EU LCS Summer Promotion Tournament 2017 - professionally made LR thread edition

6th April 2017, 17:00 CEST
Giants Gaming vs Fnatic Academy

7th April 2017, 17:00 CEST
Origen vs Misfits Academy

13th April 2017, 14:00 CEST
Winners match

What if Origen are actually strategic masterminds and they intentionally lost all matches in the regular split to surprise everyone in the playoffs? (relegation are playoffs too)

chipmonklord17

United States11944 Posts

April 07 2017 15:56 GMT

Its gonna be FNC.A and Giants making it through right? Does anyone think Misfits.A or OG stand even a small chance?

Sent.

Poland9198 Posts

April 07 2017 16:16 GMT

Definitely Giants, not sure about academy teams.

DarkCore

Germany4194 Posts

April 07 2017 16:40 GMT

Both top laners have had terrible decision making this series, the difference is that Jisu makes up for it with good plays, Satorius doesn't. Hope MFA takes this series, even if they're just as bad as OG (which I don't think) having a new team instead of Peke and the clowns is refreshing.

chipmonklord17

United States11944 Posts

April 07 2017 16:52 GMT

On April 08 2017 01:16 Sent. wrote:
Definitely Giants, not sure about academy teams.

Well one of the academy teams is getting through the winners match after Misfits.A dumpsters OG

Sent.

Poland9198 Posts

April 07 2017 17:02 GMT

On April 08 2017 01:52 chipmonklord17 wrote:

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Well one of the academy teams is getting through the winners match after Misfits.A dumpsters OG

Aw shit for some reason I thought Giants were the team who won yesterday. I meant to say that Fnatic is definitely getting through and I'm not sure who's going to be second, either Giants or Misfits.A.

Rofl Origen plays like it's allergic to winning

DarkCore

Germany4194 Posts

April 07 2017 23:59 GMT

I for one am happy to see this OG out of LCS (I don't believe they'll make it through the losers bracket. The fact Peke had to play instead of fielding an actual support main says a lot, and the whole previous roster must've had good reasons to jump the boat. The replacement players were mediocre at best (Naehyun wasn't even the problem, although his general lack of map presence summarizes the proactivity of OG quite nicely).

MFA looked good today. They had some weaknesses but they outclassed OG in pretty much every aspect of the game, hence they didn't drop a game. Felt FNA played better though, and Giants are substantially better than OG, so they will probably have to duke it out with Giants.

chipmonklord17

United States11944 Posts

April 13 2017 17:13 GMT

Holy shit both LCS might actually lose. I think FNC.A could take out either

EDIT: That play reminded me of SoloQ where your adc pings dragon a hundred times and says "fuck it" then does it themselves. Its just in soloQ I'm used to someone finding out

Gahlo

United States35147 Posts

April 13 2017 20:41 GMT

Welp, this is pretty much expected after Giants lost to FNA. The LCS and Origen are better off with them being relegated.

St3MoR

Spain3256 Posts

April 13 2017 20:55 GMT

#10

F for xpako

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Poland9198 Posts

April 14 2017 12:11 GMT

#11

Would bet on Fnatic but they disappointed me yesterday so I dont think its a safe bet. Amazing is bad, Kikis ane Nisqy are unreliable, the bot lane is just okay. Giants are worse but can beat them with some luck.

RIP Origen, don't try to come back please.

JimmiC

Canada22817 Posts

April 14 2017 16:31 GMT

#12

--- Nuked ---

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Poland9198 Posts

April 14 2017 16:54 GMT

#13

Their owners have to sell one of their teams. Owners whose teams were relegated (like xPeke) have to wait 1 year before they can buy an LCS team.

chipmonklord17

United States11944 Posts

April 14 2017 16:56 GMT

#14

On April 15 2017 01:31 JimmiC wrote:
What happens with the Academy's. Do they get sold off? Become origen's new roster?

They both have to get sold off. Well one of the two spots have to be and 3/5 of the players in the challenger squad needs to play in the LCS. So in theory Fnatic/Misfits could sell their spot and keep their Fnatic.A/Misfits.A spot if they believed that the Academy teams were better. OG and Giants, unless the rules have changed, aren't allowed to buy back into the LCS for some period of time (I think its a split).

Now if they can't find interested parties to sell the teams to I'm curious as to whether Riot would change the rules and allow Riot approved exceptions to that rule and allow OG/Giants to purchase the spots they got kicked out of

GiftPflanZe

Germany623 Posts

April 14 2017 17:35 GMT

#15

The casting is so bad today

LightningStrike

United States14277 Posts

April 14 2017 17:56 GMT

#16

Welp both Challenger Series teams got into the LCS.

DarkCore

Germany4194 Posts

April 14 2017 17:57 GMT

#17

Both Challenger teams made it into LCS, I think that's pretty awesome, next split is going to be refreshing. Also, no OG dumpster fire, sad for Giants though.