of schadenfreude is pretty amazing >>

Someone recommend me games to watch from both TSM-DIG and CRS-CLG? I caught the tail-end of one of the TSM-DIG games (thought it was a bit of a joke tbh) but that's about it.

On August 25 2014 18:27 krndandaman wrote:


I'm definitely not denying their improvement and whatnot but calling them world's material just sounded weird to me. I guess in a literal sense it's correct since they have a decent chance of actually getting into world's, but we don't call mineski or gamma bears world class do we? I mean it's great that they showed a good series against a team that bootcamped in korea but let's not jump the gun here.

But yeah i'm happy for curse fans and its been a while since curse didn't look like a joke team thats in LCS only because the challenger scene is no better. As for CLG, I'm worried. Losing this hard after a bootcamp and missing worlds back to back has got to be traumatic.

On August 25 2014 18:48 Fusilero wrote:
Honestly two missed worlds in a row dropping out of first round playoffs 3/4 LCS splits while losing all your passion might be the final straw for dlift. It's easy to keep a minimum of passion like soaz when you're always winning but dlift really hasn't whether due to himself or his team I won't make a call there, but I wouldn't be surprised if aphromoo is the only one left from this iteration of CLG by the start of next split.
I think most likely CLG will continue to invest in seraph's potential, dexter goes back to EU, link might stay or go back to college, dlift retires and aphro stays if he wants to.

On August 25 2014 19:38 krndandaman wrote:
my key concerns with CLG is jungle/mid. there's hardly any synergy there and I see pretty weak jungle/mid control from dexter/link. something has to be done there. link's lack of pressure in mid also troubled me as well. I think someone like pobelter would fit really well with clg and as for jungle i'm not sure but probably a korean jungler since na/eu junglers are so meh or unavailable.