This guy really is who he is. When asked about losing to T1 or how he would win, he just defaults back to late-game scaling when the only picks they won on were snowballing picks.
He’s so stubborn but I guess that might just be a characteristic that comes with the confidence of a top competitor.
Maybe, but at the same time, I feel like he is getting highlighted a lot by the LCK, Riot, and T1. He got his own feature-length documentary. He’s featured quite prominently in the teasers, too.
Um, SoFM is at least Vietnamese so he has some familiarity with the Chinese language.
LPL has won MSI for many years now. Hasn’t changed much at Worlds as of late.
GenG wasn’t in finals because they’re GenG. But, the only reason the LPL had 3 teams in semis was because of their draws. Otherwise, it would’ve probably been 2 LPL and 2 LCK.
And how much of that was just because of draws? Can people stop acting like WBG drawing and beating NRG means something?
These pros have such a deep pool of champions that don’t see the light of day because it doesn’t fit the try hard meta.
I don’t think that’s true at all. A lot of players don’t have very big champion pools.
And what was the fortification of the “meta” picks and bans that developed across this Worlds? You mean the rapid shift from a late-game ADC team-fighting meta to an early~mid game snow-balling meta where all your lanes can carry? Pick and bans at the start of Worlds was entirely different from the end.
If anything, this Worlds showed that it’s really more of a problem with the teams and players than it is with the game, format, or meta.
For a team like T1 that has been a top team for 2-years and through multiple different metas and has players with larger champion pools, with enough scrim and practice time, they showed that you don’t need to be meta slaves. You can counter the meta, turn things into a rock-paper-scissors situation, out-draft your opponents, and then cash-out on your advantageous position in-game.
The question now is if teams will learn anything from T1’s Worlds run or if they’ll just go back to doing things as usual.
Worlds meta was also a protect the president meta.
The difference and hopefully what T1 learned is that you don’t have to follow the meta. You can find a way to counter it, turn things into a rock, paper, scissors situation, and then win in draft. That’s what happened at Worlds.
Whole 2023 except Worlds?
Whole 2023 except Worlds was basically just JDG. They look a lot weaker now.
I’d be surprised if Dal and Smash weren’t brought back.
If Rekkles doesn’t get a spot on their Challengers roster, what is the point of him joining?
I think one of their academy junglers will probably be promoted to their challenger team.
As for Poby, memes aside, I don’t know if they keep him. He’s still really young but at the same time nothing really stands out about him.
It wouldn’t have mattered. Even if he gets the call, it wouldn’t have been a shooting foul.
T1 New Game+ run.
Wood wants this. He’s noticeably running faster and calling for the ball.
We thought we were getting the LCK exodus. Instead, it was the LPL exodus.
Insane that the announcement has 65k live viewers and rising on youtube.
WBG was only there because of the swiss format’s flaws and GenG choking hard.
If they add some type of reseeding or more restrictions in swiss, that’ll fix some of it.
As for GenG choking, there is no fix to that. You’ll always have teams that shit themselves under pressure and waste their seeding double elimination or not.
Uh… I can understand joining T1’s esports academy. But, doing that and playing for their challengers team is different. Are both parts of this really confirmed?
姜承録绷住了整个世界赛，并在四强回光返照让大伙愕然，可是，所有人都未曾想过，你能在决赛没绷住，梦回LPL下雨时代，3场本年度最重要的比赛，你交出了接近1-20的成KDA……
TheShy…you kept your int to yourself for the entire Worlds, and in Top 4 you shocked everyone by carrying the shit out WBG. But, beyond anyone’s wildest imagination, you could no longer hold your int in the Finals. Throughout your time in the LPL, this is your most important series in 3 years, yet you nearly gave us a KDA of 1-20…
I won’t comment on the localization of this translation but it’s not “your most important series in 3 years,” It’s “3 of the most important games of the entire year.”
Also, I’m not 100% sure on this, but 梦回LPL下雨时代 probably translates to “thinking back to the championship days of the LPL.” The only times I’ve seen 下雨 used in this context is referring to the confetti after a win.
The point about it being perma banned against them has some validity, though. If something needs to be perma banned against you, it helped the team win draft and ultimately worlds.
This is why you don’t 1st time Bard
I think you have to consider that for some of those guys, you can actually just pass them the ball anywhere and they can do something effective with it.
AD outside of post mismatches and lob finishes is just… yea. He’s not catching the pass as a short roll decision maker, he’s not running the offense out of the high post, he’s not facing up at the 3 point line to shoot or drive. It’s probably much harder to just pass the ball to AD and let him cook.