On September 24 2018 00:36 Alaric wrote: Oh I didn't meant it against you, it's partly that I've followed LoL a lot less in the last year and a half so aside from Gen G. and Hanwha there aren't many of the new teams (and none of the Chinese ones aside from RNG and iG) whose logos I simply know to begin with.
Thanks! <3 So MAD is the SEA winner team.
No, MAD is the LMS second seed. Asension is the SEA winner if I remember correctly.
Vitality is super fucked. TL probably is too if EDG gets dropped in their group after play ins. Group D is going to be by far the easiest group as G2, C9, and EDG can't go into it from play ins, should be a really easy Fnatic/iG group.
Also I get that world's is in Korea, but who's bright idea was it to make groups start at 4AM EST?
I'd love to ban bet anti-china against darkcore again, but I'm not too confident in the other regions this time. The only way I see a Chinese team drop out in groups is EDG getting into group A and AFS and Flash Wolves playing really really well against them.
This is the first worlds I'm not convinced a Korean team will win.
I'm not even convinced the Korean teams are all going to be first in their groups. Gen.G probably won't be, Afreeca could get Flash Wolves'ed on too. KT SHOULD but I can see a world (assuming EDG gets in their group) where EDG goes 5-1, KT goes 4-2 , TL goes 3-3, and MAD goes 0-6, and EDG goes out first just as easily as KT going 5-1 and EDG 4-2
To be fair EDG didn’t send the same roster to worlds that they played with during the season. They started Scout every game in the season and were completely undefeated, then played Pawn at Worlds. Also their top laner had his dad get sick couldn’t go to worlds and they had to get a last minute sub. So they went to worlds without either of their solo lanes.
I'm a fan of EDG, but my bet on KT. Both teams rely heavily on laning well, but KT are more than just that these days. I'm very interested to see the likes of iBoy vs Deft and Ucal vs Scout, hoping we see some serious blood baths, because that's the only way EDG will win.
This is the first worlds I'm not convinced a Korean team will win.
I think the big thing this worlds is that LPL has two seriously good teams coming in, feels way more stacked than the other years. iG is one of the most talented teams to ever be assembled, and RNG is made of the best vets still around.
If Gen.G wins Worlds somehow, I want to be banned for a month. I want Score and Deft to sweep, this is the year of KT.
I've admittedly seen very little Chinese lol, and can't say anything about RNG and IG as I haven't watched anything of them. The lack of confidence comes from the lack of 'superteams' from Korea, where in 2015 these were present, mainly ginyu force aka ge tigers and skt (in summer).
I was trying to make a reasonable case for EDG being bad, but I saw only one game, so that's pretty hard. (antifan here). Maybe I'll make a banbet proposal for Darkcore to accept once I've seen IG play
Okay, it's a little hard to vote on which group is the group of life/which is group of death since each group is missing a team, so let's do a little discussion on which 3rd seed from EU/CN/LMS/NA will NOT make it out of play-ins...
My vote: EDG. Meiko carried this team kicking and screaming to worlds. If he has a bad day, I could see them faltering.
On September 25 2018 11:02 AdsMoFro wrote: Okay, it's a little hard to vote on which group is the group of life/which is group of death since each group is missing a team, so let's do a little discussion on which 3rd seed from EU/CN/LMS/NA will NOT make it out of play-ins...
My vote: EDG. Meiko carried this team kicking and screaming to worlds. If he has a bad day, I could see them faltering.
i think edg's players are just a cut above their opponents and will just advance based off of that
On September 25 2018 11:02 AdsMoFro wrote: Okay, it's a little hard to vote on which group is the group of life/which is group of death since each group is missing a team, so let's do a little discussion on which 3rd seed from EU/CN/LMS/NA will NOT make it out of play-ins...
My vote: EDG. Meiko carried this team kicking and screaming to worlds. If he has a bad day, I could see them faltering.
i think edg's players are just a cut above their opponents and will just advance based off of that
I think it's extremely likely that's the case, but out of the 3rd seeds they give me the least hope (or the most hope, depending on your perspective, I guess). I mean this would be way different if Vitality and 100T the actual 3rd seeds of EU/NA were there but yeah...
On September 25 2018 11:02 AdsMoFro wrote: Okay, it's a little hard to vote on which group is the group of life/which is group of death since each group is missing a team, so let's do a little discussion on which 3rd seed from EU/CN/LMS/NA will NOT make it out of play-ins...
My vote: EDG. Meiko carried this team kicking and screaming to worlds. If he has a bad day, I could see them faltering.
i think edg's players are just a cut above their opponents and will just advance based off of that
I think it's extremely likely that's the case, but out of the 3rd seeds they give me the least hope (or the most hope, depending on your perspective, I guess). I mean this would be way different if Vitality and 100T the actual 3rd seeds of EU/NA were there but yeah...
i also don't think C9 is very good and almost assuredly worse than edg
Wait, did we all just accept that G-Rex is so bad its not worth talking about them when talking about bad 3rd seeds? EDG/C9/G2 are going to dumpster their groups, I'm not even confident G-Rex will make it out of play-in groups
EDG will either end up first in their group or go down in a fiery blaze. I do agree, their team talent is above average, and they absolutely dumpster teams who can't keep up with their mechanics and aggressive plays. Scout is probably going to solo kill lane opponents a few times, even top talent. But that's not always enough, especially if iBoy feeds in lane because he overreaches trying to win lane way too hard.
I don't know anything about G-Rex, I probably won't bother watching any of their games unless it's major upsets.
On September 25 2018 00:31 Sent. wrote: All this Chinese hype makes it feel like we're in 2015 again. EDG won MSI and "everyone" expected Chyna to be on the same level as Korea. And then this happened: https://liquipedia.net/leagueoflegends/World_Championship/2015.
EPT
