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League of Legends: Season 4 World Championship (Sep 17 - Oct 19)

Opiate

Member
At this point, I am satisfied. Even if C9 loses the rest of its games, we've now shown that EU and US can take significant games off Korean and Chinese teams.

Last year it felt like children playing with adults; it wasn't just that the US was losing, it was that they were getting outclassed in every phase of the game. The gap is clearly being closed. It doesn't mean I expect the US to win worlds next year; it just means I can look forward to US/EU play in Worlds and not feel like they're all just waiting for Korean and Chinese teams to smash their faces in.
 

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At this point, I am satisfied. Even if C9 loses the rest of its games, we've now shown that EU and US can take significant games off Korean and Chinese teams.

Last year it felt like children playing with adults; it wasn't just that the US was losing, it was that they were getting outclassed in every phase of the game. The gap is clearly being closed. It doesn't mean I expect the US to win worlds next year; it just means I can look forward to US/EU play in Worlds and not feel like they're all just waiting for Korean and Chinese teams to smash their faces in.

yeah it getting embarrassed last year was a good wake up call for a lot of teams and it shows.
 

bokn

Banned
SSB's team comp is pretty wonderful

TF + Twitch for the map pressure and ganks
Twitch + Rumble for amazing teamfight AOE

The tradeoff is the terrible laning phase

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BALLS WHY DIDNT YOU FLASH
 

Makareu

Member
Just woke up and the serie seems interesting ! I'm curious to see how SSB will handle C9 split push in a better way than NWS.
 

Sofo

Member
Just woke up and the serie seems interesting ! I'm curious to see how SSB will handle C9 split push in a better way than NWS.

Well there's TF and Twitch as the casters have pointed out, so if done well they can counter Zed's splitpushing really easy.

omg the backdooring lol. fuck lol

Snake? Snake? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKEEE?
 

nerv

Member
I'm pretty sure that they sent people there before he was seen by the minions.
They really have to get soundproof booths at some point.
 

AcridMeat

Banned
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH this series is getting me so hyped

i'm so fucking sick of seeing zed picked, he isn't a good pick god damn it

every single time they try that split push and it never works out, this is the third game hai has had zed and kept dying over and over trying to split push
 

Subtle

Member
I'm pretty sure that they sent people there before he was seen by the minions.
They really have to get soundproof booths at some point.

Well he hadn't appeared on the map in awhile so they must've been suspicious. Still, they would've had less time to make a sound decision.

Edit: well the split push is more of a back up plan. Like that's what you do when you get really behind.
 
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